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Utah men's basketball: Utes shoot to victory over Ole Miss

2 hours 42 min ago
Posted: 6:45 PM- DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ole Miss dared the Utah Utes to shoot over them in the Glenn Wilkes Classic on Friday night.

Michael Vick back in Virginia to face state dog-fighting charges

5 hours 37 min ago
Posted: 11:42 AM-
RICHMOND, Va. - Michael Vick is back in Virginia to face state dog-fighting charges. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback is being held in protective custody at the Hopewell Regional Jail, superintendent Darnley Hodge said Friday.

Hillary Clinton ready to accept secretary of state job, report says

5 hours 51 min ago
Posted: 2:09 PM- Hillary Clinton told confidants she has decided to accept the nomination for secretary of state, The New York Times reported on its Web site.

3A football: Kicker saves face, game for Juan Diego

6 hours 26 min ago
Posted: 2:59 PM- The first extra point try off the foot of Jaron Bentrude sailed wide right.
The second one hit the post and bounced harmlessly to the Rice-Eccles Stadium turf. The third? That one was blocked.

Wall Street ends volatile week with surge

6 hours 50 min ago
Posted: 2:36 PM- Wall Street is ending a volatile week with an unexpected jolt of confidence following reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to name New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary.

3A football: Vea runs wild on key play

6 hours 54 min ago
Posted: 2:33 PM- Juan Diego's Tana Vea didn't mind doing the dirty work all season long. He got the tough yardage. He gutted it out when the Soaring Eagle were in third-and-short situations.

3A football: Big line leads Juan Diego

6 hours 57 min ago
Posted: 2:30 PM- Juan Diego offensive lineman Taylor Berg is listed at 204 pounds.
You'd never know it by the way he and the Soaring Eagle were shoving Hurricane around Friday in their 21-18 3A title game win.

Bush signs extension on safety net for nation's unemployed

8 hours 10 min ago
Updated: 1:19 PM- Washington With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.

Celtics send Walker to the Utah Flash

8 hours 40 min ago
Posted: 12:46 PM- OREM - Boston guard/forward Bill Walker has been sent to the Utah Flash of the NBA Developmental League. He joins the Celtics' first-round draft pick, J.R. Giddens, who was assigned to the team last week.

Late report puts on hold hearing on Logan husband-stabbing case

9 hours 22 min ago
Logan » A slow-arriving report delayed a scheduled hearing Friday for a 57-year-old Logan woman who admitted stabbing her husband to death in August.

Utah Jazz: Boozer out, Williams questionable for tonight

9 hours 59 min ago
Posted: 11:03 AM- SAN ANTONIO -- For only the fourth time in the last four seasons, the Jazz likely will play without Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer as they look Friday night to end a 21-game road losing streak to the San Antonio Spurs.

Who's in the running for Obama administration jobs?

9 hours 59 min ago
Posted: 11:13 AM- It's Washington's favorite parlor game during a presidential transition: trying to figure out who'll land a top spot in the new administration.

Global Trends report: Brace for devastating regional conflicts

10 hours 10 min ago
Posted: 11:05 AM- WASHINGTON - The drive for dwindling resources, including energy and water, combined with the spread

Florida teen commits suicide in front of webcam

10 hours 25 min ago
Posted: 11:01 AM- MIAMI, Fla.-- A South Florida teen died of a lethal drug overdose in front of a live online webcam audience 12 hours after he started blogging about his plan to commit suicide, an investigator said Friday.

Iowa first lady admits violating smoking ban

14 hours 46 min ago
Posted: 6:41 AM- DES MOINES, Iowa -- Her husband just signed a smoking ban into law in April. Now Mari Culver, the wife of Iow's governor, admits she already broke it.

Town relents, will allow Amish horse traffic - and horse apples - to continue

14 hours 48 min ago
Posted: 6:39 AM- LOYAL, Wis. -- Let the horse apples fall where they may - as long as they're on the right path.
The Loyal City Council has relented and repealed an ordinance that would require horses within city limits to have manure-catching devices.

Man says cell phone saved him from stray bullet

14 hours 51 min ago
Posted: 6:36 AM- COVINGTON, La. -- R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did.

Lawyer shortage exposes Papua New Guinea to suits

14 hours 53 min ago
Posted: 6:34 AM- CANBERRA, Australia -- Opportunists often sue cash-strapped Papua, New Guinea's government - and win - simply because it does not have enough lawyers to represent it in court.

As tax revenues shrink, Utah halts all new road construction

15 hours 6 min ago
Utah County's Interstate 15 traffic jam will get no relief and the Mountain View freeway will stay on the drawing board with dozens of other state highway projects because of plummeting tax receipts, transportation officials announced Thursday.

Monson: Utes, Cougs fans and the degrees of insanity

Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:22
Posted: 2:05 PM- Almost everybody out there, red and blue, sees Saturday's rivalry game the way he or she wants, which is fun and fine and to varying degrees what fans do.