Suspect in Box Elder County homicide taken into custody in Idaho
The alleged assailant in the death of a man whose body was found Wednesday morning in a garage in Box Elder County was taken into custody hours later in Idaho.Willard police officers and Box Elder...
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Feds approve Utah Medicaid waiver, will lead to greatly expanded drug treatment
The federal Health and Human Services Department has approved Utah’s long-requested Medicaid waiver — a plan that gives funding to provide health coverage for about 6,000 poor adults without...
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Dana Milbank: Democrats are setting themselves up to lose
Washington • President Trump’s job approval rating fell to just 33 percent in a Gallup poll this week. One of his campaign aides pleaded guilty in the Russia probe and two more were indicted....
View ArticlePsychiatrist: Bergdahl mental disorder factored in desertion
Fort Bragg, N.C. • Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s difficult childhood and washout from Coast Guard boot camp stoked serious psychiatric disorders that helped spur him to walk off his remote post in...
View ArticleAn emotional Utah homecoming is on tap for UCLA tackle, Herriman grad Andre...
The estimate, Andre James recalls, was about 106.That’s how many family members and friends were in attendance to watch his first homecoming, a 17-14 UCLA win over BYU at LaVell Edwards Stadium last...
View ArticlePolice: Truck attack suspect 'did this in the name of ISIS'
New York • The Uzbek immigrant accused of using a truck to mow people down along a bike path, killing eight, “did this in the name of ISIS” and followed the extremist group’s online instructions...
View ArticleDocumentary ‘Dina’ lovingly shows a romance without limits — a refreshing and...
Few fictional movies handle romance as beautifully as “Dina,” the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and a story as warm-hearted and as open as its title...
View ArticleSamurai thriller ‘Blade of the Immortal’ is bloody and energetic
If splattering blood in film is an art form, the Japanese director Takashi Miike is Jackson Pollock — and his 100th movie as director, the samurai movie “Blade of the Immortal,” is one of the most...
View ArticleJazz shootaround: Quin Snyder says Portland's Lillard, McCollum ‘next to...
The Utah Jazz will face what is arguably their biggest defensive challenge of the young NBA season Wednesday.Portland guards Damian Lillard, the former Weber State star, and CJ McCollum form one of the...
View ArticleUK town to burn Harvey Weinstein in effigy on Bonfire Night
London • A British town plans to burn a 36-foot (11-meter) effigy of Harvey Weinstein at its annual Bonfire Night celebrations.Each year the Edenbridge Bonfire Society chooses a well-known figure to go...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Cultivating an attitude of gratitude
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial info acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house...
View ArticleFederal prosecutors plan to retry former real estate guru Rick Koerber
Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they intend to retry former real estate guru Rick Koerber, who is accused of illegal business dealings and running a Ponzi scheme, and whose recent jury trial ended...
View ArticlePayson Jr. High accused of exposing children to pornography by showing the...
A brief scene in the 1999 film “Oklahoma!” is generating complaints against the Nebo School District after the movie was shown to students at Payson Junior High School in September. In the film — a...
View ArticleSalt Lake refineries, nonprofit group launch effort to replace wood stoves to...
Wasatch Front residents can vie for a limited number of vouchers to help pay for a cleaner-burning fireplace this year, thanks to a perhaps unexpected partnership between two of Utah’s refineries and a...
View ArticleLawmakers release Russia-linked Facebook ads
Washington • Lawmakers on Wednesday released a trove of Facebook ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and whip up tensions around divisive social issues.The ads,...
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Sloths rescued from deforestation will debut Friday at Draper aquarium
Draper • Wrapped around the branches of a hibiscus tree, a pair of two-toed sloths were getting psyched up for their debut Friday at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium.Actually, they were sleeping.“They...
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Prank Mormon mission calls ‘send’ some to ‘Star Wars’ moons or Middle-earth
Standing in front of a group of close friends and family members, Mormon-missionaries-to-be eagerly tear into a letter postmarked from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that will...
View ArticleGeorgia attorney general quits defense in server wiping case
The Georgia attorney general’s office will no longer represent state election officials in an elections integrity lawsuit in which a crucial computer server was quietly wiped clean three days after the...
View ArticleUK defense secretary resigns amid allegations about behavior
London • Britain’s defense minister resigned Wednesday after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior — the latest twist in a growing scandal over harassment and abuse in the country’s...
View ArticlePorzingis not surprised by sizzling start as Knicks main man
New York • Kristaps Porzingis is neither surprised nor satisfied by his sensational start to the NBA season.He entered play Wednesday third in the league in scoring with 29.3 points per game after the...
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