• Mexican president-elect vows improvements to deter migration

    Mexico City • President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Sunday released a seven-page letter he sent to U.S. President Donald Trump detailing how he plans to improve Mexico’s economy and security when he takes office in December so that Mexicans do not feel the need to migrate."There will be many changes," he promised in the letter. "And in this new atmosphere of progress with well-being, I'm sure we can reach agreements to confront together the migration phenomenon as well as the
  • L.A. gunman arrested for murder following supermarket standoff

    Los Angeles • A gunman who got into a deadly shootout with police, then took dozens of people hostage at a Los Angeles supermarket has been arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said Sunday.Gene Evin Atkins, 28, was being held Sunday morning on $2 million bail, according to Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles police spokesman. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney and a message left at a number listed for Atkins in public records wasn't immediately returned.A woman was shot and kill
  • Ogden man charged, says he killed infant son because he had ‘666 on him,’ court papers say

    A 37-year-old Ogden man has been charged with aggravated murder in the death of his 10-month-old son after police say he told the child’s mother that the infant had “666 on him.”Alex Hidalgo was taken into custody Saturday and booked into Weber County jail on Sunday morning on charges of aggravated murder after being accused of causing the death of Alex Hidalgo Jr. by stabbing him in the neck three times; obstruction of justice, for rinsing blood from a knife and destroying evi
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  • Jimmer Fredette’s team wins again at The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all event for non-NBA players

    By his own admission, Jimmer Fredette did not play well in Team Fredette’s 99-89 win over the Jackson (Tenn.) Underdawgs Sunday in The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all event being contested this summer for any players who are not currently on NBA rosters.But the former BYU star led all scorers with 30 points, and chipped in five assists and six rebounds in the second-round win at Columbus, Ohio. Fredette had 32 points in his team’s opening-round win on Saturday and
  • It’s a moose! It’s a man! It’s the star of the weird little film festival returning to tiny Bicknell, Utah.

    The problem with movies about Alaska, says Alaska-based cartoonist and screenwriter Chad Carpenter, is their creators “don’t film in Alaska.”Carpenter, who writes the syndicated comic strip “Tundra,” decided to fix that by writing and producing a movie made in and about Alaska. Thus was born “Moose: The Movie,” a horror-comedy that will open the weirdest little film festival in America, the Bicknell International Film Festival.The festival, running July
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ekpe Udoh’s urban farming project doing good

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  • Utah Jazz: Ekpe Udoh’s urban farming project doing good

    Utah Jazz big man Ekpe Udoh’s hydroponic farming venture is working to provide healthy food to schools around the country. After looking the part of an NBA Draft bust early in his career, Ekpe Udoh made his return to the Association last season and was low-key one of the best bang-for-your-buck players in the league. In […]
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  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Our Schools Now gave up much too soon

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  • Tribune editorial: Our lungs aren’t ready for the inland port

    The inland port has been billed as the largest economic development project in Utah, but at this point it is little more than a concept, a map and a group that is supposed to figure the rest out.How much will it cost? Who will pay for it? When will it be built? What companies will it draw? How many people will it employ? Will they be high- or low-paying jobs?Those and other good questions await the Inland Port Commission, but there is one looming obstacle the governor and Legislature still must
  • Commentary: Our Schools Now gave up much too soon

    In June 2017, about a hundred local business, education and political leaders — led by Gail Miller, Scott Anderson and others — announced that they were spearheading a petition drive to raise taxes in support of public education because the government refused to act in the popular interest.The petition and movement were titled Our Schools Now and incorporated a plan to increase Utah’s income tax from 5 percent to 5.5 percent, and the sales tax from 4.7 percent to 5.2 percent. I
  • Leonard Pitts: Democrats, take note. ‘Normal’ isn’t coming back

    Smack them with their own bat.That was the gist of, "Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair is for Suckers," a provocative jeremiad that Politico ran on Independence Day. In it, writer Rob Goodman argued that, after Republicans have killed all the old political norms — denying a Supreme Court nominee a hearing, for example — it's silly for Democrats to go on playing by the rules. Why obey the law in a lawless world?"Norms are only norms when they are mutual," wrote Goodman, "fairness is only f
  • Commentary: Trump administration takes aim at America’s bedrock environmental law

    Remember when President Trump cut Bears Ears National Monument by 85 percent last year? And slashed Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nearly in half? Management plans are being developed right now for both monuments by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.Do you want input into whether new off-road routes should be created near archaeological sites in Bears Ears or whether oil and gas operations should be given the green light to suck water out of Grand Staircase spring
  • Alex Smith is over the early anxiety of his NFL career and ready to shine in the Washington spotlight

    Alex Smith is exhausted, but he refuses to show it. The moment is for them, the select few who have been chosen to witness the welcome to his new home.The line of selfie-seekers snakes around the perimeter of Washington’s locker room at FedEx Field, funneling toward the large backdrop adorned with the team’s name in small lettering. One by one, 200 fans draped in burgundy and gold step forward, offering a handshake and even an occasional hug. They have come to lay eyes on the new fac
  • Commentary: What Provo has to teach Salt Lake

    Two weeks ago, a sparkly float festooned with American flags, gold stars and military insignias made history as it proceeded down Provo’s University Avenue.“Utah Honors Our LGBTQ+ Veterans” read the lettering on the side. Riding atop were some of our state’s heroes: gay, bisexual and transgender members of the armed forces. This float, sponsored by Mormons Building Bridges, and the two other LGBTQ entries in the parade proved to skeptics that a conservative community&rsqu
  • Commentary: Intergenerational poverty creates a permanent underclass

    “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”— Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleThe Johnson administration’s efforts in the 1960s to eradicate poverty did not bear much fruit. Nationally, the poverty rate for all people as well as all families dropped significantly from 1960 to mid-1970s, but since then it has increased. The Utah Legislature enacted the Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act in 2012 wi
  • Commentary: Wildfire retardant is often ineffective. Here’s what communities should do instead.

    Right now air tankers are flying the skies above the western United States where wildfires threaten homes. When these massive firefighting airplanes drop gallons and gallons of retardant, it can seem like the cavalry has arrived.The problem is, retardant — like many other top-down or last-ditch government efforts — is often wildly ineffective.Two years ago, I was assigned as a lookout with my hotshot crew on the Saddle Fire, a wildfire that threatened the southern Utah mountain commu
  • Don Gale: Remembering skate keys and other good things

    I ran across a skate key the other day. It was in the junk drawer, that small drawer in the kitchen where we toss items that don’t have a designated “home.” The junk drawer also has a year or two accumulation of rubber bands from The Tribune, a ball holding assorted pieces of twine tied together and a few marbles from bygone days.Today’s families don’t have junk drawers. They have junk rooms, usually called “storage rooms,” where hundreds of items wait f
  • Commentary: Can government be held accountable?

    What do lifeguards, snow plow drivers and police officers, have in common? From recreation centers to police forces, government employs people in a wide range of careers.From the outside, entities owned and operated by the state appear to run just like a regular business. Customers come and go, and operating hours are similar to surrounding businesses. But legally speaking, there aren’t just vast differences between public and private businesses in the way they’re funded, but in thei
  • Commentary: Romney is rendering unto Trump that which is Trump’s

    I respectfully disagree with the author of “An eerie absence in Romney’s commentary” (by Atticus Edwards, July 15), in which Mitt Romney’s moderate response to Donald Trump is characterized as cowardly self-preservation.Romney’s refusal to attack Trump when not absolutely necessary is undoubtedly self-preservation, but such self-preservation is calculated, not cowardly. Romney knows that the president and his administration represent extremists within the Republican
  • Max Boot: I worked to defeat Obama. Now I miss him.

    How I miss Barack Obama.And I say that as someone who worked to defeat him: I was a foreign policy adviser to John McCain in 2008 and to Mitt Romney in 2012. I criticized Obama's "lead from behind" foreign policy that resulted in a premature pullout from Iraq and a failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. I thought he was too weak on Iran and too tough on Israel. I feared that Obamacare would be too costly. I fumed that he was too professorial and too indecisive. I was left cold by his arrogance
  • Kirby: You can chop the three-hour Mormon block on your own. After all, how much Sunday suffering does the Lord require?

    Mormons currently attend church for three hours every Sunday. This doesn’t count our holy “holidays” like stake and General Conference, when the meeting time shrinks to two hours. Less if you catch a session on TV.Three hours is a long time, especially if most of it’s spent on a steel folding chair. I’m firmly convinced that there will come a day when “folding-chair back” will be a medically recognized ailment.Other Mormons think this way as well, many o
  • Facts and figures about the four Utah trees that are the longest-lived of their species

    (Photo courtesy of Matt Bekker, Brigham Young University) Limber pine in American Fork Canyon.Limber pineAge • About 1,700 years old.Location • It stands at about 10,000 feet in elevation at the head of American Fork Canyon near the divide with the Heber Valley.Discoverer • Brigham Young University geographer Matt Bekker.
    (Photo courtesy of Doug Page, Bureau of Land Management, photographed Sept. 4, 2005) Botanists Stan Kitchen and Clint Reese inspect the world's oldest known pon
  • Who shot Shannon Lopez? Her husband was convicted of her murder. But he’s out now and says he didn’t do it.

    Ogden • Komasquin Lopez isn’t a religious person.But as he sat behind prison walls for years, he prayed every day that he’d be released and that the court system would recognize his innocence.He says he never picked up a gun as he drove his truck along a Midvale road in December 2013. He didn’t press it to his wife’s head — and he didn’t fire the single bullet that killed Shannon Lopez.But police and prosecutors believed he did. And a 3rd District jury ag
  • Utah’s Chris Stewart says there’s no evidence Russia wanted to help Trump. He disputes U.S. intelligence findings and Putin’s own admission.

    Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart has seen a slew of intelligence documents about Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election, and he’s convinced the country was trying to sway the U.S. vote.In whose favor? He's unsure.“For someone to answer that question definitively, they’d have to crawl inside Mr. Putin’s head,” the Utah Republican said in an interview Thursday, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “It’s impossible to know. I&
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  • Lords of the rings: Four Utah trees reign as the oldest of their kind — and they provide peeks at the past, clues to the future

    Provo • In an arid mountain range of southwestern Utah stands a ponderosa, stubby by the standards of this stately red-barked pine species, that botanist Stan Kitchen came across in 2003 while researching the Wah Wah Mountains’ wildfire history.Showing a conspicuous burn scar that he calls a “cat face,” this tree looked ideal for his study, so he plunged a chainsaw into the trunk to remove a flat horizontal wedge, large enough to reveal all the growth rings but small enoug
  • Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Can Dante Exum emerge?

    Dante Exum has a lot to prove to the Utah Jazz this offseason as he aims to show that he isn’t a bust and can yet turn into a true contributor. When the Utah Jazz selected Dante Exum with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, many fans were elated. Exum was […]
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  • Town bell missing for half a century returns to Fremont for this year’s Pioneer Day celebration

    Fremont • For decades, a cast-iron bell summoned children to school, pealed on Christmas Eve and Independence Day, and helped celebrate Pioneer Day in this small community.Then it went missing for more than half a century.“There’s only one or two of us who have even seen the bell,” said Steve Taylor, a local historian who teaches Utah history classes from his Fremont home.He had given up hope of hearing it again; it was assumed the bell had been hauled to the dump or sold
  • Scott D. Pierce: Donald Trump turned late-night TV around, to the benefit of Stephen Colbert

    Tune in to an episode — any episode — of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” and it’s quickly clear that the host is not a fan of Donald Trump.Just pick a night at random — Wednesday, July 18. The first 13 minutes of the show were nonstop Trump mockery, including a couple of videos and an opening monologue that included Colbert saying, “Anybody who still believes Donald Trump at this point is gangrene on the body politic.”
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  • Letter: Utah lawmakers can’t be trusted with our land

    Thanks to Ryan Beam and Kirsten Allen for setting the record straight regarding Sen. Mike Lee’s anti-public lands crusade (“Lee’s lands plan pits Utahns against each other,” July 15). Republican President Teddy Roosevelt celebrated the gift of our public lands when he said, “We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.” How tragic that
  • Letter: Time for Utah representatives to protect us from the true threats

    I wish Congress would stop protecting us from national monuments, health insurance and 3-year-old Mexicans and start protecting us from import taxes, Russia and Donald Trump.Yes, I’m looking at you, Utah congressional delegation. This is not good work. Start earning your salary.Gene Mahalko, Salt Lake City
  • Letter: It’s time for Utah to break up with coal

    If I had lost my job as a coal miner and needed to support my family, I might welcome news of an expanded coal excavation in Kane County, just 8 miles from Bryce Canyon. But if I truly loved my state and wanted my children to grow up healthy, I would search for other ways of making a living.If I were a legislator, I would definitely work on alternate income sources for coal miners. Coal is on the way out. Once supplying 51 percent of the United States energy supply, it supplied 31 percent as of
  • Letter: How can Utahns say we’re patriotic?

    “Utah has long stood as one of the nation’s most patriotic states,” David M. Winberg wrote in a two-page report lobbying the National Security Agency to build a computing center at Camp Williams. And further, “The people of Utah are committed to the principles and practices of maintaining and improving our national security.” Winberg's quote appears ironically on the same day that Trump sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the FBI on matters of 2016 elec
  • Letter: Chris Stewart might be silly, but Trump’s actions are not

    Chris Stewart’s defense of his leader Donald Trump: “I think kind of the premise of the question — from CNN’s Jake Tapper — once again was, ‘Well, we know he’s a Russian stooge and we know they’re secretly collaborating against America.’ … I just frankly think that’s silliness. I don’t think that’s true at all.”This latest in the Trump fiasco — 18 months or so with Stewart’s defense: "Trump is no sto
  • Bicknell’s film festival, celebrating cheesy B-movies, returns to a renovated small-town theater

    In the 2½ years since Brian Brill and his family renovated and reopened the Bicknell Theater, Brill has heard one question repeatedly from locals and out-of-towners alike: “When are you going to bring back BIFF?”BIFF is the Bicknell International Film Festival, a two-day celebration of bad B-movies launched in 1996 in Bicknell, a central Utah town of more than 300 residents just west of Capitol Reef National Park.“There’s a lot of pent-up demand for BIFF,” sa
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     After only playing nine games in his rookie season, Tony Bradley will be looking to expand his role on the team this season, but is he really ready to contribute? Last off-season, the Utah Jazz made two draft night trades. We all know about the first one where they were able to turn Trey Lyles […]
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  • Late Rapids goal sinks Real Salt Lake’s chances for win as hosts settle for 2-2 tie

    Sandy • Rivalries, when renewed, can have it all.On Saturday night at Rio Tinto Stadium, that was pretty much the case again. Before kickoff, before Real Salt Lake blew a 2-0 lead to the team from one state over, the club’s head coach was introduced on the massive jumbotron on the south side of the stadium.Instead of the sideline box, Mike Petke was seated in small mid-level section solo, alone on a row with a mug of coffee, as the fans inside roared when the PA announcer blasted his
  • Utah police find person of interest in apparent homicide of 10-month-old boy

    Police have taken a person of interest into custody after finding a 10-month-old unresponsive Friday afternoon in an Ogden apartment. The baby later died.About 4 p.m., officers discovered Alex Hidalgo Jr. inside the home near the 2400 block of Madison Avenue. The child was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a news release from the police department.Authorities haven’t released any additional details about how the baby died, although they are investigating the
  • ‘We need a lot of love to get through this’: Bikers take slow, silent ride to remember cyclist killed by train

    Brrng. Brrng. Brrng.Zed Anja Sonder flicked the warning bell on his bike three times, sending metallic reverberations through the mostly silent crowd. He gave a few instructions, urged attendees to take care of themselves and each other, and then walked his bike slowly down the sidewalk before swinging his leg over the seat and riding away.A mass of other cyclists followed, all pedaling unhurriedly. Few — if any — spoke. A woman in the crowd leaned on a friend and wept.The cyclists s
  • In the ever-changing NBA, the Jazz bet on continuity to bring it closer to a championship

    Even for the NBA, the churning of the league’s superstars has been dizzying the past two offseasons. From Chris Paul, Kyrie Irving and Paul George last year to LeBron James, DeMarcus Cousins and Kawhi Leonard this summer, big trades and free agency moves have animated some of the league’s biggest contenders.But when it comes to overhaul, the Utah Jazz made a conscious decision to sit this one out. That strategy, while conservative in nature, is bold in how it cuts against the grain.
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  • Former BYU stars Jimmer Fredette and Brandon Davies shine as Team Fredette opens $2 million TBT with come-from-behind win

    Jimmer Fredette’s stay in the $2 million winner-take-all basketball tournament was almost a short one.However, Team Fredette, which also features former BYU stars Brandon Davies and Charles Abouo, rallied from a first-quarter deficit and defeated the upset-minded Peoria All-Stars 88-80 at The Capital Center in Columbus, Ohio.Team Fredette, the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Regional, will play a second-round game Sunday at 10 a.m. MDT against the winner of No. 7 Zoo Crew and No. 10 Jackson (Ten
  • LPGA player Lincicome shoots 71 but misses cut at PGA’s Barbasol Championship

    Nicholasville, Ky. • Brittany Lincicome walked off the 18th green after her first PGA Tour event to applause before stopping on the way to the clubhouse to sign autographs and acknowledge spectators’ warm wishes.The LPGA Tour player made sure to savor every moment of a historic weekend she wished could have lasted longer.“I would’ve liked to have shot better (Thursday),” said Lincicome, who missed the cut at the Barbasol Championship after shooting a 1-under 71 on Sa
  • Spieth part of 3-way tie for British Open lead as Woods lurks

    Carnoustie, Scotland • Jordan Spieth has a share of the lead in the British Open and a big edge in experience. Still only 24, he already has won three majors and his name is the last one etched on the base of the silver claret jug.One name in the mix makes it all feel so new.“I’ve always wanted to battle it out in a major with Tiger. Who hasn’t?” Spieth said after seizing upon a calm Carnoustie for a 6-under 65 to tie for the lead with Kevin Kisner and Xander Schauff
  • Woman wounded in drive-by shooting dies

    The victim of a July 10 drive-by shooting in Taylorsville has died, Unified Police confirmed.Jawnie Wey, 48, died early Friday. Ten days earlier, she was in her home near 4900 South and 1950 West when she was struck in the head by a bullet fired from the park across the street.According to police, the investigation into the shooting is continuing.
  • Memorial bike ride planned for cyclist killed by FrontRunner train

    Cyclists are planning a silent ride around Liberty Park on Saturday in honor of a biker who was killed Thursday night by a FrontRunner train during a large community ride in Salt Lake City.Cameron Hooyer, 23, was hit by the commuter train while participating in an informal, weekly group bike ride, known as the 999 Ride. The community is coming together for the 777 Memorial Ride at 7 p.m. in Liberty Park. Riders are meeting at the flagpole on the south side of the park, according to the event pag
  • Holly Richardson: Every two seconds, someone in the world is forced from their home

    Forty-four thousand four hundred and forty. According to a new report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, that’s the average number of people who were forcibly displaced from their homes every single day in 2017. That’s one person every two seconds, with a record 16.2 million newly displaced in 2017.Displaced persons now total 68.5 million people worldwide. Over 25 million are refugees, with a 2.9 million new refugees in 2017. Another 40 million are considered &ld

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