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Steve Powell — a figure in the disappearance of his daughter-in-law, Susan Powell, from her home in West Valley City — was released Tuesday from prison in Washington state after serving about three years in jail and prison for a child pornography conviction.
Jeremy Barclay, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Corrections, confirmed that Powell was released from a prison in Monroe, Wash. Barclay said Powell, 67, will serve another two years on parole.
Barclay did not know where Powell pl...

The last of three men charged with murder in a stabbing 26 years ago at a community dance in Salt Lake City has been arrested.
Viengkeo Sundara, 49, was charged in June 2016 in 3rd District Court with first-degree felony murder in the 1991 stabbing death of 25-year-old Youthaloth Oudanonh.
Sundara was booked into the Salt Lake County jail on Friday and made an initial court appearance on Tuesday.

After a judge ruled Monday that the Mountain Accord was a public body subject to the state’s Open and Public Meetings Act, several Salt Lake County Council members plan to ask the state auditor for “a full accounting” of the entity.
“The public was deprived from knowledge,” Councilman Richard Snelgrove charged, calling for a forensic audit.
Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton, a fellow Republican, and Councilman Sam Granato, a Democrat, said they’d sign the letter to state Auditor John Dougall to ...

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After weeks of tug of war over the GOP bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Utah Sen. Mike Lee has offered his ultimatum: add an amendment to give insurance companies more flexibility in offering cheaper and less comprehensive plans or count his vote as a “no.”
“The last iteration of the Senate bill is one that I cannot support,” the conservative senator said during a news conference Tuesday in Washington.
The Consumer Freedom Option, which Lee drafted with Republican Sen.

Utah’s largest teachers union is suing the state school board over a new website that allows the public to search a database of disciplinary actions taken against educators.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in 3rd District Court by the Utah Education Association, but has not yet been formally served to the Utah Board of Education.
Kass Harstad, an attorney representing the union, said the key issue is the retroactive nature of the website, which launched in February after a November vote of the boa...

Millcreek • Seven months after the creation of this new city, elected leaders are moving to establish salaries for the mayor and city council members — with additional discussion on the topic expected at their next meeting July 17.
The suggested compensation for Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini is $40,000 plus benefits, while those on the city council would be paid $15,000 annually and would also receive benefits. Although Silvestrini’s position is a part-time job, he said Monday that being mayo...

Two days before Mormon leader Brigham Young and his pioneer entourage descended from the Wasatch Mountains, William Carter was already at work in the refugee sect’s new Salt Lake Valley home.
The 26-year-old English convert had crossed the Atlantic Ocean and Great Lakes by ship, and wore out shoe leather walking from Chicago to Nauvoo, Ill., where he met and married Ellen Benbow.

Summer is in full swing. For many of us, that means trips to the pool or the beach to cool off from the summer sun. So what are the options for people — women in particular — whose religion dictates modest dress? Deciding what to wear in the water as a conservative or plain clothes dresser varies by religion, and among individuals within a faith.

Washington • Sen. Mike Lee joined nine fellow Republicans on Tuesday to demand the Senate cancel its August recess – and, Lee added, perhaps even work weekends – to finish up critically important and time-sensitive legislation.

Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch, the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees, said Tuesday that emails showing Donald Trump Jr. knowingly met with a Russian lawyer promising information to “incriminate” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was “overblown” and defended the President Donald Trump’s son as an “honorable” person.
Hatch said Trump Jr. didn’t have any role in the administration and that it absolves the Trump White House of any wrongdoing.
“I thin...