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UTAH – A man in a Garfield County halfway house has been arrested on multiple felony enticing a minor charges. A probable cause statement from the 6th District Court of Panguitch said Tyler Wayne Adams, 24, is facing 15 counts of enticing a minor, a second-degree felony. The statement said that on or around Jan. 12, the arresting officer created a fake Facebook profile of a 15-year-old female to investigate potential sex crimes and narcotic distribution. “On Jan. 13, an individual using a Facebook name of Tyler Cormier-Taber, later identified to be Tyler Adams, added my fake profile and began…

OGDEN, Utah – Utah is reportedly getting much fewer doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the federal government per capita than other states.  Elected officials say they’re trying to determine why this is happening, especially since health departments are equipped to give out many more doses than they currently are. Currently, the state is getting 33,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine every week from the federal government.  Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson says the CDC determines how many doses each state will get based on population over the age of 18.  For now, she says there isn’t much Utah can do to…