Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, the oldest living apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at 11:30 p.m. Monday at the age of 91. 7:54 a.m. | 126 comments
The man whose homemade firework nearly killed 12-year-old Bridger Hunt was sentenced to jail Tuesday morning, despite tearful pleas for leniency from Bridger's mother. 11:42 a.m. | 12 comments
They survived amid mobbings, beatings, burnings, a horse-drawn wagon journey across the Great Plains and even the ravages of mice roaming inside their wooden crate.
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Documents released Tuesday from the Nixon years shed new light on just how much the Nixon White House struggled with growing public unrest over the protracted war in Vietnam. 11:48 a.m. | 0 comments
Wall Street gave up most of an early gain and fluctuated Tuesday as investors looked for safe bets a day after the market's huge dive. The Dow Jones industrials up nearly 270 points in afternoon trading, retreated to a gain of only about 50. 12:48 p.m. | 0 comments
If your Christmas list includes a Wii, you'll most likely be standing with your fingers crossed in a line that forms hours before the sun rises. And you might still come up empty handed.
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The Utah Salt Lake City Area sports committee newsletter for December includes a suggestion for stake leaders to hold sportsmanship firesides. "The most-often expressed concern of stake presidents and bishops about church sports is poor sportsmanship, and the ensuing hurt feelings and loss of the Spirit that follows," the newsletter says.
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After an outing like the one the Jazz had last Saturday night, when they followed a showy win over Sacramento with a blowout home loss to New Jersey, coach Jerry Sloan might be inclined to practice his club longer, harder and much more frequently in the near future.
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Barack Obama promised "a new dawn of American leadership" in a troubled world Monday, announcing a strong-willed national security team headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush.
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