After Romney's Loss, Mormons Lament What Might Have Been
Poor Chris Stewart. The former Air Force pilot had just won a landslide victory in his first bid for Congress in Utah, but the crowd of Republicans listening to his acceptance speech at a Salt Lake...
View ArticleMine Disaster Probe Leads To Conspiracy Charges Against Former Executive
Federal prosecutors in West Virginia stepped higher up the corporate ladder at Massey Energy Wednesday with new criminal charges stemming from the investigation of the 2010 coal mine explosion that...
View ArticleSalt Lake City Says It's 'Ready, Willing And Able' To Host Another Olympics
Ten years after jumpstarting Mitt Romney's political career with a widely-praised Winter Olympics, officials in Utah say they're ready to do it all over again.But there's no word on whether the...
View ArticleMassey Mine Boss Sentenced; Feds Toughen Mine Safety Rule
Nearly three years after a deadly mine explosion in West Virginia, a former Massey Energy mine superintendent has been sentenced to prison and federal regulators have toughened a regulation that could...
View ArticleReport: W.Va. Fails To Enforce New Regs Designed To Prevent Mine Explosions
Ken Ward at The Charleston Gazette has a story worth reading about West Virginia's failure to enforce new coal mine dust standards prompted by the deadly explosion three years ago at Massey Energy's...
View ArticleOnce-Secret 'Watch List' Of Alleged Polluters Under Review At EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency's once-secret "Watch List" of allegedly chronic polluters is under review by the EPA's inspector general.The existence of the list was first disclosed by the Center...
View ArticleCenter for Public Integrity: EPA Unaware Of Industry Ties On Cancer Review Panel
Our investigative reporting colleagues at the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) continue their look at the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of toxic pollution with a new report scrutinizing...
View ArticleU.S. Speedskating Investigating Sexual Abuse Allegations
Yet another scandal has hit U.S. Speedskating (USS), which governs the sport with the biggest haul of winter Olympic medals for Team USA.The USS board announced Monday night that it is investigating...
View ArticleFines Slashed In Grain Bin Entrapment Deaths
The night before he died, Wyatt Whitebread couldn't stand the thought of going back to the grain bins on the edge of Mount Carroll, Ill.The mischievous and popular 14-year-old had been excited about...
View ArticleNew Federal Scrutiny In Wake Of NPR Grain Bin Reports
Congress, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Justice Department are beginning to respond to the NPR-Center for Public Integrity Series on hundreds of persistent and preventable...
View ArticleA Woman's Prayer Makes Mormon History
There was no formal acknowledgment of the historic moment Saturday when Jean Stevens stood at a dark wooden podium framed by potted plants and colorful flowers in the cavernous Mormon conference center...
View ArticleRare On-The-Job Death For Avalanche Forecaster In Utah
Dale Atkins has been tracking hundreds of avalanche deaths for years but the fatality report that arrived from Utah Friday morning was especially shocking."It's way too close to home," says Atkins, the...
View ArticleThe Cruelest Month: Boston Blasts Join List Of Dark Incidents
Howard Berkes is an NPR correspondent based in Salt Lake City.It may have been the dumbest thing I ever said. On April 19, 1999, I stood before an audience at Idaho State University in Pocatello,...
View ArticleOn-The-Job Deaths Continue At Steady, Grim Pace
Dying on the job continues at a steady pace according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).The fatal injury rate for American workers dropped slightly in 2011 — the most...
View ArticleTeen Charged With Homicide After Death Of Soccer Referee
The 17-year-old soccer goalie who allegedly punched and killed a referee during a game in Utah last month faces a charge of "homicide by assault" and may be tried as an adult.Salt Lake County District...
View ArticleDoctors Confirm Black Lung In Victims Of Mine Blast
The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a massive explosion in 2010 have provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung.On Monday, a team of pathologists and lung disease...
View ArticleBig Changes At U.S. Speedskating Body, But Scandals Linger
Rebellious athletes, drained budgets, dysfunctional management and a string of embarrassing scandals forced a major reorganization of U.S. Speedskating over the weekend.The group governs a sport that...
View ArticleIdaho Terrorism Suspect Waives Detention Hearing
The 30-year-old Uzbek national accused of a terrorist conspiracy in Idaho and Utah waived his right to a detention hearing in Boise on Tuesday, and apparently avoided public disclosure of details of...
View ArticleGrain Deaths Fall In 2012 But Industry Share Grows
A new report from grain safety researchers at Purdue University says eight people died while trapped in grain last year, another steep drop from the record year of 2010, when 31 people lost their lives...
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