Lawyers need to be involved before a disaster strikes, expert says at Utah...
West Jordan • As New Orleans began rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, many residents were unable to prove they owned their late parents’ home because there was no will showing they had...
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BYU football: No regrets for well-traveled Utah prep great Austin Kafentzis,...
Provo • Austin Kafentzis says he doesn’t have any regrets.But the most decorated high school quarterback the state of Utah ever has produced can’t help but wonder what this weekend might have been like...
View ArticleSalt Lake City doubles number of municipal buildings with solar panels
Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced Thursday that Utah’s capital city has doubled the number of municipal buildings with solar panels.A total of 756 solar panels were installed at seven...
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History of India’s independence, told at plodding pace, in ‘Viceroy's House’
In the movie “Viceroy’s House,” director Gurinder Chadha delivers a deeply personal story of the lives shattered as a result of the partition of India and Pakistan when British rule ended in...
View ArticleGov. Herbert wishes GOP would drop lawsuit challenging new election law
Gov. Gary Herbert wished aloud Thursday that the Utah Republican Party would drop its lawsuit challenging the state’s new election law, which is driving a wedge between the party’s right wing and...
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Spy thriller ‘American Assassin’ delivers furious action fueled by trio of...
The spy yarn “American Assassin” gives new meaning to the phrase “all killer, no filler,” as it delivers its action at regular, bloody intervals, with minimal breaks for the messiness of character...
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Outlandish director Alejandro Jodorowsky celebrates his salad days in...
If you are at all familiar with the movies of madman director Alejandro Jodorowsky — like the ’70s cult hits “El Topo” or “The Holy Mountain,” or his aborted effort to adapt Frank Herbert’s “Dune” —...
View ArticleBehind the Headlines: Drug court opens for Operation Rio Grande arrestees,...
The kickoff of a new drug court program adds to the treatment efforts of Operation Rio Grande. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throws its support behind a Colorado bakery shop owner who...
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Horror or not, ‘mother!’ is a weird, wild trip that’s sure to be a...
A critic could spend a lot of time and verbiage just trying to categorize movie writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”Is it a horror movie? A marital drama? A psychological thriller about...
View ArticleNew Utah media blitz aims to help parents protect their kids against digital...
A new Utah campaign announced Thursday will target pornography in the name of protecting children, with billboards, radio spots and a new website aimed at raising awareness and providing online...
View ArticleA fascinating character study of a teen struggling with his sexual identity...
Writer-director Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” which won her the Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, starts off as an interesting character study of a young Brooklyn tough grappling...
View ArticleSuspect in school shooting said victim who died bullied him
Rockford, Wash. • A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting four classmates at a rural high school in Washington state had been meeting with a school counselor over suicidal thoughts before bringing two...
View ArticleNoah Feldman: Bakers can be artists, but they still can't discriminate
Cake baking is an art. Or so says a group of professional wedding cake bakers who have filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in what promises to be the blockbuster case of the...
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With Russia and a bad back behind him, Dax Raymond makes his mark at Utah State
Logan • When Dax Raymond walked off the blue turf field at the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Dec. 22, 2015, he didn’t have any idea how long it would take to wear a Utah State football uniform again.The...
View ArticleCommentary: ‘White evangelicalism in America has largely retreated back into...
This is my final column for Religion News Service, marking my voluntary departure from what used to be called “opinion writing” and what today is called the blogosphere. Here’s why:In my new memoir,...
View ArticleBagley Cartoon: Universal Care Canards
This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at...
View ArticleSouth Korea says North has fired another missile over Japan
Seoul, South Korea • South Korea’s military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean.It was the...
View ArticleOutdoor interactive exhibit on refugees coming to Salt Lake City
An outdoor exhibition, guided tour and virtual reality experience will bring Utahns up close with the global refugee crisis next week and what those people face as they are forced to flee their homes,...
View ArticleCommentary: Nominate Ronald Russell for the federal court in Utah
In December 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Ronald Russell, who had been a dedicated public servant and private practitioner in Utah for many years, to a judicial vacancy on the District of...
View ArticleCourt hearing delayed because alleged victim in assisted suicide case killed...
An evidence hearing in an attempted murder case — where a Cache County woman is accused of trying to help another woman commit suicide — was delayed Thursday because the alleged victim recently killed...
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