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Jun 23, 2024 | 
ksltv.com | Peter Johnston
SALT LAKE CITY — Four days before Utah’s Republican primary election, gubernatorial candidate Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, is calling for an audit to look into whether the signatures Gov. Spencer Cox gathered should count. “Unrealistically high” number of valid signaturesFirst, Lyman told KSL he found it suspicious that 85% of Cox’s signatures were deemed valid. “And then the statistical analysis on (Cox’s signatures),” said Lyman, “is almost unrealistically high acceptance rate.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
SALT LAKE CITY — Four days before Utah’s Republican primary election, gubernatorial candidate Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, is calling for an audit to look into whether the signatures Gov. Spencer Cox gathered should count. “Unrealistically high” number of valid signatures for the governorFirst, Lyman told KSL NewsRadio he found it suspicious that 85% of Cox’s signatures were deemed valid.
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May 29, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
AMERICAN FORK, Utah — A young girl and an adult man are recovering after a driver hit them while riding an electric moped. But both are doing “better than [first responders] anticipated,” according to a first responder. A call came in just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday about a man and a child who were injured after a car accident at 5750 W 6800 North. The intersection is near American Fork’s Amazon warehouse. According to initial reports, a driver of a white car ran a stop sign and hit the moped riders.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah — A man is under arrest and accused of deliberately hitting a police officer with his truck on Friday. The incident happened less than a month after a semi-truck driver reportedly killed Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser by intentionally hitting him with the truck. Arrest attemptsAn arresting document said officers with the Unified Police Metro Gang Unit had a federal warrant for Tyson Yellowbear. He was already on bail for a charge of burglary.
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May 17, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns are reporting more tornadoes than usual, but the number of actual tornado occurrences is not going up. KSL Meteorologist Kevin Eubank said the state is bucking a national increase of tornadoes hitting areas outside “Tornado Alley,” including the southeast United States.
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May 16, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah voters could wait a few days to get their November mail-in ballots. According to lawmakers and state elections officials, to be sent from inside Utah. However, the US Postal Service processes some of this mail at a facility in Las Vegas.
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May 13, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Stephen Collinson |Utah Taxpayers Association
SANTAQUIN, Utah — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said the man they suspect of hitting and killing Santaquin Police Sgt. Bill Hooser in a semi-truck was holding a woman against her will when officers pulled him over. The woman may have saved another officer’s life. A police booking document said the woman was hidden in the “sleeping compartment of the cab” until Sgt. Hooser pulled over the suspect on May 5. While Sgt.
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May 10, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Aimee Cobabe |Utah Taxpayers Association
SALT LAKE CITY– A new report from the Salt Lake City Planning Division recommends zoning changes for single-family neighborhoods to help address the city’s housing supply crunch. Any changes could affect residential areas from Sugar House to Rose Park. Here are some of the main suggestions from the report:Reducing the minimum size of single-family housing zones. R-1, or single-family housing zones, would have a baseline of 5,000 square feet instead of 7,000 or 12,000.
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May 10, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Adam Small |Utah Taxpayers Association
SALT LAKE CITY — Trust in elections has dropped in recent years in Utah and around the country. One Utah group says it knows why and what to do to reverse the trend. Declining trust in UtahPolls show Utahns generally have high trust in the integrity of the state’s elections. However, when historical examples are presented, voters tend to show more hesitation.
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May 10, 2024 | 
kslnewsradio.com | Peter Johnston |Utah Taxpayers Association
A ballot drop box is pictured outside of the Davis County Library's South Davis Branch in Bountiful on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Utah leaders say the state's election security system is strong. But how does Utah make sure its elections are secure? (Kristin Murphy/Deseret News) (Kristin Murphy/Deseret News) SALT LAKE CITY — Utah leaders say the state’s election security system is strong leading into this year’s election.
