• U.S. agent out at BLM after Burning Man probe

    Salt Lake City • Authorities say a federal agent is no longer an employee of the Bureau of Land Management after he was scrutinized for his behavior at the counterculture Burning Man festival.BLM spokeswoman Megan Crandall told The Associated Press Friday that Daniel Love no longer works for the agency.She did not answer questions about the timing or circumstances, citing federal privacy laws.A lawyer for Love did not immediately return messages seeking comment.Love was employed Aug. 24, wh
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Singers, musicians audition to perform national anthem at Jazz home games

    ... Bestor was joined by Grammy-nominated concert violinist Jenny Oaks-Baker and Jazz personnel to evaluate the performers. Heather Jackman, 35, wore her Jazz tea ...
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  • Singers, musicians audition to perform national anthem at Jazz home games

    SALT LAKE CITY— Dozens of hopeful singers tested their voices against a panel of judges, including Emmy Award-winning composer Kurt Bestor, as they auditioned for a chance to sing the national anthem at a Jazz game.The yearly audition, held Friday morning at the Megaplex theaters in The Gateway, saw singers as young as 6 showcasing their talents for a chance to sing at one of the 44 Jazz home games in the 2017-18 season. Small groups and instrumentalists were also allowed a chance to audit
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  • Utah man charged with hate crime for using stun gun during racially motivated assault of black neighbor

    A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Friday charging a 58-year-old former Draper man with a racially motivated assault against a black neighbor and his young son last year in which the defendant shouted a racial epithet and zapped the neighbor with a stun gun.
    Mark Olic Porter, is charged with one count of “interference with housing,” for allegedly interfering with the neighbor because of his race after he had moved in nearby.Porter on Nov. 3, yelled “n-----,” a
  • Utah students celebrate Constitution Day: Star-shaped cookies, American flags and remarks from a retiring Supreme Court justice

    In what is expected to be one of the last times she will speak publicly before retiring in November, Utah Supreme Court Justice Christine Durham spoke to a group of Utah schoolchildren Friday about the importance of the U.S. Constitution.As middle school students nibbled on star-shaped cookies, Durham stood before a large American flag and read the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution and told them about how the document gave them the freedoms they enjoy today.“When the Constitution says,&nbs
  • Bagley Cartoon: How to Run a Country

    This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at www.facebook.com/notrobertkirby.Universal Care CanardsHalf-Baked Religious FreedomSympathy for the DevosThe Man in the High CastleHurricane Force StupidityTrumps Red LinesDACA Repeal Goes SouthDoing Her JobTricky TrumpThe Air Apparent
  • Prosecutors dismiss charges against Cottonwood Heights man accused of starting July 4th fire

    Salt Lake County prosecutors on Friday dismissed charges against a man accused of starting a July 4th grass fire, saying Cottonwood Heights police made significant errors in their investigation of the case.Richard Otterstrom, 49, had been charged in 3rd District Court with reckless burning, a misdemeanor, for setting off aerial fireworks that started the blaze in a large field near his home.But while Otterstrom was lighting fireworks on Independence Day, he wasn’t in a restricted zone that
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  • BYU football notes: No. 10 Badgers will be first Big Ten team to ever play in Provo

    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, even with the experienced Mangum at the helm.Also diminished is the realization, which might not hit until 1:30 p.m. MT Saturday, that one of the best teams in college football will test BYU and fill-in QB Beau Hoge at LaVell Edwards Stadium. The 10th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers will be the first
  • 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 to a comfortable victory.The Utah football team (2-0) takes on SJSU in its second home game of the season at 8 p.m. Saturday. It’ll try to remain unbeaten this season and extend its non-conference record to 24-1 since joining the Pac-12 in 2011. Mountain West Conference member SJSU (1-2
  • BYU football: Backup QB Beau Hoge set to lead Cougars as No. 10 Wisconsin visits Saturday

    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 provide NFL analysis on television for ESPN.But none of that could have prepared BYU’s backup quarterback for what he will experience Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium as the Cougars play host to a Big Ten team for the first time in Provo, the No. 10 Wisconsin Badgers. Hoge will make his fi
  • Pickup truck slams into Utah Highway Patrol car on freeway, trooper suffers minor injuries

    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 6 a.m., Trooper Dale Talbot was investigating a single-car crash on I-215 heading north where it passes over 700 North, UHP reported. He was parked in the left emergency lane with his emergency lights on.That is when a red pickup truck traveling north lost control, spun out and slammed into the re
  • Utah nurse pleads guilty to giving prescription medications to jail inmates without authorization

    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 Court with two counts of class A misdemeanor violation of the Pharmacy Protection Act.Bemis last month entered a guilty plea in abeyance to one of the counts. The case will be dismissed next August if Bemis has no new violations of the law and pays a $750 court fee.
    As of Friday, Bemis remained lic
  • U. 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. Birnbaum, MD, Quality Leadership Award at a summit held Thursday night in Denver, officials said.The award recognizes academic medical centers for superior quality and safety performance, as measured by annual studies that Texas-based Vizient, a national health-care performance company, has conducte
  • Farewell 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 Cassini’s expected demise came about 7:55 a.m. EDT. That’s when radio signals from the spacecraft — its last scientific gifts to Earth — came to an abrupt halt. The radio waves went flat, and the spacecraft fell silent.Cassini actually burned up like a meteor 83 m
  • Utah 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 Herriman, was charged in 3rd District Court with three counts of first-degree felony rape, which is punishable by up to life in prison.Dragon pleaded guilty in July to two lesser counts of third-degree felony unlawful sexual activity with a minor, admitting he had sexual intercourse with the girl twi
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  • Little 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 spots.”The Utah Transportation Commission on Friday proposed four likely winners for that big pot of money, although it is allowing public comment for a month.The commission is recommending that the money be split among Little Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County, Moab/Arches Nation
  • Masked 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 robbery, reported just before 8:30 a.m. at TransWest Credit Union, 6189 South Redwood Road, Unified police Lt. Brian Lohrke said. The male suspect remains at large. “He walked in and fired right away. It was aimed toward the ceiling — more of an attention-getter than a threat,” Loh
  • Search 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 British capital this year.Prime Minister Theresa May said the device “was intended to cause significant harm,” but to the relief of authorities and Londoners, the bomb — hidden in a plastic bucket inside a supermarket freezer bag — only partially exploded, sparing the
  • Utah's job creation rate slowed slightly in August but unemployment remains steady at 3.5%

    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, an increase of 39,900 positions, the Department of Workforce Services said in its monthly employment report.“Utah’s labor market continues to grow at a sustainable, moderate pace,” Carrie Mayne, chief economist at the Department of Workforce Services, said in a news rel
  • George 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 in Katherine Hepburn’s voice), “Of course he has a Facebook page, he always has a YouTube channel, we all have smartphones. It’s 2017 and we’re barbarians.”This was supposed to be the Golden Age of Free Speech. World
  • Trump 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 during a White House briefing about the upcoming U.N. General Assembly meeting next week.One former top Trump adviser has said the U.S. is bluffing when it threatens military force against North Korea.McMaster says North Korea is on track to having a nuclear weapon that could threaten its n
  • Salt Lake Acting Company’s season-opening production shatters stereotypes about black culture

    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 cultural and political diversity in Utah, while here in the Chapel Theatre, a play that celebrates difference and offers an insightful glimpse into another, unfamiliar way of life was about to open.Playwright Chisa Hutchinson’s affectionate portrait of the unl
  • ‘Evil Dead’ icon Bruce Campbell loves his fans, but he knows they're not always right

    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 Austin, Texas, as part of a 35-city book tour. “You have kids who are 18 going, ‘I saw you as Coach Boomer in “Sky High” at age 9,’ or ‘I watched you on “Xena” or “Hercules” on Saturdays when I was 10.’”A lot of fan
  • Bank robber fires shots fired inside Taylorsville credit union, police say

    Police say a bank robber fired shots inside a Taylorsville credit union Friday morning.There were no injuries in the robbery at TransWest Credit Union, 6189 South Redwood Road, according a Unified Police Department tweet.The suspect was dressed in all black, with a mask. It was not immediately known if the suspect remained on the loose.This story will be updated.
  • Utah’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 fateful flip Thursday night after splitting votes of 52 GOP delegates in a second round of voting. Acton won with her heads call when the coin landed with President John F. Kennedy’s image facing up.
    “I’m thrilled,” she said Friday. “I really have things to learn.”Act
  • Survey reveals a life of heaven, a bit of hell, and in between for spouses of Utah pastors, other U.S. Protestant clerics

    Serving in the kingdom of God has its spiritual and social benefits, but it’s not all paradise for the spouses of Protestant pastors.Indeed, dealing with parishioners and the loneliness of shepherding a flock of sometimes recalcitrant sheep can be a taste of hell, a recently released LifeWay Research survey indicates.The study, which questioned 722 pastoral spouses by mail June 21-Aug. 2, revealed that 90 percent of respondents felt that the “ministry has had a positive effect”
  • 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 person. This includes back when I was a cop and loathed the news media in general.In the beginning, if reporters called the department because they heard something on the scanner about an elderly motorist being injured, I told them the truth.Me • “Yeah, I pulled this ge
  • Feds 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 addiction.Described as part of the Trump administration’s response to the crisis, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants announced Thursday will deliver between $122,000 and $175,000 in one-time cash to each of the 11 Utah centers, the agency said.HHS said the new money i
  • Utah 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 toll-paying drivers are crowding into them.So the Utah Department of Transportation is proposing to double the flexible tolls there — up from $1 maximum per toll section to $2, depending on congestion at the time.However, members of the Utah Transportation Commission — which received the
  • MountainStar sends 30 Utah caregivers to help with Harvey and Irma relief efforts

    When Ogden nurse Shawna Crane recently arrived at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, Florida, she said the human suffering she witnessed in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma was immense. Crane and about 29 other caregivers from other MountainStar Healthcare facilities in Utah have flown to Florida and Texas to offer their help with relief efforts following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, working within hospitals and outpatient sites run by MountainStar’s parent company, H
  • [USA Today] - Dirk Nowitzki: NBA is about making money and winning, not loyalty

    ... itzki shoots over Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz.  Paul Buck, AFP 2003: Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Garnett drives against...
  • St. Louis ex-officer acquitted in killing of black man

    St. Louis • A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, with the judge declaring that he could not be swayed by “partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism.”The acquittal of Jason Stockley in the death of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith had stirred concerns about possible civil unrest for weeks. Several hundred protesters were marching in the streets of downtown St. Louis withi
  • New toxic bloom warnings issued at Deer Creek, other Utah reservoirs as algae season nears its end

    With the weekend forecast calling for storms and cooler temperatures, the beginning of the end is in sight for Utah’s 2017 crop of toxic algae, yet the poisonous critters are apparently seeking an encore.
    Authorities issued several new advisories on Utah’s waterways in recent weeks due to presence of toxin-producing algae, or the poisons they are known to release. Health departments are urging limited use of Mantua Reservoir, Ogden City’s 21st Street Pond and part of Deer Creek
  • Utah teacher who gave sex, drugs purity test reinstated

    A Utah high school teacher who was placed on leave for assigning students a questionnaire that officials and parents say inappropriately asked about student sex lives, drug and alcohol use has been reinstated.Weber School District spokesman Lane Findlay said Friday that district officials wrapped up a four-day investigation into the teacher’s use of the survey at Roy High School as part of an “Adult Roles” course teaching students about human relationships.Findlay says teacher
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  • [USA Today] - Dirk Nowitzki: NBA is amount making money and winning, not loyalty

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  • Police seek missing Murray man

    Police were looking Friday for an elderly Murray man last seen at his home Thursday evening.
    Nick Kapos left his residence about 7 p.m. Thursday to take a walk but did not return, his family reported.
    Kapos’ family said he suffers from early stages of dementia and is normally unable to walk any distance without resting.
    Anyone with information on Kapos’ whereabouts is asked to call Murray police at  801-840-4000.
  • Former Iron County jail commander pleads guilty to misuse of public money in gas-theft case

    The former commander of the Iron County jail has admitted to stealing gasoline for his personal use with a county issued credit card.Galen Bret Allred, 47, pleaded guilty in 5th District Court to one count of third-degree felony misuse of public money.Three similar counts were dismissed earlier this month as part of a plea deal.Allred’s guilty plea will be held in abeyance and the case will be dismissed in a year so long as he pays a court fee of $800 and reimburses Iron County.Court recor
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir announces West Coast tour

    The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is heading west.The choir, which toured Europe last summer, announced Friday that it will perform in five West Coast cities next summer. The Classic Coast Tour will take 360-voice volunteer choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square from Orange County, Calif., to Vancouver, British Columbia, with stops in Mountain View and Rohnert Park, Calif., and Seattle in between.“When we experience great music, in great spaces, it makes for a great experience — both for
  • Provo Mayor John Curtis launches RV campaign in race to replace Chaffetz

    Provo Mayor John Curtis is loading his campaign onto an RV for the next week as he runs for former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s seat.“I’m really looking forward [to] visiting all seven counties across the congressional district,” he said in a statement about the trip.The so-called “Utah First” tour starts in Provo on Tuesday, weaves through Heber on Wednesday, and heads south to Price, Moab and Castle Dale on Thursday and Friday.Curtis, who won the Republican pr
  • Catherine Rampell: Sanderscare is all cheap politics and magic math

    WASHINGTON -- For years Democrats have (rightfully) hammered Republicans for spouting empty slogans and magic math.Tax cuts will pay for themselves? Uh-huh, if you say so. Maybe have a chat with Kansas.Build a wall, and Mexico will pay for it? Hmm, that’s not what Mexico says.Repeal and replace Obamacare? Right-o, show us a replacement plan, any replacement plan, that won’t raise rates and cause millions of Americans to lose their insurance.These were hollow promises, with no serious
  • University of Utah trying to ‘prevent violence’ as students plan protests of conservative writer Ben Shapiro

    University of Utah administrators are working to get ahead of a potential clash on their campus when conservative commentator and writer Ben Shapiro speaks in Salt Lake City later this month.Left-leaning campus groups at the U. have already called for the Sept. 27 event’s cancellation — holding a sit-in this week at U. President David Pershing’s office — followed by a string of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations announced on social media, both in support of and in
  • Heavy rains flood Utah streets, cause dozens of crashes

    Thunder claps and torrential rains rolled over the Wasatch Front as the Friday morning commute began, triggering a slew of slideoffs and crashes as water pooled on the regions roadways.By 9 a.m., Utah Highway Patrol troopers had scrambled to nearly 30 collisions on state roads and interstate freeways. A dozen more accidents were reported in the Salt Lake Valley‘s municipal jurisdictions by public safety dispatchers. No serious injuries were reported in any of the incidents.
    The heavy rainf
  • Snakes in a fire: Lehi firefighters rescue serpents from fiery fate

    An early Friday morning fire burned one Lehi apartment unit and filled several others with smoke, but no injuries were reported — not even to seven near-fiery serpents.
    The blaze, of undetermined cause, flared shortly before 8 a.m. near 400 North and 500 West.
    Lehi Fire Department officials confirmed the pet snakes survived, but did not immediately know whether any were venomous.
    The Utah Red Cross reportedly was providing aid to several residents displaced by the fire.
  • [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Jonas Jerebko to play a key role in 2017-18

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  • Morning links: BYU, Utah football predictions; Donovan Mitchell projected as best rookie shooting guard

    The national picks are in for some of the biggest games in college football this weekend, and not a single writer from ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report or CBS Sports picked BYU to win over Wisconsin.Speaking of the matchup, ESPN's Mitch Sherman predicted the Badgers would win, 28-20, saying, "BYU continues its annual tradition of loading up on power programs in September. Losses to LSU and Utah ought to embolden the Cougars, but Wisconsin freshman running back Jonathan Taylor will exten
  • Scott D. Pierce: My sure-fire Emmy predictions — ‘Thrones’ won’t win; Colbert will be great; and more

    Here are two can’t-miss Emmy predictions. First, “Game of Thrones,” which won 12 Emmys last year and has a total of 38, won’t win any this year.And, second, Stephen Colbert will be a great host for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday (6 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2).“GoT” can’t win because it didn’t air any new episodes this year’s during eligibility period.As for Colbert, I feel confident about that. But then I’m a big fan.Here are a few major
  • PVRIS frontwoman says new album is a reminder to herself and others: ‘It’s OK to feel’

    “All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell” — the title of the sophomore album by alt-rock/electronica act PVRIS — is an intriguing verbal juxtaposition. But what exactly does it mean?“It’s all subjective. Ultimately, heaven and hell is pretty subjective. I think pleasure and suffering can also be pretty subjective,” frontwoman, guitarist and songwriter Lynn Gunn explained in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. “And that was su

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