SANDY — Mortgage rates have hit their lowest level in nearly a year. According to Freddie Mac, the weekly average rate hit 6.58%, which hasn’t happened since October. The drop has sparked an increase in mortgage applications nationally, but is it making any real impact on buyers in Utah’s difficult housing market? Trevor Thompson, a…
SALT LAKE CITY — For the last three years, Alleyways Amplified has organized a fashion show to highlight fashion designers and artists in the Salt Lake City area. On Friday evening, though, it brought attention to more than music and fashion. The group held a fundraiser in conjunction with their show for employees impacted by…
Salt Lake City — A Rhode Island man accused of faking his death and fleeing the United States to evade rape charges was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in his first of two Utah trials. A jury in Salt Lake County found Nicholas Rossi guilty of a 2008 rape after a…
A man accused of faking his death and fleeing to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges faced an alleged victim in court Monday as a jury trial in Utah began. The man known in the U.S. as Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is accused of sexually assaulting two women in Utah…
A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon, organizers said. Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run and was treated…
SALT LAKE CITY — You never know what you’re going to find when you’re cleaning up an office. That was certainly the situation for Janae Pettit and Natalie Workman, two fashion designers who shared a studio with the late local designer Afa Ah Loo. One week after his death — Ah Loo was shot and…
Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in a $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S, and potentially trigger a final wave of rail mergers across the country. The proposed merger, announced Tuesday, would marry Union Pacific’s vast rail network in the West with Norfolk’s rails that snake across…
A missing North Carolina woman was found alive in Colorado more than eight months after her disappearance. Kelsey Pittman’s family last spoke to her in November 2024, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Inyo County is home to California’s Death Valley National Park. Pittman was 33 at the time. Pittman was…
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a U.S. senator and prompted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals. The report detailed Microsoft’s use…
For more than three decades, LeeAnne Maxfield ran the state liquor store in Delta, Utah and served everyone from regulars to tourists. But this summer, her store went dark. The date above the counter reads June 21, 2004 and offers a reminder of the legal drinking age. Now June 21 holds new weight: June 21,…