Rodgers lifts Packers over Cowboys 35-31 in another thriller
Arlington, Texas • Aaron Rodgers had more magic in store for the Dallas Cowboys, who can’t seem to find the mojo that carried them a year ago.Rodgers threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Davante Adams...
View ArticleCatching up: Judge’s grab, Tanaka, Bird lift Yanks in Game 3
New York • Good thing for Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees that Aaron Judge is 6-foot-7.Judge reached high and prevented a home run to save Tanaka’s seven-inning gem, Greg Bird homered off relief ace...
View ArticleUtah's Tony Finau second in Safeway Open as Brendan Steele successfully...
Napa, Calif. • Brendan Steele is getting accustomed to fast starts and he likes it.Steele won the PGA Tour’s season-opening Safeway Open for the second straight year, closing with a 3-under 69 in windy...
View ArticleUndefeated Chiefs beat Texans 42-34; Watt breaks left leg
Houston • Former Utah star Alex Smith threw for 324 yards and three touchdowns to help the Kansas City Chiefs remain undefeated with a 42-34 victory over the Houston Texans on Sunday night in a game...
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Utah’s third largest city has gone 157 years without a female mayor. It won’t...
When Michelle Kaufusi went to Provo City Hall to file to run for mayor in June, a city official told her she was one of the first women to run for the job in the city’s history.“I really didn’t believe...
View ArticleBYU student running for local office raises voice for diversity, young people
For Tinesha Zandamela, a 23-year-old candidate for Provo City Council District 5 and a student at Brigham Young University, gender isn’t the only perspective missing from City Hall.“Our median age here...
View ArticleUtah colleges release new sexual assault data — but are asking students how...
Two sexual assaults were reported at Brigham Young University in 2016, according to data the school recently released under a federal campus safety law.But the actual number of assaults reported to the...
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Gehrke: Utah scientists believe they can implant a chip that would allow a...
When Nathan Copeland met then-President Barack Obama last year they exchanged a fist-bump that was far from the ordinary fist-bump.Copeland has been paralyzed from the chest down for more than a...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Dante Exum's injury is painful on multiple levels — for him and Jazz
The Jazz were generating some degree of momentum and optimism going into the 2017-18 NBA season, and then guard Dante Exum severely injured his shoulder in a preseason game Friday.This hurts, on...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Wind and sun, Indigenous Peoples Day; remember that given, and...
It’s Columbus Day. It’s Indigenous Peoples Day. Argue over which or whether, but Utah’s in for some windy weather.We all can agree that, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean...
View ArticlePolice: Dog, pepper-ball gun used to subdue man after West Valley City store...
West Valley City police arrested a knife-wielding, possibly drug-crazed man after he allegedly stabbed a convenience store clerk multiple times early Monday morning.Public safety dispatchers say the...
View ArticleAle yes! These two Utah brewers won gold at the Great American Beer Fest
Beer produced by Salt Lake City’s Red Rock Brewing and Squatters earned gold medals during the 2017 Great American Beer Festival competition this past weekend in Denver.Red Rock’s Zwickelbier took...
View ArticleNFL locals: Week Five snaps and stats for Utah, BYU, USU and SUU alumni in...
Each week, we’ll recap notable performances from local BYU, Utes, USU and SUU alumni in the NFL. Here’s what stood out from Week Five of the 2017 NFL season:New England Patriots at Tampa Bay Buccaneers...
View ArticleSen. Lee's brother-in-law dies after being hit by debris from burn scar...
Bryan Burr, brother-in-law of Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, died after being struck by an air drop of straw mulch onto a southern Utah wildfire burn scar restoration and reseeding area.Iron County Sheriff’s...
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Jennifer Rubin: Pence's pathetic stunt tells us a lot about him
With the exception of House Speaker Paul Ryan, there is no GOP politician who has debased himself more for the sake of accommodation with President Donald Trump than Vice President Mike Pence, who once...
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Lawrence Summers: The Trump administration's tax plan is an atrocity
The Trump administration’s tax plan is not a plan. It is a melange of ideas put forth without precision or arithmetic. It is not clear enough to permit the kind of careful quantitative analysis of its...
View ArticleOrem police arrest suspect in house break-in, assault on mother, child
Police arrested a 21-year-old Provo man after he allegedly broke into an Orem home and beat a woman and her 4-year-old daughter with a plastic pipe.Orem police Lt. Craig Martinez said the suspect is...
View ArticleLetter: Politicians should start caring about us and our healthcare
How is it possible that our bickering representatives in the nation’s capital can be so dumb? All the medical plans and schemes from both sides do not address the real problem we are stuck with:...
View ArticleLetter: The president and his disrespect of military personnel
At a joint press conference with the Spanish prime minister on Sept. 26 at the White House, the president said he felt “ashamed” by “disgraceful” NFL-wide protests and accused participants of...
View ArticleHall of Fame quarterback Y.A. Tittle dead at 90
Y.A. Tittle, the Hall of Fame quarterback and 1963 NFL Most Valuable Player, has died. He was 90.His family confirmed to LSU, where Tittle starred in college, that he passed away. No details were...
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