SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s lieutenant governor said Tuesday he will seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2020, a widely anticipated announcement that positions him as an early front runner. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox made the campaign announcement via Twitter in a video that focused on his rural […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A teenager who authorities accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a southern Utah high school after watching Islamic State propaganda been sentenced to four years of probation. The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports that that the 17-year-old boy was sentenced in […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four conservation groups have asked a judge to block a Trump administration plan allowing drilling, mining and other activities in seven Western states they say will harm sage grouse. Western Watersheds Project and other groups asked for the injunction in U.S. District Court in Idaho late […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven Utah lawyers are violating rules of conduct because they are polygamists, according to a new complaint filed with the Utah Bar Association. The complaint was filed by a woman named Melissa Ellis who used to belong to a northern Utah polygamous group. She believes […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Alliance of American Football has ended its first season prematurely and told most employees that they will be terminated as of Wednesday. Employees were notified of the decision in a letter from the AAF board on Tuesday afternoon. The board essentially is majority owner Tom […]
The Latest on the future of the Alliance of American Football (all times EDT): 6:45 p.m. The Alliance of American Football has ended its first season prematurely and notified most employees that they will be terminated as of Wednesday. Employees were notified in a letter from the board on Tuesday […]
The Alliance of American Football is suspending operations eight games into its first season. A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press the eight-team spring football league is not folding, but games will not be played this weekend. The decision was made by majority owner Tom Dundon, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teenager has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of his stepbrother. Authorities initially believed his stepbrother had accidentally shot himself. Prosecutors charged the 15-year-old with manslaughter and obstruction of justice Thursday in the March 18 death of his stepbrother in the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Associated Press analysis of Utah state House elections using a statistical method for calculating partisan advantage found that Republicans won about three more seats than would be expected based on the party’s share of the vote in the 2018 midterm election. That is the […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is finalizing plans to ease restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other industries that were meant to protect an imperiled bird species that ranges across the American West, federal officials said Thursday. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director Brian Steed told […]
