SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah car repair shop owner has spoken publicly for the first time about he, his brother and his son being attacked by a man with a metal rod who prosecutors say targeted them because of the color of their skin. Jose Lopez testified Thursday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bid to strengthen the state’s hate-crimes law passed its first vote on Monday following an occasionally emotional debate over the long-stalled idea that’s been gaining steam since the beating of a Latino man in Salt Lake City. The state has reached a tipping point […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man accused of attacking three Latinos at a tire shop in Salt Lake City after shouting that he wanted to “kill Mexicans” pleaded not guilty Monday to hate crime charges. Alan Dale Covington, 50, entered his pleas during his first federal court appearance […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. government has charged a Utah man with a hate crime for his attack last year on three men who authorities say he targeted because they were Mexican. Alan Dale Covington was indicted Wednesday on accusations that he attacked the men with a metal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The recent beating of a young man and his father at their Salt Lake City tire shop by an attacker who told police he targeted them because they were Mexican is renewing criticism of the state’s hate crime law, which one prosecutor is calling unusable. […]
