A Utah woman was found dead in her home last Sunday, and her husband, who was already on a conditional release for a previous domestic violence incident in July, was the only other person inside. Eric Larson Sampson, 50, was charged with the felonies of first-degree murder and second-degree aggravated assault with domestic violence by...
A new dinosaur species has potentially been recovered after the reconstruction of its remains. The first-of-its-kind green dinosaur fossil was discovered in southeastern Utah, and was reassembled by a team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC). The 150-million-year-old dinosaur was first spotted in 2007, according to a report from National Geographic,...
A Utah children’s book author accused of killing her husband with a cocktail laced with fentanyl will face a murder trial in the wake of new testimony suggesting she was having an affair with a man and that she purchased the deadly drug from a housekeeper. Kouri Richins, 34, a mother of three, is accused...
A quiet Utah town is the latest locality plagued by “distraction thefts” against unsuspecting shoppers carried out by “interstate crime groups” – transient criminals who travel the country to steal before crossing state lines to strike elsewhere, often affiliated with Romanian and South American crime rings. Over the past year, St. George has seen 37...
A Utah woman is accused of kidnapping her then-4-year-old daughter in January 2023 and evading law enforcement for 18 months, with help from her adult sons, before she was finally caught. At the time when Kimberly Dell Davidson-Drolet, 53, allegedly kidnapped her daughter, she and her now-estranged husband, Laurence Drolet, were in the process of...
A lightning strike has injured two tourists who were standing near the rim of the iconic Horseshoe Bend in Arizona’s Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, the National Park Service says. The incident happened on Monday around 4 p.m. and involved two women – a 22-year-old from the Netherlands and a 23-year-old from Australia. “Visitors are...
Rep. Celeste Maloy, R-Utah won Tuesday’s Utah Republican primary election for the state’s 2nd congressional district. Maloy faced off against her combat veteran challenger Colby Jenkins. Maloy will take on the Democratic nominee come November. Utah’s 2nd district, which includes cities such as Cedar City and St. George, has been a reliably Republican voting district...
A large geological feature in southern Utah known as the “Double Arch,” the “Hole in the Roof” — and sometimes the “Toilet Bowl” — has collapsed, National Park Service officials said Friday. No injuries were reported. The popular arch in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area fell Thursday, and park rangers suspect changing water levels...
As a Utah man who slashed the throat of his girlfriend’s mother was being put to death by lethal injection early Thursday, he mouthed one final message to his family members: “I love you.” Taberon Dave Honie was 22 years old when he broke into the Cedar City home of Claudia Benn, the maternal grandmother...
Human remains discovered in a canyon in Grand County, Utah, have been identified as those of a Texas woman who went missing with her husband while exploring an area in Moab last weekend, according to authorities. The Grand County Sheriff’s Office said the Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed that the remains discovered in the...
