Maame 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...
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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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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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'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 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 ArticlePolice identify man killed in Logan Canyon ATV crash
Police have identified a man killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash in Logan Canyon on Saturday.Cassidy Wakely, 33, of Logan, was riding an ATV with friends on Franklin Basin Road when he failed to...
View ArticleLetting Obamacare fail, as Trump has suggested, would lead to a crisis, warns...
When President Donald Trump pledged to “let Obamacare fail” last month after Republican efforts to restructure the health care law hit a dead end, he was really just nudging lawmakers to act before the...
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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 ArticleMan charged in gang-related shooting that killed 14-year-old
An 18-year-old man was charged Monday with shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy in West Valley City earlier this month.Frank Tsinnijinnie, of West Valley City, faces one count of first-degree murder...
View ArticleTrevor Siemian wins Broncos quarterback job again
Englewood, Colo • Vance Joseph was admittedly enamored of the idea of a towering, chuck-it-or-tuck-it quarterback with first-round pedigree and a lightning bolt for a right arm leading the Denver...
View ArticleBYU releases depth chart, turns attention to Saturday's opener
Provo • BYU football coach Kalani Sitake joked Monday that the Cougars will try to sneak some extra players onto the field against Portland State on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium.It’s not that the...
View ArticleIts new campus unfinished as school year starts, American Preparatory Academy...
Draper • By 7:45 a.m. Monday, the line of cars entering American Preparatory Academy had turned a half-mile stretch of Lone Peak Parkway into a 10-minute crawl of bumper-to-bumper traffic.And as...
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