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SPRINGVILLE, Utah (AP) — A friend and the grandmother of a family of five found dead in their Utah home last fall after overdosing on drugs can be heard frantically screaming in a 911 call released yesterday. Family friend Maureen Ledbetter tells the dispatcher that the whole family killed themselves as grandmother Valerie Sudweeks is heard screaming in the background. The call was made Sept. 27.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is expected to make a pitch for his Medicaid expansion plan during his 2015 State of the State address tonight. The Republican governor spent months negotiating a tentative deal with the federal government that would help thousands of Utah's poor get private health insurance.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — About 20 members of a group opposed to capital punishment protested outside the Utah State Capitol yesterday over one lawmaker's plan to resurrect the use of firing squads. The group Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty argues firing squad executions are a gruesome relic of the state's Wild West past.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal requiring Utah high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship test in order to graduate received has cleared its first hurdle at the state Legislature. Six members of the Legislature's Senate Education Committee unanimously approved the measure yesterday.
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