Assistant Superintendent Bob Priest speaks to the school board about safety and security in Van Wert City Schools. Scott Truxell/Van Wert Independent SCOTT TRUXELL/freelance editor Van Wert City Schools is well protected when it comes to safety, and a new safety measure will be implemented in the fall. That was the message delivered by Assistant […]
SALT LAKE CITY – An iconic part of the old Salt Lake City International Airport will find a new home in the new facility that passengers will be able to tour later this year. A masonry team this summer completed the reinstallation of the airport’s 64-year-old world map and placed it at the entrance to […]
SANDY – Police say a 16-year-old was killed in a stabbing near State Street and 9500 South late Friday night. The police also took a juvenile into custody. The teen’s school district originally reported that the altercation took place at a supermarket, but Sandy police released the exact location in a news release sent Saturday. […]
FOUNTAIN GREEN, Sanpete County – People in a small Sanpete County town are busy cleaning up after a major flood. More than 50 percent of the city was affected by flooding Sunday after three inches of rain fell in just an hour, Mayor Mark Coombs said. The storm caused water to enter Preston and Robyn […]
PROVO – As the BYU football team puts the finishing touches on training camp and prepares to transition into the usual rhythm of game preparation, one linebacker looks like he was never there. This is interesting because technically Jack Kelly had never played there before. But the redshirt junior, who followed former Weber State coach […]
SALMON, Idaho – A 50-year-old unsolved murder case has been solved, police said, after DNA evidence led them to a suspect in eastern Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested Wednesday in Lemhi County in connection with the 1973 murder of a Swedish woman. Nina “Nadine” Fischer, a Swedish citizen, was sexually assaulted and murdered […]
GREEN RIVER, Emery County – Authorities in Emery County are searching for a 64-year-old Utah County man near Goblin Valley State Park. The man traveled to Emery County on Saturday to play golf at Millsite Golf Club in Ferron and decided to hike through Little Wild Horse Canyon after golfing, Emery County Sheriff Tyson Huntington […]
DRAPER – A member of the Utah Air National Guard received a prestigious medal at an awards ceremony Aug. 4 after rescuing two people drowning near a South Carolina beach last year. According to a Utah National Guard press release, Airman Jacob Teel was on leave from his assignment with an air control squadron in […]
SALT LAKE CITY – Brooks Kirchheimer remembers October 25, 2022, almost as if it were yesterday. The Utah restaurant owner spent his morning applying for a building permit and state liquor license for a new Sugar House restaurant that would take up the retail space of the Sugar Alley apartment complex. And that evening, he […]
