Masked bank robber fires shots inside Taylorsville credit union, police say
Police say a masked bank robber fired several shots Friday morning into the ceiling of a Taylorsville credit union before fleeing with an undisclosed amount of cash.There were no injuries in the...
View ArticleUtah highway bosses consider doubling 1-15 express-lane tolls to thin congestion
Fillmore • Interstate 15 express lanes are not exactly express-like lately. Average speeds there have dropped to just 31 mph during peak drive times in Salt Lake County, in part because so many...
View ArticleFeds award $1.7 million to 11 Utah health centers to fight opioid addiction
Federal health authorities have awarded $1.8 million to 11 health centers across Utah in hopes of widening residents’ access to substance-abuse and mental-health services in light of surging opioid...
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Kirby: A shoutout to Rod Decker, the TV reporter who didn’t need a microphone
Rod Decker is gone and I’m bummed. The KUTV-Channel 2 reporter who’s been yelling the news at me for nearly four decades retired Thursday. Things won’t be the same.I liked Rod even before I met him in...
View ArticleUtah’s newest legislator won her West Jordan seat in a coin toss
The flip of a half-dollar coin broke a tie between two Republican candidates running in a special election to represent West Jordan in the Utah House.Cheryl Acton and Lyle Decker lined up for the...
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‘Evil Dead’ icon Bruce Campbell loves his fans, but he knows they're not...
For Bruce Campbell, who’s gone from iron-jawed B-movie icon to journeyman actor and back, fan love comes in cycles.“You have the whole new generation now,” Campbell said this week, on the way to...
View ArticleSalt Lake Acting Company’s season-opening production shatters stereotypes...
As I sat waiting for Salt Lake Acting Company’s production of “Surely Goodness and Mercy” to begin, I was struck by an irony. In the Upstairs Theatre, “Saturday’s Voyeur” was lambasting the lack of...
View ArticleTrump adviser says military option not preferred for North Korea
Washington • President Donald Trump’s national security adviser says the U.S. has a military option for North Korea, but that is not its preferred route.H.R. McMaster spoke about North Korea Friday...
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BYU football: Backup QB Beau Hoge set to lead Cougars as No. 10 Wisconsin...
Provo • Beau Hoge is accustomed to big stages and bright spotlights, having grown up watching his father, Merril, play eight combined seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears and then...
View ArticleGeorge Pyle: This was supposed to be the Golden Age of Free Speech
“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!” - Eleanor of Aquitaine, “The Lion in Winter”Today, Eleanor might say, (it’s best if you imagine it...
View ArticleUtah's job creation rate slowed slightly in August but unemployment remains...
Utah’s job growth slowed only slightly in August while the state’s unemployment rate remained steady at 3.5 percent, according to a Friday report.Job growth was 2.8 percent over August of a year ago,...
View ArticleSearch for perpetrators of bomb on London subway, 29 wounded
London • A homemade bomb planted in a rush-hour subway car injured 29 people in London on Friday, sparking a huge manhunt for the perpetrators of what police said was the fourth terrorist attack in the...
View ArticleLittle Cottonwood Canyon tops list for slice of $100 million pot of road money
Fillmore • For months, local leaders throughout Utah have lobbied and jockeyed for part of an extra $100 million that the Legislature made available this year to improve traffic in “recreational hot...
View ArticleUtah Army recruiter sentenced to jail for having sex with minor
A man who was working as an Army recruiter at Tooele High School last year when he had sex with a 17-year-old female student has been sentenced to jail time and probation.Brian Joseph Dragon, 33, of...
View ArticleFarewell Cassini: Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive
Cape Canaveral, Fla. • NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn on Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of 20 years.Confirmation of...
View ArticleU. health system wins national award for quality
The University of Utah announced Friday that its health-care system has won a national award for quality for an eighth consecutive year.The U. system was named a winner of the 2017 Vizient Bernard A....
View ArticlePickup truck slams into Utah Highway Patrol car on freeway, trooper suffers...
A pickup truck lost control and slammed into a Utah Highway Patrol car parked on the side of Interstate 215 early Friday, leaving the trooper and a passenger of the truck with minor injuries.Just after...
View ArticleUtah nurse pleads guilty to giving prescription medications to jail inmates...
A Uintah County jail nurse accused of giving prescription medications to inmates without authorization has resolved the case with a plea deal.Helen Marie Bemis, 58, was charged in June in 8th District...
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Utah football: Utes will try to avoid “hangover effect” against San Jose State
In theory, San Jose State’s visit to Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday night should serve as a get-right game for the Utes. Pad some stats, work out some kinks and get players some experience on the way...
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BYU football notes: No. 10 Badgers will be first Big Ten team to ever play in...
Provo * Somewhat lost in all the mystery surrounding BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum’s ankle injury this week is the sobering fact for the Cougars that their offense is the sixth-worst in the country,...
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