Prep football: East Leopards preview
It would be tough to accuse East High of taking it easy.The two-time defending state champion Leopards, who are riding a 23-game winning streak, will be tested plenty this season. They will travel to...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: The Science of Climate Denial
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook a...
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‘This was way too close.’ Springville residents fight grass fire with garden...
As Springville resident Mark Spencer and his wife pulled out of their driveway Wednesday night, they saw firefighters ”running into our backyard.”They kept their eyes fixed on the tops of two trees...
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Washington Post Commentary: Stop arguing facts and listen to the other...
Worries about “political polarization” and of our “post-factual era” impeding political debate in our society have become commonplace. Liberals, in particular, are often astonished at the seeming...
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Polygamous towns on Utah-Arizona line pay to settle cases against 2 men who...
Towns on the Utah-Arizona line will pay $221,000 to two men who claimed they were wrongfully arrested at an old zoo in 2015. Patrick Pipkin and Andrew Chatwin will each receive $100,500 to settle their...
View ArticleDoes he drink alcohol? Nominee for Utah liquor commission is staying quiet...
Park City attorney Thomas N. Jacobson has been appointed to the state liquor commission, the governor’s office announced Thursday.Jacobson, who has been a practicing attorney in California and Utah for...
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Jennifer Rubin: Kelly has to do more or Trump’s presidency may never recover
It’s entirely possible that the Trump presidency is beyond repair. President Donald Trump has accomplished none of his major priorities (except for putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court) and has...
View ArticleThe Cricket: Considering the movies’ nuclear options, from ‘Godzilla’ to...
It was 1954, nine years after the first atomic bombs were detonated — first on the testing grounds of New Mexico, then on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — that the fears of nuclear annihilation felt by the...
View ArticleTrump to declare opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’
Bedminster, New Jersey • President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the...
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Teen charged with manslaughter in crash that killed two classmates, injured a...
A 18-year-old who survived a crash that killed two of his high school classmates and injured a pregnant woman and her baby faces up to 30 years in prison.Abraham Miranda was charged Wednesday in 3rd...
View ArticleBook review: 'The Blinds' moves at a brisk pace
The prison system — and how to treat incarcerated criminals — has always been problematic, no matter the plan. Adam Sternbergh’s imaginative “The Blinds” doesn’t solve the problem but offers an unusual...
View ArticleUtah approves signature-gathering for 2018 medical marijuana initiative
Medical marijuana supporters in Utah received a go-ahead from state election officials Thursday to start gathering signatures needed to qualify the measure for the November 2018 ballot.Utah Patients...
View ArticleNew party seeks to end state funding for closed Republican primaries
The new United Utah Party is calling for the state to stop spending taxpayer money on GOP primaries where only registered Republicans may vote.“There is no reason the voters should pay for a party’s...
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Albert Hunt: The bloom is off the rose with Jared and Ivanka
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were the golden couple destined to dazzle Washington and shape the administration of President Donald Trump. That glitter is gone, replaced by policy failures, poor...
View ArticlePrep football: Westlake Thunder preview
Coach Louis Wong’s Timpview teams won five state championships between 2004 and 2009, and he’s aiming to build Westlake into a similar power.Westlake grabbed one win in league play in tough Region 4...
View ArticleKristen Stewart’s ‘Come Swim’ headlines Sundance shorts collection
This year’s Sundance Short Film Tour presents seven small gems that played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — an engaging mix of genres and styles, most of them focusing on people in moments of...
View Article‘Annabelle: Creation’ delivers old-school scares
Among horror franchises, “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2” are among the smartest, and scariest, titles on the shelf — while their spinoff siblings, the idiotic “Annabelle” and the new and slightly...
View ArticleAn adventurous life is told through ‘Letters From Baghdad’
The documentary “Letters From Baghdad” lifts the veil of anonymity on one of the 20th century’s forgotten figures — a woman who literally redrew the map of the Middle East — but falls short in...
View ArticlePoliticians blocking people on social media ignites debate
Salt Lake City • An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people’s free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politicians...
View ArticleEight bats test positive for rabies, Utah officials confirm
Eight bats caught at various locations across Utah have tested positive for rabies, officials confirmed Thursday.The Utah Public Health Laboratory, located in Taylorsville, has identified the cases out...
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