Mia’s gotta Love it: Forecasters predict a GOP sweep in Utah’s House races
Washington • If you trust political forecasters, you can already tell Mia Love congratulations.And Reps. Rob Bishop, Jason Chaffetz and Chris Stewart deserve a pat on their backs for claiming...
View ArticlePrep football: Delta Rabbits preview
Delta had grown accustomed to being one of the smaller schools in the football 3A classification over recent years, not that Rabbits fans and coaches necessarily liked that very much.Delta now gets to...
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Police: Murdered Utah girl told boyfriend she was pregnant
Fifteen-year-old Anne Kasprzak's journals indicate a possible motive for her 2012 murder: She had told her boyfriend she was pregnant and the then-14-year-old boy did not want the baby, according to...
View ArticleUtah woman accused of killing girlfriend makes initial court appearance
A 22-year-old Holladay woman accused of killing her girlfriend made her initial appearance in an Ogden courtroom Wednesday.Victoria Mendoza is charged in 2nd District Court with first-degree felony...
View ArticleJulie Jason: New IRS notice clarifies issues related to after-tax 401(k)
After-tax 401(k)s just got a tax break.Pretax 401(k) contributions are not the only game in town. Many plans also permit after-tax contributions — 62 percent, in fact, according to The Plan Sponsor...
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Prosecutors want to try teen suspect in Draper girl’s 2012 slaying as an adult
A 17-year-old boy suspected in the brutal 2012 slaying of a Draper teenage girl has waived extradition from Colorado and been returned to Utah, where prosecutors say they will seek to have him tried as...
View ArticleLiving history: A Jewish family’s escape from Nazi Germany
By summer 1938 in Nazi Germany, Jews had already lost most of their civil rights. They were required to register their property and were forbidden to work in any commercial, industrial or government...
View ArticleAlleged Recapture conspirators plead not guilty
A San Juan County commissioner and four other local men pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that they "conspired" to promote an illegal motorized incursion into Recapture Canyon, which the Bureau of...
View ArticleJury finds man guilty of killing Utah teen
They walked out when photographs of 16-year-old Kenyatta Winston's body were projected on a screen in the courtroom, shifted uncomfortably as defense lawyers detailed the kinds of maggots found...
View ArticleTestimony on Salt Lake City teen’s final day drives family from courtroom
Key witness on the stand now in #ReyosTrial: Natasha Alvarado, who claims she witnessed murder of #KenyattaWinston: http://t.co/YlhiB5xsY0— Marissa J. Lang (@Marissa_Jae) October 16, 2014The woman who...
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Police shot Utah man in the back as he fled, attorney claims
An autopsy and other evidence indicate Saratoga Springs police used excessive force when they fatally shot Darrien Hunt last month because the 22-year-old man posed no danger to anyone, a lawyer for...
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17-year-old boy arrested in 2012 death of Utah teen
Draper • On the night 15-year-old Anne Kasprzak secretly slipped out of her home, her boyfriend told the girl's mother he did not know where she was.Three days after Kasprzak's battered body was found...
View ArticleGun was pressed to victim’s head, medical examiner says
Days after he shot 16-year-old Kenyatta Winston and left the boy's body to rot in a shallow ditch, according to a police interview played in court Wednesday, Frank Reyos told a friend about it.He said...
View ArticleProsecutors lay out case in teen’s murder
Kenyatta Winston was 16 years old when he was shot in the back of the head and left to rot in a shallow grave.That he was murdered has never been a question. On Tuesday, prosecutors pointed to Frank...
View ArticleUSU students, faculty protest terrorist threats against critic of video games
Logan • Utah State University students protested the cancellation of a feminist video game critic's speech Wednesday.But they don't blame video blogger Anita Sarkeesian for bowing out.Instead, they...
View ArticleJulie Jason: A state must make full disclosure on bond offerings
Most municipal-bond investors are individuals, who tend to hold bonds until maturity. These are "retail" investors who directly or indirectly hold more than 75 percent of the $3.7 trillion...
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Prosecutors drop homicide charge against Utah mother
A Provo woman charged with child abuse homicide — for failing to protect her 3-month-old son from abuse allegedly inflicted by her live-in boyfriend — has pleaded guilty to lesser child endangerment...
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Utah legislators may rewrite state law on gay marriage
Gay marriage won't be coming before the U.S. Supreme Court, but justices' decision Monday to let stand lower-court rulings upholding same-sex marriage could become a big issue in the Utah...
View ArticleUtah likely to debate new amendment after gay-marriage ban falls
While the U.S. Supreme Court now is allowing gay marriage in Utah, a legislator wants to ensure that churches, clergy, elected officials and others who oppose such weddings on religious grounds are not...
View ArticleLiving history: Ute crew had the right stuff to fight wildfires
On June 21, 1963, lightning strikes sparked series of wildfires in Dinosaur National Monument. One fast-spreading blaze already consumed acres of wilderness land when the National Park Service called...
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