Simone Seikaly

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Simone Seikaly is a veteran reporter, anchor and producer at KSL NewsRadio, but these days, she's best known as a digital content producer. You can reach her at sseikaly@ksl.com.

Utah leaders react to Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

The reactions range from joy, to anger, to concern over women's access to services in the event of an unplanned pregnancy.
2 years ago

FDA advisers move COVID-19 shots closer for kids under 5

An advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration gave a thumbs-up to vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for children under 5..
2 years ago

UPDATE: Child missing from foster family found safe

The Utah Division of Family Services believes that Omar, the mising child, is with his biological mother, Gelacitte Olivia Lizarraga, age 29.
2 years ago

Sandy police report two child abduction attempts involving silver SUV

Sandy police said the child abduction attempts happened on June 6 and June 9, in the area of 11000 to 11400 South, east of 700 East.
2 years ago

Yellowstone peak renamed First Peoples Mountain

A Yellowstone mountain peak named after an expeditionary soldier has been renamed to reflect the area's Indigenous history.
2 years ago

Jan. 6 witness: Trump ‘detached from reality’ over election

The panel is delving deeper into what it calls the "big lie," the defeated Republican president's false claims of voter fraud.
2 years ago

Marathon US hearings to decide fate of COVID shots for tots

On Wednesday, both Moderna and Pfizer will argue their case. Each company aims to offer a different dose and number of shots.
2 years ago

UPDATE: All members of youth group rescued from Garfield County slot canyon

GARFIELD COUNTY, Utah — Garfield County Sheriff Danny Perkins reports that a rescue involving 17 members of a church youth group is complete and that everybody has been successfully removed from the Sandthrax slot canyon.   I got an update on the Search And Rescue involving the youth group. Everyone has been rescued and taken to […]
2 years ago

Jerrod Baum sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole

Jerrod Baum was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the aggravated kidnapping and murder of Riley Powell and Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson
2 years ago

WHO: COVID origins unclear but lab leak theory needs study

Experts drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began.
2 years ago

New vaccine may be option for troops with religious concerns

At least 175 active duty and reserve service members have received the Novavax vaccine. Some have traveled overseas at their own expense to get it.
2 years ago

Average for gasoline in Utah rises to five dollars a gallon

The average for gasoline in Utah is up, says Triple A, because demand and the cost of a barrel of oil are also up.
2 years ago

Armed man arrested for threat to kill Justice Kavanaugh

Twenty-six year-old Nicholas John Roske of Simi Valley, California was identified in a criminal complaint charging him with the attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice.
2 years ago

Simone Biles, other women seek $1B-plus from FBI over Nassar

The approximately 90 claimants who said they were sexually assaulted include Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, all Olympic gold medalists.
2 years ago

4th grade Uvalde survivor: ‘I don’t want it to happen again’

Miah Cerrillo's testimony to a House Oversight Committee was the second day of testimony from families of the victims and survivors of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde.
2 years ago

Two auto-pedestrian accidents in Salt Lake City Wednesday morning, one of them fatal

The fatal accident happened in the intersection of 700 West and 2100 South in Salt Lake City.
2 years ago

Magna dab lab shut down by Unified police, equipment, dabs seized

Magna police said equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars was confiscated along with pounds of marijuana and dabs.
2 years ago

Utah health officials report slowly increasing supply of infant formula

A "significant" amount of infant formula has arrived in Utah over the last five days according to health officials.
2 years ago

Utah man from Cache County drowns near Preston, Idaho

The Franklin County Idaho Sheriff's office says a 21-year-old male from Cache County, Utah, drowned on Sunday at Foster Reservoir.
2 years ago

Special showings of The Wizard of Oz on the big screen

Screenings of The Wizard of Oz are being offered to recognize what would be the 100th birthday of the film's star, Judy Garland.
2 years ago

World War II veterans honored a day before D-Day anniversary

A series of commemorations are honoring the nearly 160,000 troops from Britain, the U.S., Canada and elsewhere who landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
2 years ago

Warriors answer in Game 2, top Celtics 107-88 to even Finals

Stephen Curry scored 29 points, Jordan Poole connected from just inside of midcourt to cap a huge third-quarter run and the Golden State Warriors evened the NBA Finals at a game apiece by beating the Boston Celtics 107-88 on Sunday night.
2 years ago

Disturbance call leads to a quarter million dollar fentanyl bust

A disturbance call led Garfield County officials to a car being pushed and three people inside. The drugs were found in the car's trunk.
2 years ago

Fire destroys six mobile homes on Sunday in Moab

In response to the fire, the entire Park Creek Campground in Moab, about 30 trailers, was evacuated. There were no injuries.
2 years ago