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(Cedar City, UT)  --  A Southern Utah University professor is suing the school over the punishment he received for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a student in his class.  Professor Richard Bugg named several members of the university's administration in a federal lawsuit filed earlier this week.  He claims hi...

(Salt Lake City, UT)  --  A Utah judge is refusing to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state's ban on transgender participation in youth sports.  The judge said in his ruling that the law passed earlier this year clearly tries to ban transgender girls from competing and participating with other girls in high school sports.  He said the ...

Utah judges are trying out a new way to let defendants know that courts are back in session and they need to show up for rescheduled hearings.  Judges are now issuing what they're calling "COVID warrants" to those who fail to show up for one or more hearings because they couldn't be reached.  ...

An Idaho woman is facing new charges after her children's remains were found on her husband's property earlier this month.  Lori Vallow Daybell appeared in court in Rexburg, Idaho yesterday after being charged with two felony counts of conspiracy to destroy and alter or conceal evidence.  ...

A former bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who is facing charges related to child pornography will be prosecuted in federal court.  Investigators arrested 62-year-old Timothy Hallows of Kaysville last fall for possessing and distributing illegal materials.  ...

The man accused of killing a West Jordan couple in their home last month made his first court appearance this morning.  Albert Enoch Johnson faces nine charges in connections with the deaths of Tony and Katherine Butterfield.  Prosecutors say Johnson killed the couple during an armed robbery where he only managed to steal 20-dollars in cash and two cell phones.  The ...

Death row inmate Ron Lafferty wants a federal appeals court to reconsider arguments that would keep him from facing a firing squad. Attorneys for Lafferty have filed for an "en banc" hearing before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal, meaning they would argue their case before the entire bench of judges...