SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah State Prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of his cellmate. The Deseret News reports 24-year-old James Tamoua of Salt Lake City was charged Friday in state District Court in the Sept. 21 killing of 38-year-old Reo Guy Watts of Salem […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a Utah death-row inmate who died in prison (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Author Jon Krakauer says he’s grateful that a Utah death-row inmate who killed his brother’s wife and her toddler has died of natural causes and won’t be executed by […]
LEHI, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities say a 21-year-old man is accused of anonymously calling a Lehi business to leave a voicemail with a threat against an event involving children. Police on Wednesday arrested Colton Cox of Draper on suspicion of making a threat of terrorism. Online court records don’t […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman is dead and a child is seriously burned after a fire at a log home in Draper. KUTV reports a family of five was inside when the blaze started after midnight on Tuesday. Fire officials say the flames spread quickly, in the blaze that killed […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Police have arrested a woman in Draper after they say she left her 4-year-old son alone in a hot car as a punishment. The Deseret News reports 28-year-old Jessica Lee Brown was booked into Salt Lake County Jail Tuesday on suspicion of child endangerment and child abuse. A […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deputy director of the Utah Department of Environment Quality will head the agency temporarily. Scott Baird will serve as interim director until a permanent replacement can be found. He succeeds Alan Matheson, who is stepping down July 1. Gov. Gary Hebert announced Baird’s appointment […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A powerful winter storm has left a trail of traffic accidents, power outages and even an avalanche across Utah. Little Cottonwood Canyon reopened Tuesday morning, a day after an avalanche closed the canyon and State Route 210. Meanwhile, state troopers reported more than 200 crashes […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol says two of its patrol vehicles were involved in collisions as winter weather produced slick conditions on highways Wednesday. The Highway Patrol says neither crash involving its vehicles resulted in injury. According to the Highway Patrol, at least one of the […]
SANDY, Utah (AP) — State auditors say a school district serving several Salt Lake City suburbs apparently broke state law last year by mailing out taxpayer-funded post cards that seemed to support a $283 million bond proposal. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Office of the State Auditor recently concluded that […]
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — The Latest on the release of the woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart in Utah (all times local): 3:25 p.m. Documents say a woman released from prison in Utah after serving 15 years for kidnaping Elizabeth Smart will live in emergency housing chosen by her probation […]
