HILL AFB, Utah, May 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Hill Air Force Base (75th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: The Air Force will begin its season of large detonation operations this month at the Utah Test and Training Range. The detonations - those involving more than 10,000 pounds of net explosive weight -- are to destroy old or obsolete Navy and Air Force rocket motors. Depending on weather conditions, one or two detonations are planned per week through September. "Detonation is the best  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Utah Field Office issued the following news release: UTAH HIGHLIGHTS Hay stocks on Utah farms and ranches as of May 1, 2023, totaled 480,000 tons, up 66 percent from stocks of 290,000 tons on hand last year, according to the May 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Hay production for 2022 to  more

WASHINGTON, May 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Utah man was sentenced May 8 for assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others' actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Landon Kenneth Copeland, 34, of Hildale, Utah, was sentenced in the District of Columbia to 3  more

SEATTLE, Washington, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington issued the following news release on May 8, 2023: The U.S. Department of Justice, the Washington State Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Division, and United Wound Healing P.S., today resolved allegations that United Wound Healing (UWH) of Puyallup, Washington, had improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid for services provided in nursing homes and care facilities in Washington, Oregon, Ut  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 11 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, Trina A. Higgins, issued the following news release: A federal jury convicted a Salt Lake City woman and former Express Mail Clerk with the United States Postal Service (USPS) for delaying and destroying immigration mail that was intended for delivery. According to court documents and the evidence presented at trial, Diana K. Molyneux, was working at a USPS plant known as the Processing and Delivery Center (P&DC) in Sa  more