Victim of Ogden Canyon motorcycle crash had recently moved to the area
A woman who recently moved from the Salt Lake Valley to the Ogden area was the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident there on Saturday, police report.Jennifer Flinders, 64, died Saturday afternoon...
View ArticleUtah football: Utes hit the road to try for seventh straight win against...
Tyler Huntley hasn’t forgotten his introduction to the Utah-BYU rivalry. As an 18-year-old true freshman, Utah’s now-starting quarterback looked on from the sidelines last September as Rice-Eccles...
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Bountiful fire squashed, but Tank Hollow forces more closures
Five days after it sparked, the Bountiful-Summerwood Fire is out.Firefighters on Saturday night reached 100 percent containment on the human-caused blaze in steep, rugged terrain about a quarter-mile...
View ArticleBurning Man ignites the night in Black Rock Desert
More than 70,000 people converged in the Black Rock Desert in the past week for the Burning Man festival — an event that celebrates art and music.Here are some scenes from the fire spectacular from...
View ArticleMan who ran into Burning Man fire dies
Black Rock City, Nevada • A Nevada sheriff says the man who ran into the flames at the Burning Man festival’s signature burning ceremony has died.Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen says the man ran...
View ArticleKragthorpe: BYU must win, end Utes’ streak in the rivalry right now — and...
All of the flaws that LSU exposed in BYU’s football program are the exact reasons why Kalani Sitake needs to beat Utah this year.Now or never? It sure feels that way, even after nothing the Cougars did...
View Article‘We’ll see,’ Trump says on potentially attacking North Korea over its nuclear...
Washington • President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he was not ruling out a retaliatory strike against North Korea in response to the isolated country’s overnight nuclear test, which he called...
View ArticleTrump administration wants to tie Harvey recovery aid to debt ceiling...
Houston • The Trump administration said Sunday that it wants Congress to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to a bill that would increase the federal debt limit, a move that clashes with an...
View ArticleWildfires surge amid scorching heat in Western U.S.
Los Angeles • Smoke filled the sky and ash rained down across Los Angeles Sunday from a destructive wildfire that the mayor said was the largest in city history — one of several blazes that sent...
View ArticleRape in Utah State University parking lot reported
Utah State University police on Sunday sent out an alert to students and other timely warning notice subscribers after a woman reported being raped in a parking lot on the Logan campus.A woman said she...
View ArticleNew road safety law morphs into tool for Operation Rio Grande drug arrests
A new law, HB161, is officially titled “Pedestrian Safety Amendments.” Supporters testified during the legislative session that its true aim is to make streets safer — by banning exchange of money or...
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Top Mormon leader Uchtdorf visits Houston, encourages helping hearts and...
Tomball, Texas • There was LDS leader Dieter F. Uchtdorf at the pulpit, addressing some 800 assembled Mormons and talking about God, faith and love. You know, Sunday fare.But this was no typical...
View ArticleCottonwood Heights police officer shoots, wounds fleeing juvenile
A juvenile was shot and wounded early Sunday by a Cottonwood Heights police officer after a vehicle and foot chase that ended under a freeway overpass in Salt Lake City.The male teenager was brought to...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: American workers will see through Trump's con
Boston • On a holiday weekend set aside to honor the American working class, it is hard to escape the sense that American workers find themselves exploited by our politics — and particularly by our...
View ArticleBloomberg View: America’s most overlooked substance abuse problem
As alarms over the opioid crisis sound ever louder, a larger and more expensive substance problem in the U.S. is quietly growing much worse. One in eight Americans abuses alcohol, a new study finds, a...
View ArticleAlexandra Petri: How about never pardoning Joe Arpaio? Is never good for you?
There is no denying that Aug. 25 night, in the midst of a horrible storm, was an awful time to try to bury the news of the pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio.Never mind the ratings. Why compound a...
View ArticleSharapova's U.S. Open ends; Williams faces Kvitova in quarters
New York • Maybe this was just one three-setter too many for Maria Sharapova.Sharapova tried a bit of everything, even resorting to switching over her racket to hit a few lefty shots. Still, the...
View ArticleHamlin rallies to Southern 500 win
Darlington, S.C. • Denny Hamlin overcame a bad miss of the pit road entrance to chase down Martin Truex Jr. with three laps left to win the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday night.Hamlin...
View ArticleRossi wins IndyCar race at Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen, N.Y. • Pole-sitter Alexander Rossi won the IndyCar Grand Prix at The Glen on Sunday, holding off Scott Dixon over the closing laps at Watkins Glen International.The race for the IndyCar...
View ArticleGolfer Stacy Lewis wins LPGA event, gives earnings to Houston relief efforts
Portland, Ore. • Stacy Lewis won for Houston.Lewis ended a long winless streak Sunday at Cambia Portland Classic, with her $195,000 in winnings going to the relief efforts in her hometown area. Her two...
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