Sundance Film Festival News Archives

President George W. Bush will travel to Utah on Wednesday, where he will present an award to a local man, who serves as a volunteer to help others.

"Utah" Phillips died this week at the age of 73. He was a musician, labor organizer, peace activist and co-founder of his local homeless shelter.

Police in Pensacola, Fla., have found what they believe is the body of 2nd Lt. John Alley, an Air Force pilot with Utah connections who had been missing for several days.

Police in a town near Salt Lake City are trying to get down to the naked truth about a bizarre hit-and-run. It started when a woman rammed her car into a sport utility vehicle in the town of Sandy, police said.

Child Protective Services can keep in its care an infant born to a polygamist sect member earlier this month, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Searchers said Wednesday they had not given up hope of finding a Utah couple who failed to emerge from a weeklong hiking expedition in the Grand Canyon.

President Bush's trip to Utah ended Thursday with a meeting at the global headquarters of the Mormon church where he talked about his parents and a variety of other issues, the White House said.

"48 Hours" takes on a full-court investigation of polygamy tonight , pegged to the controversial revelations provided by the raid on the Eldorado compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 By 1st Lt. JASON E. GAMMONS Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, Ogden Air Logistics Center Both Utah state law and the Hill Air Force Base Supplement to Air Force Instruction 31-204 mandate ...

The John R. Park administration building at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

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Rocky Anderson no longer is the Salt Lake City mayor. But that doesn't mean a quiet retirement.

Bears will have to work harder to get the smelly leftovers in these trash bins. The Ashley National Forest near Vernal is introducing modified Dumpsters with a hefty steel plate instead of a flimsy vinyl cover.

A home-price index considered to be the most comprehensive reading of the U.S. market posted the sharpest decline in its 17-year history, and the St.

What do Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, and Francis Ford Coppola have in common besides directing? They are all hoteliers.

For fans of Utah crooner David Archuleta, the seventh season of American Idol was a fairy-tale ride without the fairy-tale ending.

A man accused of killing three women in Illinois has been charged with fatally stabbing a Utah college student in 1999.

The Lions for Lambs star announced his engagement to Szaggars in an interview with German magazine Bunte , but despite his advancing years, insists the pair is in no rush to arrange a date for the ceremony.

Utah officials are expected to begin the forced medication of a woman suspected in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping after the Supreme Court declined to review the matter.

Attorneys for Wanda Eileen Barzee, 62, had sought a hearing to determine whether a Utah judge had correctly ordered that she be given psychotropic drugs to restore her competency for trial.

'It's disappointing, but not unexpected to be sure,' Scott Williams, Barzee's attorney, said Wednesday. 'The system has spoken, and all our means of appeal for our client have been exhausted.'

For an "American Idol" season so flat and lifeless, the end sure rocked: Ex-bartender David Cook virtually body-slammed teen prodigy David Archuleta in a surprising landslide Wednesday night, capping an ...

Deciding to reduce greenhouse gases across seven Western states and three Canadian provinces is one thing.

Academy Award winning American actor Robert Redford has topped the new list of celebrity-owned resorts, with his Sundance retreat in Utah.

The Vatican's recent ban on Mormon microfilming and digitizing of Catholic parish records out of concern they will be used for the LDS practice of baptizing the dead may have a wide-ranging and chilling effect ...

“I want to see us do a very comprehensive restructuring of how these folks do business and where they do business”

Salt Lake City leaders are taking aim at payday lenders, but they aren't quite ready to pull the trigger. via Deseret News

“I've never met my subscribers face to face”

The one thing you don't want to be is a hungry girl stuck in a holding pattern in Salt Lake City. via Inside Bay Area

The 14-mile Legacy Parkway, in the works for more than a decade, is nearing completion. via Kutv.com

“It's a very well-regulated business”

Eight cities across the Salt Lake Valley have slapped limits and laws on payday-loan stores, arguing they are vulturous and prompt a predatory cycle. via Salt Lake Tribune

“Drop this suit and let us get back on base and we could go forward again”

A federal appeals court revived a portion of a lawsuit that claims a man was not rehired at a cabinet company because he quit a southern Utah polygamous sect. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Two new flights are being added out of Meadows Field, one between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, the other to and from Salt Lake City. via Bakersfield Californian

“I'm feeling pretty confident of a good weekend at Miller”

Looking to build on what was an encouraging start to his rookie open-wheel racing season competing in the 2008 Star Mazda Championship Presented by Goodyear, Vancouver's Taylor Hacquard heads east to Salt Lake ... via Paddock Talk

“Ms. Wall needs to specifically understand that her conduct may compromise Mr. Steed's ability to obtain a fair trial and that she may have to make some choices regarding her quest for publicity and her desire to have Mr. Steed prosecuted”

SALT LAKE CITY - A book and promotional tour by a woman who helped convict polygamist leader Warren Jeffs could taint the jury pool in a rape case against her cousin and former husband, the husband's attorney ... via KSTP-TV Minneapolis

“Every day that passes is one day closer to home.”

A Montana man who is in a Utah hospital will see his twin daughters graduate from high school over a laptop computer. via Deseret Morning News

“The sentiment has turned negative on multilevel marketers in general and USANA in particular”

Shares of USANA Health Sciences Inc. jumped Tuesday after its chief executive and largest shareholder offered to take the company private by buying up all other shares. via Deseret Morning News

I read in disgust Mayor Ralph Becker's desire to increase fees in many areas of Salt Lake City - including raising parking fines from $100 to $105 and raising the cost of burying a loved one. via Deseret Morning News - Opinions

Posted: Police say four people are dead in a murder-suicide in a Salt Lake City suburb. via KPVI-TV Pocatello

Go behind the scenes at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute which plays host to eight Fellows, handpicked from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants, for the coveted 5-day Sundance Screenwriters Lab. via New Times

“At least that (selection for Cannes) is one piece of good news for the industry, because we have had all the bad news the past five or six years”

Agence France-Presse A Cannes festival call-up for two independent films is raising hopes of a rebirth for the struggling Philippines movie industry, hit by rampant piracy, high taxes and foreign imports. via ABS-CBN News

The Utah Democratic Party has named a Barack Obama supporter as its sixth superdelegate. via The Associated Press

“We're not abandoning the specialty business”

An increasingly precarious independent film world claimed two more victims. Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse -- respectively, the art-house film division of Warner Bros. via KCPQ

“This is the biggest thing ever for Murray”

For Utah's David Archuleta, the bright lights of Hollywood are fun but there's no place like home. via ABC 4

Here is the music lineup for the Florida Music Festival , which will showcase roughly 250 acts in about a dozen venues in downtown Orlando. via The Orlando Sentinel

“Even after the near-disaster in March”

The general manager and possibly other senior staff members at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, where nine miners died last August, withheld information from federal officials that could have ... via HendersonvilleNews.com

“The Northwest Interstate Compact and Gov. Huntsman refused to be bullied.”

Eight Western states on Thursday rejected a company's plan to ship tons of radioactive waste from Italy for disposal in Utah, saying importing foreign loads would violate the group's rules.

EnergySolutions Inc. is applying for a federal license to import 20,000 tons of waste from four Italian nuclear reactors, with a portion of it to be buried at its private disposal site in Clive, Utah.

But members of the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management said their rules would need to be changed to allow roughly five or six rail cars of waste a year to be buried there. Read more

“It's simply saying we have to do our due diligence to keep these records confidential”

Salt Lake City, May. 8, 2008 - The Catholic bishop of Salt Lake City has told local media outlets that a recent Vatican decision shielding parish records from Mormon researchers is "not an attack on any ... via Global Catholic Network EWTN

“A man has to have at least three wives to get to the highest degree of heaven”

Posted: 48 minutes ago SAN ANTONIO - Hand-scrawled bishop's records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some ... via Wral.com

The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday as to whether someone can be convicted of enticing a minor based on his or her words alone. via RedOrbit

SALT LAKE CITY Two people who say they ate tainted food at a Wendy's restaurant in North Ogden are suing the fast-food chain. via Kutv.com

Cablevision Systems Corp. , the New York-area cable-television operator, agreed to buy the Sundance Channel from co-owners NBC Universal, CBS Corp. via Bloomberg

“Utah retains the right to specifically approve each disposal arrangement before the waste is allowed access to the licensed EnergySolutions facility.”

EnergySolutions Inc. filed a federal lawsuit just a few days before Utah plans to veto the disposal of radioactive waste in the state. via NOLA.com

“First, we walked into the U.S. Attorney's Office on this case and they said, 'Come on, these are a bunch of nuts.”

A federal judge ordered a $63,000 civil-fraud judgment against four people who claim to be chiefs of an American Indian tribe in eastern Utah. via The Associated Press

“The trucks are at the back dock now”

GE Healthcare's surgery business started up again Monday, 20 months after General Electric Co. via Hartford Courant

“We knew there was a semi there but we didn't think he was dumb enough to turn”

A TRAX passenger says she and other riders saw this morning's crash between a train and a semi truck coming. via Salt Lake Tribune

“Our vision is to create an online festival where filmmakers from all walks of life can submit their feature films to the festival and be judged on a global stage by a jury of their peers via a web-based competition”

Lycos, Inc. , a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today introduced the new Lycos Cinema adding video on demand rentals to its existing ad-supported Lycos Cinema community, ... via Earth Times

Three Utah men set out from Vermont on Sunday planning to set a record for a cross-country drive. via KVOA-TV Tucson

“You'll definitely see some relationships blossom.”

Filed under: Ashley Tisdale , Corbin Bleu , High School Musical , Monique Coleman , Red Carpet , Vanessa Hudgens , Zac Efron The High School Musical gang has been rounded back up and e'erbody is currently in ... via A Socialite's Life

An unemployed graphic designer who spent two months in a hospital with symptoms of ricin poisoning pleaded not guilty Friday to federal possession of biological toxin and weapons charges. via KOLO-TV Reno

How vibrant is the independent film scene? How much does it depend on the major film festivals? How useful are the markets that accompany them? On the eve of the Cannes Film Festival and its attendant market, ... via WNED.org

Two Utah cities make American Lung Association's dirty air list The American Lung Association issued its annual report on the state of the nation's air, and on the list of the worst cities in the nation for ... via Headwaters News

“We're talking about a criminal justice response to what is otherwise a public health issue”

A review of Utah court records and procedures has found inconsistencies in the enforcement of a state law that requires convicted commercial sex workers and solicitors of commercial sex to be tested for HIV, ... via News-Medical.Net