SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, the Salt Lake City Council confirmed they will be placing tighter controls on a fraction of the city’s police budget. They will now fund body cameras for every officer on the force. Council Chairman Chris Wharton said they would not consider calls for a $30 million slash […]
SALT LAKE CITY-This weekend, Salt Lake City police arrested a man who they say encouraged people to bring guns to the Salt Lake City-County Building and threatened Salt Lake City mayor Erin Mendenhall. 58-year-old Marlin Richard Baer of Salt Lake City was booked into the Salt Lake County jail for […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday night, a registered sex offender who allegedly told police he was looking for “beautiful women” was arrested, following accusations that he peeped into numerous windows in homes on the Avenues. 39-year-old Donald Royce Willard of Salt Lake City was booked into the Salt Lake County jail for […]
SALT LAKE COUNTY-At least three Utah cities, all of which are in Salt Lake County, are seeking to extend the lock-down declarations made last month by Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson. The public may weigh in on these decisions from the comfort of their own homes. These cities, Salt […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was released early last week from a Utah halfway house because of the spread of the coronavirus attacked a woman in her home two days later, tying her up and threatening her with a knife, police said Wednesday. But state corrections officials did not […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg is making a campaign stop in Salt Lake City ahead of the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections next month. The former South Bend, Ind. mayor is scheduled to speak Monday night at 7 p.m. at the Union Events Center. Utah is […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a frequent flier, traveling every few months to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy medication for rheumatoid arthritis — with tickets paid for by the state of Utah’s public insurer. Lovell is […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A man has been arrested after a high school student reportedly escaped an abduction in suburban Salt Lake City on Monday, police said. The abduction occurred at 2:30 p.m. in West Valley City and was reported to police at 6:30 p.m., after the girl […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The killing of a Utah mother and three of her children by a gunman identified by police as her 16-year-old son is “nearly unbearable” for the father of their children, a lawyer said Thursday. Colin L. Haynie “respectfully requests time and privacy to grieve and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The backlog of untested rape kits is growing in Utah even after state lawmakers passed a law in 2017 to address the issue, in part because of a lack of funding to hire an adequate number of technicians. The state crime lab asked for $2.4 […]
