It seems like everyone in Chicago has a story about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week at the age of 84. Here's mine. I was a young reporter when I first talked to him, working the weekend and holiday shifts, which meant I often covered some of the bleakest stories in the newspaper. ...
When NBC affiliates in Tennessee showed the movie "Necessary Roughness" in 1994, those affiliates were required to give a Democrat Senate candidate 4 minutes and 13 seconds of free airtime. The Democrat was running against Fred Thompson, the actor turned Republican Senate candidate. When ...
A motion from Tyler Robinson's defense to remove the Utah County Attorney's Office from the case was denied Tuesday by Provo 4th District Judge Tony F. Graf, who determined an alleged conflict of interest did not compromise the attorney's office's prosecution of the case. Robinson's defense ...
President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the drying Great Salt Lake, declaring his commitment to “MAKE ‘THE LAKE’ GREAT AGAIN!” over the weekend and pledging to work with Utah’s governor to get the job done. “We promised to work closely together,” Gov. Spencer Cox told ...
The Bureau of Land Management opened a public comment period Monday for input on a proposed 20-year extension of a land order that prevents mining claims in parts of Spanish Fork Canyon to protect the area's water development program. The order, placed in 2006, withdraws 6,559 acres of the ...
The body of a man buried by an avalanche Sunday night was located by the Wasatch County Search and Rescue team Monday morning. The man, whose name was not released, was a 45-year-old from Rose Park, according to a sheriff's office news release. The incident marked the third death in Wasatch ...
