Florida on edge; evacuations coming as Hurricane Irma nears
Key Largo, Fla. • Hurricane Irma’s size and strength put the entire state of Florida on notice Tuesday, and residents and visitors prepared to leave in anticipation of catastrophic winds and floods...
View ArticleLetter: God bless America. We need it.
Over the last few months it has become increasingly obvious that President Donald Trump has serious and overriding personality flaws. Yes, we all do, but not generally this extensive, and we are not...
View ArticleTom Wharton: Sometimes we need protection from the police
The framed single piece of notebook paper once hung in a nondescript place in an old home office at my previous house. It contained a couple of nearly unreadable scratched sentences that referred to a...
View ArticleTimpview pipeline continues to pay dividends for Utah football
The connection is impossible to miss, but it’s not the sole reason Utah has established an ongoing pipeline in enemy territory: For the seventh-straight season, the Utes have at least one key...
View ArticleLeonid Bershidsky: Russia is a rising superpower in food supply
Russia is often seen as a country that produces little that the world wants except energy commodities. The oil export dependence looks like a major time bomb under the country’s future, given the...
View ArticleCowboys’ Elliott has suspension upheld, but will play Week 1
Sherman, Texas • An arbitrator denied Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal of a six-game suspension in a domestic violence case Tuesday, but the 2016 NFL rushing champion will play in the...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: Lone Peak gets better of Pleasant Grove in first battle...
Highland • If it seems like five days into September is a tad early to start region volleyball matches, you just might be right.And technically a matchup between Nos. 1 and 2 in Class 6A won’t count in...
View ArticlePleasant Grove girls’ soccer continues hot streak, beats Lone Peak
Storylines<br>• Senior midfielder Bry Carson scores a goal and adds an assist in Pleasant Grove’s 3-2 win over Lone Peak.<br>• Pleasant Grove scores more goals on Lone Peak than any team...
View ArticleVenus Williams edges Kvitova for 1st US Open semifinal since 2010
New York • When her work was done, her first trip to the U.S. Open semifinals since 2010 secured, if just barely, Venus Williams sat in her sideline chair and beamed.Williams reached her third major...
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Writer seeks Mormonism's Heavenly Mother — through poetry
People write poetry about God all the time, but by “God” they usually mean “Father.” What about poetry that explores our relationship with God as Mother?For Mormons, this shouldn’t be a “first,” but it...
View ArticleCreeping dread permeates this version of Stephen King’s ‘It’
Offering more slowly simmering menace and dread than haunted-house scares, “It” finds its shocks in the terrors of childhood and its heart in the way the seven kids here band together to face them.This...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump still wants Congress to repeal Obamacare this fall
Happy Wednesday. President Donald Trump is working with some senators to try one last-gasp effort to repeal Obamacare this fall even after Congress failed to do so several times earlier this year....
View ArticleLetter: Betraying every American ideal
The early 20th-century novelist (“Babbitt,” “Main Street” and “Arrowsmith”) and social observer Sinclair Lewis reportedly predicted, “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and...
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A trip to NYC, a chance to hold on tight to my little boy who still likes...
New York City • On a muggy but cloud-covered day in July, my son Jack and I boarded a ferry and joined the mass of tourists crowding the decks and aiming for an unobstructed view of the Statue of...
View Article‘They're teaching us to cook their way:’ A Utah food truck is serving...
Kountze, Texas • Hundreds of people in this small town ate a staple Texas meal Tuesday night: stuffed green peppers, served with some sweet tea.It didn’t come from a restaurant. Many businesses in this...
View ArticleThe Road Home is spending $4,400 per night to keep Utah families out of its...
The Road Home estimates that the cost to spare families the environment of its downtown Salt Lake City homeless shelter has risen to nearly $4,400 per night — or more than twice what the state has...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Midweek hot and smoky, but storms on the way
Smoky skies and hot temperatures ruled northern Utah at the midweek, but incoming thunderstorms and rain could help clear the air on Thursday and Friday.The National Weather Service predicted high...
View ArticleLetter: Time for us to leave the ‘Graveyard of Empires’
The “Graveyard of Empires.” What have you given up for Afghanistan? Having served in Vietnam, 1966-1968, I have always been against our actions in Afghanistan. I believe most who have served during war...
View ArticleWithout Gary Ott to speak for himself, judge delays decision on future of...
West Jordan • A decision about who will be the permanent legal guardian of enfeebled former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott has been delayed a month, along with a ruling over whether the news media...
View ArticleLetter: Stewart off-base going after leaks
Rep. Chris Stewart (The Tribune, Aug. 20) quotes the adage “loose lips sink ships” to justify legislation addressing deliberate leaks of classified information. He’s treating the symptoms, which are...
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