Salt Lake County News

Arnold Taufa Pikula allegedly groped a woman at the Green Street Social Club, triggering a brawl that ended with his older brother being shot, according to sexual battery charges filed in 3rd District Court.

A routine traffic stop turns into a whole lot more when the driver of the vehicle took off and then crashed into a garage.

No charges will be filed against the Salt Lake County sheriff's deputy who shot a man at a bar on Sept.

A school district that receives "equalization" money from other districts to help fund rapid enrollment growth should be held accountable for those funds, says Sen.

The number of patients going to their doctors with flu-like illness is down for the third straight week in Utah, indicating the spread of H1N1 is slowing.

Authorities say a Salt Lake City woman told them she gave her 9-month-old daughter to a suspected drug dealer because she was homeless, addicted to methamphetamine and unable to care for the girl.

Two stranded hikers spent a long night out in the cold in Little Cottonwood Canyon after rescuers determined it was too dangerous to get them out until daylight.

Appointments for mass vaccination H1N1 flu clinics in both Salt Lake and Davis County were filled shortly after becoming available on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.

Traffic on I-15 southbound remains at a near standstill hours after a reckless driver touched off three crashes, one of them fatal, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

Some 170,000 residents of unincorporated Salt Lake County can expect a new monthly piece of mail starting next year - a bill for law enforcement services.

The system for dispatching some 911 calls in Salt Lake County is "inherently inefficient," according to the findings of a legislative audit released Wednesday.

A man who was indicted for two robberies in September of this year alongside his son and three others, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday.

Starting Tuesday morning, Salt Lake County residents who qualify for H1N1 swine flu vaccine can make appointments to be inoculated -- avoiding the long lines others have been enduring.

Two men were arrested and charged for kidnapping a woman and taking her to the Salt Flats in July.

Salt Lake County District attorney's office has now filed five counts of child abuse against a man accused of beating his 13-month-old son.

A resolution backing a federal effort to block the importation of radioactive waste from foreign countries found unanimous support from the Salt Lake County Council and attracted the attention of two Utah congressmen.

After Salt Lake County's health department was swamped with appointment requests for its 3,600 doses of H1N1 vaccine Tuesday, it announced another avenue for shot-seeking residents: three pharmacy chains will administer 10,000 injections starting this week.

A suspect in a string of local residential burglaries has been arrested thanks to the hard work of Salt Lake County sheriff's detectives.

A Midvale detective has resigned after being cited for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The H1N1 Vaccine will now be available at dozens of private pharmacies in the Salt Lake valley.