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Dana Milbank: All things Confederate-ish must go
Washington • If something is worth doing in America, it’s worth overdoing.ESPN proved this eternal truth anew this week when it announced that, in response to the violence in Charlottesville, it was...
View ArticleLetter: President Trump is a living history lesson
I became interested in Hitler and his regime when I was in high school, 50-plus years ago. It was unbelievable that this man could come to power and create an industry of death for those that he...
View ArticleHearing delayed on whether to revive charter for teen moms
The future of Kairos Academy, a West Valley charter school for young mothers and pregnant teens, will come down to two meetings in the first week of September. After being forced to shut down by the...
View ArticleWest Jordan Republicans are looking to fill the House seat opened in county...
About 100 delegates for the Salt Lake County Republican Party will meet next month to pick a replacement for Rep. Adam Gardiner, who left his position representing his West Jordan district to take over...
View ArticleUDOT wants to convert Highway 89 into a freeway in Davis County
The Utah Department of Transportation is proposing to convert U.S. 89 into a full freeway in Davis County to connect Interstates 15 and 84.That preferred alternative in a new draft environmental study...
View ArticleAaron Butler, killed in Afghanistan, gets a hero’s welcome in his small Utah...
Monticello • It seemed nearly every resident of this small southern Utah city was standing on Main Street early Thursday afternoon.They came to welcome home Staff Sgt. Aaron Butler, the Utah National...
View ArticleReal Salt Lake signs Monarchs captain Nick Besler
Real Salt Lake has signed Monarchs captain Nick Besler, the team announced Thursday.“I’m very excited,” Besler said in a team release. “It was a goal when I signed with the Monarchs to make it to the...
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Judge won’t give Lyle Jeffs a separate trial on fleeing count
A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion by former polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs for a separate trial on the charge of failing to appear in court. U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart ruled that the...
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George F. Will: Laws that subvert the rule of law
Washington • When John Adams wrote into Massachusetts’ Constitution a commitment to a “government of laws and not of men,” he probably assumed that the rule of law meant the rule of laws, no matter how...
View ArticleUtah couple sue newspaper and Weber County for $40M, say posting son’s jail...
A Utah couple have filed a defamation suit seeking millions of dollars from the Standard-Examiner and Weber County, asserting the newspaper published their 16-year-old son’s jail photo from a juvenile...
View ArticleI-80 closure this weekend to cause heavy delays
Major delays are expected this weekend as eastbound Interstate 80 will close near the mouth of Parleys Canyon for construction.The Utah Department of Transportation says the closure is expected from 9...
View ArticleHostage situation ends in Charleston after gunman shot
Charleston, S.C. — A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a “small number” of people hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy...
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Noah Feldman: Arpaio pardon would show contempt for Constitution
If President Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, as he broadly hinted at during a rally Tuesday in Arizona, it would not be an ordinary exercise of the power -- it would be an impeachable offense. Arpaio,...
View ArticleAdam Pulsipher plans to be at heart of BYU’s defense
Provo • A mildly disappointing setback when the depth chart comes out isn’t going to derail your lifelong dream of being a full-time defensive starter for the BYU football team when you’ve battled back...
View ArticleLaughs take a disturbing turn in comedy 'Ingrid Goes West'
An unstable woman seeks out the perfect life in “Ingrid Goes West,” a dark satire of social-media culture that’s not as incisive as it wants to be.Aubrey Plaza stars as Ingrid, who obsesses over the...
View ArticleRobert Pattinson is scary good in thriller ‘Good Time’
You have to go back into the vaults — maybe as far back as “Dog Day Afternoon” — to find a movie about a New York bank robber more intense than Benny and Josh Safdie’s ironically titled drama “Good...
View ArticleDocumentary 'Whose Streets?' takes a ground-level view of Ferguson
The searing documentary “Whose Streets?” — which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but seems more timely now — captures both a moment and a movement, and why one of those escaped the...
View ArticlePilot survives small plane crash that caused power outages in West Jordan
A small plane that crashed in West Jordan on Thursday afternoon took out power lines and left hundreds of people without power, but the pilot suffered non-life-threatening injuries.The twin-engine...
View ArticleAnimated 'LEAP!' sets a low barre
An animated “Flashdance” meets “Cinderella,” “LEAP !” isn’t so much bad as it is bewildering. The feature about an orphan girl who dreams of dancing professionally is set very vaguely in the 1880s, in...
View Article‘Only Living Boy in New York’ is a hot mess of indie cliches
Is there an indie cliché more grating than the callow young Manhattan know-it-all?The sensitive writer who sports glasses that are supposed to make him look smarter than the himbo cast to play him? The...
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