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A Nigerian tech worker who held a green card to work in the U.S. legally pleaded guilty in court on Wednesday to strangling a Utah college student to death in June 2019, leaving her charred remains in his backyard.

Democrat VP candidate Kamala Harris wrote in an oped in a Utah newspaper that Joe Biden as president would “restore” American values.

A man pulled over for a seatbelt violation fled the scene, dragging a Utah police officer with him before crashing head-on into a police vehicle, according to a recently released bodycam video from the Ogden Police Department.

The University of Utah announced this week that it will shut down its campus for two weeks to limit the spread of coronavirus and to prepare for the upcoming vice presidential debate that will take place on campus. Over the summer, health experts at the university devised a “circuit breaker” strategy for coronavirus mitigation, which mandated a two-week pause of in-person classes in the middle of the semester.

Former NFL star Burgess Owens told his story of overcoming adversity during his speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.

The office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) confirmed late Wednesday students and employees of the state’s K-12 schools who refuse to wear masks in the buildings may be faced with a misdemeanor charge.

A four-time deported illegal alien, previously convicted of child sexual abuse, has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Utah.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday after demonstrators in Salt Lake City clashed with police following the district attorney clearing officers involved in the shooting death of 22-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal.

Two suspects were arrested Tuesday night in connection with the shooting of a motorist at a Black Lives Matter protest in Provo, Utah.

A protester in Provo, Utah, allegedly shot the driver of a Ford SUV Monday night, then hid his gun and continued protesting. 

Vandals defaced a statue of Brigham Young at Brigham Young University over the weekend. The vandals dumped red paint on the state and painted the word “racist” on the base of the statue in large red letters.

Families worldwide worked together to help an 18-month-old boy named Wilson in Ecuador with Centronuclear Myopathy find a ventilator as finding ventilators worldwide have been scarce due to the coronavirus.

A 20-year-old woman was shot by police officers when she pointed a gun at them in Provo, Utah, on Thursday evening.

According to a recent report, search engine DuckDuckGo’s CEO says that federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions targeting Google’s overwhelming dominance of the search market.

A twice-deported illegal alien convicted of murdering a 31-year-old man in 2016 is set to be deported from the United States after serving only about four years in prison.

Rioters in Salt Lake City, Utah, beat a man, flipped his car, and lit it on fire after he confronted them with a bow and arrow during riots on Saturday evening.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, responded to the president’s criticism of recent vote-by-mail initiatives by Democrat governors, claiming the voting system works seamlessly in his home state. 

Burgess Owens, a former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety and Utah’s fourth congressional district Republican candidate, told Breitbart News Saturday that Republicans need to take back Utah’s fourth district to help the GOP “take back our country.”

A (very) young man identified as “Adrian” was pulled over by the Utah Highway Patrol on Monday. He was on his way to buy a Lamborghini.

Utah officials on Friday outlined plans to reopen the economy, relaxing many of the state’s restrictions by May 1.

A career criminal is accused of robbing and threatening to murder a woman at knifepoint after he was released from state prison thanks to a nationwide jailbreak push in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Utah’s Salt Lake City area on Wednesday morning, causing roughly 55,000 people to lose power. 

A Utah-based diagnostic testing company claimed Monday that it has the resources to produce 50,000 Chinese coronavirus tests daily.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has won the Democrats’ Super Tuesday presidential primary in the state of Utah, according to a projection from the Associated Press.

Rich Middle School in Laketown, Utah, has gained national attention from a policy that forbids children to decline dances with other students.

A Utah paint shop designed a unique custom casket for “Hondo,” a police dog shot to death while apprehending a fugitive.

“How was your night last night?” Bloomberg asked as his crowd of supporters laughed. “Look, the real winner in the debate last night was Donald Trump.”

The University of Utah offered its students free “pleasure packs” ahead of Valentine’s Day, which even included lubricants and oral dams, as well as a delivery service straight to students’ dorm rooms.

A plurality of Utah voters found that they were less likely to vote for Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) reelection after he voted to convict President Donald Trump, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Speaking to Utah Governor Gary Herbert, Trump asked, “How’s Mitt Romney?”

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is a co-sponsor of Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill, in part, because the state’s political and business establishment is betting that imported Indian graduates will jump start the state’s version of Silicon Valley.

Does a man of character appear on national television just so that the whole world can watch him climb up on a cross and nail himself to it?

Utah State Representative Tim Quinn introduced a measure on January 29 that would allow Utah voters to recall a United States Senator, one week before Romney announced his decision to vote to convict the president.

Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah’s all-important fourth congressional district this year, has emerged as a cultural counterweight to the hatred that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has spewed for the last few years.

A teacher’s aide from Utah is in custody after being accused of inviting a 17-year-old girl and two boys to her house, supplying them with booze, and urging them to have sex with each other.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading the Democrat primary field in Utah, a Salt Lake Tribune/Suffolk University poll released Monday showed.