Mark Kelly: Now is exactly the right time to talk about gun politics
Sunday night started out as a beautiful evening in Las Vegas, with country music in the air and the lights of the Strip mingling with stars. At least 59 people lost their lives at such a uniquely...
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Monson: Utah football is a pretty portrait, even if a mustache gets painted...
One of the real pleasures Utah football finds itself saturated in and surrounded by is counter-intuitive.Even sporting a strong, undefeated team, the Utes don’t know if they’ll win this week.Stanford,...
View ArticleFriday funeral set at Salt Lake City Tabernacle for Mormon apostle Robert D....
Funeral services will be held Friday for Mormon apostle Robert D. Hales in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.Services are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.The 85-year-old...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: Every day is an adventure in America
I went through airport security Monday and neglected to take my laptop out of my briefcase and place it in a separate plastic bin and was properly chastised by a TSA lady who put her hands on her hips...
View ArticleBig money fueling ballot drives for schools and medical pot and against...
Campaigns pushing three ballot initiatives — seeking to raise taxes for schools, allow medical marijuana, and form an independent commission to draw political boundaries — are attracting big donations,...
View ArticleCommentary: You have been warned, Pat Robertson — cut out the talk of Vegas...
It didn’t take long for some preachers to start telling us why God caused the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas to happen. Pat Robertson led the way, declaring that it was divine retribution for the...
View ArticleTwo strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the shots started.
Up-and-coming country star Luke Combs had just started his set on the smaller of the two festival stages when Kody Robertson, an auto parts salesman from Columbus, Ohio, squeezed in at the end of the...
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Jury finds Utah man guilty in 2015 drug rip-off murder
A Utah man was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of killing another man during a drug-buy rip-off in Sugar House two years ago.Jeremiah Ray Hart was found guilty of first-degree felony aggravated...
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Eric Holder: Gerrymandering has broken our democracy. The Supreme Court...
After hearing arguments Tuesday in the case of Gill v. Whitford, contesting Wisconsin’s legislative map, the Supreme Court will have a chance to rein in an aggressive new breed of data-driven...
View ArticleFederal oil and gas leases mired in protests over pollution worries for...
The Bureau of Land Management’s next auction of oil and gas leases in Utah is under fire from a multitude of environmental, public health and wilderness groups. Topping the list of concerns is the...
View ArticleAfter Vegas shooting, Congress to hold off on gun silencer legislation -- for...
Washington • Congressional Republicans said in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in American history that they have no plans anytime soon to move forward on legislation – co-sponsored by all of...
View ArticleSalt Lake City Council to vote to have Indigenous Peoples Day on Columbus Day
The Salt Lake City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a ceremonial resolution that would also brand Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day in Utah’s capital city.The effort, sponsored by Councilman...
View ArticleInvestigators looking for clues to what set off Vegas gunman
Las Vegas • Investigators trying to figure out why Stephen Paddock gunned down 59 people from his high-rise hotel suite are analyzing his computer and cellphone, looking at casino surveillance footage...
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Gehrke: We’ve heard enough polite words about guns, we need to insist on action
It was heart-breaking to watch the smartphone videos of terrified Las Vegas concert-goers scrambling for cover as a torrent of bullets literally rained down on them, the staccato gunfire going on and...
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Pac-12 football: Coaches decry late-night kickoff times, but there’s not much...
Stanford coach David Shaw already was an opponent of late-night kickoff times, and then he found out what he was missing.The Cardinal hosted Arizona State last Saturday in the Pac-12 Networks’ weekly 1...
View ArticleWestminster College cleared of wrongdoing in handling of sexual assault report
Westminster College has been cleared of allegations that it failed to protect a student who reported a sexual assault in 2013.The college has been under investigation by the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleUtah gymnastics: Red Rocks’ 2018 schedule features a Pac-12 quad meet on an...
Utah’s 2018 Gymnastics schedule features something new for the Utes, as they will compete in a quad meet with UCLA, Stanford, and Washington in Reno, Nev., on Jan. 14, in a meet dubbed “Elevate the...
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Rich Lowry: The passionate non sequiturs of the gun debate
The mind boggles at the horror of Las Vegas, where Stephen Paddock perched himself in the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay and sprayed bullets into a crowd of outdoor concertgoers in the worst mass...
View ArticleCan Derrick Favors return to form? The Jazz’s season may depend on it
Derrick Favors sat in his locker holding his phone, thinking thoughts he’d much rather permanently erase at the newly renovated Vivint Smart Home Arena.Only he can’t forget.The most difficult year of...
View ArticleTy Detmer says he still has Kalani Sitake’s support, Cougs will ‘end up being...
Provo • Ty Detmer is wearing a baseball cap everywhere he goes these days, but it is not to conceal his identity so fans will stop asking the offensive coordinator what is wrong with the BYU...
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