Saturday, February 08, 2025

Search for Susan Powell continues

DELTA, Utah - Authorities planned to resume searching the rugged Utah desert today as part of a nearly two-year investigation into a missing mother after three days of digging in what had been described as a shallow grave turned up no remains.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Guilty verdict thrills Smart

SALT LAKE CITY - Elizabeth Smart waited more than eight years for the word she heard Friday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

LDS, Jewish leaders address proxy baptism

SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

At inmate's request, Utah preps firing squad

SALT LAKE CITY - Barring a last-minute reprieve, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, a hood will be placed over his head and a small white target will be pinned over his heart.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

'Diff'rent Strokes' star Coleman dies

PROVO, Utah - Gary Coleman, the adorable, pint-sized child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" who spent the rest of his life struggling on Hollywood's D-list, died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Condemned killer will face firing squad

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad after a judge agreed Friday to the inmate's request, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO