Posted: 7:08 AM- Three Utah attorneys were appointed as 3rd District Court Judges by Gov. Jon M. Huntsman last week. Mary Kate Toomey, Suchada P. Bazzelle and Robert P. Faust will join the 22 Salt Lake City district court judges once approved by the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee.
SALT LAKE CITY - A woman who is expected to be a crucial witness in a criminal case against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs also has a civil lawsuit pending against him, a lawyer said Tuesday.
Police identify victim of mountain fall Police on Tuesday identified a man who fell from a peak in Provo as 30-year-old Brian Eggett. Eggett, of Provo, went hiking Saturday in the mountains and did not meet his family as scheduled that afternoon, police said. The family called Eggett's cell phone, police said, and two hikers on Squaw Peak heard it ringing. A helicopter found Eggett's body
Captured polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has reportedly issued a new edict to his followers: "Do not sign your name to any document for property that has already been consecrated to God."
Matt and Toni Worthington's plans to begin a family were derailed by uterine cancer early in their marriage. Toni Worthington underwent a hysterectomy. But as she healed and years passed free of cancer, the Salt Lake County couple hoped to adopt, and 3-month-old Anthony entered their lives. Now 2 years old, the toddler with long, straight hair in a bowl cut likes basketball and playing
Five months after her husband's sudden death, Candice White has found that a birth certificate may be enough to send a polygamist to jail, but it is not enough to get his children Social Security benefits. And while White was a plural wife, her situation applies to any unmarried couple who have children together - a category that includes 39 percent of the nation's 4.9 million unmarried,
A convicted swindler with a 30-year criminal history has been charged with fraud and racketeering for not building log homes paid for by customers in Utah and other states. Jack Daggs, 54, of Heber City, was taken into custody Thursday and charged in 3rd District Court on nine counts of communications fraud and one count of racketeering.
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday refused to allow an inmate who is serving a sentence of up to life in prison to withdraw his guilty plea in the 1994 shooting death of his wife. Gary Lee Oliver claims that the pills he was taking to help him sleep and cope with his depression made him incapable of understanding the consequences of pleading guilty. The Supreme Court, though, rejected the argument
SALT LAKE CITY -- A juvenile court judge was mistaken in sending the children of polygamist John Daniel Kingston and Heidi Mattingly home to their mother without hearing testimony from an expert witness in the child custody case, attorneys for the children argued before the Utah Supreme Court on Monday.
Late Tuesday, a 3rd District judge ruled that Bluffdale's City Council acted within the law when it passed ordinances last week transferring Mayor Claudia Anderson's administrative powers to a city manager. Anderson and 19 of her supporters had sued the City Council for that action, asking that the new laws be suspended until Bluffdale voters could weigh in on the issue. Anderson also named
