San Juan County News

People who got sick of hearing about June's digital television switch should put themselves in the place of emergency communications directors across the United States.

Zion has its own kinds of controversies. A few weeks ago, federal law enforcement agencies made a series of arrests based on indictments for stealing archeological and religious artifacts from federal property -- grave robbery and related thefts.

Last month's massive and controversial raid on illegal Indian-artifacts trading led to some surprising guilty pleas on Monday.

San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy has boxes of evidence from the 1998 manhunt for the Four Corners Fugistives.

Tammy Shumway faces probation in artifact-theft investigation. A defendant in a federal illegal-artifacts-trafficking case is scheduled to be released from jail Tuesday afternoon.

The Utah Court of Appeals has ruled a former Playboy Playmate must pay for her multimillionaire husband's legal fees after the appellate judges determined she is not entitled to share in his fortune due to a prenuptial agreement.

On June 10, the FBI released arrest information concerning an artifact bust in the Four Corners area.

A young boy from Draper has died after the ATV he was riding crashed into a dump truck near Monticello.

Federal agents swooped in on dozens of unsuspecting peaceful folks who were minding their own business and doing their jobs and ripped them from their families.

The Utah Permanent Community Impact Board approved a request to fund a $1.1 million town hall and fire station.

Anyone who has been to Lake Powell knows that San Juan County is dotted with Indian ruins.

For 30 years Dr. James Redd was always on call to care for the Mormon and American Indian families that share the remote canyon lands in Southeastern Utah.

Native American pottery and artifacts, similar to those confiscated from looters were on display at a press conference to announce a major bust of archaeological thieves.

A second defendant in the federal bust of archaeological looters in southern Utah apparently has killed himself.

The sun was barely up when federal agents began surrounding a dozen homes scattered across rural southern Utah, the final stroke of a two-year undercover investigation into the theft and trafficking of ancient Indian artifacts around the Four Corners area.

Twelve federal indictments, charging 24 individuals with violations of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, among other charges, were unsealed last week in Salt Lake City and 23 individuals arrested.

Utah's top federal law enforcement official fired back at critics of last week's raid to break up a ring allegedly trafficking ancient American Indian artifacts, saying that agents followed rules and that local law enforcement was notified in advance.

A THOUSAND MOURNERS BUT LANDING NO REALISTIC CENTER TODAY TO SAY GOOD BYE TO A PROMINENT MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY DOCTOR JAMES RED COMMITTED SUICIDE ONE DAY AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS FOX THIRTEENTH KITTY CARLISLE WAS N'T PLANNING TODAY ABOUT THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE CALLED LANDING HOME AND MOST NEW OF ...

Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, R-Utah, are asking U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to look into whether excessive force was used to arrest suspects last week for theft of Indian artifacts in southeastern Utah, and whether that contributed to the suicide of one.

Members of the San Juan County Commission are asking Utah's soon-to-be governor to talk to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar about what they view as harsh methods in the arrest of 24 alleged illegal artifact dealers.