Hospital officials: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides
Freetown, Sierra Leone — Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake: Montreal’s early lead makes RSL stats irrelevant
Statistics can be deceiving.In a 3-1 loss at Montreal Saturday, RSL topped the Impact in almost every statistical category—aside from goals of course—over the course of 90 minutes. Still, Montreal...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Know Your Cosmology
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticlePublicist: Jerry Lewis, comedian, telethon host, dies at 91
Las Vegas — Jerry Lewis, the rubber-faced comedian and director whose fundraising telethons became as famous as his hit movies, has died.Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis passed away Sunday morning of...
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Olympics: Emerging U.S. speedskating talent John-Henry Krueger charting his...
Kearns • John-Henry Krueger crossed the finish line victorious, both fists flung into the air, upon winning the sixth — and last — men’s 1,500-meter World Cup qualifying race in six hours. The...
View ArticlePolice find 2 dead in West Valley City shooting
Police say a man and a woman are dead after an overnight shooting in West Valley City.At 4:51 a.m. Sunday, West Valley police responded to reports of two people shot in a home near 3100 S. 3400 West,...
View ArticleTeen killed in drive-by shooting in Kearns
One male youth died and another was injured late Saturday night in a drive-by shooting in Kearns, police report.At 10:45 p.m. Saturday, someone driving a white sedan fired multiple shots at two...
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Rudy Gobert supplants Gordon Hayward as Utah's most influential sports figure
Rudy Gobert became the face of the Utah Jazz franchise the moment Gordon Hayward chose the Boston Celtics as his next employer. So it makes sense that Gobert would occupy another position Hayward once...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake’s unbeaten streak ends with 3-1 loss at Montreal
Real Salt Lake went into Saturday’s match well aware of how dangerous Montreal’s attacking four could be, but it didn’t anticipate Ignacio Piatti taking the RSL defense to task the way he did.Piatti...
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Utah football: Opposing receivers will have tough time outrunning Javelin Guidry
Speed has always been Javelin Guidry’s most outstanding physical gift, but his ability to learn quickly has proven his biggest attribute during Utah’s preseason football camp.Guidry, a 5-foot-9,...
View ArticleEclipse eve: Millions converge across U.S. to see sun go dark
Millions of Americans converged on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday for a wondrous couple of minutes in the first total solar...
View ArticleDemocrats say Confederate monuments are now white-supremacist rallying points
Washington • Leading Democrats on Sunday morning talk shows defended moves by local governments to remove monuments of Confederate leaders, saying that the unrest in Charlottesville last week showed...
View ArticleEx-BYU star Lea Garner wins the first Utah Women’s Open title
Provo • Lea Garner figured Sirene Blair was going to birdie the 18th hole and force a playoff in the inaugural Utah Women’s Open, so Garner went ahead and made a birdie putt of her own.The former BYU...
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Pac-12 countdown: Stanford's Dalton Schultz, from Bingham High, should have...
David Shaw has won nearly 80 percent of his games in six years as Stanford’s football coach, but he’s winless against Utah.The Cardinal haven’t been overwhelmed by Utah, exactly. They were stopped at...
View ArticleUtahn Zac Blair knocked out of PGA Tour’s top 125 on last day of regular season
J.J. Henry’s clutch shot spoiled Zac Blair’s 27th birthday, abruptly ending his 2016-17 PGA Tour season.Having failed to advance to Sunday’s final round of the Wyndham Championship, Blair still hoped...
View ArticleMan killed after rear-ending a semi on Bangerter Highway
A man was killed early Sunday when he rear-ended a semi on Bangerter Highway, West Valley City police said.The man, in his 40s, was driving north just before 2 a.m. in a Hyundai when he hit the truck...
View ArticleSpain hunts for suspects driver, two others in connection with Barcelona attack
Ripoll, Spain • Desperate to ease public fears and neutralize a terrorist cell responsible for the deadliest attack in Spain in a decade, Spanish police erected 800 checkpoints across the region of...
View ArticleTrump to outline new Afghanistan strategy just days after explosion that...
President Donald Trump on Monday night will announce a “path forward” on military strategy in Afghanistan, offering his imprint on the longest-running war in U.S. history — and one in which a lack of...
View ArticleBox Elder County man killed in dirt bike-ATV crash
A 46-year-old man riding a dirt bike was killed Saturday night when he collided with an ATV in South Eden Canyon in Rich County.The man was identified by the Rich County Sheriff’s Office as Brad...
View ArticleBYU football: Cougars break camp, set lineup for Portland State opener
Provo • For BYU football fans, a much-anticipated occurrence will happen shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday.The great Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 should also be memorable.Just before people all across the...
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