SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah unemployment numbers released Thursday are lower than anticipated, but that will probably change in a final analysis.

LAYTON -- Being down an anchor tenant this Christmas shopping season in a tight economy has done nothing to diminish the hopes of the owners of the Layton Hills Mall.

WOODS CROSS, Utah -- Video released Tuesday shows a 100-foot fireball ripping through a Utah refinery during a gas explosion that knocked a nearby home off its foundation earlier this month.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A project to demolish and replace parts of the condemned visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument has gone out to bid.

Reasonable, intelligent people can disagree over whether five accused 9-11 conspirators should be tried in federal courts in New York City for that day's horrendous destruction.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi could have been brought before the military commissions that have evolved from lengthy struggles over proper procedures for prosecuting suspected terrorists detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

We agree with a state legislative audit that calls for a ban on double-dipping by Utah public employees, where an employee is collecting a taxpayer-funded work check as well as a paycheck via the state's defined-benefit retirement system.

I was saddened to read in the Standard that partial blame for Weber State University's poor football fortunes are being aimed at running back Trevyn Smith (Oct. 24, "Wildcats wary of improving N. Colorado"). Nothing could be further from the truth. Don't make a scapegoat of a tuly great running back because of one bout of poor judgment.

(UNEDITED) As long as Bob Montanez is awarding prizes for those responsible for the fall of Communism, here are a few other nominees.

Let's start with Lech Walesa, who climbed a Gdansk shipyard fence in 1980 and entered history as he led Polish workers to their right to free trade unions. How about Vaclav Havel, who led Czechoslovak patriots in the Velvet Revolution in 1989 that brought freedom to their country, or the East German youths who actually climbed the wall that memorable night.

ST. LOUIS -- Let's get down to business. It's time to update the attempted sale of the St. Louis Rams. The process has been secretive for the most part. Obviously, there's a lot that I don't know.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Steve Kragthorpe says he has no plans to quit as Louisville coach amid speculation he might be fired.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- It's easy to long for the "good old days" if you are a quail hunter.

Here's a bunch of 'Twilight' multimedia and stories for you to sink your teeth into!

Nothing says Christmas like coming home. That's where David Archuleta hopes he'll be this year -- where his heart is, in Murray, Utah.

To use the term "over-the-top" to describe the heavy rock band GWAR does not begin to do the monstrous quintet justice.

Part turn-it-up-to-11 rock outfit, part horrifying sideshow -- and the balance outrageous comedy act -- GWAR has been beguiling and puzzling audiences for 25 years now.