FARMINGTON — A man convicted in the fatal shooting of a Layton man over a bag of marijuana is headed to prison for 17 years to life. A jury on April 29 found Michael Jameel Hines, 31, guilty of first-degree murder in the March 12, 2020, death of Kannon Beesley, 18, who was shot in the chest ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A veteran prosecutor and former military defense attorney was appointed Friday to a 2nd District Juvenile Court judgeship in Ogden. Gov. Spencer Cox named Rick Westmoreland to the post, an appointment that is subject to Utah Senate confirmation. Westmoreland will replace ...

FARMINGTON — A Kaysville man accused of supplying the handgun that a teenager used to fatally shoot Ogden grocer Satnam Singh is back in jail after violating pretrial release conditions. At a June 10 hearing in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Judge Cecilia Romero ordered Taydon Tailor ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A 24-year-old Ogden man has pleaded guilty to robbing a credit union, admitting that he and others spent the loot gambling. Jesse James Perea agreed to a plea bargain in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to recommend that he be sentenced to 46 months in federal ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported Jessica Lilley's first name and did not clearly describe the nature of the charge against her. SALT LAKE CITY — A Roy couple has been sentenced to five years of supervised release each after pleading guilty to illegally ...

OGDEN — An Ogden man pleaded guilty on Thursday to reduced charges arising from an assault spree that included the shooting of a Plain City man. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office arrested Colton Shepard on Feb. 10, 2021. Probable cause statements said Shepard allegedly strangled a woman, ...