As opioid addiction skyrockets, Intermountain Healthcare pledges to slash...
Intermountain Healthcare announced Tuesday it will be doling out fewer opioids during the next year and a half, with a goal of reducing the Utah-based health care system’s prescriptions for acute pain...
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Utah volleyball tries to push program forward by blending experience and youth
There’s not a lot of middle ground on Utah’s volleyball roster. A wealth of experience resides in a trio of senior returners, but they’re outnumbered by eight new faces in the form of seven incoming...
View ArticleBYU football: Matt Hadley switches to linebacker to fill void left by Francis...
Provo • Matt Hadley hasn’t played as many positions at BYU to match the number of years he’s been in the football program, but he is getting close.The senior from Connell, Wash., was projected a couple...
View ArticleUtah couple killed in Idaho boat crash
A Centerville couple died Monday in a boating crash in Idaho. Neal Jenkins, 68, and his wife, Elaine Jenkins, 65, were boating with 65-year-old Mike Kingston, of Idaho Falls, at Blacktail Park on the...
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One Utah county has decided to create an oversight panel for its prosecutors
The Utah County Commission on Tuesday took the first steps toward establishing a panel that will ensure their prosecutors are behaving ethically. The commissioners approved a resolution to establish a...
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There's a turf war between the state's two big crime-fighting units, audit finds
Utah’s two statewide investigative units are locked in a lingering turf battle that hinders cooperation, according to a legislative audit released Tuesday.And disputes between the State Bureau of...
View ArticleOlympics: U.S. Speedskating announces short-track World Cup squad
U.S. Speedskating announced its upcoming short-track ISU World Cup squad less than six months out from the Olympic Games in PyeongChang.The 10-person team (five men, five women) has been unveiled after...
View ArticleOfficials say Trump's Afghan plan involves 3,900 more troops
Washington • President Donald Trump’s plan to end America’s longest war and eliminate Afghanistan’s rising extremist threat involves sending up to 3,900 additional U.S. troops, senior officials said...
View ArticleGerman police seize thousands of 'Trump' ecstasy tablets
Berlin • German police say they have seized thousands of tablets of the party drug ecstasy in the shape of Donald Trump’s head, a haul with an estimated street value of 39,000 euros ($45,900.)Police in...
View ArticleLetter: The only way to win is not to play
In the 1983 movie WarGames, a massive military computer is challenged to a game of Global Thermonuclear War. After numerous failed exchanges, the computer states, “The only winning move is not to...
View ArticleThanks to ‘stupid human tricks,’ Utah’s cost to fight wildfires doubles this...
In an average year, Utah’s share of the cost to fight wildfires is about $9 million. This year, that is projected to double to $18 million.“The Brian Head Fire alone cost us $10 million,” State...
View ArticleJury refuses to convict in standoff at Bundy ranch
Las Vegas • A federal jury in Las Vegas refused Tuesday to convict four accused gunman in a 2014 standoff with federal authorities near the Nevada ranch of states’ rights figure Cliven Bundy.In a...
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Rep. Chris Stewart applauds Trump, says sending more troops to Afghanistan...
Utah Rep. Chris Stewart, a former Air Force pilot, welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he’ll send more American troops to Afghanistan.The Republican congressman hopes the...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Reyes can do more for Utah’s DREAMers
“But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.”...
View ArticleFederal probe finds University of Utah deficient in how it handled rape...
Federal officials last week found ”potentially serious shortcomings” in how the University of Utah informed students of an alleged rape on campus last Halloween — the second time in less than a decade...
View ArticleTrump protesters flood downtown Phoenix
Phoenix • Protesters engaged in minor scuffles and shouting matches with President Donald Trump supporters on Tuesday as hundreds of people lined up to get inside a rally that marks his first political...
View ArticleTrump spiritual adviser Paula White says this president is ‘raised up by God’
Paula White, pastor of an evangelical megachurch and one of Donald Trump’s spiritual advisers, said on television that the president is “authentically raised up by God.”Her comments, made during a...
View ArticleNBA stunner: Cavaliers trade Kyrie Irving to Celtics for Isaiah Thomas
Cleveland • Kyrie Irving was tired of being teammates with LeBron James.Now he has to figure out how to beat him.Cleveland’s All-Star guard, who asked owner Dan Gilbert to trade him earlier this...
View ArticleWhy is sexuality such a big deal for the church?
If the widely esteemed Eugene Peterson were still pastoring today and a gay couple in his church who were “Christians of good faith” asked him to preside at their wedding, would he do it?He answered...
View ArticleA Ponzi scheme or not? Dueling scenarios open trial of one-time real estate...
Rick Koerber’s businesses owned $127 million worth of properties when they collapsed amid plunging values during the real estate crash nearly 10 years ago, his attorney told a federal court jury on...
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