Gang wars Slayings Homicides in Utah soared in mid90s

They were episodes of violence that shocked the state, caught the attention of the national media and prompted a Utah senator’s pledge to secure millions to stop the gang killings.
On Sept. 1, 1993, 17-year-old Aaron Chapman was shot and killed while leaving a concert at [...]

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Like father like son Being honored as top dog runs in the family

Parker knows a thing or two about the spotlight, about once-in-a-lifetime moments.
Sure, these days he spends most of his mornings in the yard of his Plain City home, and most of his afternoons lying around the house, but don’t let that fool you. There was [...]

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Coyotes dumped in Dallas

Bryzgalov turned in a brilliant performance, making 42 saves, and if not for some bad breaks would have had a shutout.
Gretzky said Bryzgalov played “exceptionally well” after allowing three goals in eight shots in a loss Sunday night.
“Today’s a new day,” Bryzgalov said. “I try to give my [...]

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Families friends fearful after raid

PROVO Not only was Francisco Ortiz supposed to come home from work Thursday night, he was supposed to bring his paycheck as well.
But he never made it. He was arrested Thursday morning by federal immigration agents who conducted a raid at the Universal Industrial [...]

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Not giant enough

The Patriots, meanwhile, were the first team to go into a Super Bowl 18-0 and only the second to get there undefeated. They had scored 589 points in the regular season, a whopping 315 more than their opponents.
We can’t say it was the biggest upset in sports history, but it might rank as the second-biggest [...]

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Tocchet returns from ‘ordeal’

“I’m happy to be back in the NHL. It’s been a long ordeal. It’s funny. You try to go through things in your head over the last couple of years. People who know me, I usually speak from the heart. It’s been a tough time.”
When the allegations surfaced, Tocchet went to NHL Commissioner [...]

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Plan for O’Neal Let big man play

“You get an idea of what he can do, but we won’t know until he plays with our guys,” D’Antoni said. “Then we’ll adjust as he goes along.”
O’Neal missed Saturday’s practice to tend to affairs in Miami. He is expected back Sunday but likely won’t play in the game against the Washington Wizards at US [...]

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Trade shocks gracious Marion

Marion offered no criticism of the Suns for ending an 8 1/2-year marriage. Only Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Dirk Nowitzki and Paul Pierce had longer current tenures with one NBA team.
The move came less than three weeks after Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver pledged to keep his team’s core together.
General Manager [...]

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The world according to garb

‘But you’re the editor of Vogue!”Yep. It’s still a mystery.’This is what is always so startling about Alex Shulman: she is the editor of Vogue but she’s completely normal. She is not remotely like Miranda Priestly, the editor in The Devil Wears Prada, or indeed like Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue. She is [...]

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Dads last vanishing act

In 1990, he went on holiday to California and never came back. Three months after he arrived on America’s west coast, his tourist visa expired and he became an illegal immigrant; four years later, his British passport ran out. As the years passed by, returning home seemed increasingly out of the question: legally, financially, physically, [...]

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