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4 days ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Pat Reavy |Mariah Maynes |Bryanna Willis |Josuee Sanchez
TAYLORSVILLE — A Taylorsville woman is facing more than 100 felony charges accusing her of stealing nearly $100,000 from the rental management company she worked for, mainly by taking rent checks from tenants and depositing them into her own account or cashing them for herself. Malisha Alei Fasavalu, 34, was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with theft by deception and communications fraud, second-degree felonies; and 102 counts of possession of a forgery device, a third-degree felony.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Jason Swensen |Alexandrea Bonilla |Josuee Sanchez
Students will pay a $50 fee for each portfolio-based petition for prior learning credit assessments. Students who served at least 181 cumulative days of U.S. active-duty military service and were honorably discharged or are currently on active duty will also be eligible to receive four lower-division credit hours of basic training.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — During a press conference on Tuesday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said measles should not kill healthy children. A Utah doctor disagreed. “Healthy children should not die of measles and there’s no reason they should,” Kennedy said. “If the doctors know how to treat [it] at the hospital, that will not happen.” Two children have died during a measles outbreak that began in West Texas in January.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Sam Herrera |Josuee Sanchez |Samantha Herrera
SALT LAKE CITY — The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome in Farmington celebrated 25 years of service on April 15. Executive Director Danielle Vazquez told Utah’s Noon News that the center provides families and caregivers with evidence-based education to prevent shaken baby syndrome. What is shaken baby syndrome? According to the center, shaken baby syndrome is an injury resulting from child abuse.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Adam Small |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — A BYU graduate student has had his revoked without notice and told to go back to Japan before the end of April. He is among dozens of international students in Utah who were told their visas had been revoked last week. Suguru Onda has been living legally in the United States and said he has one year more before he completes his doctoral degree. Related: ICE detaining immigrants on probation during court-ordered check-insWhat is a Form I-20, or I-20 visa?
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Josuee Sanchez |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes
SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers at the University of Utah say they’ve learned that one of the most common health-care-acquired infections, Clostridioides difficile or C. diff, spreads three times more than was originally thought. Right now, hospitals and care centers report about 225,000 cases of C. diff each year. It’s a germ that can cause diarrhea and colitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also reports that C. diff can be life-threatening.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Jessica Lowell |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Valley University is the latest to announce layoffs following new legislation changing state universities’ budgets. UVU said it laid off less than 2% of its full-time employees. The university said it experienced less damage because it proactively put in place a hiring freeze last fall.
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1 month ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Sam Herrera |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez |Samantha Herrera
SALT LAKE CITY — A four-car crash in Murray left one person dead on Tuesday. According to Lt. Jake Huggard with Murray police, the crash happened around 10:55 a.m. on Winchester Street. Murray police and firefighters responded to the scene and transported several people to the hospital. One person died shortly after arriving at the hospital, according to Murray police. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
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2 months ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Carter Williams |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY — A state committee has agreed on a $1.8 billion “reinvestment zone” where major downtown changes will take place next to a soon-to-be remodeled Delta Center. Related: A Downtown Salt Lake revitalization could be beneficial. How could it come to life?
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2 months ago | 
kslnewsradio.com | Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez
SALT LAKE CITY— Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute is a recipient of a year-long grant from Northrop Grumman. The money will go toward brine fly research. Great Salt Lake Institute’s project will explore brine fly responses to changing salinity levels. Georgie Corkery, the Great Salt Lake Institute Coordinator, said brine flies thrive in water between 12% and 15% salinity. In comparison, the ocean is only 3% salinity.
