SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates have unveiled a marker to memorialize patients who died in Utah’s first asylum. KSL-TV reports the stone plaque was made public at a ceremony on Tuesday at the Salt Lake City Cemetery’s B plat and bears the name of 55 people who died at the facility. […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman charged with killing her children will face trial after years under state mental health care. The Standard-Examiner reported Monday that 53-year-old Sun Cha Warhola was deemed competent Monday to stand trial in the 2010 strangulation deaths of her two children. A judge granted matching prosecution […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Hospital is on track to cut down wait times for people to undergo mental health treatment before they can stand trial. The Deseret News reports hospital superintendent Dallas Earnshaw told lawmakers the wait averaged 23 days in September, down from 40 in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man accused of killing and raping a 6-year-old West Jordan girl in 2012 has accepted a plea deal and been sentenced to 65 years to life in prison. Terry Lee Black was sentenced Thursday after entering an Alford plea to aggravated murder, child rape […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Nearly 500 patients buried in unmarked graves after they died in what was once called the Utah Territorial Insane Asylum have been honored with a new memorial in Provo. The names of patients who died from 1885 to 1960 at the facility that is now the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With election season heating up, people in Utah can register to vote at a series of events on National Voter Registration Day. The Tuesday holiday will include events at Glendale and Columbus libraries and University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and there are other […]
