SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City police say a 3-year-old girl who was in a minivan carjacked from her mother has been found. The Deseret News reports that a man noticed the girl walking Tuesday and called police after not seeing her parents. That was about a half-hour after a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The wife of a man convicted of gunning down a University of Utah student from China has pleaded guilty to two counts of theft. The Deseret News reports prosecutors dropped other counts in exchange for the Monday plea from 25-year-old Kathleen Boutain, including criminal solicitation. She and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah County authorities say a woman is dead after the vehicle she was riding in hit a horse. They say the horse wandered onto state Route 198 in Payson late Saturday night. Utah Department of Public Safety officials tell the Deseret News that the man […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is covering the cost of transitioning up to 300 intellectually disabled people out of intermediate care facilities and into homes or community-based programs. The Deseret News reported Thursday that state lawmakers have directed $7.3 million to fund transition costs and to incentivize the care facilities to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — South Salt Lake Mayor Cherie Wood is proposing a substantial property-tax hike to give police and firefighters a pay raise. The Deseret News reports that Wood night proposed a 31% property tax hike to the City Council on Wednesday. The new tax would bring in about $1.6 […]
MURRAY, Utah (AP) — Officials have decided to close a K-12 charter school in a Salt Lake City suburb following growing concerns about its financial viability and the likelihood of additional state scrutiny. The Deseret News reports the board of the American International School of Utah voted unanimously Wednesday to shut down […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has admitted to beating his estranged wife to death with a crowbar and pummeling his 13-year-old daughter with the same tool. The Deseret News reports 55-year-old Walter Eugene Brantzeg of Salt Lake City pleaded guilty to the crimes Thursday as part of a deal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities have rescued a woman who became wedged in a narrow slot canyon while hiking in southern Utah. The Deseret News reports that Garfield County spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said Monday that the woman was part of a group from the Denver area that went hiking in the […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A former North American professional football player has been sentenced for the stabbing death of his wife. Anthony McClanahan, 48, was sentenced to at least 15 years and up to life in prison for the November 2017 death of 28-year-old Keri McClanahan, The Deseret News reported Monday. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities have rescued a woman who became wedged in a narrow slow canyon while hiking in southern Utah. The Deseret News reports that Garfield County spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said Monday that the woman was part of a group from the Denver area that went hiking in the […]
