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1 week ago | stgeorgeutah.com | Cody Blowers

Red Rock Canyon School in St. George, which shut down following a riot in 2019, is now facing another lawsuit for negligence after allegations of abuse by a former staff member that left a girl pregnant in 2018. The complaint was filed by the Moxie Law Group against Red Rock Canyon School and parent company Sequel Youth and Family Services, and former staff members, Atonio Kavea and his sister, Asiah Kavea, who are also named as defendants in the case.

1 week ago | stgeorgeutah.com | Cody Blowers

A celebratory ATV ride turned into a rescue operation when a couple was flown to St. George Regional Hospital after spending three days stranded in a remote canyon on the Arizona Strip. After learning of the rescue by an off-duty police chief and an emergency room doctor, St. George News reached out to Santa Clara-Ivins Police Chief Jaron Studley, who outlined the rescue that began late Wednesday afternoon.

1 week ago | stgeorgeutah.com | Cody Blowers

A man was arrested early Saturday morning after he allegedly broke into a St. George home. Shortly after 11 p.m. on Friday, officers were dispatched to East Riverside Drive in St. George after receiving a report that a man forced entry into a home and was physically fighting with the resident, according to the affidavit filed in support of the arrest.  Upon arriving at the residence, police said they found the homeowner and suspect still on the property.

1 week ago | stgeorgeutah.com | Cody Blowers

A traffic stop for speeding led to the arrest of a California couple found with a missing teen on Interstate 15 in Washington County over the weekend. Two suspects, 41-year-old John Anthony Hampton and Barbara Grace Singleton, 26, both of Bakersfield, California, were arrested Saturday after the vehicle they were traveling in caught the attention of a Utah Highway Patrol trooper.

1 week ago | stgeorgeutah.com | Cody Blowers

A Southern Utah man has been indicted in federal court after he reportedly vandalized a government transit van back in April. The defendant, 32-year-old Ryan Michael Gaines, of Santa Clara, was indicted in U.S. District Court in St. George on one federal count of damaging government property. Gaines was arrested April 21, two days after security footage captured an individual vandalizing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement transit van in the parking lot of a federal office building.