University of Utah

A Utah student was arrested and booked for making a terroristic threat after allegedly saying she’d detonate a nuclear reactor if the Utes’ football team didn’t win this past weekend.

Police arrested a man early Sunday in connection with the shooting death of Utah sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe from Mesquite, Texas.

Ty Jordan, a former West Mesquite High football player and University of Utah standout has died, the college confirmed Saturday.

The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago have reached a $13.5 million settlement with the university.

The body of Mackenzie Lueck has been recovered in Utah, weeks after the Southern California college student went missing after returning to school.

A suspect was arrested Friday morning in the death of a University of Utah student who vanished after returning to Salt Lake City on a flight from her native Southern California, police said.

A man whose home was searched as police investigate the disappearance of a Utah college student was named a “person of interest” in the case Thursday, and police were trying to find a mattress that had been inside his home. The announcement came shortly after authorities spent about 19 hours searching the man’s home in a middle class Salt Lake...

A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, entered the plea as part of an agreement that includes a sentence of six years to life. He plans to plead guilty to a second charge involving the same victim later...

A University of Utah student and track athlete who was shot and killed on campus by a former boyfriend had filed a police complaint against him after she learned he was a sex offender and broke off the relationship, authorities said Tuesday....
Investigators had been working to build a case after receiving the report from 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey, a senior from...

America’s opioid epidemic is making more organs available for lifesaving transplants, researchers reported Wednesday. Close to 14 percent of people who donated an organ in 2016 — 1,029 donors — had died of a drug overdose, the team of experts reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. That compares to just 1 percent in 2000, or 59 donors. And...

A man sought in the fatal attempted carjacking of a University of Utah student and the death of a Colorado man was arrested Tuesday after he surrendered to authorities at a Salt Lake City library, police said. Austin Boutain, 24, dodged a manhunt in the rugged foothills near campus for nearly 15 hours before his arrest miles away in the...

In some ways, they’re like typical college athletes. They’re on varsity teams. They train for hours between classes. Some get hefty scholarships. But instead of playing sports, they’re playing video games. On college campuses, varsity gaming teams with all the trappings of sports teams are becoming increasingly common as schools tap into the rising popularity of competitive gaming. After initially...

A badger was caught on camera burying a whole cow carcass to save for later, in footage supplied by scientists from the University of Utah. Scientists studying scavenger behavior in Utah’s Great Basin Desert recorded this video this spring, according to a university press release issued on Mar. 31, 2017. Badgers are known to cache animals for later consumption, but...