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Detective: On family videos, Angelina Costello ‘looks like a skeleton’

OGDEN — A former police detective testified Monday about the systematic psychological abuse, physical torture and ultimate starvation that Angelina Costello suffered at the hands of her parents, Miller Costello and Brenda Emile. Judge Michael DiReda began hearing evidence in a weeklong ...

Judge weighing dismissal motion in Ogden false arrest suit

OGDEN — The attorney for a Harrisville man who was arrested and later exonerated in an Ogden bank robbery case alleges that the police probable cause statement contained misleading, vague and false information. But an attorney representing two Ogden Police Department detectives says the ...

Ogden man pleads guilty in DUI crash that killed jogger

TOOELE — An Ogden man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a pair of charges in the DUI crash death of a jogger. Max J. Pagano, 48, was arrested after his vehicle struck Grant Goodwin, 40, of Stansbury Park, on Aug. 20, 2020. Pagano originally was charged with second-degree felony automobile homicide, ...

Stabbing victim calls attacker ‘monster,’ blasts 1-year sentence

FARMINGTON — A 17-year-old girl angrily objected in court on Tuesday to the sentence of one year in jail given to a woman who stabbed her and two other teenagers in Bountiful last summer. The teenager said she almost died from the stabbing on July 30, 2022, at the Bountiful B parking lot. ...

Weber County files US Supreme Court arguments in excessive force case

OGDEN — Weber County has presented its case to the U.S. Supreme Court over whether corrections deputies used unconstitutionally excessive force against a DUI arrestee in the county jail. The appeal to the high court in Washington rests on Hyrum James Geddes’ contention that both the Fourth ...

Rigged-election suits fail; Utah brothers undeterred, will appeal

Despite repeated setbacks in the federal courts, two Utah brothers say they are undaunted and will keep pursuing the removal from office of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Congress who endorsed the Jan. 6, 2021, Electoral College count. Raland Brunson, of ...

Abreu murder trial set; attorney criticizes Weber jail staff

FARMINGTON — A 2024 trial was set Tuesday for a 26-year-old Ogden man charged in a Sept. 27, 2018, fatal drug robbery in Layton. Angel Christopher Abreu is on at least his fourth set of attorneys since his arrest two days after Anthony Child, 26, was shot to death in a mobile home where drug ...