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July 22, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
No good deed goes unpunished.
The Salt Lake City Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a woman suspected of stealing a car from a man who had given her a ride on Sunday.
While the man ducked inside a 7-Eleven at 1285 N. R... Full Story
July 24, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
As she drove to work Wednesday afternoon, Allie Crawford, 20, remembered thinking, "Why are they all facing the road and watching cars? What is this?"
Crawford serves tea at the Tea Grotto at 401 E. 900 South, right along the route of the Days of &... Full Story
July 25, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
More than 100 firefighters were working Friday night to contain a blaze burning east of Highway 28 in Juab County.
The Levan Fire, which ignited about 4 p.m. Thursday just south of the town of the same name, is burning across more than 3,000 acres. ... Full Story
July 25, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
An attempted kidnapping and a stabbing Thursday in Liberty Park interrupted an otherwise pleasant Pioneer Day celebration.
The two episodes were unrelated. The attempted kidnapping occurred about 7:30 p.m. when a man grabbed a 6-year-old girl by the... Full Story
July 25, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Police believe that a man who robbed a coffee shop Sunday night has struck again.
Marshall James Roberts, 25, is suspected of robbing Health Care Credit Union at 769 E. South Temple about 11:00 a.m. Friday, said Salt Lake police Detective Dennis McGo... Full Story
July 25, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Three wildfires were burning in remote areas of Dinosaur National Monument, which remained open to visitors as of Friday evening.
The largest is the Hog Fire, which by Friday night had spread to 40 acres on the Yampa Plateau. Three engines, two hand ... Full Story
July 26, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
The man who died Tuesday while hiking in a remote section of Canyonlands National Park was a respected painter in Kansas City, Mo.
David Goodrich, 52, was a "stalwart of the alternative art scene," said David Ford, a Kansas City artist who met Goodr... Full Story
July 28, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Ignoring the Great Commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself, a Lindon man was arrested Friday on suspicion of defrauding his neighbor instead.
The victim of the alleged fraud told Orem police his neighbor had bilked him out of $43,000 over a three... Full Story
July 30, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
A man who police say was stealing technology equipment from a West Valley City elementary school, had his ear nearly bitten off by a police dog Wednesday when he refused to surrender.
Granite School District Police dispatchers were alerted to the all... Full Story
July 30, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Police have arrested a 46-year-old woman they say was involved in a series of scams in Weber County, but her male accomplice remains at large.
The two are suspected of operating an illegal roofing company, bilking homeowners of money for nonexistent ... Full Story
July 30, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
A 69-year-old Bluffdale man is facing charges stemming from an incident in which he is accused of hitting a man in the head with a baseball bat.
Charging documents filed in 3rd District Court on Wednesday state that the alleged attack occurred on Jul... Full Story
July 31, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah State University police are seeking a man suspected of groping a female student as she exercised on campus Saturday.
The victim told police she was preparing to run up and down the Old Main Hill stairs at about 9:15 p.m. when she was approached ... Full Story
July 31, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
A 78-year-old German woman who investigators say conned four people out of more than $200,000 by convincing them she was a foreign heiress was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court.
Ingeborg Del Vechil faces four felony counts stemming from an alle... Full Story
August 1, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake City Police Department said Friday that a police officer "acted within policy" when he shot a dog in its own fenced backyard last month during a search for a missing 3-year-old boy.
Officer Brett Olsen reasonably believed deadly force ... Full Story
August 3, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Larry Nielson couldn't understand how he kept misplacing his art.
In the weeks before the big heist, Nielson would notice that a painting wasn't where he remembered putting it. He must have left it somewhere else among the hundreds of work... Full Story
August 4, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
In a few hours, the man who killed her 26-year-old daughter would be sentenced in 3rd District Court, but as she waited outside the court-room before the sentencing Monday, Mary Waters wore a mask of composure.
Before the sun had come up on Salt Lake... Full Story
August 7, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Heavy overnight rain triggered the North Salt Lake landslide that devastated one house and sent residents of more than 20 hillside homes fleeing for safety. Even in dry weather, however, the slope that collapsed Tuesday morning was weak and showing s... Full Story
August 12, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Utility workers have patched a gas leak that had forced several residents from their West Bountiful duplexes Tuesday morning.
The South Davis Metro Fire Department responded to an emergency call shortly after 6:30 a.m. near 900 West and 1000 North, s... Full Story
August 13, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City has been rolling out a new strategy to deal with homelessness around Pioneer Park that officials say emphasizes the carrot over the stick.
The centerpiece of that strategy is the police department's new Metro Support Bureau Resou... Full Story
August 13, 2014 • By Harry Stevens The Salt Lake Tribune
An autistic man who was missing in Provo Canyon was found Wednesday afternoon.
Stephen Simmons, 20, wandered off Wednesday morning from the large group he was with at South Fork Park.
A volunteer search and rescue team from Utah County began scouring... Full Story
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