Utah County News

A man who investigators say fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution on multiple child sex abuse charges has been arrested and brought back to Utah County.

Last weekend's "Anything for a Friend, Riess Timothy" fundraiser brought together more than 500 Castle Country residents and an army of organizers united behind one Price family's battle against cancer.

It says nothing of birth control. The only "barriers" mentioned are those faced by parents anxious about having - you know, "the talk."

Financially troubled Tooele County is about to grind up a paved, 11-mile section of the old Pony Express Trail and turn it into a gravel road because that's cheaper than fixing pot holes.

A competency hearing has been scheduled for a 21-year-old American Fork man accused of shooting and killing his 5-month-old son in April.

From the bowels of hard-right Utah County, where the tea party thrives, anti-federal government resolutions are born and immigration reform ideas provoke hostile talk of rebellion, a state senator has taken a leading role in the fostering of bipartisan negotiations to pass an immigration bill that contains a path to citizenship.

Enjoying the Jordan River Parkway just got easier with a newly released map of trails that run from the Utah County border in the south to the Great Salt Lake.

After adding $1.2 billion worth of new rail lines in the past year , the Utah Transit Authority projected that its overall ridership would be growing.

And it's allegedly costing local communities, the county and the state millions of dollars in lost revenue and potential development in what some call "Pungent Grove."

And in a family "log book" kept at the cabin, the winter guest had left a message: "Thanks for the hospitality, Troy James the redhead."

A proposed change in the Utah County Republican platform on immigration pitched as a compromise between the current stand and the Utah Compact was rejected by delegates Saturday in a close vote.

A 61-year-old Springville woman was sentenced to jail Tuesday for causing a deadly 2010 crash in Utah County.

Diane Mott, 61, killed a 71 year-old man in 2010 when she crashed into his car on Interstate 15, causing it to crash into a barrier, careen back into traffic and then roll.

It's been too hot for some Utah roads already. The Utah Department of Transportation has had to fix parts of I-15 multiple times in the last two weeks because the road has buckled.

It was a scene that lasted for several minutes: an army of 3,000 missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints walking to the BYU Marriott Center Tuesday for an evening devotional.

It's not often you get a story like that of Edward Snowden: a man coming forward out of obscurity to rat on the National Security Agency and its once super secret surveillance programs.

Orem police Lt. Craig Martinez said the first crime occurred at 1:30 a.m. when the duo hooked up a pickup truck to the door of an ATM at the Alpine Credit Union, 1510 N. State Street.

Chimes fill the air every hour, at the American Fork Presbyterian Church, but earlier this week, the sound of hammers and chisels was music to the ears of Ruth Teuscher.

Besides the "whodunnit" suspense surrounding the alleged forgery of Utah Supreme Court Justice Christine Durham's name on a ballot initiative petition for an ethics reform law, unanswered questions include "who knew what" and "when did they know it."

Following the arrest of an alleged sexual predator, Provo police are asking the public to be on alert for other possible victims.