American Girl's first Native Hawaiian doll set to go on sale
Honolulu — American Girl has made its first Native Hawaiian doll.The doll’s name is Nanea Mitchell and she goes on sale Monday. The doll is 18 inches (46 centimeters) tall and is priced at $115.Her...
View ArticleMonson: BYU's Tanner Mangum stands fully armed on the edge of something big
Provo • Having dusted off the final scrimmage of BYU’s preseason camp the other day, ready to turn his full attention to the first real matter at hand Aug. 26, Tanner Mangum’s comfort zone looked about...
View ArticleLetter: We still should teach handwriting
It might interest some people to know that many schools in our state have done away with handwriting. Period. Students do all their work on a keyboard.What does this mean for civilized societies?No...
View ArticleUnified Police seek at least 2 suspects in fatal Magna drive-by shooting
Unified Police on Monday were hunting for at least two suspects in a weekend drive-by shooting in Magna that killed one teen boy and hospitalized another.UPD Detective Ken Hansen said two 17-year-old...
View ArticleRights of migrants trump national security concerns, Pope Francis says
Vatican City • Pope Francis on Monday urged countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop collective expulsions, saying migrants’ dignity and right to protection trumps national...
View ArticleLetter: Hold a real town hall, Rep. Love
Rep. Mia Love’s “office hours” aren’t a town hall replacement. Seeing The Tribune’s editorial endorsing Love’s “office hours” as a legitimate replacement for a traditional town hall disappointed me. I...
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Cedar City's Adams is Police Chief of the Year
Cedar City’s top cop has earned the Crisis Intervention Team Program’s Police Chief of the Year Award for 2017.Chief Darin Adams received the honor during CIT’s conference last week in Fort Lauderdale,...
View ArticleMaame Biney looking like the future of US speedskating
Kearns — Maame Biney seems like the typical teenager. She giggles with her friends, is making her way through the Harry Potter movies and wants to go to homecoming.But that’s where typical ends for the...
View ArticleCollege: 'Bama starts atop AP poll for 2nd straight year; Utes 27th, Cougars...
Alabama is No. 1 in the preseason Top 25, the first program in 12 years to take the top spot two years in a row.The Crimson Tide will start the season ranked in the top five of The Associated Press...
View ArticleLetter: Rio Grande crackdown not solution
Salt Lake City and County politicians need to take a long, careful look at the history of the bills they passed and the bills they voted against, the people they let lobby them and the voices they...
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Catherine Rampell: Legalizing vehicular violence
WASHINGTON -- Last weekend in Charlottesville, a driver mowed down peaceful protesters and killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The act was reminiscent of recent terrorist attacks across Europe committed...
View ArticleHikers find body in southern Utah desert
A decomposing body found in the southern Utah desert has been released to the state medical examiner’s office to be identified, Washington County Lt. Dave Crouse said Monday.Hikers on the Washington...
View ArticleLetter: Don't be silent after Charlottesville
Watching the events of the past several days in Charlottsville, I would expect that every single person in the USA should write to their representatives in Utah, to their governor, to their U.S....
View ArticleForget the bluster — Charlottesville reveals white supremacist bullies for...
We’ve all put up with bullies at times. As the proverbial 90-pound weakling in high school, I probably encountered more than my share.Bullies come in many forms. There were the big fat kids in...
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The Great American Eclipse: What you need to know
The day of the Great American Eclipse is finally here. Just over an hour before 11:33 a.m. MDT, the Salt Lake Valley sky will start to transition from a typical late-morning hue to dusk as the moon...
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Dana Milbank: The Trump administration's three 'court Jews' disgrace themselves
Washington — What Gary Cohn, Steven Mnuchin and Jared Kushner did last week — or, rather, what they didn’t do — is a shanda.They’ll know what that means, but, for the uninitiated, shanda is Yiddish for...
View ArticleDreamers celebrate 5 years of DACA program as its fate looms
Young, undocumented immigrants are finding it difficult to follow the advice of a new U.S. president, who recently told them to ”rest easy” because his administration is ”not after the dreamers.”Utah...
View ArticleDeer Valley, but not Solitude, acquired by big new ski company
Deer Valley Resort has been purchased for an undisclosed price by a new ski company whose prolific growth this year has made it big enough to rival Vail Resorts.Expected to take effect before next ski...
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