News roundup: Russian-bought ads on Facebook promoted Donald Trump, Bernie...
Russian-bought ads on Facebook promoted Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein in 2016 presidential election. Senate Republicans concede defeat with latest health care proposal. Spencer Cox calls...
View ArticleVictim in fatal motorcycle crash in Big Cottonwood Canyon lost control before...
Unified police have identified a motorcyclist who died when his bike crashed into a rock wall in Big Cottonwood Canyon.UPD Detective Chuck Malm said 62-year-old Barry S. Walton, of Taylorsville, was...
View ArticleTrump, GOP tax plan cuts rates, nearly doubles deduction
Washington • President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are proposing a far-reaching, $5 trillion plan Wednesday that would cut taxes for individuals and corporations, simplify the tax system...
View ArticleSarah Hendrickson is an Olympic pioneer who has to pay for her training
Park City • There have been plenty of problems and no podiums in the months and years since U.S. ski jumping pioneer Sarah Hendrickson blew out her right knee.The latter has created another kind of...
View ArticleGolf: Oakridge secures Web.com Tour event for three more years
The Web.com Tour will return to Oakridge Country Club in July as part of a three-year contract extension, the tour and the host Utah Sports Commission announced Wednesday.The Utah Championship...
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Regulators say poorly run Utah gas field is trashing wildlife area
In what amounts to a three-way crackdown, regulators overseeing Utah wildlife, school trust lands and the state’s extraction industries are jointly targeting the operator of a gas field west of...
View ArticleRob Lowe will share intimate tales with Salt Lake audience
Rob Lowe has been in the public eye — mostly for better and occasionally for worse — for nearly four decades. He’s had hits and misses on TV and in movies; a sex-tape scandal; more than his share of...
View ArticleU.S. pending home sales fell 2.6 percent in August
Washington • Fewer people signed contracts to buy homes in August, marking the fifth decline in the past six months. The 2.6 percent fall continues to reflect the worsening shortage nationwide of homes...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Look for the helpers
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore Last week, I wrote about the lack of humanity displayed by some...
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Dana Milbank: The sad suspicion about Trump's shameful treatment of Puerto Rico
Washington • Suppose that the entire San Diego metropolitan area had lost electrical power, and it wouldn’t be restored for months.Or, suppose that most of the ports, roads and cellular towers in the...
View ArticleAggies are living blowout to blowout this season
Logan • Utah State players and coaches alike stuck to one point in the final days leading up to the 2017 season: The team would have to find a way to win the close games, unlike the year before.And...
View ArticleImmigration officers nab long-sought ‘Most Wanted’ sex offender in Provo
A Mexican national convicted of sex offenses in the United States and on the run from federal immigration officials has been arrested in Utah.Jesus Guitron-Aguilera, who had been on the U.S....
View ArticleOfficials: Transgender teen's grisly death not a hate crime
Houston, Mo. • Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld’s burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen’s eyes had been gouged out and she...
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Two men sentenced to probation for lying to West Valley City police in...
Two men acquitted of murder by a jury earlier this year will spend six years on probation for lying to police about a 2013 gang-related fatal shooting in West Valley City.Both 25-year-old Alejandro...
View ArticleU.S. Interior chief wants smaller monuments, but not in his home state
Billings, Mont. • U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss’ playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments that President...
View ArticleKragthorpe: We have the answer to Krystkowiak's question: 'Did you know...
The books neatly stacked on a table of an administrator’s office in the University of Utah’s Burbidge Athletics Academic Center illustrate the nature of the industry in this era.“Cheated: The UNC...
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Margaret Sullivan: Jeff Sessions sounded like a free-speech champion at...
I knew if I waited long enough, I’d find something to agree with Attorney General Jeff Sessions about.It was never going to be about deporting young immigrants instead of putting them on a road to...
View ArticleLouisville places basketball coach Rick Pitino, AD on administrative leave
Louisville, Ky. • Louisville has placed coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation.Interim university President Greg Postel said at...
View ArticleUtah woman sentenced to jail for driving under the influence during crash...
A Weber County woman who pleaded guilty to driving under the influence during a fatal rollover crash two years ago in Tooele County has been sentenced to jail time.Ann Margaret Fearn, 50, of Hooper,...
View Article"Don't be afraid!" Pope starts campaign to promote migrants
Vatican City • Pope Francis has launched a two-year campaign about the plight of migrants to counteract mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S. and Europe, urging the world: “Don’t be...
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