Paul Swenson died of drowning, tested positive for alcohol and THC
A 30-year-old American Fork man, who was reported missing more than two weeks before police found his body in August, died of drowning in South Salt Lake’s section of Mill Creek.A medical examiners...
View ArticleFrom Devo to ‘Thor,’ composer Mark Mothersbaugh brings his musical touch to...
Mark Mothersbaugh, like many creative people, keeps a list.“There’s these people out there that I like, and you hope someday that you’d work with them,” Mothersbaugh, a sometime rock star and longtime...
View ArticleJury selected in federal criminal trial of ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl
Come Monday, Terry Diehl’s fate will be in the hands of nine men and four women empaneled as jurors in a criminal trial that accuses the ex-Utah Transit Authority board member of lying in a bankruptcy...
View ArticleSalt Lake City and University of Utah will each pay half of $500K settlement...
Salt Lake City and the University of Utah will each pay half of a $500,000 payment that settles a dispute over the arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels after she barred a police officer from drawing blood from...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg stands over Trump body on album cover
An album cover image posted to Snoop Dogg's Instagram account showing the rapper looking down on what appears to be the dead body of President Donald Trump has been removed from the platform.We see you...
View ArticleFormer Jazz ball boy selling ‘magical’ shoes given to him by Michael Jordan...
Utah Jazz ball boy Alex Rodriguez wouldn’t take money from Michael Jordan, so MJ came up with another way to pay him for two tickets to a sold-out Jazz-Chicago Bulls game in 1993: his shoes.“You don’t...
View Article‘Friends’ of Canyons school bond in line to get millions if $283M proposal...
The $283 million bond proposal from Canyons School District to upgrade, expand and rebuild several schools may be a good thing.Some of the older schools were built in the 1950s and cannot support the...
View ArticleMuslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack
Patterson, N.J. • In the halal bakeries and markets that line Main Street, and in mosques that have been part of the community for decades, a familiar dread has taken hold after the latest terror...
View ArticleComments sought on Utah Supreme Court nominee Paige Petersen
The Utah Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee is asking for public comment on Paige Petersen, who has been appointed to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Gary Herbert.The appointment, which was...
View ArticleWoody Harrelson’s good, but ‘LBJ’ is a dry slog of a biographical drama
If not for a strong central performance by Woody Harrelson, director Rob Reiner’s “LBJ” would be a no-hoper: a well-intended but ham-fisted biographical drama of our 36th president, a power broker who...
View ArticleFormer Utes Delon Wright, Jakob Poeltl finally breaking out in Toronto
Delon Wright struggled as an NBA rookie with the Toronto Raptors two years ago.He wasn’t in a rotation for the first time in his playing career. Wright would call his father, Ray, as he accrued DNP’s...
View ArticleJazz forward Jonas Jerebko helps fill in for Joe Johnson
Less than two minutes after subbing in, Jonas Jerebko had his first shot as a Jazzman: an open 3-pointer off a pass from Joe Ingles.As he ran back on defense, he swung at Thabo Sefolosha’s high-five...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake triggers the option to buy Jefferson Savarino
Sandy • Jefferson Savarino lightly set down the microphone as Real Salt Lake assistant coach Freddy Juarez translated the winger’s thank-yous to God, the team, his family and everyone gathered at Rio...
View ArticleTrump nominates Jerome Powell to be next Fed chairman
Washington • President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has backed...
View ArticleSuspect in Murray fatal shooting that led to rush-hour traffic car wrecks...
The suspect in last week’s fatal shooting in Murray — which prompted a multi-vehicle wreck on State Street during rush hour — was charged Thursday after police arrested him on Halloween in...
View ArticleUtah's all-Republican members of Congress laud new GOP tax bill panned by...
Washington • Utah’s all-Republican federal delegation praised a GOP tax-reform bill unveiled Thursday, saying the legislation was the long-needed fix to a broken and unfair tax code that will help...
View ArticleGordon Hayward: Daughters know ‘Daddy has a boo-boo’
Waltham, Mass. • Gordon Hayward has been able to spend time with his daughters since his injury, though the 1- and 2-year-old girls aren't sure what to make of the fact that he's around so much...
View ArticleCapitals’ Alex Ovechkin starts social movement supporting Vladimir Putin
Washington • Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin has voiced his support for Vladimir Putin ahead of the Russian presidential election.Ovechkin posted a message in Russian on his Instagram account...
View ArticleEvolution and climate change already at issue in new Utah school science...
Hot-button issues of evolution and climate change boiled to the surface Thursday as the state Board of Education took up the question of updating science-related instructional standards for many Utah...
View ArticleSalt Lake’s first cat cafe opens this weekend
No, the woman behind Tinker’s Cat Cafe is NOT a crazy cat lady.Lisa Boone likes cats. A lot. But she doesn’t have a lot of them at home. She has one, named Guinness.Well, she’s fostering another dozen...
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