The Salt Lake Tribune

Pleasant Grove » Finally, nearly a year's worth of work on a five-lane, State Street construction project here in finished. The Utah Department of Transportation opened a new bridge Monday. Full Story »

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. » A minor earthquake shook a remote area of Yellowstone National Park. The quake occurred north of Yellowstone Lake on Monday about 10 miles east of Canyon Village and had a preliminary magnitude of 3. Full Story »

The Utah Attorney General and Salt Lake County District Attorney are getting ready for a battle. But it won't be in a court room. Their offices are going head-to-head in a competition to see who can raise the most food for the Utah Food Bank between now and Dec. Full Story »

A Senate committee voted to initially approve a new State Board of Education member Monday, more than seven months after former Gov. Jon Huntsman first nominated a different man for the job. Full Story »

ELDORADO, Texas » A Schleicher County jury is expected to decide on a punishment for polygamous sect member Raymond Merril Jessop today after hearing closing arguments from attorneys. Full Story »

In a Louisville, Ky., Holiday Inn, Brown and Williamson researchers brainstormed novel ways to sell tobacco. It was 1992, and the goal was to find "socially acceptable" ways to use it, according to one of the company's internal research and development documents. Full Story »

Tuesday 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. » A celebration for women veterans will be held at Pierpont Place, 163 Pierpont Ave. in Salt Lake City. The event will include a traditional military ceremony with honor guard, followed by speakers from several military services. Full Story »

A federal study shows that Utah remains at the top of the list for per-capita water use even though the state has made great strides in conservation. A new report from the U. Full Story »

By day's end Monday, American Fork High school was achingly far from its goal of raising $250,000 to send its marching band to Indiannapolis for the Nov. Full Story »

Rep. Jim Matheson's vote Saturday against the House health care reform bill has some Utah Democrats talking up an intraparty challenge against the centrist "blue dog. Full Story »

The former director of the Utah Department of Public Safety pleaded guilty to two felonies on Monday and said he is recovering from an addiction to painkillers. Full Story »

Washington » Early Saturday, off the House floor, some Republicans had a plan they thought could doom the Democrats' health care bill: vote present on an anti-abortion amendment and put vulnerable Democrats in a much more difficult position. Full Story »

For years, Matt Hunsaker has attended every court hearing of the man sentenced to die for murdering his mother and urged authorities to speed up the appeals process. Full Story »

Four days after missing her arraignment, former Mapleton Controller Jeannie Bell traded a Las Vegas Strip hotel room for a cell in the Clark County Jail. Full Story »

One of four people accused in the beating death of a man for allegedly ripping off $700 in a drug deal pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges. Ooleanui Kaina Salanoa, 26, pleaded guilty to class A misdemeanor negligent homicide and first-degree felony aggravated burglary. Full Story »

Eureka » In June 1918, near the end of World War I, Maud Fitch finally achieved her goal of three years: to drive wounded troops from the battlefield to first aid stations and field hospitals. Full Story »

  Vernal » It's some lonely blacktop that snakes over 173 miles of mountain and rocky desert to get here from Utah's capital, but not so empty that somebody doesn't need a ride now and then. Full Story »

While a new state law may have forced Salt Lake County residents to fetch a driver license, passport or even a concealed weapon permit from home before setting out to vote in last week's election, it prevented only a handful of voters valleywide from casting traditional ballots. Full Story »

EnergySolutions Inc. says state regulators are tinkering too much with the depleted uranium provisions of its operating license, and the nuclear waste company is sending its lawyer Tuesday, along with a politely worded threat to sue, to the Radiation Control Board. Full Story »

A man who used a sledgehammer to break into a West Valley City home where his estranged wife was living with a co-worker last year was sentenced to prison Monday for up to five years. Full Story »

Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap said he is reviewing the autopsy results of Brian Cardall who died this summer after a Hurricane police officer shocked Cardall twice with a Taser. Full Story »

A Salt Lake City public utilities worker was injured Monday when a metal grate fell on his head. The man in his mid-50s was doing some drainage work at 1700 South and 1000 West about 1 p. Full Story »

South Salt Lake police have arrested two men who allegedly pistol-whipped an acquaintance and stole $3 from him. The 32-year-old victim said late Saturday night he drove two men, including a former coworker, to 200 E. Full Story »

When Ian D. Anderson was pulled over for failing to use a turn signal in June, police asked the 23-year-old why he had three teenage girls in his vehicle at 2:40 a. Full Story »

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is in Washington for two days to meet with federal leaders about health care, public lands and natural resources issues. Herbert's visit began Monday, where he was scheduled to meet with senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett about health care. Full Story »