Darvish, Taylor put Dodgers on verge of World Series berth
Chicago • Yu Darvish pitched into the seventh inning, Chris Taylor homered again and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-1 on Tuesday night to open a commanding 3-0 lead in the NL...
View ArticleColumbus Crew owner threatens to go to Austin if they don't get new stadium
Columbus, Ohio • The owner of the Crew SC says the team is no longer sustainable and will move to Austin, Texas, unless a new, privately-financed stadium is built in downtown Columbus.Anthony Precourt,...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Trump says Dem congresswoman ‘fabricated’ comment he made to...
Trump says Dem congresswoman ‘fabricated’ comment he made to soldier‘s widow. Poll finds Curtis with strong lead in the 3rd District. Study: noncompetitive elections mean less turn out.Happy Wednesday....
View ArticleKragthorpe: Gordon Hayward's injury should bring no joy to Jazz fans
Late in the first quarter of Gordon Hayward’s first game with the Boston Celtics, I checked the online box score and discovered he had played only five minutes. That seemed weird. So I looked around,...
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Operation Rio Grande disrupts drug dealers, but it hasn’t put them out of...
Operation Rio Grande had achieved its first goal within minutes, chasing much of Salt Lake City’s drug activity from the streets where it had long been so infamously entrenched.A sergeant newly...
View ArticleErin Alberty: No, that trail-runner in ‘Men’s Journal’ does not know Bears...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of old-timers vs. newcomers in southern Utah.My impression has long been that some of the misgivings against new, rec-focused transplants and visitors are...
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George Pyle: Connecting some dots — Plans for Mitt and art that makes people...
In Sunday’s Salt Lake Tribune Opinion section, we carried a piece by long-time political observer Bernie Quigley, who had some advice for Mitt Romney.— Mitt Romney must run for president in 2020 by...
View ArticleScott D. Pierce: Chill out, fans — ESPN does not hate the Pac-12
Ask Washington fans, and odds are they’ll tell you that ESPN hates the Huskies. And the league they play in. They’re furious up in Seattle. They don’t get no respect. The loss to Arizona State on...
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Gehrke: As #MeToo seeks to end the silence around sexual assault, here’s my...
Reading the accounts of the various women who said they were sexually harassed and assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, the similarities are striking.Not just the similarities from one woman who Weinstein...
View ArticleLetter: Every member of Congress had their fingers on that trigger
Make no mistake about it, every member of Congress who has been bought or intimidated by the NRA had their fingers on the trigger in Las Vegas that killed 50 plus and injured 400 more. They should be...
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Dana Milbank: President Trump cooks up a soufflé of dysfunction
Washington • I had dinner over the weekend at the “soft opening” of a buzzy new restaurant, where a pedigreed chef offers an ambitious menu at a price of nearly $40 per entree.It was more soft than...
View ArticleInternal White House documents allege manufacturing decline increases...
Washington • White House officials working on trade policy were alarmed last month when a top adviser to President Donald Trump circulated a two-page document that alleged a weakened manufacturing...
View ArticleUtah cops stopping homeless to see their ID, but are they breaking the law in...
Scruffy-looking pedestrians along North Temple and elsewhere in Salt Lake City should be prepared to show identification — despite their legal right not to carry ID.Since the onset of Operation Rio...
View ArticleSecond judge rules against latest travel ban, saying Trump's own words show...
A federal judge in Maryland early Wednesday issued a second halt on the latest version of President Donald Trump's travel ban, asserting that the president's own comments on the campaign trail and on...
View ArticleLetter: Trump has no character to erode
Three types of acts for which I have no tolerance are cheating, deliberate cruelty and self-aggrandizement at the expense of others. Engaging in even a single such act seriously erodes one’s character....
View ArticleLetter: Two LDS positions that cannot be reconciled
OK, help me out here. In The Salt Lake Tribune it was reported on Oct. 1 that “Mormon opposition to gay marriage will never change. A divine decree that will stand forever.”On Oct. 2, a front page...
View ArticleGord Downie, lead singer of The Tragically Hip, has died
Toronto • The widely revered lead singer and songwriter of iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip has died. Gord Downie was 53.Downie became a part of Canada's national identity with about...
View ArticleMcKayla Maroney says USA Gymnastics team doctor began molesting her at the...
Inspired to speak out by the burgeoning #MeToo movement, former Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney announced early Wednesday on Twitter that she had been molested by Larry Nassar, who pleaded guilty...
View Article3 killed, 2 wounded at Maryland office park shooting
Edgewood, Md. • A gunman opened fire at a Maryland office park on Wednesday morning, killing three co-workers and wounding two others, authorities and the business owner said.Harford County Sheriff...
View ArticleJewish neo-Nazi renounces white supremacist past — and comes out as gay
Kevin Wilshaw first became interested in Nazism as an 11-year-old. His father was "very right wing," and he wanted to emulate him, he told Channel 4.Since then, the British man's life has revolved...
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