Predators target NFL concussion victims, lawyers say
Philadelphia • Lawyers for former NFL players now eligible for payments under the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement said Tuesday they’ve found evidence that unscrupulous third-party providers...
View ArticleJudge says prominent forensic accountant can’t be expert witness in fraud...
A state judge on Tuesday disqualified prominent forensic accountant Gil Miller from testifying as an expert in the criminal trial of a Fountain Green father and son accused of defrauding investors in...
View ArticleDolphins suspend Lawrence Timmons and acquire Stephone Anthony as replacement
Miami • AWOL linebacker Lawrence Timmons wanted to rejoin the Miami Dolphins.Instead, they suspended him indefinitely and traded for a replacement, moves that signal his disappearance from the defense...
View ArticleWords With Friends adds 50,000 pop culture words
New York • Tell your bae or your bestie: The mobile game Words With Friends is adding thousands of pop culture words as part of its largest dictionary update in the game’s eight-year history.Game...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Fight over Jemele Hill's tweets won't go away. It's about...
I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.Like the word “inappropriate,” which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, the ESPN commentator, one of which described...
View ArticleLetter: It’s up to members of Congress to take the principled path
President Trump is not an unprincipled person. His actions are not random; they are driven by principles. Unfortunately, his principles — self-centeredness, greed, racism, personal infallibility,...
View ArticleSalt Lake County Council reacts with mild sticker shock to Operation Rio...
Salt Lake County will need as much as $30 million over the next two years to fund its share of the ongoing Operation Rio Grande that since August has swept up more than 1,100 arrestees from the streets...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Utah would benefit from another Winter Olympics
What will you be doing in February 2026? How about volunteering at the nearest venue for the Winter Olympics?As Los Angeles is revving up to host its third Summer Olympic Games in 2028, the Associated...
View ArticleThat big boom? It was an old rocket motor exploding at Utah Test and Training...
That big boom you heard around lunchtime Tuesday in Davis and Weber counties? It was a planned detonation at the Utah Test and Training Range.The Air Force blew up a motor from a Trident I ballistic...
View ArticleLetter: Remembering when people were afraid of their own government
The recent announcement about Trump ending DACA eerily reminded me of the time in 1980, when I was a door-to-door census worker in Huntington Beach, Calif. My job was to contact people who had not...
View ArticleMother at sentencing: ‘This man didn’t just kill two of my kids, he also took...
“This man didn’t just kill two of my kids, he also took my life,” a grieving mother told a judge through an interpreter at a sentencing hearing Tuesday.“I have to live a life while I’m dead,” she...
View ArticleNoah Smith: Want a better health care system? Check out Japan
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new health care plan, called “Medicare for All,” would eliminate private health insurance and have the government pay for 100 percent of all health services. It’s not going to...
View ArticleAlex Gordon hits MLB's record-setting 5,694th HR of season
Toronto • Kansas City’s Alex Gordon hit Major League Baseball’s record 5,694th home run of 2017 on Tuesday night, breaking a season record set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era.Gordon’s home...
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Utah football notes: Devonta’e Henry-Cole hopes to continue contributing
Sophomore Devonta’e Henry-Cole sat most of last season as a redshirt before playing in one game when the Utes were extremely thin at running back. He only carried the ball once last fall as a true...
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2 dead in drive-by shooting and crash in Kearns, police say
Kearns — Two people died Tuesday night in Kearns in what police said was a drive-by shooting followed by a car crash. The shooting and crash happened about 7:30 p.m. near 5240 W. 5400 South. Unified...
View ArticleLetter: I want to see which businesses discriminate
I grew up in a small Southern town where one restaurant had a large wooden sign in the parking lot stating, “Colored served at rear,” meaning non-Caucasians could pick up food at the rear door but not...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: What happened? America's political axis tilted.
WASHINGTON -- Leaders of both major parties are wrong to think of the 2016 election as some kind of fluke. I believe a political realignment is underway, and those who fail to discern its outlines...
View ArticleDevils’ Boyle diagnosed with cancer, expects to keep playing
Brian Boyle hopes to play hockey again soon after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of bone-marrow cancer that the New Jersey Devils’ team doctor said can largely be treated with...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: Lone Peak sweeps American Fork in 6A showdown
Storylines<br>• Top-ranked Lone Peak gets 18 kills from Tasia Farmer and 13 more from Madi Robinson in a sweep of American Fork.<br>• The Knights also receive six kills and four blocks from...
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Two dead, 4 in custody after gang-related shooting, crash in Kearns
Kearns — Alex Caro was at dinner for his daughter’s birthday Tuesday when a neighbor called to say his front yard had been transformed into a crime scene.The 39-year-old returned to find his block in...
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