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Lone survivor of West Valley family shooting dies unexpectedly at age 19
Payton Davis, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 5:51 p.m. | Save Story
The only family member to survive a West Valley shooting that claimed the lives of his parents and his three siblings in 2024 died Sunday at age 19.
Sister of slain Utah woman shares emotional struggle 1 year later
Curtis Booker, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 5:00 p.m. | Save Story
Family of Summer Roney, who police found dead in her ex-boyfriend's car on New Years Eve 2024, reflects on their loss, grief one year later.
GOP House leaders want to add justices to the Utah Supreme Court
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL | Posted Jan. 11 - 3:00 p.m. | Save Story
Top Republicans in the Utah House are looking to expand the state's judiciary and add transparency measures to the court system in the upcoming legislative session.
6 people killed in Mississippi rampage, including 7-year-old girl. Suspect charged with murder
The Associated Press | Posted Jan. 11 - 11:23 a.m. | Save Story
Authorities in Mississippi have charged 24-year-old Daricka M. Moore with murder after six people were killed in a series of related shootings Friday night.
1970 southern Utah cold case reopened; detectives prepping to exhume remains
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 9:04 p.m. | Save Story
Utah's Washington County Sheriff's Office is preparing to exhume the remains of a woman whose body was found in 1970 in an effort to identify her and determine her cause of death.
100 skulls and mummified body parts found in a Pennsylvania grave robbery case
Mark Scolforo, Associated Press | Posted Jan. 10 - 4:34 p.m. | Save Story
A man is accused of stealing about 100 sets of human remains from an abandoned Philadelphia cemetery after police were led to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say the man hoarded.
2 killed outside church remembered for examples, positive changes made in their lives
Emma Pitts, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 10 - 2:53 p.m. | Save Story
The son of one of the men killed by gunfire in a Salt Lake church parking lot on Wednesday said his dad exemplified Christ-like love.
Salt Lake man charged with stabbing bus passenger unprovoked
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 10 - 9:06 a.m. | Save Story
A Salt Lake man was charged Friday with stabbing another passenger on a Utah Transit Authority bus three times after the bus passed his stop.
DNC threatens legal action if Utah sends voter rolls to Justice Department
Lauren Irwin, Deseret News | Posted Jan. 9 - 9:02 p.m. | Save Story
The Democratic National Committee told Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson in a letter on Friday that if she provides the Department of Justice the voter information of Utahns, legal action will follow.
Judge blocks Trump from freezing $10B in child, family aid to five states
Jack Queen, Reuters | Updated Jan. 9 - 7:42 p.m. | Save Story
A judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from freezing access by five Democratic-led states to more than $10 billion of federal funds for child care and family assistance based on what it said were concerns about fraud.
Washington pipe bomb suspect pleads not guilty
Andrew Goudsward, Reuters | Posted Jan. 9 - 5:53 p.m. | Save Story
The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack pleaded not guilty on Friday to two explosives-related charges.
Taylorsville man lured Herriman man to shop, then killed and buried him, charges say
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 9 - 4:34 p.m. | Save Story
A Taylorsville man was charged Friday with luring a Herriman man to his auto shop, then killing him and eventually burying his body in a shallow Tooele County grave.
New video emerges of Minnesota shooting, further inflaming tensions
Renee Hickman, Brad Brooks and Joseph Ax, Reuters | Posted Jan. 9 - 4:01 p.m. | Save Story
The White House on Friday reposted on social media a new video taken from the cellphone of the immigration officer who fatally shot a Minnesota woman in her car this week.
Mother killed 6-year-old, then took her own life in Canyonlands, police say
Pat Reavy, KSL | Updated Jan. 9 - 2:06 p.m. | Save Story
San Juan County sheriff's detectives the deaths of a 6-year-old boy and his mother in Canyonlands National Park was the result of a murder-suicide.
Judge sets jury selection in Luigi Mangione CEO killing trial for September
Jack Queen, Reuters | Updated Jan. 9 - 1:43 p.m. | Save Story
A federal judge on Friday said jury selection will begin in early September for the murder trial of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive outside a hotel in Manhattan.
Homeless man charged with attacking 4 outside Provo motel
Pat Reavy, KSL | Posted Jan. 9 - 1:35 p.m. | Save Story
Criminal charges were filed Thursday against a man who prosecutors say attacked four people outside a Provo motel, knocking two of them unconscious.
Swiss prosecutors order detention of owner of bar in deadly blaze
Emma Farge and Cecile Mantovani, Reuters | Posted Jan. 9 - 11:50 a.m. | Save Story
Swiss prosecutors said on Friday they had ordered one of the two owners of a ski resort bar where a fire on New Year's Day killed 40 people to be detained due to flight risk, with local media saying the order had been carried out.
South Ogden man shot 2 neighbors as they walked out of their house, police say
Tim Vandenack and Pat Reavy, KSL | Updated Jan. 9 - 10:09 a.m. | Save Story
Two people were shot in an incident in South Ogden, and the officers who first responded came under fire, prompting a large police presence before a neighbor was arrested.
