Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah — A northern Utah man accused of falsifying his deceased wife’s will to give himself property and other assets is facing criminal charges. Jody Allen Rhorer, 43, of Eden, Weber County, was charged Monday in 2nd District Court with computer crimes interfering with critical infrastructure, a second-degree felony; plus two counts of fraudulent handling of recordable writings and two counts of recording a false or forged instrument, both third-degree felonies. According to charging documents, Rhorer was married to Deone Ehlers-Rhorer, 54, who died on Aug. 22. Ehlers-Rhorer was the owner of Lady Bug Realty in Ogden. In November,…

OGDEN, Utah – The court fight about alleged wiretapping is over, but there’s plenty of acrimony still swirling between two camps of Utah Republican Party activists. Three Weber County Republicans recently dropped a civil lawsuit they filed in 2018 against two other Republicans. Bob McEntee, Lynda Pipkin and Elizabeth Carlin, who were members of the GOP State Central Committee at the time, sued Daryl Acumen and Giles Witherspoon-Boyd after a fractious party meeting in North Salt Lake on Sept. 9, 2017. The Weber County trio alleged that Acumen, a party activist, and Witherspoon-Boyd, a technology provider, intercepted communications of committee…