Prep sports: This week's standouts performers and key numbers
Each week, the TribPreps staff will choose standout performers and key numbers from the previous week’s action in Utah and showcase them. Here are this week’s picks.Emily StevensThe Salem Hills junior...
View ArticleHarry Fuller: Trump sets course for us to remain Afghanistanned for a long time
In a particularly crucial regard, the Trump Doctrine differs from the Obama Doctrine for U.S. involvement with Afghanistan – the American troop presence shifting from a determined to an indefinite...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: While Biskupski and Hughes fight it out, the homeless are...
It is good advice to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski say they’re friends, but they have been acting like...
View ArticlePrep girls' soccer: State rankings for Sept. 3
Class 6A1. American Fork (8-0) • Can anyone stop the Cavemen? Valuable wins over Bingham and Lone Peak have them cruising in Region 3.2. Pleasant Grove (5-2) • A 3-2 win over Bingham keeps the Vikings...
View ArticleBowers leads California past UNC 35-30 in Wilcox's debut
Chapel Hill, N.C. • Ross Bowers threw for 363 yards and four touchdowns in his first college start, helping California beat North Carolina 35-30 on Saturday in the Golden Bears’ first game under Justin...
View ArticleGeorge F. Will: Football's enjoyment is on a fade pattern
Washington • Autumn, which is bearing down upon us like a menacing linebacker, is, as John Keats said, a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Actually,...
View ArticleRossi continues stout weekend, wins IndyCar pole at The Glen
Watkins Glen, N.Y. • Alexander Rossi has won the IndyCar pole at Watkins Glen International.Rossi bested the Fast Six with a track-record time of 1 minute, 22.4639 seconds to edge Scott Dixon...
View ArticleAstros return to Houston for 1st game since Harvey
Houston • Baseball returned to Houston on Saturday with the Astros giving the flood-ravaged city a few hours of entertainment at the end of a terrible and trying week.The Astros beat the New York Mets...
View ArticleUpbeat Trump pitches in at shelter for Harvey victims
Houston • President Donald Trump cupped a boy’s face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips. And he loaded relief...
View ArticleOne dead, one injured in Ogden Canyon motorcycle crash
A woman is dead and a man seriously injured after the motorcycle they were riding crashed in Ogden Canyon Saturday afternoon.The crash happened about 1:45 p.m. near 600 Ogden Canyon, between the...
View ArticleOne dead in North Salt Lake motorcycle crash
A motorcyclist died Saturday after he crashed on Highway 89 in North Salt Lake.The 65-year-old man crashed at about noon near 2900 South Highway 89, according to North Salt Lake Sgt. Mitch Gwilliam.No...
View ArticleNo. 11 Michigan gets kicks in 33-17 win over No. 17 Florida
Arlington, Texas • Quinn Nordin became the first Michigan kicker to make two 50-yard field goals in the same game, one of them in a quick go-ahead spurt after halftime, and the 11th-ranked Wolverines...
View ArticleSalt Lake City police endure growing wave of public criticism after nurse’s...
The shouts of about 100 or so Utahns echoed loudly Saturday evening in the courtyard of the Salt Lake Police Department with one demand: Fire Detective Jeff Payne.The Salt Lake City police detective...
View Article‘The Lord has extended his hand again’ — hundreds gather, canonize new...
Boise • Almost 600 people collected at Eagle Island State Park near Boise on Saturday afternoon, their picnic blankets spread on the grass and camping chairs dotted between white plastic seats in rows...
View ArticlePrep volleyball: State rankings for Sept. 3
Note: All records are from best of five matches.Class 6A1. Lone Peak (2-0) • Four-set win on road against Park City set up Knights for region opener with Pleasant Grove on Tuesday.2. Pleasant Grove...
View ArticleYou’re not imagining it — SLC feels tremors of Idaho earthquake
If you felt the earth move under your feet about 6 p.m. Saturday, you weren’t imagining things.A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit about 17 miles east of Soda Springs, Idaho, just before 6 p.m. MDT, sending...
View ArticleLSU 27, BYU 0: Cougars offense stifled by Tigers in New Orleans
New Orleans • Dominated, embarrassed and overwhelmed in every way imaginable.How else to describe BYU’s latest venture into SEC territory on Saturday night?The No. 13 LSU Tigers, supposedly shorthanded...
View ArticleNorth Korea may have conducted a 6th nuclear test after showcasing possible...
Seoul, South Korea • South Korea’s military said Sunday that North Korea is believed to have conducted its sixth nuclear test after it detected a strong earthquake, hours after Pyongyang claimed that...
View ArticlePolice investigating after body is found in Ogden River
Police are investigating after rafters on the Ogden River discovered a submerged body Saturday evening.Ogden police Lt. Clint Christensen said police were alerted about 5 p.m. to the discovery of the...
View ArticleNo. 4 USC rallies past Western Michigan 49-31 with big 4th quarter
Los Angeles • Ronald Jones II ran 37 yards for the tiebreaking touchdown with 6:57 to play, and No. 4 Southern California rallied from a second-half deficit for a 49-31 victory over Western Michigan on...
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