Luke Ramseth

The money and meals flowed to doctors even as more and more Utahns fatally overdosed on opioids, including painkillers and heroin. The death toll rose from 306 in 2010, to 381 in 2013, to 449 in 2016, according to the Utah Department of Health. Two years ago, Utah was tied for the third-highest prescription opioid death rate in the country.

Nine months later, many still grapple daily with what they experienced. They find themselves making mental notes on how to escape — just in case — when going to sporting events or the movies. They look with suspicion at strangers. They struggle to explain what they saw to friends and family who weren’t there.

When you visit a mother to learn about her child’s suicide, expect to stay awhile. Expect to be asked if you want to visit his room. Or flip through his book of baby pictures. Or see his soccer trophy, which you notice looks identical to your son’s soccer trophy.

The fliers drew enemy fire after crossing the English Channel, and again as they neared their target, a German military outpost near the city of Rouen. Moseley had been singularly focused on sticking close to “the rest of the boys,” he would later tell an interviewer, but the raspy sound of the P-47’s engine leaking oil soon grabbed his attention. He’d been hit.

When former Provo Police Chief John King resigned earlier this year after being accused of sexual assault, it wasn’t the first time such an accusation had forced him from a high-profile law enforcement position.

The five women who filed the lawsuit against King and the city say they were the subject of unwanted sexual advances during the chief’s three-year tenure in Provo. They argue the mayor knew about at least some of the allegations and yet his message to the supervisors was clear: King actions would go unchecked and any complaints against him would be ignored.

Provo officials were at least somewhat concerned about a stop in John King’s career before he took over as the city’s police chief in late 2013.

Hours after Salt Lake City’s mayor and police chief apologized for an officer handcuffing a hospital nurse who refused to take blood from an unconscious patient, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Friday he wanted a criminal investigation into the episode.

University of Utah law enforcement officials are facing increased scrutiny over their handling of the tense encounter at University Hospital on July 26 that resulted in the arrest of a nurse by a Salt Lake City police detective.

The controversial arrest of a University Hospital nurse wasn’t the first time Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne had faced an internal investigation for violating department policies, newly released records show.

Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff Payne’s body camera footage confirms Logan police Chief Gary Jensen’s assertion that his officers did not push to get blood from the victim of a fiery crash in Cache County. Payne ultimately handcuffed and arrested University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels on July 26 after she refused to allow the blood draw on the grounds that the patient was unconscious and Payne had no warrant.

Gov. Gary Herbert signed a measure Tuesday to give more than 70,000 needy Utahns access to government health coverage, ending years of failed attempts on Capitol Hill to expand Medicaid in the state. But whether House Bill 472 ever takes effect still remains uncertain.

The asthma flared up every so often, once requiring hospitalization, but hadn’t usually required much attention. Without insurance, Jenny sometimes obtained short-acting inhalers from a community health clinic. Other times, she bought them off friends who had extras. The inhalers usually helped. But over the summer months Jenny needed them more frequently.

"Hey, what can we do? What's the game plan?" May asked the man several times, trying to assess the situation. The man didn't reply or make eye contact, slowly backing away from an 8-inch hole in the rear passenger window of the SUV.

It used to be that four or five patients would die in a room by themselves each month at the University of Utah Hospital. Sometimes they were homeless. Sometimes they were estranged from family or had outlived all their closest relatives. Sometimes their family and friends couldn’t reach Utah in time. A newly formed volunteer group at the east Salt Lake City hospital aims to give those people an around-the-clock companion in their final day or two of life.

By the time criminal charges were filed against Lim last August, 12 women had come forward during the past decade, all of them complaining that they had been violated.

Brian Head • As she evacuated two weeks ago, Shelly Calloway was certain her business, the Apple Annie's Country Store, would be destroyed. When Gary Sylvester left town, he tucked his ATVs in a friend's underground garage, thinking his cabin would probably go up in smoke.

The mortuary, Carver and Westmoreland “represent an immediate and significant danger to the public health, safety, and welfare," the DOPL order states.

Does Obamacare still exist? Yes, it does, though you might be confused by comments from President Donald Trump in recent months as he pushed for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “Obamacare is death,” and “Let Obamacare fail,” he has said, among similar statements, tweets and direct actions, in some cases, aimed at undermining the law.

“Looking at history, I have to ask, if we don’t take a stand against the selective purging of one portion of our society from the start, will we continue our silence when the next undesirable segment is purged, and the next? Until only the perfect race remains?” Lisonbee asked her colleagues at a Senate hearing.