Real's Jean Alexandre

Living his father's dream

POSTED // Jul 27,2011 - In late 2008, Real Salt Lake flew Jean-Marc Alexandre and his father to Utah to check out the stadium and the team. Alexandre was fielding offers from several teams, but when he and his father toured the stadium, Alexandre’s father Jean “fell in love with the place,” his son recalls. “He made the choice for me.”

An Innocent Man

Harry Miller tries to reclaim his life after spending years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit.

POSTED // Jun 22,2011 - “Mr. Miller,” the Utah state prison guard said. “Pack up your shit and get out.” Harry Miller stood in his cell and cried uncontrollably ...

The Canyon Inn: In Your Face

In the shadow of a proposed $59 million development, a Cottonwood Heights bar owner stands his ground against DUI-driven cops.

POSTED // Apr 27,2011 - Driving his beige truck down a four-lane street from his bar, Canyon Inn owner Jim Stojack is on “harassment” patrol ...

North Temple: Rehab Boulevard

North Temple’s overhaul may crush some dreams and inspire new ones.

POSTED // Apr 6,2011 - By the time Mike Howard was paroled from California State Prison in Corcoran in 1996, he had long since resigned himself to an early death from a drug overdose ...

Christopher Nemelka to Confront His Critics

The controversial translator of the Book of Mormon's sealed portion plans to share his side.

POSTED // Mar 16,2011 - Christopher Nemelka is worried. He says the Jan. 27 City Weekly story “Sealed Fate” has “greatly enraged many people”

Neighborhood Watched

Saratoga Springs residents tread lightly to avoid the long arm of the law.

POSTED // Mar 2,2011 - In total, 15 well-armed J-CAT officers, used by Utah County to apprehend violent fugitives, had surrounded the night-shrouded premises.

Lane Heaps, Burned Out Cop

Lane Heaps tries to shake off the demons of 20 years behind the badge.

POSTED // Feb 9,2011 - When Lane Heaps charged against the door of the ground-floor room of a long-since-torn-down seedy motel on North Temple ...

It’s a Woman’s World

An incarcerated transgender Hispanic faces a daunting future.

POSTED // Feb 2,2011 - Damaso Davila-Escobedo currently calls home a single cell in the maximum-security wing of the Salt Lake County Metro Jail ...

Sealed Fate

A burning in Ida Smith’s bosom leads her to Christopher Nemelka’s new spiritual order.

POSTED // Jan 26,2011 - Taggart, a self-described former “Molly Mormon” and divorced mother of eight, said she had found something better: a translation of the fabled sealed portion of the Book of Mormon.

South Salt Lake DUI Checkpoint Gets a Judicial Drubbing

POSTED // Dec 22,2010 - On May 21, 2010, at 11 p.m., officers from South Salt Lake Police Department and the Utah Highway Patrol set up traffic cones in the rain ...