A man charged with selling a handgun to a teenager who killed five people at a shopping mall pleaded guilty on Thursday.
A mine where six men were trapped more than 1,500 feet below ground is still too dangerous to recover their bodies more than two months after the disaster, a safety official said Friday.
The Labor Department said Friday it could cost millions of dollars and take months to respond to a House committee's subpoena looking at the agency's oversight of the Crandall Canyon mine.
Surrounded by family photos, relatives of the nine victims of Utah's Crandall Canyon Mine collapse told lawmakers Wednesday they blame the government and mine owners for the fatal cave-in.
Rescuers admit it's a long shot, but a robotic camera dropped deep inside a Utah mountain could be the best chance officials have of finding any sign of six men missing for 21 days in a caved-in coal mine.
Relatives of six men trapped in the depths of a mountain coal mine were once content to let their mine boss speak for them.
The families of six trapped miners are "waiting for a miracle," their spokesman said, as rescuers made one last attempt to find the missing men and lawmakers in Washington announced twin probes into safety at the mine.
Cody Allred closes his eyes and pictures his father and five other miners sitting in the impenetrable darkness of a collapsed mine waiting for a sign, any sign of rescue. "I picture my dad wondering `Where the hell are they? Any time now,'" he said.
Rescuers still cling to the hope that six trapped coal miners will be found alive, but they are running out of time — and options — after a second mine collapse killed three among their ranks.
After 10 days of setbacks, nerve-jangling "bumps" and a second mine collapse that killed three workers trying to rescue their comrades, authorities Friday conceded defeat to a mountain that appeared to be slowly crumbling.
One of four miners who got out of a collapsing coal mine alive said he didn't feel or hear a thing as the mountain shook and caved in, trapping six of his colleagues.
Rescuers trying to find six miners missing for a week deep inside a devastated coal mine will drill a third hole in an attempt to locate the men, city officials said Sunday.
Rescue crews clinging to a mountainside struggled Wednesday to drill two narrow holes — one just 2 1/2 inches across, the other less than 9 inches — in a painfully slow effort to get air and food to six miners trapped in a cave-in.
Hundreds of rescuers struggled with falling rock and debris Monday in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities questioned whether it was caused by an earthquake.
An off-duty police officer having an early Valentine's Day dinner with his wife was credited Tuesday with helping stop a rampage in a crowded shopping mall by an 18-year-old gunman who shot five people to death before he was killed by police.
The 18-year-old gunman who opened fire on shoppers in a mall, killing five and wounding four others before police fatally shot him, was armed with several rounds of ammunition and was carrying two guns, authorities said Tuesday.
Just beating Utah for the first time in five years would have been gratifying for No. 21 Brigham Young. Winning the way the Cougars did made it a classic. John Beck scrambled away from trouble and threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Jonny Harline with no time remaining to rally BYU to a 33-31 win over Utah on Saturday.
Folks love voting in Daggett County. Even when they may not live there.
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on guns at the University of Utah, saying campus officials cannot adopt a policy that runs counter to state law.
Police searching for a missing 5-year-old girl in her neighbor's basement did not initially find the plastic storage box that contained her body because it was hidden deep in the cellar, authorities said.
SALT LAKE CITY — The upcoming premiere of HBO's "Big Love" is causing a big buzz in the Beehive State.
Kim Smith scored 26 points and Shona Thorburn had nine assists, giving her a school career record 619, as No. 19 Utah beat UNLV 75-64 on Wednesday night.
A man is being reacquainted with his past after a Utah family returned a wallet he lost at a gas station nearly 40 years ago.
The town of Ticaboo in southeastern Utah has been sold to a Canadian mining company that bought the mothballed Shootaring Canyon uranium processing mill this spring. Riverton, Wyo.-based U.S. Energy Corp.
An effort to clean up a 16 million ton pile of uranium mill tailings along the Colorado River near Moab, Utah, hit a milestone Wednesday with the removal of 100 million gallons of contaminated groundwater.
Utah lawmakers continue to push in Congress for speedy cleanup of the Atlas uranium tailings pile outside of Moab. On Monday, the U.S.
Does anybody remember this little news item from the Summer of '03?
It was also wrong to assume, he said, that cities could continue to grow without experiencing something akin to a religious awakening about the scarcity of water. Soon, he predicted, we would talk about our "water footprint" just as we now talk about our carbon footprint.
A nuclear-power plant planned for Utah could be as expensive as $3 billion to build, and the radioactive waste generated by the plant would have to be stored on site, nuclear-power experts told legislators this week.
Scientists have found in southern Utah a nicely preserved skull with jaws containing 800 teeth, scaly skin impressions and other fossil remains of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur from 75 million years ago.
Loving couple. Loving home. Steady jobs. No criminal history. Kids like them and the birth mother wants it.
My vote is South Lake Tahoe!...Live where others get away to in these 10 great towns.
On Friday, Dick Cheney will leave his "secure undisclosed location" to attend another one in Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
Residents of Utah coal country told a state panel on Tuesday that they feared the mines would be overwhelmed by new safety rules after a fatal accident last month.
This is one huge frog! I was unaware of the prohibitions on owning or possessing one of these guys on the west coast...This bullfrog can really eat!!
To hear the alleged victim, known only as Jane Doe, describe her marriage is to be as deeply saddened as the jury was.
A Utah woman testified she tried to kill herself on her wedding night after she was pushed into marrying her cousin by polygamous-church leader Warren Jeffs.
"We don't want our kids thinking about that. We want them to move on,'' said Beth Johnston, principal at East Layton Elementary in Davis County, whose oldest student was just 6 on Sept. 11, 2001.
Woodrow Johnson was 15, and by the rules of the polygamous sect in which his family lived, he had a vice that could condemn them to hell: He liked to watch movies.
Boys exiled from polygamist group are left with very little lives to live.
A handful of Utah "Fredheads" - political activists supporting the late entry of Republican Fred Thompson into the presidential sweepstakes - gathered Thursday in Salt Lake City to kick off their campaign for the oldest fresh face in the race.
So after being trapped underground for 22 days, a rescue attempt that killed 3 and injuring 6 the biggest story in the Country has seemed to lost a little of it's appeal or at least to the major news outlets.
Officials said the mine where six workers were trapped could resume operating with a new name.
After a dozen miners died in the Sago Mine in West Virginia last year, Congress passed a bill that required mining companies to track workers underground.