Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – An effort to “modernize” Utah’s state flag design didn’t sit well with some state senators, though it did win enough support to move onto further debate in the Senate. Senator Daniel McCay, R-Riverton, told KSL, “There’re iconic flags all over the country. A good portion of the top half of the states have a flag with a blue background with their state seal on it. We thought maybe there, with some effort, and with some design input from the public, that we could modernize our flag, and make it so that it adheres to modern vexillology and vexillological principles. I…

OGDEN, Utah — Police are investigating after a family in Fruit Heights found some opioid pills stuffed inside a Christmas gift they bought online. It was a bizarre Christmas morning for the Hansen family as 21-year-old Ashley tried on one of her new gifts. “I knew that the shoes were coming because I helped pick them out,” she said. But what Ashley Hansen found in her new Doc Martens went beyond the typical packaging. “I put my foot in, but there was still, like, the wrapping paper inside it,” she said.