OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The stars of the “Diesel Brothers” reality TV show are appealing a federal court ruling requiring them to pay $848,000 to the U.S. government and a Utah county over pollution law violations. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby of Salt Lake City ruled in March that David […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Investigators say they don’t know what triggered an explosion that killed a man at an engineering business in northern Utah. The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reported Monday that police in Brigham City have completed their investigation into the March 10 blast at HyPerComp Engineering but were unable to pinpoint […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah school district adopted computer software that alerts administrators and parents to activity in student Google accounts that may raise concerns. The Weber School District in Ogden plans to use the free service called Bark that flags mentions of self-harm, drugs or weapons in online […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A prosecutor has concluded that four Ogden police officers were justified in shooting and killing a man last August. Weber County Attorney Chris Allred cleared the officers of wrongdoing for shooting 26-year-old Jovany Mercado, of Ogden, who died at the scene, the Ogden Standard-Examiner reports. The newspaper […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A proposal to limit the use of cash bail for people arrested in Utah is advancing in the Legislature, with supporters saying changes are needed to prevent people who are presumed innocent from getting stuck behind bars because they don’t have money for bail. The plan […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a teenager died after he was buried in an avalanche while snowmobiling north of Salt Lake City. Liz Sollis, a spokeswoman for the Davis County Sheriff’s Office, tells the Standard-Examiner the 18-year-old was snowmobiling with his father in Farmington Canyon when the avalanche happened Saturday afternoon. […]
ANTELOPE ISLAND, Utah (AP) — Utah state wildlife officials gathered mule deer on Antelope Island this week and flew them by helicopter to biologists studying the health of the herd. About 50 deer were flown this week, typically two or three at a time dangling below the aircraft in orange […]
HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (AP) — Another Hill Air Force Base squadron equipped with F-35 fighters has left on a combat deployment for the Middle East. The Standard-Examiner reports that the 34th Fighter Squadron with personnel drawn from active-duty and reserve units at Hill left recently for Al Dhafra Air Base, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a small plane that crashed on a Utah highway made an emergency landing on the same highway last year. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the single-engine plane hit a billboard Sunday and crashed near Ogden-Hinckley Airport on Interstate 15. The pilot […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — The state medical examiner has determined the cause of death of a Weber County Jail inmate was a methamphetamine overdose. The Standard-Examiner reports that incident reports filed by county corrections officers and nurses detail the symptomatic decline of arrestee Eric Gavin and the efforts made to […]
