Still a chance to cut your own Christmas tree in Utah on BLM lands
Wasatch Front and Utah families who want to cut their own Christmas trees may have missed the chance to snag a permit on U.S. Forest Service lands.But there are plenty of permits for mostly juniper and...
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4th person shot dead in Tampa in possible serial spree
Tampa, Fla. • Police cordoned off a Florida neighborhood and searched intensely for a possible serial killer Tuesday after a fourth person was shot dead.Tampa police say residents of the city’s...
View Article3 UCLA players return to US after China shoplifting incident
Los Angeles • Three UCLA basketball players detained in China on suspicion of shoplifting are on a plane back to Los Angeles.Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said Tuesday the matter "has been resolved...
View ArticleSessions mulling second special counsel to investigate Republican concerns,...
Washington • Attorney General Jeff Sessions is entertaining the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate a host of Republican concerns — including alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton...
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Noah Feldman: Roy Moore's defiant brand can't protect him now
To anyone who’s been following Roy Moore for the past 15 years, there’s a single question that won’t go away: Why are we here? Given that Moore, as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court defied...
View ArticleUtah liquor stores have made these changes so customers get shorter lines,...
Utah liquor stores hope to reduce long lines and empty shelves during the busy holiday season by adding more deliveries, increasing employee hours and possibly keeping some outlets open longer, the...
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Commentary: Tax reform should invest in our future, our kids
Kids don’t vote and they don’t donate to political campaigns. This means they often don’t have a seat at the table and the needs of those living in poverty can easily be overlooked during national...
View ArticleThousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity
In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire "warning to humanity." They said humans had pushed Earth's ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the...
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Commentary: Are Mormons the new conscience of the GOP?
“Unfit.” That’s what Mitt Romney said late last week about Roy Moore, the controversial former state judge who’s on the ballot as the GOP Senate nominee for Alabama’s special election Dec. 12. Moore is...
View ArticleBYU basketball begins difficult week Wednesday night at Princeton
BYU basketball coach Dave Rose already was looking ahead to this week a few minutes after his Cougars walloped Mississippi Valley State 91-61 last Saturday.And for good reason.It definitely will be one...
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Catherine Rampell: If the tax bill is so great, why does the GOP keep lying...
Nearly every claim Republicans are using to market their tax plan is at best a distortion, at worst a deliberate falsehood.Which raises the question: If their plan is really so great, why not sell it...
View ArticleAmerican detained trying to enter North Korea; North Korean soldier escapes...
Tokyo • The demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas was the scene of an unusual amount of action Monday as an American man unsuccessfully attempted to cross into the North and a North Korean...
View ArticleMonson: Kyle Whittingham is no maniac; just a man who understands the...
The man didn’t pound the table, didn’t rant and rave and act like a maniac, didn’t put on a show, didn’t behave like a spoiled, emotional wreck who had been cheated or wronged or betrayed or personally...
View ArticleJohn Cleese, Utah Jazz fan, coming to Salt Lake City to talk about ‘Monty...
John Cleese gets on the phone with the reporter from Utah and starts with an urgent question: “I want you to tell me: What happened to Gordon Hayward?”The reporter would have sooner expected the...
View ArticleState trust land managers will auction 1,550 coveted acres in southern Utah...
Trust lands officials are hoping to make another killing by auctioning a coveted piece of southern Utah this week when it puts five parcels, totaling 1,550 acres, on the block.The most interesting...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: Adrift in New York without a cellphone
Slight panic in the airport out in Texas. Waiting to check a bag, pull out my billfold, no driver’s license. Check pockets, briefcase. Credit cards, no license. The brain flutters. Hotel? Taxi?...
View ArticleBill Gates joins the fight against Alzheimer's — and it's personal
Billionaire Bill Gates is personally investing $50 million to help fund research to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia that Gates says has struck members of his own...
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Dana Milbank: An absolutely not-made-up dossier on Trump's early years
Washington • “I just asked him again, and he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they’re saying he did. … I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. … I...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: ESPN is surprisingly nice to BYU, despite all the losses
If ever there was a season for ESPN to be, well, less than supportive of the BYU football team, this is it.The Cougars were 2-8 heading into Friday’s game at UNLV, having beaten only a winless FCS...
View ArticleSeries of California shootings kill 5, wound child at school
Red Bluff, Calif. • A gunman killed four people and wounded a number of others at random Tuesday at multiple locations in rural Northern California, including an elementary school, before police shot...
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