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There's an old saying in journalism: If a dog bites a man, there's no story there. But if a man bites a dog, that's newsworthy. So in Utah, someone getting bitten by a snake is relatively common. But what about a person eating a snake? I grew up in Texas and "rattlesnake shish-kabob" was something I saw on many a barbecue joint's menu...

It's 7,086 miles from Caldwell, Idaho, to Offinso, Ghana. The African town lies on the south end of the huge African panhandle (can I call it that?) in the western part of the continent. That's how far Elder Brayden Call — a full-time missionary in the Ghana Kumasi Mission -- had to travel to his service area for his mission. In a w...

The date was April 22, 1974. It was about time to close the Hi-fi record and stereo shop in Ogden, Utah, with employees Stanley Walker, aged 20, and Michelle Ansley, aged 18, preparing to lock up and go home for the evening. Suddenly and without warning, two vans screeched up to the store and four armed men jumped out and entered the store. ...

We've already had several notable fires in Southern Utah this spring, and there's no doubt more are on the way, with dry air and dry fuel in the region. Luckily, there has been little loss of property and no loss of life in the spate of fires we've seen so far...

Yesterday NASA admitted that there are thousands of pounds of space junk floating in orbit around our lovely planet. In the past 60 years or so there have been more than 6,000 space missions and in large part, those missions jettisoned their leftover "junk," things like used batteries, waste and broken industrial parts...

There's an update on the elderly couple that was found dead a couple of months ago in separate rooms in their house in American Fork, Utah. Authorities have ruled the deaths of an elderly American Fork couple whose bodies were found in their home this year as undetermined...

Even with a good water year like we've had, the Washington County Water Conservancy District is still offering rebate money if you remove grass turf and install desert-friendly landscaping in your yard (see the bullet points below). Having a large grassy lawn used to be a sign of wealth...

My how time flies -- it has been more than two years since St. George Police Department marksman Seth LeFevre was faced with the choice of a lifetime. Should I take the shot? OK, here's the situation (by the way, this is a real situation that happened in February of 2022): An armed man has carjacked a vehicle in Southern Utah and led police on a high-speed chase...

OK, OK, the odds of an elephant getting loose in your town are very low. Like ridiculously low. Astronomically low. Practically none. But it could happen. Wednesday morning an elephant, spooked from the noise of a car backfiring, escaped its cage and bolted from a circus/carnival in Butte, Montana...

With players threatening transfer, recruits decommitting and the program in flux, BYU basketball has decided to act quickly. Tuesday morning, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe named Kevin Young as the Cougars new head basketball coach. “We are excited to announce Kevin as our new head men’s basketball coach and welcome him and his family to BYU,” Holmoe said. “We had a variet...