Vernal News

Lawmakers are moving toward closing a loophole in state law that made it impossible to charge a 17-year-old Vernal girl with hiring a man to beat her in hopes of inducing a miscarriage.

State fire officials continue to investigate a house fire that claimed the life of a Uintah County man.

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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.

The Utah Museums Association held its 36th annual conference in Green River this year.

A woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a Utah telecommunications company over text message records she claims were improperly released and then made public by her estranged husband.

Jessie Dorrant Freston of Roosevelt served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, later renamed the Air Force, from 1943 to 1946.

Rec center's director resigns amid questions Uintah County Recreation Center Executive Director Dan Rodgerson has resigned from his position after three years "to pursue other interests." Uintah County Recreation Center Executive Director Dan Rodgerson and Human Resources Director Phillip Oviatt have tendered their resignations to the Uintah County ...

Vernal Citya s mayor elect Gary Showalter addressed the council during last weeks council meeting.

Uintah County stands to benefit from tax benefits for businesses, new or struggling, through a Utah Enterprise Zone program.

It's some lonely blacktop that snakes over 173 miles of mountain and rocky desert to get here from Utah's capital, but not so empty that somebody doesn't need a ride now and then.

A big political storm blew through the small Tooele County town of Stockton and Mayor Dan Rydalch was voted out of office Tuesday by a 3-1 margin.

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Utah's Division of Oil, Gas and Mining estimates that 90 percent of drilling waste is water with the remainder comprised of drilling mud and sludge.

More than 120 DUI arrests and zero alcohol-related fatal car wrecks were reported Halloween weekend.

A Vernal man shot a police officer in the leg, then attacked an ex-girlfriend's boyfriend in his home Saturday, police said.

A Vernal police officer was shot through the thigh Saturday night. He is expected to make a full recovery.

VERNAL, Utah a " A 21-year-old Utah man has been sentenced to up to five years in prison for beating a pregnant girl to try to cause a miscarriage, after authorities say she paid him to.Aaron Harrison of Naples had pleaded guilty to second-degree felony attempted murder, which is punishable by up to 15 years.

Up until he turned 18, Arron Nathaneal Harrison was "a really good kid" - the kind of kid who never gave his father any problems.

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