All the headlines from our Utah Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2013 // Before she pulls out of the driveway, Stefhany Robles switches her phone on silent or turns it off.The 16-year-old junior at Salt Lake City’s West High School says the distraction isn’t worth shooting off a...
May 14 2013 // The Utah Air National Guard is ready to open its new $8 million fire station at the base in Salt Lake City. Guard leaders held a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday at the base next to Salt Lake City International...
May 13 2013 // The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities.The plan allows Utah to continue to...
May 1 2013 // A 2012 security breach that exposed the personal information of 780,000 Utah residents to hackers could cost as much as $406 million, a new study finds.The Salt Lake Tribune reported in the aftermath of the breach, the...
Apr 23 2013 // A University of Utah study had rejected a company’s claims concerning the cause of a 2007 collapse at Utah’s Crandall Canyon coal mine that killed nine people.The scientists presented findings of their research...
Apr 18 2013 // A massive landslide that halted operations at a major Utah copper mine last week was one of the largest in the history of open pit mining, an expert said this week.The assessment came after Kennecott Utah Copper announced...
Apr 18 2013 // A former police officer in Price, Utah has been sentenced to jail for defrauding his car insurance company.Robert Iain Walker was sentenced last week to serve up to five years in prison but the sentence was suspended in...
Apr 16 2013 // State regulators have slapped Chevron with a violation notice over a March fuel spill near a northern Utah bird refuge.The Utah Division of Water Quality is asking Chevron to provide a report on cleanup operations and a...
Mar 25 2013 // Investigators are blaming a 1980s-era computer monitor for a fire that ravaged a Clearfield church this week.The Standard-Examiner reports the old monitor had overheated and sparked the Tuesday afternoon blaze in the...
Mar 12 2013 // The mountains still may be covered in snow, but officials already are preparing for another busy wildfire season in Utah amid growing concern over the cost to battle them.State officials told the Deseret News that the...
Feb 25 2013 // Shea, LeavittShea Insurance in Las Vegas, Nev. has been acquired by the Leavitt Group. Terms of the deal were not made available.With the acquisition Scott Villamor, who owned Shea Insurance, joins Leavitt Group’s...
Feb 25 2013 // Agriculture continues to play an important role in Utah’s economy, according to a Utah State University study.The study found that when taking into account related industries such as food processing, agriculture...
Feb 25 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
Feb 11 2013 // Agriculture continues to play an important role in Utah’s economy, according to a Utah State University study.The study found that when taking into account related industries such as food processing, agriculture...
Feb 5 2013 // MMIC, a large Midwest medical professional liability firm, has entered into an agreement to acquire Utah Medical Insurance Association, a provider of medical professional liability insurance for physicians in Utah,...
Feb 5 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
Jan 29 2013 // As Illinois becomes the fourth and most populous U.S. state to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, nagging concerns remain about whether there are enough safeguards to avoid the identity fraud and other...
Jan 28 2013 // A former Utah high school student has received $100,000 in a settlement related to his claims that he was racially abused by fellow students that included members of white supremacist group.Anthony Armstrong, a biracial...
Jan 28 2013 // A 28-year-old Utah man has been ordered to stand trial for automobile homicide after police say he was texting while driving when he struck and killed a teenage pedestrian. Jeffrey Lloyd Bascom of Jensen faces a felony...
Jan 16 2013 // Safer roads and more traffic enforcement have helped reduce traffic fatalities in Utah to their lowest level in more than 50 years.The Utah Department of Transportation said traffic accidents claimed 215 lives last year, a...