Herbert calling lawmakers into session for Operation Rio Grande
Gov. Gary Herbert is planning to call Utah lawmakers into a special legislative session next week as part of an effort to curb violence and drug trafficking in the neighborhood near the homeless...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Utes' offensive linemen will keep improving, as the program's NFL...
Utah’s production through two games is creating the impression that offensive coordinator Troy Taylor just might be the answer Utes coach Kyle Whittingham has been seeking for several years.Amid the...
View ArticlePharma Bro Martin Shkreli jailed after offering online bounty for Clinton’s hair
New York • Former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli had his bail revoked and was headed to jail Wednesday while awaiting sentencing for a securities fraud conviction.A judge heard arguments...
View ArticleLetter: Hold local officials accountable in assault on nurse
Neither Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown nor Mayor Jackie Biskupski has the backbone to fire big, tough, woman brutalizer Jeff Payne, who hides behind his badge, nor his partner who just stood by...
View ArticleLegendary journalist Bob Woodward to lecture at the University of Utah in...
Bob Woodward, who broke and chronicled the news of the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, is coming to the University of Utah to give a Hinckley Institute of Politics lecture in November. Woodward, along...
View ArticleInvestigation continues on fiery plane crash on Roy street
The day after a single-engine plane clipped a car and crashed on a street in Roy, erupting in flames and smoke, investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency and the National Transportation Safety...
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Michelle Quist Mumford: Religious test oaths have no place in America
“Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” That is the question Sen. Dick Durbin asked judicial nominee and Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett last week at her Senate confirmation...
View ArticleLetter: Respect Utah’s persecuted settlers by supporting the DREAMers
Dreamers are your neighbors, your co-workers, your friends, your classmates, your fellow ward and church members, and they are under attack. Donald Trump has moved to repeal DACA (Deferred Action for...
View Article1 of every 3 UTA riders is a university student using a school-provided pass
The Utah Transit Authority discovered some interesting facts about who rides its system — and who pays more — during the first six months of a scheduled two-year study on how to rework its fares.It...
View ArticleCommentary: I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years. It's time for...
Sarai was 25 when she died of Wilson’s disease, an inherited disorder that causes liver failure. A liver transplant could have cured her, but she was uninsured and was denied an appointment at two...
View ArticleLetter: Maybe we could qualify for black-lung benefits
As my wife and I were driving home from yoga class on a recent evening, we were greeted by a blood red sunset that looked like a giant eclipse as viewed through glasses. It soon disappeared into the...
View Article‘It’s never too late,’ judge tells participants of new drug court created in...
One month and more than 1,000 arrests later, state and local officials on Wednesday announced the latest step in Operation Rio Grande: a new drug court for those rounded up in the crackdown who want...
View ArticlePrep football: Gavin Davey sparks Summit Academy offense with big-play potential
Bluffdale • The top-ranked football team in Class 3A days sits snuggly among a nest of buildings just west of I-15 near the Point of the Mountain.The location is so close to the elevated freeway curve...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: A hilarious and elementary lesson on the burdens of...
Washington - Life is exhausting — and daily choices are unbearably burdensome — for some Americans who are so comfortably situated that they have the time and means to make themselves morally...
View ArticleWest Jordan approves hate crime resolution that senator hopes will become a...
When Utah Sen. Daniel Thatcher introduced his hate crime bill in last year’s legislative session, it didn’t even get a public hearing.Now, the Republican senator is hoping a resolution the West Jordan...
View ArticleGerman artists built a gigantic pen and are dragging it through the Utah...
Two German artists pulling a giant silver pen — think of it as a sculpture made of foam board — walked out of Vernal on Wednesday morning to create a work of desert art.Wolfgang Aichner, 51, and Thomas...
View ArticleL.A. starts the countdown clock for 2028 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles • The Olympic cauldron blazing above the Coliseum gave it away: Los Angeles will host a third Olympics — in 2028.The news on Wednesday after a vote by the International Olympic Committee in...
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Surrounded by redrocks, Utah couple’s Zen Buddhist meditation center in...
Torrey • The silence was deafening.For several minutes, about 75 teachers and students of Zen Buddhism stood in meditation in the newly constructed temple surrounded by the redrock monoliths that make...
View ArticleTrump, top Democrats agree to work on a deal to save DACA
Washington • President Donald Trump and top Democratic leaders late Wednesday agreed to work out an agreement that would protect the nation’s “dreamers” from deportation and enact border security...
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E.J. Dionne: Trump commission pursues phony cases of election fraud
Washington • It is neither paranoid nor alarmist to begin asking if the Trump administration plans to rationalize blocking a large number of voters who oppose the president from casting ballots in 2018...
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