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Republican Sen. Mike Lee said he’s yet to see “anything, even a scintilla” of evidence indicating that President Donald Trump obstructed justice in his interactions with former FBI Director James Comey.
“And so it’s time to wrap this up, and it’s time to move on,” the Utah senator said in a Sunday appearance on ABC News’ “This Week.”
Comey, who testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, accused the White House of spreading “lies, plain and simple” about him.

A national lobbying group says it has gathered 10,000 signatures in its fight to repeal Utah’s strict, new drunken-driving law.
Utah is the first state in the country to lower the state’s blood-alcohol content limit for DUI from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent.
In May, the American Beverage Institute (ABI), a lobbying organization that fights for responsible on-premise consumption of adult beverages, launched a petition drive opposing the measure.
“In under a month, we’ve reached over 10,000 signat...

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Firefighters had a blaze in Cedar City “mostly contained” Monday night, after it burned 5 acres of grass and destroyed farm buildings.
The fire, reported about 2:45 p.m. in the area of 700 North and 800 West, was “rapidly” growing when firefighters arrived, said a Cedar City Police Department news release.
“Several” structures were threatened, police said, and “several” outbuildings — including livestock corrals — were destroyed.

It looks like Brigham Young University may be Mormonism’s last institutional holdout against what some see as “evil” cola drinks — you know, the ones with that unauthorized pick-me-up.
Sometime this spring, LDS Business College in Salt Lake City began selling Coke products — with caffeine — in its cafe.

A month after being deemed competent to stand trial, a Utah County man has pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife’s husband in 2014.

Provo Mayor John Curtis on Monday delivered to the state Capitol more than double the necessary signatures to qualify for the Republican primary race for outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s coveted congressional seat.
“That’s a pretty big feat,” said Utah Elections Director Mark Thomas.
Curtis, who’s finishing his eighth year as mayor of the state’s third largest city, submitted 15,525 signatures by the noon deadline with the help of volunteers and a paid professional company. Just 7,000 are requir...

A 64-year-old woman was rescued Monday after becoming stranded on a ledge in American Fork Canyon.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched at about 9:30 a.m. to find the woman on a mountainside about 40 feet above State Road 92. She had been hiking with a grandson and was trying to return to the Pine Hollow Trailhead when she became stranded after trying to take a shortcut, the sheriff’s office reported.
A sheriff’s search and rescue responded, along with Lone Peak Fire Department.
Res...

State school board members have voted to launch an audit of the fees Utah public schools collect from students.
During their June 2 meeting, board members discussed reports made by staff and through a hotline regarding costly fees for activities and course materials, inconsistent application of fee waivers for low-income families, and allegations of students being singled out or otherwise humiliated for failing to pay fees or getting waivers.

Call her the maestro.
It appears Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton collaborated with the conservative Americans for Prosperity to thwart funding to preserve scenic open space slated to be sold to developers for an exclusive gated community.
Newton has made no secret of her opposition to a proposal to spend $1.5 million of county funds to help meet the $38 million sales price to buy from developers the scenic 1,350 acres in Wasatch County, known as Bonanza Flats, that is enjoyed b...

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A Utah woman who has been behind bars for a decade for killing her boyfriend during an argument over a pagan religious ceremony is slated to be paroled from prison this fall.
The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole last week set a release date of Nov. 11 for Monika Ann Dilmaghanian, who has been serving a sentence of up to life in prison. The 44-year-old woman fatally stabbed Nathan D. Harris on April 6, 2007, at a campground near Ogden.
At a May 30 parole hearing, Dilmaghanian said she was drunk m...