As expected, BYU defense dominates second scrimmage
Provo • Thursday’s scrimmage was one that BYU football observers could see coming a mile away after head coach Kalani Sitake said the offense won the last one, and rather decisively.“I feel like the...
View ArticleAfter confusion over law, teacher who had sex with underage student sentenced...
A former Utah County teacher who admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old student has been sentenced to 195 days in jail and placed on three years of probation.Third District Judge Kraig Powell, who...
View ArticleCity of Layton pays $50,000 to Subway worker wrongly accused of drugging...
Layton has paid $50,000 to settle with a Subway worker who was wrongly accused of drugging a police officer’s drink in a case that made national headlines.Layton City Attorney Gary Crane said Thursday...
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Survival in Utah’s elite special forces isn’t a game. But it can be for...
Camp Williams • Cody Fitzgerald has long dreamed of joining the Army’s Special Forces, but life took the Colorado resident in other directions.He served as an airplane mechanic in the Air Force after...
View ArticleOpening 300 new jail beds leads to last-minute shuffling, changes in lead-up...
The preparations ahead of Operation Rio Grande — which requires more jail space in Salt Lake County — underwent minute-by-minute changes Thursday as state and county officials negotiated the lead-up to...
View Article'Behind the Headlines': More jail beds, a warning about social media and a...
Utah County has agreed to free up 128 beds for Salt Lake County inmates, a decision that officials with the state, Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County hope will help address issues of lawlessness in...
View ArticleRacist flyers found on University of Utah campus, but it’s not clear who...
At least two racist signs were posted on the University of Utah campus last week, one taped on the wall of the Student Life Center and another taped crudely over an advertisement near the...
View ArticleSalt Lake County GOP discusses investigation into acting Recorder Julie Dole,...
Murray • The Salt Lake County Republican Party avoided taking action against acting Recorder Julie Dole in a meeting Thursday night, one week before hundreds of party insiders are set to decide who...
View ArticleSalt Lake Bees lose series finale to Oklahoma City
The fans in attendance who came to see Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, on a rehab assignment with Oklahoma City, left Smith’s Ballpark satisfied. Gonzalez ripped a two-run homer to...
View ArticleTrubisky shines for Bears in loss to Broncos in NFL preseason game
Chicago • Mitch Trubisky threw for 166 yards and led three scoring drives after Mike Glennon struggled for Chicago, before the Denver Broncos scored two long touchdowns in the closing minutes to beat...
View ArticleSpanking is legal, Utah Supreme Court says
Spanking isn’t abuse if there isn’t evidence that a child was harmed, the Utah Supreme Court says.The court’s ruling, released Wednesday, reversed an earlier finding by a juvenile court, which said...
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Commentary: Changes in curriculum are harmful to Utah's children
I am saddened and disappointed to hear the Utah State Board of Education has eliminated physical education, health, the arts and college and career readiness as core requirements in Utah middle...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Warm, humid in the north; hot and humid in the south
A warm, occasionally wet weekend is coming for the Wasatch Front, and storm clouds will combine with near triple-digit temperatures to make southern Utah both hot and humid.Perhaps only Shakira would...
View ArticleNews roundup: How does the U.S. launch a nuclear attack? The president orders...
Happy Friday. How does a president order a nuclear attack? He just does. If the president wants to strike, his senior military advisers have few options but to carry it out or resign. As the rhetoric...
View ArticleWhat’s a little petty larceny when you’re a little boy sent to the store on...
I was 7 the first time my mother sent me to the store. It was a bakery near where we lived on Fernando el Catolico in Zaragoza, Spain. Being the eldest of her children, it fell to me to run the...
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After being gouged, Utah lawmaker seeks to limit ticket scalping markups
State Rep. Lynn Hemingway was eager to see his actress daughter-in-law, Rose Hemingway, in the traveling Broadway production of “Kinky Boots” when it came this year to the new Eccles Theater in Salt...
View ArticleSLC Council challengers beat the bushes for District 5 votes. In District 1?...
Salt Lake City Council members Erin Mendenhall and James Rogers appear to have some significant advantages over their challengers as Tuesday’s primary election approaches.Mendenhall won 82 percent of...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: ABC gets 'cheeky' about sexual misconduct allegations at...
After delaying the premiere of “Bachelor in Paradise” to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct, the folks at ABC decide the way to welcome the show back to the schedule was to run a “cheeky” ad...
View ArticleOfficials: Baby found in plastic bag in New York doing 'remarkably well'
Elmira, N.Y. • Officials say an 8-month-old baby found abandoned in a plastic bag left in the backyard of a New York home is doing “remarkably well.”Chemung County Assistant District Attorney Terry...
View ArticleBeyond bluster, US, North Korea in regular contact
Washington • Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist...
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