SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart says she’s pregnant with her third child. Smart made the announcement in an Instagram post Monday with a picture of an ultrasound and the words: “Pretty HUGE news!!! We’re expecting baby #3 in November!!!!” Smart was kidnapped from her Salt Lake City bedroom […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney handily won the Republican primary for a Utah Senate seat Tuesday after toning down his criticism of Donald Trump as he looks to re-start his political career. The former presidential candidate was the heavy favorite to win the primary in the race to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Six NBA teams will host teams from Australia’s National Basketball League for 2018-19 preseason exhibition games. The NBA and NBL announced the plans Tuesday for five Australian teams to visit the U.S. for games from Sept. 28-Oct. 5. It’s the second straight year the Australian league […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah 17-year-olds are heading to the polls for the first time Tuesday under a new state law allowing them to vote in primary races if they’ll be 18 by November. KUER radio reports the law was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year. Pleasant View 17-year-old […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. House has approved a plan to turn northern Utah’s Golden Spike National Historic Site into a park that will boost its prominence. The proposal from Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop would make the site at Promontory Summit where the first transcontinental railroad in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 60-year-old man and a boy he’s suspected of kidnapping from Colorado were found near a southern Utah lake where they had been walking naked after asking for food and water from campers. Garfield County sheriff’s spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said David Glenn Freeman and the […]
Forecasters say the summer rains that fall on the Southwestern United States each year are on track to be slightly later but a little heavier than usual. Brian Klimowski, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff, Arizona, said Monday the rains will likely start between July 6 and 9. He […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State officials say a toxic algae bloom has spread in Utah Lake near Provo making more areas unsafe for recreation. The Utah Department of Environmental Quality said in a statement Monday that it’s now warning people at Lincoln Marina, Sandy Beach and Utah Lake State […]
Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz is the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year. The center was the leading vote-getter for the league’s All-Defensive first team. Gobert anchored a Jazz defense that ranked second in the NBA in defensive rating. He beat out Anthony Davis of New Orleans and Joel […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney is readying for a second chance to dispatch a state lawmaker who defeated him at the state Republican Party convention in the race for a Utah Senate seat. He’s competing with Mike Kennedy in a primary election Tuesday to replace U.S. Sen. Orrin […]
