BRIGHAM CITY — The Box Elder County Attorney's Office has filed charges against Ryan Michael Bate, accused of firing the shots that killed Tremonton-Garland Sgt. Lee Sorensen and Officer Eric Estrada during a domestic violence call Sunday. Prosecutors also filed a notice of intent to seek the ...
The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole has denied Ralph Menzies’ request for clemency, one of the death row inmate’s final appeals ahead of his execution scheduled for Sept. 5. The announcement came Tuesday afternoon, four days after the commutation hearing for the 67-year-old inmate, where ...
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office charged two people this week in the first child torture case since lawmakers passed a bill inspired in part by social media influencer and convicted child abuser Ruby Franke. Tyrel Scott Belone and Amber Lee Leary were both charged on Tuesday ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah judge on Wednesday set an execution date for a man with dementia who has been on death row for 37 years, even as his lawyers file appeals and argue his condition is worsening. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother ...
BRIGHAM CITY — A husband and wife living in Box Elder County have been charged with multiple felonies following an alleged sexual assault in May. Perry residents Ryan Wood and K'Dee Wood, both 37, made their initial appearances in Brigham City's 1st District Court on Monday. According to ...
Attorneys for Ralph Menzies are requesting another review to determine whether the 67-year-old death row inmate with dementia is competent enough to be executed, arguing that his cognitive decline has worsened in the year since he was last evaluated. The petition, filed in Utah’s 3rd ...
