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Survival in Utah’s elite special forces isn’t a game. But it can be for...
Camp Williams • Cody Fitzgerald has long dreamed of joining the Army’s Special Forces, but life took the Colorado resident in other directions.He served as an airplane mechanic in the Air Force after...
View ArticleOpening 300 new jail beds leads to last-minute shuffling, changes in lead-up...
The preparations ahead of Operation Rio Grande — which requires more jail space in Salt Lake County — underwent minute-by-minute changes Thursday as state and county officials negotiated the lead-up to...
View ArticleSalt Lake County Republicans discuss investigation into acting county...
Murray • The Salt Lake County Republican Party avoided taking action against acting Recorder Julie Dole in a meeting Thursday night, one week before hundreds of party insiders are set to decide who...
View Article'Behind the Headlines': More jail beds, a warning about social media and a...
Utah County has agreed to free up 128 beds for Salt Lake County inmates, a decision that officials with the state, Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County hope will help address issues of lawlessness in...
View ArticleRacist posters found on University of Utah campus
At least two racist signs were posted on the University of Utah campus last week, one taped on the wall of the Student Life Center and another taped crudely over an advertisement near the...
View ArticleSalt Lake Bees lose series finale to Oklahoma City
The fans in attendance who came to see Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, on a rehab assignment with Oklahoma City, left Smith’s Ballpark satisfied. Gonzalez ripped a two-run homer to...
View ArticleTrubisky shines for Bears in loss to Broncos in NFL preseason game
Chicago • Mitch Trubisky threw for 166 yards and led three scoring drives after Mike Glennon struggled for Chicago, before the Denver Broncos scored two long touchdowns in the closing minutes to beat...
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Don Gale: The strange case of Bishop’s sausage and Gardiner’s Idaho
Utah Rep. Rob Bishop tells visitors to the nation’s capitol that the statue of Utah native Philo Farnsworth shows him holding a “sausage.” And state Rep. Adam Gardiner thinks Farnsworth spent “much of...
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Commentary: Changes in curriculum are harmful to Utah's children
I am saddened and disappointed to hear the Utah State Board of Education has eliminated physical education, health, the arts and college and career readiness as core requirements in Utah middle...
View ArticleUtah forecast: Warm, humid in the north; hot and humid in the south
A warm, occasionally wet weekend is coming for the Wasatch Front, and storm clouds will combine with near triple-digit temperatures to make southern Utah both hot and humid.Perhaps only Shakira would...
View ArticleNews roundup: How does the U.S. launch a nuclear attack? The president orders...
Happy Friday. How does a president order a nuclear attack? He just does. If the president wants to strike, his senior military advisers have few options but to carry it out or resign. As the rhetoric...
View ArticleWhat’s a little petty larceny when you’re a little boy sent to the store on...
I was 7 the first time my mother sent me to the store. It was a bakery near where we lived on Fernando el Catolico in Zaragoza, Spain. Being the eldest of her children, it fell to me to run the...
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After being gouged, Utah lawmaker seeks to limit ticket scalping markups
State Rep. Lynn Hemingway was eager to see his actress daughter-in-law, Rose Hemingway, in the traveling Broadway production of “Kinky Boots” when it came this year to the new Eccles Theater in Salt...
View ArticleSLC Council challengers beat the bushes for District 5 votes. In District 1?...
Salt Lake City Council members Erin Mendenhall and James Rogers appear to have some significant advantages over their challengers as Tuesday’s primary election approaches.Mendenhall won 82 percent of...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: ABC gets 'cheeky' about sexual misconduct allegations at...
After delaying the premiere of “Bachelor in Paradise” to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct, the folks at ABC decide the way to welcome the show back to the schedule was to run a “cheeky” ad...
View ArticleOfficials: Baby found in plastic bag in New York doing 'remarkably well'
Elmira, N.Y. • Officials say an 8-month-old baby found abandoned in a plastic bag left in the backyard of a New York home is doing “remarkably well.”Chemung County Assistant District Attorney Terry...
View ArticleBeyond bluster, US, North Korea in regular contact
Washington • Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist...
View ArticlePrep football: Fremont Silver Wolves preview
Don’t be surprised if new coach Ross Arnold preaches versatility and adaptability during Fremont practices.“Something we try to teach our players at one point or another is that if you truly want to be...
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Three Mormon-rooted religions move past conflicts to find cooperation in tug...
Independence, Mo. • There is an open patch of grass at the intersection of River Boulevard and Walnut Street in this Kansas City suburb. It looks like a vacant lot — no structures, no landscaping, no...
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Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers ‘stopped being afraid’ and made a solo album
Amy Ray, one-half of the folk rock/Americana duo Indigo Girls, has never been shy about also just being an Indigo Girl, with six solo albums to her credit. But her cohort, Emily Saliers, never followed...
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