(Salt Lake City, UT) – A Utah gun group says a bill to lower the state’s DUI threshold is a threat to gun owners’ Second Amendment rights. The Utah Shooting Sports Council announced yesterday that it wants Governor Herbert to veto a bill that would lower the limit for blood alcohol […]
(Parowan, UT) – A 17-year-old girl is accusing a Parowan man of sexually assaulting her at least five times. The teen reportedly told police that Christopher Doubek would keep her in his car and touch her inappropriately, according to The Spectrum. Doubek is facing a forcible sexual abuse count and three […]
(St. George, UT) – A man is behind bars in Saint George for allegedly assaulting a police officer during his arrest. Hotel employees suspected Lyric Lyons was breaking into cars in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express early Tuesday. When police arrived and tried to question him, they say […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawyer for former state Attorney General John Swallow says a Utah businessman imprisoned for lying to banks will testify that Swallow was not involved in illegally bundling $170,000 in campaign contributions to Utah and Nevada politicians. The Federal Elections Commission alleges in a lawsuit […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge has determined there’s probable cause for prosecutors to pursue their case against a man accused of gunning down a police officer on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. Kirby Cleveland is charged with killing Navajo Nation Officer Houston James Largo on March 11 […]
(Washington, DC) – Utah Senator Mike Lee is predicting that a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will not be approved by Congress. The Republican senator appeared on Fox News’ “Your World” yesterday and said the bill does not have enough support in either chamber of Congress. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four Mormon missionaries who were seriously injured in the Brussels airport bombing say they are still dealing with physical and emotional scars one year after the horrific event. The Deseret News reports Dresden Empey had surgery last week to remove a piece of shrapnel in […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP)-Per the official Twitter accounts of Zion National Park and FOX-13 in Salt Lake City, a power outage has occurred at the national park as well as surrounding communities in Washington County. As of 5:52 pm MDT Wednesday, Rocky Mountain Power reports 1,493 customers are without […]
(Logan, UT) — An evidence hearing is underway for the second teen accused in the shooting of 14-year-old Deserae Turner. The 16-year-old boy faces charges including attempted murder for allegedly luring Turner into a canal area where she was shot in the back of the head. The case of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert signed 51 bills Tuesday and is spending a good chunk of his Wednesday reviewing more legislation that lawmakers sent to his desk this year. The bills Herbert’s office announced had been signed Tuesday include a measure requiring college counselors and advocates to […]
