Back-to-back home runs from unlikely sources sent the Arizona State softball team on its way home for the Tempe Super Regional.

SALT LAKE CITY - Lost in the vast desert of Skull Valley, 65 miles west of Salt Lake City, is a small cemetery where headstones from the turn of the 20th century bear Hawaiian names.

SALT LAKE CITY — Jorgen Sumsion spent the fall semester studying biostatistics at Brigham Young University, but he's not enrolled this semester.

PROVO, Utah - The Arizona State track and field team finished the 2006 NCAA West Region Championships Saturday night in Provo, Utah, with the women’s 1,600-meter relay winning the team’s third regional crown on the weekend to help the Sun Devils finish fourth in the team standings.

SALT LAKE CITY - The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the nuptials, officials said.

The Arizona State softball team took the first step Thursday toward hosting a super regional . But it took everything the No. 9 Sun Devils had.

If you don't know this group of alternative pop-rockers by their name, Neon Trees, you've likely heard their hit song, "Animal," on the radio. The Provo, Utah-based band, who got their break in 2008 when The Killers drummer saw one of their gigs in Vegas, plays this week in the East Valley. But don't expect them to trash a hotel room after; according to Rolling Stone magazine, the all-Mormon group refrains from typical rock-band partying and drinking.

PROVO, Utah - Brigham Young guard Lee Cummard is entering the NBA draft, but will keep his options open by not hiring an agent.

MAPLETON, Utah - A fire broke out in Mormon filmmaker Richard Dutcher's newly remodeled offices, causing about $200,000 in damage.

Well might Arizona State University rejoice at the success of one of its graduates, Ira A. Fulton. Last weekend the multimillionaire homebuilder made a blockbuster donation to his alma mater: $100 million. Mind you, this is on top of the nearly $60 million Fulton has already given to the university.

PROVO, Utah - Brigham Young coach Bronco Mendenhall still remembers the boos he heard at home in his coaching debut. Two years later, nobody is booing Mendenhall.

September 7, 2004

SALT LAKE CITY — Want some solar energy with your geothermal?

SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

PROVO, Utah — Mikaela Merrill was in the middle of her fall semester at Brigham Young University when she abruptly altered her college plans and signed up for a Mormon mission.

SALT LAKE CITY - George Osmond, father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family's singing group, The Osmond Brothers, died Tuesday. He was 90.

The No. 9 Arizona State softball team was selected Sunday as the No. 7 seed in the 2007 NCAA tournament and will open postseason play May 17 at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

A Mormon missionary from Mesa, who trained eight months in the U.S. Marines before taking a two-year leave to go on his church mission, was killed Friday in a train accident in Rosario, Argentina.

A Mormon missionary from Mesa, who trained eight months in the U.S. Marines before taking a two-year leave to go on his church mission, was killed Friday in a train accident in Rosario, Argentina.

It was quite the parting gift left by outgoing Arizona State softball coach Linda Wells. When Clint Myers was hired in July 2005, he didn’t know anything about the team he was inheriting. Literally, nothing. He hadn’t watched a Pac-10 softball game in 10 years.