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One dead after semi truck rear ends second rig in flowing traffic
One truck driver is dead after ramming into the back of a second semi truck early on Sunday morning. The accident happened on August 18th at around 3:30 a.m. in Interstate 15 near milepost 85 in Iron County, Utah. According to Fox 13, two tractor trailers were traveling north on I-15 near milepost 85 when […] The post One dead after semi truck rear ends second rig in flowing traffic appeared first on CDLLife.
Heritage Day: Darren and Allison Paul honored for years of service with LPD, PTA and more
Editor’s Note: The Lehi Historical Society proudly presents the stories of its Lehi Heritage Day 2024 honorees. The Pauls’ story is the fifth of eight articles featuring this year’s honorees. Each couple will be celebrated at Lehi Heritage Day on Sept. 2, from 2:30 to 6 p.m., at the Legacy Center at 123 N. Center. For more information on Lehi Heritage Day, see lehihistory.com or call 801-768-1570.
U of U, U.S. Army Reserve announce land transfer
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah, Aug. 19,2024 (Gephardt Daily) — The University of Utah and the U.S. Army Reserve have announced a land transfer and relocation agreement. At a groundbreaking Monday in Bluffdale, the university and Army Reserve formalized a deal years in the making. “The complex transfer required action...
Office building catches fire by charging hoverboard malfunction
LEHI — An office building caught fire overnight to which the Lehi Fire Department responded, the battalion chief said. Fire crews discovered the cause of the fire was a charging hoverboard that was plugged into a wall. Chief Shad Hatfield with the LFD said the station was called at...
Study finds too much caffeine raises risk of heart damage, stroke
SALT LAKE CITY — Caffeine consumed regularly in high quantities — including coffee, tea, cola beverages and energy drinks, among others — may increase the risk of heart disease, according to a study from India that's being presented at the American College of Cardiology Asia 2024 scientific meeting in Delhi, India.
Utah woman works to revive Monarch butterfly populations
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman, on a quest to revive declining Monarch butterfly populations, has become a kind-of “Johnny Appleseed” of the Milkweed plant. Several years ago, Rachel Taylor was in her Salt Lake City garden and realized something was missing — the Monarch butterflies that filled her childhood in her then-rural Lehi neighborhood.
How a law passed earlier this year made executions in Utah a more secretive process
There are still unanswered questions in the wake of the execution of Taberon Honie earlier this month, Utah’s first capital punishment in over a decade and first lethal injection since 1999. Where did Utah buy the lethal injection drug, pentobarbital? And who administered it? What were the credentials of the execution team? Those details will […]
Utah restaurant owner sentenced to year in prison for $1.8M in fraudulent loans
SALT LAKE CITY — The owner of a popular Italian restaurant was sentenced to a year in prison for stealing more than $1.88 million in COVID-19 relief funds. Giuseppe Mirenda, 29, of Salt Lake City, is a co-owner of Sicilia Restaurant Management and five Utah restaurants, including the popular Sicilia Mia in Holladay. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday Mirenda was sentenced to one year plus one day in prison for defrauding a COVID-19 relief program.
Personal stories of fentanyl addiction and redemption in Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY — Steven Glenn, 53, was celebrating his 107th day of being clean. He had spent 41-years of his life battling addiction to heroin and eventually fentanyl. He said he was first introduced to drugs at age 12. "It was scary at the age of 12 on,...
After a mostly hot and dry summer, here’s what Utah’s fall weather may look like
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah was on pace to post one of its hottest and driest meteorological summers on record, but that may no longer be the case now monsoonal storms have left a mark. Listen to the National Weather Service talk with KSL NewsRadio’s Jeff Caplan about Utah’s...
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