King of Queens: Salt Lake's queer, Latino community

Being gay in Utah is hard enough.

POSTED // Jun 16,2010 - When Juan Lopez found his brother, Javier, hanging from a rope in the backyard shed of the West Valley City house they shared, his brother, he says, “had a huge smile, as if he’d finally found happiness.”

Brotherly Love

Iraqi War veteran Sean Duran died alone in Dallas, leaving a void for his Midvale family and friends.

POSTED // May 26,2010 - When Trevor Lindberg was attending Alcoholics Anonymous in 2004, his best friend, Sean Duran, spoke to his group during one of their meetings ...

Mental Hell at Valley Mental Health

Cut backs eliminated programs; clients have yet to recover.

POSTED // May 19,2010 - Attorney Lynda Krause sat with her arms crossed in the reception area of Valley Mental Health's Midvale offices and watched her sister have a meltdown.

NOW's New Director

Women's-rights advocates look to the future.

FLDS Church: $3.2 Million Allegation

Down the Drain: Millions missing from coffers of Hildale/Colorado City water nonprofit.

POSTED // Apr 7,2010 - Before licensed engineer Zachary Renstrom went to inspect water wells near the polygamous border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., in 2008, he e-mailed municipal officials ...

Judge Dread: Michael Kwan

If you're getting high while enrolled in Taylorsville drug court, Michael Kwan may make your life hell. Or not.

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - Taylorsville Justice Court Judge Michael Kwan wants to know where the drug-court defendant got his meth. The man says that he got it at a 7-Eleven ...

The Rail's Bad Vibrations

New SLC venue The Rail faces confrontations with irate neighbors and a felonious past.

POSTED // Feb 24,2010 - When Scott Gollaher was released from a halfway house on Feb. 10, 2004, after serving almost eight years for child abuse and two parole violations...

Undocumented in Utah

Driven by LDS prophecy, attorney Aaron Tarin fights for undocumented immigrants clinging to the American dream.

POSTED // Jan 6,2010 - One Utah immigration attorney believes no other area of the law has such deficiencies and can produce such devastating human tragedy.

Polygamist vs. Polygamist

FLDS Church exiles battle for the hearts and homes of the polygamous faithful.

POSTED // Dec 9,2009 - Jethro Barlow was among the first of what would be more than 200 men and 1,000 male youths banished by FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs ...

How to Arrange Holiday Flowers

POSTED // Nov 18,2009 - When I was a journalist in England, I became unlikely friends with a one-time high-flying, then disgraced financial public relations guru called John Addey. He had a passion for vases of cut flowers t