Some automatic weapons, possibly used in Las Vegas shooting, are legal but...
The fusillade emanating from the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas Sunday night sounded to many as if it came from one or more automatic rifles, which fire continuously so long as the trigger is held...
View ArticleLetter: Utah and the perils of one-party rule
After numerous attempts over the years to share my views with Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, I’ve come to the conclusion that they don’t care what I think. They rarely respond to letters whether sent...
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Mormon records helped uncover family histories for Bernie Sanders and Larry...
With a bit of help from the Mormons, PBS’ “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” discovered that Sen. Bernie Sanders and the man who parodied him on “Saturday Night Live,” Larry David, are...
View ArticleFormer Utah chemistry teacher sent to prison for sexually abusing teen girl
A former Davis County high school chemistry teacher has been sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl.Douglas B. Tate, 70, of Kaysville, was a part-time chemistry teacher at Viewmont...
View ArticleAmbassador Huntsman arrives in Moscow, set to meet Putin this week
Washington • Newly minted U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman arrived in Moscow on Monday and presented his credentials to the Foreign Ministry, Russian news services reported. Huntsman, a former...
View ArticleUtah State football: Aggies revel in BYU victory, gear up for Colorado State
While a sizeable number of college football fans in Utah continued to focus on what the vanquished did wrong, Utah State’s players and coaches preferred to concentrate Monday on what the Aggies did...
View ArticleLas Vegas horror drives predictable gun stock rally
The grim predictability of stock-market reactions to U.S. mass shootings-where before a final tally of casualties can be reached, shares of gun makers rise-continued Monday in the wake of a Las Vegas...
View ArticleLetter: Trump is blind to the tragedy of war
I have been watching the TV documentary, “The Vietnam War,” during which a North Vietnamese veteran of the war knowingly stated, “No one wins in war.” We now have a president who in a braggadocio...
View ArticleLetter: Feeling nostalgic for Seoul
I have been following Pat Bagley’s series on South Korea with nostalgia and recognition, as my first salaried position was teaching English to adults in Seoul.The Sept. 20 cartoon pointed out Korea’s...
View ArticleLetter: Kick the protesting football players out
I have been reading more and more about the NFL players who are supposedly protesting the mistreatment of minorities by kneeling or sitting during the national anthem. To me, this is a coward’s way...
View ArticleLetter: In single-payer debate, do the research on health care around the world
I’m sure Craig Paulson is very informed, but there seems to be quite a few disconnects in his opinion piece (“Single-payer health care is not the answer,” Sept. 22).Among the three largest countries in...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Sadly, the carnage will continue
Washington - We will never know why. We already know how, but we don’t care about that. And we know, beyond the slightest doubt, that it will happen again.There can be no rational motive for mass...
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At least two Utahns die in mass shooting at Las Vegas country music festival
Jessie Wood was wading through the crowd of country music fans, headed for the bathroom, when she heard the pop-pop-pop late Sunday night. The 22-year-old Ogden resident had come to the three-day Route...
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Backers file paperwork to put Utah Medicaid expansion on 2018 ballot
Karina Brown’s mother died of an acute stroke in 2013 — uninsured and just a few months short of qualifying for health benefits under Medicare.A single mother with seven kids, she went without regular...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes confident they can exploit openings in Stanford defense
As tall a task as the Utah defense faces in stopping Stanford’s rushing attack and the nation’s leading rusher, Bryce Love, there’s also an intriguing matchup between the Stanford defense and the Utah...
View ArticleSalt Lake City music venues react to Las Vegas tragedy: 'We all have to band...
The Sunday night massacre at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas has personnel at some Salt Lake City-area music venues examining what, if anything, can be done to make their...
View ArticleMan once accused of human trafficking sentenced to jail for using false ID to...
A man once accused of human trafficking for allegedly smuggling a woman across the U.S.-Mexico border to Utah and forcing her into prostitution has been sentenced to jail time for using false documents...
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Top Democrat jokes that Republican tax-reform plan is ‘anti-Mormon’
The top Democrat in the Senate joked during an interview last week that the recent tax-reform proposal unveiled by Republicans — including Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch — is inherently “anti-Mormon.”“Let me...
View ArticleIf addiction is a disease, should relapse mean jail time?
Boston • Less than two weeks after a court ordered Julie Eldred to not use drugs while on probation, she tested positive for the powerful opioid fentanyl. The woman, who has severe substance use...
View ArticleChristianity may be declining in U.S., but presidents still turn to the Bible...
President Donald Trump departs from the habits of his predecessors in many ways, but not in this one: In his Monday speech after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, Trump used biblical...
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