Salt Lake City News - City Weekly
By Matthew D. LaPlante
The capacity crowd at Sandy’s Rio Tinto Stadium whooped and hollered as the Englishman stripped off his coat. “That’s all that’s coming off,” McCartney chided.
Jun 25, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
When Danielle Willard was shot to death by two West Valley City police officers in 2012, the strands of scandal began to stretch across the Salt Lake Valley.
Jun 25, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
Anyone who followed the headlines covering the "pay to play" shenanigans at the Utah Attorney General's Office understands that the office has long been interested in financial fraud. But under the direction of new Attorney General Sean Reyes, the office now has a mandate to actually fight financial fraud-rather than taking part in it, which, according to multiple investigators, was the game plan of previous Attorney General John Swallow.
Jun 18, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Stephen Dark
Utah State Prison inmate Brian Maguire knows how important the Willy the Plumber scholarship can be for the child of an incarcerated parent.
Jun 18, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
If dire predictions about print media-and the world at large-hold true, robots will soon run riot over the ravaged landscape, killing and replacing newspaper reporters and editors and other inferior species of a bygone era.
Jun 11, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill swept into office four years ago by criticizing prosecution decisions made by his opponent and pledging to right the course of an office mired in poor morale.
DABC's New Anti-Business Stance Frustrates Local Leaders
Jun 04, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
A new standard for granting permits to serve alcohol at special events recently adopted by the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control could leave Snowbird Resort without a permit to sell liquor and high-point beer at its annual Oktoberfest-meaning that the resort will have to hope that pretzels and sausages will be enough to bring the typical turnout of thousands up to the canyon during the month-long event.
Jun 04, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Stephen Dark
Halfway through a session titled "Emotional Healing: Including God in Your SSA Journey," a young man in a yellow shirt haltingly put up his hand to speak. He sat in a room of around 100 Mormons, mostly male, who were attending the last day of a three-day conference organized by North Star International, a nonprofit dedicated "to Latter-day Saints who experience same-sex attraction or gender-identity incongruence," according to its website.
May 28, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
In 2013, teams from across the globe conceptually bedazzled downtown Salt Lake City with bold and bizarre plans for some of the city's neglected alleys and lots.
May 28, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
In the reddest state in the Union, Utahns flocked to Obamacare, with 84,601 signing up for health care under the Affordable Care Act. Utah residents also procrastinated-more than half of those who bought health insurance through the ACA did so in the month leading up to the March 31 enrollment deadline.
May 21, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
To protest the management of federal lands in Utah and the West, armed vigilantes, cattle ranchers and even an elected official committed calculated acts of lawlessness in April.
Utah Lawmakers Wary of Federal Money
May 14, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
Rather than a wholesale expansion of Medicaid, which states can pursue through the Affordable Care Act largely on the federal dime, Gov. Gary Herbert has crafted his own health-care solution, called the Healthy Utah Plan.
SLC Mayor's Budget Proposes Axing Holiday Fireworks Events
May 12, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker's recently released budget proposal again focuses on improving air quality in the capital city, but alongside investments in public transportation is a more unconventional air-quality solution-the elimination of city funding for the July 4 firework displays at Jordan Park and the July 24 Pioneer Day fireworks at Liberty Park.
Community searches for answers in courtroom shooting of Siale Angilau
May 07, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
The life of Mo'ana Uluave, an East High School graduate now studying at Harvard, took a very different trajectory from that of her former classmate Siale Angilau, the gang member shot and mortally wounded
May 07, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
In early April, Cayman Thomas planted 200 pea plants in a pair of 12-foot-by-4-foot raised garden beds at the dilapidated tennis courts at Fairmont Park in Sugar House.
Apr 30, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
The Utah Attorney General's Office recently released a report showing that former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff's behavior in handling a case against Marc Sessions Jenson for securities fraud "defies explanation."Apr 30, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
Prostitutes, strippers and porn stars call Laurin Crosson all the time. Sometimes they need food or a place to sleep. Other times, they've been beaten by their pimps and need to be spirited away to another state.
Crosson's organization, RockStarr Ministries, has representatives from Atlanta to Los Angeles who give trafficked women an ear-and even some spaghetti-when they need it most.
Apr 23, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
A persistent protector of the Wasatch Mountains is the group Save Our Canyons. Founded in 1972, Save Our Canyons helped establish the Lone Peak, Mount Olympus and Twin Peaks wilderness areas.
Apr 23, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
Life on the streets for Salt Lake City's homeless is not easy, nor is it pretty, given the way drugs, despair and trash tend to pile up around the sidewalks near The Road Home homeless shelter on 210 S. Rio Grande St.
Apr 16, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Eric S. Peterson
As Russell Ridge walked the length of a vacant lot in north Salt Lake City, trying to get a feel for how the excavation company he worked for might be able to use the property, he spotted something out of the ordinary-the rusted top of what looked like an oil drum poking out of the ground.
Apr 16, 2014 02:00 AM EDT
By Colby Frazier
A pair of bullet holes-remnants of a 1927 shooting-can still be seen behind a judge's bench in the Frank E. Moss Courthouse.