LAYTON — Prosecutors on Monday filed a first-degree felony aggravated arson charge against an apartment resident after a fire last week that started in his couch forced the displacement of occupants of 14 units in the building. Firefighters found Shaun Aaron Gale’s apartment engulfed in ...

OGDEN — In a deal with prosecutors that lets her avoid capital punishment, Brenda Emile pleaded guilty on Friday to first-degree felony aggravated murder in the death of her 3-year-old daughter. Emile, 27, will face sentencing Oct. 17-28 in 2nd District Court before Judge Michael DiReda. The ...

OGDEN — When 3-year-old Angelina Costello died, she was emaciated and had cigarette burns around her body, one dabbed with makeup to conceal it. Five years later, her mother, Brenda Emile, who has spent most of her 20s in the Weber County Jail, has agreed to plead guilty to murder to avoid ...

FARMINGTON — Prosecutors have filed an automobile homicide case against a man who they allege drove while high on methamphetamine and ran down two bicyclists, killing one, in West Bountiful on July 21. Sean D. Mikesell, 29, was charged Monday by the Davis County Attorney’s Office with the ...

SOUTH OGDEN — Attorneys have entered mediation talks to potentially reach an out-of-court settlement in a civil suit against South Ogden City over the fatal police shooting of a driver at the end of a low-speed chase. Family members of Fredrick Jeremy Atkin sued the city, South Ogden Police ...

OGDEN — No one was charged with homicide in the shooting death of Jonathan Brewer in Ogden. But a man who admitted bringing a gun to the apartment where Brewer died on Oct. 2, 2021, has been sentenced to prison on a pair of felony counts. Dustin Wayne Smith, 34, of Midvale, was sentenced on ...