The Utah squatter suspected of killing a 19-year-old who struck out on his own farm two years ago admitted to shooting the teen in the head on a rainy day as he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Brigham City court Wednesday. James Brenner, 60, had long been suspected of killing the teen, but evidence was scarce until investigators …
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WASHINGTON – Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says his state’s “unique” qualities helped it come in at the top spot on U.S. News & World Report’s “Best States” survey for the second year in a row. Utah repeated as the No. 1 state in America in U.S. News & World Report’s Best States rankings for 2024, thanks in part to its …
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Search crews on Friday uncovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were swept away and buried by an avalanche in the mountains outside Salt Lake City a day earlier and were preparing to bring them off the mountain via helicopter, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said. The men, ages 23 and 32, were killed in the snowslide Thursday …
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A judge in Utah has set a $100,000 bond for rapper NBA YoungBoy, who faces dozens of charges involving a fraudulent prescription operation he allegedly orchestrated. The 24-year-old rap artist, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, appeared Thursday before Judge Spencer D. Walsh in a Cache County, Utah, court for the bond hearing, KUTV-TV reported. Gaulden was arrested April 16 …
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Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after several days of spring snowstorms, authorities said. A rescue team responded just after 10 a.m. to an avalanche reported near Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie …
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Rescue crews in Salt Lake City, Utah, are searching for two skiers who went missing after an avalanche rushed down Lone Peak on Thursday — a third skier who was originally reported missing has since been found. The Associated Press reported that rescuers responded to the area just after 10 a.m. on Thursday, after reports of an avalanche near Lone …
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A Utah police officer has been identified after he was killed early Sunday when the driver of a semi-truck allegedly fled a traffic stop and struck the officer on a highway. Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser, 50, was remembered as a “top-notch officer” and a hero as colleagues and family spoke during an emotional press conference on Monday. “Just on …
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A Utah police officer was killed Sunday when a semi-truck driver tried to flee a traffic stop and struck the officer, setting off an hours-long manhunt that ended with the driver’s arrest, authorities said. A Santaquin police officer and a Utah Highway Patrol (UHP) trooper responded around 6 a.m. to a 911 call reporting that a person was standing on …
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A man hunting for shed deer antlers in a remote mountainous area in Utah stumbled upon the human skeletal remains of a man who went missing in 2019, authorities said Friday. The shed hunter was in the Hansel Mountains southeast of Snowville on April 27 when he alerted deputies to the skeletal remains, the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office said. …
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A Utah woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a friend was shot in what police said was an uncompleted suicide pact the women had reached several weeks earlier. Heavenly Faith Garfield, 21, was arrested Tuesday and remains jailed in Utah County on Wednesday without bail. Saratoga Springs Police have recommended she be charged with murder and discharge …
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