Letter: 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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Margaret Sullivan: To fight hate speech, don't muzzle it
“One of the problems with defending free speech,” the celebrated author Salman Rushdie said, “is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”Those...
View ArticleCosby hires Michael Jackson's lawyer for sex assault retrial
Philadelphia • Bill Cosby has hired Michael Jackson’s former lawyer to represent him at his November retrial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania.Cosby’s spokesman announced Monday that the...
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Utah State University hosts wild horse summit, but excludes key advocates and...
Critics of a national conference on wild horses, opening this week in Salt Lake City, assert its state organizers have closed the event to the public and excluded key figures in the horse-advocacy...
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'American Idol' is holding auditions in Provo — will anyone care?
Two years, four months and 16 days after its “farewell season” drew to a close, “American Idol” will hold auditions in Provo.First thing Wednesday morning, hopefuls will line up at Courthouse Square...
View ArticleSWAT standoff in Millcreek ends with man dead
A SWAT team and Unified Police officers surrounded a Millcreek home Monday morning, but were unable to convince an armed and suicidal man inside to surrender before he allegedly shot and killed...
View ArticleSearch underway for missing sailors; Navy chief orders probe
Singapore • The U.S. Navy ordered a broad investigation Monday into the performance and readiness of the Pacific-based 7th Fleet after the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker in Southeast...
View ArticleMan who shot judge is father of player convicted of rape
Steubenville, Ohio • The man who shot a judge outside a county courthouse before being gunned down by a probation officer was the father of a Steubenville High School football player who was convicted...
View ArticleTraffic into Utah jammed as eclipse fans head home on Interstate 15
As Great American Eclipse chasers head home from communities on the path of totality, southbound traffic on Interstate 15 in Idaho is heavy. Vehicles were bumper-to-bumper on I-15 Monday afternoon,...
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