HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 40-year-old Chicago woman faces nearly four years in federal prison for using fraudulent federal nutrition benefit checks to purchase nearly $220,000 worth of items at Kmart stores in 11 states during a four-month crime spree. Lynada Laticia Mahone was arrested in Arizona, pleaded guilty to […]
PROVO, Utah-Monday, Baseball America ranked BYU baseball #25 in the nation in its latest poll. The Cougars are currently 29-10 (.744) and 13-5 (.722) in West Coast Conference play. The Cougars are currently on a five-game winning streak, having swept Pacific and taken two of three games against Washington in […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Mark Pope is returning to BYU as the Cougars’ new head coach with the task of elevating a program that hasn’t earned an NCAA Tournament berth since 2015. The school announced Wednesday that it was naming Pope to replace Dave Rose, who retired in March after […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 24 points, Rudy Gobert added 23 points and 17 rebounds, and the Utah Jazz beat the Brooklyn Nets 114-98 on Saturday night. Derrick Favors had 13 points and 12 rebounds for the Jazz. Jae Crowder and Ricky Rubio added 12 points apiece […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — If you ever wished to gaze at a stomping, snorting, neighing panorama of Western heritage from your living-room window, now could be your chance. A classic image of the American West — wild horses stampeding across the landscape — not only has endured through the years […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A wide-ranging bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and creates five new national monuments has won congressional approval. The measure is the largest public lands bill approved by Congress in more than a decade. The […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona State stayed in the NCAA Tournament picture by putting together one of its best offensive performances of the season. The Sun Devils heated up early and never cooled down on their way to beating Utah 98-87 on Saturday night. Arizona State dominated around the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. West (all times local): 1:25 p.m. A long stretch of Interstate 80 that had been closed for two days due to blizzard conditions in California’s Sierra Nevada has reopened as a fierce winter storm moves east. Still, travel […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Winter weather closed schools and disrupted travel across much of the West, with ice and snow stretching from Seattle to Arizona. The Pacific Northwest shivered Tuesday under colder-than-normal conditions as snow and treacherous conditions led to another day of school closures. Winter weather also disrupted parts of […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Utah police officers caught committing misdeeds on the job such as driving under the influence or using drugs receive more lenient punishments than law enforcement in six other states, a new state report found. The State Auditor’s Office reviewed eight years of discipline records and concluded […]
