PROVO, Utah (AP) — Yoeli Childs matched a season high with 31 points and BYU ended a three-game losing streak with a 95-80 victory over Utah State on a Wednesday night when Nick Emery returned to the floor for the Cougars after more than a season’s absence. Childs made 11 […]
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — New Texas Tech coach Matt Wells has brought six more of his assistant coaches from Utah State to be on his staff with the Red Raiders. The new Tech hires were announced Wednesday. When Wells was hired away from his alma mater last week to replace […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A South Salt Lake police officer and former Marine who was killed on duty when a man driving a stolen SUV rammed into him was remembered at a public funeral Wednesday as a humble public servant and loving husband and father. During the memorial […]
DENVER (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says fish and other aquatic life didn’t suffer severe or long-lasting damage from a 2015 mine waste spill that polluted rivers in three states. An EPA report released last week analyzed the effects of Gold King Mine spill in southwestern Colorado, which an EPA-led contractor […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors say a Utah woman shot and killed her ex-husband’s girlfriend after drawing the man out of the apartment with a message about dropping off children’s cold medicine. Charging documents filed Wednesday say 32-year-old Chelsea Watrous Cook sent the text message on Nov. 25. After […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Latest on a crash on Interstate 80 in western Wyoming (all times local): ___ 5:15 p.m. Traffic is moving on Interstate 80 in western Wyoming again after a crash involving seven tractor trailers and two other vehicles. The pileup Wednesday morning closed I-80 at Evanston. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The recent beating of a young man and his father at their Salt Lake City tire shop by an attacker who told police he targeted them because they were Mexican is renewing criticism of the state’s hate crime law, which one prosecutor is calling unusable. […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Ogden police say an officer fatally shot an 18-year-old armed robbery suspect after a chase and several crashes. Deputy Chief Eric Young says the chase and shooting occurred Tuesday after the man drove a stolen car away from an apartment that police detectives had under surveillance. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state panel has made its recommendations for how to deal with the high number of deaths in Utah’s jails, but lawmakers and officials are warning the suggestions could come with hefty price tags. The Standard-Examiner reports the 27-member workgroup released a report Monday with recommendations aimed […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kyle Korver is back, and suddenly the Utah Jazz are sinking shots. “His confidence is contagious,” Donovan Mitchell said. “His presence just gives us spacing and helps everybody.” Mitchell scored 20 points, Rudy Gobert had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and the Utah Jazz beat […]
