Few signs of it remain. But 65 years ago, it was Utah's third-largest community. Movie stars toured it regularly. Harry Truman visited. Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole played to huge crowds here. So did the Metropolitan Opera's star baritone of the day.
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It was the ghost towns and gold rushes — the raw frontiers with sparse, renegade residents — that gave the West a reputation for being mythically wild and independent.
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Barack Obama met with U.S. troops Saturday, breakfasted with them today and received a military briefing on conditions in Afghanistan during the opening leg of an overseas trip designed to showcase his appeal in major foreign cities and reassure American voters that he would make a reliable commander-in-chief.
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With the Mountain West Conference celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the league will announce an all-decade football team this week in conjunction with the MWC football meetings in Las Vegas. But the Deseret News couldn't wait that long.
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Kyrylo Fesenko could have had the second-most lackluster, pitiful, off game in his basketball career Saturday night and, according to him, it would have been an improvement over his outing Friday.
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Missouri hero Alexander W. Doniphan, a friend and advocate of Mormons during a turbulent time in LDS Church history, was lauded by civic, government, religious and education leaders on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Sometimes a padlock and a candle are just a padlock and a candle. Sometimes they are more, as in the technically flawless, metaphorically rich digital constructions of Edward Bateman.
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Karen Ash is about to take a weeklong Japanese vacation. She'll buy postcards and souvenirs at a traditional Japanese market. She'll admire bonsai plants and view Japanese films. She'll eat ramen, ordering in Japanese. And she'll never leave the Bronx.
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To the west stretches a vast white plain with a hint of water, Botswana's Makgadikgadi, or Makarikari, salt pans. Below, the land is mostly a mottled mix of buff and green, the colors of southern Africa's bushlands.
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