BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Western Michigan (7-5) vs. BYU (6-6), Dec. 21, 4 p.m. EST (ESPN) Line: BYU by 12. Series Record: BYU leads 3-2. WHAT’S AT STAKE Back in a bowl game after missing last year, the Cougars look to close out a roller coaster […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finds that funding levels for Native American tribes are woefully inadequate despite the federal government’s responsibility to provide for education, public safety, health care and other services under treaties, laws and other acts. The report made […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge reduced the sentence of a Utah businessman after the man tearfully apologized for his “foolish” and “selfish” actions that caused the demise of his multimillion-dollar internet business and landed him behind bars. A jury convicted Jeremy Johnson in 2016 of eight counts of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Many Utah couples are celebrating their fifth anniversary this month and looking back on their rush to wed after a federal judge had become the first in the country to strike down a state ban on gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Playing strong defense has typically proven to be a winning formula for Utah. Getting to that point has taken more turns and detours than the Jazz anticipated this season. Beating the defending NBA champions offers evidence that Utah is finally finding the defensive form the […]
OREM, Utah (AP) — Senior Connor MacDougall had his first career double-double and Jake Toolson scored 18 points to help Utah Valley beat Idaho State 88-77 on Wednesday night. MacDougall, a graduate transfer from New Mexico who began his collegiate career at Arizona State, was 12-of-12 shooting and had career […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An investigation into the death of a University of Utah student shot by a man she briefly dated found her friends had reported his controlling behavior and interest in getting her a gun nearly a month before the shooting, but that warning never made it […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah couple used waterboarding as punishment for their 9-year-old daughter after she got out of bed to get a cup of water, prosecutors said in charges filed Wednesday. They took her into a bathroom with the cup, then bound her hands, covered her face […]
Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would criminalize international doping conspiracies, the likes of which Russia pursued during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. The measure is named after Grigory Rodchenkov, the Moscow lab director who blew the whistle on Russian cheating. It is similar to a bill introduced […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Shoppers in Utah County soon will begin paying an extra penny for every $4 spent on taxable goods, excluding food, starting April 1. The Utah County Commission on Tuesday voted to implement the fourth-quarter cent sales tax to fund roads and transit. The tax is expected […]
