Principal: Trump tombstone at Halloween party disrespectful
Gloucester, Mass. • A Massachusetts elementary school principal says it was disrespectful and inappropriate that a game brought in for a student Halloween party featured a tombstone with the name Don...
View ArticleProminent journalist at radio station stabbed in Moscow
Moscow • Russia's leading news radio station says its deputy editor-in-chief has been stabbed by an unknown attacker.Ekho Moskvy, which has often been described as Russia's only independent news radio...
View ArticleTrump defends call to fallen soldier's widow
Washington • President Donald Trump is defending his call to a fallen soldier's widow, saying he was "respectful" and did not forget the slain soldier's name.Trump addressed the call on Twitter Monday...
View ArticleSouth Korean Olympic organizers downplay concern over NKorea
Ancient Olympia, Greece • South Korea's Olympic organizers have played down concern over ongoing tensions with North Korea and also say work has been completed on all venues for the 2018 Pyeongchang...
View ArticleLetter: Patriotism is not blind allegiance to flag for anthem
Donald Trump just doesn’t get it. Maybe he never will. I volunteered to serve in the United States Navy during the Vietnam conflict.I gave four years of my life for my country. Not for our flag, a...
View ArticleInvestigation continues into Kearns shooting death, but have not identified...
Police continue to investigate the death of a man found shot late Saturday night near the Olympic Oval in Kearns, but have not yet identified any suspects.Unified Police Detective Ken Hansen said...
View ArticleKragthorpe: This BYU team is historically bad, and it is now damaging the...
The perfect snapshot of BYU’s football season came Sunday, when the semi-truck carrying the team’s equipment broke down in North Carolina.It could be worse for the Cougars, even having totaled 77...
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Poll: Three in four Utahns support legalizing medical marijuana
Utahns continue to show broad support for a proposed 2018 ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the state, according to a new poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s...
View ArticleLetter: How will I pay for all this on a fixed income?
I think that if COLA determines Social Security increases that all government employees, local, state and federal, follow that finding. A year ago it was .02 percent and this year it will be 2...
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Southern Utah University campaign calls out offensive Halloween costumes
A Southern Utah University campaign is reminding people to dress respectfully this Halloween by not reducing racial and ethnic groups to stereotypes. A series of posters, launched online and around...
View ArticleUtah judge won't rule on Gary Ott’s custody case following his death. A fight...
Former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott’s family will file a probate action to gain control over his estate after he died last week before a judge decided who should serve as his legal guardian.Ott...
View ArticleLike the Jazz, Clippers trying to stay afloat through roster upheaval
When the Utah travel to Staples Center for Tuesday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, both teams will be in familiar surroundings. After all, this was the venue for Utah’s final postseason win, a...
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Margaret Sullivan: Conservative media was Scottie Nell Hughes’ world. Now...
Scottie Nell Hughes defended Donald Trump passionately during the campaign. After the election, seeming to echo Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s notion of “alternative facts,” Hughes infamously opined...
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Fred Hiatt: The point that McCain and Bush were making is much bigger than Trump
It’s no surprise that when President Donald Trump shot back at Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last week, he failed to engage the substance of McCain’s argument.“Yeah, well I hear it. And people have to be...
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Tribune Editorial: Whether Love or McAdams wins that Congress seat, it's good...
Utah, we have a horse race.And whoever wins, it will be good for everybody.Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, a Democrat, announced the other day that he will challenge incumbent Republican Mia Love...
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BYU football: Kalani Sitake granted troubled former linebacker Francis...
Provo • Embattled BYU football coach Kalani Sitake has a lot of things to worry about with the Cougars standing at 1-7 and on their longest losing streak since 1968, but the status of two players who...
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Appeals court upholds conviction of San Juan Commissioner Phil Lyman for...
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld Monday the conviction of San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman for leading a protest ride through Recapture Canyon near Monticello, which...
View ArticleA first look inside Utah's 17th Mormon temple, this one in Cedar City
Mormons and non-Mormons alike will get their first peek inside Utah’s 17th LDS temple starting this week, a little more than two years after officials broke ground on the Cedar City project.From Friday...
View ArticleSugar House library re-opens after devastating flood that destroyed thousands...
Larry DuBois has been visiting the Sprague Branch Library in Sugar House for the past 20 years. But for the past three months — after a flood filled its lower level with more than 5 feet of water —...
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Two Salt Lake City police officers cleared in Tooele County shooting episode...
Tooele County Attorney Scott Broadhead has determined that two Salt Lake City police officers were legally justified in using deadly force when they exchanged gunfire with an armed man following a May...
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