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KNEU 1250Utah State Senate District 26 includes Daggett, Duchesne, Uintah, Summit, and Wasatch Counties. While four of the six candidates that have declared their intent to gather signatures in District 26 come from Uintah and Duchesne Counties, that number has now dropped to two.
A car accident on a secluded road could easily have turned deadly on Friday. A 61-year-old Spanish Fork woman had just crossed out of Duchesne County and into Utah County while driving on Emma Park Road when she was unable to negotiate a curve on the snow covered road.
Competitive anglers of all ages flocked to Flaming Gorge over the weekend for the annual Burbot Bash and the event did not disappoint. The event hosted 166 teams made up of 525 anglers and there was a grand total of 2,236 burbot bashed. Burbot are illegally stocked in Flaming Gorge and are having a devastating effect on the fishery there thus prompting the annual fishing derby to rid the waters of as many burbot as possible.
Presenters at the Uintah County Commission meeting provided a clear snapshot of how 2017 panned out for the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo. The event brought in 501 professional contestants including 23 world champions and 62 of the 120 NFR qualifiers.
The Roosevelt Police Department is requesting the public’s help in the case of a business break in last month. On December 15th, an individual broke into the Utah State Liquor Store in Roosevelt around 4:20am.
A four-year-old boy was critically injured on Thursday morning after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound while in his home in Vernal. According to the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office, emergency crews were called to the home on the morning of January 25th on the report of a child suffering from a gunshot wound.
SCR4, Senator Kevin Van Tassell’s Concurrent Resolution on Deaths from Opioid-induced Postoperative Respiratory Depression, passed out of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday.
Funding for Basin Transit Authority in Uintah County for 2018 was among the items discussed at the joint City/County meeting last week. The Uintah Transportation Special Service District funded $170,000 dollars of the $190,000 dollars to operate the Uintah County bus system.
Many hands worked together to make the Little Hats, Big Hearts donation drive a huge success this month. TriCounty Health Department’s Teen Outreach Program in Uintah County set a goal to make and gather 50 little red yarn beanies to be donated to hospitals for newborns throughout the state in the month of February which is designated as Heart Month.
A member of the Ute Tribe has been indicted on 9 felony counts of extortion by a federal grand jury in connection with alleged donations he required while working as an employee for the Ute Tribe. The indictment for Leallen Blackhair is dated January 10th and states that the illegal activity took place from 2010 to 2013 while Blackhair worked as a supervisor for the Ute Energy and Minerals Department.
The three men charged with raping a Uintah County girl in 2016 will not be released before their trial this spring. Salt Lake County 3rd District Court Judge Randall Skanchy made the decision during their hearing on Wednesday that Jerry Flatlip, Randall Flatlip, and Larson Rondeau would remain in jail.
The former Utah Highway Patrol trooper charged with setting the Mile Marker 166 Fire in eastern Uintah County near Highway 40 on May 30th, 2017 has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court. Rex Richard Olsen is scheduled for sentencing on April 5th with U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball and faces up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 dollars.