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The Where Were You Day

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

A Police Investigation: Glimmers of an Old, Cold Case

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....

SLC Tourney Journey | Coffee Destined for Trash... and Then Redemption

The coffee odyssey in Downtown SLC has been troublesome. The Coffee Shop at the Little American was a bust (see full review). And the...

A Time, Unblinkingly, To Follow The Facts

Special to Great Pacific Review | By Jason James Barry Police go where the facts and evidence lead. They need to. They can’t sidestep...

U of Idaho murder suspect in custody: Where the case goes now

A man is in custody for the Idaho college murders — but the devil will be in the details to nail down a conviction. Authorities in...

Letting Viktor Bout Escape

The indictment and charging papers, now all an open book since Viktor Bout’s arrest and subsequent conviction, read like a script for an...

The Man At The Door | Jason James Barry

There’s a picture of him I hadn’t seen until this past year, a tall figure dressed in black and framed by the doorway he hadn’t yet...