Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in sexting case
New York • Former Rep. Anthony Weiner was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for sexting with a 15-year-old girl in a case that rocked Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the White House in the closing...
View ArticleGarden City triple-shooting victims’ families, investigators mum on tragedy
A man who died in a Sunday shooting near Bear Lake was killed in self-defense by two people he wounded, police said Monday.Police responded to a Garden City home over the weekend after they heard...
View ArticleNorth Korea says Trump has 'declared war' on his country
United Nations • North Korea’s top diplomat said Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s weekend tweet was a “declaration of war” and North Korea has the right to retaliate by shooting down U.S....
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U.S. Olympians excited about a 2026 or 2030 winter games on American soil,...
Park City • Jackie Wiles’ Olympic dream was borne here in 2002.The alpine skier from Oregon watched as Julia Mancuso and other Team USA skiers competed in the Salt Lake City games, and left determined...
View ArticleFeds move ahead with oil and gas leases on southern Utah lands rich in...
The Bureau of Land Management plans to move forward on nearly 52,000 acres of proposed oil and gas leases in archaeologically sensitive parts of southeastern Utah.Among the 43 parcels to be auctioned...
View ArticleUtah GOP brings battle over nominations to appeals court
Denver • Utah Republicans pressed ahead Monday with a legal battle that has divided the party for three years, arguing before a federal appeals court that a state law changing how political parties...
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'Gayest Bake Sale' organizers ask Mormon church for $4.4K donation
The organizers of a gay-themed bake sale in Salt Lake City have asked the Mormon church to match the more than $4,000 in donations the event raised and lend the faith’s support to programs that promote...
View ArticleIraqi Kurds vote in referendum on independence from Baghdad
Irbil, Iraq • Iraqi Kurds cast ballots on Monday in their autonomous region and in a wide sweep of captured territories on whether to seek independence from Baghdad, a historic vote that has also...
View ArticleKragthorpe: SLC Track Club's Making Strides program captures young runners at...
At first, Meryl Call remembers, the fifth-grade girls she was coaching wanted to attend the weekly sessions only “to put on their matching pink shoes, chat with girlfriends and repeatedly ask if they...
View ArticleSen. Orrin Hatch says he has a fix for immigration turmoil in wake of...
Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch joined a Republican-led effort Monday that proposes rigorous vetting requirements for young immigrants to “earn the right to citizenship” over a 15-year period — a legislative fix...
View ArticleDecades after ‘Little Rock Nine,’ school segregation lingers
Little Rock, Ark. • Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through...
View ArticleTicket dispute over conservative speaker at University of Utah raises...
Members of a diverse group of University of Utah students say they were blocked from receiving tickets to an upcoming speech by conservative writer Ben Shapiro after spending the night on campus to...
View Article'Star Trek: Discovery' doesn't stink — it's actually pretty good
“Star Trek: Discovery” doesn’t suck.Phew!There was reason to fear that the seventh “Trek” series might be terrible because the Powers That Be at CBS didn’t screen it for critics before Sunday’s...
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Studying 1 million people to end cookie-cutter health care
Washington • In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and...
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BYU football: Cougars hold players-only meeting, vow to turn season around —...
Provo • BYU is an embarrassed, angry and frustrated football team.But at least the Cougars are united.That’s the message coach Kalani Sitake and senior captain Fred Warner delivered Monday as the 1-3...
View ArticleSalt Lake City, county mayors highlight new emergency response program at...
If a natural disaster were to hit hard along the Wasatch Front, how prepared would residents be?It’s a question worth asking given the images of devastating hurricanes, wildfires and a powerful...
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Utah football: Whether it’s Troy Williams or Tyler Huntley at QB, Kyle...
Depending on how quickly Tyler Huntley heals, the next time the Utes offense takes the field may be a both foreign and strangely familiar.Senior quarterback Troy Williams will undoubtedly prepare as...
View ArticleChurch used unemployment scam to boost funds, ex-members say
Spindale, N.C. • When Randy Fields’ construction company faced potential ruin because of the cratering economy, he pleaded with his pastor at Word of Faith Fellowship church to reduce the amount of...
View ArticleBYU student says his caffeine-delivery service is still popular even though...
Since Brigham Young University now sells the real-deal upper of Coca-Cola, you’d think that change would be a downer for an entrepreneur who built a business around delivering juiced-up sodas to...
View ArticleCharges: Utah murder defendant apparently believed victim had broken into his...
A man accused of fatally stabbing another man at a Magna gas station this month apparently believed the victim had broken into his home earlier that day, according to charging documents.Jose Francisco...
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