Prep girls' soccer: State rankings for Sept. 17
Class 6A1. American Fork (11-0) • The Cavemen remain perfect after their toughest road stretch of the season with wins over No. 2 Pleasant Grove (1-0) and Bingham (2-1). Lone Peak is up next before...
View ArticleCommentary: The darkest week I can remember
When September 11th happened, I had just returned from taking my kids to school. I turned on the television and started to clear left over french toast from the table. Just as I scraped the dish over...
View ArticleCommentary: Learning from Sept. 11, 2001, 1973 and 1857
When I was a 5th grader at Wasatch School in Provo, I arrived home from school one afternoon to find my mother waiting outside for me, and she was not happy.Someone from Wasatch had called to tell her...
View ArticleSitake doesn’t hold back on criticism after Wisconsin routs BYU 40-6
Provo • A parachutist overshooting his mark crashed into the padded wall behind the north end zone at LaVell Edwards Stadium before the BYU football game on Saturday.He was pronounced OK afterwards,...
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Provo’s growing gay pride festival surprised many fans headed to the BYU...
It’s hard to say which group of football fans was more surprised to see a gay pride festival in Provo — the visitors from Wisconsin or the BYU faithful. But a lot of people driving by the Provo Pride...
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Prep sports: This week's standout performers and key numbers
Each week, the TribPreps staff will choose standout performers and key numbers from the previous week’s action in Utah and showcase them. Here are this week’s picks.Katja BradenThe Juab senior only...
View ArticleICE director decries California's 'sanctuary state' bill
Sacramento, Calif. • The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says California’s so-called “sanctuary state” bill that would limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities...
View ArticlePrep football: East QB Ben Ford yearns for another shot at Rice-Eccles
It would take many months for Ben Ford to heal from a dislocated right elbow.The East High quarterback’s injury in a Class 4A state semifinal last November kept him out of the championship game the...
View ArticleColorado sheriff: Family of 4 killed in private plane crash en route to Utah
Glenwood Springs, Colo. • Authorities say two adults and two children were killed when the private plane they were traveling in went down in Colorado.The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office says the plane...
View ArticlePrep football: State rankings after Week 5
Class 6A1. Bingham (5-0) • Ryan Wood throws three touchdowns and Miners cruise to 44-14 region-opening win over Pleasant Grove.2. East (4-1) • Region 3 play for the Leopards begins with a 64-19...
View ArticlePorsche plows into spectators at Idaho car show; 11 hurt
Boise, Idaho • A Porsche plowed into a crowd of spectators at a Boise, Idaho, car show, injuring 11 in a horrifying scene that saw bystanders scrambling to tend to the injured, authorities and...
View ArticleCommentary: Homeless people are not the problem
Needless to say, the homeless situation in Salt Lake is complicated. It impacts businesses, residential areas, health care systems and has been a controversial topic of conversation within the...
View ArticleSeparate shootings in West Valley City send two to hospital, including a...
Two shootings Saturday in West Valley City wounded a man in the stomach and a teenager in the torso. Both victims are expected to survive. West Valley City police Lt. Jeff Conger said the first...
View ArticleBYU football: Cougars honor Bosco, Wilson, Staley with jersey retirements
Provo • Marc Wilson and Luke Staley said their favorite moments playing at LaVell Edwards Stadium came during wins over the rival University of Utah, while Robbie Bosco’s best memory was his first home...
View ArticleCommentary: A ‘badge-heavy’ approach was obviously the wrong one in nurse...
On Sept. 1 a police body camera video was released showing the dramatic arrest of nurse Alex Wubbels by Salt Lake City police Detective Jeff L. Payne. To the casual observer, the drama of the arrest...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: State rankings for Sept. 17
Records based on best 3-of-5 matches.Class 6A1. Lone Peak (6-0) • Tasia Farmer pounds 21 kills as Knights beat Class 5A No. 1 Bountiful; LP then knocks off Bishop Gorman 3-1 in Las Vegas.2. Pleasant...
View ArticleVolunteers search Murray for signs of missing elderly man
Friends, family and other volunteers on Saturday searched the neighborhoods of Murray for an 82-year-old man who disappeared there two days earlier. But as of late Saturday, there was still no sign of...
View ArticleDavis Cup: Australia and France lead 2-1 in semifinals
Lille, France • Two-time Grand Slam champions Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert beat Filip Krajinovic and Nenad Zimonjic 6-1, 6-2, 7-6 (3) for France to lead Serbia 2-1 in the Davis Cup...
View ArticleMonson: BYU squished like a family of possum on a county two-lane
Provo • The number 6 was celebrated on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium, as BYU retired Robbie Bosco’s, Marc Wilson’s and Luke Staley’s shared jersey number.But it had other connotations, too.As in:...
View ArticleUtah State run over by Wake Forest, 46-10
Winston-Salem, N.C. • Wake Forest quarterback John Wolford remembers walking off the field three years following a loss to Utah State feeling battered and bruised after getting knocked around.He felt...
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