Friday the 13th: Flight 666 makes it safely to HEL
Copenhagen, Denmark • The Helsinki airport says Flight 666 has arrived safety in HEL — the airport code for the Finnish capital — for the last time.The Finnair flight took off from Copenhagen, Denmark,...
View ArticleLittle goes right for 1-6 BYU in humbling 35-10 loss at Mississippi State
Starkville, Miss. • That broken record coach Kalani Sitake keeps talking about, the one that repeats itself and has come to symbolize the 2017 BYU football season, played out on the field again deep in...
View ArticleLetter: Religion not required for patriots
Being a believer in a god is not a prerequisite for being an American soldier or an American hero. No matter race, gender or religion or lack thereof can determine whether or not an individual is unfit...
View ArticleLetter: Donald Trump and the Peter Principle
What is the Peter Principle? It’s a theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter from Canada, and published in 1969.It states that a person will rise to “their level of incompetence.” Every time I...
View ArticlePrep volleyball rankings for Oct. 15
Records based on best 3-of-5 matchesClass 6A1. Lone Peak (13-1) • Knights reclaim top spot with sweep at American Fork and narrow home win over Pleasant Grove.2. Pleasant Grove (8-2) • First a 3-2 win...
View ArticleUtah governor urges appeal of records panel’s order on releasing secret legal...
Gov. Gary Herbert’s office wants to appeal a unanimous decision by the Utah State Records Committee that the Utah Attorney General’s Office should make public a written legal opinion it prepared for...
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Search continues for missing Brigham City man with dementia
Brigham City police continue to search for an 89-year-old man with dementia who has been missing since Wednesday evening.Floyd Kling found the keys to his red pickup truck at 6 p.m. Wednesday and...
View ArticleLetter: Some dates that will live in infamy
Dates that will live in infamy: Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001 and Jan. 20, 2017, the Trump presidential inauguration.Loni F. De LandSalt Lake City
View ArticleDraper man enters not guilty pleas in hate crime case
Court records show 58-year-old Mark O. Porter entered the plea Wednesday to a federal housing violation charge and was taken into custody ahead of a detention hearing.Prosecutors say he yelled a racial...
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Historian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances, shows how church...
Some Mormons — and plenty of others — were appalled to witness their church build a $1.5 billion mall in downtown Salt Lake City and hear their prophet proclaim, “Let’s go shopping.”Isn’t religion,...
View Article'We've got to go!' A California couple awoke to flames crackling. They...
Daniel Pomplun jolted awake. It was 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, and he heard the crackling of flames. He noticed the power was out, and he rose from bed and went to the window.They had been fast asleep, and...
View ArticleCommentary: Kids and families can’t afford to wait for CHIP to be renewed
Imagine if tomorrow you received a letter that said your child’s health insurance was ending. What if you learned that the coverage you had come to depend on for your child’s asthma medication, tooth...
View ArticleIncrease in people with Alzheimer's has a personal cost
Provo • Alzheimer's is often referred to as the silver tsunami, affecting around 30,000 people over the age of 65 in the state of Utah with that number increasing at a rapid rate, according to the...
View ArticleThe mother jailed for refusing to vaccinate her son says she would 'do it all...
Days after a Michigan mother was put in jail for ignoring a court order to vaccinate her 9-year-old son, she said that given the choice, she would "do it all again."Rebecca Bredow, who lives in the...
View ArticleZinke pledges 'action' on harassment inside Park Service
Washington • Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday that he was determined to end a culture of harassment inside the National Park Service as a new survey found that almost two in five employees...
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To make it back to playoffs, Jazz must put together a new puzzle
After hours of uncertainty, Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey and head coach Quin Snyder boarded a plane last July 4, heading home with a the answer they didn’t want and lots of work to do.It was a...
View ArticleCommentary: There is no 'great equalizer' without a compassionate educational...
“Education is the great equalizer,” or so they say. What happens, then, when education itself is unequal? For many students, their experience with the “great equalizer” is anything but fair; students...
View ArticlePro-Trump states most affected by his health care decision
President Donald Trump's decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Americans helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming some of the...
View ArticleCommentary: Mitt Romney must run for president in 2020
Should Mitt Romney run for the U.S. Senate? By all means. Indeed, Sen. Orrin Hatch should step aside. The Old Souls in the House and Senate will be taking a beating this coming year and Judge Roy...
View ArticleUtahns bid farewell to Salt Lake City real estate mogul and community builder...
More than a real estate mogul or a civic leader or mover and shaker, Vasilios Priskos was a community builder.That’s how the Greek immigrant, raised in Utah to become one the state’s most respected...
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