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With temperatures in Utah reaching record highs, Volunteers of America, Utah (VOAUT) is collecting bottled water to help homeless youth and adults beat the heat.
“The hotter the weather gets, the more clients we have coming in,” Jayme Anderson, the nonprofit’s director of volunteer services, said Tuesday. “It [water] goes very, very fast.”
Water is distributed at the organization’s Youth Resource Center and through its homeless outreach program.

A 10-day trial has been set in September for Lyle Jeffs, a former bishop of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who was captured last month after absconding from pre-trial release in a federal food stamp fraud case.
Jeffs, 57, was indicted in February 2016, along with 10 other FLDS members with one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and conspiracy to launder money.
After his arrest on June 14 in South Dak...

An internal Cache County Sheriff’s Office investigation has found that K9 service dog “Endy” died of heat exhaustion after being forgotten in a hot, unattended patrol truck by his handler earlier this month.
Sheriff Chad Jensen said Tuesday that the handler, who was not identified, had been placed on unpaid leave for an unspecified period.

A Toquerville mother who was accused of leaving her severely malnourished son locked in a bathroom has pleaded guilty to child abuse charges.
Brandy K. Jaynes, 36, pleaded guilty as charged Tuesday in 5th District Court to three counts of second-degree felony child abuse, according to her attorney. She faces a maximum penalty of one-to-15 years in prison on each charge when she is sentenced on Aug.

A national media watchdog group has sued the Utah attorney general’s office in state court, alleging the state’s top law enforcement agency is hiding information about its dealings with what the group calls politically conservative “cash-for influence” organizations.
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed the suit Monday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court after Attorney General Sean Reyes’ office refused to comply with public records requests for email communications and documents th...

State leaders plan to spend Tuesday morning meeting with Scott Pruitt, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump.
In a Tuesday morning interview with ABC4, Pruitt said he planned to talk about air quality, water quality regulation and water infrastructure while meeting with Gov.

After a year-long inquiry, Utah’s Department of Public Safety has completed their investigation into “possible violations” regarding how Brigham Young University officers access and share their own reports and the records of other Utah County police agencies.
Now, the Utah Attorney General’s Office is reviewing the case, state officials confirmed Tuesday.
But what investigators found has not been publicly released.

An investigation by the Utah County Sheriff’s Office of the Ephraim police department and alleged misconduct by the chief reveals a culture of mistrust among the five-man force, as well as a slew of discrepancies in record-keeping and policy protocols — but no criminal activity.
Though Police Chief Ron Rasmussen was placed on paid administrative leave during the weeks-long investigation, he was reinstated June 28.

Utah Highway Patrol troopers are looking at distracted driving as a contributing factor to a fatal rollover crash early Tuesday morning in Cache County.
UHP Sgt. Todd Royce said a 44-year-old man was driving a1998 Ford Escort south on State Route 91, near mile post 41 about 5:50 a.m. when he struck a deer.
The man’s car went off the road to the left, the driver apparently over-corrected to the right and crossed the median into the northbound lanes, struck an embankment and rolled.
The driver, wh...

In the space of about 10 minutes, a pair of pistol-packing robbers hit three stories in west Salt Lake City, police say.
The robberies occurred around 1 p.m.