University of Utah

Ty Jordan, a former West Mesquite High football player and University of Utah standout has died, the college confirmed Saturday.

Coaches, friends and student-athletes mourned the loss of former West Mesquite High School football player Ty Jordan, who died Christmas night, just days after completing his freshman football season at the University of Utah.

Ty Jordan, a former West Mesquite High football player and University of Utah standout has died, the college confirmed Saturday.

The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago have reached a $13.5 million settlement with the university.

The body of Mackenzie Lueck has been recovered in Utah, weeks after the Southern California college student went missing after returning to school.

A suspect was arrested Friday morning in the death of a University of Utah student who vanished after returning to Salt Lake City on a flight from her native Southern California, police said.

A man whose home was searched as police investigate the disappearance of a Utah college student was named a “person of interest” in the case Thursday, and police were trying to find a mattress that had been inside his home. The announcement came shortly after authorities spent about 19 hours searching the man’s home in a middle class Salt Lake...

“Celebrate the Children” on display through October 15 features more than 25 handcrafted sculptures throughout the Dallas Arboretum.

A filmmaker who co-founded the Sundance Film Festival and produced an Oscar-winning movie in the mid-1980s pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual abuse of a child. Sterling Van Wagenen, 71, entered the plea as part of an agreement that includes a sentence of six years to life. He plans to plead guilty to a second charge involving the same victim later...

A University of Utah student and track athlete who was shot and killed on campus by a former boyfriend had filed a police complaint against him after she learned he was a sex offender and broke off the relationship, authorities said Tuesday....
Investigators had been working to build a case after receiving the report from 21-year-old Lauren McCluskey, a senior from...

America’s opioid epidemic is making more organs available for lifesaving transplants, researchers reported Wednesday. Close to 14 percent of people who donated an organ in 2016 — 1,029 donors — had died of a drug overdose, the team of experts reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. That compares to just 1 percent in 2000, or 59 donors. And...

Scientists say they’ve come up with a new smartphone app to show type II diabetics just how exercise can help them maintain healthy blood sugar levels.

A man sought in the fatal attempted carjacking of a University of Utah student and the death of a Colorado man was arrested Tuesday after he surrendered to authorities at a Salt Lake City library, police said. Austin Boutain, 24, dodged a manhunt in the rugged foothills near campus for nearly 15 hours before his arrest miles away in the...

In some ways, they’re like typical college athletes. They’re on varsity teams. They train for hours between classes. Some get hefty scholarships. But instead of playing sports, they’re playing video games. On college campuses, varsity gaming teams with all the trappings of sports teams are becoming increasingly common as schools tap into the rising popularity of competitive gaming. After initially...

A badger was caught on camera burying a whole cow carcass to save for later, in footage supplied by scientists from the University of Utah. Scientists studying scavenger behavior in Utah’s Great Basin Desert recorded this video this spring, according to a university press release issued on Mar. 31, 2017. Badgers are known to cache animals for later consumption, but...

Two offensive play makers from Frisco Lone Star High School are heading to the University of Utah.

A new study shows that receiving a flu vaccination while pregnant significantly reduces the risk of acquiring influenza during a baby’s first six months of life.