SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Senate voted for preliminary approval of a bill to ban hand-held cellphone use while driving. The bill received majority support in the 19-8 vote, but was tabled before final passage because the legislation would impact the budget, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The bill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Amid apprehension about a possible outbreak of coronavirus, Utah lawmakers are distancing themselves from a political mainstay of handshaking while a major business conference scheduled for mid-March with Michelle Obama speaking has been canceled. Signs posted around the capitol on Tuesday declared public spaces to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House advanced a bill to help enforce laws banning the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. The House endorsed the bill and forwarded it to the Senate Monday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Hand-held cellphone use while driving has been illegal in Utah since […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Utah teacher pleaded guilty Friday to murder charges in the shooting death of her ex-husband’s girlfriend, who was killed in front of the former couple’s 3-year-old twins. Chelsea Watrous Cook slipped inside her ex-husband’s apartment and killed Lisa Vilate Williams while she and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman from Washington D.C. has died while rappelling a canyon in central Utah. The 33-year-old woman was climbing near Hanksville before falling 40 feet (12 meters) down the slot canyon, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday. A canyoneering party told deputies that the woman was coming […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah has agreed to an energy deal that to allow the school to get more than half of its electricity through renewable sources, making it the first public college in the state to do so. The university finalized the purchase of geothermal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mothers in Utah are challenging a ban on children and breastfeeding at BYU’s annual Women’s Conference, and they are asking The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to change the rule. School officials say kids and babies are not allowed at the event at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Multiple avalanches closed Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City on Friday, cutting access to Alta and Snowbird ski resorts where vacationers were already being told to stay inside because of heavy snow. Three naturally occurring slides buried the road near the entrance to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who was a passenger in a car that hit and killed a police officer in a Salt Lake City suburb has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and burglary. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 44-year-old Jeffrey Black, of Murray, entered his pleas Friday for his role in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A referendum question on a tax overhaul package in the Utah Legislature will not be put to voters in November because state lawmakers have removed reforms that prompted opposition. The Salt Lake Tribune reports a nearly unanimous vote by state lawmakers Tuesday scrapped what had […]
