Trump hasn't called all families of the fallen — including one from Utah
Washington • President Donald Trump has pulled bereaved military families into a painful political fight of his own making, going so far Tuesday as to cite the death of his chief of staff’s son in...
View ArticleHugh Hewitt: If Senate Republicans don't want the majority, they are doing...
The United States Courts, the third branch of government laid out in the Constitution, maintains a website that tracks vacancies among its 890 authorized judgeships. That site is continually updated,...
View ArticleSLC to take a year off Twilight, consider new model in 2019
Twilight is destined to go dark in 2018.Salt Lake City officials have proposed a suspension of the popular Pioneer Park concert series and a 2019 revival with either more funding, fewer shows or...
View ArticleJudge rules in ALCS Game 4 as Yanks get even at two games apiece
New York • With a soaring shot headed for Yankee Stadium's Monument Park, Aaron Judge got New York back on track for another memorable October.Judge ignited a rousing rally with a home run, then...
View ArticleUtah man accused of choking 10-year-old boy with football jersey at sleepover...
A Layton man was booked into jail on suspicion of child abuse after police said he choked out his 10-year-old son using a football jersey on Friday, causing the child’s face to turn blue. The...
View ArticleMaple Mountain ousts East on PKs to reach girls' soccer state championship game
Draper • Never has a performance more personified the concept of “grind it out” than that of Maple Mountain on Tuesday evening in the Class 5A girls’ soccer state semifinals.Short-handed and taken out...
View ArticleAnother push to end Utah’s death penalty is likely for the 2018 legislative...
Advocates for abolishing Utah’s death penalty system say they plan to push lawmakers to end capital punishment in the 2018 legislative session.Legislators came close to stopping the punishment in 2016...
View ArticleRio Grande Street closure gets SLC Council’s approval
A “safe space” created on the street outside Salt Lake City‘s homeless shelter is now officially in state hands until the closure of that shelter or Jan. 1, 2020 — whichever comes first. The City...
View ArticleSLC Council approves new airport director to oversee $3B rebuild
The Salt Lake City Council has given Bill Wyatt its unanimous approval to pilot the next leg of a $3 billion airport rebuild.The former CEO of the Port of Portland, Ore., was put forward last week by...
View ArticleTimpanogos dominates PKs to down Timpview, reach state title game
Draper • Rivals Timpanogos and Timpview traded empty scoring opportunities and corner kicks, errant passes and hold-your-breath saves for 100 minutes of regulation and overtime Tuesday night.The result...
View ArticleBackcourt depth highlights ‘Night with the Utes’ exhibition
Tuesday night gave Utes’ men’s basketball followers a small glimpse of what this season’s team might look like, but versatility in the backcourt will be a theme.Sedrick Barefield, a junior who became...
View ArticleDarvish, Taylor put Dodgers on verge of World Series berth
Chicago • Yu Darvish pitched into the seventh inning, Chris Taylor homered again and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-1 on Tuesday night to open a commanding 3-0 lead in the NL...
View ArticleColumbus Crew owner threatens to go to Austin if they don't get new stadium
Columbus, Ohio • The owner of the Crew SC says the team is no longer sustainable and will move to Austin, Texas, unless a new, privately-financed stadium is built in downtown Columbus.Anthony Precourt,...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Trump says Dem congresswoman ‘fabricated’ comment he made to...
Trump says Dem congresswoman ‘fabricated’ comment he made to soldier‘s widow. Poll finds Curtis with strong lead in the 3rd District. Study: noncompetitive elections mean less turn out.Happy Wednesday....
View ArticleKragthorpe: Gordon Hayward's injury should bring no joy to Jazz fans
Late in the first quarter of Gordon Hayward’s first game with the Boston Celtics, I checked the online box score and discovered he had played only five minutes. That seemed weird. So I looked around,...
View ArticleOperation Rio Grande disrupts drug dealers, but it hasn’t put them out of...
Operation Rio Grande had achieved its first goal within minutes, chasing much of Salt Lake City’s drug activity from the streets where it had long been so infamously entrenched.A sergeant newly...
View ArticleErin Alberty: No, that trail-runner in ‘Men’s Journal’ does not know Bears...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of old-timers vs. newcomers in southern Utah.My impression has long been that some of the misgivings against new, rec-focused transplants and visitors are...
View ArticleGeorge Pyle: Connecting some dots — Plans for Mitt and art that makes people...
In Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune Opinion section, we carried a piece by long-time political observer Bernie Quigley, who had some advice for Mitt Romney.— Mitt Romney must run for president in 2020 by...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Chill out, fans — ESPN does not hate the Pac-12
Ask Washington fans, and odds are they’ll tell you that ESPN hates the Huskies. And the league they play in. They’re furious up in Seattle. They don’t get no respect. The loss to Arizona State on...
View ArticleGehrke: As #MeToo seeks to end the silence around sexual assault, here’s my...
Reading the accounts of the various women who said they were sexually harassed and assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, the similarities are striking.Not just the similarities from one woman who Weinstein...
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