Number of Syrian child brides in Jordan increases amid poverty, uncertainty
Mafraq, Jordan • Married at 15 and divorced at 16, a Syrian teen says she regrets having said yes to a handsome suitor — a stranger who turned into an abusive husband.Yet the reasons that transformed...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Wasatch Front wetter, cooler; south drier and hot again
A little thunder, a little rain; relief from the heat on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, again.That sums up northern Utah’s forecast as this week unfolds, after past weeks of hot weather at or above 100...
View ArticlePrep football: South Sevier Rams preview
All of the building blocks for a winning season are in place for South Sevier. Even finding a new starting quarterback was just a minor obstacle for the Rams.Sophomore Tracen Winkel will be the...
View ArticleRolly: Utah cases show three reasons why Mike Lee is right and Jeff Sessions...
Utah Sen. Mike Lee has joined libertarian and civil rights advocates in opposing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ plan to expand the federal government’s civil asset forfeiture program, which...
View ArticleChris Pratt and Anna Faris announce separation
Los Angeles • Chris Pratt and Anna Faris announced Sunday that they are separating after eight years of marriage, sparking a wave of shock and sadness online about the demise of one of Hollywood’s most...
View ArticleA new deal on solar fees? Rocky Mountain Power and advocates may have found a...
Just days before their first face-to-face hearing before state regulators on a controversial rate overhaul, Rocky Mountain Power and Utah’s rooftop solar advocates appear to be losing their will to...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump says his base is 'stronger than ever' despite polls to...
Happy Monday. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday morning to declare that his political base is “bigger & stronger than ever before” despite the fact that polls show the contrary....
View ArticleUS government clamps down on eel poaching as value grows
Brewer, Maine • Changes in the worldwide fisheries industry have turned live baby American eels into a commodity that can fetch more than $2,000 a pound at the dock, but the big demand and big prices...
View ArticlePrep football: North Sevier Wolves preview
North Sevier has struggled through eight straight losing seasons, but second-year coach Devin Lindley is staying the course and implementing building blocks for his team.“I’m excited for the season to...
View Article‘Our children are dying’ — Lawmaker urges state school board to update...
Against a backdrop of surging youth suicide rates in Utah, the success of the SafeUT app — a new suicide-prevention and school-safety hotline — has “exceeded our wildest expectations,” Sandy Republican...
View ArticleNorthwestern professor accused in stabbing and killing hair stylist due in...
Chicago • After a cross-country manhunt, a Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford employee are in custody in the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago. The...
View ArticleAnother milestone for stocks: Most boring market in decades
New York • This year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. Just don’t get too comfortable.Only twice this year have investors had to deal with a 1...
View Article’Ingrid Goes West’ satirizes the perils of social media envy
Los Angeles • Have you ever been jealous of someone on Instagram? Or gone down a spiral of late night scrolling that starts out as voyeurism and ends in despair? That’s the sensation captured in...
View ArticleBody of missing man found near Lakeside Mountains
The body of a West Bountiful man who had been missing for two weeks was found over the weekend near northwestern Utah’s Lakeside Mountains.In a Facebook posting, the family of 74-year-old John Page...
View ArticleLetter: President provides echoes of Mad King George
“Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.” One wonders about a leader who utters these words. Is he mad? Dangerous? It’s not a matter of left or right.We all watch as our...
View ArticleDon Baylor, former MVP and manager of year, dead at 68
Don Baylor, the burly slugger who once held the Major League Baseball record for being hit a pitch and later guided the expansion Colorado Rockies to the playoffs for the first time as manager of the...
View ArticleGoogle VP denounces employee memo’s views on female workers
London • Google’s new head of diversity has rejected an internal commentary from an employee who suggested women don’t get ahead in tech jobs because of biological differences.Danielle Brown, who was...
View ArticleBountiful doctor charged with sexually abusing young girls, having child porn...
A Bountiful obstetrician-gynecologist was charged Monday with sexually assaulting two young girls and having child pornography.Nathan Ward, 55, of Bountiful, was charged in 2nd District Court with 11...
View ArticleCommentary: Parenting my Muslim baby in the age of Trump
When I found out I was pregnant last fall, the news was unexpected. But even more unexpected than the positive test result was the realization that the experience of raising my second child could be...
View ArticleLetter: Health insurance is a federal responsibility
Gary Mulcock (“Use state-run insurance,” July 25) seems to consider himself quite the expert on constitutional law and insurance history; how unfortunate for the rest of us. He wants ACA (Obamacare)...
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