Trial date set for Cliven Bundy, 6 others in Nevada standoff
Las Vegas • An October date was set on Thursday for the trial of Nevada cattleman and state’s rights figure Cliven Bundy and six other defendants in an armed standoff that stopped government agents...
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BYU football: Cougars will be big underdogs in the Big Easy against...
New Orleans • It seemed like a good idea at the time.Having mostly held their own in several college football games at NFL stadiums against Power Five schools since going independent in 2011, the BYU...
View ArticleGordon Hayward, probably inadvertently, tweaks Utah Jazz fans during Boston...
Gordon Hayward was likely trying to endear himself to his new fan base.But he may have infuriated his old one in doing so.In a Friday press conference held for Hayward and Kyrie Irving — who the Boston...
View ArticleBLM to auction oil and gas leases next to Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument...
Federal land managers are moving forward with a proposed sale of controversial oil and gas leases in Utah’s San Rafael Swell and on the doorstep of Dinosaur National Monument, the agency announced...
View ArticleWoman dies in North Salt Lake crash
A Friday morning two-vehicle crash in North Salt Lake caused the death of one woman and seriously injured another.Killed was 69-year-old Veatoki Tenifa, a Salt Lake area resident, said North Salt Lake...
View ArticleUtah Republicans, with help from Democrats, send a semitrailer loaded with...
Saying they are pushing aside partisanship to help Hurricane Harvey victims, a relief effort spearheaded by Utah Republicans — but attracting plenty of donations by local Democrats — sent a truckload...
View ArticleSheepdogs back at work in annual Utah competition
Here are scenes from the opening Friday of the Supreme Source Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Trials at in Midway.The trials, which continue through Monday at Soldier Hollow, feature many of the...
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Anne Applebaum: What a hurricane tells us about local news
I am thousands of miles away, but I still turned to Chron.com, a website of the Houston Chronicle, to figure out what was going on in Texas this week. A widely shared video showing water pouring into...
View ArticleReport finds transgender students' needs aren't being met in K-12 schools
St. George • It’s the time of year when crosswalks are busy, school zone signs are flashing, and finding a No. 2 pencil at the drugstore may not be so easy.Back-to-school season is obvious, especially...
View ArticlePaul Cassell: Cop who arrested nurse was wrong, but the law is complicated
By now, just about everyone with a smart phone or a laptop has seen the video of the Salt Lake City police detective arresting a nurse for following University Hospital policy prohibiting blood draws...
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Monson: Despite Ed Orgeron’s kind words, Cougars have much to clean up before...
New Orleans • No responsible person should draw complete conclusions from a less-than-stellar season opener for BYU against a Big Sky team that won three games last year. But heading into a game with...
View ArticleUtah Film Center celebrates 15 years of sharing cinema with a Sundance-savvy...
When Geralyn Dreyfous, Nicole Guillemet and Kathryn Toll brought their experience in the film industry together in 2002 to form what would become the Utah Film Center, they had one main story to tell —...
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After his death, Notorious B.I.G.’s mom becomes his No.1 fan
During the late 1990s when the Notorious B.I.G. emerged as rap’s top performer, detailing street life in Brooklyn on songs and albums that dominated the pop charts, his mother didn’t think much of his...
View ArticleMueller examining Trump’s draft letter firing FBI Director Comey
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is reviewing a letter drafted by President Donald Trump and a top aide in the days before the firing of FBI Director James Comey laying out in detail why the...
View ArticleYears ago, Pope Francis saw Jewish psychoanalyst to seek ‘clarity’
Vatican City • Pope Francis says that when he was 42, he had sessions weekly with a female psychoanalyst, who was Jewish, to “clarify some things.”It wasn’t specified what the future pontiff wanted to...
View ArticlePope Francis, Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew blame ‘moral decay’ for ecology...
Vatican City • Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians issued a joint appeal Friday for political leaders to “support the consensus of the world” that climate change...
View ArticleWest Valley City police chief announces he's retiring
West Valley City police chief Lee Russo announced Friday afternoon that he is retiring from his position next week.Russo became the top cop in Utah’s second-largest city four years ago. He took over a...
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Utah football: Ute defense needs to raise its game — starting next week
Giving up 16 points should hardly set off alarms with sirens and flashing lights, but at the same time the Utah defense sets a high bar for itself. Thursday night in a win, that unit came up a little...
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Harvey flooding will lead to ‘massive, massive cleanup process,’ Texas...
Beaumont, Texas • A week after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category 4 monster, millions of people across the Gulf Coast struggled Friday with the unfathomable misery left behind as tens of...
View ArticleAs part of Operation Rio Grande, the street near the shelter is now closed to...
As promised Thursday by Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, road crews installed concrete barriers to vehicular traffic on a small stretch of Rio Grande Street that separates two large providers of...
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