The second season of a controversial and popular Netflix is released today. Suicide prevention specialists say every parent should talk with their children about the show "13 Reasons Why," but, that doesn’t mean everyone should watch it.
VENEZUELA — Yesterday a Riverton man, who has been held in a Venezuela jail for nearly two years, posted a video begging for help as he said people were attacking the jail and wanted to kill him. At the time Senator Orrin Hatch said he was working with the Country to release Josh Holt, and […]
PROVO — The Provo Police Department says a driver involved in a crash which took the life of a 3-year-old last month tested positive for oxycodone just after the crash. The department said on Facebook it arrested Rick Winder for four violations of the Utah Controlled Substance Act in connection with the crash. The crash happened […]
A frightening number of suicides at Herriman High School has residents and community organizers trying to figure out how they can prevent any more from happening. They’re hosting a suicide prevention event tonight at Copper Mountain Middle School.
SALT LAKE CITY – A West High School student is taken into custody by police after he was caught with a gun on campus. Educators say even if the student didn’t intend to hurt anyone, it caused quite a scare among faculty members. Administrators found out about the nine-millimeter handgun shortly after the beginning of […]
SALT LAKE CITY Utah–Leaders of the LDS Church and the NAACP stood together Thursday to call for greater for greater racial and ethnic harmony and ending prejudice. “We are impressed to call on people of this nation and indeed the entire world, to demonstrate greater civility, racial and ethnic harmony, and mutual respect,” said Russell […]
Parents struggling to know the difference between regular teen hormones and a real case of depression with risk of suicide should start by talking to their teenagers, experts say.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah lawmakers are figuring out how to pay for development at Point of the Mountain so they don’t lose 150,000 future jobs there. Consultants for the state Legislature say the area will need a major north-south boulevard near I-15. It would run from “the (state) prison site down to the Thanksgiving […]
WANSHIP, Summit County — The same wet ground that likely moved an excavator on top of a man’s legs also likely saved his legs. A 47-year-old Tooele man was not seriously injured after he was pinned by a 10,000-pound excavator. He was moving cement retaining wall blocks in Wanship. “He was ejected out of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY – Don’t change the name. Lawmakers who were once supporting the name change of UTA say they’re backing off. They believe there was a lot of bad information about how much that re-branding would cost. Legislators say changing the name of UTA was just a small portion of what SB 136 was […]
EVANSTON, Wyo. — A new development in the investigation into a 15 year old girl who was killed in her home in Salt Lake City on May 7th. Salt Lake City Police Sergeant Brandon Shearer says they got a tip that evidence was in a Wyoming Landfill. “Detectives and officers went through the landfill up […]
A former LDS Missionary who grew up in Riverton made a plea for help on Facebook Wednesday, as he claimed the Venezuelan jail he's being held in has fallen in riots, and people are trying to kill him.
Police continue to investigate whether the autopilot was engaged when a Tesla sedan with that semi-autonomous feature rear-ended a fire department truck at 60 mph on Friday evening, apparently without braking before impact.
A California judge has struck down a city ordinance in Oakland that kept Utah coal out. The Federal judge said the city failed to prove that handling and storing coal was a threat to the public. In fact, he said the city’s record was full of inaccuracies and erroneous assumptions and faulty analysis. A Carbon […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The controversial name change approved last session for the Utah Transit Authority could be delayed. A news conference with the sponsors of the legislation is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Utah State Capitol Building. The House Sponsor of the bill, Representative Mike Schultz, told the Deseret News “Clearly there’s […]
A driver fleeing from police could be to blame for a crash involving a semi with a triple trailer that has snarled the southbound commute from Weber County into Salt Lake City, Utah Highway Patrol says.
