Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Everyone knows the penguins are the best part of the “Madagascar” franchise. They’re cute, they’re fluffy and they’re diabolical. What’s not to love? At the same time, the idea of giving even highly entertaining supporting characters, even...
Monday, November 24th, 2014
More folks are ready to go over the river and through the woods this holiday than they have since before the Great Recession, according to travel service estimates. An American Automobile Association projection released last Thursday shows...
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
A Grantsville man has been sentenced to a partially suspended jail sentence for having inappropriate sex with a teenage girl. Daniel Evans, 36, was sentenced Tuesday in 3rd District Court to three years in the Tooele County...
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
You know what I hate? When book adaptations split the last book into two parts. Yeah, I’m talking to you, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows and Breaking Dawn — don’t even get me started on “The...
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
A Wasatch Front chain of firearm and ammunition stores has been granted a permit to open a shop in Tooele. Get Some Guns and Ammo was granted a conditional use permit at the Tooele City Council meeting...
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
A few months after Grantsville lost its barbecue restaurant, the smokers in the same building are running again, with a new eatery aiming to provide down-home cooking. Jim Hoover remembers growing up on a cattle ranch in...
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
A refugee from Africa who was working in Tooele County died Saturday in an ATV crash. A brine shrimp crew had come back from a work site at about 6 p.m. and had showered when they noticed...
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
An 18-year-old former Stansbury High School student was killed in a three-car crash in Herriman on Sunday. Cambrie Cozzens was the passenger in a Saturn being driven by a 17-year-old boy, and traveling north on 5600 West...
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
A truck carrying thousands of gallons of wine rolled on Interstate 80 on Tuesday, blocking a lane of eastbound traffic but leaving most of its load unscathed. At about 5:30 a.m., the driver of a semi truck...
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
When someone makes enough good things, I always start wondering when they’re going to slip up or start repeating themselves. For Christopher Nolan, “Interstellar” is not that time. Part futuristic dust bowl and part homage to “2001:...