A newly improved website gives voters a chance to find out about the performance of the judges who are up for retention in the November general election. According to the Utah Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission, about 1 in 4 voters does not complete their ballot, with judicial ...
OGDEN — A woman who as a teenager was sexually abused by a teacher has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Ogden School District had a pattern of policy and supervisory deficiencies that repeatedly allowed teachers to prey upon students. The woman was a student of Drew Tutt in 2015-16 when ...
OGDEN — Miller Costello has pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated murder in the 2017 death of his 3-year-old daughter, thereby avoiding potential capital punishment. The plea deal acknowledges the starvation, beatings and other injuries that the child endured over more than a ...
FARMINGTON — A Kaysville man who sexually abused at least eight female patients in his chiropractic practice has been sentenced to multiple terms in prison. Judge Ronald Russell on Friday imposed the penalties on Kenneth Walter Pierce, 56, ordering that he serve three years to life for ...
LAYTON — A judge is weighing a request to grant the conditional release of Jeremy Hauck, who has been receiving treatment at Utah State Hospital in Orem since he was committed after killing his mother and stuffing her body into a freezer 16 years ago. At a 2nd District Court hearing before ...
BRIGHAM CITY — A Perry man sexually assaulted a dozen women over a five-year period after arranging meetings with the victims via social media, according to charging documents. First District Judge Brandon Maynard on Wednesday sentenced Braydon Brailsford, 21, to four consecutive terms of ...
FARMINGTON — A judge has sentenced a Kaysville woman to six suspended prison terms related to tax preparation scams and ordered her to pay thousands of dollars in restitution to the victims. Trina Semon, 39, agreed to a plea bargain combining three cases in which Davis County prosecutors ...
OGDEN — An Ogden portrait photographer has pleaded guilty to a pair of charges in the sexual abuse of two customers. In 2nd District Court on Wednesday, Russell Scott Healey, 60, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse stemming from incidents on April 15, ...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Tech. Sgt. David Dezwaan will go before the military’s highest level of trial court to answer for the charges brought against him following a series of explosions on the internationally shared Green Village base in eastern Syria. Dezwaan, an explosive ordnance ...
OGDEN — A judge has ordered a 26-year-old Ogden man to serve four years to life in prison for attempted murder, the defendant having told police he intended to empty his handgun into the victim but it jammed after the first shot. Brian Tasker confronted a man in the resident’s garage on ...
