SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs was captured Wednesday night in South Dakota after being on the run for nearly a year after escaping from home confinement in Utah pending trial on food stamp fraud charges. The FBI announced the capture Thursday morning with a Tweet: “#ARRESTED: FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump’s call to review 27 national monuments established by three former presidents put in limbo protections on large swaths of land home to ancient cliff dwellings, towering sequoia trees, deep canyons and ocean habitats where seals, whales and sea turtles roam. Trump and other critics say presidents have … Continue reading
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Two fast-acting parents disarmed their 15-year-old son at a Utah junior high school Thursday after they noticed the teenager acting peculiarly in the morning and realized he had taken the family’s shotgun and handgun, police said. The mother and father arrived shortly after the boy entered a classroom in the northern … Continue reading
OREM, Utah (AP) — As a group of boys at a Utah high school changed Tuesday morning into gym clothes for physical education class, a straight-A student pulled out a knife in the locker room and stabbed five of his classmates, sending the injured running for their lives and covered in blood, police said. The 16-year-old … Continue reading
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Utah point guard George Hill used the lessons he learned in three seasons with San Antonio to hand his former team a rare home loss. Hill had 22 points and the Jazz made a season-high 15 3-pointers, handing the Spurs their first loss of the season 106-91 on Tuesday night. “He … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 14-year-old in Utah grabbed his mother’s gun to scare an older boy in a planned afterschool fight and ended up firing two rounds into his adversary’s head, critically wounding him, prosecutors said in charging documents filed Monday. After firing the shots, he fell to his knees outside the … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The unity of Republican voters in heavily conservative Utah has been splintered by Donald Trump’s crude behavior and volatile campaign, creating an unprecedented sense of uncertainty in a must-win state for the GOP candidate. Trump may still eke out a victory to win Utah’s six electoral votes, but aversion to … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, more than 100 boats are sitting high and dry in a parking lot, unable to sail the shallow, drought-stricken sea. North of the nearly empty marina, salt-loving bacteria thriving in the low water has turned the liquid pink. The massive lake, … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When she got word of a leopard on the loose at the zoo in Salt Lake City, Katie Boender ducked into the nearest building with her group of preschool students: A bathroom. They spent the next 30 minutes holed up there as an emergency team tranquilized the rare animal that … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah sisters grew up in the same bedroom, went to the same college, worked for almost a decade at the same company and have visited over 50 countries side by side. Now every three weeks, they sit together in matching chairs and chat as their bodies are pumped full … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Actor Ryan Reynolds is showing his support for a Salt Lake City movie theater cited under a Utah obscenity law for serving drinks during a screening of his movie “Deadpool.” Reynolds gave $5,000 to a fundraising website set up to help the theater called Brewvies with its legal bills on … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A new program approved by Utah lawmakers creates a statewide center to train more police officers on how to defuse potentially deadly confrontations amid a national debate on police use of force. The training will include a 360-degree virtual-reality simulator to practice dealing with high-pressure situations and lessons from prosecutors … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Investigators say they noticed something strange when they began tracking food stamp transactions coming out of two small convenience stores in a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border. The volume of food stamp purchased was so large that it rivaled big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Costco. They said they … Continue reading
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The international debate over eliminating sales tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products that women must use has made its way to conservative Utah. Governments that make money off the products penalize women for their biology, some say. That perspective has picked up momentum, with at least five U.S. … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The dramatic contenders at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival span history, genre and setting, from the slave days in the South to the gay-sex scene today in LA’s Korean spas. What unites them, says festival director John Cooper, is excellent storytelling and a “thorough understanding of the craft of filmmaking, … Continue reading
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