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Utah children’s book author sent damning text to lover before hubby poison plot: docs

Kouri Richins, a Utah mom of three and children’s book author accused of murdering her husband in 2022, allegedly texted her lover on the night of her husband’s death. Authorities in 2023 charged Richins, now 35, with aggravated murder and drug possession, alleging she poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, on March 3, 2022, with illicit fentanyl as a means to …

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Utah worker saved after 10-foot trench collapses, buries him up to his chin in backyard

A Utah worker is lucky to be alive after he was buried up to his chin when a trench 10 feet deep collapsed on him while digging in a backyard on Tuesday, officials said. Firefighters responded around 1:10 p.m. to a trench collapse at a Cedar Hills residence where three contract laborers were doing sewer work for a homeowner, American …

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Utah police discover 'panic room' inside abusive mommy blogger accomplice's $5.3M desert home

Utah authorities found a so-called “panic room” in parenting blogger Jodi Hildebrandt’s $5.3 million desert home in Ivins, where fellow blogger Ruby Franke sent her children to stay, according to a trove of documents released over the weekend. Franke, a 41-year-old mother of six, and Hildebrandt, a 45-year-old mother of two, ran a joint parenting and lifestyle YouTube channel called …

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Delta Airlines stowaway caught on Texas-bound plane after snapping photo of passenger's boarding pass: feds

A Texas man allegedly snuck onto a Delta Airlines flight in Salt Lake City using a snapshot of a passenger’s boarding pass –he was only caught because the flight was entirely booked and he had nowhere to sit, according to federal prosecutors. Wicliff Yves Fleurizard of George, Texas, now faces a felony charge for being a stowaway on an aircraft, …

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Utah man stunned when grizzly bear invades Alaskan campsite, says he ‘could have touched it'

A wildlife photographer was shocked during a recent up-close encounter with a grizzly bear in the woods. Nate Luebbe was camping in Katmai National Park in the northern Alaska Peninsula with a friend named Cody when the unthinkable happened. Luebbe, 36, was near his campsite in Brooks Falls when he came in close contact with a grizzly bear that was …

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Woman found dead at site of Utah duplex explosion

A woman’s body was found in rubble following a pre-dawn explosion on Wednesday that destroyed a duplex house in northcentral Utah, authorities said. The explosion was reported just before 6 a.m. in a residential area of American Fork. Officials said the duplex was on fire when firefighters arrived. SMALL PLANE CRASH LANDS IN YARD OF UTAH HOME AFTER ENGINE FAILURE …

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