SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is throwing out a lawsuit against polygamous leader Warren Jeffs that took aim at the group’s longtime Utah law firm by claiming attorneys created a veneer that helped perpetuate abuses like child labor and underage marriage. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart decided Wednesday […]
(Washington, DC) — Senator Orrin Hatch says the Democrats’ grilling of attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions won’t be enough to stop his confirmation. In the first day of Sessions’s confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill, he was asked if he ever supported the Ku Klux Klan. Hatch called the line of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who was found not guilty in the death of a sheriff’s deputy after saying the officer’s brother killed her is now weighing a possible plea deal in a second round of charges against him. A lawyer for Roberto Roman said Wednesday the […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — According to a national assessment, Utah eight graders scored the highest in the nation for science proficiency. The Spectrum of St. George reports (http://bit.ly/2j1Uzjm ) that the National Assessment of Educational Progress ranked Utah first for eighth-grade science, with students scoring 13 points above the […]
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan 11, 2017–Comicbook legend Stan Lee is returning to Salt Lake Comic Con (http://saltlakecomiccon.com/)FanExperience 2017 (FanXâ„¢) for one final visit to the convention that he declared, “The greatest comic con in the world!†This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170111005948/en/ Stan Lee […]
Police arrested a Beaver man after he allegedly destroyed four cars and damaged two others early Tuesday morning. 23-year-old Isaac Wall is accused of starting fires between 1 and 3:30 a.m. at four different locations around Cedar City. According to Cedar City Police Sgt. Jerry Womack, police arrested Wall after […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management is planning to roundup 700 wild horses from the Sulphur Wild Horse Management Area in western Utah. The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/2j1gcAf ) that beginning Jan. 18, the agency will use helicopters to gatherer excess wild horses for either adoption […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — A 65-year-old Cedar City man has been sentenced to three years to life in prison for sexually abusing an underage female. Judge Keith Barnes ordered the maximum sentence for Duane Lyon on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in November to one count of aggravated sexual […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge refused Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the National Security Agency conducted a mass warrantless surveillance program during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby decided to let the case from a former mayor proceed, rejecting NSA’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a former top deputy Utah attorney general has been arrested to make sure he’ll testify against his ex-boss next month. Jail records show Kirk Torgensen was being held on $100,000 bail on a material witness warrant at Salt Lake County jail Tuesday. Salt […]
