School districts are employing bus drivers who have criminal convictions and serious driving violations, a state audit released today shows. 3:08 p.m. | 7 comments
A coal company fined $1.46 million last month for safety violations has sued federal mine regulators, the latest example of escalating tensions between coal operators and the U.S. Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration. 2:02 p.m. | 0 comments
Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday. 2:54 p.m. | 3 comments
Parliamentary maneuvering in the U.S. Senate has killed for the year a giant, catch-all public lands bill that had included land trades sought to help a Utah Boy Scout camp, a Bountiful shooting range, a ranch for troubled youths and Park City open space. 11:41 a.m. | 6 comments
Here's the latest medical update from the M*A*S*H unit that masquerades as the Utah Jazz basketball team — or is it vice-versa? — from this morning's practice at Zions Bank Basketball Center: 11:17 a.m. | 5 comments
This is a week Tom Sitake should be torn in half, his emotions frayed, his loyalties tested. He should be a guy in conflict, talking to friends, speaking to a shrink while he's laid out on a sofa in some room with fish staring at him through a big plate-glass wall.
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The one went to the one place and is now in charge of the other place, as opposed to the other one who is in charge of the one place and went to the other place.
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There are more than 27,000 wards and branches in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The names of most of these sound pretty routine, while others are unusual or strange — at least until you know the name of the city it is located in, or something about the area's local history or geography.
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The state of Utah lost more than 2,000 jobs over the past year, according to a report released Monday by the Division of Workforce Services. 11:13 a.m. | 4 comments
Hundreds of shrieking fans — mostly teenage girls — lined the streets outside the Mann Village and Bruin Theatres on Monday for a chance to peek at the stars attending the Los Angeles premiere of "Twilight." Some enthusiasts of the popular vampire literary series-turned-movie camped out overnight, while many arrived at dawn to secure a place in line. 9:37 a.m. | 26 comments
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