Nephi News

It took 16 ballots and nearly five hours of debate, but the Utah Republican Party on Saturday agreed to recommend Bill Wright to represent District 68 in the state House.

Fans lined up to see the new "Twilight" movie, opening Thursday night. The film is expected to be a big boost for the movie industry, especially for a small Utah theater that opened last month.

" A massive meteor lit up the sky overnight across Utah, and people who saw it are sharing their experience.

"God did not put us here to fail," Elder Jon M. Huntsman Sr., a prominent businessman and philanthropist, told BYU students during the university's weekly devotional Tuesday in the Marriott Center.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Bridgewater is aiming to campaign in 29 counties in 29 days.

A Nephi man died Tuesday in a single-car rollover on I-15, the Utah Highway Patrol said.

One of the few things upon which believers and critics agree is that Joseph Smith could not read ancient languages - at least in the typical sense.

Local historians call it the bloodiest episode in Utah law enforcement history. In November 1913, Rafael Lopez, a traveling miner who was working in one of the Bingham Canyon mines at the time, killed five law enforcement officers and a civilian in one week before fleeing the state.

Republican state delegates from state House District 68 will meet Nov. 21 in the Juab County Courthouse to select a replacement for Rep.

Liquor License Quotas Liquor Crunch: License quotas may undermine Salt Lake City's alcohol normalization.

Nominees have been selected for two judgeships in 3rd and 4th state court districts.

Prophecies regarding the last days often refer to large-scale calamities such as earthquakes, famines or floods, which may be linked to widespread economic or political upheavals of one kind or another, said Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve in his Sunday afternoon conference address.

A Kentucky man was ejected from his vehicle after it rolled in Juab County Sunday.

President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, said wherever he is, day or night, there is nearby a small container of olive oil that has been consecrated by the power of the priesthood to bless and heal the sick.

Keith Lorraine Gillins' fall from what his attorney called "the top of the food chain" ended Wednesday when he was sentenced to prison for having sex with one of his high school students.

The body responsible for policing Utah's police voted Tuesday to discipline 23 officers for offenses ranging from forcible sex abuse to lying on a police academy application.

THE KILLERS, MARIACHI EL BRONX AND NERVOUS WRECKWORDS, E Center, Sept. 26 A 17-minute delay for "technical difficulty" didn't kill the enthusiasm for The Killers or their fans Saturday night at the E Center.

Most lead singers of rock bands don't ask the tour-bus driver to drop them off in Nauvoo, Ill., on cross-country tours.

The editorial "Misplaced mercy: Judge gives a pass to pothunters" came close to striking the core issue in the American Indian artifact trafficking saga.

For close to 40 years, Juab High School has had a tradition: the Homecoming bonfire.