The Salt Lake Tribune

A newspaper carrier saw a West Valley City home on fire and pounded on the door to alert its homeowner, allowing her to escape unharmed early Tuesday morning.
The unknown man then left to finish his deliveries before firefighters could talk with him, shortly after crews arrived to douse the 5:14 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Washington • Utahns are split over whether they approve of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s performance in office, but a large majority are sure they don’t want him to run for office again, according to a new poll by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Provo • For Joy Sidwell, the only way justice could ever be served for her husband’s death is if the man who killed him — her ex-husband — is never again a free man.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A member of Utah’s State Charter School Board has stepped down, citing time constraints and difficulty attending meetings.
Greg Haws, who joined the charter board last year, resigned his seat on July 24 during a personal conversation with board chairwoman Kristen Elinkowski.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A body found last month in the Jordan River has been identified as a West Jordan woman.
The body of 44-year-old Zephera Smith was pulled from the river in Taylorsville on July 21, the Unified Police Department announced Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The FBI has paid out a $50,000 reward to two people who provided information that led to the June 14 arrest of Lyle Jeffs, who had absconded a year earlier while awaiting trial in a federal food stamp fraud case.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A West Valley City mall food court employee, stabbed repeatedly during a weekend fight with three suspected gang members, was in improved condition Monday.
West Valley City police spokeswoman Roxeanne Vainuku said the victim — in his early-20s but whose identity was withheld — had undergone surgery and his condition, initially critical, had been stabilized as of Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Utah’s prolonged spell of thunderstorms and rain showers are over, at least for the week ahead.
You can credit the return of hot temperatures -- flirting with 100 degrees along the Wasatch Front and will into the triple digits in southern Utah -- to a high pressure system locking in over the Great Basin.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A man and woman were arrested twice within a short period Sunday, first for allegedly stealing a car and then for taking off in a Utah Highway Patrol vehicle where they had been placed in handcuffs pending transportation to a jail.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

A new poll shows the Our Schools Now ballot initiative is maintaining — and possibly expanding — its base of support as organizers prepare to gather signatures to qualify for the November 2018 ballot.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share