Utah group say hypnosis helps expectant moms reduce pain, shorten labor
Ogden • In communities up and down the Wasatch Front, women are learning how to look at childbirth differently in hopes of experiencing more joy and less pain in the process.On a recent Tuesday night,...
View ArticleJazz Weekly Run: Alec Burks’ return, Rudy vs. Jokic, and Hayward’s horrific...
The NBA season is only a couple of days old, but there’s already so much to discuss.On the latest episode of the Weekly Run podcast, The Zone’s Angie Treasure fills in for Tony Jones (gastric...
View ArticleUtes offense will remain ‘wide open’ if Tyler Huntley plays Saturday
Tyler Huntley’s return to practice earlier this week and the image of him standing in front of a group of reporters and cameras in full pads, flashing a familiar grin, likely provided increased...
View ArticleKragthorpe: BYU vs. ECU is a fascinating matchup — for the wrong reasons
In August, I happily accepted traveling assignments to help cover three college football games this season: BYU vs. Mississippi State, Utah vs. Oregon and Utah vs. Washington.Those looked like three...
View ArticleStudy finds pollution is deadlier than war, disaster, hunger
New Delhi • Environmental pollution — from filthy air to contaminated water — is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters....
View ArticleJonathan Turley: How do you get rid of Trump? An election, not the 25th...
It appears that just as impeachment fever had started to break around the country, a 25th Amendment bug started going around.A few weeks ago, the University of Chicago’s Eric Posner argued that the...
View ArticleAs Utah history teaches, bad behavior by men toward women is, sadly, nothing new
This may seem trivial, considering all that’s come forward of late about sexual harassment of women. But I believe it brings up interesting points — namely, time, attitude and behavior.On June 12,...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: Struggling with Impostor Syndrome
“The exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler.” — Albert EinsteinIn the late 1970’s, two American...
View ArticleIt’s now or never for BYU to turn around its dismal season
Greenville, N.C. • The intersectional matchup the beleaguered BYU Cougars are hoping is the start to a new season kicks off in an unfamiliar place on the East Coast nearly 2,000 miles from Provo on...
View ArticleNavajo case challenging Utah mail-in ballots heads to trial
U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish set a March 16 trial date on Thursday in the case challenging a 2014 switch to mail-in voting in San Juan County.The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission says mail-in...
View ArticleCatherine Rampell: How Republicans can get everyone to stop blaming them
Obamacare repeal? Dead.Tax reform? Dead and demoted to tax cuts, now also on life support.Republicans may have unified control of government, but they seem curiously incapable of getting major agenda...
View ArticleFrom writing to composing to dancing: Travis Wall does it all
It’s a good thing Travis Wall’s energy matches his artistic ambitions, because on his latest Shaping Sound tour, the Emmy Award-winning choreographer is wearing a lot of hats.On Tuesday, he is bringing...
View ArticleSalt Lake City police arrest man in nationwide human trafficking sweep
Salt Lake City police arrested a 28-year-old man during a nationwide law enforcement sweep aimed at finding suspects involved in human trafficking. The FBI Child Exploitation Task Force’s annual...
View ArticleLongtime jazz group The Cookers don’t want be labeled, they just want to make...
After 50 years of playing jazz — individually and together — the members of the Cookers are used to attempts to categorize and define them.Just don’t call them a “bebop supergroup” (as journalists are...
View ArticleIntriguing Shakespeare adaptation loses something in translation
Whenever I see an adaptation of a Shakespearean play, I’m reminded anew that his genius lay not in his storytelling but in the layers of language and insight he laid over it. Without that enrichment,...
View ArticleJazz shootaround: Defending the wings a huge challenge vs. Timberwolves
Minneapolis • The Jazz’s defensive challenge will shift to the wings for Friday’s game at the Minnesota Timberwolves.The Utah Jazz had issues corralling Denver’s offense through three quarters, but...
View ArticleUtah State’s visit to UNLV could help determine the rest of Aggies’ season
Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas will have a fork in the road when Utah State and UNLV go their separate ways after Saturday’s game.One path, the one reserved for the winner, is for the team that...
View ArticleUtah’s Rep. Chris Stewart defends Trump’s call to soldier’s widow, says it...
Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart, a former Air Force major, defended President Donald Trump’s call to the widow of a fallen soldier in which he reportedly said her husband “knew what he signed up...
View ArticleRowland Hall punches ticket back to state title game by taking down Millard...
Sandy • If having a strong wind blow into your face is a disadvantage, it must have seemed that Rowland Hall’s opponent and nature itself were colluding to beat the Winged Lions on Friday.Even that...
View ArticleLetter: Make LDS decree on same-sex marriage work in real world
The LDS Church’s stance on same-sex marriage doesn’t directly affect me. A gay relationship, let alone marriage just isn’t in the cards. I have my own idea of my eternal life and it looks nothing like...
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