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‘Is that alive?’ Giant red iguana to invade Utah’s most photographed restaurant
As if the Red Iguana weren’t already Utah’s most photographed dining spot.Now, a giant, scaly-skinned iguana will be installed in the parking lot of Red Iguana 2, 866 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City,...
View ArticleLetter: When will our leaders stand up to NRA?
Until we acknowledge that the common American person does not need automatic weapons that have rapid fire capacity and can kill or maim hundreds in a matter of minutes, we will be known around the...
View ArticleMormon missionaries evacuated because of Madagascar plague
An outbreak of pneumonic and bubonic plague has forced evacuation of nearly 80 Mormon missionaries from the southeastern African island nation of Madagascar.LDS Church officials stressed Thursday that...
View ArticleLetter: We need the federal government's protection
There is much talk lately about turning over to the states some of the functions of the federal government. Health care decisions for example. I for one hope that it doesn’t happen. I believe that we...
View ArticleMexicans see models of Trump's 'impenetrable' wall, and they're not impressed
San Diego • The prototypes of the Trump border wall are taking shape this month in a sun-baked swath of scrubland abutting a run-down neighborhood of Tijuana. Lined up next to each other, the...
View ArticleTrump's health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance
Washington • If President Donald Trump prevails in shutting down a major “Obamacare” health insurance subsidy, it would have the unintended consequence of making free basic coverage available to more...
View ArticleJazz general manager Dennis Lindsey talks about Ricky Rubio, Donovan Mitchell...
Close to this time last season, the leadership in the Utah Jazz organization sat down with Joe Ingles to tell him a hard truth: He was penciled in as the fifth wing in the rotation.A year later, Ingles...
View ArticleICE interested in more detention sites for immigrants in Salt Lake City area
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting information from private and public contractors for possible new detention sites in the Salt Lake City area for detained immigrants.In a request for...
View ArticleMonson: Jazz know what they are, who they are, and they like it
So this is the way it’s going to be.The Jazz actually are going to rely on defense for their offense.And that counterintuitive mind-pretzel isn’t some manufactured bit of BS a coach likes to say and...
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Former Salt Lake City councilman convicted in New York in $2.5 million fraud...
Former Salt Lake City councilman Eric Jergensen and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday in New York of conspiring to defraud an aerospace company of $2.5 million.A jury returned the guilty verdict...
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Arizona State's Harry, Ballage could cause Utah’s defense some headaches
Phillip Afia didn’t flinch. Not that he was supposed to.“There’s never a challenge or anybody in front of us that I’d ever be afraid of and think, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do?’ Never,” said Utah’s...
View ArticleGary Ott dies after Alzheimer’s battle; former top aide blames his family
After years spent suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disease, mostly hidden from public view, former longtime Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott died Thursday morning in hospice care in St....
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Double duty: Miles Teller plays real-life heroes in two movies this month
Filming back-to-back movies — one about firefighters battling wildfires, the other about U.S. soldiers returning from combat and facing PTSD — the actor Miles Teller had an unusual resource at his...
View ArticlePolice seek public’s help after skateboarder injured in hit-and-run
Salt Lake City police are asking for help to identify the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that injured a skateboarder in early October.At about 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, a 33-year-old man was skateboarding...
View ArticleSpain set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid
Barcelona, Spain • The crisis over Catalonia’s quest for independence escalated Thursday, as Spain’s central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of some of its...
View Article‘Game of Throws’: What went wrong for the Utes at the Coliseum?
From Darren Carrington standing alone in the back of the end zone to each of Sam Darnold’s third-down conversions, the Utes seemed to be just one play away from victory at the Los Angeles...
View Article‘The Snowman‘ is a police thriller that’s as cold as ice and as dull as dirt
Imagine an icicle slowly forming off the nose of a severed head, and you get a sense of how unsettlingly gross and endlessly boring the cold-as-ice police procedural “The Snowman” is.Meet Harry Hole...
View ArticleRomantic story pumps life into inspirational drama ‘Breathe’
As an inspirational true-life drama of overcoming adversity, “Breathe” is predictably heartwarming, but as a romance, about two people sticking together in the face of overwhelming odds, it’s downright...
View ArticleUtah horse trainer accused of animal cruelty pleads guilty to disorderly conduct
A former employee of a Juab County lavender farm — who allegedly tied a horse to a truck and repeatedly dragged it across the ground by its neck — has resolved the criminal case against him by pleading...
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Scott D. Pierce: Weinstein is just the tip of the Hollywood scandal iceberg
One thing is certain about Hollywood’s widening sexual harassment scandal — it’s only just begun. It is not just about Harvey Weinstein. It didn’t begin with him. One wonders if his victims were...
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