MOAB, Utah – A 92-year-old Moab Business Icon is dead after a crash in Moab yesterday. The Utah Highway Patrol says 92-year-old Retired Optomitrist, Dr. Bernard Broughton, from Moab, was driving northbound on Highway at 1075 South Main Street around 11 a.m. when his pickup truck drifted to the right shoulder and hit a parked empty flatbed trailer. The pickup began to roll and sideswiped the parked Ford truck that was attached to that trailer, then rolled onto its side and stopped next to another truck and trailer parked on the shoulder. Broughton was not wearing his seat belt and was partially ejected. He was declared dead at the scene.

Police are investigating a possible medical condition and whether Doc Broughton was talking on the phone at the time of the crash.

(Manti Utah)- A Nevada woman was killed in a head-on collision in Sanpete County on Monday afternoon that also sent another driver to the hospital. According to the Utah Highway Patrol, 20-year-old Marissa D. Watkins of Moapa, Nevada, died in the accident, which occurred on State Road 89 north of Axtell shortly before 1 p.m. A four-door Saturn she was driving north on the highway drifted off the road, causing her to overcorrect into the oncoming lane, UHP said. The car was then hit head-on by a southbound Nissan Maxima driven by Richard Larsen, 68, of Nampa, Idaho. UHP said Monday that Watkins was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car.Larsen, who was wearing a seatbelt, was injured and was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital in Gunnison. He was later flown to a Provo hospital.

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>>Copper Mine Visitors Center Closed

(Salt Lake County, UT) -- The Bingham Canyon Mine visitors' center will stay closed until next year. Kennecott UT Copper says yesterday, mine personnel discovered movement in a mine wall. They say safety is the first priority. About 200-thousand people go through the visitors' center every year.

>>Ambulance War Brewing

(St. George, UT) -- A war's brewing in St. George over an exclusive paramedic-service license. The Utah Department of Health granted the license to Salt-Lake-City-based Gold Cross. The state said Gold Cross is better equipped and has more resources. Dixie Ambulance Service, based in St. George, says it'll fight that in court.

>>Salt Lake City Judge Arrested

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A Salt Lake City judge has been charged with drug possession. Virginia Bauskett Ward was arrested over the weekend. Police say a package Ward got was full of Oxycodone. They say she was going to give the pills to someone else. Ward's on administrative leave.

>>Grandfather Accidentally Run Over

(Wellsville, UT) -- A Wellsville family is mourning the loss of their father and grandfather. The Cache County Sheriff's Office says Sunday afternoon, 54-year-old Steven Speth was working on a semi-tractor. His three-year-old grandson accidentally shifted the vehicle out of park, and Speth got run over. No one else got hurt.

>>Upset Parent Outed Coach

(Highland, UT) -- An upset parent engineered the resignation of Lone Peak High School's football coach. Channel 4 says Dan McDonald got angry his son wasn't playing much. When e-mails to Tony McGeary didn't work, McDonald submitted a complaint saying the coach pocketed thousands. Another parent told Channel 4 McDonald's point was revenge.



>>Salt Lake City Judge Arrested

(Salt Lake City, UT) -- A Salt Lake City judge is facing felony drug charges. Special agent Frank Smith, with the DEA, says Virginia Bauskett Ward was part of a drug-distribution ring stretching from California to Nevada.

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Authorities said they caught Ward by intercepting an out-of-state oxycodone package. The judge is on administrative leave.


>>Speed Limit Expansion Research

(Grantsville, UT) -- Good news! The Department of Transportation is checking into expanding 80-mile-per-hour speed-limit zones. UDOT spokesman John Gleason says studies show higher speed doesn't necessarily mean more accidents.

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That change isn't coming tomorrow, though. UDOT is carefully considering just where those zones will be. Right now -- among other areas -- they're looking at a stretch of I-80 from Grantsville to Wendover, and on I-15 from Santaquin to St. George.


WILLARD, Utah – New details regarding a fatal police shooting emerged on Monday as police provided new information about their decision to use lethal force.Cody Ramseyer, 49, led police on a high-speed chase on Friday night, which ended when he crashed his vehicle. Police first tasered and then shot and killed Ramseyer after the chase had come to an end along I-15.According to a press release from the Pleasant View Police Department, Ramseyer refused to exit his vehicle or show his hands as instructed by the officers. He yelled at officers, and when he exited the vehicle he began moving toward the officers.According to the press release, Ramseyer: "Indicated that he had a gun. Indicated that he was going to kill the officers, and told the officers to kill him."Ramseyer moved toward the officers in an aggressive manner while saying these things, and he refused to stop, which is when officers tried to use tasers to subdue him before shooting him fatally. Officers did not find a weapon on Ramseyer.

　

SALT LAKE CITY – Twelve thousand feet of copper wire has been stolen from a stretch of Interstate 15 in Salt Lake City.Utah Dept. of Transportation spokesperson John Gleason says thieves stripped copper wire from a mile long section of lighting along I-15 in Salt Lake City.