Jazz shootaround: Condensed preseason means Jazz must accomplish a lot in a...
With only five tuneups before the regular season opener in just a little over two weeks, time is of the essence for the Jazz.This means the preseason opener Monday night against the Sydney Kings will...
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Ann Cannon: Peach season brings sweet memories of Dad
It’s October now, so I think we’ve pretty much seen the last of the local peaches for sale at the corner fruit stands, right? Except, of course, for a few peach outliers.Anyway, for 6-8 weeks as late...
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Antlers vs. horns: Here’s the deal, according to wildlife experts
Ever wonder what the difference is between an antler and a horn?People regularly refer to the headgear on male deer elk and moose as horns, according to Mark Zornes of the Wyoming Department of Game...
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Congressional hopeful John Curtis deletes Facebook post that explained ‘build...
Provo Mayor John Curtis, the Republican vying for Utah’s vacant congressional seat, has deleted the Facebook post where he responded to criticisms and explained why his campaign ran two controversial...
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St. George gun store owner says he recently sold a shotgun to Las Vegas shooter
A St. George gun shop owner says he recently sold a shotgun to the man who killed more than 50 people and injured more than 500 at a Las Vegas concert late Sunday. Chris Michel, owner of the Dixie...
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Jennifer Rubin: Death in Las Vegas: The diminished president responds
The slaughter at a Las Vegas concert venue, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, likely will spur the same nonproductive, maddening political argument. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., put out a...
View ArticleGM maps all-electric future with 20 models arriving by 2023
General Motors joined a growing group of automakers promising an emissions-free future for cars by pledging to sell 20 all-electric vehicles by 2023.The largest U.S. automaker, which generates most of...
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BYU football: Kalani Sitake says Cougars unsure who will start at QB Friday...
Provo • After a relatively satisfying and stress-free initial season at the helm of BYU’s football team, coach Kalani Sitake faces a crisis situation in his second year, and not just because the...
View ArticleUtah football: Tyler Huntley’s status still in question, but Kavika...
Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham gave little indication what the status of injured starting quarterback Tyler Huntley will be this weekend when Utah hosts Stanford, but for the second week in a row...
View ArticleLetter: Climate change deniers should deal with reality
My experience in raising children is that they, as all of us from time to time, engage in wishful thinking about how we believe the world should be, not as it is. Oftentimes this wishful thinking...
View ArticleSome 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...
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