Texans rookie star QB Deshaun Watson out for season with ACL tear
Houston • Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson sustained a season-ending knee injury in practice on Thursday, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.The rookie suffered a torn...
View Article‘Behind the Headlines’: Feds OK Utah’s Medicaid waiver, a manhunt follows a...
President Donald Trump’s administration approves Utah’s request for a Medicaid waiver to help fund Operation Rio Grande. The fatal shooting of a student near the University of Utah leads to a manhunt...
View ArticleSalt Lake City nets $50K award to help restore historic pickle factory
Salt Lake City is getting a $50,000 historic preservation grant to restore the 123-year-old Utah Pickle Company building in the city’s Granary District for use as a community gathering spot and...
View ArticleReport finds surge in anti-Semitism across the U.S., including after...
A new report shows a continued rise in anti-Semitic incidents across the U.S. in the first nine months of 2017, partly attributable to the Charlottesville, Va., rally in which white nationalists...
View ArticleUtah woman charged in death of her infant son extradited, booked into jail
A Utah woman who fled the state after she was accused of killing her infant son in September has been extradited and was booked into the Salt Lake County jail on Thursday.Maria Elena Sullivan, 26, and...
View ArticleWorld Series ratings for Dodgers-Astros lower than for Cubs-Indians
Los Angeles • The Houston Astros' seven-game World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers averaged 18.9 million viewers on Fox, down 19 percent from the 23.4 million average for the Chicago Cubs'...
View ArticleHouston family, businesses benefit from World Series championship
Houston • The Houston Astros’ victorious World Series run has not only given an emotional boost to a city still recovering from Hurricane Harvey. It has provided an economic lift as well.And for one...
View ArticleThe Dodgers' pitching strategy in Game 7 cost them the World Series
The Los Angeles Dodgers deserve a ton of credit for how their 2017 season turned out. Manager Dave Roberts steered his club to 104 regular-season wins and sailed through the playoffs before facing a...
View ArticleUtah substitute teacher accused of inappropriately touching elementary school...
A Davis County man was charged Thursday with inappropriately touching children while he was substituting at a Clearfield elementary school in September. Mark Glenton Bedel, 62, of Kaysville, was...
View ArticleWhat goes into deciding whether to change football coaches?
College football coaches have been losing jobs for the past month, including Jim McElwain at Florida, and as the season hits the stretch run numerous athletic directors have to be considering whether...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: The Senate should confirm Judge Petersen
Utah is losing a judicial powerhouse with the retirement of Justice Christine M. Durham on Nov. 16. She is the state’s longest-serving judge, was the first female state court trial judge, the first,...
View ArticleGroups sue for details on Trump plan for national monuments
Billings, Mont. • Environmentalists sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday seeking to pry loose details of plans to shrink national monuments and marine areas and open them to...
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Police identify Tooele woman killed in fatal rollover crash
Police have identified a Tooele woman who died in a rollover crash Wednesday afternoon. Jennifer Charmley, 33, had been driving on State Route 36 just north of Tooele at 12:40 p.m. when her Jeep hit a...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds dismissal of Utah firefighters' suit over police access...
An appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of separate lawsuits by two Unified Fire Authority firefighters who alleged their constitutional rights were violated when a Cottonwood Heights police...
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Commentary: I thought we had years to save my sister from addiction. It was...
Within an hour of landing at the Buffalo, New York, airport in July, I am helping my little sister get to the bathroom at Kenmore Mercy Hospital after she’s been revived with Narcan. I don’t know it...
View ArticleFor 11 minutes, Trump’s Twitter account disappeared. Here’s what happened.
Some historic moments pass in one fell swoop.President Abraham Lincoln’s reading of the Gettysburg Address lasted only two or three minutes. Last year, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps smashed an ancient...
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Eugene Robinson: Trump's racism makes him corrosive to national fabric
Washington • By now it should be clear that racism is a feature of the Trump administration, not a bug.White House chief of staff John Kelly’s hideous rewriting of Civil War history is merely the...
View ArticleKeep the train rolling: Astros could be back for more World Series titles
Houston • It's not just one World Series title that has Houston excited. With Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer and more locked in for years to come, the Astros are ready to be a force for...
View ArticleDetroit MLS bid proposes using home of the Lions instead of new stadium
Detroit • The Ford family is joining the group trying to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Detroit, and the bid now proposes that the team play at Ford Field.The Ford family, which owns the...
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William D. Ruckelshaus: Pruitt is turning his back on transparency at the EPA
In May 1983, President Ronald Reagan asked me to lead the Environmental Protection Agency for a second time. The first time was when the EPA began. Reagan’s first appointed administrator, Anne Burford,...
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