NCAA adopts sexual violence policy, emphasizing education
NCAA member schools will be required to provide sexual violence education for all college athletes, coaches and athletics administrators under a policy announced Thursday by the organization’s board of...
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Marc Thiessen: Trump's immigration vision isn't the Reagan way
It was not that long ago that a Republican presidential candidate vowed that “we will make America great again.” His name was Ronald Reagan, and he made that promise to restore American greatness at...
View ArticleBYU football: Texas Tech transfer Tanner Jacobson will be primary punt...
Provo • It was only a matter of time before Texas Tech transfer Tanner Jacobson found a way to get on the field for BYU. The 5-foot-10, 185-pound junior is just too good of a player to spend the entire...
View ArticlePrep football: Pleasant Grove Vikings preview
Take it back one year for Mark Wootton, when he accepted the coaching job at Pleasant Grove.“I didn’t even know what we had,” Wootton said. “And I had people tell me we didn’t think we’d do that...
View ArticleOfficial picked to monitor operations in polygamous towns
Phoenix • A judge has appointed an official to monitor municipal decisions in a polygamous community in Arizona and Utah as a punishment for a religious discrimination verdict.Roger Carter, city...
View ArticleTrump resumes taunts of Senate GOP leader over health care
Washington • President Donald Trump resumed his taunts of the Senate’s top Republican on Thursday, expressing disbelief that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn’t persuade a GOP majority to pass a...
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Washington Post Commentary: Stop arguing facts and listen to the other...
Worries about “political polarization” and of our “post-factual era” impeding political debate in our society have become commonplace. Liberals, in particular, are often astonished at the seeming...
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Polygamous towns on Utah-Arizona line pay to settle cases against 2 men who...
Towns on the Utah-Arizona line will pay $221,000 to two men who claimed they were wrongfully arrested at an old zoo in 2015. Patrick Pipkin and Andrew Chatwin will each receive $100,500 to settle their...
View ArticleDoes he drink alcohol? Nominee for Utah liquor commission is staying quiet...
Park City attorney Thomas N. Jacobson has been appointed to the state liquor commission, the governor’s office announced Thursday.Jacobson, who has been a practicing attorney in California and Utah for...
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Jennifer Rubin: Kelly has to do more or Trump’s presidency may never recover
It’s entirely possible that the Trump presidency is beyond repair. President Donald Trump has accomplished none of his major priorities (except for putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court) and has...
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Avenged Sevenfold say they'll be 'whoring out' zerofold
Plenty of people hate plenty of things about Avenged Sevenfold.The goofy monikers like “Synyster Gates” and “Johnny Christ.” Johnny Christ’s mohawk. M. Shadows’ fingernails-on-a-chalkboard voice. Too...
View ArticleThe Cricket: Considering the movies’ nuclear options, from ‘Godzilla’ to...
It was 1954, nine years after the first atomic bombs were detonated — first on the testing grounds of New Mexico, then on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — that the fears of nuclear annihilation felt by the...
View ArticleTrump to declare opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’
Bedminster, New Jersey • President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the...
View ArticleClinton woman found dead, husband arrested on unrelated charges
Police confirm they found a woman dead in a Clinton home, but they do not believe her husband — arrested on unrelated warrants and other charges — was responsible for her death.Clinton police Lt. Shawn...
View ArticleMotorcyclist dies in crash with truck on U.S. 89
A man died of his injuries after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck that turned in front of him at a Woods Cross intersection late Wednesday.Woods Cross public safety dispatchers confirmed the...
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Teen charged with manslaughter in crash that killed two classmates, injured a...
A 18-year-old who survived a crash that killed two of his high school classmates and injured a pregnant woman and her baby faces up to 30 years in prison.Abraham Miranda was charged Wednesday in 3rd...
View ArticleBook review: 'The Blinds' moves at a brisk pace
The prison system — and how to treat incarcerated criminals — has always been problematic, no matter the plan. Adam Sternbergh’s imaginative “The Blinds” doesn’t solve the problem but offers an unusual...
View ArticleUtah approves signature-gathering for 2018 medical marijuana initiative
Medical marijuana supporters in Utah received a go-ahead from state election officials Thursday to start gathering signatures needed to qualify the measure for the November 2018 ballot.Utah Patients...
View ArticleNew party seeks to end state funding for closed Republican primaries
The new United Utah Party is calling for the state to stop spending taxpayer money on GOP primaries where only registered Republicans may vote.“There is no reason the voters should pay for a party’s...
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Albert Hunt: The bloom is off the rose with Jared and Ivanka
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were the golden couple destined to dazzle Washington and shape the administration of President Donald Trump. That glitter is gone, replaced by policy failures, poor...
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