Prep football: Crew Wakley, Jordan work over Brighton in 49-21 win
Cottonwood Heights • Jordan quarterback Crew Wakley was a human highlight reel, picking apart Brighton’s defense with both arm and leg in the Beetdiggers’ 49-21 victory Friday.“Our coaches came up with...
View ArticleKirby: Attack of the killer weeds — and my monstrous transformation into the...
I woke in the middle of the night with a pillow jammed over my face and someone leaning on it. I could barely breathe.Thinking it was a professional hit arranged by my wife or editor, I stopped...
View ArticlePrep football: East needs two fourth-down TD runs to subdue Herriman
East brought a national reputation and a high Class 6A ranking into Friday’s homecoming game against Herriman.The Mustangs, on the other hand, came to Salt Lake City with a 1-4 record. Few gave the...
View ArticleLarry Scott address pace of play in Pac-12 games
Pac-12 Conference Commissioner Larry Scott addressed reporters in the press box at Arizona Stadium during halftime of Friday’s game.Scott said the conference has been happy so far with its efforts to...
View ArticlePrep football: Lone Peak outlasts American Fork in offensive shootout
Highland • A high-powered American Fork offense certainly posed a challenge for the Lone Peak defense when the Cavemen arrived for Friday’s game.But the host Knights’ offense knew it could score a ton...
View ArticlePrep football: Lehi’s Cooper, Moody team up to overwhelm Olympus
Lehi • Quarterback Cammon Cooper saw Jaxon Moody in the end zone and let it fly. Moody stretched and tipped the ball to himself, hauling it in just before falling out of the back of the end zone.That...
View ArticlePrep football: Dixie gets revenge with victory over Pine View
St. George • Dixie players and coaches had Friday night’s game circled on the calendar after falling to Pine View in the Class 3AA state semifinals last year.Dixie’s sidelines were full of smiles and...
View ArticlePrep football: Week 6 scores
ThursdayCorner Canyon 44, Timpview 7FridayParowan 26, Rich 0Layton Christian 7, Kanab 0Orem 49, Mountain View 0Juan Diego 34, Richfield 3Tooele 37, Ben Lomond 7Jordan 49, Brighton 21Springville 39,...
View ArticleMonson: Utah proves tougher than any adversity and Arizona
Tucson, Ariz. • On a late Friday night dominated by an omnipresent Star Wars theme in the stands here, Utah did what it could to get on the good side of the Force where it mattered most — down on the...
View ArticleKoerber insists $100 million he took in for his ‘Equity Mill’was backed by...
Rick Koerber testified Friday that his companies had $120 million or so in equity in 2007 when they became illiquid, enough to back the $100 million in investments that came in during the enterprise’s...
View ArticleDover Quartet brings music from the Holocaust to Salt Lake City
Camden Shaw finds it disconcerting that the Dover String Quartet’s forthcoming album, “Voices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945,” is relevant today.The album includes quartets written in those years by Viktor...
View ArticleRiot Act stages an explosive production of an Ibsen classic
Sometimes the way you go about things can become more crucial than what you want to accomplish. This is the dilemma facing Thomas Stockmann, the main character in Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the...
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Affirmation, the gay Mormon support group, has seen a ‘sea change’ in its 40...
Affirmation, a support group for gay Mormons, was born in 1977, at a time when admission of same-sex attraction among the LDS faithful was a matter of inner turmoil, deep shame and religious rejection...
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Latest Utah Medicaid rules could jeopardize those who need health care the...
Once-reluctant supporters of Utah’s partial approach to expanding Medicaid, many advocates for the state’s low-income, homeless and disabled residents now fear a new set of limits on the expansion will...
View ArticleFusion barbecue at its finest — 565 Firehouse’s Thai curry with brisket
565 Firehouse is offering up fusion barbecue at its finest — blending smoked meats of the South with flavors of southeast Asia.This dish starts with a mildly spicy Thai yellow curry filled with...
View ArticleNew earthquake, magnitude 6.1, shakes jittery Mexico
Mexico City • A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, toppling already damaged homes and a highway bridge and causing new alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this...
View Article$9.1M project to deliver more water to Navajo communities
Greasewood, Ariz. • Work has started on a $9.1 million project to improve access to water in several Navajo communities.Navajo President Russell Begaye signed legislation last year to fund dozens of...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Homeless need a much larger 'safe space'
They are calling it a “safe space.”And, with any luck at all, it will be. But it won’t be enough.It’s the block of Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande Street in front of the city’s largest homeless shelter,...
View ArticleTrump trying to turn around GOP holdouts on health bill
Washington • Unwilling to concede defeat on a bedrock GOP promise, President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to sway two Republican holdouts on the party’s last-ditch health care hope while clawing at...
View ArticlePolice: Navajo Nation officer drunk, fatally strikes cyclist
Glendale, Ariz. • Authorities say a Navajo Nation police officer who was in the Phoenix area for training struck and killed a 60-year-old bicyclist shortly after midnight on Friday.Glendale police say...
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