News roundup: Trump says his base is 'stronger than ever' despite polls to...
Happy Monday. President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday morning to declare that his political base is “bigger & stronger than ever before” despite the fact that polls show the contrary....
View ArticleUS government clamps down on eel poaching as value grows
Brewer, Maine • Changes in the worldwide fisheries industry have turned live baby American eels into a commodity that can fetch more than $2,000 a pound at the dock, but the big demand and big prices...
View ArticlePrep football: North Sevier Wolves preview
North Sevier has struggled through eight straight losing seasons, but second-year coach Devin Lindley is staying the course and implementing building blocks for his team.“I’m excited for the season to...
View Article‘Our children are dying’ — Lawmaker urges state school board to update...
Against a backdrop of surging youth suicide rates in Utah, the success of the SafeUT app — a new suicide-prevention and school-safety hotline — has “exceeded our wildest expectations,” Sandy Republican...
View ArticleNorthwestern professor accused in stabbing and killing hair stylist due in...
Chicago • After a cross-country manhunt, a Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford employee are in custody in the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old hair stylist in Chicago. The...
View ArticleAnother milestone for stocks: Most boring market in decades
New York • This year’s run to a record for the stock market has been one of the least eventful in decades. Just don’t get too comfortable.Only twice this year have investors had to deal with a 1...
View Article’Ingrid Goes West’ satirizes the perils of social media envy
Los Angeles • Have you ever been jealous of someone on Instagram? Or gone down a spiral of late night scrolling that starts out as voyeurism and ends in despair? That’s the sensation captured in...
View ArticleBody of missing man found near Lakeside Mountains
The body of a West Bountiful man who had been missing for two weeks was found over the weekend near northwestern Utah’s Lakeside Mountains.In a Facebook posting, the family of 74-year-old John Page...
View ArticleWashington Post Editorial: How to reverse a catastrophe
There is, alas, no shortage of ways to measure the damage done by the nationwide opioid epidemic, but perhaps the most dramatic is to consider how it has reversed four decades of progress against...
View ArticleLetter: President provides echoes of Mad King George
“Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.” One wonders about a leader who utters these words. Is he mad? Dangerous? It’s not a matter of left or right.We all watch as our...
View ArticleDon Baylor, former MVP and manager of year, dead at 68
Don Baylor, the burly slugger who once held the Major League Baseball record for being hit a pitch and later guided the expansion Colorado Rockies to the playoffs for the first time as manager of the...
View ArticleGoogle VP denounces employee memo’s views on female workers
London • Google’s new head of diversity has rejected an internal commentary from an employee who suggested women don’t get ahead in tech jobs because of biological differences.Danielle Brown, who was...
View ArticleBountiful doctor charged with sexually abusing young girls, having child porn...
A Bountiful obstetrician-gynecologist was charged Monday with sexually assaulting two young girls and having child pornography.Nathan Ward, 55, of Bountiful, was charged in 2nd District Court with 11...
View ArticleCommentary: Parenting my Muslim baby in the age of Trump
When I found out I was pregnant last fall, the news was unexpected. But even more unexpected than the positive test result was the realization that the experience of raising my second child could be...
View ArticleLetter: Health insurance is a federal responsibility
Gary Mulcock (“Use state-run insurance,” July 25) seems to consider himself quite the expert on constitutional law and insurance history; how unfortunate for the rest of us. He wants ACA (Obamacare)...
View ArticleNorth Korea vows harsh retaliation against new UN sanctions
Seoul, South Korea • North Korea vowed Monday to bolster its nuclear arsenal and gain revenge of a “thousand-fold” against the United States in response to tough U.N. sanctions imposed following its...
View ArticlePence: Story on possible 2020 presidential run ‘disgraceful’
Bridgewater, N.J. • Vice President Mike Pence has pushed back against a news report suggesting he is laying groundwork for a possible presidential bid in 2020 if President Donald Trump does not run.In...
View ArticleSchedule changes coming Sunday to UTA bus, rail lines
Some changes — mostly minor ones — are coming to Utah Transit Authority rail and bus routes beginning Sunday, one of three times a year that the agency tweaks schedules.The tweaks include adding eight...
View ArticleLetter: White House practices 'Distract and destroy'
While the White House provides a new scandal almost every day (Russia, dramatic personnel changes, obscene interviews, and more), EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and congressional Republicans have been...
View ArticleTaylor Swift expected to testify in groping case in Denver
Denver • A few moments at a backstage photo session four years ago are about to be relived, as lawyers for pop star Taylor Swift and a former disc jockey she accuses of groping her begin picking jurors...
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