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Utah reports 463 more COVID-19 cases, seven additional deaths Natacha Pisarenko/AP Posted at 11:07 AM, Apr 29, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-29 13:11:44-04 The Utah Department of Healths COVID-19 report for Thursday shows an increase of 463 cases—bringing the states total to 396,985—and seven additional deaths. So far, 2,124,832 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Utah. 2.551,765 people in Utah have been tested for the disease. The states rolling 7-day average for positive te...

How Utah plans to bring COVID-19 shots ‘to the people’ by providing groups with mobile clinics Lisa Riley Roche © Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Utah is taking the fight against COVID-19 “to the people,” Gov. Spencer Cox announced Thursday, with businesses, community groups, churches and other organizations now able to request a free mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinic show up to give shots on site. “We want to make it as easy as possible. We want to take away any excuse...

Credit Koshy Koshy, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Ever wondered what that bug crawling on your porch is? How about the flower you walk by every day? By participating in the City Nature Challenge you can answer these questions and contribute to a database of flora and fauna in your community. The City Nature Challenge is an international biodiversity count happening in hundreds of cities across the world during the same weekend each spring. This year it starts on Friday and ends o...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY – Sarah Frei loves hiking and wakeboarding, but the thing she misses most is cruising on her red motorcycle with her father trailing just behind. The open-road quality time is now "a memory that I will cherish forever, because I wont get it back," Frei, 18, told a Utah judge Friday. Almost a year ago, a pickup truck in Logan Canyon swerved and crashed into a car carrying Frei and three friends on their way back from vacation at Bear Lake, partially paralyzing Frei and in...

A man who injured four teenagers in a Logan Canyon crash was ordered to serve consecutive prison sentences after an emotional in-person sentencing in 1st District Court on Monday. Nearly 100 court observers, most of whom participated online, watched as Dustin Wesley Andersen was taken away by bailiffs in a sight hardly seen since the COVID-19 pandemic hampered in-person proceedings in the court. Andersen, 46, pleaded guilty on March 15 to four counts of driving under the influence — two th...

Tenielle Mae Jorgensen, 28, and James Tyrell Nielson, 32, were charged on Wednesday with second-degree burglary and controlled substance felonies after breaking into a home during a Sunday “adventure.” Affidavits filed with the court state Logan City Police officers were contacted by an alleged victim reporting missing items from his room. Video footage from inside the home depicts two individuals — identified later as Jorgensen and Nielson — “walking through the house...

Deseret News Race challenges teams to pedal, paddle or row 70-mile course on Puget Sound in 48 hours Share this story Landon Pearce, a visually impaired 10th grader at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, paddles with his team on Lake Powell on Saturday, March 27, 2021. They are training for the SEVENTY48, a 70-mile-human-powered boat race from Tacoma to Port Townsend, Wash. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News It was the All Hands on Deck’s maiden voyage and the crew was struggling to keep t...

A 74-year-old man facing multiple child sexual abuse felonies waived his preliminary hearing on Wednesday. Roberto Gustavo Ponce appeared in 1st District Court via video conference call from the Cache County Jail. Ponce faces 10 counts of first-degree aggravated sexual abuse of a child filed with the court last month. During the appearance, Ponce elected to waive the right to his preliminary hearing under advisement of his attorney, who told the court it may lead to a more favorable resolution ...

USU assures campus community as student-athlete sexual assault investigation continues Ismael "Izzy" Kalani Vaifoou, a Utah State University football player, has been suspended from the team and cannot return to campus without a police escort after he allegedly broke into a female students dorm room and sexually assaulted her early Sunday morning. and last updated 2021-04-19 20:00:06-04 LOGAN, Utah — A Utah State University football player has been suspended from the team and cannot return...

Deseret News Share this story Kristin Murphy, Deseret News The state’s manufacturing sector is among the strongest economically, a recent report says, even with the turmoil wrought by the coronavirus outbreak. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing has been a significant contributor to the lifeblood of Utah’s economy,” said Stephen Reed, director of Utah State University’s Utah Manufacturing Extension Service. “While we have seen a decline in some of Utah’s manufacture segme...