Brady McCombs, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Construction workers looks at the rubble from a building after an earthquake Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Salt Lake City. A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken the city and many of its suburbs. The quake sent panicked residents running to the streets, knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and closed the city's airport and its light rail system. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Strong quake shakes Utah, closes Salt Lake airport

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and Lindsay Whitehurst Associated PressMarch 18, 2020

SALT LAKE CITY — A strong earthquake struck Salt Lake City Wednesday, damaging some roads and buildings, shutting down a major air traffic hub and scaring millions of people already on edge from the coronavirus pandemic. The 5.7-magnitude quake just…

Luggage sits on the roadway at the scene where at least four people were killed in a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Utah. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)

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Bus driver in Utah crash that killed 4 Chinese was on 1st trip

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and Lindsay Whitehurst Associated PressSeptember 22, 2019

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2015 file photo, Sandy Newcomb poses for a photograph with a rainbow flag as people gather for a mass resignation from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is repealing rules unveiled in 2015 that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion. The surprise announcement Thursday, April 4, 2019, by the faith widely known as the Mormon church...

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Mormons ease opposition to same-sex couples, their kids

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and Lindsay Whitehurst Associated PressApril 5, 2019

FILE - In this May 26, 2017, file photo, Susie Gelbart walks near petroglyphs at the Gold Butte National Monument near Bunkerville, Nev. As Democrats in Congress prepare to scrutinize President Donald Trump's review of 27 national monuments, most of the recommendations made by ex-Interior Ryan Zinke remain unfinished, seemingly stuck on the backburner as other matters consume the White House. Zinke recommended cuts to the boundaries of Gold Butte National Monument to free up a water district that he thought shouldn't have been included in the boundaries. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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Trump’s national monument changes return to spotlight

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and Matthew Brown Associated PressMarch 20, 2019

Esther Anastasia holds a sign during a protest rally with government workers and their supporters in Boston, Friday, Jan.11, 2019. The workers rallied with Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and other supporters to urge that President Donald Trump put an end to the shutdown so they can get back to work. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Federal workers get $0 pay stubs as shutdown drags on

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and Michelle Smith Associated PressJanuary 11, 2019

FILE - In this April 2, 2016, file photo, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs during the opening session of the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City. The well-known Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, to strip out the word Mormon in a move showing the faith's new president is serious about ending shorthand names for the religion that have been used for generations by church members and previously promoted by the church. The gospel singing group will now be called "The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square," The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said in a statement. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Mormon no more

by Brady McCombs Associated PressOctober 5, 2018

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, shows Elizabeth Smart holding a photo of Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado during a news conference, in Sandy, Utah. Wanda Barzee, the woman convicted of helping a former street preacher kidnap Smart as a teenager from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002 and held her captive, will be released from prison next week. The surprise move announced Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, comes after authorities determined they had miscalculated the time Barzee...

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One of Smart’s kidnappers to be freed

by Brady McCombs Associated PressSeptember 12, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Lyle Jeffs leaves the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. The former polygamous sect leader was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, to nearly five years for his role in carrying out an elaborate food stamp fraud scheme and for escaping home confinement while awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Ex-polygamous sect leader gets nearly 5 years in fraud case

by Brady McCombs Associated PressDecember 13, 2017

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Lyle Jeffs leaves the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. Polygamous sect leader Jeffs has been captured after being on the run for nearly a year. An FBI spokeswoman said Thursday, June 15, 2017, that Jeffs was arrested in South Dakota on Wednesday, June 14. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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Polygamous sect leader caught

by Brady McCombs Associated Press, and James Nord Associated PressJune 15, 2017

In this July 22, 2013, file photo, an 11-year-old boy looks over a Boy Scout-themed Norman Rockwell exhibition at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Mormon church pulls older teens out of Boy Scouts

by Brady McCombs Associated PressMay 11, 2017