FARMINGTON — A Pleasant View man charged earlier this year in Ogden in an alleged date rape has been arrested again in connection with a similar 2016 case. The Davis County Attorney's Office last week filed six felony charges against Kade Duane Peterson, 22, alleging he assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Farmington four years ago. In a probable cause statement, the Farmington Police Department said the woman reported she and Peterson met on social media and arranged a date on Sept. 29,...

LAYTON — Firefighters have identified battery backup gear as the likely source of a fire that caused an estimated $100,000 damage to a home Sunday afternoon. Battalion Chief Jason Cook, spokesman for the Layton Fire Department, said Monday the fire marshal determined a multi-charge battery backup in the family room overheated and ignited combustible items nearby. The blaze was reported just before 5 p.m. at a two-story home in the 800 east block of 900 North. Layton and Hill Air Force Base...

OGDEN — A man was arrested Monday after he allegedly tore down several small U.S. flags that had been placed outside businesses to honor fallen Ogden Police Officer Nate Lyday. Police received a complaint Monday afternoon that a man was acting aggressively toward the business owners and damaged the flag displays, Ogden Officer John Poulsen wrote in a probable cause statement. Nathan Schaumkel, 29, was arrested and taken to the Weber County Jail, where he remained held Tuesday on $6,000...

OGDEN — An Ogden man on felony probation was placed at the scene of a weekend shooting incident by a review of tracking data from his ankle monitor, police said. Emiliano Santana Gomez, 19, was charged Tuesday morning in 2nd District Court with second-degree felony use of a firearm by a restricted person and third-degree felony discharge of a firearm. A woman told police that a vehicle drove by her residence, an apartment house in the 3400 block of Iowa Avenue, on Saturday and a man in the...

Paltry rainfall in April and May has left Utah with higher fire danger and reduced forage for wildlife heading into summer, the latest statewide climate and water report says. Mountain stations recorded precipitation in May that was 31% of average, Jordan Clayton of the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service in Salt Lake City said Wednesday. April rainfall was 50% of average, and precipitation in the current water year as of June 1 is at 81% of average. April totals were 42% in the Weber...