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Republican Utah Gov. Gary Herbert imposed a mask mandate Monday to last “for the foreseeable future” after a surge in coronavirus cases caused him to declare a state of emergency.

Burgess Owens, the Republican candidate for Utah’s Fourth Congressional District, is pushing back against a recent story by the New York Times suggesting his campaign took more than $135,000 in illegal political contributions.

A caravan of vehicles stretching for six miles departed Tremonton, Utah, on Saturday to show support for President Donald Trump.

The University of Utah reached a $13.5 million settlement Thursday with the family of slain student Lauren McCluskey, admitting her death had been preventable.

Over 13,000 mail-in ballots sent to voters in Sanpete County, Utah, are missing the critical area for a signature, election officials confirmed this week. 

A massive group of vehicles took part in a “Trump Train” event Sunday in St. George, Utah, to show support for the president.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors.

A Nigerian tech worker who held a green card to work in the U.S. legally pleaded guilty in court on Wednesday to strangling a Utah college student to death in June 2019, leaving her charred remains in his backyard.

A kidnapped Utah woman escaped captivity by writing 911 on her hand and showing it to a nearby locksmith, police said.

Democrat VP candidate Kamala Harris wrote in an oped in a Utah newspaper that Joe Biden as president would “restore” American values.

A man pulled over for a seatbelt violation fled the scene, dragging a Utah police officer with him before crashing head-on into a police vehicle, according to a recently released bodycam video from the Ogden Police Department.

The University of Utah announced this week that it will shut down its campus for two weeks to limit the spread of coronavirus and to prepare for the upcoming vice presidential debate that will take place on campus. Over the summer, health experts at the university devised a “circuit breaker” strategy for coronavirus mitigation, which mandated a two-week pause of in-person classes in the middle of the semester.

Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, replaced a woman’s American flag after she broke hers while defending her family.

Former NFL star Burgess Owens told his story of overcoming adversity during his speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday.

The office of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) confirmed late Wednesday students and employees of the state’s K-12 schools who refuse to wear masks in the buildings may be faced with a misdemeanor charge.

A four-time deported illegal alien, previously convicted of child sexual abuse, has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Utah.

Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, announced this week that it is considering changing its name in response to a petition by local citizens. The petition claims that the word “Dixie” is offensive due to its ties to the southern states in the Confederacy. According to the university, the word Dixie “represents the rich pioneering heritage of sacrifice, determination and generosity of our early settlers.”

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday after demonstrators in Salt Lake City clashed with police following the district attorney clearing officers involved in the shooting death of 22-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal.

Two suspects were arrested Tuesday night in connection with the shooting of a motorist at a Black Lives Matter protest in Provo, Utah.

A protester in Provo, Utah, allegedly shot the driver of a Ford SUV Monday night, then hid his gun and continued protesting. 

Vandals defaced a statue of Brigham Young at Brigham Young University over the weekend. The vandals dumped red paint on the state and painted the word “racist” on the base of the statue in large red letters.

Families worldwide worked together to help an 18-month-old boy named Wilson in Ecuador with Centronuclear Myopathy find a ventilator as finding ventilators worldwide have been scarce due to the coronavirus.

A 20-year-old woman was shot by police officers when she pointed a gun at them in Provo, Utah, on Thursday evening.

According to a recent report, search engine DuckDuckGo’s CEO says that federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions targeting Google’s overwhelming dominance of the search market.

A twice-deported illegal alien convicted of murdering a 31-year-old man in 2016 is set to be deported from the United States after serving only about four years in prison.

Rioters in Salt Lake City, Utah, beat a man, flipped his car, and lit it on fire after he confronted them with a bow and arrow during riots on Saturday evening.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, responded to the president’s criticism of recent vote-by-mail initiatives by Democrat governors, claiming the voting system works seamlessly in his home state. 

Burgess Owens, a former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety and Utah’s fourth congressional district Republican candidate, told Breitbart News Saturday that Republicans need to take back Utah’s fourth district to help the GOP “take back our country.”

A (very) young man identified as “Adrian” was pulled over by the Utah Highway Patrol on Monday. He was on his way to buy a Lamborghini.

Utah officials on Friday outlined plans to reopen the economy, relaxing many of the state’s restrictions by May 1.

A career criminal is accused of robbing and threatening to murder a woman at knifepoint after he was released from state prison thanks to a nationwide jailbreak push in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake shook Utah’s Salt Lake City area on Wednesday morning, causing roughly 55,000 people to lose power. 

A Utah-based diagnostic testing company claimed Monday that it has the resources to produce 50,000 Chinese coronavirus tests daily.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has won the Democrats’ Super Tuesday presidential primary in the state of Utah, according to a projection from the Associated Press.

Rich Middle School in Laketown, Utah, has gained national attention from a policy that forbids children to decline dances with other students.

A Utah paint shop designed a unique custom casket for “Hondo,” a police dog shot to death while apprehending a fugitive.