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For the third time in six years, a convoluted case pitting public access to rivers and streams against private property rights is back in court.

The Utah Supreme Court is considering a case arguing that because early Utah settlers had freely accessed waterways in the area for fishing, anglers today should be able to cross private property to get to public fishing.

A former corrections officer admitted in court on Monday to soliciting oral sex from a person he believed to be a 13-year-old girl and going to a prearranged meeting with her on Nov. 2, 2021.

Eva Olesen's son said he was devastated to learn of a judge's decision to vacate the death sentence the man accused of killing her.

Utah plans to challenge a judge's decision overturning the 1985 murder conviction of a man who has been on death row for almost four decades

The Attorney General's office said in a statement on Monday that it planned to appeal Judge Derek Pullan's ruling that misconduct by police and prosecutors prejudiced the trial of Douglas Stewart Carter.

Utah's attorney general will file an appeal in the decision to overturn Douglas Carter's death row conviction. UT Supreme Court reversed his conviction and ordered a new trial in 2019.

Utah plans to challenge a judges decision overturning the 1985 murder conviction of a man who has been on death row for almost four decades.

Jerrod Baum, who was convicted by a jury of murdering two Utah teenagers, is asking the court for a new trial. But he has yet to explain why he thinks he should get one.

After a month-long trial, a jury found Jerrod Baum guilty of murdering two teenagers in 2017 and disposing of their bodies in a Eureka mine.