Vernal News

When T.C. Christensen asked Paul Cardall to compose music for " Ephraim's Rescue ," the filmmaker had no idea how meaningful his request would be for the best-selling Utah composer and pianist.

Mark Ward, senior policy analyst and attorney for the Utah Association of Counties, speaks during a press conference Tuesday, April 24, 2012, about a proposal by the U.S. Bureau of Land Managment to reduce the amount of public land it will lease for development of oil shale and tar sands.

A Uintah County man serving prison time for molesting a child will get another chance to beat the rap after the Utah Supreme Court overturned his conviction Friday.

Kyle David Ashworth, 30, was charged Thursday in 8th District Court with 31 counts of forgery and 20 counts of communications fraud, all third-degree felonies.

"Threads," a new musical by Michael McLean, is premiering this weekend with performances in Vernal and Salt Lake City .

When filmmaker T.C. Christensen asked local pianist Paul Cardall to compose music for Christensen's upcoming film "Ephraim's Rescue," Christensen said he had no idea how meaningful his request was.

A multi-agency investigation began at dawn Wednesday into what caused an explosion that killed one man and injured two others at an eastern Utah oil well site.

Locations in Tooele, Spanish Fork, Logan, Vernal and Park City already are open on Sundays, as are all Cafe Rio Mexican Grills outside of Utah.

A 32-year-old man has been charged with automobile homicide for allegedly causing a fatal accident while driving drunk last year in Uintah County.

Question: Do you know the story of the bank building that was sent through the mail? My grandfather used to talk about it, but I never really believed him.

National Guard troops from the 624th Engineereing Company, 1457th Engineering Battalion who departed from Utah last summer for Afganistan returned to Salt Lake late last week.

The Snow Canyon Lady Warriors rugby team in St. George held a bake sale and gun raffle on Saturday to raise money to compete in a national tournament in Wisconsin.

The fugitive who authorities are calling a "person of interest" in the murder of a Roosevelt man was back in Utah on Thursday.

Authorities say a 21-year-old Uintah County man used a metal baseball bat to attack his ex-girlfriend and another man in her driveway.

Jesse Anthony Saenz, foreground, stands with his attorney, Clint Hendricks, during a status hearing Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in 8th District Court.

Uintah County sheriff's deputies and Bureau of Indian Affairs police responded to a call Sunday afternoon about a man's body found in a wooded area on the Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation southwest of Vernal.

The fact that he's been standing behind the same counter dispensing drugs for nearly 54 years may not be a record, and the fact that he knows 90 percent of his customers by their first name may be duplicated someplace somewhere by somebody.