Payson News

Defeating an incumbent mayor came with effort, targeting influential residents and building name recognition.

A freeway chase ended Tuesday with spiked tires after a Provo man tried to evade police.

Search warrants have been sealed in the case of a retired professor slain last month outside of Payson, a court clerk and a prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday Tim Taylor, the chief deputy attorney in Utah County, said "several search warrants" have been sealed at the request of his office.

The city's first social club has opened its doors after getting the state's last available liquor license.

Wagon Wheel Saloon owner Dwight Fisher inside his new bar in Santaquin Tuesday Dec 22, 2009.

It has been nearly six weeks since knife-wielding home invaders killed retired Brigham Young University professor Kay Mortensen, but Utah County sheriff's detectives say their investigation is anything but a cold case.

More than a month after the murder of a Payson man, the Utah County Sheriff's Office hasn't made any arrests.

A man molested at least one girl in a Payson church and may have targeted two other children last week, police said.

Payson police are looking for a man they believe assaulted two children and may have attempted to assault another.

A contemporary folkie renowned for her expressive, crystalline voice, singer/songwriter Jewel was among the most successful female performers to dominate the pop charts throughout the 1990s.

Park View Elementary School in Payson has a pennies-for-the-poor program in which children are encouraged to bring coins to school to help needy families in the area.

Town leaders want to keep a planned all-terrain vehicle trail away from commercial orchards.

The 2nd wave of the winter storm hit Utah County early Tuesday morning with strong winds in the north and piles of snow in the south.

A family lost their home Monday after building designs made it unsafe for firefighters to douse the spreading flames.

A grandmother doing some Christmas shopping met a real-life Grinch who stole a present right out of her shopping cart.

At Jennie Larsen's house in Payson, the family doesn't talk turkey on Thanksgiving.

There is a new development in the case of a Payson man who was murdered last week.

The Utah County Sheriff's Office is remaining quiet about a Payson homicide investigation nearly two full days after the crime occurred.

Kay Sherman Mortensen was a long-time professor in mechanical engineering at BYU.

Retired BYU professor Kay Sherman Mortensen appears to have been murdered in his Payson home Monday night, only one week after returning from serving an LDS mission.