Kragthorpe: Utes could take control of Pac-12 South race by beating USC again
One of the last lines of my column after Utah’s 23-20 loss to Stanford last weekend suggested the defeat would become “forgivable” if the Utes beat USC this week.The more I think about it, that was an...
View ArticleDeath toll in California wildfires reaches historically grim heights
Santa Rosa, Calif. • The scale of death and destruction is unprecedented and almost unfathomable.Thirty-one confirmed dead. Hundreds still missing on Friday. Thousands of homes and businesses...
View ArticleUtah forecast: The warm before the storm
After a balmy exit to the work week, rain and even a little snow will ride in on chilly winds by early Saturday morning along the Wasatch Front.It will be an abrupt change, a foretaste of the wintry...
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Three Salt Lake City Halloween attractions that won’t scare the little ones...
Haunted houses, chaotic castles, strangling circuses, spooky corn mazes, witches out on the town and eerie asylums: It’s October, and make no mistake, Utah loves Halloween. The list of scary activities...
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Catherine Rampell: Trump's Obamacare order could destroy the health-care system
Washington • President Trump has made a lot of promises on health care.Somehow, though, I don’t remember him promising stadiums of cheering fans that he’d take away protections for pre-existing...
View ArticleTrump rips the NFL for disrespecting flag. Then jokes about a military flag...
After he had repeatedly railed against professional athletes over perceived slights to the American flag and military, President Donald Trump joked on Wednesday about a bugle call that is part of the...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Is the Interior secretary at work? Look for the flag
Is the Interior secretary at work? Look for the flag. Former SL Co. Recorder Gary Ott was diagnosed with dementia in 2014. A federal board renames Negro Bill Canyon.Happy Friday. Turns out Interior...
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Jennifer Rubin: Trump threatens not to do his job — when is enough, enough?
Washington • Our constitutional system designates the president as the person to execute the laws. Congress passes them, the president signs them, and then he is obligated to enforce them. His oath is...
View ArticleJustice Department proposes quotas for immigration judges, drawing pushback
Washington • The Trump administration is taking steps to impose "numeric performance standards" on federal immigration judges, drawing a sharp rebuke from judges who say production quotas or similar...
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Elderly Texas couple rescued after almost week stranded on Utah mountain...
An alert cattleman and an “SOS” message crafted of rocks and flowers likely saved the lives of an elderly Texas couple stranded for six days in southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National...
View ArticleAmazon Studios chief suspended amid sexual harassment allegations
Roy Price, the head of Amazon's video division, was suspended by the company Thursday after a producer publicly accused him of sexually harassing her.The move follows accusations by actress Rose...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: To silence NBC, Trump would have to shut down 230 stations —...
If Donald Trump really wants to shut down NBC News on broadcast TV, he’ll have to persuade more than 200 television stations — including KSL-Ch. 5.That won’t happen, of course. And the president...
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Leonard Pitts: The GOP is finally, sorta, willing to admit the obvious
Yes, he's childish and incompetent. Is that really news by now?But of course, it wasn't that assessment of Failed President Trump that made jaws drop over the weekend so much as it was the person...
View ArticleWildfire burns home of 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz
Santa Rosa, Calif. • The home of "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz burned to the ground in the deadly California wildfires but his widow escaped, her stepson said Thursday.Jean Schulz, 78, evacuated...
View ArticleGoodbye, SAGE. Utah Board of Education picks new vendor for statewide testing
Utah is cutting ties with Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), the testing vendor that developed the SAGE exam taken by public school students each year. The Utah Board of...
View ArticleThe Weekly Run: Dante Exum takes a tumble, but Donovan Mitchell's stock keeps...
Are you glass-half-empty or glass-half-full after the Utah Jazz preseason? There’s a little room for both.The injury to Dante Exum, potentially season-ending, is definitely cause for concern. But at...
View ArticleCops as vampires? Turns out, they can draw blood — mine — and without making...
The forces of darkness descended on me Wednesday morning. I was hauled into a room in the dungeon of West Valley City Police Department and forced to give up a sample of my blood.As Officer Amanda...
View ArticleMormon scriptures to be translated into 34 additional languages, including...
Top LDS Church authorities have approved translation of the Book of Mormon and other of the faith’s scriptural works into dozens of additional and often rare languages.The Utah-based faith’s governing...
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Rich Lowry: How the NFL lost to Trump
Donald Trump isn’t exactly on a winning streak, but he is beating the NFL in a rout.The league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, signaled the beginning of a messy, divisive retreat with a memo stating,...
View ArticleTrump to extend March 5 deadline to end DACA protections if Congress doesn't...
Tulsa, Okla. • President Donald Trump will extend a March 5 deadline to end protections for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to act by then, according to a Republican senator who spoke...
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