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(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kevin Franke, right, ex-husband of Ruby Franke, is joined by his attorney as he leaves a child welfare hearing for their four children in Division of Child and Family Services custody on Sept. 18, 2023. Kevin Franke is asking Utah legislators to strengthen Utah's child welfare laws.

Kevin Franke says his ex-wife and Jodi Hildebrandt manipulated Utah’s child welfare system, asks for stronger laws

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | July 10, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Fox13) Taberon Honie enters a Fifth District courtroom in Cedar City, Monday, June 10, 2024. A judge signed an execution warrant for Honie, scheduling an execution for Aug. 8, 2024. Honie was sentenced in 1999 for the murder of the mother of his ex-girlfriend.

Utah death row inmate granted a commutation hearing to ask for his life to be spared

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 28, 2024, 11:29 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) El edificio de oficinas del Centro Médico Universitario, 7 de febrero de 2023, ubicado en University Avenue en Provo, donde una vez ejerció el obstetra y ginecólogo David Broadbent.

El obstetra y ginecólogo de Utah, David Broadbent, acusado de abuso sexual forzado durante un examen de paciente de 2020

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 27, 2024, 10:47 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The University Medical Center office building, Feb. 7, 2023, located on University Avenue in Provo where OB-GYN Dr. David Broadbent once practiced.

Utah OB-GYN David Broadbent charged with forcible sexual abuse for 2020 patient exam

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 27, 2024, 10:27 p.m.

(Netflix) Katherine Kubler is featured in the Netflix documentary series "The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping," which she directed. A Utah man named Narvin Lichfield, whose "troubled teen" programs are discussed in the documentary, has filed a defamation suit against Kubler and Netflix.

Utah man sues over Netflix’s ‘The Program,’ saying its portrayal of his ‘troubled teen’ career defamed him

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 26, 2024, 11:34 p.m.

(Fox13) Taberon Honie enters a 5th District courtroom in Cedar City, Monday, June 10, 2024. Honie is scheduled to executed this summer for killing his ex-girlfriend's mother in 1998. His attorneys last week asked Utah's parole board for mercy and to give him a life sentence instead.

Here’s why Utah death row inmate Taberon Honie says his life should be spared

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 18, 2024, 8:18 p.m.

(Illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker | ProPublica)

When Utah therapists lose their licenses, some turn to life coaching instead

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 17, 2024, 12:01 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) An aerial photo shows Provo Canyon School campus on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021, in Springville, Utah. A Congressional investigation found that Universal Health Services, which runs Provo Canyon School, prioritizes profit over safety — leading to "routine harm" of children in its care. UHS "vehemently" disagreed with the Senate finance committee's findings.

‘Taxpayer-funded child abuse’: What a congressional investigation found happens at youth treatment centers in Utah and across the country

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 13, 2024, 3:01 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The University Medical Center office building, Feb. 7, 2023, located on University Avenue in Provo where OB-GYN Dr. David Broadbent once practiced. At least 49 women have reported Broadbent to police alleging he sexually assaulted them, and soon Utah County prosecutors will get the help of a nurse practitioner who specializes in sexual assault exams as they decide whether to bring charges against him.

Utah County will pay an expert to help prosecutors who are deciding whether to charge an OB-GYN accused of multiple sexual assaults

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | June 1, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The University Medical Center office building, Feb. 7, 2023, located on University Avenue in Provo where OB-GYN Dr. David Broadbent once practiced. More than 100 women have publicly accused David Broadbent of sexual assault, and many of them were upset this weekend after seeing that he was named a top fertility doctor in Utah Valley Magazine's "Best of" issue. The magazine has since apologized and removed his name from the list.

Utah magazine apologizes after including an OB-GYN repeatedly accused of sexual assault in its ‘Best Of’ issue

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 28, 2024, 10:51 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Havenwood Academy, pictured on Feb. 10, 2022. The Utah "troubled teen" facility has been sued by two parents who say their daughter was sexually assaulted by other girls at the facility after staff failed to conduct regular bed checks.

Utah ‘troubled teen’ facility sued by parents who allege poor supervision led to girl being sexually assaulted

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 28, 2024, 12:02 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Then-Utah County Attorney David Leavitt at a news conference on June 1, 2022, where he alleged Sheriff Mike Smith had dredged up an old, unverified witness statement that accused Leavitt and 14 others of “cannibalizing young children” and participating in a “ritualistic” sex ring.

Utah County ‘ritualistic’ sex abuse case is in limbo

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 21, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Former Commissioner of Higher Education Dave Woolstenhulme is seen in this photo from August 23, 2017. He resigned amid a 2023 examination into his conduct, which ended the investigation.

Utah’s higher ed boss was accused of sexual misconduct. Officials sued The Tribune to keep investigation secret.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 18, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Jim Urquhart | The Salt Lake Tribune) Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert in Southern Utah in 2008 during an adventure therapy program for troubled teens.

How Utah became the birthplace of the once-lucrative wilderness therapy industry for ‘troubled teens’

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 7, 2024, 12:41 p.m.

(Jim Urquhart | The Salt Lake Tribune) Teens and guides from Aspiro hike across the desert in Southern Utah in 2008 during an adventure therapy program for troubled teens. Aspiro announced last April it was closing due to “recessionary and economic factors." It was the first of four Utah wilderness therapy programs to close in the last year.

Nearly half of Utah’s wilderness programs for ‘troubled teens’ closed in the last year. Here’s what’s happening.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 7, 2024, 8:49 p.m.

(AP Photo | Rick Bowmer) This Nov. 14, 2019, photo shows the campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Following an after-hours pelvic exam, this UVU nurse was quietly asked to resign

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | May 3, 2024, 4:07 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Delta, Utah, on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022.

Hit with a developer’s $19.2 million libel suit, this small Utah newspaper is fighting back

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | April 30, 2024, 4:50 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Highland Ridge Hospital in Midvale, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The psychiatric hospital is planning to close in May, after state licensers have been documenting serious issues at the facility for nearly three years.

Utah hospital hit with ‘one of the strictest sanctions’ by state licensers now plans to close

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | April 8, 2024, 9:23 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Three girls embrace before they are removed from the home of Samuel Bateman, following his arrest in Colorado City, Ariz., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Seven were removed from the Bateman home, as well as two others from another house as part of the investigation. Bateman admitted on Monday that he took the girls as his "wives" and had sexual contact with eight of them.

Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman will get dozens of charges dropped — if followers admit helping him take child ‘brides’

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | April 2, 2024, 5:55 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill speaks during a news conference on Friday, March 12, 2021. Gill said on Friday that he would not file charges against members of a violent fugitive apprehension team who shot a man in Dec. 2022 after he pulled out a gun and killed himself.

No charges for officers who shot a man as he pulled out a gun and shot himself, Salt Lake County D.A. says

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | March 29, 2024, 10:52 p.m.

(Santa Clara-Ivins Police Department) Body camera footage shows paramedics treating a child at a home near Jodi Hildebrandt's house on Aug. 30, 2023.

Ruby Franke videos: What police saw after her son escaped Jodi Hildebrandt’s home and officers went in

By Paighten Harkins | Jessica Miller Schreifels | March 22, 2024, 11:39 p.m.

(Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Help The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica investigate Utah’s life coaching industry

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | March 21, 2024, 8:14 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Highland Ridge Hospital in Midvale, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. After nearly three years of documenting serious issues at Highland Ridge Hospital, Utah licensing officials recently took what they say is “one of the strictest sanctions” it can against the 83-bed psychiatric hospital.

Why Utah brought ‘one of the strictest sanctions’ possible against this hospital

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | March 20, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane, Jan. 11, 2023. State licensers forced Diamond Ranch Academy's closure last summer after a girl's death. A new program called RAFA Academy has applied for a license at the same location, and some Diamond Ranch employees are listed as RAFA's top management.

After a girl’s death, Utah closed Diamond Ranch Academy. A new program may open in the same spot with some of the same employees.

By Jessica Miller Schreifels | March 12, 2024, 12:00 p.m.

(Jose Davila IV | The Salt Lake Tribune) Weathered Waves in Salt Lake City, Wednesday, March 6, 2024.

Salt Lake City bar’s ‘No Zionists’ policy prompts dozens of complaints to Utah liquor agency

By Sean P. Means | Jessica Miller Schreifels | Jordan Miller | Blake Apgar | March 9, 2024, 12:45 a.m.