Utah News - The Salt Lake Tribune

Gunnison It?s a five-senses kind of day at the Central Utah Correctional Facility, and all of it involves horses ? 841 of them, scattered over dozens of acres of pens, paddocks and pasture. The July sun glints off razor wire as I drive to the Hard Time Corral, where wild mustangs, taken off open range by the Bureau of Land Management, are cared for and gentled by a coterie of inmates who?ve earned the privilege. Guys like Matt Hoover, who?s working with Duke, a strawberry roan. Hoover, of Fil...

Kanab ? Residents spent Saturday filling sandbags and clearing thick red mud from Kanab streets and basements, caused by floodwaters from torrential rains that swept into town. ?It took out a two-foot section under my fence then came right in the house,? said resident Kelly Cooper. The flood waters ripped the door right from its frame, he said. The water in his basement was four-feet deep at one point as Cooper and volunteers spent the afternoon removing sections of dirty, wet carpet and mud-st...

Brigham City ? Apostle Boyd K. Packer turned the first spade of dirt to officially break ground for the LDS Church?s new temple in this northern Utah community. But it was the joy and tears on the member?s faces that best spoke of the importance they placed on the occasion. More than 3,500 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered Saturday for the ceremony marking the beginning of construction for what will be the church?s 14th Utah temple. ?Clearly today we now stand i...

Salt Lake County gang detectives say Varrio Loco Town, formed in Salt Lake City?s Glendale neighborhood in the late 1980s, is a violent drug gang that includes at least 70 documented members. The gang began with a few families but has spread along the Salt Lake Valley. While most members are Latino, a few are not ? a practice on par with other Utah gangs that don?t exclude based on race. The gang?s traditional color is green and its members associate with the number 17, which detectives say ha...

When Julian Stevens tests dirty for marijuana, his parole agents aren?t buying his excuse. The 31-year-old claims he failed the drug test only because he watched his uncle get high and inhaled the smoke. ?Why would I lie to you? My drug of choice is cocaine. If I want to do drugs I?m going to do cocaine,? Julian argues in a downtown Salt Lake City parole office. Life on parole since Julian?s Aug. 4, 2009, release from the Draper prison has gone fairly smoothly. The former gang member has secured...