Utah's Drew Hackett knows at least three Boise State players well, having gone to high school with them in Idaho. Lived with one of them, even, while he attended BSU a couple of years ago. But don't ask the senior receiver for any strategic insights in advance of his meeting with his old buddies when the unbeaten No. 22 Broncos visit the Utes at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday. He never
Wipe that smirk off your face! Tips for journalists covering sex research. It's fun to report on sex research. You write funny budget lines. Your newsroom colleagues eavesdrop when they overhear your phone interviews. And your story gets extra attention in the news meeting.
Research funds at the University of Utah are down after years of steady growth, due in large part to cataclysms such as Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. The U.'s research funding dropped by just more than $20 million this fiscal year because federal entities such as the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense are spending greater portions of
There seems to be some confusion about coverage in the Sports section. One e-mail represents many calls and e-mails I have received over the past few weeks: "This makes week two that the front page of the Sunday Sports section predominately features BYU, and the University of Utah gets a small, insignificant byline.
Travelers planning trips to Mexico, the Caribbean or Canada next year by cruise ship or airline will have one more "must-have" to pack - a passport. The U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security recently adopted the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which will require all U.S., Canadian, Bermuda and Mexican citizens to have a passport or other designated secure document to enter or
Farmers in the self-proclaimed "Salad Bowl of the World" started plowing spinach crops under and laying off workers as government inspectors examined fields and packing houses Tuesday for the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak.
A Murray woman who claims an E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach made her son ill sued Natural Selection Foods in Utah's federal court Monday. Sheila Leafty claims her son, Brayden, was one of at least 14 Utahns who have become ill due to spinach packaged by the California company. The boy, whose age is not disclosed in the complaint, allegedly ate the tainted spinach between
Those who seek a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage might want to consider those who could be affected by such a ban and become more oppressed as a result.
A grief-stricken mother is fighting the state for records of her daughter's suicide while in foster care. Debra Langdon intends to sue the Department of Human Services for alleged medical negligence. In preparation for that lawsuit, Langdon and her attorney have requested copies of a state review of Katherine Langdon's suicide.
