• Former Utah County commissioner sentenced to probation for posing as Mormon official in fraud scheme

    A former Utah County commissioner has been sentenced to five years probation, including paying $162,606 in restitution, for his role in a scam that involved him and another businessman posing as Mormon officials to fool companies into investing in an industrial park and rail line.Gary Jay Anderson, 70, pleaded guilty in May to one count of communications fraud, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Three other charges — all second-degree felonies — were dism
  • Advocates growing impatient as Utah’s new plan for cleaner air falls behind schedule

    State officials have notified the Environmental Protection Agency that Utah is likely to miss yet another air-quality deadline, leading some clean-air advocates to criticize regulators for a lack of action.
    Utah’s latest plan for reducing spikes of small-particulate pollution over the Wasatch Front was due to the EPA in December. But at this point, state officials say it’s unlikely they can meet that deadline and still provide adequate opportunity for public comment.Because it has mi
  • Salt Lake County offers free vaccinations after ‘at-risk’ population sees hepatitis A outbreak

    The Salt Lake County Health Department is offering free vaccines for hepatitis A, due to a recent outbreak among “at-risk” populations in the area.Normally, the county sees about four cases of hepatitis A during an entire year — and only about two cases by August, said the department’s spokesman Nicholas Rupp on Friday. So far this year, there have been 16 reported cases of people with the disease.The outbreak appears to have occurred among people who are experiencing hom
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    Donovan Mitchell has Utah Jazz fans excited before he has even played a second of NBA basketball. When searching for player comparisons, you can see the reason for the excitement. It’s no secret that Utah Jazz fans are filled to the brim with excitement for rookie Donovan Mitchell. It’s nice to know that the feeling is mutual […]
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  • Tribes are 'willing to go into battle' if Trump makes Utah's Bears Ears monument smaller

    Utah tribal leaders are steeling themselves for legal battle should President Donald Trump act on a proposal to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, saying such a move would be an insult to the five tribes that sought the monument.While details of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on the 27 big monuments Trump instructed him to “review” remain under wraps, the secretary had previously announced Bears Ears should be significantly reduced.That conclusion became official Thur
  • Pac-12: How high will the Oregon Ducks fly under Willie Taggart without Darren Carrington II?

    Darren Carrington II became a big subject during Oregon’s appearance in the Pac-12 Football Media Days in late July, partly because of the news that the star receiver was transferring to Utah.Even while playing for the Utes, Carrington will remain a symbol of Oregon coach Willie Taggart’s tenure. He’ll remain a visible player in the conference this season as the Ducks try to re-establish themselves. Taggart said he didn’t intend to send a message by dismissing Carrington
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  • Mormons unveil temple changes: Single LDS men older than 30, recently divorced members can now serve

    Reflecting evolving attitudes about gender roles, the LDS Church has revised a couple of policies relating to older single men and divorced members serving as volunteers in Mormon temples.For years, single men older than 30 and Latter-day Saints who had been divorced within the previous five years were banned from officiating in some temple rituals.No official reason was ever given for the now-lifted prohibitions.“Single endowed men may serve as temple ordinance workers if they are found w
  • Eccles’ grandson: University of Utah should ‘renounce $10 million gift from Charles Koch Foundation

    An Eccles family member wants the University of Utah to strip Marriner S. Eccles’ name off a new institute partly bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation — or renounce the $10 million Koch gift altogether.“None of [Marriner S. Eccles‘] positions or accomplishments throughout his life remotely resonate with any policies or positions advanced by Charles Koch,” his grandson, Marriner C. Eccles, wrote in a letter dated Tuesday.The descendant of the prominent Utah bank
  • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, open after 19 months, shows off its grand ‘reimagining’

    Utah art lovers will get their first chance in 19 months to walk the galleries of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts this weekend, and the museum staff is throwing a big party to welcome everyone back.A slate of events — including a Saturday night dance party, Sunday morning yoga, live performances, movie screenings, guided tours, outdoor ping-pong and a piñata bash — will mark the museum’s reopening, in which curators will show the community how the galleries have been reconf
  • Child locked in Eagle Mountain basement, forced to eat carrots had an ‘orangey tint’

    A 5-year-old boy who was locked in a windowless basement room for 12 hours a night reportedly had an ”orangey tint” after his parents forced him to eat carrots before every meal, according to court documents.Brett and Clarissa Tobiasson, ages 30 and 27, respectively, of Eagle Mountain, were charged with second-degree felony child abuse in 4th District Court on Aug. 9 after a witness reported the alleged abuse to police.Last fall, the witness visited the home, and said the c
  • Flash, bang, and blood: Hiker tells harrowing lightning tale

    Sacramento, Calif. — There was no rain, no rumbling, no sign of danger before the blinding flash and deafening bang of a lightning bolt threw Mathias Steinhuber to the ground, tore off his clothes and burned a gaping hole in his shoe.The 31-year-old Austrian teacher, an avid hiker, had just reached the 9,000-foot summit of a Northern California mountain range ahead of his companions when he raised his arms for a picture and was struck in the back of the head. The electricity shot through h
  • Eccles’ grandson: University of Utah should ‘renounce’ $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation

    An Eccles family member wants the University of Utah to strip Marriner S. Eccles’ name off a new institute partly bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation — or renounce the $10 million Koch gift altogether.“None of [Marriner S. Eccles‘] positions or accomplishments throughout his life remotely resonate with any policies or positions advanced by Charles Koch,” his grandson, Marriner C. Eccles, wrote in a letter dated Tuesday.The descendant of the prominent Utah bank
  • Bears Ears backers bracing for legal battle

    Utah tribal leaders are steeling themselves for legal battle should President Donald Trump act on a proposal to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, saying such a move would be an insult to the five tribes that sought the monument.While details of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on the 27 big monuments Trump instructed him to “review” remain under wraps, the secretary had previously announced Bears Ears should be significantly reduced.That conclusion became official Thur
  • Utah man charged with elder abuse for allegedly leaving his mother lying on the floor for three days

    A Sandy man has been charged with elder abuse for allegedly leaving his 73-year-old mother lying on the floor for three days in her own urine and feces.Anthony Leichtle also took out a loan in his mother’s name and violated a 2011 protective order by being in contact with her.Leichtle, 48, who made his initial appearance in 3rd District Court on Friday, is charged with second-degree felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult, third-degree felony exploitation of a vulnerable adult and cl
  • Injury layoff forces Utah’s Chase Hansen to reflect on his longevity

    Chase Hansen will tell you how antsy he was, and at times, still is.He couldn’t run the way he wanted to run.He couldn’t lift the way he wanted to lift.His teammates suited up, went through a month of fall camp drenched in sweat, while Hansen could do nothing but sit and wait. To the linchpin of Utah’s defense, it was misery to be sidelined. To pass the time, the junior strong safety, who many view as one of the premier talents in the Pac-12, studied film from fall camp and a y
  • Cougars don't mind opening against FCS Portland State

    Provo • Who cares if temperatures will be in the mid-90s and the opponent from a lower division of college football went 3-8 last season and is breaking in a freshman quarterback?It is football, and after sweating in the late-July and August heat for nearly a month and banging into each other almost daily, the BYU Cougars are ready to play for real for the first time since edging Wyoming 24-21 in last December’s Poinsettia Bowl. BYU will host the Portland State Vikings, a member of th
  • Visiting Arches National Park over Labor Day holiday? Here's the latest on construction openings and closings

    The folks managing a massive yearlong construction project at Arches National Park have good and bad news for travelers hoping to visit the popular area on Labor Day weekend.The good news is that the Windows Section of Arches is scheduled to reopen at 7 a.m. Friday, Sept.1. This great area with double arches and short walks for kids is one of the park’s iconic attractions.But the construction will mean closures at other popular tourist spots.The La Sal Mountains viewpoint is scheduled to c
  • George Pyle: Notes from a trip to the Northwest

    I should have bought that book.That’s often good advice. Especially so when you realize afterward that, had you purchased a copy of ”Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,” instead of just reading the first chapter or two in the coffee shop in the amazing Powell’s City of Books the week before in Portland, Ore., you would have a good excuse to approach its author a few days later when you happen across him in Boise, Idaho.Neil deGrasse Tyson, who makes a living exp
  • BYU football paying Portland State $525K for Saturday's visit

    Provo • The cost to lure a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team to BYU apparently has gone up.That, or the Southern Utah University football team was shortchanged last November when it received $400,000 to play the Cougars at LaVell Edwards Stadium. The Thunderbirds got $435,000 for their game against Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium last September.The Cougars host another FCS opponent, Portland State, at 1 p.m. Saturday in another “guarantee game.”According to the BYU-Portla
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  • Texas prepares as Harvey strengthens to Category 2 storm

    Houston — Conditions were deteriorating along Texas’s Gulf Coast on Friday as Hurricane Harvey strengthened and slowly moved toward the state, with forecasters warning that evacuations and preparations “should be rushed to completion.”Millions of people were bracing for a prolonged battering from the hurricane, which could be the fiercest such storm to hit the U.S. in nearly a dozen years. Forecasters labeled Harvey a “life-threatening storm” that posed a &ldq
  • Unmissing woman: She just wanted a break, and she's staying on 'vacation'

    A Salt Lake City woman, reported as missing for the past week, has been found safe — but police are mum about where.Frankly, says SLCPD Detective Greg Wilking, 36-year-old Manal Amanoael Hanna just wants to be left alone.“This turned out to be a big waste of our time,” he said Friday. “She contacted us to tell us that she’s fine, but plans to stay on vacation for a while.”Hanna told police that it’s true she abandoned her car, found earlier this week in
  • Utah man charged with elder abuse for allegedly leaving his mother lying on the floor for three days

    A Sandy man has been charged with elder abuse for allegedly leaving his 73-year-old mother lying on the floor for three days her own urine and feces.Anthony Leichtle also took out a loan in his mother’s name and violated a 2011 protective order by being in contact with her.Leichtle, 48, who made his initial appearance in 3rd District Court on Friday, is charged with second-degree felony aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult, third-degree felony exploitation of a vulnerable adult and class
  • Murray Mayor Ted Eyre, 71, dies after battling cancer

    Surrounded by his family, Murray Mayor Ted Eyre died Friday from complications of cancer at age 71.The retired Delta Air Lines pilot became mayor on Jan. 7, 2014, but did not seek re-election this year.“Mayor Eyre’s mark on the city touched so many,” said Deputy Mayor Janet Towers. “He had a deep love and commitment for the city and employees. This love and commitment was displayed in everything he did as mayor.”She noted that Eyre attended his last official city me
  • 13 dead after Indian guru's rape conviction triggers riots

    Panchkula, India — Mobs rampaged across a north Indian town on Friday, leaving 13 people dead and buildings in flames, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers, authorities said.Police used water cannon in an attempt to disperse the crowd in the town of Panchkula, and a spokesman for the guru’s sect urged his supporters to remain calm.The violence so far had left 13 dead, including some with bullet wounds, and more than 100 injured, a
  • Restored footage of Charles and Diana's royal wedding released

    London — It was the wedding that captivated the world. Lady Diana Spencer said “I will” to Britain’s Prince Charles, becoming Princess of Wales and bringing fresh youth and glamour to Britain’s royal family.Now, 36 years later, The Associated Press has restored original footagefrom the July 29, 1981, wedding and is releasing it in 4K resolution on YouTube.The 25 minutes of footage comes from the archive of British Movietone, which AP acquired in 2016. British M
  • LeBron James shoots hard on Utah Jazz fans, jersey burnings

    LeBron James is crying foul on Beantowners for the Isaiah Thomas jersey burnings. Utah Jazz fans have also drawn his ire. When Gordon Hayward officially put a bow on his Utah Jazz career in July, Twitter was flush with videos of fans in Utah burning his No. 20 jersey in effigy. More recently, the Boston faithful have […]
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  • LeBron James shoots hard on Utah Jazz fans, jersey burning

    LeBron James is crying foul on Beantowners for the burning of Isaiah Thomas jerseys. Utah Jazz fans have also drawn his ire. When Gordon Hayward officially put a bow on his Utah Jazz career in July, Twitter was flush with videos of fans in Utah burning his No. 20 jersey in effigy. More recently, the Boston faithful […]
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  • Eccles’ grandson: University of Utah should ‘renounce’ $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation

    An Eccles family member wants the University of Utah to strip Marriner S. Eccles’ name off a new institute partly bankrolled by the Charles Koch Foundation — or renounce the $10 million Koch gift altogether.“None of [Marriner S. Eccles‘] positions or accomplishments throughout his life remotely resonate with any policies or positions advanced by Charles Koch,” his grandson, Marriner C. Eccles, wrote in a letter dated Tuesday.The descendant of the prominent Utah bank
  • Utah women's soccer shuts out Utah State

    The Utah women’s soccer team scored twice in the first two minutes of the game and went on to beat Utah State 2-0 on Thursday night.Natalie Vukics and Tatum Thornton scored the goals for the Utes (2-0), who entered the season ranked No. 18 in the country. Janie Kearl and Natalee Wells had the assists on the two goals.Carly Nelson picked up her first shutout of the season, making two saves. Sarah Cobb had a career-high six saves for Utah State (0-1).
  • Oops. Utah Democrats say they need a second state party convention this year

    The Utah Democratic Party figures that it needs a second state convention this year, or more accurately a second session to complete the unfinished business of the first — including formally adopting the party platform.The problem stems from the fact that nearly all delegates at the original June 17 convention scattered after they finished the time-consuming process of voting for party nominees and new leaders. Too few were left to finish work on the party platform, constitution and bylaws
  • Fired after controversy, woman who ran county office while boss suffered mental decline asks for severance pay

    The woman who ran the Salt Lake County Recorder’s office while her boss apparently suffered from a debilitating and now permanent mental incapacity is asking for severance pay after being fired by the newly selected recorder.Julie Dole, who offered changing answers for whether then-Recorder Gary Ott was largely absent from running his office after his 2014 election, wrote in a letter this week she’d like the county to pay her on her way out.County Republicans overwhelmingly passed he
  • Real Salt Lake players to scatter after Saturday’s game for international duty

    Albert Rusnák yet again will join the Slovakia national team for the World Cup qualifiers next week, RSL coach Mike Petke revealed in his postgame comments Wednesday.“Albert sees things [on the field], and that is why he is going to the national team next week because he is a special player,” Petke said after RSL’s 4-0 victory over San Jose.Along with Rusnák, Jefferson Savarino has been summoned for international duty, RSL announced Thursday. Savarino will join th
  • Oops. Utah Democrats say they need a second state party convention this year

    The Utah Democratic Party figures that it needs a second state convention this year, or more accurately a second session to complete the unfinished business of the first — including formally adopting the party platform.The problem stems from the fact that nearly all delegates at the original June 17 convention scattered after they finished the time-consuming process of voting for party nominees and new leaders. Too few were left to finish work on the party platform, constitution and bylaws
  • 17-year-old arrested in fatal shooting of Magna teen

    A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting and killing a Magna teenager, police announced Friday. The 17-year-old was booked into the Salt Lake Valley Juvenile Detention Center on charges of murder, aggravated assault and felony discharge of a firearm, according to a news release from the Unified Police Department.
    Will Ryan, 17, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Magna late Saturday night, according to police. Someone driving a white sedan fired multiple shots a
  • Trump administration imposes sweeping sanctions on Venezuela

    Caracas, Venezuela • The Trump administration on Friday slapped sweeping financial sanctions on Venezuela, barring banks from any new financial deals with the government or state-run oil giant PDVSA.The sanctions Trump signed by executive order are bound to dramatically escalate tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. and exacerbate the country’s economic crisis.“These measures are carefully calibrated to deny the Maduro dictatorship a critical source of financing to maintain it
  • Scott D. Pierce: Larry David hates the press — and we love him

    Beverly Hills, Calif. • There are few things more fun for a television critic than interviewing Larry David. Because he goes out of his way to let us know how much he hates doing interviews … and he’s hilarious while he’s doing it.
    David is returning to HBO with a new season of “Curb Your Enthusiam” on Oct. 1, and he certainly didn’t seem happy to appear before members of the Television Critics Association to promote it. But then … we’ve don
  • Rich Lowry: Trump makes the media into his own evil empire

    For many Republicans, what matters most about Donald Trump is that he’s demonstrated resolve against the enemy — not the Islamic State or the Taliban, but the media.The media has become for the right what the Soviet Union was during the Cold War — a common, unifying adversary of overwhelming importance. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, religious conservatives and libertarians could agree that, whatever their other differences, godless communism had to be resisted. This commi
  • 2nd victim found from USS McCain crash; 8 still missing

    Singapore — A second victim of the collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker near Singapore was identified by the Navy on Friday.The 7th Fleet said Navy and Marine Corps divers recovered and identified remains of 26-year-old Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon on Thursday night. He is from Suffield, Connecticut.More divers and equipment arrived overnight to continue the search inside flooded compartments of the ship for eight others still missing. The Navy
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  • Former Mormon bishop pleads guilty to sexually abusing boys from his congregation

    A former Mormon bishop from Mapleton has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing boys in 2014 when they were members of his congregation.Erik Wayne Hughes, 51, was charged last month in 4th District Court with two second-degree felony counts of forcible sexual abuse that allegedly occurred in June 2014, as well as a count of tampering with a witness, a third-degree felony.On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to all three counts.
    Sentencing is set for Oct. 10 before Judge Thomas Low. The forcible sexual ab
  • Utah women's soccer opens with win over Utah State

    The Utah women’s soccer team scored twice in the first two minutes of the game and went on to beat Utah State 2-0 on Thursday night in the season opener for both teams.Natalie Vukics and Tatum Thornton scored the goals for the Utes (1-0), who enter the season ranked No. 18 in the country. Janie Kearl and Natalee Wells had the assists on the two goals.Carly Nelson picked up her first shutout of the season, making two saves. Sarah Cobb had a career-high six saves for Utah State (0-1).
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  • Trump’s announcement of sanctions against Venezuela calls for release of imprisoned Utahn Josh Holt

    In an executive order announcing sanctions against Venezuela on Friday, President Donald Trump called for the release of Josh Holt, a Utahn who has been detained in that country for more than a year. Holt was arrested in June 2016, on an accusation of illegally possessing weapons, which his family has called false.“The United States is also very concerned about the situation of Joshua Holt, a young American being detained illegally by the Maduro regime for over a year now. We once aga
  • Fomrer Mormon bishop pleads guilty to sexually abusing boys from his congregation

    A former Mormon bishop from Mapleton has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing boys in 2014 when they were members of his congregation.Erik Wayne Hughes, 51, was charged last month in 4th District Court with two second-degree felony counts of forcible sexual abuse that allegedly occurred in June 2014, as well as a count of tampering with a witness, a third-degree felony.On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to all three counts.
    Sentencing is set for Oct. 10 before Judge Thomas Low. The forcible sexual ab
  • BYU football notes: Cougars paying Portland State $525K for Saturday's visit

    Provo • The cost to lure a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team to BYU apparently has gone up.That, or the Southern Utah University football team was shortchanged last November when it received $400,000 to play the Cougars at LaVell Edwards Stadium. The Thunderbirds got $435,000 for their game against Utah at Rice-Eccles Stadium last September.The Cougars host another FCS opponent, Portland State, at 1 p.m. Saturday in another “guarantee game.”According to the BYU-Portla
  • Catherine Rampell: Punish public officials who disenfranchise voters

    Washington — In the federal government and in most states, there are consequences when governments deprive Americans of their constitutional right to liberty — through, say, wrongful imprisonment.So why aren’t there more meaningful consequences when states deprive Americans of their constitutional right to vote?Again and again, “voter fraud” has been shown to be virtually nonexistent. Yet in the name of eradicating this imagined scourge, state officials around the c
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