Letter: Don’t honor the worst from our past with Confederate monuments
Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany and the Confederacy all waged war on the United States of America. Do we have monuments honoring Imperial Japan or the Nazis, their ideals or their leaders? The answer...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: I sit here, wondering what it’s like to die
As I sit here on my patio, continuing to fight the pain, I go over what the primary care physician said: “You can go to the emergency room if this is an emergency.”Really? I was told that we poor...
View ArticleBYU football: Their confidence stripped by No. 13 LSU, downtrodden Cougars...
Provo • There are probably better ways to get physically and emotionally ready for rivalry week than to travel halfway across the country and get demolished in every way imaginable while getting a...
View ArticleFormer Ute pitcher Ryan Reisbeck never heard of Long Drive, before his tee...
Only the golfers standing on Davis Park’s No. 1 tee could have seen any of this coming.The ball that Ryan Reisbeck launched from the No. 18 tee with a borrowed driver, hooking to the left and bouncing...
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Pitchers catch a bad break at elevation, lose significant movement on their...
Batting gloves or helmet?Troy Scribner, the Bees All-Star turned Los Angeles Angels right-hander, already knows where he’s aiming because he knows where he is.He bends slightly at the waist as he pulls...
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A tough lunch lady’s friendship with a tough kid draws the spotlight at Salt...
Two people who might be easy to ignore — a tough lunch lady and a motherless New Jersey street kid — form an unlikely friendship that’s the heartbeat of Chisa Hutchinson’s play “Surely Goodness and...
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Locals in the NFL: The BYU, Utah, USU and SUU players that made initial...
After a swift cut down from 90 players to 53, NFL teams have set initial rosters for the season. Here’s a breakdown of which players from BYU, Utah, Utah State and Southern Utah secured their spot on a...
View ArticleVictim of Ogden Canyon motorcycle crash had recently moved to the area
A woman who recently moved from the Salt Lake Valley to the Ogden area was the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident there on Saturday, police report.Jennifer Flinders, 64, died Saturday afternoon...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes hit the road to try for seventh straight win against...
Tyler Huntley hasn’t forgotten his introduction to the Utah-BYU rivalry. As an 18-year-old true freshman, Utah’s now-starting quarterback looked on from the sidelines last September as Rice-Eccles...
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Bountiful fire squashed, but Tank Hollow forces more closures
Five days after it sparked, the Bountiful-Summerwood Fire is out.Firefighters on Saturday night reached 100 percent containment on the human-caused blaze in steep, rugged terrain about a quarter-mile...
View ArticleBurning Man ignites the night in Black Rock Desert
More than 70,000 people converged in the Black Rock Desert in the past week for the Burning Man festival — an event that celebrates art and music.Here are some scenes from the fire spectacular from...
View ArticleMan who ran into Burning Man fire dies
Black Rock City, Nevada • A Nevada sheriff says the man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival’s signature burning ceremony has died.Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen says the man ran...
View ArticleKragthorpe: BYU must win, end Utes’ streak in the rivalry right now — and...
All of the flaws that LSU exposed in BYU’s football program are the exact reasons why Kalani Sitake needs to beat Utah this year.Now or never? It sure feels that way, even after nothing the Cougars did...
View Article‘We’ll see,’ Trump says on potentially attacking North Korea over its nuclear...
Washington • President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he was not ruling out a retaliatory strike against North Korea in response to the isolated country’s overnight nuclear test, which he called...
View ArticleTrump administration wants to tie Harvey recovery aid to debt ceiling...
Houston • The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an...
View ArticleWildfires surge amid scorching heat in Western U.S.
Los Angeles • Smoke filled the sky and ash rained down across Los Angeles Sunday from a destructive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history — one of several blazes that sent...
View ArticleRape in Utah State University parking lot reported
Utah State University police on Sunday sent out an alert to students and other timely warning notice subscribers after a woman reported being raped in a parking lot on the Logan campus.A woman said she...
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Top Mormon leader visits lends ‘helping hearts’ and hands after Hurricane Harvey
Tomball, Texas • Among a crowd of 800 worshippers — some wearing boots and many more donning bright yellow shirts — one of the Mormon church’s top leaders reminded members gathered here that they show...
View ArticleCottonwood Heights police officer shoots, wounds fleeing juvenile
A juvenile was shot and wounded early Sunday by a Cottonwood Heights police officer after a vehicle and foot chase that ended under a freeway overpass in Salt Lake City.The male teenager was brought to...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: American workers will see through Trump's con
Boston • On a holiday weekend set aside to honor the American working class, it is hard to escape the sense that American workers find themselves exploited by our politics — and particularly by our...
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