• These high school graduates earned $1.8M in college scholarships. They visited Salt Lake City schools to inspire younger students.

    A group of first-generation college-bound students from East High School roamed the halls and visited classrooms at several Salt Lake City schools Wednesday in hopes of inspiring young students. The seniors visited Glendale Middle School, Community Learning Center, Mountain View Elementary, Parkview Elementary and Riley Elementary.Members of the East High AVID program — Advancement Via Individual Determination — have been awarded a combined $1.8 million in scholarships so far.Student
  • Salt Lake City’s three-day DIY Festival moves west to the more spacious state Fairpark

    Salt Lake City’s annual DIY Festival will move west this summer.Craft Lake City officials announced Wednesday that the three-day event — which spent its first 10 years at the Gallivan Center in downtown — now will be held at the Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West."With the Fairpark’s spacious air-conditioned buildings and large grassy areas, we know that patrons and participants alike will enjoy this venue change,” festival founder Angela H. Brown said. “Ou
  • A six-hour ‘Toy Story’ marathon is set for Megaplex’s Thanksgiving Point theater on June 20

    For movie fans who spent three days watching all 22 Marvel Cinematic Universe, a marathon of four “Toy Story” movies should be a cakewalk.The Utah-based Megaplex Theatres movie chain announced Wednesday that its Thanksgiving Point location in Lehi will be one of 22 locations in North America to offer a marathon of “Toy Story” movies June 20 — ending with the debut of the new “Toy Story 4.”The four Disney/Pixar movies run a total of six hours and 15 minut
  • Centerville organist describes feeling ‘absolutely helpless’ after a stranger broke into a church and attacked her

    Farmington • She was used to hearing a tapping on the door outside the chapel as she practiced the organ.But 71-year-old Margaret Orlando usually ignored the knocks. It wasn't her responsibility, she reasoned, to let people into her Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward after hours.But on that November evening in Centerville, someone kept knocking. And knocking.Every time Orlando would stop playing her music, either because she made a mistake or wanted to start a song over, the t
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  • ‘Trib Talk’: System crashes and glitches impede year-end testing at Utah’s public schools

    In August of 2017, Missouri’s commissioner of education announced that statewide high school exams were so unreliable, their results would be discarded. One month later, the Utah Board of Education hired the same company Missouri did to create its new year-end assessment system, called RISE, given to all public school children in grades three through eight.The launch of RISE this spring was marked by widespread glitches as half-completed tests were lost to frozen computer screens and whole
  • [Clutchpoints] - 3 ideal trade destinations for Chris Paul

    After another playoff exit at the hands of the Golden State Warriors, the Houston Rockets have decided that enough is enough as far as their current roster goes, and they are reportedly looking to blow things up. Naturally, the top player that the...
  • Amazon to let Alexa users delete voice commands in privacy push

    Amazon.com is updating its Alexa voice software to let users delete recordings of their voice using a spoken command, a move that follows criticism of the company’s privacy practices related to its digital assistant.A set of updates offers users who have opted in online the ability to say "Alexa, delete everything I said today," or, in a coming update, delete their most recent utterance. Previously, the only way to remove recordings was a tool on the Alexa privacy website or on the compani
  • Leonard Pitts: In letting fake Pelosi video stand, Facebook shows its true colors

    “With great power, there must also come great responsibility.”— Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy 15, 1962The truth is dead, and Facebook killed it.That’s not nearly as much of an exaggeration as you might wish. Consider that the social media colossus was the platform of choice for a video that blazed across the internet last week, purporting to depict a drunken Nancy Pelosi giving a speech. The clip was pretty basic, as dirty tricks go. Pelosi’s voice was made to sound slu
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  • St. George airport closed for runway repairs until Sept. 26

    St. George, Utah • St. George Regional Airport in southwestern Utah was closed Wednesday to landings and takeoffs by airplanes until Sept. 26 for runway repairs.Airport officials said helicopters can continue to use the airport during the closure.According to The Spectrum , the current runway was constructed eight years ago and was expected to last 20 years but needs to be replaced because it is extremely bumpy and has required patching due to underlying clay that has expanded a various rat
  • E.J. Dionne: Mitch McConnell, court packer

    Washington • Permit me a question to every truly fair-minded person in our country. Imagine that one party packs the Supreme Court with ideologues and the other party does absolutely nothing in response. Isn’t this abject surrender to an unscrupulous power grab?This inquiry can no longer be ducked. Even those in the deepest denial can no longer ignore Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s nakedly political aim of cramming the Supreme Court with justices who will undo more tha
  • Utah Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams: There has to be a ‘high bar’ to launch impeachment hearings against Trump

    Washington • Buoyed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement Wednesday, more Democrats called for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, though Utah’s only Democrat in Congress said such action requires a “high bar” and would need to be bipartisan.Rep. Ben McAdams said that he’s more focused on fixing crumbling bridges and roads, combating rising health care costs and protecting Social Security and Medicare than he is on the question of wh
  • Utah ‘Booze News’ podcast: Ax-throwing business finally gets a beer license and how to put your name in the hopper for rare liquor

    Ogden’s Social Axe Throwing business — denied a liquor license last month — finally gets a beer license by installing pool tables and arcade games.And the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is starting a new monthly drawing to make distribution of rare liquors fairer.On this episode, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kathy Stephenson and Fox 13′s Ben Winslow explain how the process will work and how to get your name in the hopper for Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and other
  • Intermountain Healthcare will use 2 million fewer plastic straws in a move meant to help the environment

    Intermountain Healthcare has joined an environmental movement to reduce the use of straws. And this health care giant has traditionally used a whole bunch of them at its cafés and bistros across the state of Utah.The company announced that it will switch to strawless lids at all 39 of its food outlets in Utah, which it estimates will reduce the number of straws used at Intermountain Healthcare facilities by 2 million per year.“It’s a good feeling to know we’re greatly re
  • Players who improved their draft stock the most at 2019 NBA combine

    The latest 2019 NBA mock drafts have been released after the G League Elite Camp and NBA combine concluded, yielding fascinating results.
    Based on the latest intel from around the league and several experts and analysts, we have created a list of players who have most improved their draft stock from participating in the annual events in Chicago.
    Much like Kyle Kuzma did in 2017 and Donte DiVincenzo did last season, these are the players whose recent performances in front of NBA scouts and execut
  • After several quiet years, tornadoes erupt in United States

    Indianapolis • After several quiet years, tornadoes have erupted in the United States over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the Southeast and persistent cold from the Rockies clashed and stalled over the Midwest.On Tuesday, the U.S. set a new record of 12 consecutive days with at least eight tornadoes, based on preliminary data from the National Weather Service. The previous record for consecutive days with that many tornadoes was an 11-day stretch that ended on
  • Sundance Festival’s 2019 attendance dipped a bit, and it may be the Super Bowl’s fault

    Attendance, money spent and jobs created at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival were down a bit from 2018 — and the festival extending into February, for the first time, may be one reason why.This year’s celebration of independent film drew an estimated audience of 122,313, according to an economic impact statement commissioned by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute and conducted by Salt Lake City-based Y2 Analytics. That’s down 2,672 people, or just over 2%, of the figure Y2
  • The uncle of missing 5-year-old has been charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping and other counts

    Prosecutors on Wednesday filed aggravated murder and other charges against the uncle of a 5-year-old Logan girl who has been missing for days.Though police have not yet found Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley after five days of searching, prosecutors wrote in charging documents that they believe the young girl is dead. Her 21-year-old uncle, Alex Whipple, was charged with aggravated murder, child kidnapping, obstructing justice and abuse or desecration of a human body.Charging documents alle
  • Utah’s state auditor John Dougall has rocked many boats, but he has also gained bipartisan praise

    Seven years ago, John Dougall was a conservative, transparency-minded agitator in the Utah House weighing his options after 10 years in office.He had sponsored a notable slate of bills that helped shape the modern era of Utah government — from a successful overhaul of the state’s tax code that remains largely in place today to the colossal and bruising failure of a restrictive public records bill that prompted broad scorn and a hasty repeal two weeks after it was signed into law.His
  • High school graduates walk the halls of Salt Lake City schools to inspire younger students

    A group of first-generation college-bound students from East High School roamed the halls and visited classrooms at several Salt Lake City schools Wednesday in hopes of inspiring young students. The seniors visited Glendale Middle School, Community Learning Center, Mountain View Elementary, Parkview Elementary and Riley Elementary.Members of the East High AVID program — Advancement Via Individual Determination — have been awarded a combined $1.8 million in scholarships so far.Student
  • Letter: I can’t decide which is worse. Trump or the weather.

    I can’t decide which is more annoying: This rainy, cool spring weather that just won’t end, or the daily disturbing behavior of our president and his administration?Jeni Mowery, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  • Watch now: The uncle of missing 5-year-old has been charged with murder, kidnapping and other counts

    Prosecutors on Wednesday filed aggravated murder and other charges against the uncle of a 5-year-old Logan girl who has been missing for days.Though police have not yet found Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley after five days of searching, prosecutors wrote in charging documents that they believe the young girl is dead. Her 21-year-old uncle, Alex Whipple, was charged with aggravated murder, child kidnapping, obstructing justice and abuse or desecration of a human body.Charging documents all
  • Real Salt Lake to compete in new tournament pitting MLS teams against Mexico’s Liga MX clubs

    Real Salt Lake is slated to compete in a new summer tournament between Major League Soccer and Liga MX, it was announced Wednesday.The Leagues Cup, which will feature four teams from each league, is a three-round, single-elimination tournament. RSL will face Tigres UANL, the reigning Liga MX champions, on July 24, the second day of the quarterfinal round.Semifinals are Aug. 20, and the final round is on September 18.“Playing against Tigres is a big opportunity for this club — a big o
  • Jordan School District names new superintendent who calls for ‘flexibility for families’

    Jordan School District — one of the fastest growing in the state — named a new superintendent Tuesday who has watched that classroom boom for 26 years as a teacher, principal and administrator.Anthony Godfrey was selected unanimously by the district’s board of education to take the helm on July 1. He will be tasked with managing the growing student population at a critical time, as both Utah and the district face a major teacher shortage.“Parents send us their kids every
  • Utah has played tough defense while struggling offensively in the Pac-12. Long-term data now sheds light on the details.

    In seven weeks, Utah’s rise in Pac-12 football likely will be recognized by the program’s first No. 1 forecast in the South in the official media preseason poll.In eight years of conference membership, the Utes’ average finish in the Pac-12 is seventh place overall — disregarding the divisional alignment. A study of the eight-year statistical trends shows how much the team’s offensive performance has held back the Utes.A former newspaper sportswriter who covered thr
  • This Utah kid jumps on stage on the national ‘School of Rock’ tour on 5 minutes notice

    Blake Ryan isn’t on stage during every “School of Rock” performance by the national touring company, but he could be — in any one of five roles.The 12-year-old Draper boy understudies all but one of the roles for boys in the show, which opened Tuesday at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. It’s based on the 2003 movie about a substitute music teacher who inspires his students to become rock musicians and compete in a battle of the bands — much to the conster
  • Dana Milbank: A new mantra for the Trump administration: ‘I honestly don’t care anymore’

    Washington • President Trump watched a sumo competition while visiting Japan, and — who knew? — he seemed to enjoy seeing corpulent men applauded for shoving others off the stage with brute force.From his seat, beside the Japanese prime minister, it must have looked as though sumo, with its throwing, tripping and slapping, is a no-holds-barred endeavor, much like the Trump presidency.But this is unfair to sumo. Sumo has a strict code of rules, in which the champion employs one o
  • Mueller: Special counsel probe did not exonerate Trump

    Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller said Wednesday he was legally barred from charging President Donald Trump with a crime but pointedly emphasized that his Russia report did not exonerate the president. If he could have cleared Trump of obstruction of justice he “would have said so,” Mueller said.The special counsel’s remarks, his first in public since being tasked two years ago with investigating Russian interference to help Trump win the 2016 presidential electi
  • As abortion bans multiply, some states — including Utah — move to affirm a woman’s right to choose

    Alabama. Ohio. Kentucky. Mississippi. Georgia. Utah. Arkansas. Missouri.These are the states on the front lines of the cultural battle intensifying over abortion.Next up?Illinois is the latest place to advance legislation addressing access to the medical procedure. But the aim in Springfield, Ill., is vastly different."To our neighbors in Illinois who hear the news around the country and worry that this war on women is coming to Illinois, I say, not on my watch," Kelly Cassidy, a Democrat in the
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Inside the Utah Jazz’s 50-win season was team chef Anthony Zamora dishing performance nutrition

    Meet Utah Jazz team chef Anthony Zamora: "If you can’t get excited about performance nutrition, then how are you going to sell it to your athletes?"
  • This Utah kid jumps on stage on the national ‘School of Rock’ tour on 5 minutes notice — in any one of five roles

    Blake Ryan isn’t on stage during every “School of Rock” performance by the national touring company, but he could be — in any one of five roles.The 12-year-old Draper boy understudies all but one of the roles for boys in the show, which opened Tuesday at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City. It’s based on the 2003 movie about a substitute music teacher who inspires his students to become rock musicians and compete in a battle of the bands — much to the conster
  • Mueller resigns as special counsel, addresses Russia report

    Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller, breaking a two-year silence on his investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, announced his resignation from the Justice Department on Wednesday so that he can “return to public life.”Mueller’s statement was expected to be relatively brief, about eight minutes, and Attorney General William Barr was given a heads-up about what he would say, according to people who were not authorized to provide details on the
  • Inside the Utah Jazz’s 50-win season was team chef Anthony Zamora dishing performance nutrition

    Utah Jazz chef Anthony Zamora poses outside of the team’s practice facility, Zions Bank Basketball Campus.Utah Jazz, Courtesy PhotoUtah Jazz chef Anthony Zamora prepares maple cinnamon beet purée, quinoa, and seared tenderloin steaks for Georges Niang at Donovan Mitchell’s home in Salt Lake City, Utah.Utah Jazz, Courtesy photoSALT LAKE CITY — As Georges Niang was set to embark on the final leg of the 16-city, 2018 Junior Jazz road trip last August, the Utah Jazz forward
  • Salt Lake City man who allegedly carjacked a van with a child inside charged with kidnapping

    The man who allegedly yanked a Utah woman out of her minivan and drove off with her 4-year-old daughter has been charged with kidnapping and aggravated robbery.Derek L. Orr, 29, was charged with the first-degree felonies in 3rd District Court; his bail was set at $250,000.At 1:16 p.m. on May 16, a woman was stopped in the left-turn lane on 2100 South at 645 East when a man “opened her door and demanded she get out of the car.” He “pushed [her] out of the minivan and drove away&
  • Utah man shot 9 times by police charged; officers cleared of wrongdoing

    A Utah man shot multiple times by police has been charged with multiple counts of assaulting police officers, who were cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting.Jamal Samuel Bell, 28, has been charged in 2nd District Court with four counts of assault against a peace officer, second-degree felonies; and criminal mischief, a Class-A misdemeanor.Police released body camera footage of the shooting in April. On Tuesday, Harrisville City officials released a statement announcing that the Weber County
  • U.S. Highway 89 reopened after propane truck removed from reservoir

    Heber City, Utah • The Utah Highway Patrol says all lanes of U.S. 189 are again open after crews were able to successfully remove a propane truck that rolled into Deer Creek Reservoir near Heber City.The Highway Patrol says removal work was completed Wednesday morning after they first removed the tractor portion of the semi from the reservoir and then the rest.According to the Highway Patrol, the driver wasn't hurt in the accident Tuesday.Deer Crew Reservoir is 30 miles southeast of Salt La
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - It will be compelling, but Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard won’t have enough help to deter the Warriors from another NBA championship

    Perhaps we should have seen this coming.
  • It’ll be compelling, but Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard won’t have enough help to deter Warriors from another NBA title

    Perhaps we should have seen this coming.Since 2013, every single NBA Finals has featured two of these three players, one on either team: LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Kawhi Leonard. When LeBron’s Lakers failed to make the playoffs, we should have rightly assumed that Steph would face Kawhi for the title, right?Perhaps you did see it coming. After all, nearly everyone predicted the Golden State Warriors to make it through the Western Conference gauntlet. Curry, Klay Thompson, Kevin Durant,
  • This is how you play the game: Utah ax-throwing business gets beer license by adding pool tables

    What does an ax-throwing business have to do to get a beer license around here?Install three pool tables and some arcade games.After being denied a liquor license last month, the owners of Social Axe Throwing in Ogden added those games to their new business — and it was enough to qualify for a recreational beer license from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.Last month, the DABC commission denied the Social Axe’s beer license request — as well as a similar applic
  • Yellowstone National Park visitors spent $513M in 2018

    Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. • A federal report shows visitors to Yellowstone National Park spent nearly $513 million in neighboring communities last year.The report last week from the National Park Service indicates the spending by the park's 4.1 million visitors supported nearly 7,100 jobs in the area in 2018.According to the report, the more than 468,000 visitors to Devils Tower National Monument in northeast Wyoming spent $30 million last year, supporting more than 400 jobs.The park
  • Disaster aid bill again blocked in House by GOP conservative

    Washington • A second conservative Republican on Tuesday blocked another attempt to pass a long-overdue $19 billion disaster aid bill, delaying again a top priority for some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies on Capitol Hill.Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky said that if Democratic leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought the measure was so important, they should have kept the House in session in Washington late last week to slate an up-or-down roll call vote."If the speaker
  • Warriors center Andrew Bogut hopes to become the second ex-Ute to win two NBA titles

    Andrew Bogut thought his NBA career was over about a year ago, when he was waived by the Los Angeles Lakers and signed by the Sydney Kings in his native Australia.And now, nearly 70 years after Arnie Ferrin won his second title with the Minneapolis Lakers, Bogut hopes to become the second former University of Utah player with two championship rings — although “rings” is merely an expression, in Ferrin’s case. Having contributed to Golden State’s first two runs to th
  • Letter: Fly those other flags any day but Memorial Day

    I fly my American flag on Memorial Day to honor our sacred dead who gave their lives for our country.We have 364 days a year to fly the flag of our causes (LGBT or other) because of those who died for this country: we have it so good.When I drive around my neighborhood and see the LGBTQ flag flying on Memorial Day instead of the American Flag it makes me sad. Sad that we as a nation are starting to forget those to whom we owe so much; those who died at 18 or 19 or 30... before their life even go
  • Letter: Cartoon shows disrespect for fallen warriors

    I was appalled when I saw the May 26 cartoon by Pat Bagley. The outright disrespect to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to make a political statement was unconscionable.Yes, many warriors over the years have served our nation to protect the freedoms we all enjoy, to include freedom of speech, but to post such a cartoon the day prior to Memorial Day substantiates what a liberal jerk Pat Bagley really is.How Editorial Page Editor George Pyle and Tribune Editor Jemifer Napier-Pearce let such a
  • This is how you play the game: Utah ax-throwing business get beer license by adding pool tables

    What does an ax-throwing business have to do to get a beer license around here?Install three pool tables and some arcade games.After being denied a liquor license last month, the owners of Social Axe Throwing in Ogden added those games to their new business — and it was enough to qualify for a recreational beer license from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.Last month, the DABC commission denied the Social Axe’s beer license request — as well as a similar applic
  • Letter: Remember the war resisters

    I’ll know that I’m in a more mature country when someday a highway will be dedicated to those who resisted the war machine and lost their freedoms or even life because of their conscience. Perhaps it will be named The Daniel Berrigan and Conscientious Objectors Highway. In another universe it could even happen in Utah.Jeffrey Louden, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: Church should oppose nuclear waste in Utah

    Dear Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks and Henry B. Eyring,On May 5, 1981, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a bold and important statement opposing the placing of the MX missile train system in Utah and Nevada.Our state is confronted with a similar situation today that simply cannot be ignored. Our legislators in the last session passed HB220 potentially allowing Class B and Class C nuclear wastes (including depleted uranium) to be transported to and
  • Letter: Old Bone Spurs was a no-show

    By being a no-show at any Memorial Day event honoring veterans and members of our armed forces, Old Bone Spurs (President Trump) avoided paying merited respect to people of whom he cannot claim to be the greatest.Glen V. Ruff, SpringvilleSubmit a letter to the editor
  • Gehrke: Think Utahns and Utah businesses won’t be smacked by Trump’s China tariffs? Think again.

    Earlier this month, as part of the Golden Spike’s 150th anniversary celebration, Utah officials hosted a delegation of about 150 Chinese business and government leaders with the goal to foster relationships and expand trade between Utah and one of its largest trading partners.That gathering, it so happened, came about two days after President Donald Trump slapped a 25% tariff on $200 billion in Chinese goods.“So that definitely changed the context of the event,” said Miles Hans
  • Letter: Misinformation Agenda Governs America

    With Donald Trump’s daily assaults on the truth, regardless of how trivial or important the issue, and now the videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intentionally slowed to make her look sluggish and slurred, the “true” meaning of MAGA is, sadly:Misinformation Agenda Governs America.Fares Arguello, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Jason Rezaian: Iranian journalism suffering slow death

    Last week, the Islamic Republic of Iran reached a new low in its suppression of the press — and almost no one noticed.It's already widely known that Iran is home to one of the most closed media landscapes on Earth. As the regime faces mounting domestic and foreign challenges, however, it's becoming more cavalier than ever in its attempts to control how news gets covered.In recent months, more domestic news outlets are closing from a lack of funds. Others have shut down because they have lo

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