Author: Mariah Wheeler

UTAH – What would $28 million buy for the people of Uintah County? Fire trucks, flood control and road construction projects for starters. Ditto for Duchesne County residents, and throw in a community center, baseball fields and sewer lines. Utah’s Permanent Community Impact Board has dedicated public funds to support these much-needed projects, but in recent years the board has taken a wrong turn. It’s handed over nearly $28 million in public money to the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition in hopes of ramming an 88-mile railroad through these rural counties and significantly increasing fossil-fuel extraction in the Uinta Basin. Now that wrong…

OGDEN, Utah — The Weber County Attorney’s Office on Monday charged an Ogden woman with second-degree felony aggravated assault for allegedly strangling her fiancé with a lanyard. The man told Ogden police he was arguing with Breanna Goss about her ex-boyfriend at about 3 a.m. Saturday when she allegedly began choking him with her hands, digging in her fingernails.