UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWS SOURCE | September 24, 2025

Author: Adam Metcalf

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The Good and the Bad of Region 9: Week One

There is good news and there is bad news in regards to Region 9 limping out of the gate during the opening week of high school football. Four of Region 9’s seven teams began the season in the loss column on Friday night. Cedar, Desert Hills, Pine View, and Snow Canyon all fell to their […]

Panthers Fall in Battle With Leopards

The Panthers of Pine View High School hosted the Leopards of East High School out of Salt Lake City Friday night.  The Leopards jumped out to an early 13-0 lead in the first quarter. Pine View battled back in the first half to score three consecutive touchdowns, to take a 21-13 lead into halftime.  Coming […]

Tour For A Cure: From Coast to Coast

Not even Kalisi Uluave knew what he was getting himself into when he decided to ride his bicycle from Huntington Beach, California, to Mount Desert, Maine.  Kalisi began the Tour For a Cure on May 16, a fundraising effort to support a Cedar City boy battling cancer. When he reached his final destination in Maine […]

A Red Storm Is Brewing

Two-a-days have begun for the Red Storm of Dixie State College. The football team is coming off a disappointing season, and is looking to flip the script this year. With 70 new faces on the team, marking head coach Scott Brumfield’s first full recruiting class, the Red Storm are looking to raise the bar at […]

Google to Purchase Motorola For 12.5 Billion–Cash

Google Inc. has made another huge step outward from its primary role as an Internet search engine.   The company has a deal to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion dollars, cash. The deal comes as a step for Google to keep pace with Apple and Microsoft in the industry of mobile computing. […]

Little Valley Stand-off

St. George Police and SWAT were forced to close down roads Wednesday near Little Valley after receiving reports of a man firing a gun in his house. The call came in around 2:30 p.m. when police received reports that an intoxicated man fired a weapon and then became fearful of being arrested. The family of […]

Salt Lake City Crashes Into the Top 15

Over the past year the state of Utah was ranked by Forbes Magazine as The Best State for Business and Careers. Recently Utah, and specifically Salt Lake City, cracked the top ten of another national list. However, this list might not be one to brag about.  In an article by CNBC ranking America’s most dangerous […]

17-Year-Old Drowns in Quail Creek Reservoir

A 17-year-old boy’s body has been recovered from Quail Creek Reservoir. A Utah State Park official told SUN News that Tory Jones, from St. George, went missing around 7:30 Thursday evening at Quail Creek Reservoir. He was at the reservoir with a youth group, when he disappeared. Officials recovered his body from the reservoir at […]

Prosecutors Rest Their Case Against Warren Jeffs

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS Church.   The jury listened to audio recordings of Jeffs sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl that he took as a spiritual wife. This was a follow up to Tuesday’s audio recording of Jeffs instructing a 14-year-old girl how to […]

Southern Parkway Archaeological Dig Uncovers Rare Discovery

Archaeologists in Southern Utah recently discovered five new Virgin Anasazi habitations along the Southern Parkway Corridor.  For the last few months archaeologists have been working at a site near the future Washington Dam Road Interchange, along the Southern Parkway. The fieldwork portion of the archaeological work is concluding, and the cooperating agencies involved, including UDOT, […]