Members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) from across the nation joined Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and leading Judiciary Committee members , Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Arlen Specter (D-PA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON — Spring football practice is beginning at many universities. And after a bit of an off-season, Sen. Orrin Hatch resumed attacks Tuesday on the Bowl Championship Series, too. Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., sent a letter to ...

UPDATE: Former House Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) has been investigated over allegations he groped "multiple male staffers" in Congress, contradicting his earlier claims that the allegations sprang only from his use of "salty language," the Washington Post ...

... some Democrats -- defeated a measure to provide $1.3 billion for summer jobs for young people this year and a $1.3 billion extension of enhanced subsidies for poor families with children. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who introduced the amendment ...

VANCOUVER -- It's the sort of thing that's off the radar now, as well it should be, a full week into the Winter Games, the spotlight appropriately on the first-rate performance of the U.S. team but -- the U.S. Olympic Committee is already having ...

A Web developer has announced his candidacy for a U.S. House seat from Utah. Randall Hinton last week announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in Utah's second district. Hinton says he is running as the candidate for the ...

Washington » Two high-ranking senators are demanding a peek inside the inner workings of college football's Bowl Championship Series, just the latest move in an ongoing campaign to force changes in the way the national champion is crowned. In a ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bob Bennett says that higher taxes proposed by the Obama administration on the oil and gas industry will chase them off federal lands in Utah. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says increases would simply give taxpayers long ...

A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future reactors was co-sponsored and formally introduced by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, March 3 ...

Since everything on health care apparently hasn’t been said yet -- or, at least, hasn’t been said yet by Eric Massa… The drama gets a voice. And it’s salty. Massa, the soon-to-be-former Democratic congressman from upstate New York, gets ...

WASHINGTON, March 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future reactors was co-sponsored and formally introduced by Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Web developer has announced his candidacy for a U.S. House seat from Utah. Randall Hinton last week announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson in Utah's second district. Hinton says he is running as the ...

When Rep. Eric Massa resigned Monday and conservative talk radio blazed over a radio interview Massa gave harshly attacking House Democratic leaders and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the Washington Post suggested Massa’s remarks weren ...

With the exception of one house member who said he had philosophical differences with junior colleges being absorbed by four year institutions, the Utah State House of Representatives voted to merge the College of Eastern Utah and Utah State ...

Senator Bob Bennett encouraged hundreds of small business owners and entrepreneurs in Utah to stay positive about the economy as he kicked off his ninth annual Rural Business Conference in Price where the focus was on job creation and economic growth ...

The Emery County Republicans welcomed special guest Gov. Gary Herbert to their Lincoln Day dinner. Gov. Herbert said all roads run through Emery County. His sister lives in Ferron and Emery County feels like home to him, too. "The Republican Party is ...

Jim Matheson including Morgan Philpot and Neil Walter. Local candidates include: Jeff Horrocks, Gerry Hatch and JR Nelson for commission; David Blackwell for county attorney; Greg Funk for county sheriff; Kris Bell for county assessor; Brenda Tuttle ...

The WAC is going to be a one-bid conference again this season in the NCAA Tournament, even if Utah State gets upset in the WAC Tournament this week—by Boise State or anybody else. USU would be a long-shot as an at-large selection. The Aggies have ...

All aspects of President Obama's Chicago-style tactics are on display as he cajoles, bullies and bribes the House to pass his health care proposals despite the overwhelming public rejection with which they have been met. To some, he offers bribes ...

Hatch worked on both with his dear friend, the late Edward M. Kennedy, after whom the service bill was named. It was Kennedy, you'll recall, who insisted that health care was "a fundamental right and not a privilege." That's why it's not just ...