Herriman News

Almon Butterfield was raised on the farmlands of Herriman in the Great Depression, scrapping with his seven brothers, playing in the dirt - and when no one was looking and he was thirsty - taking a drink from the ditch.

Utah legislators deal with some pretty serious stuff - in the laws they pass, they can take away your property, make you pay taxes, even put you in prison.

A Utah legislative interim committee has advanced a bill that would allow prosecutors to seek criminal charges against women who seek late-term abortions.

A bill that would make seeking an illegal abortion a second-degree felony as well as remove any immunity for Utah women seeking illegal abortions was approved by a legislative committee Wednesday morning.

Travis Wood, right, and wife, Stephanie, and daughter Medeline stand in front of new house in Cedar City given to them through Homes for Our Troops.

An accidental fire ignited a bug bomb at a Herriman home Saturday. Smoke was reported at the home, which received about $25,000 damage, about 4:30 p.m. Investigators later determined that the homeowner, who was prepping the one-story home at 13310 S. Redwood Road for rent, had been using a torch to repair some water lines in the basement, said ...

The Jordan School Board voted 6-1 Tuesday night to approve boundaries for its new high school being built in Herriman, and to adjust boundaries for Bingham and Riverton High Schools.

The system for dispatching some 911 calls in Salt Lake County is "inherently inefficient," according to the findings of a legislative audit released Wednesday.

It was all one big accident -- a text message to a wrong number. But one message led to another.

One by one, at least six train cars went off a track and crashed into each other in Salt Lake City Thursday morning.

Two newly elected mayors trounced their competition Tuesday to take the helms of Utah's second- and fourth-largest cities.

Incumbents who have been in office since Herriman's 1999 incorporation were booted out Tuesday.

Elections in this small South Valley city have turned ugly. Less than two weeks before Election Day, Herriman residents received an anonymous mailer titled "Drugged Driving IS Drunk Driving," featuring the DUI citation of City Council candidate Mick Shannon.

The motorist who caused five bicyclists to crash during a race in August in American Fork Canyon pleaded no contest to a traffic offense and will pay $143. The 42-year-old entered his plea Tuesday in Utah County justice court, according to a court docket.

That was the tenor of a Tuesday public hearing in which dozens of property owners urged the Salt Lake County Council to reject changes to building standards that would shrink the size of new development in Millcreek.

Herriman might be a small city, but when it comes to dirty politics, someone is playing like the big boys.

Nurses Jennifer Knight, left, and Roxanne Wilson ready supply carts for the emergency room at the new Intermountain Riverton Hospital on in early October in Riverton.

A growing Utah movement favoring state's rights will rally Saturday in Vernon Worthen Park to discuss pending legislation and recruit members.

A judge has released a 17-year-old Vernal girl from jail after ruling she did not commit a crime when she allegedly paid a man to beat her in an attempt to miscarry her seven-month-old fetus.

Courtesy of Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Steven Noyce, new superintendent of Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind.