Researchers find wreckage of lost WWII warship USS Indianapolis
Naval researchers announced Saturday that they have found the wreckage of the lost World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after the vessel sank in minutes...
View ArticleDick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84
The comedian Dick Gregory rose to national prominence in the early 1960s as a black satirist whose audacious style of humor was biting, subversive and topical, mostly centered on current events,...
View ArticleGreek federation accuses Bucks of staging Antetokounmpo's absence
Athens, Greece • Greece’s basketball federation has accused the Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA of hatching a plan to prevent All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo from playing in the European...
View ArticleSearchers find body of missing Vernal camper
Searchers found the body of an elderly man from Vernal who was reported missing after he didn’t return from a two-week camping trip, police reported Saturday.Joseph Weyerman, 81, fell 300 feet while...
View ArticleHow NOT to win friends and influence people: Curse them. Demean them. Hit them.
In the history of the world, has anyone ever brought another person around to his or her way of thinking by screaming profanity and insults at that person?Person A • “[Deleted] you and [blank] anyone...
View ArticleSouthern Utah tire shop cited by state regulators for defrauding I-15 travelers
On a winter day in 2016, Curt Albert was traveling Interstate 15 in Utah on his way to Arizona. Near New Harmony, another motorist drove up beside him and signaled him to pull over. The other motorist,...
View ArticleOnce a prominent Utah real estate investment guru, Rick Koerber goes on trial...
One of the largest alleged financial crime cases in Utah history has taken a tortuous path to the trial set to begin Monday.Eight years after former Utah County real estate investment guru Rick Koerber...
View ArticleCommentary: Utah students and teachers need real middle school health, PE and...
During an interview on KSL radio August 8, Utah State Board of Education member Linda Hansen stated, “instead of having a separate class for PE, they may integrate health / PE type issues into other...
View ArticleSuspect in 3 carjackings across 2 states is arrested in Utah
San Bernadino, California — Southern California authorities say a man suspected in a string of carjackings in two states has been arrested in Utah.Police say the carjackings started Friday after the...
View ArticleAmerica still in turmoil a year after Kaepernick's protest
What started as a protest against police brutality has mushroomed a year later into a divisive debate over the future of a football player who refused to stand for the national anthem and now faces...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Know Your Cosmology
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticlePublicist: Jerry Lewis, comedian, telethon host, dies at 91
Las Vegas — Jerry Lewis, the rubber-faced comedian and director whose fundraising telethons became as famous as his hit movies, has died.Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis passed away Sunday morning of...
View ArticleEclipse eve: Millions converge across U.S. to see sun go dark
Millions of Americans converged on a narrow corridor stretching from Oregon to South Carolina to watch the moon blot out the midday sun Monday for a wondrous couple of minutes in the first total solar...
View ArticleHospital officials: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides
Freetown, Sierra Leone • Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had...
View ArticleTeen killed in drive-by shooting in Magna
One male youth died and another was injured late Saturday night in a drive-by shooting in Magna, police report.At 10:45 p.m. Saturday, someone driving a white sedan fired multiple shots at two...
View ArticleDemocrats say Confederate monuments are now white-supremacist rallying points
Washington • Leading Democrats on Sunday morning talk shows defended moves by local governments to remove monuments of Confederate leaders, saying that the unrest in Charlottesville last week showed...
View ArticleEx-BYU star Lea Garner wins the first Utah Women’s Open title
Provo • Lea Garner figured Sirene Blair was going to birdie the 18th hole and force a playoff in the inaugural Utah Women’s Open, so Garner went ahead and made a birdie putt of her own.The former BYU...
View ArticleOlympics: Emerging U.S. speedskating talent John-Henry Krueger charting his...
Kearns • John-Henry Krueger crossed the finish line victorious, both fists flung into the air, upon winning the sixth — and last — men’s 1,500-meter World Cup qualifying race in six hours. The...
View ArticlePac-12 countdown: Stanford's Dalton Schultz, from Bingham High, should have...
David Shaw has won nearly 80 percent of his games in six years as Stanford’s football coach, but he’s winless against Utah.The Cardinal haven’t been overwhelmed by Utah, exactly. They were stopped at...
View ArticleUtahn Zac Blair knocked out of PGA Tour’s top 125 on last day of regular season
J.J. Henry’s clutch shot spoiled Zac Blair’s 27th birthday, abruptly ending his 2016-17 PGA Tour season.Having failed to advance to Sunday’s final round of the Wyndham Championship, Blair still hoped...
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