Guam flyers offer emergency tips for threat from North Korea
Officials in Guam are disseminating fact sheets to help residents prepare for a possible missile strike from North Korea.Guam’s Office of Civil Defense began distributing the guidance Friday, which...
View ArticlePrep football: Lone Peak Knights preview
Teams that only return four starters out of 22 offensive and defensive positions generally are considered a major rebuild.But Lone Peak opponents aren’t likely to think that way about the Knights. And...
View ArticleRebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying ‘secede’
Birmingham, Ala. • As 21st century activists seek to topple monuments to the 19th century Confederate rebellion, some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederates tried and failed...
View ArticleMiami Marlins plan to sell to group that includes Derek Jeter
Miami • The Miami Marlins told Major League Baseball they intend to sign an agreement to sell the team to a group that includes former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter, a person familiar with the...
View ArticleCharter school for teen moms can't appeal its closure before school year starts
Esmeralda Huerta is one semester away from earning her high school diploma, but as summer months wind down, she doesn’t currently have a school to go to. She expected to return to Kairos Academy in...
View ArticleCreole-inspired food truck lets owners embrace and share their roots
Helena Carter believes everyone is put on Earth to share their gifts, but she didn’t always think that sharing cooking was for her.Carter discovered a love for it early on while helping her chef mother...
View ArticleAugust schedule provides Real Salt Lake with ample opportunity for points
When it comes to playing style, Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke isn’t a fan of parking the bus.“I thought it was ugly and boring the way they killed the game staying back like that,” he said of Houston...
View ArticleTwo killed in Nephi skydiving crash
Two skydivers died after their parachute malfunctioned on Thursday evening, Nephi police said. The two — instructor and client — were jumping tandem from a Cessna 182 plane near the Nephi City airport...
View Article1 in 8 American adults are alcoholics, study says
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate alcohol use disorder, or what’s colloquially known as “alcoholism,” rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the...
View ArticleColumn: As Bolt exits, where does he rank among GOATs?
As Usain Bolt prepares for the final race of his brilliant career, it really doesn’t matter if he wins or loses.His legacy is secure.But is he the greatest Olympian of them all?That’s an impossible...
View ArticleYou could read Warren Jeffs’ latest revelation from prison, or you could just...
From time to time throughout his incarceration — 11 years and counting — Warren Jeffs has told us all how this world is going to hell. Jeffs is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus...
View ArticleThe world holds its breath on North Korea
Bedminster, N.J. • Calls for more intense diplomacy on North Korea vied Friday with threats of force, with little sense of what strategy would prevail in Washington or Pyongyang or which leader would...
View Article‘Operation Rio Grande’ leaders scrambling for drug treatment beds as police...
The much-anticipated but largely secret “Operation Rio Grande” law enforcement crackdown planned in downtown Salt Lake City may launch before its leaders have lined up many treatment beds for the...
View ArticleCommentary: Time to consider the peace option
Our president is threatening nuclear war against North Korea: ”North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has...
View ArticlePrep golf: Weber's Connor Howe shoots for rare state three-peat
Connor Howe’s best score in a competitive round of golf is 62. He shot it as a Weber High sophomore to set a state tournament record and win the first of his two state titles.He also shot the same...
View ArticleTrump isn’t ruling out ‘military option’ to deal with strife in Venezuela
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would not rule out a U.S. “military option” for dealing with ongoing strife in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has cracked down on nationwide...
View ArticleOwners walk away from debt-ridden, unsafe Utah coal mine
Helper • Nearly five years after it was closed amid a swamp of defaulted debt and safety violations, Carbon County’s Horizon coal mine remains dormant while state regulators and federal land managers...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: Feel-good ideas that need a hardheaded examination
Washington • Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though, it’s largely ignoring other important...
View ArticleBelieve it: Americans finish historic 1-2 in steeplechase
London • Rolling on the ground, still gasping for breath, Courtney Frerichs hugged Emma Coburn and shouted into her ear: “Am I dreaming? Am I dreaming?”Nope. That really happened.The two Americans...
View Article‘I really hate that the institution I left my home for has this issue,’ black...
The University of Utah office tasked with promoting campus diversity on Friday condemned two racist flyers that were posted and pledged to continue working for social justice.The flyers were found at...
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