Strong finishes make Chiefs last unbeaten left through 4 weeks of NFL season
Kansas City, Mo. • The biggest reason the Kansas City Chiefs are the last remaining unbeaten team through the first four weeks of the NFL season is that someone long ago decided games should be 60...
View ArticleSLCO Council votes to fund more prosecutors for Operation Rio Grande
The Salt Lake County Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to give the district attorney’s office what it asked for: money to handle a crush of new felony cases stemming from Operation Rio Grande.The...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes, once again, sport a dynamic duo on special teams
Matt Gay remembers tuning into games, watching the snap, seeing the spiral hit the hands of the holder and the accompanying swing of a kicker’s leg. Each time a kicker drilled a field goal or even...
View ArticleCole Ponich captures 6A boys' golf state title, helps Davis dethrone Lone...
Layton • The contrast was evident on the 17th hole Tuesday.Weber High’s Conner Howe, a two-time boys defending individual state champion, thumped his club into the ground after teeing off. That even...
View ArticleVegas gunman transferred $100K, set up cameras at hotel room
Las Vegas • The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: Skyline stays perfect in region with sweep of West
Coaches have come and go just like at other schools over the history of Skyline High School, which opened in 1962.Except in volleyball. The door hardly has revolved since 1980 as only two coaches have...
View ArticleJudge, bullpen lead way as Yankees overpower Twins in AL wild-card game
New York • Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius and a brilliant bullpen rescued New York from a rugged start and lifted the Yankees to their first postseason win in five years.Gregorius’ three-run homer tied...
View ArticleBYU basketball: Timpview guard Hunter Erickson commits to Cougars
Provo • The early signing period for college basketball is still more than a month away, but on Tuesday BYU coach Dave Rose received a commitment from high-scoring Timpview High guard Hunter...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Winds lash the north, sunshine drenches the south
Strong winds lashed the Wasatch Front early Wednesday, leaving thousands of homes and businesses without power and churning crosswinds along north-south freeways that made for a rock-and-roll...
View ArticleLetter: Close all the campaign finance loopholes
Russian trolls just spent at least $100,000 on political ads on Facebook during the 2016 election. This is a serious, serious issue and just the tip of the iceberg.It is imperative that we close all...
View ArticleYes, I got schooled by a bunch of fifth-graders
I spoke to Ms. Richards’ fifth-grade class at Herriman Elementary School last week. The kids wanted to know how news is gathered and put into a newspaper. Why they picked me to explain this is a...
View ArticleLetter: Utahns vote against their own interests
In the Sept. 17 opinion cartoon, Pat Bagley hits the nail right on the head, and the point is we are all just stupid.We allow people with money to do and say as they please. Why? Because they have...
View ArticleLetter: Making us fear the homeless
As I read in the Sept. 12 edition of The Tribune about proposed fencing to enclose the homeless people in Salt Lake City, one woman was quoted saying she feared the eventual goal was to prevent freedom...
View ArticleLetter: Bagley does as he should with his cartoons
I offer up my praise for Pat Bagley in counterpoint to “No longer funny” (Nancy Carman, Sept. 14).Cartoons are not always meant to be funny, especially political cartoons. Bagley is an editorial...
View ArticleNews roundup: VP Pence’s chief of staff calls for ‘purge’ of GOP lawmakers...
VP Pence’s chief of staff calls for ‘purge’ of GOP lawmakers who don‘t support Trump. Congress won’t weigh in on gun silencer bill. Utah-born physicist wins the Nobel Prize. Happy Wednesday. Vice...
View ArticleDanger, danger! 7 movies in which robots threatened to destroy us
The first of Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics states that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Funny how often the robots in movies...
View ArticleWhat a macho, gun-packing Instagram star did when he was caught in the Las...
Guns and women got Dan Bilzerian where he is today — the so-called “King of Instagram,” with nearly 23 million followers, a mansion full of guns and a hot tub full of women.He lines his feed with...
View ArticleRepublican congressional hopeful John Curtis nabs Romney endorsement in race...
Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney praised the “can-do attitude” of Provo Mayor John Curtis while endorsing him Wednesday in the off-cycle special election to fill Utah’s vacant congressional...
View ArticleImmigrants rush to file last DACA renewals by Thursday
More than 100,000 young undocumented immigrants — nearly 69 percent of those eligible — have applied to renew their work permits ahead of a Thursday deadline set by President Trump as part of his...
View ArticleAfter decades of neglect, Torrey’s oldest home harboring gems of southern...
Torrey • The dilapidated wood cabin in southern Utah’s redrock country looked somewhat as it did when settlers built it in 1886: a one-room frontier outpost in a town once dubbed Poverty Flats. The...
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