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Cache County drops rape charges against teen from party

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 4:52pm

LOGAN -- Cache County prosecutors have at least temporarily dropped rape and kidnapping charges against a 19-year-old Smithfield man accused of assaulting a teenage girl at a party last summer.

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Jodie Arias changes tune about death

Brian Sokoloff The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 1:31pm

PHOENIX -- Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, arguing she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview after she was convicted of murder that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.

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Family says Feds investigating Susan Powell disappearance

Gene Johnson The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 5:55pm

SEATTLE — The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there’s an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell’s disappearance.

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Former Cache Lions Club treasurer guilty of stealing charity funds

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 9:29am

LOGAN— The former treasurer for the Lions Club in Paradise has pleaded guilty to stealing money that was supposed to go towards an popular annual summer festival.

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Records show police believed Josh Powell killed his wife

Gene Johnson, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 10:20am

WEST VALLEY CITY — Newly released police records show that Utah officials believe Josh Powell likely killed his wife and that his brother, Michael Powell, helped dispose of the body, but authorities felt they didn’t have enough evidence to prove that theory in court.

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Suspect escapes Wendover police car by climbing out window

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:53am

WEST WENDOVER, Nev. — A Salt Lake City man who briefly escaped from Nevada police by climbing through a patrol car window is behind bars in West Wendover on a series of drug and escape charges.

Police started pursuing 24-year-old John A. Ramirez-Juarez Monday morning after he ran a stop sign on Wendover Boulevard.

He eventually pulled into a casino parking lot, was handcuffed and placed in the police car.

However, police say he took advantage of an unlocked window and climbed through back onto the street before officers apprehended him again.

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Reward offered in arson of Ogden LDS Church chapel

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:47am

OGDEN -- A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting fire to an LDS Church chapel located at 1590 13th Street.

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Cedar City man jailed for assault at party

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:26am

CEDAR CITY — A 32-year-old Cedar City man has been arrested on several charges of aggravated assault after police say he tried to run over several people with his vehicle.

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File: Josh Powell had affair before wife disappeared

Gene Johnson, Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 5:55am

WEST VALLEY CITY -- Josh Powell reportedly had an affair just months before his wife disappeared and his brother may have been "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, Utah police revealed as they announced they couldn't solve the sensational case.

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Ruling expected soon on whether Lovell murder confession will be suppressed

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 12:48am

OGDEN — The question will be answered any day now as to whether the 2nd District Courthouse here will feature the spectacle of a murder trial with the killer’s grisly confession in sworn, open-court testimony.

Doug Lovell was sentenced to die at his 1993 sentencing hearing after he described his 1985 strangling of Joyce Yost, 39, of South Ogden, in graphic detail. After decades of appeals, his case is set for trial in February. Three years ago, the Utah Supreme Court allowed him to withdraw his guilty plea on legal technicalities.

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Judge gives Nance up to 30 years in prison for shooting father

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 12:45am

FARMINGTON — A splintered family was on display in 2nd District Court here Monday as the son was sentenced for fatally shooting the father.

Joseph Nance’s March 19, 2011, patricide of Gregory Nance has divided the family, which became obvious last month when a plea bargain was announced, reducing a first-degree felony murder charge to a second-degree felony manslaughter charge. Some family members, such as Joseph Nance’s grandparents, wanted to go to trial, while others wanted him released from jail.

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No change in bail, SLC doctor will stay in jail

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 20, 2013 - 11:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City pediatrician charged with killing his ex-wife will remain in jail on $1.5 million cash-only bail.

Utah District Court Judge Robin W. Reese said Monday during the hearing that he was not likely to change the bail without knowing the case. The attorney for 49-year-old John Brickman Wall then decided to withdraw his request and wait until the judge assigned to the case is back next month.

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Jodi Arias looks at her family on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

Attorney calls Jodie Arias case a 'witch trial'

Brian Skoloff The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 20, 2013 - 4:38pm

PHOENIX -- Defense attorneys for Jodi Arias asked the judge to remove them from the case and declare a mistrial Monday, arguing the frenzy surrounding the case has created a modern-day witch hunt.

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2 arrested in death of boy who refused to hand over iPad

Martin Griffith The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 8:12pm

LAS VEGAS -- Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas, police said Sunday.

Jacob Dismont, 18, and Michael Solid, 21, were booked Saturday into the Clark County jail on charges of open murder, robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.

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