The 2024 on-time high school graduation rate for DCCS members rose from 94.79% to 98.92% which surpasses not only the high school graduation rates of Utah and the US, but all other states in the nation.
YouTuber Derik Eskel Grant, 25, has been charged with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony.
Former executives of Washakie Renewable Energy were sentenced to prison this week. Jacob Kingston along with his wife Sally, mother Rachel and brother Isaiah, all pleaded guilty in 2019 to crimes related to the company’s scheme to defraud the federal government of bio-fuel credits.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor website this week, Specialty Consulting Services LLC was assessed nearly $17K in penalties for allowing 14 and 15 year old employees to work as many as 46 hours per workweek.
Holding Out Help, a Baptist “Mormon rescue” ministry in Sandy, Utah, may be in violation of their tax-exempt status as well as several statutes meant to protect victims’ rights. Tonia Tewell began the organization in 2009 to provide “[s]upport for those that come from a polygamist community…”
New information reveals a disturbing back story of collusion and coordination between Jennifer Lambert and a private, third-party religious organization whose stated goal is to target young people from plural families to “reverse that curse” and ‘call them to Christ’.
In Utah, there are many Baptist ministry organizations specifically geared toward “saving Mormons” and converting them to the Baptist version of Christ. They target the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as other Mormon traditions, including plural family traditions.
A proposal to remove the sales and use tax from groceries was re-introduced in this year’s legislative session. HB172 would remove the sales tax on food items which currently sits at 3%.
On December 22, the Utah Supreme Court narrowly favored a father’s rights to teach or encourage his religious beliefs to his minor children. Both the mother and the father were members of the DCCS while married, although the mother does not share her husband’s belief in plural marriage.
The State Charter School Board (SCSB) continues to place demands on Vanguard Academy charter school in West Valley City, which has been on “probation” status since August 22. Some of these demands appear to be contrary to Utah law.
Most of Utah’s political races in the 2022 election were won by a super majority, as has been the case historically for many decades. However, when the margins are close, plural community voters have likely swayed the outcome of some contests.
