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U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 9, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 26, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A man who was trapped for a day in a crevice in a Utah cave was killed as rescuers struggled to save him, authorities said Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 17, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A woman accused along with her then-husband of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002 is set to plead guilty in federal court Tuesday under terms of a plea deal reached with prosecutors, according to court documents... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 17, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Wanda Barzee, accused with her hsuband of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart, has struck a plea bargain with federal prosecutors, court records show... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 3, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Elizabeth Smart was not afraid to face Brian Mitchell in her first testimony detailing her abduction. In fact, her father said, she wanted the man who allegedly kept her tethered to a tree in the Utah woods muzzled and forced to listen. Mitchell is accused of abducting Smart from her home in 2002. Smart said that during nine months of captivity, no 24-hour period passed without Mitchell raping her... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A motorized parachute crashed into a crowd at a Labor Day festival in Hooper, Utah, injuring at least six people including children, authorities said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- A cave-in killed three miners and injured six other men who were tunneling through a coal mine Thursday evening trying to reach six miners trapped for 11 days, mining officials said. "There was a major mountain bump," said Tammy Kikuchi, spokeswoman fo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Rescuers in the US state of Utah have drilled through to a mine cavity where six miners are believed trapped, but have not yet detected any sound. The rescue crew drilled a narrow hole and lowered a microphone into the collapsed Crandall Canyon coal mi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A customer at an Arby's wrestled a gun away from a prison inmate Monday, about an hour after the escapee used it to kill a corrections officer during a medical appointment, authorities said. Curtis Allgier, whose heavily tattooed face has a swastika an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 8:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town's lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it's.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 10:24pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Merlot can be a variety of grape or a type of red wine, but not an acceptable personalized license plate in the state of Utah. Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the license plate reading "merlot" for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of no.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 6, 2006 @ 3:27pm mrmdc

Denver Post -- Salt Lake City - Utah Supreme Court justices acknowledged Tuesday that they were struggling to wrap their minds around the concept that a 13-year-old girl could be both an offender and a victim for the same act - in this case, having consensual sex with h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 15, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Bagpipers sounded "Amazing Grace" on a snowy day at a Utah cemetery as military pallbearers marched to rest the casket of Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, one of 13 people gunned down last week in Ford Hood, Texas... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Opening up these FLDS communities, authorities reasoned, would make it easier for the abuse of young girls to be discovered. But Utah Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard have said often that Jeffs's establishment.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- A charter bus rolled off icy roads in far southeastern Utah, killing seven and injuring about 20 passengers. About 80 passengers were on board the bus when it crashed Sunday about 10 miles north of Mexican Hat, in the Four Corners region where Utah mee.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 21, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- A judge sentenced a polygamous-sect leader Tuesday to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison for his role in the arranged marriage of teenage cousins. Warren Jeffs, 51, was convicted of two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Sep 16, 2007 @ 3:44am neoform

United Press International -- A Utah woman testified she tried to kill herself on her wedding night after she was pushed into marrying her cousin by polygamous-church leader Warren Jeffs. The woman, identified in court as Jane Doe, said she was so appalled by the consummation that.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Rescuers trying to find six miners will begin boring a sixth hole down into Utah's Crandall Canyon mine Friday, and the search will stop if no signs of life are found, the coal mine's co-owner said. "This is the last hole," Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energ.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- The operator of the Crandall Canyon coal mine where six men are missing and three rescuers died last week delivered a grim assessment Sunday, saying "It's likely that these miners may not be found." Rob Moore, vice president of Utah Energy which operat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Three rescuers have died and six have been injured during efforts to reach a group of coal miners trapped underground in the US state of Utah. It is thought that the rescue workers were caught in a cave-in as they tried to dig a tunnel to the spot wher.. Read More