Total news: 7
Last news: January 1, 1970 00:00:00

Total news: 0
Last news: ---

Total news: 1226
Last news: March 24, 2011 00:12:01

SALT LAKE CITY -- TreVon Willis, Oscar Bellfield and Quintrell Thomas each scored 12 points as UNLV defeated Utah 78-58 Saturday in the regular season finale for both.

The Rebels (23-7, 11-5 Mountain West) won their fifth straight game and clinched the third seed in next weeks conference tournament in Las Vegas.

Josh Watkins scored 18 points and Jason Washburn had 12 amid talk that this could mark the end of coach Jim Boylens four-year tenure at Utah.

Read more]

OGDEN -- As his Top 25 Utah State Aggies prepare for the WAC tournament and March Madness, senior guard Brian Greens college basketball career is winding down.

He never thought hed get this far.

"Its a dream come true to be able to play Division I basketball. Its been a long road," Green said. "I look back, Im still in shock that Im playing Division I basketball. Ive had a lot of people in my life that have helped me get here."

As a junior at Davis High, Green broke... - [Read more]

This is embarrassing.

For nearly a month now, the countrys basketball spotlight has shown brightly on the Beehive State, aka "The place where theyll either run you off, trade you off or kick you off the team."

First, there was longtime Jazz coach Jerry Sloan suddenly resigning after more than 22 seasons as head coach.

That one left basketball pundits stunned.

Read more]

OGDEN -- For the past several years, Bobby Webb and his wife have attended the Standard-Examiner Home & Garden Show at the Golden Spike Events Center.

The couple enjoys looking at options for their various home projects, so on Friday they were looking for kitchen repair and remodeling ideas.

"Its a great event because it gives you exposure to whats available in your community," Webb said.

Read more]

ATLANTA -- Ear infections, a scourge that has left countless tots screaming through the night, have fallen dramatically, and some researchers suggest a decline in smoking by parents might be part of the reason.

read more

The auction of two "hunting" permits to turkey-shoot a deer and bighorn sheep on Antelope Island is unsportsmanlike. The $285,000 the state park will receive from the "hunts" cant wipe away the stain of pursuing animals who live in a protected preserve.

It wont be hunting. It will be akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Our state officials who OKd the creepy practice should be ashamed of themselves.

The permits were sold at a hunting expo last month in Salt Lake City. Its an... - [Read more]

Many republics are democracies such as the Republic of India or the French Republic. But some democracies are not republics, such as the Kingdom of Sweden.

The Utah House of Representatives believes that ideally people should live in a republic which is not a democracy. This was made clear with the passage of HB220 by a overwhelming vote of 57-17. According to the U.S. State Department there is only one republic in this hemisphere which is not a democracy: the Republic of Cuba.... - [Read more]

SALT LAKE CITY -- Colt Riley was hoping to win second place at the Utah Regional Braille Challenge on Friday.

read more

OGDEN -- The Utah Attorney Generals Office wont file criminal charges following a lengthy probe of allegations that Envision Ogden engaged in fraud and money laundering.

read more

SALT LAKE CITY -- Legislators have approved changes to the law covering access to government records in what some call record time.

read more

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Senate passed a bill Friday that allows guns to be carried closer to schools, even though the governor may veto it.

read more

CLEARFIELD -- It took Gary Clark three years to get his business up and running. On Friday, he watched all that hard work be ruined in less than 20 minutes.

read more

SALT LAKE CITY -- A compromise on immigration reform was falling apart Friday evening as House Republicans were poised to approve a guest worker program.

read more

Chris Thile thinks that he and his band, Punch Brothers, are more than hitting their stride — he sees a bit of downright swagger these days.

“We kind of suspect now that the music is finally getting to where people hoped it would be,” said Thile, on the road from Carefree to Phoenix, Ariz. The band plays at Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden on Saturday.

“Especially when one member of a band has a known history, it takes a while for people to accept what they are... - [Read more]

FARMINGTON -- Can you sell a large piece of commercial property with a small sign?

One real estate broker doesnt think so and has suggested city officials revisit their sign ordinance, which limits the size of a commercial sign to six square feet.

read more

Tom Clark ventured to Ogden in 2003 for his first headlining gig. Now the comic returns to the magical scene.

“I love coming out there. Ogden was the first clubs that headlined me when I first moved out to L.A.,” said Clark in a phone interview in advance of next weekend’s shows at Wiseguys Comedy Cafe. “I’ve always appreciated them for helping me out.”

A lot has happened to Clark in the last eight years — including some Comedy Central performances and being a... - [Read more]

Opera is rarely associated with musical parody, but Johann Strauss II’s operetta “Die Fledermaus” is just that.

Weber State University’s department of performing arts, accompanied by WSU’s chamber orchestra, brings the show to the Austad Auditorium on Thursday through Saturday of next week.

Karen Brookens, head of WSU’s vocal performance and vocal pedagogy department, said she has long dreamed of directing “Die Fledermaus,” but waited for just the right group... - [Read more]

OGDEN — The original golden spike, used in a ceremony celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad, is kept at Stanford University in California. Now, Utah, where the ceremony took place in 1869, is getting the safe that held the famous object.

The safe was given to Stanford University by Wells Fargo around 1954, and used to display the gold spike until the school’s museum was damaged and closed as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The building reopened... - [Read more]

Laissez les bon temps rouler! Mardi Gras happens this week, and The Beat Beat audio blog celebrates the party by delving into the history of the song “Iko Iko.”

Listen to The Beat Beat:

read more

OGDEN — The former principal bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony and current director of a young bassist program in the San Francisco Symphony education department is presenting a free program at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Weber State University.

Barry Green will present a lecture related to his new book, “Bringing Music to Life,” in the Browning Center’s Garrison Choral Room on campus at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

Green, a native Californian, performed with the Cincinnati... - [Read more]