Courts

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A judge has denied a request by prosecutors to review the sentence of the mother in Utah County's infamous bridenapping case.

The court cases are long over and his church has carried on through it all, but James Flaming Eagle Mooney still wants the federal government to return the peyote buttons it seized from his church eight years ago.

Craig Alton Miller, the man accused of building and detonating a homemade firework that nearly killed an 11-year-old boy in Lehi on Pioneer Day, faces a number of felony charges in connection with the incident.

A troubled 17-year-old will serve prison time for his assault on a counselor from a treatment facility he fled.

A former Payson teacher will serve 180 days in jail for having sexual relations with her 16-year-old proctor son.

A former Payson teacher will serve 180 days in jail for having sexual relations with her 16-year-old proctor son.

It's no secret that crime rates have increased over the years in Utah County, and with that in mind, few Happy Valley residents would be surprised to learn that felony prosecutions are on the rise as well. But since the turn of the century, the Utah County Attorney's Office has been busier than most people would probably guess, and the numbers have left a lot of people scratching their heads.

A judge on Wednesday extended the deadline for prosecutors to decide whether they will seek the death penalty in David Ragsdale's murder case.

A man convicted of climbing into a 17-year-old girl's bedroom and taking off all his clothes has been kicked out of his sex-offender treatment program, but will get a second chance after spending some time in jail.

A Provo man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to federal charges of running an illegal property-flipping and mortgage fraud scheme that involved several high-end homes in the upscale Riverbottoms neighborhood in Provo.

The Founding Fathers' views on freedom of speech and taxation without representation are well documented. But what would Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton think of Provo's permit-only parking areas?