LAYTON, Utah (AP) — More than 100 homes have been evacuated as a Utah wildfire that sparked late Monday night continues to burn. KSL-TV reports the Layton wildfire has burned about 120 acres (48 hectares) and is 0% contained as of Tuesday morning. No structures have been damaged. It is burning in […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah couple are accused of depriving their teenage daughter of food and chaining her. KSL-TV reports 33-year-old Trev Jordan Tutt and 35-year-old Kimberly Marie Tutt, of Ogden, were charged Friday with child abuse. Kimberly Tutt also faces an aggravated assault charge. It wasn’t immediately clear whether they […]
ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) — Stretches of trails inside Zion National Park are temporarily closed after a rockfall injured three people over the weekend. Salt Lake City’s KSL-TV reports the incident happened Saturday shortly before 6 p.m. around Cable Mountain. Park officials said in a news release that a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah authorities say the prison population has grown faster than most states in the past few years. KSL-TV reported Monday that the Utah Sentencing Commission saw a dramatic surge in prison population as new crimes and drug violations led to more convictions. The U.S. Department of Justice […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — County officials say a Utah police officer has not been charged with a crime after running over and killing a woman in a parking lot. KSL-TV reported Friday that Salt Lake County officials completed an investigation Friday on Utah Police Department officer Megan Franklin in the death […]
MOAB, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a man has died while skydiving in eastern Utah. KSL-TV reports the accident happened Sunday afternoon at the Canyonlands Airport in Moab. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 23-year-old Spencer Connolley, of Moab, sustained a “fast and hard landing.” He was in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A paper company is planning to build a mill in Utah to manufacture paper using only recycled fiber from materials like cardboard. KSL-TV reports Crossroads Paper announced Wednesday plans to construct a $320 million facility that it expects to be operational by early 2022. The company says […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Forest rangers and residents are worried that an increase of visitors to Salt Lake County’s backcountry is resulting in more human feces in watershed streams amid E. coli fears. KSL-TV reports Central Wasatch Commission officials are questioning if visitation to the Wasatch canyons has reached […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates have unveiled a marker to memorialize patients who died in Utah’s first asylum. KSL-TV reports the stone plaque was made public at a ceremony on Tuesday at the Salt Lake City Cemetery’s B plat and bears the name of 55 people who died at the facility. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City authorities say stabbings at a convenience store have left a clerk is dead and another man critically injured. KSL-TV reports that the stabbings occurred during an altercation at a Maverik store early Wednesday morning. Lt. Dave Cracroft said two people were taken into custody […]
