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    ST. GEORGE, Utah (KSTU) — A standout wide receiver at Brigham Young University is being charged with rape for an alleged incident that occurred last year.

The Washington County Attorney’s Office announced that it filed a first-degree felony rape charge against 21-year-old Parker Trent Kingston on Tuesday. He was arrested and is being held in the Washington County Jail without bail.

A BYU Athletics spokesperson confirmed that they became aware of Kingston’s arrest on Wednesday.

“The university takes any allegation very seriously, and will cooperate with law enforcement,” their statement read.

The county attorney’s office said a 20-year-old woman reported a sexual assault to police at St. George Regional Hospital in February of 2025.

Court documents obtained by FOX 13 News show that the victim talked to investigators on June 3, 2025. At that time, the victim told police that on Feb. 23, Kingston had come over to her residence.

The victim told detectives that in their online communication leading up to the incident, she told Kingston several times that she did not want to have sex. When Kingston arrived at the home, the pair watched a movie and began to engage in some sexual activity but not intercourse.

Investigators say the victim claimed that Kingston fell asleep during the movie and she left the room to get ready for bed. However, when she returned 15 minutes later, Kingston allegedly tried to begin sexual activities again, and the victim told him several times to stop.

Police allege that Kingston didn’t listen to the victim and raped her.

The St. George Police Department investigated the allegation, collected evidence and interviews, and then the county attorney screened the case and filed charges.

Kingston is a redshirt junior, according to BYU Athletics’ website, and is from Layton and attended Roy High School.

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    KAYSVILLE, Utah (KSTU) — One Farmington woman is raising awareness about animal traps near local, public trails in Davis County.

The resident, who asked not to be identified, frequently visits the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Kaysville. She goes for walks with her friends, family and dog. She’s never had any issues, up until January 27.

She accessed the trail in Kaysville and headed towards Bear Canyon with her dog, Rad.

“He has terminal lymphoma, so I decided his happy place and my place of solace was in the mountains and I thought let’s get out and go for a walk. Process this and we’ll have a good cry,” the woman said.

She didn’t know one of their last walks together would turn out the way it did.

“I heard a very loud sound that seemed almost out of context, metal clashing,” she said. “A large game trap came out of the ground hit my dog in the face and took hold of his front paw.”

She says her dog was caught in an animal trap that was hidden under the dirt just off the trail. When they were walking along the trail she said they noticed a dead fox close to the walkway and their curiosity veered them in that direction.

When her dog was caught in the trap, she called 911, then animal control, but she said neither responded to the incident. Instead, she was able to dislodge the trap and get her dog to safety on her own.

When her friends heard about the story they knew they needed to spread awareness.

“If we can find solutions to mark traps better, to have some more restrictions of how close they can be to public hiking trails that are very popular,” Aubree, another Farmington resident, said. “This isn’t backcountry, this is right in Davis County. If we had something to mark it. Inevitably people are going to go a little off the trail. Kids, dogs, people. We just don’t want that to happen to anyone else.”

According to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, they said trappers are required to include a tag number on the trap, have spacers on the trap to avoid injury to non-target animals, and check their traps every 48 hours, among other things.

DWR added that they discourage traps being placed near public trails and high traffic areas, due to potential conflicts.

DNR Division of Law Enforcement investigated the incident. They said they received a report regarding a dog that was caught in a foothold trap about 40 yds from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail in Davis County.

They added that the husband of the dog’s owner later returned to the location and observed the trap near where the fox had been. When an officer arrived to investigate, both the trap and the fox had been removed from the site. A search of the immediate area did not locate any additional traps.

The dog owner and her friend Aubree still are upset about the lack of restrictions.

“I hate that I have that fear of going out on my favorite trail with friends, my dog and to worry about that,” Aubree said.

While Rad walked away from the incident with trauma to the face, broken teeth, and a bruised paw they said they’re lucky things weren’t worse.

“With how active the community members are in Utah how accessible we try to make our trials on our mountainsides. Our laws need to change. This cannot be legal this close to public lands and trails,” said Rad.

They also created flyers to raise awareness at local trailheads. They’re working with their cities to establish a presence in the area.

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     ALTA, Utah (KSTU) — A few weeks ago, FOX 13 News told you about a 150-year-old bottle of alcohol discovered in the historic mining town of Alta.

The unopened bottle, which was found over the summer, is the only one ever known to exist. So, State officials brought the historic find to Isaac Winter and Tara Lindley at High West Distillery for analysis.

There is now an update to share:

“The lab results are really exciting,” Winter said. “We saw a couple of esters that would suggest that the base was apples.”

Yes, that’s right — 150 years ago, Utahns were drinking some sort of alcoholic apple fermented cider up at Alta.

Winter described the taste as similar to an old, dry cider for those “unfamiliar” with 150-year-old mystery drink.

The pair used multiple methods to analyze the contents, including sending samples of the bottle to multiple labs and companies to create a complete picture.

“It’s fun to see that — that link in the history to actually have a piece in it where we have data, we’ve tasted it and we lived, and now we have analytical results,” Lindley said.

As for what comes next in the science of alcohol and apple mystery liquid, here’s what they say about what comes next in the science that will follow:

“While the first round of aromatic ester results point towards an apple-derived liquid, we will be sending out samples to third party labs for a handful of analyses to help us learn more about this mystery liquid.

“First, we would like to confirm the ABV (alcohol by volume). We know it’s low ABV but it will be helpful to quantify it so we might have an idea of how much sugar was available for fermentation and what that source could reasonably be.

“We will also have a sugar panel run that will tell us if any sugar remained after fermentation stopped and what type of sugar(s) is/are present, if any at all. A specific sugar alcohol, sorbitol would be an indicator of an apple-derived liquid. We’ve requested an acid panel as well to determine if malic and/or lactic acids are present to confirm apple derivation.

“We can learn more about the fermentation and flavor elements by looking at higher alcohols. We hope to be able to send volume out for isotopic testing to confirm the source of carbon isotopes in the liquid.”

One of the big hopes is to not only study this, but to recreate it as well — and the team is well on their way to doing that.

“Exploring different options to work with labs on plating this out. There’s probably a whole mess of different microbes in there — bacteria, yeast,” Winter said. “We need it to, you know, be able to eat sugar and create alcohol and CO2. We also want it to taste good at the end of the day.”

This bottle wasn’t the only thing found at Alta. Several other bottles, pipes, spurs, and other artifacts, including a hat, were found buried next to this bottle.

The State Historic Preservation Office will host an open house on Feb. 19 at the North Capitol Building, where the public can view the bottle and other artifacts found at Alta.

Registration is required for the event.

Ultimately, this is one of those finds that is just once in a lifetime, according to the team working on it.

“Tara and I were just, we were slapping high-fives the whole time,” Winter said. “This has been like an absolute once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

“Honestly, I don’t think I realized how impactful this would be, and meaningful,” Lindley added. “Now we’re starting to understand at least … one of the things that people were drinking in this area back then.”

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    LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KOAT) — A Las Cruces woman has been arrested after dumping her newborn baby in a portable toilet in Burn Lake.

The woman, Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 36, is suspected of giving birth to a baby girl Saturday evening in a portable toilet at Burn Lake, then disposing of the newborn in the holding tank.

Around 10:30 p.m., on Feb. 7, staff at Memorial Medical Center notified police that Jimenez had arrived at the hospital and had appeared to have just delivered a baby, but the baby was not with her.

Through investigation, police learned that Jimenez’s boyfriend, who took Jimenez to the hospital, mentioned they were previously at Burn Lake and Jimenez had used the portable toilet.

Las Cruces Police then responded to Burn Lake off Burn Lake Road and located the deceased newborn in the holding tank of a portable toilet.

Investigators believe that Jimenez gave birth to the baby, cut the umbilical cord, and then placed the baby in a holding tank, where she drowned.

The autopsy revealed that the baby was still alive when she was dropped in the portable toilet. The autopsy showed that she breathed and swallowed the blue chemical liquid commonly used in portable restroom sanitation. The blue chemical was found in the baby’s trachea, lungs and stomach, confirming that she breathed and swallowed the liquid while alive.

Investigators found out that Jimenez’s boyfriend was unaware that she was pregnant or had given birth. No charges against him are anticipated.

LCPD investigators obtained a warrant for the arrest of Jimenez. She was taken into custody Wednesday morning and booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center, where she is initially being held without bond.

Jimenez is charged with one felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in death. The charge is a first-degree felony.

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    CARMEL VALLEY, California (KSBW) — A Carmel Valley woman has been sentenced in connection with a 2023 road-rage crash that killed a Carmel man, according to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office.

Jenny Lesch was sentenced to seven years in state prison after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter, felony hit-and-run and assault with a deadly weapon. She was found guilty in October 2025.

White van crashed on Highway 1Carmel Valley woman guilty in 2023 road-rage crash that killed Carmel man The crash happened May 31, 2023, after James Pack, 62, of Carmel, was driving home in a white Westfalia VW van.

He merged onto the southbound Highway 1 from Fremont Street while being tailgated by Lesch.

After he merged, Lesch swerved into another lane, nearly hit another car, and braked to block Pack as he tried to merge into the lane she was then in, according to Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine M. Pacioni.

The drivers exchanged obscene gestures, and Pack merged behind Lesch, prosecutors said.

Pacioni said Lesch repeatedly brake-checked Pack near the Aguajito Road exit, causing Pack to lose control of the van. As the van swerved, Lesch made an unsafe lane change and nearly hit a silver Honda, Pacioni said.

The Honda swerved to avoid Lesch and struck Pack’s van on the highway shoulder, causing the van to roll several times and eject Pack, prosecutors said. Pack later died of his injuries.

Investigators said Lesch and the Honda driver fled the scene. California Highway Patrol officers contacted Lesch at her home that night, and she denied being involved, prosecutors said.

“In her statement, she repeatedly lied to police by claiming that she wasn’t able to call 911 because her phone wasn’t working. However, forensic evidence later showed her phone was powered on and receiving a signal at the time of the crash and afterward,” read a media statement from the district attorney’s office.

Prosecutors said forensic evidence and dash-camera video captured portions of the incident and tied Lesch to the crash. Investigators arrested Lesch nearly two months later.

The district attorney’s office also cited a 2021 Newport Beach case in which Lesch was prosecuted after a parking-lot road-rage incident in which she keyed a Tesla. She initially told police she only spat on the car, but later admitted keying it after being shown the video, prosecutors said.

The Honda driver, Nicholas Krenke, was also located and prosecuted for fleeing the scene, authorities said.

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KCRA) — California’s First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom scolded journalists at a press conference Wednesday, after her husband, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to provide $90 million in grants to Planned Parenthood.

Newsom’s move was the latest in his administration and the legislature’s effort over the last several years to protect clinics and women’s health amid funding cuts and law changes by the Trump administration.

The bill signing is a typical setting for journalists to ask the governor questions on any topic, but Siebel Newsom said she found it “incredulous” that reporters were asking off-topic questions.

Questions ranged from Newsom’s response to calls for Casey Wasserman to step down as the LA 28 Olympics head, a proposal to keep some High-Speed Rail records secret and recent litigation with the project, plus Newsom’s upcoming trip to Munich.

As the governor answered questions, Siebel Newsom could be seen behind him whispering about and laughing at journalists with Assemblymembers Gail Pellerin, D-Santa Cruz, and Darshana Patel, D-San Diego.

Siebel at one point was asked to weigh in on the Wasserman situation. He’s facing backlash for exchanging racy emails with convicted sex trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. She would not comment.

After the governor answered a question about the upcoming closure of an oil refinery in the Bay Area, lawmakers and Siebel Newsom broke out into a chant, “Planned Parenthood, protect women!”

Siebel Newsom then stepped to the microphone.

“We have Planned Parenthood here and women are 51% of the population and the majority of the questions, all of these questions have really been about other issues,” she said. “You wonder why we have such a horrific war on women in this country and that these guys are getting away with it, and you don’t seem to care.”

“Ask about what we’re here for today! Don’t you think?” Siebel Newsom said.

Most of journalists in the room were women, including those representing television outlets, the Associated Press, Politico, the New York Times, and Cal Matters.

After Siebel Newsom’s plea for on-topic questions, one reporter asked how the funding would specifically be used.

Planned Parenthood CEO Jodi Hicks said the money is meant to help backfill Medicaid funding that Congress cut. State lawmakers have said the money cannot be used on abortion services.

After that, the governor continued taking off-topic questions.

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    TRUCKEE, California (KCRA) — A 26-year-old Southern California man died following a skiing incident on an advanced trail at a Truckee resort last week, Placer County and Northstar California Resort officials confirmed.

Northstar California Resort said its ski patrol responded to a skier incident on the advanced Martis Trail on Feb. 6.

Placer County officials said the skier was pronounced dead at the resort. He was identified as Nicholar Kenworthy of Los Angeles.

“Northstar California Resort, Northstar Ski Patrol, and the entire Vail Resorts family extend our deepest sympathy and support to our guest’s family, loved ones, and friends,” said Tara Schoedinger, Northstar Vice President & General Manager, in a statement to KCRA 3.

The circumstances surrounding the incident have not been disclosed.

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