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MOAB, UTAH - JANUARY 13: Double Arch at Arches National Park on January 13, 2021 in Moab, Utah. (Photo by Josh Brasted/Getty Images) SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah national park famed for its otherworldly sandstone arches will require visitors to get timed entry tickets during its high season next year, the second Utah park to implement such a system as visitation swells.Arches National Park officials said Friday they’re not trying to decrease the number of visitors during the six-month period, but rather spread them out over the course of the day.

Sunrise over the Goose Neck of the Colorado River in Meander Canyon. Bears Ears National Monument.

Search and rescue workers personal six-wheel drive Pinzgauer military utility vehicle (Grand County Sheriffs Office) A group of Arizona residents and their dog have a search and rescue worker’s personal six-wheel drive military utility vehicle to thank for rescuing them from a snowy Utah trail.According to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office in Moab, Utah, the group accessed the Thompson Canyon/Polar Mesa trail at about 4,300 feet up while it was raining and snowing. Their vehicles got stuck in the mud as they tried to get up the trail.The sheriff’s office said one of the men called his wife in Arizona and asked her to call for help, but the group still continued up the trail by "winching the lead vehicle forward, with the other vehicles following in its path.""They eventually got stuck in three feet of deep snow … and were unable to move," the sheriff’s office said.READ MORE: Bullfrogs for dinner? Utah wildlife officials want you to catch – and eat – this invasive speciesAs search and rescue crews set up on both ends of the trail to start the rescue mission, one of the rescuers offered to use his personal vehicle –  a six-wheel-drive Pinzgauer all-terrain military utility vehicle – instead.He was able to reach the group at 8,500 feet up "after pushing through over a foot of sloppy mud for many miles." Snow levels had dropped to about 6,000 feet.Named Liberty and Guardian, the bald eagles were filmed shielding their only egg from the elements during a snowstorm in California.

MOAB, Utah - Newly-released body camera video reveals more about the complicated and tumultuous relationship between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie and a fight they had weeks before her death.The footage comes from a second officer in Moab, Utah, who responded on August 12 after two witnesses reported seeing the couple get into a violent argument in a parking lot.The 52-minute video includes a new witness account of the argument, Gabby’s version of the fight and a chilling conversation between officers as they discuss how domestic violence can escalate into murder.Moab police separated Gabby and Brian almost immediately to get each one’s side of the story.The Moah City Police Department in Utah released a second police officer’s body

MOAH, Utah - The head of Utah’s Moab Police Department is stepping away from his post and taking a leave of absence just days after the city announced it would be investigating officers’ handling of a possible domestic violence case last month involving Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, Fox News Digital has confirmed.Police Chief Bret Edge requested a leave of absence under the Family Medical Leave Act that began Monday, Lisa Church, communications director for the City of Moab, confirmed to Fox News. The Moab Times-Independent was first to report the news.Edge and Moab Mayor Emily Niehaus did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request seeking comment.

The nationwide search for Brian Laundrie continued Friday after authorities issued a federal arrest warrant on Thursday evening for using his fiancée Gabby Petito’s bank debit card. The city of Moab, Utah also announced it’s launching an independent investigation into the way officers handled an incident with Petito and Laundrie on Aug.

MOAB, Utah - The City of Moab, Utah, tells Fox News on Thursday that it is launching an investigation into how police handled an Aug. 12 incident between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie. "With the weeks-long search for Ms.

domestic incident between Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie in Moab, Utah, believed that the couple was fighting over a phone and that Laundrie may have been trying to ditch his fiancée, according to a witness statement obtained by Fox News."They were talking aggressively [at] each other [and] something definitely seemed off," the witness, identified only as Christopher, wrote. "At one point, they were sort of fighting over a phone – I think the male took the female’s phone.

MOAB, Utah - Authorities in Utah have ruled out a connection between the double homicide of two newlyweds at a campground outside Moab last month and the recent disappearance of 22-year-old Gabby Petito. In an ongoing effort to find Petito, who vanished after going on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend in a converted camper van, authorities have been "actively looking into any connection" between the two cases. The newlyweds, 38-year-old Crystal Turner and 24-year-old Kylen Schulte, were found shot to death at a campground southeast of Moab on Aug.

MOAB, Utah - Newly-released body camera video from Utah police shows their encounter with Gabby Petito – a North Port woman who has since gone missing – and her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, which lasted for over an hour and resulted in the two being separated after a physical encounter occurred between the couple earlier in the day.For over an hour, an emotional Gabby Petito sat in the back of a patrol vehicle on the side of a Utah road while Brian remained outside their camper van as law enforcement officials sorted out what transpired after a witness called police reporting a possible domestic violence situation between the two on August 12.Moab police released a report Wednesday about the incident.