Charges: On-duty New York City police detectives handcuffed woman, then raped...
New York • Two New York City police detectives are accused of threatening an 18-year-old woman with arrest over a bottle of prescription pills, handcuffing her, driving her around and then raping...
View ArticleBobcat in bathroom of Oklahoma newspaper startles publisher
Sapulpa, Okla. • A small-town Oklahoma newspaper publisher found a startling front-page story practically in his newsroom: There was a hissing bobcat in the bathroom.Sapulpa Herald publisher Darren...
View ArticleOfficials: US captures key militant in Benghazi attack
Washington • U.S. officials say special operations forces have captured a militant who was instrumental in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The attack resulted in the death...
View ArticleFormer Carbon County emergency services director sentenced for stealing...
The former emergency services director for Carbon County, who was accused of using federal grant money to buy hundreds of items for himself, was sentenced Monday to six months in a federal prison...
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BYU coach Kalani Sitake defends strength staff as another Cougar is lost for...
Provo • The mood was understandably lighter and more upbeat Monday at BYU coach Kalani Sitake’s weekly news briefing after the Cougars snapped their seven-game losing skid with a 41-20 win over San...
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University of Utah president’s apology to Huntsman went a long way toward...
Sometimes a little humility and an apology can go a long way.In the instance of a mea culpa University of Utah President David Pershing presented to Huntsman Cancer Institute founder and benefactor Jon...
View ArticleLetter: It is crucial that Congress extend CHIP funding
Congress allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which provides health insurance to 9 million American children, to expire Sept. 30. Without CHIP funding, millions of children...
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A major part of Utah’s football DNA has gone missing in 2017
A strand of Utah’s DNA is MIA.Kyle Whittingham called it that “little extra” on the field. And it has several definitions, Utah’s head coach said. Mojo, swag, confidence, edge. What has been an...
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Commentary: The legal rights of children should not vary by county
October is Youth Justice Awareness Month in Utah — an opportunity to celebrate positive developments in our juvenile justice system and recommit to the urgent work that still awaits.There is much to...
View Article14 dogs and 2 cats are running for political office in Salt Lake County
You can’t escape politics these days, and Salt Lake County has just made the topic even more unavoidable by taking a sweet, innocent pet fundraising drive and turning it into a slander-filled hate...
View ArticleUtah baseball coach Bill Kinneberg faces suspension after school reports...
Utah athletic director Chris Hill announced on Monday that baseball coach Bill Kinneberg will likely be suspended for an unspecified number of games due to a self-reported NCAA violation that came to...
View ArticleSens. Hatch, Lee stand by special counsel Mueller as indictments begin in the...
Washington • Some of Utah’s members of Congress said they were surprised Monday by the charges filed against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and a campaign aide but stood by their...
View ArticleGov. Herbert calls on Utahns to help ‘fellow Americans in Puerto Rico who are...
Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah has plenty of what still-hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico needs — so he called on residents Monday to help generously, and he will send Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox there soon to...
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'Donut Boy' thanks Salt Lake area police officers with doughnuts
Cops need love, too.And so Tyler Carach — aka Donut Boy — is traveling around the country passing out doughnuts to law enforcement officers in appreciation of their public service.“I want to thank them...
View ArticleU.S. court bars Trump from reversing transgender troops policy
Washington • A federal judge on Monday barred President Donald Trump’s administration from proceeding with plans to exclude transgender people from military service.U.S. District Judge Colleen...
View ArticleAnn Cannon: For aspiring children’s book authors, here’s a great place to start
Have you ever wanted to learn how to write a book for children but don’t know where to start?The annual Writing for Charity conference, held this Saturday, Nov. 4, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Utah Valley...
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Creative publisher Gibbs Smith reinvented Western stories from his Utah barn
In the book world, the backstory of the Gibbs Smith publishing company — that it published beautifully designed books from a renovated 1919 barn on the founder’s family property in Layton — made for a...
View ArticleLetter: To those honoring the Taxpayer Protection Pledge
The Taxpayer Protection Pledge: “ I, ______, pledge to the taxpayers of the ______ district of the (state ) ______ and to the American people that I will: ONE, oppose any and all efforts to increase...
View Article'House of Cards' canceled as fallout continues for Spacey
New York • The fallout facing Kevin Spacey widened Monday following an accusation that he allegedly that he made sexual advances on a teen boy, with Netflix pulling the plug on his hit show “House of...
View ArticleCommentary: Stop trying to limit the way men and women work together
Recently some men — on the right and on the left — have volunteered a solution to the sexual harassment problem: Stop meeting privately with women.On the right, Vice President Mike Pence confessed to...
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