Utah State Prison News

Trouble In Palmer Court Mad House: Low-income housing tenants complain of mentally unstable residents.

An Iron County Jail inmate was sentenced 10 years to life in the Utah State Prison Monday after being charged with aggravated kidnapping and assault of an officer.

ST. GEORGE - Adam Christopher Kelly, 29, of St. George will serve 180 days in the Washington County Jail following agreement in 5th District Court on how to balance justice for the child victim of a sexual assault and the treatment needs of the perpetrator.

A section of the Utah State Prison was on lockdown following a fistfight among several prisoners Tuesday night.

A young man described as the ringleader of a violent home invasion in Orem in October 2008 was sentenced Monday to prison.

A Las Vegas man who robbed a Provo pharmacy after chatting with store employees for more than an hour was sentenced last week to at least five years in prison.

A Las Vegas man who robbed a Provo pharmacy after chatting with store employees for more than an hour was sentenced Monday to at least five years in prison.

Up until he turned 18, Arron Nathaneal Harrison was "a really good kid" - the kind of kid who never gave his father any problems.

An early Tuesday morning chase ended with a wanted white supremacist gang member in the custody of Salt Lake County sheriff's deputies.

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A former Murray attorney escaped his third conviction in two months for driving under the influence when a jury found him not guilty on Monday.

A man who has already served prison time for his role in a murder in the 1990s was back in court Wednesday to face new charges of aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping.

Billy Justin Charles has been sentenced to 5 years to life in the Utah State Prison by Judge Deno Himonas.

Tribune file photo Ronald Dale Easthope in his 1971 mugshot, when he was 24 years old.

The Utah Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a man who solicited a boy for a sex act and was convicted for an attempted sex act had not been judged too severely, documents state.

Matthew Scott Adams, age 31, a former technology teacher at Cedar Middle School, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in the Iron County jail for secretly videotaping women and some of his female students in various stages of dress and sharing the video with a friend in Washington County.

A man who crashed a stolen vehicle into a Hill Air Force Base gate last month appeared for his first federal court hearing Tuesday.

By LORETTA PARK Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau FARMINGTON - The judge took three guilty pleas Monday from a woman charged with 30 third-degree felonies.

Two embezzlers sentenced a week apart. Same judge, same courtroom. Hollie Halacy, who stole $72,000 from her employer, earns a year in the Weber County Jail.

Steve Strom will not be charged with murder in the 1980 death of his wife, the Davis County Attorney's Office said Thursday.