All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 4 2016 // A Utah judge in late-March tossed out part of a lawsuit filed by a family who says they were beaten by drunken revelers at a ski resort’s Oktoberfest celebration because the event has turned into a booze-fueled Rocky...
Mar 31 2016 // Utah is joining more than a dozen states to require businesses to offer breast-feeding and pregnant employees accommodations such as extra breaks during work. Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law this week that makes...
Mar 28 2016 // A Utah woman who is part of a polygamous group alleges that makers of a reality TV show barged into her house without permission and pressured her daughter into being in a series about people leaving polygamy.Susan Nelson...
Mar 16 2016 // A Utah judge this week tossed out part of a lawsuit filed by a family who says they were beaten by drunken revelers at a ski resort’s Oktoberfest celebration because the event has turned into a booze-fueled Rocky...
Mar 15 2016 // A wrongful death lawsuit against Clearfield Job Corps Center in Utah has drawn support and criticism from former students.The Standard-Examiner reported 17-year-old Isela Huerta Carranza left the center and went without...
Mar 9 2016 // A proposal that would have made edible marijuana products legal in Utah for those with chronic pain has died, concluding a more than yearlong effort that was severely stunted after the Mormon church came out in opposition...
Mar 7 2016 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation has honored five insurance and risk management students at the University of Texas at Dallas with scholarships and registration into the Gamma Iota Sigma (GIS)...
Feb 8 2016 // Utah-man Navid Monjazeb faces 22 counts of insurance fraud, reckless endangerment, and other crimes spanning five years and at least 23 known accidents – with the same three vehicles.Charges resulting from a months-long...
Feb 4 2016 // Two former Dixie State University women’s basketball players who alleged they were the victims of discrimination have settled a federal lawsuit against the Utah school for $100,000.The Spectrum of St. George reported...
Jan 26 2016 // A Utah county reached an agreement over the weekend with ridesharing company Uber to stop operating helicopter flights at the Sundance Film Festival.Summit County said helicopter companies agreed to cease operating in...
Jan 26 2016 // Several Utah universities are joining colleges around the country in restricting hoverboards on campus as federal officials review dozens of fires tied to the self-balancing scooters.At least two Utah schools, including...
Jan 26 2016 // The organizers of Salt Lake Comic Con and San Diego Comic-Con may be on the verge of resolving an ongoing name-trademark dispute.Attorneys for the two pop-culture conventions asked a federal judge to give them more time to...
Jan 21 2016 // Utah-man Navid Monjazeb faces 22 counts of insurance fraud, reckless endangerment, and other crimes spanning five years and at least 23 known accidents – with the same three vehicles.Charges resulting from a months-long...
Dec 31 2015 // More people were pulled over for texting, emailing or checking Facebook on their cellphones behind the wheel on Utah’s highways in a six-month snapshot of 2015, marking a second year of growth in stops since the law...
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...
Dec 15 2015 // Uber is coming to Ogden, Utah.The ridesharing company already operates in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake Tribune reported it mentioned the expansion on its Utah-specific Twitter account on Friday. It’s expected to...
Dec 7 2015 // A Utah judge tossed out a lawsuit claiming a school district didn’t do enough to protect students from a female teacher who sexually abused three male students.Judge John Morris said he was ruling in line with a Utah...
Dec 2 2015 // Police in Utah say the holiday weekend’s icy roads caused several crashes along the Wasatch Front.The weekend tally of more than 200 accidents included a Saturday crash that damaged a Utah Highway Patrol vehicle....
Dec 1 2015 // The organizers of Salt Lake Comic Con said they have made inroads in a name-trademark dispute that all hinges on a hyphen.Bryan Brandenburg, co-founder of the Utah convention , said last week organizers recently met with...
Dec 1 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry.The...