Man arrested in holdup of Salt Lake City drug treatment clinic
An gun-toting man intent on holding up a downtown Salt Lake City drug treatment clinic was disarmed and fled, only to be arrested in Bountiful.Salt Lake City detectives say the 46-year-old California...
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...
View ArticleExtremism, such as that in Charlottesville, Va., hasn’t increased in Utah,...
Recent events in the United States and overseas have put the spotlight on terrorism and hate crimes, but there has not been an increase in extremist activity in Utah, the head of the FBI’s Salt Lake...
View ArticleCarnival hits town as Mayweather and McGregor ready to fight
Las Vegas • The carnival finally hit town Tuesday, with Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather Jr. putting on a bit of a fashion show before promising to knock each other out in their highly anticipated...
View ArticleEclipse crowds may have doubled Wyoming's population
Cheyenne, Wyo. • The least populated state in the nation has seen total eclipses before but likely never as many people.The amount of traffic during Monday’s eclipse suggests Wyoming may have...
View ArticleCyclist airlifted to hospital after being hit by pickup truck in Park City
A cyclist was flown to a Salt Lake City hospital with head trauma Tuesday after a pickup truck veered into a Park City bike lane, police said. The male driver of the truck experienced an ”unexpected...
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Megan McArdle: When we all must live in fear of online mobs
James Damore, the author of the notorious Google memo, has had his 15 minutes of fame. In six months, few of us will be able to remember his name. But Google will remember -- not the company, but the...
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...
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Weird sensations in Wyoming for this eclipse first-timer
Something was off.As we sat overlooking an empty field near Bondurant, Wyo., the light dimmed. The air cooled. Shadows cast by a nearby tree appeared more crisp than usual.It would still be 20 minutes...
View ArticleFeds ask state to prove it can pay for proposed Lake Powell Pipeline
State officials and other proponents of the Lake Powell pipeline may have just two months to convince federal regulators that their project is backed by a robust plan to pay off more than $1 billion in...
View ArticleAs opioid addiction skyrockets, Intermountain Healthcare vows to cut the...
Intermountain Healthcare announced Tuesday it will be doling out fewer opioids during the next year and a half, with a goal of dramatically reducing how many pills the Utah-based health care system...
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Jennifer Rubin: Evangelical Christian clergy are MIA
As we noted with regard to Jerry Falwell Jr.‘s appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Christian conservative clergy have done much to undercut their standing, within their own community as well as with the...
View ArticleTrump blames media for condemnation of comments on Virginia
Phoenix • President Donald Trump is blaming the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to a Charlottesville, Virginia, protest organized by white supremacists that led to the killing of...
View ArticleDenied by a state committee, Salt Lake County’s treatment dreams may come...
The plan called for a sustained law enforcement presence in Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande neighborhood, where drug dealing was running amok.Offenders would be booked into jail (there would be more jail...
View ArticleTyler Huntley ready to be the playmaker guiding Utes offense
Tyler Huntley expected his chance to come sooner rather than later when he chose Utah out of high school. He found out Saturday – and the football team announced Monday – that his time had arrived as...
View ArticleJonathan Capehart: Trump's Afghanistan speech and its empty allusions to...
[Watch the entire heated exchange between Trump and reporters over Charlottesville]Hours before President Donald Trump delivered his speech on the war in Afghanistan on Monday, I told MSNBC’s Nicolle...
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 ArticleLetter: Philo has earned his home
My childhood legacy and love for Utah’s own Philo T. Farnsworth will not be taken away by Adam Gardiner, R-West Jordan.I was a student at Ridgecrest Elementary in the 1980s. Our principal, Bruce...
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