OGDEN — Brain Tasker, a shooting suspect who told police he intended to empty his handgun into the victim, has pleaded guilty to first-degree felony attempted murder. The gun jammed after one shot in the April 16 shooting, according to charging documents. The man who was shot drove himself ...

WILLARD — A tow truck driver who was severely shocked under a high-voltage Rocky Mountain Power transmission line at Willard Bay State Park has lost a personal injury lawsuit against the utility. Cooper Bacon is disabled, his lawsuit said, because of electric shock injuries he suffered ...

FARMINGTON — A judge has sentenced a Layton man to prison on reduced charges for a sudden suffocation and strangulation attack on his mother. In a plea bargain, Jacob Raoul Solis, 36, pleaded guilty in July to second-degree felony aggravated assault and second-degree felony aggravated ...

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 ...