• Alex Morgan scores 5 goals as US routs Thailand 13-0 in World Cup opener

    Reims, France • Alex Morgan tied a World Cup record with five goals as the defending champion U.S. national team opened the Women’s World Cup with a record-breaking 13-0 rout of Thailand on Tuesday night.Samantha Mewis and Rose Lavelle each added a pair of goals for the United States, which broke the record for goals and margin of victory in a World Cup game. Lindsey Horan, Megan Rapinoe, Mallory Pugh and Carli Lloyd also scored. The previous record margin was Germany's 11-0 victory o
  • U.S. House mulls antitrust help for news industry

    Washington • Members of both parties on Tuesday suggested legislation may be necessary for the financially-struggling U.S. news industry as lawmakers began a bipartisan investigation into the market dominance of Silicon Valley companies.At a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, news media associations accused the tech companies of jeopardizing the news industry's economic survival by putting out news content on their platforms without fairly compensating them for it."
  • Relatives of slain Utah teens call for death penalty

    Provo • Relatives of two Utah teenagers who were killed and dumped in an abandoned mine shaft are calling for prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the man charged in their deaths.Jerrod Baum pleaded not guilty Monday to aggravated murder and other charges in the deaths of 17-year-old Brelynne "Breezy" Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell.Relatives of the victims said they were not surprised by the plea."We knew a long time ago he was going to plead not guilty," Bill Powell, Riley
  • Hang glider crashes and dies at Utah park during his first solo flight

    A hang glider died Tuesday after a crash at the Point of the Mountain flight park.Thus far, the victim has been identified only as a 59-year-old man from Rupert, Idaho. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said staffers there were still trying to notify the deceased’s family.It was the victim’s first solo flight, Cannon said. The crash happened shortly before 10:30 a.m. at the flight park north of Lehi.Witnesses have reported that the wind perhaps dwindled. The pilot made
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  • AP analysis: Broad legalization takes toll on medical marijuana

    Gillian Flaccus and Angeliki Kastanis | The Associated PressPortland, Ore. • When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press.Much of the decline comes from consumers who, ill or not, got medical cards in their states because it was the only way to buy marijuana legally and then discarded them when broader le
  • Water levels at Lake Powell are rising as much as 15 inches a day, prompting warnings

    Melting snowpack is opening up previously inaccessible launch ramps at Lake Powell, but the rapidly rising water levels also come with a warning from the National Park Service.Lake Powell’s water line is climbing between 6 and 15 inches every day, according to a National Park Service news release, prompting recommendations that boaters and visitors park their vehicles 300 yards away from the shore, lest they become submerged overnight.“Depending on the grade of land, a foot of water
  • Letter: Player’s love for his mother is his greatest achievement

    An uplifting and inspirational article appeared an unlikely place, Page 1 of the June 8 sports section of The Salt Lake Tribune. The headline, “Tillman leaving Utes for personal reasons.”It describes how the Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year, Donnie Tillman, is taking a leave of absence from his very promising collegiate basketball career (for at least the next season) to be with his single mom, who is dealing with the effects of epilepsy in Las Vegas.Whatever successes this young man ach
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  • AP analysis: Broad legalization cuts into medical marijuana

    Gillian Flaccus and Angeliki Kastanis | The Associated PressPortland, Ore. • When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press.Much of the decline comes from consumers who, ill or not, got medical cards in their states because it was the only way to buy marijuana legally and then discarded them when broader le
  • Hang glider crashes and dies at Point of the Mountain

    A hang glider died Tuesday after a crash at the Point of the Mountain flight park.Details were not immediately available. FOX 13 reported the crash happened shortly before 10:50 a.m. Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon tweeted at 11:10 a.m. the victim had died.The victim in the hang glider crash at Point of the Mountain Flight Park has died.Media stage at bottom of the hill on the south side.I am 20 minutes out.— Spencer Cannon (@SGTCannonPIO) June 11, 2019This story will be up
  • Letter: Bring back the MLB box scores

    Why did you guys delete the box scores for Major League Baseball from your sports section?I, like many of my friends, like to follow how other teams players are doing and your little one-paragraph summaries fall way short of telling the whole story. Whoever is in charge must not be a baseball fan. Please bring the box scores for Major League Baseball back.I don’t like threats, but it is 95% of the reason I continue to subscribe to your paper.Jan Carter, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the
  • Letter: We should not go to war with Iran

    President Donald Trump should never have withdrawn the U.S. from the U.S./European-Iran treaty, which kept Iran from further developing their nuclear bomb capabilities. Iran, as inspectors had verified, was abiding by the terms of the agreement. Europe has remained committed to the agreement. The reason the Trump administration withdrew from the treaty was because they said Iran was a “destabilizing influence” in the region. Iran is in a proxy war with the equally oppressive, but U.S
  • Letter: The biggest landgrab since the Indians

    It is no surprise there was some lively protesting at the last inland port meeting. And it is no surprise the protesters were physically removed by the state. After all, the Legislature taking control of a huge portion of Salt Lake City against the city's wishes is the biggest landgrab in Utah since our immigrant ancestors stole the entire state from the Indians.Errol Remington, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  • Letter: Support the Climate Action Now Act

    Many of our local leaders are creating bold changes to honor the commitments the United States made through the Paris Climate Agreement. Currently, every city-owned building in Salt Lake City is scheduled to be on clean energy by 2020, and Salt Lake City’s goal is to be 100% renewable by 2030. As a Salt Lake resident, I believe honoring these commitments creates a pathway to a better quality of life and future opportunities through legislative actions such as HR 9, the Climate Action Now A
  • Together again; Former BYU coach Dave Rose will lead Team Fredette in TBT, but Jimmer won’t play

    The $2 million summer basketball tournament that former BYU legend Jimmer Fredette was involved in last year — brazenly called The Basketball Tournament — will have a distinctly BYU flair again this year.But Fredette himself won’t play this time around.Instead, Fredette, who is ineligible because he’s still under contract with the Phoenix Suns, will help a familiar face coach the entry known as Team Fredette at the Maverik Center next month: former BYU coach Dave Rose.Tea
  • Monson: Let’s stop with the nonsense that great NBA free agents will never come to the Utah Jazz

    It’s tricky business, trying to tell others — namely, young and rich and talented and in-demand NBA free agents — how they should feel about choosing to come to and live in Salt Lake City, and to play for the Utah Jazz.But not tricky enough to stop some of us from doing it, again and again.Brigham Young said, “This is the right place.”Derek Harper said, “You go live in Utah.”Both quotes have resonated in fame and infamy.Dwight Howard once made his mom cr
  • David Ortiz undergoes more surgery in Boston after shooting at Dominican bar

    Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic • A wounded David Ortiz was recovering from exploratory surgery in Boston on Tuesday as investigators in his native Dominican Republic tried to figure out who shot the former Red Sox slugger and why.Ortiz spokesman Leo López said Big Papi was expected to remain in intensive care for at least 48 hours.The 43-year-old retired athlete was flown to Boston on Monday night for further treatment, arriving in an air ambulance provided by the Red Sox, after d
  • Gov. Herbert’s spokesman Paul Edwards is leaving for BYU

    Paul Edwards is leaving his role as deputy chief of staff to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to join Brigham Young University as director of the Wheatley Institution, the Provo-based private school announced Tuesday.Edwards is expected to begin his new role in August, according to a BYU news release, replacing current inaugural Wheatley director Richard Williams, who plans to return to full-time teaching and research after leading the research- and scholarship-focused institution for 12 years.“We b
  • Letter: President should study up before traveling

    Dear President Trump,The next time you visit a foreign country, you might consider doing a bit of research about said country beforehand. For example, when you recently visited England to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, you said that Britain had many different names, and you seemed a bit confused about it all.It is possible, as I'm sure you know, to find background information on a certain country via the internet simply by googling your questions. Had you done so, you would have disc
  • Davis County Attorney: We ‘don’t do reviews,’ but might investigate after a Woods Cross officer was accused of pointing his gun at a 10-year-old boy

    Woods Cross • When the police chief of Woods Cross said the Davis County Attorney’s office would review police policy after an officer was accused of pointing a gun at a 10-year-old boy — but not investigate the incident — he apparently didn’t check with Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings.“The Davis County Attorney’s Office doesn’t do ‘reviews,’” Rawlings wrote in an email he sent Tuesday morning to The Huffington Post, replying t
  • Dana Milbank: Today we’re going to testify like its 1974

    Video: Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, former president Richard Nixon’s White House counsel John W. Dean III compared President Trump’s use of pardons to Nixon’s on June 10. (The Washington Post)
    Washington • Pull up your bell bottoms, slip on your clogs, and turn up the Roberta Flack: Today, we’re gonna testify like it’s the 1970s."Did you ever convey an order to break into the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Hotel?" asked Rep. Louie
  • [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz have blue-blood options with 23rd pick | KSL.com

    The Utah Jazz have various options with the 23rd NBA draft pick, including three players from blue blood programs that may be available late in the first round.
  • [KSL] - It's official: Donovan Mitchell named to Team USA training camp roster | KSL.com

    Twenty players will assemble in Las Vegas next month to try to make the final 12-man World Cup roster.
  • Catherine Rampell: The Federal Reserve is Trump’s latest scapegoat

    Not this again.Faced with any sort of self-inflicted crisis, Trump cycles through a series of scapegoats. Among the usual boogeymen (and boogeywomen): immigrants, China, NFL players, Hillary Clinton, House Democrats.But lately — and alarmingly, for anyone who cares about the long-term health of the U.S. economy — the Federal Reserve has entered the rotation with greater frequency.On Monday, in a rambling, petulant interview on CNBC, Trump once again lambasted the U.S. central bank, w
  • Utah man pleads not guilty to killing teens and dumping bodies in mine shaft

    Provo, Utah • A Utah man accused of killing two teenagers and dumping their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft has pleaded not guilty.Jerrod Baum entered the not guilty plea Monday to charges of aggravated murder and other counts in the deaths of 17-year-old Brelynne "Breezy" Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell.Relatives of the victims say they were not surprised by the plea.Riley Powell's father, Bill Powell, says Baum is a "chicken" for not admitting to the charges.Bill Powell and the aun
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Rock On: BYU basketball coach leaves everyone laughing; well, maybe not everyone

    Also, the inimitable Frank Layden has a superb rule of thumb when it comes to stealing jokes.
  • Dispute over a backpack leaves one man dead, another charged with homicide

    A homeless man is facing a homicide charge after a man he punched in a dispute over a backpack died from his injuries.Robert Walter Baker, 38, had been charged with homicide by assault, a third-degree felony, in Third District Court.According to court documents, Baker confronted Delpatrick Longacre, 58, about a backpack on May 31. Witnesses told police that Baker punched Longacre, who fell and hit his head on the ground; Baker then ran away.When Salt Lake Police arrived at the scene, 235 S. 500
  • Rock On: BYU basketball coach leaves everyone laughing; well, maybe not everyone

    BYU introduces Mark Pope as their new men's head basketball coach at a press conference at the BYU Broadcast Building in Provo on Wednesday, April 10, 2019.FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2017, file photo, Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge speaks with members of the media during NBA basketball media day Monday,, in Canton, Mass. Ainge spoke to reporters Wednesday, June 5, 2019, for the first time since his second heart attack and vowed "my role’s not going to change." (AP Photo/Steven Se
  • U.S. submits extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

    Washington • The United States government has formally submitted an extradition request to the United Kingdom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a U.S. official.Assange faces an 18-count indictment that accuses him of soliciting and publishing classified information and of conspiring with former Army private Chelsea Manning to crack a Defense Department computer password.The 47-year-old Assange was evicted on April 11 from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he had been
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Best Draft Picks in Utah Jazz History

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  • Deer Valley Resort ‘has no place’ in a lawsuit against Gwyneth Paltrow, attorney says

    Park City • A Utah ski resort where Gwyneth Paltrow is accused of crashing into and injuring a skier asked Monday to be dismissed from a lawsuit, contending the dispute should be settled between the Oscar-winning actress and the alleged victim.Deer Valley Resort is shielded from responsibilities for skiing collisions under a law that takes into account the inherent dangers of skiing, said attorney Adam Strachan, representing the well-known resort during a hearing in Park City, Utah.He compa
  • FBI agent in Albuquerque shoots and kills a Utah veterinarian

    An off-duty FBI agent shot and killed a Utah man who witnesses said had a gun drawn in an Albuquerque brewery, according to law enforcement and news outlets there.Cody Guy Wrathall, 43, a veterinarian from Saratoga Springs died in the shooting that took place Saturday.KOAT-TV 7 in Albuquerque cited police there as saying officers received a report of a woman being stalked inside the Nexus Brewery. Police were on their way when the off-duty FBI agent reported seeing a man enter the brewery with a
  • Kevin Durant’s achilles injury casts a pall on NBA Finals

    Toronto • The scoreboard said Golden State 106, Toronto 105.The reality was both teams lost.It's almost unimaginable: An NBA Finals game where neither team felt like celebrating afterward. That was the bizarre reality on Monday night, after the Warriors staved off elimination by rallying in the final moments to beat the Raptors and send this series back to Oracle Arena for Game 6 — on a night where Kevin Durant's season came to an end.Durant has an Achilles injury. The Warriors know i
  • Political Cornflakes: Ties to Interior secretary by firm seeking to expand mine unsettle tourist town

    Happy Tuesday!Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has close ties to Rocky Mountain Resources, which is trying to expand a limestone quarry near a tourist town in Colorado. While he pledged to recuse himself from decisions involving his former lobbying firm’s clients, that two-year vow expires in August. That makes officials of Glenwood Springs and environmental groups nervous. [Politico]Topping the news: Last winter’s government shutdown forced about a third of federal workers in Utah
  • Commentary: Want to fix the tech industry? Start with the humanities.

    Steve Jobs once proclaimed that "technology alone is not enough." Creating a better world, he repeatedly stressed, requires focus on people as well as technology, on the humanities as well as the sciences.Jobs was right. But why? Because technology is about people as much as things. As a human endeavor, technology belongs as much to the humanities and social sciences as to the natural sciences. Technologies arise only when people consciously transform the material world for human ends. Without t
  • Kirby: When road age runs into road rage

    Last week, my wife and I annoyed another motorist who attempted to merge into our lane on Bangerter Highway. When we didn’t get out of her way, the other driver announced her aggravation with a long horn blast.It was Friday evening and we were traveling northbound in the outside lane at 9000 South. Hemmed in by traffic and unable to move over as a courtesy, my wife (Driver No. 1) kept going.Since her merging lane was narrowing to the point of nonexistence, the woman (Driver No. Too Dumba--
  • Here’s how Salt Lake City’s proposed budget would affect the average homeowner

    The average Salt Lake City resident living in a medium-value residential home would shoulder a yearly increase of about $37 in taxes under a city budget proposal the council is expected to pass Tuesday evening.The extra costs — which are mostly a result of rising sewer and stormwater fees in Salt Lake City — would be more like $42 for residents in high-value homes and $35 for those in lower-value homes, according to estimates the city provided The Salt Lake Tribune.The largest bump f
  • Jennifer Rubin: Why Buttigieg and Warren are surging in the polls

    The punditocracy decided Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wasn't electable. The conventional wisdom said it was impossible for a mayor of a mid-sized Midwest city to compete for the presidential nomination, even if he was also a Rhodes Scholar and an Afghanistan war veteran. Hillary Clinton had too many policies, so Warren wasn't going to win over voters with substance. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was utterly unknown to the vast majority of primary voters, so he couldn't compete wit
  • Warriors hang on to stay alive, beat Raptors 106-105 in Game 5 of NBA Finals

    Toronto • The Golden State Warriors aren’t letting go of the NBA title just yet.With Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson shooting and Draymond Green swatting, the champions found a way to win even after a gut-wrenching loss.Curry scored 31 points, Thompson added 26 and they led a season-saving surge long after Kevin Durant was injured again to give the Warriors a 106-105 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.Devastated by the loss of Durant, the All-
  • Davis County Attorney’s Office to investigate after a Woods Cross officer was accused of pointing his gun at a 10-year-old boy

    Woods Cross • The Davis County Attorney’s Office will review an incident Thursday in which a Woods Cross officer was alleged to have pointed a gun at a 10-year-old boy — but the city’s police chief is adamant the officer is not under investigation.“It’s a review,” said Chief Chad Soffe in a news conference Monday. “We’re not investigating the actions. We’re reviewing them to see if there are any changes that we might be able to make in o
  • Southern Baptist report condemns ‘epidemic’ of abuse, looks at ways to assist victims

    A new Southern Baptist Convention report on sex abuse, filled with the voices of survivors, acknowledges numerous ways the denomination has failed to protect members of its churches.The “Caring Well” report also summarizes a range of next steps to address the issue, including educating congregations about abuse, preparing them to help survivors and fostering abuse prevention.“We lament the fact that it took a national movement of reckoning for abuse to force us to take this iss
  • Woman, 68, dies in mountain biking wreck in Park City

    A 68-year-old woman died Monday after she crashed while mountain biking in Park City.A group of cyclists found the woman about 7:30 p.m. alongside her bicycle on the Fox Tail Trail, near the Solamere neighborhood in eastern Park City, said Park City Police Capt. Phil Kirk.They called 911 to report she had "serious injuries," Kirk said; the woman later died.The woman was wearing a helmet. She was about a quarter mile from the nearest trailhead, but responders did not know whether that was the tra
  • Archbishop who called on Pope Francis to resign gives first interview since self-imposed exile

    Rome • In the instant he became one of the most controversial figures in modern Catholic Church history, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò went dark.The retired Vatican ambassador to Washington wrote a bombshell letter last summer calling on Pope Francis to resign on the grounds that he had tolerated a known sexual abuser. As that letter was published, Viganò turned off his phone, told friends he was disappearing, and let the church sort through the fallout.Nine months later, in h
  • Vatican rejects concept of gender fluidity to alarm of LGBT Catholics

    Vatican City • The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies.The document, published during LGBT Pride Month, was immediately denounced by LGBT Catholics as contributing to bigotry and violence against gay and transgender people. Advocacy group New Ways Ministry said it would further confuse individuals questioning their gender identity
  • [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Donovan, Blazers, Jazz, Franklin

    Billy Donovan's contract runs out after next season but he's not sweating over his tenuous status with the Thunder, Erik …
  • Helicopter crashes on roof of NYC skyscraper, killing pilot

    New York • A helicopter crashed on the roof of a rain-shrouded midtown Manhattan skyscraper Monday, killing the pilot and briefly triggering memories of 9/11, after an erratic trip across some of the nation’s most restricted airspace. Authorities said they did not suspect terrorism.The crash near Times Square and Trump Tower shook the 750-foot AXA Equitable building, sparked a fire and forced office workers to flee on elevators and down stairs, witnesses and officials said.The pilot w
  • Logano edges Kurt Busch, Truex in overtime

    Brooklyn, Mich. • Joey Logano won his second NASCAR Cup Series race of the season, holding off Kurt Busch and Martin Truex Jr. in overtime Monday.Logano was trying to hold on to a dwindling lead over Truex and Busch with five laps remaining, but around that time, Erik Jones went onto the grass, bringing out the caution flag that forced overtime. Logano and Truex were up front on the restart, along with Kurt and Kyle Busch, and Logano pulled ahead and held on.It was the fifth victory of the
  • Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has a new officer and he’s excited to get to work tracking poachers

    Conservation K-9 Carlo, an energetic chocolate Labrador retriever, is excited to get to work.His partner, Officer Josh Carver of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, straps on a collar that signals to Carlo that they are looking for a human-owned object. Carlo puts his nose to the ground, catches a scent and begins to follow it, snaking through a field that appears empty to the human eye. Within minutes, he stops, hovers and looks up at Carver. At his paws is a camouflaged rifle.After Carlo
  • Last winter’s government shutdown was worse than you thought. New study says about 1 of 3 federal workers in Utah went to a food pantry or missed house payments.

    Washington • The IRS worker in the Ogden area was already the sole breadwinner for a family of five and short on cash around Christmastime.And then the federal government shut down. For 35 painful days.“It literally happened at the worst possible time of [the] year,” the worker wrote in a new report that highlights challenges federal employees in Utah faced — and some still face — because of the Washington impasse that furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal work
  • Real Salt Lake has bowed out of U.S. Open Cup early in recent years. But with a break and more players available, this year could be different.

    Herriman • Real Salt Lake may have a three-week break from official Major League Soccer competition, but that doesn’t mean it won’t play games against MLS teams.For the 2019 U.S. Open Cup, the fourth round of which starts Tuesday, RSL drew Los Angeles Football Club, which sits atop the league with 37 points. In the last two years, Real has bowed out after playing just one game in the tournament, losing to Sporting Kansas City in 2018 and United Soccer League side Sacramento Repu

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