Alert librarian credited with spotting suspect in fatal shooting of...
As Austin Jeffrey Boutain stepped out of an elevator at Salt Lake City Main Library Tuesday afternoon, an alert librarian recognized him as the man officers had sought in a massive overnight hunt after...
View ArticleAppeals court lifts gag order in Comic Con court battle
An appeals court is lifting a gag order in a court fight over naming rights between two rival pop-culture conventions.Organizers of Salt Lake Comic Con said Monday they're taking to social media once...
View ArticleMonson: Four things the Jazz must do to ascend in the West
The Jazz are going to be all right. They’re going to be better than many experts thought. They’ll make the playoffs in the rugged West, and do some damage against lousy and quality teams en route....
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Is the Pac-12 Network doing enough to promote the league?
When Utah was a member of the Mountain West and most of its game were on channels few people could watch, fans complained that the Utes were overlooked by ESPN. The conspiracy theory was that ESPN...
View ArticleGov. Herbert picks judge with ‘great intellectual firepower’ to fill Utah...
Third District Judge Paige Petersen — who has prosecuted violent criminals in Utah, mob bosses in New York and Serbian warlords at The Hague in the Netherlands — has been nominated by Gov. Gary Herbert...
View ArticleAnne Applebaum: Russia taught Manafort all his dirty tricks
Years from now, historians may study the documents indicting Paul Manafort to understand just how the Russification of American public life was accomplished. Manafort is alleged to have laundered...
View ArticleGrowth in Utah’s charter school enrollment slows again as public school...
More than 650,000 students enrolled in Utah’s public schools this fall, according to data released Tuesday by the Utah Board of Education.Statewide enrollment grew by 1.2 percent this year, adding...
View ArticleIn light of collegiate recruiting scandal, Utah’s men’s basketball programs...
University of Utah and Brigham Young University basketball officials say they will comply with the NCAA’s request for all Division I men’s basketball programs to conduct internal reviews in light of a...
View ArticleMarc Thiessen: Clinton's link to Putin is the underreported 'dossier' bombshell
The news that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for research used in the discredited Trump-Russia “dossier” is a bombshell. But even more shocking — and overlooked — is...
View ArticleMan extradited to Utah following discovery of girlfriend’s buried bones, 29...
A woman was missing for 29 years, but the discovery of her bones last spring — buried below a shed at the Utah County home she’d shared with her boyfriend — set her case back in motion.The boyfriend,...
View Article‘Dismally slow’ mail-in and early voting raises fears of long lines for...
With just days until next Tuesday’s general election, early voting and vote-by-mail turnout in Salt Lake County is lower than expected — raising concerns the county may see a repeat of the long lines...
View ArticleUtah’s speedy young corner Javelin Guidry has deep UCLA roots
Javelin Guidry grew up in the stands and on the sidelines of the Rose Bowl.His original colors were Bruin blue and gold. That’s how he was brought up, the son of two UCLA graduates, including a former...
View ArticleQuarterback Khalil Tate helps Arizona become the Pac-12’s biggest story of...
Utah enjoyed being the last team to beat USC for more than 12 months, before the Trojans lost to Washington State in late September. The Utes have a similar distinction with Arizona this season, thanks...
View Article8 killed by New York motorist in ‘cowardly act of terror’
New York • A man in a rented pickup truck drove onto a busy bicycle path near the World Trade Center memorial and mowed down people Tuesday, killing at least eight and injuring several others in what...
View ArticleWill the Utes rediscover their running game against UCLA? Zack Moss sure...
Kyle Whittingham doesn’t recognize his team’s offense, and it isn’t sitting well for Utah’s coach in the middle of his 13th season at the helm of the program.While Whittingham hired offensive...
View ArticleJournalist prosecuted for ‘Vatileaks’ scandal pens new book about sex,...
Vatican City • An Italian journalist who was put on trial by the Vatican for divulging confidential documents is coming out with a new book promising to reveal fresh secrets about sex, crimes and money...
View ArticleWhen hiking with small children turns to tribulation, seek ye the Trail Troll
Once upon a time, there lived a young family in an enchanted land called Utah, and in Utah this family hiked o’er great mountains and vast deserts.Weekend after weekend, they set out in search of...
View ArticleLinebacker Morgan Unga is latest walk-on to find a role on BYU defense
Provo • Morgan Unga, once a quarterback at Bonneville High in Washington Terrace, has made 16 tackles during his three-year career at BYU.Half of those tackles came last week in the 41-20 win over San...
View ArticleParent barricades self, other person in California classroom
Riverside, Calif. • Authorities say a parent has barricaded himself in a Southern California elementary school classroom with at least one other person.Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback tells...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan: Collusion? Who needs it when Facebook was allowing...
Their story keeps changing.First, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg scoffed at the notion that disinformation spread on his platform swayed the 2016 presidential election. He called that a “crazy...
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