Utah County bomb squad checks suspicious item, which turns out to be harmless
Reports of a suspected explosive device scrambled the Utah County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad to the Pony Express Parkway in Eagle Mountain late Wednesday morning.Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the item,...
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Colorado man sentenced to prison for disposing of woman’s body after she...
A Colorado man has been sentenced to prison for up to five years for disposing of the body of a woman after she died of a drug overdose at a Utah motel.Raymond Cordova, 50, of Grand Junction, Colo.,...
View ArticleTwo human cases of West Nile virus found in Salt Lake County, health...
Two human cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed in Salt Lake County, health officials said Wednesday.The two cases were confirmed over the weekend, a county health department spokesman said. And...
View ArticlePrep football: Canyon View Falcons preview
Skyler Miller is eager to change the tone of the Canyon View football program in his first year at the helm.“There is a lot of negative out there, but we are choosing to take it in stride and changing...
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Hobby takes travelers looking for spots where 3 or more states touch
THOMPSON, Conn. • Brian Butler is a tripointer.The 63-year-old lives in Holliston, Massachusetts, about 20 miles from the Connecticut and Rhode Island borders. That’s where he picked up the unusual...
View ArticleUtah volleyball: Utes receive highest preseason Pac-12 ranking yet
Utah’s gradual rise in the Pac-12 is getting noticed.The University of Utah women’s volleyball team was picked fourth overall in Wednesday’s preseason Pac-12 coaches poll. That marks the highest...
View ArticleUtah's Mike Lee criticizes Trump's comments defending white supremacists
Sen. Mike Lee is the first of Utah’s congressional delegation to criticize President Donald Trump for defending white supremacists.“Carrying a Nazi flag or any other symbol of white supremacy is a...
View ArticleTraveling to see the total solar eclipse? Here is what you can expect.
Storee Powell planned on being one of the many Utahns heading north to witness the total solar eclipse on Monday.She and her husband would pack up their car and head to Shelley, Idaho, just south of...
View ArticlePrep football: Mountain View Bruins preview
Mountain View Bruins is using last season’s winless campaign as motivation.“They are very determined this year,” coach Tyler Anderson said.The Bruins return multiple starters on defense and offense,...
View ArticlePrep football: Region 9 breakdown
The teams (Last season’s record)Canyon View (4-7) • Season previewCedar City (4-6) • Season preview coming soonDesert Hills (10-2) • Season previewDixie (7-4) • Season previewHurricane (3-7) • Season...
View ArticleState submits small-scale Medicaid expansion plan to feds — again
The fate of Utah’s Medicaid expansion plan extending coverage to about 6,000 of the state’s neediest childless adults is now in the hands of the Trump administration.Utah officials submitted the plan,...
View ArticleOfficials break ground at site of new prison, which is set for completion in...
It’s one of the few times shoveling will be allowed at the new prison.There also were a couple jokes, including one from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, about northwest Salt Lake City getting a new planned,...
View ArticleSecond cancer institute study delaying negotiations between U., Huntsman family
University of Utah administrators say the April controversy involving the Huntsman Cancer Institute still plagues the school as it searches for a new president, but they have yet to enter into...
View ArticlePrep football: Salem Hills Skyhawks preview
Tragedy hit the Salem Hills Skyhawks when rising senior lineman Doug Julian died of altitude sickness Aug. 5 while on a scouting trip in the Uintas.“Doug was a huge part what we were trying to do here...
View ArticlePrep football: Payson Lions preview
Payson only had three returning starters on offense and defense last season. That inexperience helped lead to a 1-9 finish.“We might not have a Division I player being recruited right now, but I think...
View ArticleImagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds gets a boost for his LGBTQ fundraising concert...
Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds was busy putting together this month’s Orem concert to benefit at-risk LGBTQ youths when he got an offer from an unexpected source: the Mormon church.The...
View ArticlePrep football: Region 10 breakdown
The teamsMountain View (0-10) • Season previewOrem (5-7) • Season previewPayson (1-9) • Season previewSalem Hills (6-5) • Season previewSpanish Fork (4-6) • Season previewUintah (5-6) • Season preview...
View ArticlePrep football: Spanish Fork Dons preview
Preston Parrish returns for his second season lead Spanish Fork, and the Dons bring back experience at some key spots on offense.The Dons likely will be in contention for a playoff spot out of the...
View ArticleBYU football: Deep, experienced offensive line will come out coming in 2017
Provo • Junior offensive lineman Austin Hoyt packed a Dutch oven for the BYU football team’s campout last weekend and made his famous peach cobbler for the guys. The fruity dessert took a while to...
View ArticleUtah football notes: Senior defensive back Boobie Hobbs has grown into a starter
More than two weeks remain before the University of Utah football team opens its season against North Dakota, but coach Kyle Whittingham identified senior Boobie Hobbs as the starter at nickelback if a...
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