Monson: BYU is tortured again, by Utah, a team it cannot beat
ProvoSo, the suffering continues.The mountain BYU looked forward — or did it, really? — to climbing on Saturday night against its rival offered a wicked ascent. Everybody, including the Cougars...
View ArticleKragthorpe: Ute defense overcomes offense’s shortcomings to beat BYU again
ProvoUtah coach Kyle Whittingham made yet another change of offensive coordinators after last season for one basic reason: The Utes kicked too many field goals.The same issue surfaced Saturday night,...
View ArticlePrep football: Bingham defense hands Hawaiian foe its first shutout since 2008
Las Vegas • Honolulu Kahuku’s may have had more fans at Sam Boyd Stadium than UNLV did in its historic home loss to Howard last week, but it was Bingham’s football team that made the loudest statement...
View Article‘I’m scared to death’: Hurricane Irma’s life-threatening winds, storm surges...
St. Petersburg, Fla. • Hurricane Irma closed in on the Florida Keys with top winds of near 130 mph early Sunday as forecasters monitored a crucial shift in its trajectory — just a few more miles to the...
View ArticleTyler Huntley carried the offense, but Utes can’t afford for that to last...
Even in those moments when a few low snaps went rolling around the grass or Tyler Huntley turned the wrong way to hand the ball off, he still made it work more often than not for the Utes in a hostile...
View ArticleBYU still on prowl for answers as Cougar offense continues to sputter
Provo • Tanner Mangum dropped to one knee, his uniform stained green from taking knock after knock from Utah’s defense, as one fan on the east side of LaVell Edwards Stadium screamed out in...
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Leonard Pitts: Nothing to see here, say the climate deniers
Katia and Jose? Seriously?As if it were not bad enough that Houston is still drying out from Hurricane Harvey and South Florida is hunkered down in the face of Hurricane Irma, last week found the newly...
View ArticleCommentary: The future rests with Utah’s youngest residents — so expand the...
With tax reform shaping up as the next big debate on Capitol Hill, the conversation to date has primarily focused on closing loopholes and lowering rates. But with a common goal of using reform to...
View ArticleCommentary: We can’t lose the DACAmented Utahns who’d lose everything if...
Five years ago, our government made a deal with immigrant youth: Come forward, register, pass a criminal background check, and you can live, study and work here lawfully.In a climate of stalled...
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‘The Curious Incident’ opens doors of awareness, while staying true the...
It’s a curious thing to take on the role of Christopher Boone, the brilliant but emotionally isolated 15-year-old kid at the center of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” The...
View ArticleCommentary: SLC’s dangerous Rio Grande neighborhood needs urgent help, not...
The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sept. 2 editorial on Operation Rio Grande peddled unhelpful platitudes and ignored the real and urgent problems of this area.We believe the proposed safe zone on Rio Grande...
View ArticleCommentary: Utah delegation can lead the charge for a standalone DREAM act
When Donald Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, he made a very cynical political decision. He tried to have it both ways: assuage his nationalist base...
View ArticleTribune Editorial: Police have a heavy burden — an individual's actions can...
Hospital administrators are concerned. Nurses are frightened. Civil libertarians are steamed. The internet is alight with indignation.But it should be clear that the law enforcement profession itself...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: I fear I don’t have enough time left in my life for...
I am close to turning 100 years old. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible. I am saddened, and shocked at what is happening in my country every day under this administration. It was not...
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John Curtis: the Republican congressional hopeful, one-time watch salesman...
Provo • John Curtis points to the ceiling in his office where two of the tiles are a slightly darker shade of gray than the rest.“That’s where my foot came down,” he explains with a laugh.The...
View ArticleGetting married is one thing, but staying married is something else
On Thursday evening, with storm clouds threatening, Killer’s son got married. The bride was beautiful and the groom looked both in love and appropriately terrified.Watching them become a legal couple...
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Once a child bride, Elissa Wall now has ambitions to remake a polygamous...
The day a judge awarded her $16 million in damages, Elissa Wall was busy. She had orders to fill and employees to supervise at her business, My Baby Rocks, an online retail store for punk and...
View ArticleLetter: Keep the Endangered Species Act strong
I am writing in support of the Endangered Species Act, and in opposition to efforts by Congress to undermine this landmark wildlife conservation law.The Endangered Species Act is a safety net for fish,...
View ArticleHurricane Irma pummels Florida from coast to coast
Miami • Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over...
View ArticleSmall margins of victory add up to a snowballing streak as gap grows between...
Provo • Throughout the week, Kyle Whittingham had made the same prediction over and over again.“This game is its own entity,” the Utah coach had said. “It almost doesn’t matter what’s happened prior to...
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