OGDEN — An Ogden police dog's leap through a half-open car window while sniffing for drugs was part of an unconstitutional search and seizure, argued a man convicted after the incident. But his appeal has been rejected by the Utah Court of Appeals, which ratified police practices and the ...
OGDEN — Attorneys are sparring in federal court over whether a woman suing Weber State University for alleged sexual harassment should be publicly identified if the case reaches trial. The Davis County woman, identified only by the pseudonym Jane Doe in U.S. District Court documents, filed a ...
OGDEN — It's been more than three years since Brian Racine, 28, was shot to death in an Ogden homeless camp, and a suspect's trial has been postponed yet again. It now will be well into 2022 before Cory Fitzwater goes before a jury. Police said Fitzwater and a co-defendant, Dalton Aiken, ...
EDEN — Lenders accused by Summit Powder Mountain of defrauding the resort have alleged in turn that the Utah development is in clear project loan default and is taking unfair advantage of foreign investors. At issue is Summit Village, the planned centerpiece of a high-end resort expansion ...
OGDEN - Sefu Toilolo Jr. said Friday he hopes the man who strangled his sister and dumped her body in Ogden Canyon will never get out of prison. "I don't think he should be able to see the light of day," Toilolo told 2nd District Judge Joseph Bean, who a few minutes later sentenced Andy ...
OGDEN — A man who repeatedly stabbed another man in the head with an ice pick is on the way to prison after a judge Thursday chose not to adhere to a plea bargain that would have released the defendant to probation. A sister of the victim pleaded with Judge Brian Cannell to send Stephen R. ...
OGDEN — A Washington Terrace man who chased down and shot up a car carrying his pregnant ex-girlfriend was sentenced to zero-tolerance probation Thursday under terms of a plea bargain. Chase Hansen of the Weber County Attorney's Office said during Mauro Soto's sentencing hearing that ...
OGDEN — Alternately sobbing and speaking with anguish or rage, the victim's mother and her best friend urged the judge Wednesday to impose maximum punishment on Sergio Arturo Chavez for killing his estranged wife. Second District Judge Joseph Bean did so, ordering the 42-year-old Chavez to ...
FARMINGTON — On the verge of facing a jury trial 11 years after her two children were fatally strangled, Sun Cha Warhola is instead going back under mental competency evaluation. The scheduled Sept. 7 trial is out the window, and apparently so is the potential plea bargain that Warhola just ...
OGDEN — A jury on Thursday convicted an Ogden man on a first-degree felony charge of object rape and he now awaits trial on an unrelated murder count. Keshaun Mykel Puente entered a 17-year-old girl's bedroom at 5:30 a.m. after a Halloween party on Oct. 29, 2017, and she was awakened by ...
