BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney faulted those on both extremes of the nation’s political divide as he accepted the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Romney was honored on Wednesday for his decision to become the only Republican to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 25 points in his much-anticipated return from a sprained ankle and the Utah Jazz overcame Ja Morant’s franchise-record 47 points in a 141-129 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night, tying the first-round playoff series at a game apiece. Mitchell, who […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A lawmaker in Utah who proposed legislation that would ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports has announced plans to reintroduce the proposal in 2022. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Kera Birkeland, died in a Senate […]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Big Sky Conference has rescinded a policy that required student-athletes to sit out a year before being eligible to compete after transferring from one school to another within the conference. Presidents of the conference schools voted unanimously Monday to allow transfer students to compete right […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested after police said he struck a state highway patrol trooper last weekend while riding a dirt bike. KTVX-TV reported Monday that 20-year-old Jamin Jenkins faces multiple charges including aggravated assault, failure to respond to an officer’s signal to stop […]
Utah’s Jordan Clarkson, the only player to come off the bench and score 40 points in a game this season, was announced Monday as the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year. And his closest competition was from a teammate: Utah’s Joe Ingles was second, marking the first time the top […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Water levels at Utah’s reservoirs are lower than normal after a bad year for snowpack, and Gov. Spencer Cox is warning severe drought conditions could trigger water and fire restrictions and a possible ban on fireworks this year. Cox said Thursday at his monthly news […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Utah have found the body of a hiker reported missing in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The Unified Police Department says 31-year-old Brent Rane of Salt Lake City was hiking down the Mount Superior trail in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest when he apparently slipped, fell […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A large fire tore through several homes in St. George late Friday. The Spectrum reports it also caused widespread traffic problems downtown before being contained that evening. Police say multiple houses were caught in the blaze and at least five homes were affected. Traffic lights […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dillon Brooks had 31 points and seven rebounds and the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies beat the top-seeded Utah Jazz 112-109 in the opening game of their first-round playoff series. Brooks set a single-game franchise scoring record for a Memphis player making their NBA playoff debut, surpassing […]
