• Provo Mayor John Curtis holds a big lead in the GOP primary to replace Jason Chaffetz

    With three weeks to go until the Republican primary, Provo Mayor John Curtis has tightened his grip on the lead in the special election to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz.The latest Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll shows Curtis trouncing his competitors by a more than 2-to-1 margin."When the voters go into the ballot box, you want them to be able to look at the names and recognize one of them," said Jason Perry, the institute's director. "That is something that John Curti
  • Utah congressional candidate Herrod apologizes for behavior over speeding ticket

    A former state lawmaker who is running for a congressional seat has apologized for his behavior after he received a speeding ticket earlier this year, KSTU-TV reported.Chris Herrod, who is running to represent Utah's 3rd congressional district, was stopped on Feb. 9 for driving 79 in a 70 mph zone on Interstate 15, the station said in a story published Saturday.In a recording of the traffic stop, Herrod tells the trooper: "I'm a former legislator that was honored. I'm happy to go on my credibili
  • Scott D. Pierce: Apolo Ohno headed for South Korea, where they hate him

    Apolo Anton Ohno is headed to the PyeongChang Olympics in February as NBC’s short track speed skating expert, which makes total sense. He has, of course, won eight Olympic medals in the sport — two gold, two silver and four bronze.But the Games are in South Korea, where Ohno is not exactly popular. Where he became, in fact, remarkably unpopular after the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.“I was the second-most hated person in Korea. Second,” Ohno said. “Number
  • GOP candidates to replace Chaffetz snipe at front-runner John Curtis

    Provo • As his two Republican competitors criticized him, Provo Mayor John Curtis gripped the podium a little tighter and grinned.The attacks against him started midway through a Friday night debate — the second in the GOP primary race to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz. Utah County businessman Tanner Ainge took the first shot. And former state Rep. Chris Herrod piled on from there.They blasted Curtis for being a registered Democrat about 20 years ago. They condemned him as being a
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  • Utah Gov. Gary Herbert gives Curtis rare pre-primary endorsement

    Provo Mayor John Curtis bagged a big endorsement from Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Tuesday in the race to replace Jason Chaffetz."John gets things done and is a proven conservative leader," Herbert said. "I have no doubt that John will be a congressman who will make Utah proud."It's unusual for Herbert to endorse a candidate in a partisan race before the primary election, although he did come out in support of Sen. Ted Cruz just before last year's presidential caucuses in Utah."It is rare for him t
  • Glen Campbell, superstar entertainer of 1960s and ‘70s, dies

    Nashville, Tenn. • Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer who had such hits as “Rhinestone Cowboy” and spanned country, pop, television and movies, has died. He was 81.Campbell’s publicist Sandy Brokaw says the singer died Tuesday morning in Nashville. No cause was immediately given. Campbell announced in June 2011 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and that it was in its early stages at that time.In the late 1960s and well into the &r
  • To repeal Obamacare, ‘You want to elect Chris Herrod,’ Sen. Ted Cruz tells Utah rally

    Lehi • A handful of protesters tried to disrupt a speech from Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Utah County on Saturday by shouting the Republican down as he talked about the continued need to repeal Obamacare."Shame on you for voting to strip health care from 16 million Americans," shouted the unidentified man, who popped to his feet in the middle of about 400 people gathered at a rally for 3rd Congressional District candidate and former state Rep. Chris Herrod.The outburst triggered an angry eruptio
  • Oops. Utah County sends Republican primary ballots to 68,000 unaffiliated voters

    In its first venture with vote by mail, Utah County mistakenly sent ballots for the Republican congressional primary — meant only for those registered with the GOP — to 68,000 unaffiliated voters.The inadvertent "clerical error" was discovered late Wednesday afternoon, one day after the county dropped the ballots in the mail.Local elections officials and the state Republican Party chairman rushed to assure that the accidentally mailed ballots won't be counted and that the Aug. 1
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  • Tribune Editorial: John Curtis is the best choice for 3rd District Republicans

    People who live in Utah's 3rd District would be forgiven if they are a little tired of congressional politics.Their last representative, Jason Chaffetz, up and quit a month ago after seven years of being a media hound of the first order but accomplishing very little. He remains a fixture on Fox News — now handsomely paid for his opinions — while his constituents have been left with an expensive by-election, a barrage of bad campaign advertising and a quick decision to make.An importa
  • Utah man charged with murder after 2 more bodies identified

    Boise, Idaho • Prosecutors have charged a missing Utah man with three counts of first-degree murder after two additional bodies found near a rural Idaho farmhouse were identified as 14-year-old Payton Medley and her mom, 48-year-old Nadja Medley.A third victim, Cheryl Baker, was identified on June 30. All three women were from Ogden, Utah and they were found shot to death and hidden in a shed outside a Caldwell, Idaho home that had been recently purchased by Baker and her husband, Gerald Mi
  • Ainge boasts endorsement from Sarah Palin in race to replace Chaffetz

    Republican candidate and businessman Tanner Ainge captured a surprising endorsement Thursday in the race to replace former Rep. Jason Chaffetz: the support of 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.“Ainge will be an impactful leader because he knows how to run the ball down the court with focus and purpose, and not waste time playing today’s political games,” said Palin, former Alaska governor, in a statement. “I’m happy to support candidates like Tanner Ain
  • High-ranking Mormon official, who twice spoke in General Conference, is excommunicated; first such ouster in nearly 3 decades

    For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Mormon church has excommunicated one of its top leaders.On Tuesday morning, James J. Hamula was released from his position in the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after disciplinary action.LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins provided no details about the removal. But the church did confirm Hamula was no longer a member of the church and that his ouster was not for apostasy or disillusionment.In cases involving
  • A cornbread inspired by the gorgeous tarte tatins of France

    Cornbread has always had a bit of an identity crisis in our house: Is it savory or is it sweet? Does it replace dinner rolls or dessert?This very dilemma may be what I love most about cornbread: It can go either way.Usually, we veer more sweet than savory, topping corn bread and muffins with a quick homemade maple or honey butter, a welcome break from the pot of chili I often serve at the cornbread’s side. Sometimes, though, I’ll dabble in savory territory, adding actual corn kernels
  • Granite School District extends free lunches to more families

    Low-income children in Granite School District who would otherwise pay a reduced cost for school lunches will be able to eat for free during the upcoming school year.Rich Prall, Granite’s food service director, said Tuesday that leftover funds in the district’s nutrition budget have allowed the district to waive lunch and breakfast fees for families already qualifying for reduced meal prices, expanding the pool of students eligible for free meals by roughly 6,000.
    The policy move bri
  • Robert Hayward, Utah trooper who arrested Ted Bundy, dies at 90

    Robert Hayward — a Utah Highway Patrol trooper who took a wrong turn and stumbled upon a suspicious Volkswagen Beetle that happened to be carrying one of the most notorious killers in America history, Ted Bundy — died Sunday at his home in West Valley City. He was 90. Hayward was a state trooper for 33 years and retired as a captain in 1986. His most memorable arrest, and what he called his best police work, came at 3 a.m. on Aug. 16, 1975. According to an account
  • For UTA terrorism exercise, chaos is just part of the drill

    As passengers disembarked from a FrontRunner train at the Salt Lake Central Station on Tuesday morning, they were directed past a triage center, where a couple dozen people in burned and bloody makeup were being evaluated by EMTs.Emergency responders from the Utah Transit Authority, Amtrak, the Salt Lake City police and fire departments and other agencies participated in the drill to strengthen a potential response to an emergency, in this case, a terrorist attack.“We want all the chaos an
  • Utah men's basketball: Utes get commit from Olympus guard Rylan Jones

    Olympus High point guard Rylan Jones, one of the top-rated players in the class of 2019, announced Tuesday on Instagram that he has committed to the University of Utah where his father is on the coaching staff.247Sports ranks Jones the 78th-best player in the 2019 class and the13th-best point guard nationally in the class of 2019.He averaged 14.1points, 6.3 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game as a sophomorethis past winter for Olympus.Jones, a four-star pointguard, posted a picture of
  • NFL locals: Catching up with Utah, BYU rookies as preseason games begin

    The NFL preseason slate begins Wednesday with 16 games through Sunday — the first chance for rookies from Utah and BYU to show their potential in live action. None more so than the highest player from a Utah school drafted in April: Denver Broncos left tackle Garett Bolles. Bolles’ ascension in Broncos camp has been swift and the former Ute was named the starter at left tackle in the team’s first released depth chart of the season. He’s beat out three-year veter
  • Real Salt Lake is almost looking forward to getting back on the road

    Sandy • No one prefers to play on the road. But Real Salt Lake certainly isn’t dreading it.“I like it more,” Petke said of playing teams that aren’t likely to sit in against RSL, “because it’s going to test us because we’re on the road and they’re up forward at home, but it also opens up areas that I think we can exploit. And when we’re at our best is when we’re in transition and going fast.”RSL (7-12-5, 26 points) wrapped up
  • Trump warns North Korea of ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen’

    Washington • President Donald Trump says that North Korea “had best not make any more threats to the United States” or “they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”Trump issued the warning during a briefing on opioid addiction at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.A Japanese defense paper and a U.S. media report said Tuesday that North Korea may have successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missil
  • Prep football: Kanab Cowboys preview

    Kanab is coming off back-to-back heartbreaking losses in the Class 1A state championship game by a combined five points.The Cowboys have been one of the most dominant teams in 1A since they dropped down from 2A for the 2013 season. Kanab reached the state semifinals the first two seasons in 1A and again lost by single-digit margins.Is this the year the Cowboys shake off their demons and finally claim another title?Kanab has a veteran coach in Bucky Orton, who is entering his 15th season. However
  • Utah soccer: Utes picked fifth in Pac-12 coaches poll

    Pac-12 Conference coaches picked the University of Utah women’s soccer team to finish fifth in the preseason poll released on Tuesday.The coaches voted Stanford the preseason favorite. Stanford received 10 of12 first-place votes. Stanford has won six conference titles in the past eight seasons.UCLA placed second followed by defending national champion USC, California and Utah. UCLA and USC received one first-place vote apiece.Pac-12 Women’s Soccer Coaches Poll<br>1. Stanford (1
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  • How radio DJs reading ads is leading a law firm to sue the Utah State Bar

    You’ve probably seen their ads on television or the radio. They tote themselves as more than just attorneys — they’re “The Advocates.”The TV spots often feature a guy hiking or camping or spending time with his family. Then a phone call comes in, and he drops everything to help an injured client.On the radio, a disc jockey might tell listeners about how the Utah personal injury law firm is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, or one of their lawyers explains
  • Speed. Endurance. Precision. Footwork. Reaction. The uncontrollable desire to WIN. https://t.co/IqzJfrzRmS

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  • Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Tony Bradley

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  • Prep football: Monticello Buckaroos preview

    Monticello hasn’t missed the playoffs since 1998. That may be in part because of the small amount of teams in the state’s lower classifications, but it also speaks to how the Buckaroos always find a way to get the job done.The biggest question mark this season is who will start behind center. The Buckaroos have two capable options in senior Brayson Wilcox and junior Spencer Knudsen, but coach Arthur Adair said the starting job is “undecided.”The defense will need its role
  • BYU basketball: Cougars will open WCC schedule at home vs. Portland, Saint Mary's, finish at home against Gonzaga

    Provo • For the fourth straight season, BYU’s basketball team will end the regular season in 2018 with a game against the mighty Gonzaga Bulldogs.Nobody in Provo is complaining about that, seeing as how BYU has knocked off Gonzaga three consecutive times in Spokane, which has to be some sort of record.The West Coast Conference released its 2017-18 men’s and women’s basketball conference schedules on Tuesday. This is the second year that the race will stretch over a nine-we
  • Salt Lake Tribune wins Pulitzer for campus rape coverage, praises victims for sharing their stories

    What began with a brave college student and continued with a band of tenacious journalists resulted Monday in a Pulitzer Prize for The Salt Lake Tribune and its groundbreaking investigation of rapes at Utah colleges.The award for local reporting marks the second Pulitzer for Utah's largest daily in its nearly 150-year history.Paul Huntsman, the paper's owner and publisher, called the award a "great tribute to the professionalism and outstanding work of our staff.""The world now knows the quality
  • Monson: For BYU and Utah football, the truth is ... uh, on its way

    Kyle Whittingham was asked the other day about his quarterback situation — for the 15,000th time in the past two weeks. His eyes didn’t roll back in their sockets like a steer hit in the head with a hammer, but they could have. His response was the same measured deal it’s always been.“It’s whoever performs better,” he said. “Bottom line, it’s who executes the offense better.”Oh.At this point in preseason football camps, a couple of weeks in,
  • Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data

    New York • A group of hackers posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online Monday, and demanded a multimillion-dollar ransom from the network to prevent the release of entire television series and other sensitive proprietary files.HBO, which had previously acknowledged the theft of “proprietary information,” said it’s continuing to investigate and is working with police and cybersecurity experts.In a swaggering five-minute video from “Mr. Smith” to HBO CEO R
  • Sexual assault victims say abusers wield BYU’s Honor Code as a weapon

    Julie remembers her 19-year-old self as a "strict rule-follower."But her neighbor, whom she had been casually dating for about a month, started urging her to bend the Honor Code at Brigham Young University. Hanging out in his apartment when his roommates turned out not to be home, or staying too late — these were hardly criminal transgressions, he assured her.One day in October 2012, Julie relented. Alone with the 27-year-old in his apartment, she soon found herself trapped by what police
  • Garrison Keillor: In the republic of marriage

    My wife has gone East for a couple weeks and now there is nobody to say, “You’re not wearing that tie with that shirt, are you?” Nobody to point discreetly at her left nostril and hand me a tissue. Nobody to remind me of the name of that woman with the glasses (Liz) whom I ought to know -- I told my wife, “Her and me went to school together” so that she’d have the satisfaction of saying “She and I.” “No,” I said, “I don’t th
  • BYU football: Cougars are serious this time — they'll use tight ends more in 2017

    Provo • It has become a ritual of preseason training camp for the BYU Cougars.We are going to throw the football to the tight ends more, they say, and return the position to its glory years when the likes of Dennis Pitta, Jonny Harline, Chad Lewis, Chris Smith, David Mills, Clay Brown and Gordon Hudson shined in Provo.However, not counting what hybrid receiver/tight end Terenn Houk did in 2015 — 37 catches for 490 yards and two touchdowns — a BYU tight end has not caught more th
  • Australian leader says gay marriage could be law this year

    Canberra, Australia • Australia’s prime minister said Tuesday that Parliament could legalize gay marriage this year if the nation’s voters endorse it in a rare nonbinding poll in November.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he expected the public would support marriage equality in the so-called plebiscite, and that he would personally campaign for a ‘yes’ vote. It would be only the fourth time in Australian history, and first time in 43 years, that the government pu
  • Jennifer Rubin: What Trump's freakout over his VP's ambition tells us

    Washington • The New York Times kicked a hornet’s nest with a story suggesting that Vice President Mike Pence is cultivating his own base of support, with an eye toward a 2020 run if President Donald Trump doesn’t seek a second term (or is irreparably weakened.)Knowing that the wrath of the narcissist in chief would be coming, Pence rushed to deny that he was anything but a loyal VP. He put out an unusual statement insisting, “Today’s article in The New York Times is
  • Utah football: With Garett Bolles off to NFL, Jackson Barton out to make left tackle spot his own

    It has been a while since Jackson Barton has chatted up his road roommate from last season. In fact, the realization caught Utah’s odds-on starting left tackle by surprise when he registered just how much time had passed since he and Garett Bolles talked shop.“I should probably get on that,” Barton said. “Probably a wake-up call.”Life moves pretty fast, even for the massive mighty blockers up front.Barton has assumed the role vacated by his friend and former teammat
  • US nixes sleep apnea test plan for truckers, train engineers

    U.S. officials are abandoning plans to require sleep apnea screening for truck drivers and train engineers, a decision that safety experts say puts millions of lives at risk.The Federal Railroad Administration and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said late last week that they are no longer pursuing the regulation that would require testing for the fatigue-inducing disorder that’s been blamed for deadly rail crashes in New York City and New Jersey and several highway crashes.The
  • Dana Milbank: Trump finally starts winning — by copying Obama

    Washington • President Trump appears to have found himself a new national security adviser. His name is Barack Obama.Recent days have brought evidence of two foreign policy successes for the Trump administration:On Friday, a top State Department official who has served in the Obama and Trump administrations announced that gains against the Islamic State have picked up sharply and that the militants have lost 78 percent of their territory in Iraq and 58 percent in Syria. The Washington
  • Generosity gap: When it comes to giving, pastors and parishioners differ

    Pastors and parishioners agree on charity as a prime tenet of their Christian faith, but when it comes to what motivates giving, there can be a philosophical generosity gap.
    A new Barna Group study found unanimity when it comes to believing generosity is characterized by “an unselfish, sincere spirit, not from a sense of obligation or of self-interest,” researchers reported.However, while 66 percent of pastors declared that generosity is primarily a “response to Christ‘s
  • 7 fascinating movies inspired by memoirs

    The movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn, the “G” of MGM, was quoted as saying, “I don’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.”That hasn’t stopped a great many people from writing their memoirs, or stopped Hollywood from adapting memoirs into movies. The latest example — “The Glass Castle,” based on Jeannette Walls’ chronicle of growing up with unstable parents — lands in movie theaters Friday, with a cas
  • Utah football: New Ute Darren Carrington reaches plea deal on Oregon DUI

    Utah wide receiver Darren Carrington II has reached a plea agreement in the DUI case that led to his dismissal from the University of Oregon earlier this summer.Carrington, 22, appeared in the Eugene, Ore., Municipal Court on Monday on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of intoxicants and two other traffic offenses, a court official said. If Carrington successfully completes the terms of his yearlong diversion agreement, the misdemeanor DUI charge will be dismissed. He was also
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute controversy still plagues University of Utah Health Sciences, leader says

    A top University of Utah Health Sciences official said Tuesday the Huntsman Cancer Institute controversy in April remains a problem for the department — but leaders are pushing forward to regain the department’s national reputation.“It‘s true there are still clouds hanging over health sciences,” said A. Lorris Betz, interim senior vice president of health sciences, at Tuesday’s U. Board of Trustees meeting. “But you need to know we have an incredibly str
  • Mormon apostle answers African youths’ questions in historic broadcast

    It is no surprise that the first “Face-to-Face” event for Mormon youths in Africa was broadcast from Ghana — and that it featured LDS apostle Dale G. Renlund and his wife, Ruth Renlund.After all, the Renlunds know Africa well after spending five years there, and Ghana’s capital, Accra, includes a prominent Mormon campus with a temple, visitors center, church offices and a newly constructed Missionary Training Center (MTC).West Africa has been home to Mormonism’s fas
  • Catherine Rampell: When labor protections backfire

    Washington • Progressives generally support better labor protections, including policies meant to provide higher wages, more predictable working hours, increased bargaining power, and greater access to paid family leave, sick leave and overtime. And given the raw deal that workers get so often, these are all policies that I generally support as well.But lately, as Democratic leadership has increasingly embraced the far-left impulses of its base, I’ve become convinced that the left nee
  • Sinead O’Connor pleads for help, says she’s living in motel

    Sinead O’Connor emotionally pleaded for help from her family and opened up about her mental illness in a Facebook video posted from a New Jersey motel she had been living in.The video is the latest public glimpse of the singer’s ongoing struggle with mental health problems.The 50-year-old Irish singer says in the 12-minute video posted Thursday that she was staying alive for the sake of others, like her psychiatrist, and if it were up to her, she’d “be gone.”“
  • 3 classic hikes at Utah's Capitol Reef National Park

    Capitol Reef National Park last week celebrated its 80th anniversary with the National Park Service. President Franklin Roosevelt designated Capitol Reef as a national monument Aug. 2, 1937, and it became a park in 1971.To celebrate, here are three top hikes, of varying difficulties, at the south-central Utah park. For more hiking ideas, check out Brett Prettyman’s guide, “Best Easy Day Hikes: Capitol Reef National Park,” released earlier this year.1. Hickman BridgeCapitol Reef
  • 'Glamping' destinations popping up all over Utah for a taste of luxury in the outdoors

    The very idea of heading outdoors is predicated on leaving the amenities afforded by the indoors, lugging a tent into the wild to trade comfort for exploration.But a long-standing tradition of “roughing it” to learn how to tackle and appreciate nature around Utah is changing.Glamorous camping or “glamping” isn’t a new concept, but the options for a night’s stay in the wilderness around the state are expanding.There are king-sized beds in Conestoga wagons in Ga
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