Mass casualty drill readies Salt Lake County for Las Vegas-like emergency
Lehi • Organizers had been planning a mass casualty drill in Utah for months, but last week’s shooting in Las Vegas reminded participants that the possibility of such an attack is real.Hundreds of high...
View ArticleSeminar aims to show Utahns how to spot a financial fraud
A free seminar to help Uthans recognize and avoid financial and consumer fraud is scheduled for Nov. 2 in St. George.The seminar — by the multi-agency Financial Fraud Institute — will provide...
View ArticleCommit a crime? Your Fitbit, key fob or pacemaker could snitch on you.
The firefighter found Richard Dabate on the floor of his kitchen, where he had made a desperate 911 call minutes earlier, court records show. Bleeding and lashed to a chair with zip ties, the man...
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Pac-12 notes: Colorado reverting to old form, a year after winning South title
Coach Mike MacIntyre and the Colorado Buffaloes wanted to prove the football program’s success was something other than a one-year phenomenon, but that’s how it looks in Boulder these days.The Buffs...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Trump IQ Test
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleBlack man attacked at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville faces felony...
A black man brutally beaten at a white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville is now facing a felony charge related to the August attack.A local magistrate issued an arrest warrant for...
View ArticleLetter: One way to reduce accidents
There has been considerable comment on the number of accidents on Salt Lake City streets on Sept. 25. On one newscast, a state trooper expressed the opinion that people were driving in the same fashion...
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Real Salt Lake trying to lock up its young talent
Real Salt Lake will decide in the upcoming months if Jefferson Savarino and Brooks Lennon have a future with the team.The young talents are on loan for the 2017 season, Savarino from Venezuelan club...
View ArticleCould Vegas police have taken down the gunman sooner?
The revised timeline given by investigators for the Las Vegas massacre raises questions about whether better communication might have allowed police to respond more quickly and take out the gunman...
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Garrison Keillor: Swedes have chosen a writer of migraines for the Nobel Prize
I am off lingonberries for the time being and Volvos and flat white furniture from Ikea. No meatballs, thank you. Once again the humorless Swedes have chosen a writer of migraines for the Nobel Prize...
View ArticleA hospital threw a stillborn baby out with dirty laundry. Now the family is...
The night after Esmeralda Hernandez delivered her stillborn, premature baby in April 2013, she kept the tiny boy close by in her hospital room overnight. With family members by her side, she mourned...
View ArticleTanner Mangum’s ankle still not 100 percent, but he will still start for BYU...
Provo • BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum said Tuesday that the injured left ankle that caused him to miss two games in September and favor it noticeably in Friday’s game against Boise State “is definitely...
View ArticleThree cities exit Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area
The taxing district set up to fund the Unified Police Department (UPD) as a regional law enforcement agency will see the exit of all three city members by January — leaving unincorporated Salt Lake...
View ArticleColorado man drowns trying to retrieve boat from Flaming Gorge Reservoir
Authorities say a Colorado man drowned Sunday while trying to retrieve his boat from Flaming Gorge Reservoir.Jeff Towne, 67, of Longmont, Colo., died as he tried to swim out to his boat, which had...
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District Attorney asks FBI to review police shooting of Patrick Harmon
The Salt Lake County District Attorney has called on the FBI to review the shooting of Patrick Harmon, whose death has drawn protests in the city where he was killed and complaints from across the...
View ArticleUtah defensive great Ma'ake Kemoeatu selected to the Polynesian Football Hall...
Former Utah defensive great Ma’ake Kemoeatu (1998-2001) has been selected for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018.Kemoeatu, a defensive tackle of Tongan...
View ArticleUniversity of Utah to get half its power from renewable sources under new...
The University of Utah is preparing to flip the switch on geothermal and solar energy for its Salt Lake City campus.Under an agreement announced Tuesday, the U. will buy half its total electricity...
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Alexandra Petri: The good news about Bob Corker's comments? Everyone in the...
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Lame Duck, Tenn., recently gave an explosive 25-minute interview to The New York Times describing the president as being in need of constant supervision who is liable to get us into...
View ArticlePaltrow, Jolie join flood of allegations against Weinstein
New York • An avalanche of allegations poured out Tuesday against Harvey Weinstein in on-the-record reports that detailed claims of sexual abuse and included testimonies from Gwyneth Paltrow and...
View ArticleSister of man killed by Salt Lake City police said officers 'didn't give him...
Mayor Jackie Biskupski moved to find common ground between law enforcement and the minority community late Monday after video of the controversial shooting of a 50-year-old black man by Salt Lake City...
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