SLC mayor, police chief apologize for officer who arrested nurse; criminal...
Hours after Salt Lake City’s mayor and police chief apologized for an officer handcuffing a hospital nurse for refusing to take blood from an unconscious patient, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim...
View ArticleCrews making slow, steady progress on Utah wildfires
Crews were making slow, steady progress in containing several active wildfires in northern and central Utah heading into the Labor Day weekend.The largest, the lightning-sparked Tank Hollow Fire, had...
View ArticleMcDonald's offers free back-to-school breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 6
McDonald’s restaurants in Utah, western Wyoming and eastern Nevada will give free “Back-to-School” breakfasts to elementary and middle-grade students on Wednesday, Sept. 6.The free breakfast is...
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Scott D. Pierce: Trump is now part of FX’s ‘American Horror Story’
After six seasons filled with ghosts, demons, witches, mutants, aliens and vampires, “American Horror Story” is going in a different direction. Season 6, subtitled “Cult,” has no supernatural...
View ArticleStericyle wins approval of air, waste permits for moving its medical-waste...
Stericycle’s embattled medical waste incinerator in North Salt Lake is one step closer to moving to a larger, more rural facility in Tooele County.Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality on Friday...
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New arena opens door for rodeo, monster trucks and more at Utah State Fair
Rodeo is back at the Utah State Fair, thanks to a new 10,000-seat outdoor arena on the Fairpark grounds.The new Days of ’47 Arena “opens up the door for a lot of opportunities, for a lot of different...
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Spoon serves up a big portion of ‘creative freedom’ with ‘Hot Thoughts’
Review-aggregate website Metacritic dubbed Austin-based indie-rockers Spoon the most critically acclaimed band of the aughts.Story after story refers to the group as “one of the most consistent bands...
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Brewvies bringing back ‘Deadpool’ and other barred movies after winning...
Brewvies Cinema Pub is bringing back “Deadpool,” the movie that nearly brought the Salt Lake City theater/bar to extinction 16 months ago at the hands of Utah’s liquor cops.The theater is throwing a...
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Downtown Salt Lake City on lockdown for three hours before armed, suicidal...
A reportedly suicidal man with a gun in the area of 500 South and 500 East in Salt Lake City disrupted traffic, and forced evacuations and lockdowns, for more than three hours before he was arrested...
View ArticleUtah hospitals tapped to develop new algorithms that flag cancer-causing genes
Dana Lombardi’s life changed with one phone call from her mother’s cousin four years ago.The relative recounted how she, all of her female cousins and her 32-year-old pregnant daughter had been...
View ArticleTrial date set for Cliven Bundy, 6 others in Nevada standoff
Las Vegas • An October date was set on Thursday for the trial of Nevada cattleman and state’s rights figure Cliven Bundy and six other defendants in an armed standoff that stopped government agents...
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BYU football: Cougars will be big underdogs in the Big Easy against...
New Orleans • It seemed like a good idea at the time.Having mostly held their own in several college football games at NFL stadiums against Power Five schools since going independent in 2011, the BYU...
View ArticleGordon Hayward, probably inadvertently, tweaks Utah Jazz fans during Boston...
Gordon Hayward was likely trying to endear himself to his new fan base.But he may have infuriated his old one in doing so.In a Friday press conference held for Hayward and Kyrie Irving — who the Boston...
View ArticleBLM to auction oil and gas leases next to Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument...
Federal land managers are moving forward with a proposed sale of controversial oil and gas leases in Utah’s San Rafael Swell and on the doorstep of Dinosaur National Monument, the agency announced...
View ArticleWoman dies in North Salt Lake crash
A Friday morning two-vehicle crash in North Salt Lake caused the death of one woman and seriously injured another.Killed was 69-year-old Veatoki Tenifa, a Salt Lake area resident, said North Salt Lake...
View ArticleUtah Republicans, with help from Democrats, send a semitrailer loaded with...
Saying they are pushing aside partisanship to help Hurricane Harvey victims, a relief effort spearheaded by Utah Republicans — but attracting plenty of donations by local Democrats — sent a truckload...
View ArticleSheepdogs back at work in annual Utah competition
Here are scenes from the opening Friday of the Supreme Source Soldier Hollow Classic Sheepdog Trials at in Midway.The trials, which continue through Monday at Soldier Hollow, feature many of the...
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Anne Applebaum: What a hurricane tells us about local news
I am thousands of miles away, but I still turned to Chron.com, a website of the Houston Chronicle, to figure out what was going on in Texas this week. A widely shared video showing water pouring into...
View ArticleReport finds transgender students' needs aren't being met in K-12 schools
St. George • It’s the time of year when crosswalks are busy, school zone signs are flashing, and finding a No. 2 pencil at the drugstore may not be so easy.Back-to-school season is obvious, especially...
View ArticlePaul Cassell: Cop who arrested nurse was wrong, but the law is complicated
By now, just about everyone with a smart phone or a laptop has seen the video of the Salt Lake City police detective arresting a nurse for following University Hospital policy prohibiting blood draws...
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