SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a slain student. The family of Lauren McCluskey filed the $56 million suit against the university in June, saying the school hasn’t taken responsibility for the death of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A police officer who investigators say failed to relay a report about a University of Utah student’s ex-boyfriend before she was killed has resigned and joined another department. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Miguel Deras quit last week and has been hired to work as an officer […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to lying about buying the firearm used to kill college athlete Lauren McCluskey has been sentenced to three years of supervised release. The 22-year-old Nathan Daniel Vogel said Wednesday during a hearing in Salt Lake City that he accepts responsibility […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah has announced a hard enforcement of their campus wide tobacco-free policy, including public events and football games. The Deseret News reports the rule, which banned smoking for anyone on campus in May 2018, will be fully enforced at university-owned properties like hospitals and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah student has died after collapsing during Army ROTC physical training. University spokesman Chris Nelson says senior film and media studies major Elva Torres was hospitalized after collapsing Tuesday morning on campus and was pronounced dead Wednesday. Cause of death was not […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A former Salt Lake City police officer who was fired after he was caught on video roughly arresting a nurse who refused to draw blood from a patient has been hired to work at a jail in northern Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Detective Jeff Payne […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah plans to spend about $925,000 to improve safety following the killing of a student track athlete on the Salt Lake City campus. University President Ruth Watkins had called for a task force to evaluate safety after 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey was gun […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The wife of a man accused of fatally shooting a University of Utah student has been sentenced to a year in jail for her role in the killing. The Deseret News reports 23-year-old Kathleen Elizabeth Rose Boutain was sentenced Friday. Austin Boutain was given a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah first lady Norma Matheson has died at age 89. Lt. Governor Chief of Staff Kirsten Rappleye said Monday that family members confirmed Matheson died Sunday night. Norma Matheson served as first lady alongside Democratic Gov. Scott Matheson from 1977 through 1985. More recently, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man convicted of the fatal shooting of a University of Utah student has been extradited to Colorado to face additional charges. The Deseret News reports 25-year-old Austin Jeffery Boutain will face a first-degree murder charge in the death of 63-year-old Mitchell Bradford Ingle in October 2017. […]
