SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has been authorized to resume campaigning for governor after remaining in quarantine because of a coronavirus diagnosis. The Salt Lake County Health Department cleared the Republican to resume campaign work while seeking his party’s nomination, The Deseret News reported Monday. Huntsman […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A police officer had been doing a job he loved for just over a year in his hometown of Ogden, Utah, when he was shot and killed during a domestic violence call, his fellow officers said Friday. Nathan Lyday, 24, was born in Ogden, went […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Nevada judge who was banned from the bench is working as a city attorney in Utah, an official said. Conrad Hafen in January became an assistant city attorney in the small city of Saratoga Springs, south of Salt Lake City, The Deseret News reported Monday. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah tailor filed a lawsuit against law enforcement agencies in the state over officers firing nearly 200 rounds into his shop. Thaer Mahdi said he has not recovered from trauma caused by the barrage of police bullets that ripped through his shop a year […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — A man died after falling during a hiking and climbing excursion in Big Cottonwood Canyon in northern Utah, authorities said. Wade Joseph Meade, 29, fell near Lake Blanche around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, The Deseret News reports. Meade was able to call police after falling about […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A long-haul truck driver was sentenced to life in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to 17 first-degree felonies, including sexually assaulting at least eight women in Davis County in Utah. Mark Douglas Burns, 69, of Ogden, pleaded guilty in February to aggravated sexual assault, aggravated […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has announced he will run for state attorney general following a year in his job with the county. Leavitt announced in a Facebook video last Friday that he will challenge current Republican Attorney General Sean Reyes. Leavitt has made strides […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah jury acquitted a man charged with murder after finding he shot and killed an acquaintance in self-defense. Jurors in Provo’s 4th District Court found 20-year-old Elbert John Paule guilty of a single charge of obstructing justice Friday, The Deseret News reports. The obstruction charge was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah technology company settled a lawsuit with the booking agency for The Killers that disputed the agency’s contention the rock band should be paid for a scheduled show at the firm’s canceled conference. Qualtrics LLC did not disclose the terms of its settlement agreement […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bill to make daylight saving time permanent passed the Utah House of Representatives and will go the governor for his signature. The House passed the legislation Wednesday with only one dissenting vote, The Deseret News reports. Despite the passage of the bill supporting a permanent […]
