Utah Unemployment Benefits Filings Decline: KSUB News Summary

The U.S. Department of Labor says initial filings for unemployment benefits in Utah dropped last week. New jobless claims fell to 1,144 in the week ending March 9th. That statistic is down from the 1,235 filings the week before. Oregon saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims with a 33.7-percent jump. New Hampshire posted the largest drop in the percentage for new claims, dropping by 60.6 percent.

New Dean Of Business School At University Of Utah

The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah will welcome a new dean on July 1st. The provost announced that Kurt Dirks has accepted the university's offer to helm its business school. Dirks is the Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership and director of the Bauer Leadership Center at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Rachel Hayes, a professor in accounting and faculty member at the U since 2005 has served as dean of the Eccles School since 2021.

Shooter In Road Rage Incident Goes To Prison

A 25-year-old Utah man is going to prison after pleading guilty to a road rage shooting involving an Amazon delivery vehicle driver this past July. Tyler Joshua Foutz was sentenced Monday to serve two concurrent terms of three to five years, with possible time off for time served. Foutz pleaded guilty in late January to two counts of felony discharge of a firearm as part of a plea deal. In exchange, other felony charges were dismissed. Foutz fired multiple rounds at a semitruck driver following a series of incidents near I-80 on July 3rd. A second defendant, Foutz' brother, pleaded guilty to some similar charges on March 11th. 23-year old Adrian David Brown will be sentenced on April 29th.

Wire Fraud Conviction For Midvale Man

A 59-year-old Midvale man will serve 41 months in prison with three years of supervised release for wire fraud and other charges. On Monday, Chad Leon Sayers was sentenced after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of wire fraud and one count of contempt for his conduct while on pretrial release in April 2023. In 2021, Sayers was also charged in a securities fraud scheme involving a company, American Smartphone Inc., then doing business as Saygus. Court documents show that Sayers devised a scheme to defraud investors not once but on two occasions. He allegedly raised at some ten million dollars from as many as 300 investors between 2012 and 2020.