Utah teen pleads guilty to causing crash that killed two classmates and...
A Utah teen accused of causing a February crash that killed two of his West High School classmates and critically injured a pregnant woman and her baby has pleaded guilty to manslaughter...
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Your UCLA-Utah game guide: What to watch for when Utes meet Bruins
Time, Place and [Radio Waves in] Space • The Utes’ host UCLA in a Pac-12 Conference at Rice-Eccles Stadium at 7:30 p.m. (MDT) Friday. You can watch on FS1 or listen on ESPN 700 AM, Sirius 84/XM 84,...
View ArticleGov. Herbert appoints new Board of Pardons and Parole chairwoman
Gov. Gary Herbert on Friday appointed Chyleen Arbon as chairwoman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole.Arbon — who has been a parole board member since 2012 — succeeds Angela Micklos, who has served...
View ArticleWeekly Run podcast: Bizarro Ricky Rubio is here to save the Utah Jazz
A shoot-first point guard who has struggled with turnovers and finished with just one assist? This isn’t the guy Jazz fans thought their team was getting when Dennis Lindsey traded for Ricky Rubio last...
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The few, the proud: Women Marines define themselves
It's never been easy to be a woman in the Marine Corps, which is the most physically demanding branch of the military and the one with the smallest percentage of female service members: 7.6 percent....
View ArticlePublic defender Amy Fowler, running for Salt Lake City Council, reports...
Salt Lake City Council District 7 candidate Amy Fowler filed a police complaint Thursday after receiving threatening and sexually explicit messages on social media.Fowler said she received three...
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Power of polygamous group wanes in tiny town among red rocks
Hildale • In a place where political contests are virtually unknown, the campaign signs offer the latest hint that a polygamous group is losing its grip on this remote red rock community straddling the...
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Can two-win BYU halt downward plunge? Fresno State has the blueprint
Provo • There is hope for BYU football fans who may be thinking that there is no way the program can rebound quickly from this abysmal season and return to its winning ways next year.The Cougars will...
View ArticleUtahns split on desire for more church transparency, but most active Mormons...
Utahns overwhelmingly want government and businesses to be more open, but they are less sure about whether churches need to lift veils of secrecy.While 93 percent of the state’s registered voters...
View ArticleJazz shootaround: Despite latest success, game-closing lineups will continue...
With 5:33 left in the fourth quarter against the Trail Blazers, Thabo Sefolosha subbed in for Derrick Favors, giving Utah a four-wing lineup. For the remaining 10:33 of game time until Utah won, there...
View ArticleFor the first time in five decades, ‘dry’ Blanding could drop its prohibition...
The southeastern Utah city of Blanding will decide this week whether to maintain its 50-year-old prohibition on booze or allow the sale of liquor as a way to boost tourism. While the issue may seen...
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Is southern Utah’s historic Bluff ready to become a town, a really BIG town?
Settled by Mormon pioneers in 1880 and inhabited centuries earlier by Ancestral Puebloans, Bluff is the oldest community in southeast Utah.Next week, Bluff residents will decide whether to become...
View ArticleBox Elder County man charged with murder after man found dead in his garage
A Willard man arrested after a lengthy pursuit in Idaho was charged Wednesday with murder in the death of a man found beaten in his garage earlier that day.A preliminary investigation indicates...
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Classical-music fans politely protest BYU decision to change radio format
Provo • In a particularly polite display of outrage, some 60 classical-music fans turned up at the BYU Broadcast Center on Friday to protest the decision to drop the all-classical music format at...
View ArticlePedestrian hit by TRAX train identified
A Salt Lake Valley man fatally struck by a TRAX train on Wednesday was identified Friday. Joey Kirk, 26, was crossing the tracks on Murray Central Station at about 3 p.m. when a train truck him,...
View ArticleAggies, Lobos both need a win Saturday to keep bowl hopes alive
College students, on average, tend to have pretty decent vision.But Matt Wells, Utah State’s football coach, may think an eye test might just be in order for some of his players.Only, in place of eye...
View ArticleHolly Richardson: We all need a tribe
“The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”— Mother TeresaI and a friend recently had lunch with a mutual friend who had gone through an awkward and disheartening...
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George Pyle: In what seems like a world turned upside down, all of a sudden I...
Many years ago, a day’s episode of the World’s Second Greatest Comic Strip Ever (after “Calvin and Hobbes”) showed a few of the secondary characters from “Bloom County” stuffed into a big chair...
View ArticleWith looming tax reform vote, Utah’s new member of Congress could be sworn in...
Washington • If Provo Mayor John Curtis wins Utah’s special congressional election next week, as polling suggests, he could be swiftly sworn into office before the official canvass of the vote takes...
View ArticleDuchesne subdues Parowan rally to reach Class 1A state title game
Ogden • Sports can be funny sometimes.Take Duchesne’s 27-14 victory over Parowan in Friday’s Class 1A football state semifinal at Weber State.The defending champion Eagles looked as if they were going...
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