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A West Valley City mall food court employee, stabbed repeatedly during a weekend fight with three suspected gang members, was in improved condition Monday.
West Valley City police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku said the victim — in his early-20s but whose identity was withheld — had undergone surgery and his condition, initially critical, had been stabilized as of Monday.
The victim was handing out food samples just before 5 p.m. Saturday at Valley Fair Mall when the three suspects, ages 18, 19 an...

A woman died and a man was in critical condition after their motorcycle collided with a car making a left-hand turn into their path Sunday in northern Utah’s Box Elder County.
The Utah Highway Patrol withheld the identities of the couple pending notification of next of kin.
The motorcycle, operated by the man with the woman as his passenger, was southbound on State Route 38 near Deweyville, when a northbound car turned in front of the bike at the intersection with SR-102.

Utah’s prolonged spell of thunderstorms and rain showers are over, at least for the week ahead.
You can credit the return of hot temperatures -- flirting with 100 degrees along the Wasatch Front and will into the triple digits in southern Utah -- to a high pressure system locking in over the Great Basin. The National Weather Service says this dry, northerly ridge will bake the region through Friday.
But in our desert state we can take comfort because it’s a “dry heat,” right? Hmm. It’s dry insid...

A 77-year-old woman, the only survivor of a fiery weekend crash that killed her husband and another man over the weekend in east-central Salt Lake City, remained in critical condition Monday.
Salt Lake City police said that 34-year-old Fernando Jiminez-Martinez, of West Jordan, was dead at the scene of the 3 p.m. Friday accident.

Amid widespread allegations of past gerrymandering, Utahns, by a 61 percent to 22 percent margin, favor having an independent commission redraw political boundaries in once-a-decade redistricting.
That includes support by a plurality of Republicans — even though gerrymandering likely helped their candidates — and by big majorities of Democrats and unaffiliated voters, according to a new Salt Lake Tribune/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.
That is music to the ears of leaders of the Better Boun...

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Amanda Ellis-Graham’s multiple sclerosis was once so bad she could barely hold a pencil.
She suffered from vision and hearing problems. Walking was nearly impossible because of terrible vertigo.

A man and woman were arrested twice within a short period Sunday, first for allegedly stealing a car and then for taking off in a Utah Highway Patrol vehicle where they had been placed in handcuffs pending transportation to a jail.
A UHP news release says the pair — a 28-year-old West Valley City man and a 32-year-old Kearns woman — were traveling east on Interstate 80 in a stolen car when the vehicle went off the road about 9:30 a.m.

A crash on Sunday afternoon at Interstate 15 at 15800 South has closed five northbound lanes of traffic, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.
The estimated clearance time of the crash — at milepost 286, near Point of the Mountain in Salt Lake County — is 4 p.m., UDOT said in a tweet.
No other details were immediately available.

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A new poll shows the Our Schools Now ballot initiative is maintaining — and possibly expanding — its base of support as organizers prepare to gather signatures to qualify for the November 2018 ballot.
A majority of registered Utah voters — 57 percent — said they either “somewhat” or “strongly” support a proposal to raise roughly $700 million for public education through a combination of income and sales tax hikes. Forty percent opposed the initiative to some degree, with 3 percent undecided.

The area around Pioneer Park and Rio Grande Street’s homeless shelter has long been a place to score illegal drugs. Crack cocaine, methamphetamine and alcohol were the substances of choice until about 2013 or ’14. Then heroin swept in and amped up everything.
It’s no longer a drug deal here and there. Now, drugs are passing hands nonstop, 24/7. It is not uncommon to see addicts shooting up in broad daylight.