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Former Salt Lake City councilman convicted in New York in $2.5 million fraud...
Former Salt Lake City councilman Eric Jergensen and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday in New York of conspiring to defraud an aerospace company of $2.5 million.A jury returned the guilty verdict...
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Arizona State's Harry, Ballage could cause Utah’s defense some headaches
Phillip Afia didn’t flinch. Not that he was supposed to.“There’s never a challenge or anybody in front of us that I’d ever be afraid of and think, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do?’ Never,” said Utah’s...
View ArticleGary Ott dies after Alzheimer’s battle; former top aide blames his family
After years spent suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disease, mostly hidden from public view, former longtime Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott died Thursday morning in hospice care in St....
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Double duty: Miles Teller plays real-life heroes in two movies this month
Filming back-to-back movies — one about firefighters battling wildfires, the other about U.S. soldiers returning from combat and facing PTSD — the actor Miles Teller had an unusual resource at his...
View ArticlePolice seek public’s help after skateboarder injured in hit-and-run
Salt Lake City police are asking for help to identify the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that injured a skateboarder in early October.At about 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, a 33-year-old man was skateboarding...
View ArticleSpain set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid
Barcelona, Spain • The crisis over Catalonia’s quest for independence escalated Thursday, as Spain’s central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of some of its...
View Article‘Game of Throws’: What went wrong for the Utes at the Coliseum?
From Darren Carrington standing alone in the back of the end zone to each of Sam Darnold’s third-down conversions, the Utes seemed to be just one play away from victory at the Los Angeles...
View Article‘The Snowman‘ is a police thriller that’s as cold as ice and as dull as dirt
Imagine an icicle slowly forming off the nose of a severed head, and you get a sense of how unsettlingly gross and endlessly boring the cold-as-ice police procedural “The Snowman” is.Meet Harry Hole...
View ArticleRomantic story pumps life into inspirational drama ‘Breathe’
As an inspirational true-life drama of overcoming adversity, “Breathe” is predictably heartwarming, but as a romance, about two people sticking together in the face of overwhelming odds, it’s downright...
View ArticleUtah horse trainer accused of animal cruelty pleads guilty to disorderly conduct
A former employee of a Juab County lavender farm — who allegedly tied a horse to a truck and repeatedly dragged it across the ground by its neck — has resolved the criminal case against him by pleading...
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Scott D. Pierce: Weinstein is just the tip of the Hollywood scandal iceberg
One thing is certain about Hollywood’s widening sexual harassment scandal — it’s only just begun. It is not just about Harvey Weinstein. It didn’t begin with him. One wonders if his victims were...
View ArticleWith hunting season hitting full swing this weekend, keep the Utah...
With the general mule deer season starting Saturday, the waterfowl hunt open and fishing still available, many hunters and anglers are afield.Division of Wildlife Resources law-enforcement officers are...
View ArticleBYU men's basketball picked third — again — in WCC preseason poll
Provo • Coaches believe there will be a changing of the guard in the West Coast Conference men’s basketball race this season, but BYU yet again won’t be the team doing the changing.A team other than...
View ArticleFormer lawmaker — who drinks ‘coffee, water and occasionally alcohol’ —...
Former Republican state Rep. Sophia M. DiCaro has been appointed to the board that oversees the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and issues liquor licenses to restaurants, bars and...
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Dana Milbank: The White House says free trade causes wife-beating. Why stop...
Washington • So now we know: Free trade causes abortion, wife-beating and infertility.This exciting new discovery was made — or, rather, made up — by the Trump White House as it sought to find...
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30 years ago today, Utah’s Alta Club admitted its first female member, and...
Exactly 30 years ago, Genevieve Atwood made history just by walking through the front door of a building at the corner of State Street and South Temple.How? Well, for 104 years, no woman had ever...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake’s Tony Beltran will miss season finale against Sporting KC
Real Salt Lake will be without right back Tony Beltran this weekend — and perhaps beyond if RSL makes the MLS playoffs.The veteran defender suffered a knee injury in RSL’s match at Colorado on Sunday...
View ArticleAnother week, another long road trip for BYU football
Provo • Optimism and enthusiasm reigned at the BYU football program’s media event last summer as the Cougars discussed their 2017 schedule and how they would travel more than 17,500 miles and play in...
View ArticleTrue-life ‘Only the Brave’ better when it focuses on firefighters’ lives, not...
The spirit of the Granite Mountain Hotshots — the Arizona crew who in 2013 were caught in the deadliest incident for U.S. firefighters since the 9/11 attacks — lives on in “Only the Brave,” a drama...
View ArticleOur Schools Now holds onto majority support, as organizers say signatures are...
A Utah campaign to generate more than $700 million in annual public education funding is well on its way to securing a spot on the November 2018 ballot, according to Zions Bank CEO Scott...
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