SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Medical bills for a Utah jail inmate are nearing $1 million, sparking the sheriff’s resignation and highlighting widespread struggles to pay for inmate health care. Jails are required to provide inmates with necessary medical care, and the Salt Lake Tribune reports the cost of 49-year-old […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy is abruptly resigning this month after what he said was lack of communication from county leaders over a budget shortfall of up to $1 million. Tracy said at a County Commission meeting Tuesday he’d need to reduce the jail’s capacity by […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Pleasant Grove Police Chief Mike Smith is leading comfortably in the Republican primary for Utah County sheriff and appears poised to win the office. Retired U.S. Marshal Jim Phelps conceded the race Tuesday evening. The winner will replace retiring Sheriff Jim Tracy in Utah’s second largest county, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney will learn Tuesday if he’ll continue the reboot of his political career as voters were deciding a primary in the race for a Utah Senate seat vacated by Orrin Hatch, who is retiring after more than 40 years. The former GOP presidential candidate […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney has a second chance during a Tuesday primary election to dispatch a Utah state lawmaker who defeated him at the state Republican Party convention in the race for a Senate seat opening up with the retirement of long-serving U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch The […]
