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Several families are accusing a former private school in Santa Clara of child abuse. Last week, eight families filed a civil lawsuit against Desert Edge Montessori and owner Analee Talbot. They claim their toddler-aged kids were badly physically and emotionally abused...

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes joined with other 48 state attorneys general as part of an antitrust investigation into Google.  The bipartisan coalition will look into the tech giant's advertising business and paid ad placements that appear in search results.  ...

Utah lawmakers are being asked to consider paying former Utah Attorney General John Swallow a settlement of one-point-five-million-dollars. UtahPolicy.com reports that the state wants to settle all claims by Swallow by paying the former AG's legal fees...

The family of a Utah State University student who allegedly killed herself because she was being bullied is suing the school. Twenty-four-year-old Jerusha Sanjeevi from Malaysia was a P-H-D candidate who died in 2017. The lawsuit claims Sanjeevi was jeered at by other students for having darker skin, smelling like Indian food and having a weird name...

San Juan County commissioners have voted unanimously to drop any future appeals of a federal court's ruling in the county's gerrymandering case. Earlier this month, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling that found commission and school board district boundaries had been drawn to make Native Americans a political minority...

The state of Utah may be facing a lawsuit after failing to award all ten of the licenses it had available to grow medical cannabis. KaeCee Kingsley of Hildale says the state sent her a letter that indicates she and partners North Star Holdings qualified for one of the ten licenses...

A judge is ordering a Utah contractor with ties to a polygamous group on the Utah-Arizona border to pay more than $1 million in back wages to children who prosecutors say were forced to pick pecans from 2008-2013. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell ruled Tuesday based on the Department of Labor’s determination that 104 workers were eligible for back pay from Paragon Contractors. T...

A growing number of parents whose children attended a Santa Clara Montessori school are joining a lawsuit alleging the owner abused some of the students. On Friday parents posted fliers targeting Analee Talbot, the owner of Red Canyon Montessori...

Utah is now part a large multi-state lawsuit accusing drug companies of engaging in a widespread conspiracy to control the prices of generic drugs. Attorney General Sean Reyes says 20 companies fixed the prices for more than one-hundred medications...

A federal judge is ordering The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to produce a list of all sister missionaries who were at a training center at the same time as a woman who said she was sexually assaulted there.  McKenna Denson is suing the L-D-S Church and Joseph Bishop, the former president of her Missionary Training Center, who she says raped her.  ...