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The number of drowsy driving-related crashes in the state has increased over the last few years, resulting in more injuries and fatalities on Utah roads.
Each year, Utah has more than 1,000 crashes as a result of drowsy driving.

About three hours before Jeremy Patterson shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her son on a Sandy street, police in Draper briefly investigated a tip about Patterson.
At about 12:30 p.m.

Unified police were looking for a man Wednesday who robbed six people at gunpoint in Millcreek two days earlier.
About 10 p.m. Monday, a man wearing a ski mask and dressed in all black entered the Happy Life Club, at 970 E. 3300 South, where Herbalife distributors were gathered, said Lt. Brian Lohrke. The man allegedly held a gun to one victim’s head, forcing that person to tie up five others by duct-taping them to chairs, and then tied up that victim, as well.
The suspect then assaulted the vic...

Dereck James “DJ” Harrison, who is already sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in killing a Utah Transit Authority worker, is expected to plead guilty to more charges in federal court next month.
In early June, a federal jury indicted Harrison in U.S. District Court on two charges in connection to kidnapping 63-year-old Kay Porter Ricks and stealing his work-issued truck. Harrison has already pleaded guilty in a Wyoming court to murdering and kidnapping Ricks, and is s...

Utah’s congressional delegation hopes President Donald Trump’s interest in infrastructure will help make the controversial Lake Powell Pipeline a reality a little sooner.
Members have asked the president to make the pipeline a “high priority” and to expedite the project’s environmental reviews and approvals ­— making the request before the state has finished its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to build it.
“As one of the largest water infrastructure projects in Uta...

Tavaputs Ranch • Last week, I worked with the seventh generation of Wilcox/Jensen cowboys. Although I’m older by at least three of those generations, they already out-cowboy me.
It’s in their blood.

Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott, who possibly has dementia and is at the center of a dramatic push to remove him from office, will lose his home within three months following his apparent failure to pay on a home equity loan.
The embattled recorder’s office received a notice of default Tuesday announcing Ott hasn’t made a payment on a $50,000 home equity loan since July 19, 2016.
If Ott doesn’t pay the amount owed within three months, he’ll lose the Salt Lake City home, according to the filin...

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A heat wave is coming to Southern Utah this weekend, with temperatures expected to climb close to 115 degrees in St.

Utah lawmakers balked again this year at joining more than half of all U.S.

Since he joined the Utah Transit Authority Board earlier this year, North Ogden Mayor Brent Taylor has constantly butted heads with other members.