OGDEN, Utah-Wednesday, Weber County officials announced they are investigating a suspicious death after finding a woman’s body in Ogden. Just before 6:00 pm Tuesday, the Weber County Sheriff’s Office received a call concerning a possible dead body in the 400 Ogden Canyon Area, per statements from Sheriff’s Lt. Courtney Ryan […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Deputies with the Weber County Sheriff’s Office have arrested an alleged fraudulent contractor named Trace Conlin. Conlin was booked at the Weber County Jail April 10 for five counts of communication fraud, five counts of construction, contracting without a license and one count of mail theft. Detectives believe […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Search and rescue workers and wildlife officers in northern Utah have rescued three Great Pyrenees puppies abandoned in frigid temperatures in the mountains, authorities said. Snowmobilers near Monte Cristo found the puppies Sunday hiding in an animal carcass, Weber County search and rescue crew members […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food has confirmed the first case of horse herpes in the state. Department officials say a Weber County horse tested positive sometime this week and has been quarantined. Prior to the diagnosis, other horses on the farm of origin […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — For seven years, Jennifer Barsell’s home was an old Toyota Corolla. “It was a junk piece, so bad,” she said. But nine months ago, she became one of the fortunate few in Weber County to surmount chronic homelessness. The 50-year-old former restaurant manager was allotted a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new test program in Utah allows some people who have been convicted of multiple DUIs across the state to keep their driver’s license if they pass a series of sobriety tests given multiple times a day for a year, officials said. The 24/7 Sobriety […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Thousands of dead fish have washed ashore at a reservoir in northern Utah this summer. The Standard-Examiner reports biologists with Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have noticed a massive die-off of fish at Pineview Reservoir in Weber County. Many of the fish were young black crappies. Black crappies […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Authorities have identified two people killed when a pickup truck rolled off a dirt road into a ravine in a crash that also injured five people. The Standard-Examiner reports that 49-year-old Manuel “Tony” Lopez and 25-year-old Leon Hoang were pronounced dead at the scene in rural Weber County […]
WEST HAVEN, Utah (AP) — As Utah’s population booms, some farmers in Weber County are making the tough but sometimes lucrative decision to sell their land as small family plots give way to homes. The loss of open farmland has led to nostalgia for people connected to the county’s agricultural […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state audit finds police lost track of dozens of pieces of evidence in Utah, including drugs, paraphernalia and at least one gun. The audit released Wednesday found missing evidence at five out of the seven agencies in the review sample. It found a combined […]
