Teacher and author Elouise Bell, early Mormon feminist, dies at 82
Elouise Bell, a significant figure in Mormon literary circles for decades, has died at her home in Oklahoma at age 82, prompting a lengthy eulogy on the website of the Association for Mormon...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump comments that it’s the ‘calm before the storm’ but won’t...
Trump comments that it’s the ‘calm before the storm’ but won‘t elaborate. Utah congressional leaders consider banning ‘bump stocks’ after Las Vegas mass shooting. The Huntsman Cancer Institute and the...
View ArticleHoly spirits: Closed churches find second life as breweries
Youngstown, Ohio • Ira Gerhart finally found a place last year to fulfill his yearslong dream of opening a brewery: a 1923 Presbyterian church. It was cheap, charming and just blocks from downtown...
View ArticlePick 6: Six prep football games worth watching in Week 8
Juab at Juan Diego, 7 p.m.The Wasps took down the last of the undefeated teams in Class 3A last week, knocking off Summit Academy 27-7. It sets up a rematch of a Class 3A state semifinal last year, a...
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Common ground: Utah Lutherans, Catholics to pray side by side 500 years after...
On an October day five centuries ago, a German friar named Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the doors of Wittenberg’s Castle Church, triggering the Protestant Reformation.This Sunday, Christians rent...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Utes fans missed seeing Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey, but here...
The Pac-12′s football scheduling rotation cheated fans of the Utah Utes, considering how Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey never played in Salt Lake City during his three-year career as a Cardinal running...
View ArticleU.S. hiring falls 33,000 after hurricanes slam Texas, Florida
Washington • The United States shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations. It...
View ArticleBirth control: Trump expands opt-out for workplace insurance
Washington • President Donald Trump is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections, issuing new rules Friday that take...
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Naughty children beware in Salt Lake theater’s sinister Halloween show
“Shockheaded Peter,” a macabre German musical crafted out of cautionary tales about the delightful, horrible consequences of children’s disobedience, is the latest production by Sackerson theater...
View ArticleA timeline of Sgt. Bergdahl's captivity
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who spent five years in captivity in Afghanistan after abandoning his post, is expected to plead guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, people with knowledge of...
View ArticleArizona congressman repeats bogus claim that Charlottesville violence was...
In the aftermath of the summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, conspiracy theorists came out in force. It took less than a day for familiar faces such as Alex Jones of...
View ArticleUtah medical tech firms are trying stem cells to treat back pain and...
People suffering from lower back pain are expected to benefit from a drug developed by a biotechnology company in University of Utah Research Park and newly approved for a clinical study by the U.S....
View ArticleSaratoga Springs: No shooting threat at high school, but student brought gun...
In the wake of the Las Vegas mass shootings, Friday’s social media buzz about a shooting threat at a Saratoga Springs high school caught on like wildfire.Problem was, it was just plain not so.And, said...
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Humane Society of Utah rejects dog food donation after discovering pet store...
Weeks after receiving a pallet of dog food, members of the Humane Society of Utah were dismayed to discover that the donation came from an unlikely and unwanted source: a pet store.The Humane Society...
View ArticlePolice recover human bones from Millcreek Canyon trail leading to Dog Lake
Hikers stumbled across human bones near the Upper Big Water trail in Millcreek Canyon Thursday evening, police confirmed Friday.The bones were 50-100 yards away from the path, about a mile up the...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Bring on the family traditions!
The first frost hit this week, the garden has been put to bed, the harvest tablecloth and fall-colored candles have been brought out and today, a momentous milestone occurred: I started playing...
View ArticleSmallpools moves on from ‘Dreaming’ to ‘chilling’ in new EP ahead of Salt...
Smallpools frontman Sean Scanlon has “chilled out” and so has his band’s sound. The indie outfit that caught fire in 2013 with debut frenetic electro pop single “Dreaming” left its original label RCA,...
View ArticleMormons gather at funeral in Utah for high-ranking leader
Mormons are gathering at a funeral in Salt Lake City at the religion’s historic Tabernacle to honor the life of high-ranking church leader Robert D. Hales, who died at the age of 85.Hales died Sunday...
View ArticleEquality Utah, state schools settle lawsuit over anti-gay sex-ed policies
Equality Utah has settled the first-of-its-kind lawsuit brought against the state of Utah a over sex-education law that banned positive discussions of homosexuality in public schools.A joint motion to...
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In ‘Dynasty’ reboot, women are strong and gays are out and proud
The reboot of “Dynasty” is filled with familiar names — Carringtons and Colbys. It’s filled with sort-of familiar characters — Blake, Cristal, Fallon, Steven and Jeff. But if you remember the 1981-89...
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