S. Salt Lake police officer hits woman crossing dark street
A woman was hit by a South Salt Lake police officer overnight as she attempted to cross a darkened street.Public safety dispatchers reported the incident occurred at 1:38 a.m. at 3000 South and State...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Dropping temperatures, rain and mountain snow ahead
From north to south, rain clouds and cooler, more typical autumn weather will rule Utah as the work week winds down.The National Weather Service predicted that Wednesday’s sunny Wasatch Front dawn will...
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With Boston Marathon amputee drama ‘Stronger’ out this week, here are 7...
If there’s a sure-fire way for an actor to get awards-season attention, it’s to play someone with a disability.Think of Jane Wyman in “Johnny Belinda,” Patty Duke in “The Miracle Worker,” Cliff...
View ArticleSalt Lake City theater ignites First Amendment debate after signaling it will...
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s office was unaware a west-side community center was moving toward booting out a local theater company because its slate of plays includes material at odds with...
View ArticleUtah real estate guru accused of fraud said people begged him to take their...
Back in the high-flying days before the Great Recession, Rick Koerber said, people were begging him to take their money.But, Koerber testified Tuesday in his federal court trial, he told participants...
View ArticleFrustrated tribal leaders wonder if Bears Ears is a national monument in name...
Nine months after President Barack Obama enshrined the 1.3 million acres encircling Utah’s Bears Ears Buttes as a protected landscape, federal agencies have done little to manage the lands as outlined...
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Gehrke: Call me a curmudgeon, but why are we obsessed with tearing down SLC...
The old Granite High School stood for 110 years, but it didn’t take long for the big backhoe to bring the main building down Monday.In its lifetime, thousands of teachers shaped the minds of many...
View ArticlePolygamist Lyle Jeffs pleads guilty in food stamp fraud, absconding case
Lyle Jeffs, the lead defendant in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy by the polygamous FLDS church to defraud the food stamp program, pleaded guilty to two charges Wednesday. Jeffs, 57, pleaded...
View ArticleSpeed, alcohol investigated in fatal Legacy Highway crash
The Utah Highway Patrol is investigating excessive speed and alcohol as possible factors in a fatal rollover crash early Wednesday morning on Legacy Highway in Centerville.A 21-year-old man died in the...
View ArticleJonathan Johnson: States continue straw-grasping internet tax gambit
This week, the South Dakota Supreme Court dealt a blow to states’ winner-take-all, bet-the-house gambit to get the U.S. Supreme Court to allow states to regulate interstate commerce by imposing tax...
View ArticleJennifer Rubin: President Freeman makes better use of the bully pulpit
Once upon a time (like Sunday after the Emmys) conservatives used to grouse that Hollywood was filled with liberals who disdained America and fancied themselves internationalists.Well, on Tuesday we...
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Milo Ventimiglia loves being the good dad in ‘This Is Us’
Beverly Hills, Calif. • Milo Ventimiglia starred as bad-boy boyfriends in “The Gilmore Girls” and “American Dreams”; a guy with superpowers in “Heroes”; an Air Force pilot kidnapped by aliens in “The...
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Dana Milbank: No one listens to women when they speak around here
Washington - Over the weekend, the president of the United States retweeted to his 38 million Twitter followers a video clip doctored to show him driving a golf ball off the tee and between the...
View ArticlePark City will try to reclaim the world Shot Ski record
Wasatch Brew Pub in Park City hopes to reclaim the world “Shot Ski” crown on Saturday, Oct. 14.The Park City brewery needs 1,250 people to line up on Main Street and raise one long ski — actually 440...
View ArticleBoxer Jake LaMotta, immortalized in 'Raging Bull,' dies at 95
Miami • Jake LaMotta, the former middleweight champion whose life in and out of the ring was depicted in the film “Raging Bull,” for which Robert DeNiro won an Academy Award, has died, his fiancee said...
View ArticleThe Weekly Run: Are there shades of Hayward in the Rodney Hood extension talks?
Their top scoring option on the perimeter is both promising and, in some ways, unproven.He also is eligible for a contract extension.Sound familiar, Jazz fans?In our first “Weekly Run” podcast of the...
View ArticleFour University of Utah students charged with criminal mischief after BYU's...
Provo • Four University of Utah students who were literally caught red-handed 15 minutes after allegedly spray-painting two red “U” logos and a white smiling face on the cougar statue at Brigham Young...
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7 reasons fall is one of the best times to go fishing in Utah
The temperatures dropped this week and autumn officially began. That means hungrier and more active fish, crisp beautiful weather and wonderful fall colors.The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is...
View ArticleNews roundup: After months of sliding downward, Trump rebounds in the polls
After months of sliding downward, Trump rebounds in the polls. Huntsman says ‘no question’ Russia meddled in the election. SL County to be hit with $30m tab for Operation Rio Grande.Happy Wednesday....
View ArticleErin Alberty: Mountain biking does not make sense to me, but here I go
It’s fall, the air is finally becoming crisp, and loads of helmeted recreationists are taking to the mountains for an activity that makes no sense to me: Riding bicycles up steep, rocky hills, and then...
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