• Utah football has two healthy tight ends now; will it use them?

    Whether the Utes have transitioned fully into a passing team or simply become more balanced than the past, the “throw game” as coach Kyle Whittingham calls it has become more prominent than recent years.That has not extended to the tight end position so far. Utah senior co-starters Harrison Handley and Siale Fakailoatonga have combined for one catch, 5 yards and a whole lot of blocking through the first four games. Sophomore Jake Jackson, a converted linebacker, has the only other re
  • Monson: Utah football is a pretty portrait, even if a mustache gets painted on it

    One of the real pleasures Utah football finds itself saturated in and surrounded by is counter-intuitive.Even sporting a strong, undefeated team, the Utes don’t know if they’ll win this week.Stanford, in fact, is favored at Rice-Eccles on Saturday night. That’s the burden and the beauty of playing in the Pac-12.And it is a thorough and heavy kind of beautiful, even for fanatics whose emotions and partisanship and anxieties and risk-factor run so deep.No matter how good Utah act
  • Rich Lowry: The passionate non sequiturs of the gun debate

    The mind boggles at the horror of Las Vegas, where Stephen Paddock perched himself in the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay and sprayed bullets into a crowd of outdoor concertgoers in the worst mass shooting in American history.If this slaughter of innocents were an act perpetrated by a foreign power, the U.S. military retaliation would begin immediately, and rightly so.The impulse to act to stop the domestic massacres that have become a heartbreakingly metronomic feature of American life is laudab
  • Utah gymnastics: Red Rocks’ 2018 schedule features a Pac-12 quad meet on an elevated stage — like at the NCAAs

    Utah’s 2018 Gymnastics schedule features something new for the Utes, as they will compete in a quad meet with UCLA, Stanford, and Washington in Reno, Nev., on Jan. 14, in a meet dubbed “Elevate the Stage.” The meet will be held on a podium at the Reno Events Center, like the setup used for the NCAA Championships. “The quad meet in Reno will allow our gymnasts to experience competing on podium prior to the postseason, something other top teams have done in recent years tha
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  • Westminster College cleared of wrongdoing in handling of sexual assault report

    Westminster College has been cleared of allegations that it failed to protect a student who reported a sexual assault in 2013.The college has been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) since 2014, after a female student filed a complaint in November 2014 alleging the school violated Title IX.The school announced Tuesday that OCR determined that the college did not discriminate against the woman. U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil
  • Utah football: Utes have two healthy tight ends now; will they use them?

    Whether the Utes have transitioned fully into a passing team or simply become more balanced than past years, the “throw game” as coach Kyle Whittingham calls it certainly has become more prominent than recent years. That has not extended to the tight end position so far.Utah senior co-starters Harrison Handley and Siale Fakailoatonga have combined for one catch, 5 yards and a whole lot of blocking through the first four games under first-year offensive coordinator. Sophomore Jake Jac
  • Pac-12 football: Coaches decry late-night kickoff times, but there’s not much they can do about it

    Stanford coach David Shaw already was an opponent of late-night kickoff times, and then he found out what he was missing.The Cardinal hosted Arizona State last Saturday in the Pac-12 Networks’ weekly 1 p.m. PDT slot, enabling him to spend the evening and the next morning like “a regular human being,” he said.That won’t happen this weekend. Stanford visits Utah in an 8:15 p.m. MDT kickoff, so the team will arrive home well into Sunday morning. Asked to cite the biggest dra
  • Gehrke: We’ve heard enough polite words about guns, we need to insist on action

    It was heart-breaking to watch the smartphone videos of terrified Las Vegas concert-goers scrambling for cover as a torrent of bullets literally rained down on them, the staccato gunfire going on and on.There’s a feeling of helplessness as we read about the lives abruptly ended and try to wrap our head around what could have motivated someone to stage a massacre that killed or wounded some 600 people.Just like we futilely try to understand how 49 people could be cut down in an Orlando nigh
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  • Salt Lake City Council to vote on replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day

    The Salt Lake City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a ceremonial resolution that would rebrand Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day in Utah’s capital city.The effort, sponsored by Councilman Charlie Luke, was led by the Utah League of Native American Voters, which said in a statement that 26 other cities nationwide have made the switch.“This change, while symbolic, is about recognizing the contributions, history and sacrifices made by the original inhabitants of the area,&rdq
  • Investigators looking for clues to what set off Vegas gunman

    Las Vegas • Investigators trying to figure out why Stephen Paddock gunned down 59 people from his high-rise hotel suite are analyzing his computer and cellphone, looking at casino surveillance footage and seeking to interview his longtime girlfriend.Nearly two days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, what set off the 64-year-old high-rolling gambler and retired accountant remained a big question mark Tuesday.While the probe into his background included searches of two
  • Salt Lake City's new Alamexo Cantina celebrates family-style dining

    With Alamexo Cantina, Utah chef/owner Matt Lake hopes to replicate the casual, family-style dining experience one might find in a market in Mexico.In a newly constructed building in Salt Lake City’s hip Ninth and Ninth neighborhood, the menu features gourmet enchiladas, tacos and other Mexican specialties — such as pork and duck meatballs in a yellow mole sauce — on plates served family style. Prices range from $7-$17.Margaritas are the focus at the bar, and all the variations
  • After Vegas shooting, Congress to hold off on gun silencer legislation -- for now

    Washington • Congressional Republicans said in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in American history that they have no plans anytime soon to move forward on legislation – co-sponsored by all of Utah’s members – that would make it easier for gun owners to buy silencers.Sen. Mike Lee is sponsoring a bill, also backed by Sen. Orrin Hatch, that would remove restrictions and government fees for buying silencers, arguing that it would help protect a shooter’s hearing
  • Monson: Utah football is now a pretty portrait, even if a mustache gets painted on it

    One of the real pleasures Utah football finds itself saturated in and surrounded by is counter-intuitive.Even sporting a strong, undefeated team, the Utes don’t know if they’ll win this week.Stanford, in fact, is favored at Rice-Eccles on Saturday night.That’s the burden and the beauty of playing in the Pac-12.And it is a thorough and heavy kind of beautiful, even for fanatics whose emotions and partisanship and anxieties and risk-factor run so deep.No matter how good Utah actu
  • Latest federal oil and gas leases mired in protests over pollution worries for Utah’s Uinta Basin

    The Bureau of Land Management’s next auction of oil and gas leases in Utah is under fire from a multitude of environmental, public health and wilderness groups. Topping the list of concerns is the likelihood that the Dec. 11 lease sale would worsen Uinta Basin’s persistent winter-time ozone levels.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to declare Duchesne and Uintah counties out of compliance for emissions of ozone, a pollutant whose high concentrations are attributed to
  • Eric Holder: Gerrymandering has broken our democracy. The Supreme Court should help fix it.

    After hearing arguments Tuesday in the case of Gill v. Whitford, contesting Wisconsin’s legislative map, the Supreme Court will have a chance to rein in an aggressive new breed of data-driven gerrymandering that divides communities and diminishes the voice of many Americans. The record is clear, and the Supreme Court must take this opportunity to protect the right to fair representation that is embedded in our Constitution and our values.I’ve spent a lot of time with maps since finis
  • Jury finds Utah man guilty in 2015 drug rip-off murder

    A Utah man was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of killing another man during a drug-buy rip-off in Sugar House two years ago.Jeremiah Ray Hart was found guilty of first-degree felony aggravated murder in the Jan. 24, 2015, shooting death of 24-year-old Christian Lance McDonald, of West Valley City.The 3rd District Court jury also found Hart guilty of second-degree felony counts of obstructing justice and possession of a firearm by a restricted person.A sentencing hearing is set for Nov. 29 bef
  • Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the shots started.

    Up-and-coming country star Luke Combs had just started his set on the smaller of the two festival stages when Kody Robertson, an auto parts salesman from Columbus, Ohio, squeezed in at the end of the bar next to Michelle Vo, an insurance agent from Los Angeles.The 32-year-olds connected immediately. They joked about their mutual love of golf. He recommended new beers for her to try as she showed him the large floral tattoo covering much of her back. They realized that they were both staying at t
  • Commentary: You have been warned, Pat Robertson — cut out the talk of Vegas shooting as punishment from God

    It didn’t take long for some preachers to start telling us why God caused the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas to happen. Pat Robertson led the way, declaring that it was divine retribution for the widespread “disrespect” for Donald Trump in America.The best response to such bad theology came from a bus driver I met several years ago in New Orleans.I was there with my wife for an academic convention and decided one afternoon to take a tour of the city. It was a year after Hurr
  • Big money fueling ballot drives for schools and medical pot and against gerrymandering

    Campaigns pushing three ballot initiatives — seeking to raise taxes for schools, allow medical marijuana, and form an independent commission to draw political boundaries — are attracting big donations, according to new disclosures.Two other initiatives have raised little to nothing so far — but they have just launched. One seeks to approve Medicaid expansion for the poor while the other is pushing for Utah to use a direct primary, not the caucus-convention system, to choose par
  • NBA changes All-Star Game format; captains will pick teams

    NEW YORK — The NBA is scrapping the East against West format for its All-Star Game and will have captains pick teams this season.The league says Tuesday that the leading vote-getter from each conference will choose teams from the pool of players who were voted as starters and reserves.The change will begin with this season's game in Los Angeles on Feb. 18.Players and league officials have been eager to inject new interest in the often defense-absent game, and NBA Players Association Presid
  • Friday funeral set at Salt Lake City Tabernacle for Mormon apostle Robert D. Hales

    Funeral services will be held Friday for Mormon apostle Robert D. Hales in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.Services are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.The 85-year-old Hales died Sunday from age-related ailments after serving for nearly a quarter-century as an apostle for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a full-time Mormon general authority for more than four decades.
    Friday’s funeral will be open to the public, ages 8 and older, chur
  • Garrison Keillor: Every day is an adventure in America

    I went through airport security Monday and neglected to take my laptop out of my briefcase and place it in a separate plastic bin and was properly chastised by a TSA lady who put her hands on her hips and said, “I just got done telling you about laptops!”Not many 75-year-old men from Minnesota are out to blow up an airliner, but of course it only takes one, and she was right to say, “Did you not hear me, sir?” in that sardonic tone of voice.When you’re 75, people tr
  • As Southern Utah University student recovers in hospital, the school plans a vigil for Las Vegas shooting victims

    At least one Southern Utah University student was injured in Las Vegas last weekend in America’s largest mass shooting, school officials said Tuesday.While the student recovers in the hospital, university leaders are planning a vigil for Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. on the school’s business quad, said co-chair of SUU’s care and support team Jayci Bash.“A lot of our students are from Las Vegas and the areas surrounding that,” Bash said. “Our communities are closely t
  • Mark Kelly: Now is exactly the right time to talk about gun politics

    Sunday night started out as a beautiful evening in Las Vegas, with country music in the air and the lights of the Strip mingling with stars. At least 59 people lost their lives at such a uniquely American scene, and more than 500 were injured. Thousands more will fight emotional scars, and tens of thousands will grieve and question along with them. The phenomena of the mass shooting — and the political paralysis that follows us — is sadly also a uniquely American scene.But it doesn&r
  • Utah lawmakers let parents opt out of vaccinating their kids without having to acknowledge health risks

    Some Utah parents who choose to not vaccinate their children believe state health officials are overstepping their authority by requiring them to agree there are risks associated with their choice.State lawmakers moved Monday to ease some of those concerns.Legislators took up the claim while evaluating the Utah Department of Health’s current rules on immunization exemptions for personal and religious reasons.Joseph Miner, the department’s executive director of UDOH, told members of t
  • New West Davis freeway receives final green light

    After years of controversy, federal and state officials gave the final stamp of approval Tuesday to the West Davis Corridor — a 19-mile freeway heading northwest from Legacy Parkway through Davis and Weber counties.The Utah Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration issued their final record of decision to end the environmental impact statement process, and give a green light to the new freeway.“This decision has been reached carefully and with great respect
  • Trump: Puerto Rico put U.S. budget ‘out of whack’ but lives saved

    San Juan, Puerto Rico • Confronting Puerto Rico’s devastation nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump highlighted the island’s relatively low death toll compared with “a real catastrophe like Katrina” as he opened a tour of the island Tuesday by focusing on the best of the reviews he and his administration are getting for the federal response.Trump pledged an all-out effort to help the island but added: “Now I hate to tell you, Puerto Ric
  • Ties threatened: U.S. orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave

    Washington • The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countries to levels unseen in years.Only days ago, the U.S. and Cuba maintained dozens of diplomats in newly re-opened embassies in Havana and Washington, powerful symbols of a warming relationship between longtime foes. Now both countries are poised to cut their embassies by more than half, as invis
  • Jennifer Rubin: Why do we allow politicians to shush us on the gun debate?

    I guarantee you that if a Muslim jihadist opened fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump wouldn’t wait a nanosecond before invoking his Muslim ban. After all that is precisely what he did after the London subway attack, when the nationality of the bomber(s) was still unknown. If a mass killing had been perpetrated by an illegal immigrant, do we imagine Trump’s press secretary would implore us not to discuss immigration in the wake of the violence?And yet, the NRA-approve
  • Utah-born Kip Thorne wins the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in detecting gravitational waves

    Logan-born Kip Thorne has won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the historic detection of gravitational waves, which gave scientists something like an ear to deeper, darker reaches of known existence.An announcement was made early Tuesday morning at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that Thorne will share the prize with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Rainer Weiss and Caltech’s Barry Barish.Thorne, 77, is regarded as one of three co-founders of LIG
  • For fall color and a workout, follow the Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail

    The Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail from Little Dell Reservoir to Big Mountain in Salt Lake County is popular with hikers and cyclists for its long shady stretches by summer and beautiful leaf canopy by fall — and with cross-country skiers and snowshoers by winter.But the woodsy route was not a blessing for the Donner Party, who largely owed their infamously late arrival in the Sierra Nevada in 1846 to the difficulties they had cutting trail through this part of the Wasatch Mountains. Travel
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  • Want to help Vegas victims? Give blood and prayers, says Utah Gov. Gary Herbert

    Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday that Utahns can help Las Vegas shooting victims by offering two things: blood and prayers.He said that as Utah officials have talked to their counterparts in Nevada, they heard one main request: “They said, ‘We need blood. We need blood.’”So Herbert said Utah has been working with the Red Cross and others to seek those blood donations. “The good news is the response has been good, overwhelming in some places with people standing in lin
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  • Third Utahn dies in wake of Las Vegas massacre

    A third person with Utah origins has died of injuries suffered in Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas.Cedar City police Sgt. Jerry Womack confirmed Tuesday that Heather Warino Alvarado, the 35-year-old wife of Cedar City firefighter Albert Alvarado, had died late Monday night at a Las Vegas hospital.Her death brought to 60 the total dead after gunfire rained down from a gunman’s 32nd floor room at the Mandalay Bay hotel onto a crowd of 22,000 packed into an outdoor country music fest
  • A fifth of globe's nations officially endorse one religion, with Islam ranking as the most common state faith

    It’s the 21st century, but more than a fifth of the planet’s nations still officially mandate a particular religion and restrict or persecute other faiths, a new Pew Research Center study reveals.Islam remains the most common official state religion globally, with 27 countries officially Muslim and either outlawing entirely or restricting the practice of other faiths, Pew reported Tuesday.Katayoun Kishi, the study’s lead researcher, said that her team found a “stronger re
  • Scott D. Pierce: NHL ticks off NBC, so the network retaliates

    NBC and the NHL are the best of friends and the closest of allies. Wait — maybe that should have been written in the past tense. The NHL has ticked off NBC, and NBC has turned around and very publicly thumbed its nose at the NHL by keeping it off national TV for the duration of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Ouch. The NBC broadcast network and cable’s NBC Sports Network have been the national TV home of the National Hockey League since 2006. The partnership has been good for the NHL, whi
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Security enhancements make Utah Jazz's Vivint Arena one of the safest in NBA

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  • Jon Huntsman meets Putin as new U.S. ambassador to Russia in Kremlin visit

    Moscow • The new U.S. ambassador to Russia presented his diplomatic credentials to President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony Tuesday in the Kremlin, a move that marks the formal start of Jon Huntsman’s work in Russia.Huntsman, who has twice served as a U.S. ambassador, arrived in Moscow on Monday to take over from John Tefft, who left after serving in Russia for three years, a period that was marred by a deep and rapid deterioration of ties, unseen since the end of the Cold War. The U.S.
  • Erin Alberty: Mountain biking makes no sense, but I tried it and here's my verdict

    I had misgivings about mountain biking.The whole sport has never made much sense to me. I flip through outdoors magazines and read adventure articles online, and I’ll see an ad featuring some cyclist teetering on top of a towering boulder or vaulting over slick rock. It looks like the dumbest thing to me. Why ride your bike there?But I have health insurance and an open mind, so I figured I’d give it a shot.My verdict: It is less scary, less thrilling, and more thoughtful an exercise
  • 'Blade Runner 2049' tells a compelling story in a stunning visual frame that will make you want to return to this world

    Fans of Ridley Scott’s landmark 1982 dystopian noir drama “Blade Runner” will be thrilled to find that director Denis Villeneuve has soaked his follow-up, “Blade Runner 2049,” in as much grime-and-neon atmosphere as the original.But, as Broadway producers like to say, you can’t hum the scenery. Mercifully Villeneuve and his writers — Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original, and Michael Green, who co-wrote “Logan” and “Alien: Covenant
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Security enhancements make Utah Jazz's Vivint Arena one of most secure in NBA

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    SALT LAKE CITY — Rodney Hood feels safe playing basketball in front of thousands of people. He really does. The Utah Jazz player is even quick to express gratitude that the NBA and his team take all sorts of precautionary measures to make safety a priority.Even so, Hood isn’t afraid to admit he sometimes worries about scary what-if scenarios.Sunday’s horrific massacre in Las Vegas, which breaks his heart, brought the arena security issue and the possibility of being a target in
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    Washington • See Rex.Rex is a big dog. Rex is the top dog. Rex has a good job. Rex can fly! Rex has a jet. Fly, Rex, fly. Rex flies to other lands. Rex sits. Rex shakes. Rex speaks. When Rex speaks, Rex thinks he speaks for the U.S.A.See Donald. Donald owns Rex. Rex is Donald’s dog. Donald is loud. Donald is big. Donald is bigger than Rex. Donald is mean to Rex. When Rex speaks, Donald tweets. Donald tweets like a bird. Tweet, Donald, tweet. Donald’s tweets hurt Rex. Donald says
  • Spain's Catalonia gripped by general strike

    Barcelona, Spain • Trade unions in Catalonia led a general strike Tuesday that closed down businesses and blocked highways to protest violence by Spain’s national police during the region’s chaotic independence vote.Huge crowds poured through the streets of Barcelona in the latest act of defiance against the central government and its rejection of Sunday’s referendum that backed Catalonia’s long-held ambitions for autonomy.Some marches were led by firefighters in the
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