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Man wanted for abuse of woman

SYRACUSE — Jay Wilson, 66, has a warrant out for his arrest for sexually abusing and groping a woman.

He was charged with forcible sodomy, forcible sexual abuse and sexual battery in 2nd District Court on Thursday. A warrant for Wilson’s arrest was filed the same day.

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Man charged with abusing young girl

OGDEN — Matthew Gustafson, 19, was charged Thursday with sexually abusing a young girl.

Two charges of the forcible sexual abuse of a child were filed in 2nd District Court against the Ogden man.

Gustafson was at the home of a 9-year-old girl last Christmas when he touched her private area over the top of her clothing, according to a probable cause affidavit. The girl told her parents what happened after he left.

Execution date set for convicted Utah killer

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has set an April 5 execution date for a Utah State Prison inmate on death row since 1989.

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U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear Trece injunction

 

 

 

 

OGDEN — A convicted Trece gang member has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, challenging his prosecution and the constitutionality of Ogden’s Trece gang injunction.

Eighteen year old Alyssa Bustamante is escorted out of the Cole County Courthouse, in Jefferson City, Mo. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to a waiting sheriff's vehicle. Bustamante, 18, who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an “ahmazing” thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl’s family and was sentenced to a potential lifetime in prison. Bustamante originally had been charged with first-degree murder of Elizabeth Olten, but pleaded guilty last month to the lesser charges to avoid a trial and the possibility of spending her life in an adult prison with no chance of release. (AP Photo/The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith)

Teen gets life with possible parole in 'thrill kill' of 9-year-old girl

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an "ahmazing" thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl's family and was sentenced to a potential lifetime in prison.

Lawyers for Utah abortion doctor ask to inspect specimens of fetus

ELKTON, Md. -- Lawyers for a doctor accused of killing a fetus during a late-term abortion are asking to inspect specimens of that fetus.

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Judge denies custody to Josh Powell

TACOMA, Wash. -- A judge has ruled that the children of missing Utah mother Susan Powell must remain in the custody of her parents.

Matthew David Stewart appears before Judge Brent West at the 2nd District Court in Ogden through a video link from  Weber County Jail on Wednesday. Stewart is charged with aggravated murder, which could bring the death penalty, seven counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of production of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone in connection with the Jan. 4 shootout at his home with members of the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Stewart makes first court appearance

  OGDEN — Matthew David Stewart, clad in an orange jumpsuit, made his first court appearance Wednesday morning via video link from Weber County Jail.

'Judge for a Day’ program announced

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Courts are planning the seventh annual “Judge for a Day” program in recognition of Law Day, which is celebrated May 1.

Man pleads guilty to collecting 1 million images of child porn

WICHITA, Kan. -- A Wichita man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to collecting more than a million images of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

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Man pleads guilty to child pornography charges

OGDEN -- A man who had his child pornography stash burglarized has pleaded guilty to charges.

Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak appears in the Oslo courthouse, Oslo, Norway Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Two men accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad were found guilty Monday of terror charges in Norway, the first convictions under the country's anti-terror laws. The Oslo district court sentenced alleged ringleader Mikael Davud to seven years in prison and co-defendant Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak to three and a half years. (AP Photo/Scanpix/Berit Roald)

2 convicted in Norway of plotting terror attack

OSLO, Norway -- Two men accused of plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad were found guilty Monday of terror charges in Norway, the first convictions under the country's anti-terror laws.

Student charged in Roy High bomb plot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OGDEN — Prosecutors filed a charge of possession of a weapon of mass destruction this morning against Dallin Todd Morgan, 18, for what prosecutors say was his part in a plot to bomb Roy High School.

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2011 file photo, Colton Harris-Moore, also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," glances at the courtroom gallery as he walks to the defense table, in Island County Superior Court, in Coupeville, Wash. Harris-Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Friday, Jan. 27, 2012, in a U.S. federal court for his two-year international crime spree of break-ins and boat and plane thefts. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Barefoot Bandit gets 6-year federal sentence

SEATTLE -- The exploits of Colton Harris-Moore, the gangly "Barefoot Bandit" who as a wily thief and self-taught pilot managed to elude police with aplomb from Washington to the Bahamas for two years, ended Friday in a federal courtroom, where a judge sentenced him to 6- 1/2 years in prison and three years of probation.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter enters an Alhambra, Calif., courthouse in the fifth day of a preliminary court hearing Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012. Gerhartsreiter, a German immigrant, masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family. Gerhartsreiter a convicted kidnapper faces a charge of murdering the son of his former landlady a quarter century ago, when he lived in California under one of his many pseudonyms. (AP Photo/San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Walt Mancini, Pool)

Rockefeller impostor ordered to stand trial in bizarre murder

ALHAMBRA, California -- The bizarre murder case against a man who assumed multiple identities including that of a Rockefeller is headed for trial and a lawyer for the defendant said he welcomes the chance to go before a jury.

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