Courts

A preliminary hearing for former Eagle Mountain City Councilwoman Linn Strouse was postponed Wednesday after prosecutors realized they had filed the wrong charge against her.

A judge on Wednesday ruled that the two defendants in the Kiplyn Davis murder case will have separate trials.

The case against a man charged with assaulting a student during a brawl at a high school football game was dismissed Wednesday after a judge ruled that prosecutors did not meet a court-imposed deadline for turning over original evidence to the defense.

Utah County's juvenile court system is growing too fast for its tax dollars to keep up.

The United States government is asking the U.S. District Court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the family of a 12-year-old boy who was killed by a bear in American Fork Canyon.

An Orem man accused of killing a 13-month-old boy pleaded not guilty on Friday.

Federal prosecutors had pledged to seek harsh sentences against the men convicted of lying to a grand jury that convened to investigate Kiplyn Davis's disappearance, and on Friday they got their wish as the third of three suspects in the 15-year-old's murder was sentenced for perjury.

Christopher Neal Jeppson, a suspect in the killing of Kiplyn Davis, on Friday was sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Grant Hildreth, his family and his attorney all believe that his sexual abuse conviction will be overturned on appeal. But against their protests, Hildreth will have to wait in prison while the process moves forward.

The defense, prosecution and judge all agreed that seven months in jail was too harsh a sentence for a former fast food restaurant manager convicted of attempting to sexually abuse a 17-year-old employee.

Christopher Neal Jeppson's request for a new federal perjury trial in the Kiplyn Davis case was denied by a federal judge on Wednesday.

Joshua Samuel Rich could have pleaded guilty and spent 32 years in prison for robbing the same Lindon bank three times, but he rejected a plea deal and chose to go to trial instead. The gamble did not pay off, and on Wednesday, Rich was sentenced to 57 years in federal prison.