Utah Man Faces 30 Years for Fatal Crash
ROCK SPRINGS — A 65-year-old FedEx truck driver from Utah is facing up to 30 years in prison following a deadly crash on Interstate 80 Wednesday morning. Chris Shepherd of West Jordan, Utah, made his initial appearance before Circuit Court Judge John Prokos Friday afternoon. He is charged with felony aggravated homicide by vehicle, which carries a possible maximum penalty of 20 years...
Attorneys argue Utah County is failing to adequately fund defense in capital murder case
SALT LAKE CITY — A man charged with capital murder in the death of a Santaquin police sergeant is now suing Utah County, claiming it is not adequately funding his defense. Michael Aaron Jayne, 44 of Garrett, Indiana, is accused of killing Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser on May 5, 2024. He left a traffic stop in a semitruck he was driving, flipped around on...
Highland High Turns Into $300 Million Construction Zone In Sugar House
Highland High School is officially trading textbooks for tractors, at least on part of campus. On Wednesday, April 22, the Salt Lake City School District held a ceremonial groundbreaking in Sugar House to kick off a long planned, $300 million rebuild of the school. District leaders say the multi year construction push will reshape most of the site and temporarily disrupt athletics, parking and...
Cottonwood Heights Corruption Allegations: A Case That Never Reached a Courtroom
A year ago, we here at Utah Stories recorded a podcast episode that we never published. We were revisiting corruption allegations from ten years ago. We decided not to publish the video, so it sat there on YouTube for nearly 12 months. Then somehow the video was published. How? We...
Oscar Mayer Wienermobile making stop in Salt Lake City
My bologna has a first name O-S-C-A-R. And its massive 27-foot-long wheels are making a stop in Salt Lake City starting Thursday.
Bicyclist hospitalized after collision with car
SALT LAKE CITY — A man was hospitalized on Thursday after a car hit him while he was riding his bike in Salt Lake City. According to Detective Michael Ruff with the Salt Lake City Police Department, the car and bicyclist were traveling along the road near 200 S. West Temple St. and 100 West when the car hit the bicyclist.
2 brothers charged in connection with Salt Lake phone store robbery
SALT LAKE CITY — The brother of a man accused of robbing a Salt Lake phone store at gunpoint is now also facing criminal charges. Tofiq Ghulam Sarwar, 31, of South Salt Lake, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, and four misdemeanor driving violations.
Salt Lake Zoomers Are Snapping Up The Big Houses
Salt Lake City has quietly climbed to the top of a very 2026 kind of leaderboard. Among major U.S. metros, this is where Generation Z adults claim the largest slice of bigger homes. Zoomers here own 3.6% of the area’s three-plus-bedroom housing stock, a higher share than in any other large city. That may sound small, but it stands clearly above the...
Taylorsville’s new mocktail supply shop mixes it up
A new cocktail supply shop hopes to add some flavor to Salt Lake mixology — with or without the booze. The big picture: A few years into the "sober curious" movement, mocktails have gone mainstream in bars, restaurants and home kitchens. Driving the news: Mixers & More Taylorsville opened...
Coffee and Chai opens its doors in West Jordan
Adnan and Natalie Afridi joined with family and members of Chamber West for the ribbon-cutting at Coffee and Chai in West Jordan on Feb. 14. (Tom Haraldsen/City Journals) It isn’t every day that the ribbon-cutting for a new business includes a camel as a guest. Owners of the new Coffee and Chai cafe in West Jordan wanted their grand opening to...
