Sky Sox complete sweep of Salt Lake Bees, 4-2
With a bevy of pitches in his arsenal, Colorado Springs Sky Sox starting pitcher Taylor Jungmann mystified the Salt Lake Bees on Sunday afternoon, facing just one above the minimum through five innings...
View ArticleSalt Lake City elementary school employs goats for gardening work
A Salt Lake City elementary school has found a cheap, chemical-free way to clear weeds from a treacherous hillside: a team of hungry goats.For the third year in a row, a herd of goats is being used to...
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Leonid Bershidsky: Robots created a language. No need to panic.
For some, the idea of artificially intelligent bots that can invent languages of their own and not teach them to us invokes images of of Skynet from the “Terminator” movies. The recent spat between...
View ArticleChina tells North Korea to be ‘smart’ and drop missile tests
Manila, The Philippines • China delivered frank advice to North Korea, its outcast neighbor, on Sunday, telling Pyongyang to make a “smart decision” and stop conducting missile launches and nuclear...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: Missing out on the kindness of strangers
Washington • There are happier stories about those who travel the nation trying to find buyers for their wares than Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Just ask Marc J. Dunkelman.In an essay in the...
View ArticleFormer Ute Star Lotulelei isn't worried about uncertain future with the...
Spartanburg, S.C. • Defensive tackle Star Lotulelei isn’t fretting about his uncertain future with the Carolina Panthers.The team’s 2013 first-round draft pick out of Utah said he’d love to return to...
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When a mining disaster struck Crandall Canyon 10 years ago, women held their...
Huntington • Ten years ago Sunday, Hilary Gordon had been mayor of this small coal-country town for just two weeks when the Crandall Canyon mine’s walls blew in.Six miners were left missing behind...
View ArticleRobert Britton holds on to win Tour of Utah championship
Robert Britton rode about 30 feet past the finish line, then slowed to a stop. He leaned over his bike and exhaled, secure in the knowledge he was the newest champion of the Tour of Utah. Britton...
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Prep girls’ soccer: Twin sisters power Woods Cross offense, defense
It’s fair to say that Sara and Rachel Noel have gotten used to sharing things with each other.They share a birthday.They share physical features.They share food.And clothes.And shoes.They’ve also spent...
View ArticleWoman killed, 2 injured in fire at West Jordan condos
A woman was killed and two people were injured Sunday after a fire burned a West Jordan condominium complex.The woman, who was in her mid-60s, was unable to get out of her ground-floor condo at...
View ArticleBowie gets gold, and Jamaica fails to medal in the 100
London • The American sprinter took a mighty tumble. Nobody, however, has fallen harder than Jamaica so far at this year’s world championships.The evening after Usain Bolt’s improbable loss to a pair...
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Your naked friends and neighbors, all part of the Great Salt Lake Fringe...
So there I was, completely naked and curled up in a wooden box while a strange man on a ladder above snapped photos of me.Aterrifying dream for some. But this was photographer Bruce Aoki makingart at...
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Lawmakers to take up new fireworks proposals — including a statewide ban
When fireworks start booming every July, state Rep. Marie Poulson says upset people bombard her with letters, emails and phone calls.“I hear from veterans with PTSD,” the Cottonwood Heights Democrat...
View ArticleAt transgender camp, children as young as 4 find safe space
El Cerrito, Calif. • In some ways, Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary. Kids arrive with a packed lunch, make friendship bracelets, play basketball, sing songs and get silly. But it is also...
View ArticleSearch for missing Uintas hiker scaled back
After a week of extensive searches on the ground and in the air, efforts to find a 74-year-old Arizona man were scaled back on Monday.Summit County Sheriff Justin Martinez said that while the search...
View ArticleNations race to prevent backsliding on North Korea sanctions
Manila, Philippines • Armed with extraordinary new U.N. sanctions, nations raced Monday to ensure that North Korea’s biggest trading partners actually carry them out, an elusive task that has undercut...
View ArticleNumber of Syrian child brides in Jordan increases amid poverty, uncertainty
Mafraq, Jordan • Married at 15 and divorced at 16, a Syrian teen says she regrets having said yes to a handsome suitor — a stranger who turned into an abusive husband.Yet the reasons that transformed...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Wasatch Front wetter, cooler; south drier and hot again
A little thunder, a little rain; relief from the heat on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, again.That sums up northern Utah’s forecast as this week unfolds, after past weeks of hot weather at or above 100...
View ArticlePrep football: South Sevier Rams preview
All of the building blocks for a winning season are in place for South Sevier. Even finding a new starting quarterback was just a minor obstacle for the Rams.Sophomore Tracen Winkel will be the...
View ArticleRolly: Utah cases show three reasons why Mike Lee is right and Jeff Sessions...
Utah Sen. Mike Lee has joined libertarian and civil rights advocates in opposing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ plan to expand the federal government’s civil asset forfeiture program, which...
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