Dana Milbank: Apparently, it's illegal to laugh at Jeff Sessions
Washington - Did you hear the one about Jeff Sessions?I’d like to tell you, but I can’t. You see, it’s illegal to laugh at the attorney general, the man who on Tuesday morning announced that the...
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Former Daggett County sheriff, two officers, plead guilty in inmate-abuse case
Silver Summit • The former Daggett County sheriff and two of his officers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges accusing them of mistreating inmates at the county jail, abuse that included the use of...
View ArticleFor Steve Tate and Reno Mahe, tragedy forged a powerful bond between a Ute...
For several days last November, Steve Tate did little else but watch his son die. The hospital room felt cold to him, and the outside world dim. He thinks he stayed in that room for five straight days...
View ArticleUtes podcast: Is seven straight an inevitability, or can BYU surprise in Provo?
Tyler Huntley’s escapability. Troy Taylor’s adaptability. And, like it or not, the inevitability of Saturday’s rivalry game in Provo. Reporters Chris Kamrani and Lynn Worthy discuss it all on this...
View ArticleFrancis Wilkinson: Trump dumps young immigrants on a hapless Congress
The mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Trumpworld on the fate of almost 800,000 “Dreamers” will soon be complemented and echoed by mixed signals and cowardice emanating from Republican members...
View ArticleCelebrity chef tour returns to Riverhorse in Park City
The James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour returns to Park City for a multicourse fundraising dinner prepared by six award-winning chefs.Seth Adams, co-owner and executive chef of Riverhorse on...
View ArticleWoman critical after Salt Lake City auto-pedestrian collision
A 34-year-old woman remained in critical condition Wednesday, the day after she was struck trying to cross a darkened State Street in Salt Lake City.Salt Lake City police Detective Keith Horrocks said...
View ArticleGolf: Layton's Ryan Reisbeck knocked out in World Long Drive Championship
Layton’s Ryan Reisbeck reached the round of 16 in the Volvik World Long Drive Championship in Oklahoma before being eliminated Tuesday.Reisbeck, who entered the competition with a No. 2 ranking, was...
View ArticleUtah schools receive record $64M in trust land funding
Public schools got a lot more help than usual this year from the Permanent State School Fund, a roughly $2.3 billion investment portfolio supported by trust lands. At a Wednesday morning event at...
View ArticleUtah County: Man, stabbed by brother, in critical condition
Utah County sheriff’s deputies took a 16-year-old Eagle Mountain boy into custody after he stabbed his older brother, purportedly to stop him from assaulting their 14-year-old sister during an...
View ArticleTrump Jr. to speak privately Thursday to Senate staff
Washington • President Donald Trump’s oldest son is expected to meet privately with a Senate committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, several senators said...
View ArticleHouse overwhelmingly passes $7.9 billion Harvey aid bill
Washington • The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed $7.9 billion in Hurricane Harvey disaster relief as warring Republicans and Democrats united behind help for victims of that storm as an ever...
View ArticleBambara pastry chef makes finals for America‘s 2020 Culinary Olympic team
Andrew Corrao, the banquet pastry chef at Salt Lake City’s Bambara restaurant, is a finalist for America’s 2020 Culinary Olympic team.The culinary Olympics occur every four years and in 2020 will take...
View ArticleGreg Sargent: The big lie at the core of Trumpism
It could not be more fitting that only 24 hours after scrapping protections for 800,000 young immigrants brought here illegally as children President Donald Trump is set to deliver a big speech...
View ArticleFollowing a financial scandal, the taxpayer-supported Utah League of Cities &...
Nine months after its longtime executive director resigned amid scandal, the taxpayer-funded Utah League of Cities and Towns has named Cameron Diehl as its new chief.Diehl has been serving as the...
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Five underrated games in the BYU-Utah rivalry's history
Fourth-down conversions, game-ending touchdown passes, field-goal attempts that hit the uprights, overtime contests, LaVell Edwards’ last game and victories that sent Utah into major bowls are the...
View ArticleSurvey: ‘Christian America’ dwindling, including white evangelicals
The future of religion in America is young, non-Christian and technicolor.Almost every Christian denomination in the U.S. shows signs of growing diversity as white Christians, once the majority in most...
View ArticleEvacuation orders partially lifted in Weber County, where wildfire consumed 3...
Uintah • Hundreds of residents returned home Wednesday, after the Uintah Fire reduced three houses to rubble. Officials kept evacuations in place for one neighborhood, taking precautions in case the...
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Alexandra Petri: President Trump's America is a nightmare. There can be no...
President Donald Trump has run to the door of Congress with yet another Obama-era policy that he has stabbed half to death, shouted “CONGRESS WILL BE TO BLAME IF THIS DIES,” and then run off.This time...
View ArticleMonson: There’s no avoiding it — the Evil Empire will win another Super Bowl
Don’t do it. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.Gotta do it.The New England Patriots will win another Super Bowl at the tail end of the 2017 season.I get it. Ho-hum. It’s neither a risky, nor an original...
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