Sevier County News

A fire completely destroyed an unoccupied home early Sunday in Central Valley. A Sevier County sheriff's deputy first noticed flames in the area between I-70 and state Route 118 about 2:30 a.m., according to a news release.

A former kitchen supervisor at the Sevier County jail has pleaded guilty to a one count in the criminal case accusing him of sex with prisoners.

It's the second Monday in October. Fifteen women are gathered in a 1920s-era home near downtown Kaysville.

The body responsible for policing Utah's police voted Tuesday to discipline 23 officers for offenses ranging from forcible sex abuse to lying on a police academy application.

Developers of a controversial coal-fired power plant in Sevier County now intend to transport and dispose of the proposed facility's fly ash in Carbon County and Tooele County landfills rather than close to home.

Richard 'Dick' Jay Sylvester, 74, Marysvale, passed away at his home August 12, 2009.

A Sevier County couple has been charged with tax evasion for failing to pay more than $67,000 in taxes from 2002 to 2007.

Sevier County native Charles G. Hawley is the new publisher of The Richfield Reaper.

It was an exciting day at Joe's Valley reservoir on July 1. The long awaited release of tiger muskie into the reservoir became a reality on this day as Division of Wildlife Resources personnel released 720 3-inch tiger muskies into Joes Valley Reservoir.

Back in December 2003 the Intermountain Power Agency described its plan to expand the coal-fired Intermountain Power Project in west-central Utah in glowing terms.

The feds have given former Weber County swindler Wayne Ogden his cell phone back as he awaits trial in federal court on alleged scams downstate.

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A Sevier County judge today sentenced a man who had sexual relations with several juvenile girls and tried to fake his own death to an effective 63-year prison term, according to Fourth Judicial District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn.

As of today, 510 pristine acres on Sevier's County's Bluff Mountain are protected against development.

Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles woman with transportation of an undocumented person in connection with a March fatal rollover in Sevier County after a bloodstained insurance card recovered from the wrecked van connected her to the case.

Two separate incidents involving carbon monoxide gas left two dead over the weekend, another two hospitalized and Utah Poison Control officials trying to spread awareness.

Rescuers searched Sunday night for a possible missing kayaker along the Little Pigeon River in Sevier County.

An elderly man and his grandson were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in Sevier County on Saturday, after they pulled a cover over their boat to escape the rain on Fish Lake.

A Georgia man has been arrested on charges of abducting and raping an Atlanta woman he grabbed while she was jogging.

My column two weeks ago took Jerry McCarter, county attorney for Sevier County, to task ago for being AWOL from county commission meetings at which controversial and complex issues were being decided.