Salt Lake City cops on hunt for carload of armed robbery suspects
Police are on the hunt for a carload of armed robbery suspects who apparently took turns holding up Salt Lake City convenience stories early Thursday morning.The gunmen, described as young Latino...
View ArticleNo refunds in fight over parking tickets and Salt Lake City’s electronic...
The Utah Supreme Court has issued another loss to three drivers in a lengthy fight over parking tickets.In a 5-0 decision, the justices on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling throwing out a lawsuit by...
View Article'I screwed up royally,' accused leaker confessed to FBI agent
Savannah, Ga. • A young woman charged with leaking U.S. secrets to a news organization told FBI agents she was frustrated with her job as a government contractor when she tucked a classified report...
View ArticleSexual misconduct allegations in indie movie community make us all feel less...
For the devoted film fan, movie theaters are sacred spaces.Not just the “movie palaces” of old — most of which, if they still stand, have been renovated into performance halls (like Salt Lake City’s...
View ArticleTwo Salt Lake County freeway closures may snarl weekend traffic
Two major closures on Salt Lake County freeways will complicate traffic this weekend.State Road 201 in West Valley City will close Friday as early as 9 p.m. Also, the ramp from westbound Interstate 80...
View ArticleCliven Bundy loses bid to represent self in standoff trial
Las Vegas • Nevada cattleman and state’s rights figure Cliven Bundy lost a courtroom bid to represent himself at his upcoming trial, after refusing Wednesday to recognize federal authority over grazing...
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Mormon church President Thomas S. Monson and hospitalized apostle Robert D....
Mormonism’s top leader, President Thomas S. Monson, will not attend this weekend’s 187th Semiannual General Conference due to ill health incident to age.Neither will ailing Mormon apostle Robert D....
View ArticleFor Hugh Hefner, gay rights were part of the sexual revolution
The year was 1955, and science fiction author Charles Beaumont had, by most accounts, crossed the line with his latest short story.“The Crooked Man” depicted a dystopian future where homosexuality was...
View Article'Veep' star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she has breast cancer
Los Angeles • Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.The star of “Veep” and “Seinfeld” posted word of her illness Thursday on social media. A spokeswoman for Louis-Dreyfus...
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More returned Mormon missionaries than ever are playing in the NFL
No official records have been kept, but experts who follow Mormons in the National Football League believe that there were more returned LDS missionaries on NFL rosters when the 2017 season kicked off...
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NASA spacecraft will grab sample of rocks from asteroid, then send them back...
In six years, a NASA space capsule is scheduled to land at western Utah’s Test and Training Range, floating down to Earth under a parachute.Scientists hope that tucked inside will be a small chunk of...
View ArticleSublime With Rome frontman feeling sublime about band’s future
Rome Ramirez can scarcely believe that Saturday night at Usana Amphitheatre in West Valley City marks the end of Sublime With Rome’s touring cycle for the band’s 2015 album, “Sirens” but the calendar...
View ArticleMillions of American women disagree with Michelle Obama: Donald Trump is...
Former first lady Michelle Obama was dispatched by the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 to rally female voters.“We need someone who is compassionate . . . someone who will be a role model for our kids....
View ArticleBYU-USU football: With what lies ahead, a Cougars loss to suddenly dangerous...
Logan • Not counting the opener against a lower-level team that was supposed to be a breeze but wasn’t, Sept. 29 was seen by many as the day second-year coach Kalani Sitake’s BYU Cougars would catch a...
View ArticleWho exactly is the spoiled brat? Donald Trump or that kneeling NFL player?
So what exactly constitutes being a spoiled brat?I’ve heard that term used to describe the professional football players who joined in unison to kneel during the national anthem before their games or...
View ArticlePark City Mountain’s double-digit growth contributed to Vail's earnings
Park City Mountain’s merger into the Vail Resorts empire boosted the company’s bottom line in the fiscal year that ended July 31.“In Park City, we experienced a double-digit [earnings] growth rate,”...
View ArticleUtah father who admitted causing baby's death by dehydration arrested at N....
A 38-year-old Sevier County man pleaded guilty earlier this month to causing the dehydration death of his infant daughter — and then went on the run.But David Lewis Anderson was arrested about a week...
View Article6 Utah peace officers suspended for misconduct, including one for sex maybe...
Sandy • Utah’s police regulators on Thursday had a long discussion on whether officers, who have finished their shifts, can have sex in a maintenance yard at a state park.Two state park rangers...
View ArticleLee, McCain want to exempt Puerto Rico from century-old law to help...
Washington • Sens. Mike Lee and John McCain introduced legislation Thursday that would permanently exempt Puerto Rico from a nearly century-old law that requires goods shipped between U.S. ports be...
View ArticleGet your flu shots, U.S. urges amid concerns about bad season
Washington • It’s flu shot time, and health officials are bracing for a potentially miserable fall and winter.The clues: The Southern Hemisphere, especially Australia, was hit hard over the past few...
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