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Emile to take plea bargain in daughter’s murder, avoiding death penalty

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 ...

Police: W. Bountiful auto homicide suspect had 4 narcotics in his system

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 ...

Settlement talks underway in South Ogden fatal police shooting lawsuit

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 ...

Man sentenced in fatal Ogden shooting, cover-up

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 ...

Morgan County woman gets 5 to life for Ogden shooting

OGDEN — Judge Reuben Renstrom said he was impressed that jailers had written character letters in support of Mauren Wall, who came before him Tuesday for sentencing in the nearly fatal shooting of an Ogden man. “You come from a very strong home,” the judge told Wall. “Most of the ...

Ogden man sent to prison for 2021 crime spree

OGDEN — A judge on Friday handed a string of prison sentences to an Ogden man who had pleaded guilty to strangling a woman, mugging another and shooting at two men, hitting and critically injuring one of them. Second District Judge Cristina Ortega imposed sentences against Colton Shepard, ...