A polygamous family with a reality TV show plans to challenge the Utah bigamy law that makes their lifestyle illegal, a Washington-based attorney says. In an e-mail to The Associated Press early Tuesday, attorney Jonathan Turley says he will file (...)
The ex-wife of actor Gary Coleman filed a petition on Thursday in court to be appointed as the special administrator of the former child actor's estate.
The petition filed in a Utah district court said even though Coleman and Shannon Price were (...)
The estranged parents of former child TV star Gary Coleman are seeking custody of his body and want it returned to the star's boyhood home in Illinois, his former manager said Thursday.
Coleman died Friday in Utah from a brain hemorrhage at age (...)
New details surrounding TV actor Gary Coleman's death have emerged with his attorney saying the child star of “Diff'rent Strokes” and his wife divorced in 2008, and Utah authorities releasing a tape of her frantic emergency call after he struck his (...)
Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, who helped form one of the NFL's greatest defensive lines before embarking on a successful career in television, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 69.
Olsen was a member of the Los Angeles Rams' “Fearsome (...)
Fossils of a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur have been found in slabs of Utah sandstone that were so hard that explosives had to be used to free some of the remains, scientists said Tuesday.
The bones found at Dinosaur National Monument (...)
The Utah Jazz missed a chance to notch a tenth straight NBA win Thursday, beaten 96-81 by a Los Angeles Lakers side missing Kobe Bryant.
Pau Gasol had 22 points and 19 rebounds as Los Angeles won its third straight without Bryant, who is sidelined (...)
winning director of “Slumdog Millionaire” says he plans to make a movie about the mountaineer renowned for amputating his own arm after it was pinned by a half-ton boulder while he was hiking alone in Utah.
Danny Boyle says production on the movie (...)
Rookie Sundiata Gaines hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to end a frenzied series of comebacks and give the Utah Jazz a 97-96 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Thursday.
LeBron James had led the Cavaliers on a 22-4 run earlier in the (...)
A boy is trying to get into the record books by covering his face with live snails.
Eleven-year-old Fin Keheler, from Sandy, Utah, allowed 43 of the slimy mollusks to be put on his face Saturday. He wants the Guinness World Records to verify his (...)
Deron Williams hit a fadeaway jumper with 2.2 seconds left to lead the Utah Jazz to an 88-86 win over the Los Angeles Lakers and back into the first-round playoff series on Thursday.
Carlos Boozer tied a franchise playoff record with 22 rebounds (...)
It took a wedgie and a headlock to pin down a man suspected of breaking into a car. Yvonne Morris, a technician at the Brickyard Animal Hospital, said she chased a man who broke into a co-worker's car, but he kept squirming away from her.
Morris (...)
The San Antonio Spurs powered away early in the fourth quarter to set up a 106-100 win over the Utah Jazz on Tuesday to extend their lead atop the NBA's Southwest Division.
Tim Duncan had 24 points and nine rebounds, and Manu Ginobili scored 10 of (...)
The Columbus Crew remained five points clear atop Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference after a 4-0 thrashing of nearest rival New England on Saturday.
The loss pushed the Revolution below Chicago on goal difference after the Fire beat New York (...)
The Los Angeles Lakers reached the NBA's Western Conference finals for the first time in four years by beating the Utah Jazz 108-105 on Friday.
Kobe Bryant scored 34 points for the Lakers, which held off a furious rally by the Jazz to clinch the (...)
Carlos Boozer broke out of his slump with 27 points to lead the Utah Jazz over the Los Angeles Lakers 104-99 on Friday, cutting the Lakers lead in the NHL's Western Conference semifinal series to 2-1.
Boozer also tied his career playoff-high with (...)