• Virginia Beach police say multiple people hurt in shooting

    Virginia Beach, Va. • At least one shooter wounded multiple people at a municipal center in Virginia Beach on Friday, according to police, who said a suspect has been taken into custody and they believe there was only one shooter.At least one victim was taken to the Sentara Princess Anne Hospital and another was brought to Virginia Beach General Hospital, Sentara spokesman Dale Gauding told The Virginian-Pilot .There was no immediate word on the extent of injuries.Christina Pullen, a spokes
  • 30 dead deer found at Utah landfill starved, died of disease

    Utah officials have determined that more than 30 deer found near a landfill in northeastern Utah died from starvation, diseases and other causes.The Division of Wildlife Resources said Friday said officials found plastic bags and latex gloves in some of the deers' remains but say the main culprit for their deaths was a harsh winter.Officials learned of the dead deer after hikers shared photos of them strewn across a road near the landfill in the small city of Coalville.Summit County Solid Waste
  • Judge sends convicted fraudster Rick Koerber to jail after finding he was likely involved in another scheme

    Though he's been facing federal charges for most of the last decade, convicted real estate fraudster Rick Koerber has been allowed to remain free as the case played out.That all changed Friday, when federal prosecutors asked that Koerber be put behind bars ahead of his sentencing. They argued Koerber has been involved in yet another scheme — this time an effort to deceive an Oregon court.Koerber's attorney argued there was no fraud when Koerber was hired to serve a notice of appeal —
  • Woman who threw son’s birthday party is charged with child endangerment, after a teen guest died of hypothermia

    A Kearns woman has been charged with child endangerment in connection with the hypothermia death of a 17-year-old boy in February.Kristina Theresa Valdez, 38, was arrested Thursday by Unified police and charged Friday.Valdez faces a charge of endangerment of a child, a third-degree felony. She is also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a class B misdemeanor, and permitting intoxication, a class C misdemeanor.The body of Julian Garcia, 17, was found in a field near 5600 West
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  • Draper police think driver may have intentionally struck 11-year-old on electric scooter

    Police are investigating to see if a driver purposely hit a child riding an electric scooter Friday morning in Draper.The 11-year-old was hit by a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta just before 8:30 a.m. near 15050 S. Winged Bluff Lane. Police say the car’s driver was heading north and turned into the child, who was riding the scooter south, Draper police said in a news release.“The initial investigation suggests this may have been an intentional act,” the release states.The child was taken
  • [KSL] - Not many people knew who Royce O'Neale was — he's changed that | KSL.com

    The Utah Jazz see Royce O'Neale as a major piece moving forward.
  • Endangered condor may have hatched in Zion National Park

    Salt Lake City • There’s likely a new baby condor at Zion National Park in southwest Utah.Park rangers said Thursday that they suspect a pair of endangered California condors has hatched their first egg because of behavior changes between the male and female birds.They estimate the chick to be about 3 weeks old.If the chick survives, it would be Utah's first successful hatchling. Zion spokeswoman Aly Baltrus says three chicks have been born at the park but have died before they were o
  • Sen. Mitt Romney warns of ‘increasingly harmful consequence’ for American consumers if Trump imposes tariffs on imports from Mexico

    Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney warned Friday that President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs against Mexico were the wrong approach and could harm Americans more than they help curtail illegal immigration.“A tariff targeting Mexico that negatively impacts our own interests will only end in a waiting game of increasingly harmful consequence to the American people,” Romney said.Trump announced Thursday that he would impose tariffs on all Mexican imports, starting June 10, if t
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  • [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Is the cost of keeping Rudy Gobert worth it?

    The Jazz big man is in a rare position of being eligible for a "super max" contract next year. History says the Jazz won't get a better player in free agency than the center they now have.
  • Brad Rock: Is the cost of keeping Rudy Gobert worth it?

    Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) sings a jersey for a fan after the game with the Minnesota Timberwolves at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Thursday, March 14, 2019.Deseret NewsUtah's Rudy Gobert stretches during a pre-game practice before taking on the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of a first-round basketball playoff series in Houston on Wednesday, April 24, 2019.Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Kevin Durant wouldn't know Tooele from Tremonton. Kyrie Irving would have t
  • U.S. companies are in the crossfire in new Trump tariffs on Mexico, and consumers will feel it too

    The surprise announcement by President Donald Trump of an escalating tariff regime against Mexico sent ripples through almost every economic sector in the U.S., hammering American companies that sell automobiles or run railroads, grow vegetables or build power infrastructure.Trump tweeted late Thursday that he is slapping a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, and will raise those tariffs to 25%, "until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied."Whether it’s avocados on a
  • Kristen Green: How Ancestry.com has failed African American customers

    When Ancestry.com unveiled an advertisement last month that seemed to romanticize slavery, the multibillion dollar genealogy company was roundly criticized.The video, which was posted to YouTube and aired on television in Utah, where Ancestry.com is based, featured a young white man in 19th-century clothing holding out a ring to a black woman. "Abigail, we can escape to the North," he tells her, interrupting as she attempts to respond. "There is a place we can be together across the border."The
  • Transgender athletes, a runaway evangelist, and a lost French drama will appear onscreen at Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival

    A documentary about transgender athletes, a nearly forgotten 1951 French lesbian drama and a whacked-out road trip from this year’s Sundance Film Festival are among the movies that will entertain audiences at the 2019 Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival.The Utah Film Center, which runs the festival, announced six titles that will screen during the 16th annual event, July 12-14 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City. More titles will be announced in Jun
  • Rep. Ben McAdams asking Congress to boost federal funding for low-emission bus fleets

    The Utah Transit Authority’s bus fleet will welcome five new electric models this summer, purchased in large part through a $5.4 million federal grant, UTA and Salt Lake County officials announced Friday.And Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, said he is prioritizing air quality initiatives as the U.S. House prepares its transportation funding legislation, particularly by encouraging his colleagues to boost the grant program for low- and zero-emission transit utilized by UTA.“I want the federa
  • Trump gets pushback on promise of new Mexican tariffs

    Washington • In a surprise announcement that could derail a major trade deal, President Donald Trump says he is placing a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.He said the percentage will gradually increase — up to 25% — "until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied."The decision showed the administration going to new lengths, and looking
  • Tell The Tribune: How bad was that bridesmaid dress you had to wear?

    Summer, especially June, is the season of weddings, beautiful brides and, all too often, loathsome bridesmaid dresses. Begrudgingly worn — because we’ll do just about anything for the family and friends we love — these formals are secretly despised.Until now. Yep, we want you to tell us all about the bridesmaid dress you dreaded wearing and why. Photos, painful as they may be, are appreciated.Your responses won’t be published without your permission. A reporter from The S
  • Waived by Portland, Mallory Weber finding a home with Utah Royals FC

    Sandy • At the beginning of the month, Mallory Weber lived in Portland. She had built a life and a home there with her dog, Meeko, and played for the Thorns for the past three years — the entirety of her National Women’s Soccer League career.Then in one moment, her life changed in an instant. The Thorns waived Weber and it would be an excruciating 48 hours until she knew where her career would take her next, if anywhere at all.“It’s just something that comes out of n
  • Police confirm body found in Logan as missing 5-year-old Lizzy Shelley, release 911 call

    Police have identified the body found Wednesday buried beneath leaves and debris in a wooded area in Logan to be that of missing 5-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, police announced Thursday.Alex Whipple, 21, told investigators where to find his niece’s body. She was located about a quarter mile from her home Wednesday, police said, though they didn’t immediately confirm the identity of the remains.Whipple has been charged with with aggravated murder, child kidnapping,
  • Catherine Rampell: We love to hate the government. Then along came measles.

    Americans love, love, love to hate on government, for all its foibles and failures.But we conveniently forget that good government has also solved, curtailed or prevented a lot of problems over the years, including epidemics, economic ills and environmental crises. When government works, it becomes largely invisible, taken for granted, wiping out both crises and the traumatic memories of those crises. Bad government we remember and loathe and curse to our children; but good government is often a
  • George Pyle: The free market wants a beautiful Utah. Not a coal mine.

    “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.”— Yogi BerraGood Republicans who run, among other places, Utah, are wont to say that government should be run like a business.So, let’s apply a little business thinking to a Utah dilemma.Say you own an electronics store, or a restaurant, or a tattoo parlor. And say you have people literally standing in line to get into your business. The place is a mess, parking is a pain in the neck, people are angry because they are b
  • Federal prosecutors say convicted fraudster Rick Koerber has been involved in another scheme — and they want him put behind bars now

    Federal prosecutors want convicted real estate fraudster Rick Koerber put behind bars ahead of his sentencing, arguing in court papers that the man was involved in yet another scheme — this time an effort to deceive an Oregon court.The alleged fraud, prosecutors wrote in court papers, involves Koerber's work as a litigation consultant for Morgan Philpot, a former state representative who now works as an attorney in Utah and Oregon.Philpot had 30 days to file an appeal in a recent case wher
  • A downtown Salt Lake City bookstore will close by the end of June

    The owners of Eborn Books, a Main Street staple, say they’re closing their downtown shop by the end of June.Bret Eborn, who runs the store with his wife Cindy, told FOX 13 their landlord is renovating the building and that Eborn Books must move out.“From what I’ve heard, the owners are trying to attract more restaurants and bars into the downtown,” Bret said.Bret and Cindy estimate they have tens of thousands of books in the store. They’re known for selling classics
  • A former Utah woman and her teenage son were among 3 stabbed to death in Virginia. A baby and a toddler were spared.

    A former Utah woman, her teenage son and her boyfriend were found stabbed to death in their Virginia home, while the lives of a toddler and an infant were spared.According to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called to the home on Wednesday morning to investigate a report of a dead body. When they arrived, they discovered the bodies of Rachel Ozuna, 34; her 14-year-old son, Kyrrus Ozuna; and her boyfriend, Michael Coleman, 39.“This case has been officially ruled
  • Mike Petke not feeling nostalgic about going back to Red Bull Arena — where he coached three years — as head man of Real Salt Lake

    Sandy • Mike Petke spent his formative years in Middletown, New Jersey, a mere 70 miles from Harrison, where the New York Red Bulls play their home games. After a three-year stint at Southern Connecticut State, he started his Major League Soccer career with the Red Bulls, then called the MetroStars.Petke’s career was bookended by stops with the Red Bulls, where he spent his final two seasons before his retirement in 2010. But his coaching career started much like his playing career di
  • Kirby: Grandkids’ graduation day is proof I got something right

    My two oldest granddaughters graduated from high school Thursday. Hallie from Herriman High School and Bailie from Copper Hills High School.It’s the biggest day in their young lives. So far. It’s the end of a long road they thought they would never reach. Now freedom is just a walk across a stage.Me, I’m still reeling from their births 18 years ago. It seems a matter of months since Hallie was crawling around on my office floor looking for spare change to swallow. When Bailie g
  • A Utah ‘Star Wars’ fanatic reviews Galaxy’s Edge: Fly the Falcon, try both blue and green milk, revel in the details

    Anaheim, Calif. • Black Spire Outpost has been a hangout for smugglers and other galactic scoundrels for centuries. It’s on the Outer Rim world of Batuu, accessible only by little-known hyperspace routes.The heroic Resistance is hiding out on this backwater planet, still reeling from its big loss at the end of “The Last Jedi.” Unfortunately, the autocratic First Order has arrived to snuff out the remaining Resistance leaders.That’s about where you come in.Star Wars:
  • Political Cornflakes: ‘The lane that I’ve chosen has almost no one in it’: Inside Romney’s strategy on Trump

    Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, has voted this year against President Donald Trump more than most other Senate Republicans, torpedoed Herman Cain’s chances on the Federal Reserve and even defended former President Barack Obama. Yet he still broadly supports the president’s agenda and is with him far more often than not. “The lane that I’ve chosen has almost no one in it,” he said with a laugh. [POLITICO]Happy Friday!Topping the news: A state opioid fatality review committ
  • Police identify body found in Logan as missing 5-year-old Lizzy Shelley

    Police have identified the body found Wednesday buried beneath leaves and debris in a wooded area in Logan to be that of missing 5-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, police announced Thursday.Alex Whipple, 21, told investigators where to find his niece’s body. She was located about a quarter mile from her home Wednesday, police said, though they didn’t immediately confirm the identity of the remains.Whipple has been charged with with aggravated murder, child kidnapping,
  • An L.A. filmmaker shot a low-budget drama at Zion and other national parks without people noticing

    Filmmaker Tom Huang was walking through The Narrows, a canyon hiking trail at Utah’s Zion National Park, and between movie jobs when the idea hit him: “I need to make a movie where you point at the screen and say, ‘I want to go there.’”Huang went there — filming guerrilla-style at Zion, Death Valley and Yosemite national parks — for the new independent movie “Find Me.” Huang wrote, directed and stars in the film, which he is self-distributing
  • This ‘Whistleblower’ couple found love and then launched a three-part plan to take down a Utah polygamous sect

    Mary Nelson — that’s her last name now — tossed the handbag out the house window, lowered herself to the ground and began running toward Taylorsville’s Millrace Park.It was 2013. Mary was leaving her family, which included her father and what she says are his 18 wives and about 200 children. The other side of the park was where Mary had arranged to meet her then-boyfriend, Bryan Nelson, and his father. Mary laid down in the back seat of the car they rented, staying out of
  • Letter: Trump is an unprincipled strongman

    For me, Trumpism emerged from the 2016 Republican debates. Trump’s obscene, ad hominem attacks lanced into the other Republican candidates like a spear, making him look like an unprincipled blowhard — aggressive and brutal but not much of a threat to win — not a person who could end up as our president.Now, I think he’s an unprincipled strongman; a person who can threaten our democracy and dismantle whatever political balance we have, conservative or liberal or in between
  • Letter: Romney and company aren’t interested in us

    If anyone thinks for an instant that Mitt Romney became a United States senator because he is interested in public service and doing good for his fellow Utahns and Americans, think again. That’s not why he is there and, in fact, it is not the reason any elected official is in office, Republican or otherwise.They are there to feather their own nests and those of their rich cronies. They are there to enjoy the perks and notoriety that go along with the alleged job. Romney will drop to his kn
  • Letter: It’s obvious: The weather is less annoying than the president

    In her May 28 letter to the editor, “Gloomy forecast,” Jeni Mowery wondered which was more annoying: rainy weather that just won’t end, or the daily disturbing behavior of our president and his administration.I decided to improvise on this riff, so I began a list of similarities and differences between the weather and the current occupant of the White House.Similarities: Everyone talks about the weather. The weather doesn’t care what is good for our nation. It doesn&rsquo
  • Letter: Control of growth has to be part of the conversation

    Mike Styler, former head of the Department of Natural Resources in Utah, has written something of an excuse regarding the unwise push for a Lake Powell pipeline, citing the one water source available to supply the burgeoning Washington County area.Recently, comments have been made editorially and by commentaries in The Salt Lake Tribune, which seem to offer a better way — control of growth.Styler casually mentions that Utah’s population is expected to double by 2065. Isn’t that
  • Letter: Abortion rights would be at risk without Roe v. Wade

    In a recent Associated Press article written by David Crary and Carla K. Johnson, the authors argued that if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned, the U.S. wouldn’t return to 1973 in regard to women’s rights to abortion.They made some very strong points in regards to how much safer abortion is now and that there are more options for birth control. But there are some holes in their reporting. The authors argued that home abortions are easier to obtain and that you don’t need to see
  • Here are programs and prizes to help your Utah kid — and you — keep reading this summer

    Schools are wrapping up, the weather is warming up, and June is a day away. Another clear sign of summer: Libraries, businesses and others are gearing up to engage and reward summer readers.Salt Lake County’s popular program will kick off Friday, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the library’s Viridian Event Center and Veterans Memorial Park, 8030 S. 1825 West in West Jordan. Activities will include live entertainment, laser tag, face painting, crafts, music, food and more; at dusk, West Jord
  • Raptors take NBA Finals opener, beat Warriors 118-109

    Toronto • Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., beating the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Thursday night.The Raptors hardly looked like newcomers to the NBA’s biggest stage, controlling the action most of the way against a Golden State team beginning its fifth straight NBA Finals appearance.Kawhi Leonard added 23 points and Marc Gasol had 20 for the Raptors, fueled by a crowd that couldn&r
  • West’s power display in finale carries Panthers to 5A softball championship

    Taylorsville • A near-perfect regular season and a near-perfect start to the 5A state softball tournament were both nearly wiped out for the West High Panthers when they returned from a lengthy, weather-aided layoff and shockingly were relegated to the losers’ bracket with a stunning defeat in the quarterfinals.So the team’s seven seniors — who’ve been playing together since they were 8 years old — kicked out the coaches and held a players-only meeting to get t
  • [ESPN] - Silver thanked Jazz for handling fan situation

    NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday night that, after a heated exchange involving a Jazz fan and Thunder star Russell Westbrook back in March, he spoke with the Jazz and thanked them for how they handled its aftermath.
  • Federal court rules that Montana judge shouldn’t have called for Mexican man’s arrest

    Billings, Mont. • A federal court says a Montana judge and sheriff’s deputy violated a Mexican-born man’s rights when they detained and arrested him based solely on suspicions he was in the country illegally.Construction worker Miguel Angel Reynaga Hernandez was at a Billings courthouse in October 2017 with his wife, who was seeking a civil protection order against another person.When that person said Reynaga was not a legal citizen, former Yellowstone County Justice of the Pea
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Raptors take NBA Finals opener, beat Warriors 118-109

    Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., beating the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Thursday night.
  • Spanish Fork legging company paid $84,000 in fines for child labor law, pay violations

    A Spanish Fork legging company paid more than $84,000 in fines for child labor law and pay violations and for firing the employee who reported the violations to authorities, according to FOX 13.But Legg-A-Licious’s owner told FOX 13 the violations were a misunderstanding — and that she fired the whistleblower over “performance issues."Owner Karen Fager told FOX 13 that she didn’t know she was breaking the law by hiring 13-year-olds."Ignorance is expensive. They were paid
  • [Clutchpoints] - Adam Silver says Jazz handled Russell Westbrook incident with fan very well

    NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the Utah Jazz franchise handled the Russell Westbrook incident with the Utah fan very well. The Jazz banned the fan who said a racial remark to Westbrook for life. Utah owner Gail Miller addressed the crowd at the...
  • 'We overdosed them’: Outside investigation details Sandy City missteps in dealing with water crisis

    When a Sandy City employee realized that a fluoridation pump had malfunctioned, contaminating a portion of the municipality’s drinking water, she frantically sent a text to her boss.“OMG,” she wrote. “We overdosed them.”It would be another week before the city widely notified residents that they could be drinking possibly tainted water.These are but a few of the details outlined in a new investigative report released Thursday into Sandy City’s response to the
  • Commentary: I wanted to be pro-life. But the pro-life movement forces me to take the other side.

    Almost five years ago, in September 2014, I peed on a stick and saw a faint pink line.My heart pounded. I squinted, forcing myself to see it again. Yes, there it was. I was pregnant.Just before my son Jacob’s 2nd birthday, I was pregnant for the second time.Anyone who suggests that a woman who has ever been pregnant does not understand the sanctity of life is severely misguided at best, purposefully cruel at worst. Every month for much of a woman’s life, in most cases, her body prepa
  • Newly released letters shine light on McCarrick allegations and the role of two popes

    A series of leaked emails has revived a long-simmering scandal involving defrocked Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, providing new evidence that the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., was disciplined after allegations of sexual misconduct but was nevertheless allowed to travel and work under Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.The emails appear to confirm some of the allegations made last year by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Vatican diplomat to the U.S., but do not appea
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - These two-way Jazz/Stars players look to Georges Niang for inspiration as they fight for an NBA roster spot

    Georges Niang and Naz Mitrou-Long played college ball at Iowa State. They were best friends and roommates in Ames, and became roommates again in Utah after both landed spots with the G League’s Salt Lake City Stars.
  • These two-way Jazz/Stars players look to Georges Niang for inspiration as they fight for an NBA roster spot

    Georges Niang and Naz Mitrou-Long played college ball at Iowa State. They were best friends and roommates in Ames, and became roommates again in Utah after both landed spots with the G League’s Salt Lake City Stars.Which perhaps makes it weird in a way, though no less true, that Niang is now Mitrou-Long’s basketball idol to some degree.Georges Niang — basketball idol? Really? Well, it turns out, there’s a simple reason for that.“He’s a living testament to the
  • To impeach Trump or not? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi balances competing calls

    Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn’t ready to impeach President Donald Trump.Even after special counsel Robert Mueller essentially called on Congress to pick up where his investigation left off, Pelosi isn’t budging. Scores of her Democratic lawmakers do want to start impeachment proceedings. Outside groups say it’s time. But Pelosi is carrying on as she has since taking the speaker’s gavel in January, promising the House will methodically pursue its i
  • Eugene Robinson: Mueller gave Congress a clear road map for holding Trump accountable

    Washington • What would a president have to do, hypothetically, to get this Congress to impeach him?Obstruct a Justice Department investigation, perhaps? No, apparently that’s not enough. What about playing footsie with a hostile foreign power? Abusing his office to settle personal grievances? Using instruments of the state, including the justice system, to attack his perceived political opponents? Aligning the nation with murderous foreign dictators, while forsaking democracy and hum

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