JUAB COUNTY, Utah (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in a rural area of Juab County in west-central Utah. The Utah Highway Patrol says those killed in the wreck on State Route 132 were in the front seat of a car that hit […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Highway Patrol officials say a motorcyclist who hadn’t completed a rider safety course is dead after a crash. They say speed and inexperience may have contributed to the fatal accident Saturday evening in Davis County that killed 36-year-old Michael Frederickson. Authorities say Frederickson went […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a Nevada man reported missing and endangered has died in Utah in a car accident. Utah Highway Patrol officials say 62-year-old Lief Johansson died at the scene of Saturday’s crash several miles north of Paragonah. They say the car he was driving stopped […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Recent figures suggest that the Utah Highway Patrol is seeing early success under a new state law that dropped the blood alcohol limit from .08% to .05%, the lowest threshold in the nation. The Deseret News reported Tuesday that Utah troopers say there were 134 alcohol-related crashes […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Public Safety says it arrested nearly 40 people under Utah’s new drunk driving law in its first month. Fox 13 reported Monday that 38 people were arrested in January under the state’s DUI law implemented that month. Authorities say the statute lowers the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. West (all times local): 1:25 p.m. A long stretch of Interstate 80 that had been closed for two days due to blizzard conditions in California’s Sierra Nevada has reopened as a fierce winter storm moves east. Still, travel […]
MANTUA, Utah (AP) — A northern Utah town’s police is accused of driving a police car while under the influence. The Utah Highway Patrol says troopers arrested Shane Zilles late Tuesday after he allegedly failed a field sobriety conducted after troopers saw a Mantua Police Department car being driven at […]
WELLINGTON, Utah (AP) — Utah authorities say a tractor-trailer rig crashed into a restaurant, flattening the business and injuring three people. The Utah Highway Patrol says the truck was traveling too fast for conditions on U.S. 6 when it left the highway Wednesday morning and struck the restaurant, which was […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — 2:30 pm The latest information from UDOT states the clearance time is expected to be 3:00 pm 12:31 pm One person has been confirmed dead and three others were injured in the crash. Troopers said a red Ford pickup truck hauling a trailer loaded with […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — A three-year veteran of the Provo police force was shot and killed during a shootout while trying to apprehend a fugitive in neighboring Orem south of Salt Lake City, the police chief said Sunday. Officer Joseph Shinners managed to return fire after he was shot and […]
