LAS VEGAS The journey to Miss America ended for Miss Utah Jill Stevens tonight as she was eliminated from the competition after landing in the finals as the “America’s Choice” candidate, chosen by voters on the Web.
Though she had one of the largest cheering [...]
Brilliant, bodacious basketball coach Rick Majerus is in trouble again. Not so much on the court as off. And not because he’s driving drunk or dealing drugs. Those were never his vices. His problems always come from his mouth the food he puts in it and the [...]
PROVO First-year New Mexico basketball coach Steve Alford got his first taste of coaching against BYU, with his Lobos getting outshot and outplayed in the Cougars’ 83-66 victory Saturday afternoon at the Marriott Center.
The result: UNM’s season-worst shooting percentage and its season-worst loss.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. After a grueling month of campaigning that began in Iowa, Florida voters have finally anointed a Republican front-runner in the race for the White House.
Arizona Sen. John McCain now stands with an open road ahead moving into next week’s Super Tuesday [...]
Latter-day Saints take comfort in the fact that their church is never without leadership, even when the presiding First Presidency is dissolved upon the death of the president.
Leadership automatically shifts to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in a move formally termed “apostolic interregnum.” That [...]
On the outside, Elizabeth looks just like any other Utah teenager. She’s white, as is an estimated 83 percent of the state’s population, and she shares the majority LDS faith.
Yet, even though this Southern Utah University student never crossed the border illegally and her parents [...]
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. There may have been four GOP contenders for the White House on stage Wednesday, but the debate before so-called “Super-Duper” Tuesday was really only between two of them newly anointed front-runner John McCain and Mitt Romney.
The pair sparred several times [...]
The number of visitors paying their respects at President Gordon B. Hinckley’s viewing today and Friday is expected to top 60,000 each day, but people waiting in line will be able to use the Conference Center’s 21,000-seat auditorium instead of braving the cold outside.
The Church [...]
As Mother Nature gathers steam for another string of winter storms about to hit the state, public works officials are starting to cringe when they look at the sky.
The extraordinary amount of snow and ice that’s fallen on city streets so far this winter season [...]
DEER VALLEY Ski cross isn’t difficult to figure out. The first skier across the finish is the winner, just like in auto racing.
Which is one reason it was selected as a new addition to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. And why, in the selection [...]
