Crime, Police + Courts

police car pictured at scene of south salt lake officer-involved shooting...
Sam Herrera

Fatal officer-involved shooting in South Salt Lake was justified, DA’s office says

The South Salt Lake officer-involved shooting killed 44-year-old Jebb Muir on Sept. 26, 2022. One officer was also injured in the shooting.
3 years ago
An officer-involved shooting leaves a man suspected of DUI injured on Thursday, April 20,2023.(Dere...
JOSH ELLIS KSLTV.com

Man shot, injured by West Valley police after suspected DUI stop; gun recovered by officers

A critical-incident protocol team led by officers from the West Jordan Police Department is investigating the shooting.
3 years ago
Utah County Sheriff's Office...
Mark Jones

Man arrested after allegedly shooting two people with a BB gun, made threats with knife

In Utah County, a man was arrested Thursday for allegedly shooting two people with a BB gun and then threatening a woman with a large knife.
3 years ago
lost pets dog wandering after fireworks...
Peter Johnston

Watch out for Facebook scammers using lost dog ads

There's a new way scammers might be using your local Facebook group against you. Think twice before sharing a neighbor's lost dog ad.
3 years ago
In a sketch from court, David Warwick takes the witness stand. He was in the home with JJ Vallow on...
Madison Swenson

Video: Police asking Lori Vallow Daybell about JJ’s whereabouts shown to jury on day 13 of trial

The ninth day of the Lori Vallow Daybell trial included several witnesses, including a police officer who was at the scene of Charles Vallow's death and a babysitter for JJ Vallow.
3 years ago
wrong-way driver...
Elizabeth Weiler

Dash-cam video released of off-duty UHP trooper stopping wrong-way driver

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper is being praised for his actions earlier this week when he stopped a wrong-way driver on I-80 in Tooele.
3 years ago
Mark Jones

Supreme Court Justices hear arguments about work on Sundays

Inside Sources with Boyd Matheson discusses the oral arguments made to the Supreme Court about work on Sundays with Deseret News reporter Kelsey Dallas.
3 years ago
Curt Gresseth

How to balance helping someone in crisis with protecting yourself

Should you be helping someone in crisis if a 911 emergency dispatcher tells you to stay inside your home? Utah County sheriff’s Sgt. Cannon and KSL legal analyst Greg Skordas discuss helping others, protecting yourself and Utah’s Good Samaritan law.
3 years ago
Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband Chad Daybell are on trial for a series of charges related to t...
Simone Seikaly

Chad Daybell looked for home for childfree couple, testimony reveals

According to testimony, Chad Daybell emailed a realty office on November 8, 2019, three days after he married Lori Vallow Daybell.
3 years ago
lori vallow daybell is pictured in a sketch at her murder trial...
Adam Small

“They’re gone, and you knew,” phone call between Lori Vallow Daybell and son Colby Ryan

The prosecution, for the first time, played a gut-wrenching phone call between Vallow Daybell and her surviving son, Colby Ryan.
3 years ago
Man trapped in trench...
Aimee Cobabe & Devin Oldroyd

Crews rescue man trapped in trench at construction site

Spanish Fork police spent hours working to free a man trapped in a trench in Spanish Fork Tuesday morning.
3 years ago
Colby Ryan is Lori Vallow's son....
Eliza Pace

Who is Colby Ryan?

Colby Ryan is the only surviving son of Lori Vallow. He took the stand Tuesday in her trial in Idaho. He has also been open about his experience and has written a book.
3 years ago
Fire crews work to put a fire from a fatal car crash on Tuesday on SR-189 near Wallsburg. Photo cre...
Mark Jones

Two people killed in crash on SR-189 near Wallsburg

A crash near Wallsburg on Tuesday afternoon has killed two people, according to the Utah Highway Patrol. The crash occurred on SR-189 near Wallsburg.
3 years ago
Court Sketch 4/18....
Eliza Pace

Colby Ryan faces mother as he testifies in Lori Vallow Daybell trial

The only surviving son of Lori Vallow Daybell, Colby Ryan, took the witness stand Tuesday as the trial of Lori Vallow Daybell resumed Tuesday in a Boise, Idaho courthouse.
3 years ago
Amanda Dickson

Do you have a legal right to not work on Sunday?

Do you have a legal right not to work on Sunday? One court case is determining just that.
3 years ago
The $98.5 million verdict a jury awarded to the parents of Susan Cox Powell in 2020 has been reinst...
Josh Ellis and Dave Cawley

Washington appeals court reinstates $98M jury verdict awarded to Susan Cox Powell’s parents

Chuck and Judy Cox sued the state of Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services in 2013, following the Feb. 5, 2012, murder-suicide involving their son-in-law, Josh Powell, and their grandchildren, Charlie and Braden Powell.
3 years ago
Polygamist Warren Jeffs and defense attorney Tara Isaacson listen to testimony during Jeffs' prelim...
Hugo Rikard-Bell

Parents call for help to find missing children linked to FLDS

For years Utah has been plagued with rumors of missing children linked to the religious extremist Warren Jeffs of the FLDS.
3 years ago
door knock...
Curt Gresseth

Black teen who knocked on wrong door shot by homeowner. Legal expert discusses case.

KSL legal analyst Greg Skordas joins the show to discuss the case of a Black teen who was shot twice by a white homeowner in his 80s in Kansas City last week.
3 years ago
sheree warren is pictured in a...
Dave Cawley

COLD Season 3: Last Man Standing

Cold has served as a megaphone, amplifying the voices Susan Powell and Joyce Yost. I’d hoped it might do the same for Sheree Warren, when I turned to her unsolved disappearance for Cold season 3
3 years ago
an evidence bag in the sheree warren case is pictured...
Dave Cawley

COLD Season 3: A Picture in the Lobby

Detective John Frawley only had the Sheree Warren case for a few weeks before a forensics team obtained a dental record match on unidentified remains.
3 years ago
Waverly Golden

Sister-in-law of Lori Vallow Daybell recalls events leading up to deaths and disappearances

Day 10 in the Lori Vallow Daybell trial began with Chandler Police Detective Nathan Duncan on the stand, followed by another former friend of the defendant.
3 years ago
a tax form, 1040, is often used to file taxes...
MATT GEPHARDT, KSL TV

IRS warns of tax scams as filing deadline rapidly approaches

This year the IRS is seeing a spike in businesses being targeted with promises of getting COVID-19 relief funds.
3 years ago
A court artist's sketch of Melanie Gibb testifying in the murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell in Bo...
Kyle Dunphey, Deseret News

Close friend of Lori Vallow Daybell describes relationship with Chad Daybell, JJ’s final days

BOISE, Idaho — Melanie Gibb took the stand Thursday to describe her former best friend Lori Vallow Daybell’s descent into radical beliefs that she says led the mother charged with murder to claim her children were zombies, and that Chad Daybell’s wife would die. Thursday marked Day 9 in the trial of Vallow Daybell, who has been charged […]
3 years ago
SCOTUS ruling on mifepristone...
Tierney Sneed, CNN

DOJ will take emergency dispute over medication abortion rules to the Supreme Court

The appeals court ordered a return to the pre-2016 FDA regime around the drug, which prevents mailing the pill for prescriptions received via telehealth.
3 years ago