Utah inmate who killed his cellmate sentenced to up to life in prison
A Utah inmate who killed his cellmate in a brutal attack last year will spend up to life in prison for his crime.Timothy Patrick Maez pleaded guilty in June to first-degree felony aggravated murder in...
View ArticleGeorge Pyle: After the eclipse
I'll have about 2:30 of totality for #Eclipse2017 here in Sabetha #Kansas an hour north of Topeka @kcur #ksleg pic.twitter.com/43sIoLL5ZK— sam zeff (@samzeff) August 21, 2017This tweet was posted by a...
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Eugene Robinson: How unhinged is Trump?
WASHINGTON • How unstable and divorced from reality is President Trump? We’ve reached the point where the nation has the right and the need to know.We’re not accustomed to asking such questions about...
View ArticleMavericks sign former Utah Jazz center Jeff Withey
Dallas • The Dallas Mavericks have signed free-agent center Jeff Withey, who spent the past two seasons with the Utah Jazz.The 7-foot Withey averaged 2.9 points and 2.4 rebounds in 51 games last...
View ArticleTrump renews Afghan commitment but says 'no blank check'
Washington • Declaring the U.S. will win “in the end,” President Donald Trump vowed Monday night to keep American troops fighting in Afghanistan despite his earlier inclination to withdraw. But he...
View ArticleVictoria Azarenka withdraws from US Open amid child custody dispute
New York • Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka withdrew from the U.S. Open on Monday because she was unable to resolve a custody dispute with her infant son’s father.The 28-year-old...
View ArticleCommentary: What Confederate monument builders were thinking
On the afternoon of May 27, 1901, the clerk of the Alabama Constitutional Convention read out a letter to the delegates written by educator Booker T. Washington and signed by 23 other state black...
View ArticleBees rout Las Vegas 11-2 to snap three-game skid
The Salt Lake Bees ended a three-game losing streak, routing the host Las Vegas 51s, 11-2, on Monday night.The Bees jumped out to a 2-0lead in the first inning on RBI singles by Ramon Flores and David...
View ArticleEclipse creates community at Wheeler Farm: 'We're all experiencing something...
Murray • They came for the eclipse — but they really loved staying for the instant community it created at Wheeler Historic Farm. Watchers shared safety glasses, telescopes, other viewing devices and a...
View ArticleRyan says Trump "messed up" but opposes censure
Madison, Wis. • U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday he will not support a resolution to censure President Donald Trump over his comments following the white supremacist march in Virginia, even...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: State auditor should investigate closed commission meetings
Can a county commission in Utah legally hold a private meeting with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior?No, but it happened with two county commissions in May.The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance has...
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Albert R. Hunt: This president can't be the healer-in-chief
President Bill Clinton went to Oklahoma City after a terrorist bombed the federal office building there in 1995. President George W. Bush lifted a bullhorn at the ruins of the World Trade Center on...
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Funeral for Utah National Guardsman who died in Afghanistan set for Saturday
Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler will be buried Saturday in his hometown of Monticello, his family announced Monday. Butler, a soldier in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group of the Utah...
View ArticleBYU women’s soccer: No. 8 Cougars battle Ohio State to a scoreless tie
Provo • It wasn’t the way the BYU women’s soccer team wanted its first game at renovated South Field to go, but it probably wasn’t the worst thing that will happen to coach Jennifer Rockwood’s young...
View ArticleCoal CEO expected Trump help, but administration said no
Washington — The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the...
View ArticleNews roundup: Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more...
Trump goes against his ‘original instinct,’ plans to send more troops to Afghanistan. Despite program’s uncertainty, Utahns celebrate five years of DACA. Former Utah guv says letting Obamacare fail...
View ArticleEclipse 360: Watch the solar eclipse in an interactive 360 degree view
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View Article‘The moon made the sun smile’ – Utah kids amazed by solar eclipse on first...
As Lisa DeFrance escorted her fourth-graders out to the Meadowlark Elementary School fields Monday morning to watch the Great American Solar Eclipse, many of her students asked what time it was.It was...
View ArticleCivil War lessons often depend on where the classroom is
Austin, Texas — The Civil War lessons taught to American students often depend on where the classroom is, with schools presenting accounts of the conflict that vary from state to state and even...
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