Utahns make fraudulent investments, they find funds difficult to recover
By Kristian Ekenes and Stacie Carnley Eric Nelson was first introduced to Fasi Filiaga by a mutual friend in fall 2003. As a managing partner of an investment group, Filiaga taught people how to handle...
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Official: Shooting suspect was former med student
[media-credit name="Associated Press" align="alignright" width="300"][/media-credit]AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A former medical student in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a...
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New gun control laws may not attack the real problem
President Obama’s remarks to Congress urging a new assault weapons ban may not hit the real killer, handguns. According to a study conducted by the FBI, 72 percent of homicides in 2011 were committed...
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Small Ala. town: Relief that child hostage is safe
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy was back with his ecstatic family and playing with his toy dinosaur after his nearly weeklong ordeal as a hostage in an underground bunker was ended by a...
View ArticleFBI seeks images in Boston Marathon bomb inquiry
BOSTON (AP) — Investigators appealed to the public Tuesday for amateur video and photos that might yield clues to the Boston Marathon bombing as the chief FBI agent in Boston vowed “we will go to the...
View ArticleProvo Police arrest two on charges of child homicide
Provo Police arrested a 29-year-old Provo woman Oct. 3 on charges of child abuse homicide for knowingly allowing the abuse leading to her son’s death. Police arrested the woman, Brianna Brown, after...
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Affinity fraud continues to plague Utahns and Mormons
The case of a Davis County man wanted for an alleged scheme that officials say took the life savings of Utah residents and brought in tens of millions of dollars shows the vulnerability of Utahns to...
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Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff pleads not guilty to charges
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff pleaded not guilty to five felonies and two misdemeanor charges on Monday, June 29, 2015, in Salt Lake’s Third District Court. The FBI arrested Shurtleff...
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College students become target of fake FBI phone calls
The Better Business bureau is working to save students from losing private information to scammers who are pretending to be the FBI. Robb Hicken, Director of Operations & Communications for the...
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Obama defends police and their actions
President Barack Obama is defending police officers who have come under intense scrutiny amid a breakdown in relations between law enforcement and minority communities, and says police can’t be...
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University of California attacker’s plan for revenge is called delusional
A university freshman angry that he was kicked out of a study group carried a hunting knife, a backpack full of restraints and a detailed revenge plan into his classroom. Faisal Mohammad, 18, planned...
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Keylogging programs pose cyber security threat to campus
A BYU student only wanted to obtain lecture slides that the professor had refused to give him. So he broke into his professor’s office to steal them from the professor’s computer. Then the student...
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Utah governor yet to decide on Syrian refugees, 31 peers say no
Utah currently is not one of the 31 states refusing Syrian refugees in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, but it seems Gov. Gary Herbert is still collecting his thoughts. Those...
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New York threat describes bomb, gun attack
The latest on the closure of Los Angeles Unified School District schools due to a threat (all times local): 11:30 a.m. A threatening email sent to the New York City school superintendent warned that...
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LDS Church releases statement condemning Oregon armed occupation
One Utah native called himself ‘Captain Moroni,’ spawning several media inquiries in connection to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after a group of militiamen occupied a federal...
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Violent crime rose in first 6 months of 2015 over 2014
Violent crime rose across in the country in the first six months of 2015 compared to the same period the year before, according to preliminary data released Tuesday by the FBI. The statistics show a...
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Leader of armed group at wildlife refuge is speaking to FBI
PORTLAND, Ore. — The leader of an armed group that for nearly three weeks has occupied a wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon has begun speaking with the FBI. Standing outside the municipal airport in...
View ArticleUpdate: Last of Oregon refuge occupiers surrenders
Surrounded by FBI agents in armored vehicles, the last four occupiers of a national wildlife refuge surrendered Thursday, and the leader of a 2014 standoff with federal authorities was criminally...
View ArticleFight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact
An extraordinary legal fight is brewing with major privacy implications for millions of cellphone users after a federal magistrate ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the...
View ArticleCiting FBI quest, Apple asks judge to delay iPhone data case
Apple wants a judge to delay government demands for data from a locked iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case while the FBI sees if it can get contents from a San Bernardino attacker’s phone without Apple’s...
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