POSTED // Nov 12,2008 - nIllegal elephant dung: That was the secret to Stan Sanders’ 400 pound-plus giant pumpkins that he raised in a one-and-a-half-acre garden behind his house on Blair Street in South Salt Lake in the 1970s. The fertilizer was illegal because Utah’s Hogle Zoo is nonprofit and legally can’t give it away. So, Sanders would get a tip from a friend at the zoo when the elephant cages were...

POSTED // Oct 9,2008 - "Oh my," Randy Holladay said as he gingerly picked through the wreckage of his living room in his tree-shrouded house in Salt Lake City's 9th & 9th neighborhood.

POSTED // Sep 17,2008 - Mike Bartlett sheltered under a pine tree, watching a prone, first-calf heifer giving birth in a snowstorm. First the hooves, then the blood-and-fluid-slicked body slid out onto the ground. While huge snowflakes drifted down around the cowboy hunched...

POSTED // Aug 27,2008 - Why do you think we’re here today?” Salt Lake City Councilman J. T. Martin asked The Leonardo’s newly minted executive director Peter Giles at the Aug. 19 work session on the would-be science and culture museum’s financial future....

POSTED // Jul 23,2008 - Justin Angell sped out of the parking lot of The Detour—Richfield, Utah’s only private club—in his white Dodge pickup, just before midnight, bent on revenge. It was Sept. 28, 2007. According to police reports, the former local county...

POSTED // Jul 16,2008 - A lavender-lined path in Red Butte Garden leads to a quiet nook guarded by pines. Two benches there offer a tranquility punctuated by bird song and nearby children’s laughter. One is dedicated to the memory of Verna Wynn, the other to her son,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2008 - “I’m tired of being called names [by people who don’t speak English] where you don’t even know what the heck they are saying,” Moab-based Woody’s Tavern owner Shari Beck says.           ...

POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - LAS VEGAS—Six-year-old Kathleen Mackert packed a suitcase she found in the closet. She put in some food from the kitchen of her family’s home, a blanket, a change of clothes and her nightgown. It was after school and her mother wasn’t...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - Debbie Evans was perched on the edge of a narrow concrete bench in the Salt Lake County lockup, handcuffed to a stainless-steel bar that ran along the rim of the wall behind her. A fight over ownership of her family’s dog, an 11-year-old Boston...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - In 1995, then hairstylist-apprentice Matthew Landis took a road trip with young business wheeler-dealer Richard Surber to a rave in Idaho. The rave, at a Masonic temple, was organized by Surber’s then-boyfriend, Utah’s sweet-toothed prince...