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FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman charged with killing her children will face trial after years under state mental health care. The Standard-Examiner reported Monday that 53-year-old Sun Cha Warhola was deemed competent Monday to stand trial in the 2010 strangulation deaths of her two children. Authorities charged the former Layton resident with two counts of aggravated murder after finding her children, ages 8 and 7, in their home 25 miles north of Salt Lake City. Warhola has been in Utah State Hospital since 2011.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mother is suing Utah school administrators, alleging that a school bus driver trapped her biracial son in the door and drove away in a racially motivated incident. Brenda Mayes says in a lawsuit Tuesday that the bus driver intentionally closed the door on her son's backpack in February. He was pinned to the outside of the door as the bus drove down the street. Davis County school officials said they don't tolerate racial discrimination.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A decades-old steam locomotive is back on the tracks in the U.S. West after five years of restoration work. The Big Boy Number 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, over the weekend. It will be in Ogden, Utah, this week for an event marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Big Boy locomotives hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s.
RIVERTON, Utah (AP) — A Utah city council is scheduled to consider a declaration of opposition to abortion. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Monday that the Riverton City Council's resolution would declare its support for unborn humans and a belief that life begins "at the moment of conception." The resolution is scheduled to be considered at Tuesday's meeting of the council in suburban Salt Lake City. Councilwoman and resolution sponsor Tawnee McCay says the measure is intended to "send a message to the state."
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