(CNN) — A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Utah’s Salt Lake City area Wednesday morning, cutting power to tens of thousands and suspending work at the state’s public health lab amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. Flights to Salt Lake International Airport were being diverted, departures were postponed, and terminals and concourses were evacuated so engineers […]
As a child growing up in Panama, Juan Vasquez didn’t wonder too much about his father. He knew his parents had met at a dance club while his dad was stationed by the United States Air Force in the small Central American country, but the only information his mother had about her mysterious dance partner […]
Utah is now the 19th state to outlaw conversion therapy for minors after a new rule from its governor went into effect late Tuesday. The ban issued by Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, comes a year after an effort to end the practice in the conservative state stalled in the legislature. Conversion therapy is an attempt […]
A search and rescue team recovered a body Thursday below Angels Landing, a 1,488-foot tall rock tower in Utah’s Zion National Park. The body is consistent with the age and gender of a hiker who was reported missing Wednesday, the National Park Service (NPS) said in a news release. The hiker is believed to be […]
A 21-year-old man is behind bars after police say he threatened a mass shooting targeting children. Terek Wesley Fleming of Midvale was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail, Wednesday. He faces charges of making terroristic threats and threats of violence. Police were alerted to the messages Fleming allegedly sent, by a woman who lives […]
Few moments in a teenage girl’s life are equally as thrilling and nerve-wracking as high school homecoming. With it comes choosing the perfect dress, acing a tricky hairstyle, indulging parents in awkward photos with a date and dancing all night until the heels come off. Deserae Turner came close to never experiencing any of that. […]
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah rebuked President Donald Trump on Friday over the President’s call for Ukraine and China to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden. “By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling,” Romney said in a statement […]
