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• Tribune Editorial: To clear the air, electrify the fleet

  05-08-2017 23:45
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt announced this week that the agency was moving ahead with defining places that need to do more to reduce ozone pollution, reversing an earlier decision to delay by a year.What does that mean for Utah? Basically nothing. Utah’s air quality regulators anticipate Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Utah, Duchesne and Uintah counties being declared “non-attainment areas,” meaning ozone concentrations reach unhealthy levels too oft
  
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• Utah football: Move to cornerback energizes former WR Kenric Young

  05-08-2017 23:20
  The sideline practice official sprinting down the field was getting an earful.“Come on, ref!” screamed Kenric Young.“No way, ref!” Young went on.When the official tossed a flag for a defensive pass interference call, Young kept going. The 6-foot-1 senior from Gainesville, Fla., picked up the flag and held it in his right hand as he sought more of an explanation on the call. Young did this all with a half-smile, caught between jokingly letting the ref have it and trying to
  
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• Kragthorpe: Utes’ formerly ‘pedestrian’ offense wants to run faster and farther in Troy Taylor’s scheme

  05-08-2017 23:20
  Kyle Whittingham’s best interviews occur when he gets bored with using the same words over and over, as football coaches tend to do. He’ll mix in a new phrase then seek confirmation about how it fit into the context of the conversation.That’s how he came to select “pedestrian”when asked during the recent Pac-12 Media Days about his Utah team’s 2016 offense. Then he asked, “Is that the right way to use pedestrian?”That usage might be a little harsh,
  
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• Utah football notes: Sophomore linemen vying for time at center

  05-08-2017 23:17
  Kyle Whittingham started his post-practice media session Saturday with a familiar declaration.“Nothing on injuries today,” Utah’s football coach said inside Rice-Eccles Stadium. “Zero to talk about injury-wise.”Asked again if there were any season-ending injuries to discuss — part of program policy to divulge if a player has suffered an injury that will keep him sidelined for the year — Whittingham said there were no season-ending injuries for the Utes.&
  
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• BYU football: Canada, Burt emerge in RB battle to replace Jamaal Williams

  05-08-2017 22:30
  Provo • After seven practices, the simulation of a pre-game walkthrough and a live scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium that was not accessible to the media, the competition to replace Jamaal Williams as BYU’s starting tailback has started to sort itself out.Running backs coach Reno Mahe said Friday — before the scrimmage — that junior Squally Canada would get the nod if the season started today. Canada has the most experience, having rushed 74 times for 315 yards while bac
  
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• Police investigating body found near river in St. George

  05-08-2017 21:44
  St. George police were on the scene of a woman’s body found near the Santa Clara River on Saturday morning.Officers were dispatched to the area of 1545 S. Dixie Drive just after 7:30 a.m. after a man out on his morning walk spotted the body.Search and rescue personnel and dogs were on the scene early Saturday afternoon looking for additional evidence.The body may have been floated downstream and ended up on the riverbank, located more than a mile west of Interstate 15, police said in a Fac
  
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• Op-ed: Estimate of medical marijuana cost is way, way off

  05-08-2017 21:29
  In 2015, Sen. Howard Stephenson and Rep. Steve Eliason introduced a bill (S.B. 60) to require high school students pass the Civics Naturalization Test all naturalized citizens must pass before becoming US citizens. The Utah Education Association hated this test and did everything they could, behind the scenes, to kill the bill.The most brazen act was to get the State Office of Education to attach a fiscal note to the bill that amounted to over $700,000 (one-time costs of $421,750 and on-going co
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: How can Kelly tell Trump the truth?

  05-08-2017 21:26
  Former White House chief of staff, CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta gives some solid advice to new chief of staff John F. Kelly, including this:“There has to be one person in the White House willing to look the president in the eye and tell him the truth — to tell him when he is wrong and when he is about to make a mistake — and that has to be the chief of staff. Staff members, by their nature, are hesitant to challenge the president for fear of offending him. Bu
  
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• Sports radio host Scott Garrard takes over for longtime ‘voice of the Aggies’ Al Lewis after Utah State shakeup

  05-08-2017 21:24
  When he was fresh out of high school and looking for a gig to help put himself through college, Scott Garrard picked up a telephone and started calling radio stations all around the Cache Valley. He dialed a station that played country music and left a message. To his surprise, someone called back with a job offer. He would work nights, play Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks and Alan Jackson. And then, on Fridays in the fall, he would call high school football games.This summer, some 20 years after
  
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• SLC police triple nighttime presence near violence-plagued Pioneer Park and Rio Grande homeless shelter

  05-08-2017 21:15
  A heightened nighttime police presence in Salt Lake City’s recently violence-plagued Rio Grande district is expected to continue at least into early next week, officials said Saturday. “This will continue,” Salt Lake City police Chief Mike Brown tweeted late Friday night, the first evening more officers were ordered into the district. We are increasing our presence in the Rio/Depot Dist. tonight with directed patrols focusing on order maintenance. This will continue.
  
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• George Pyle: Shifting to a web-based universe

  05-08-2017 20:33
  Kinda sorta remember somebody telling me this one time. So it must be true. (Even though I can’t find it on Google. So it’s probably false.)In the early days of their success, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards would take tapes of Rolling Stones songs they had just recorded to a friend of theirs at a London radio station. The DJ would put on the tape, play it on the air, and Mick and Keith would run down to the street, get in the junky car one of them still drove and listen to the record
  
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• Rich Lowry: Ignorant emotionalism guides immigration debate

  05-08-2017 20:32
  When Donald Trump’s policy adviser Stephen Miller stepped into the White House briefing room Wednesday to defend a plan for reducing levels of legal immigration, Jim Acosta of CNN was aghast and let everyone know it.Put aside that Acosta believed it was his role to argue one side of a hot-button issue. The exchange illustrated how advocates of high levels of immigration are often the ones who — despite their self-image as the rational bulwark against runaway populism — rely on
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Can Ricky Rubio take the next step with the Utah Jazz?

  05-08-2017 20:25 via sportspyder.com
  ...that level of success with Hayward out the door, but this year’s Jazz team is still a big improvement over anything Rubio has played on in the pas ...
  
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• Can Ricky Rubio take the next step with the Utah Jazz?

  05-08-2017 20:11
  The Utah Jazz recently acquired Ricky Rubio to run the show from the point guard position, but can he take the next step and elevate the Jazz to another level? With George Hill on the outs and Gordon Hayward’s decision looming, the Utah Jazz had work to do before the opening of free agency. In a […]
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• ‘The Dark Tower’ is a mangled mess of mythology

  05-08-2017 20:06
  For someone not versed in Stephen King’s self-described “magnum opus,” the movie adaptation of King’s “The Dark Tower” is a hopeless mess, a truncated tale of heroes and villains tied into a tangled knot of inexplicable mythology.Those who have read King’s books, I suspect, will split into two camps: those who recognize the many references director Nikolaj Arcel tosses into this weird mix of urban action and fantasy monsters, and those who will rage over
  
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• Rocking to their own beat: Haim in charge of their career

  05-08-2017 19:56
  The rock trio Haim remembers filming their first music video for just $200 before they were signed to a record label.The clip for the song “Forever,” released in 2013, features Alana, Danielle and Este Haim riding bikes, playing the guitar in their parents’ living room and dancing in a hair salon (while imitating moves by Destiny’s Child), infused with videos from their early childhood.It is carefree, but meticulous, with the Haim sisters at the creative forefront.Fast fo
  
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• Alice Cooper, JoJo, Tech N9ne and other big names tell The Tribune about the first concerts they went to

  05-08-2017 19:44
  Beyond it being part of my gig, going to concerts has long been one of my favorite things to do anyway. Whenever I ask the wife, “What do you want to do this weekend?” her initial response is inevitably, “Who’s in town?”As a result, I’ve had my fair share of compelling concert-related moments.I honestly thought I’d seen Lemmy Kilmister die onstage at a Motörhead show at The Complex. I honestly thought I might die when a freak snowstorm popped up and
  
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• Letter: The Democrats need to stand for something

  05-08-2017 19:14
  Democrats need to stop resisting and start standing for something.You can be the party of resistance all you want, but until you start standing for something other than “we’re against Trump,” no one has a reason to vote for you. Honestly, the Democrats have come up with nothing for the past year.Propose actual progressive economic reform, single payer health care.This notion that people will vote for you because the other side is racist is what lost them the election in the fi
  
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• Letter: Trump is threatening my life

  05-08-2017 19:12
  Donald Trump threatened my life again the other day. In fact he quite possibly threatened the lives of 7 million of my fellow Americans also. He threatened to withhold government payments that subsidize monthly premiums for low income Americans unless Democrats come to the bargaining table and get Trumpcare passed.This so-called president once again used approximately 7 million Americans as pawns to blackmail congressional Democrats to vote his way. Granted, maybe all 7 million aren’t on
  
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• Letter: Orrin Hatch has lost his conscience

  05-08-2017 19:12
  In 2010 a congressional research outfit rated Sen. Orrin Hatch as fifth most effective Republican to reach across parties to get legislation enacted.His complicity with Ted Kennedy to pass CHIP, Americans with Disabilities Act, special education laws and many other worthy articles of legislation is well known. Rumor had it in the early years that Hatch became a moral support for Kennedy in his struggles with alcohol and marital failure. Why then has Hatch retreated to such opposite extremes in
  
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• Utah forecast: Sun in the north, heavy rain possible in south as weekend begins

  05-08-2017 18:34
  The weekend will start sunny and hot, but there’s a chance of thunderstorms Sunday afternoon and evening in the Salt Lake City area.Temperatures are expected to hit 93 Saturday, then cool slightly to 89 Sunday afternoon, when some light wind and showers are possible.That will lead into scattered showers, thunderstorms and slightly cooler high temperatures — mid-80s — early next week, according to the National Weather Service.Meanwhile, southern parts of the state, including St.
  
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• Utah author Ann Dee Ellis hits the jackpot with new middle-grade novel

  05-08-2017 17:48
  There’s something special about “You May Already Be a Winner,” a new realistic middle-grade novel by local author Ann Dee Ellis. In just a few short weeks, it has been selected as a Junior Library Guild pick, a Summer 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List pick, A July Amazon Best Book of the Month pick and a Barnes and Noble Best Books for the month of July.It’s not hard to see why the book has attracted so much positive attention. The story of 12-year-old Olivia, who hopes to
  
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• Family holds out hope to find Utah man Paul Swenson despite few tips checking out

  05-08-2017 17:29
  Family members of of a man who last seen leaving his American Fork home July 27 believe he is “alive and will come home to us safely.”According to a statement posted to the Bring Paul Home Facebook page, Paul Swenson’s family is shifting its focus “from daily searches out of Salt Lake City to a nationwide scope as investigators continue to follow various leads.”Family members told police that Swenson “wasn’t acting like himself” before he left home
  
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• Utah unicyclist’s adventures take him across the globe

  05-08-2017 17:25
  Lindon • When you first learn that Guy Hansen does mountain unicycling, you think he’s pretty cool. But the more you learn about him, the more you realize he’s beyond cool.Hansen not only enjoys mountain unicycling, but has also competed in unicycle road races, backward unicycling and obstacle races. He excels in hand unicycling competitions. In fact, Hansen said he currently holds seven unicycle hand-pedaling world records — three for speed and distance two-handed pedalin
  
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• Commentary: Math doesn’t have to be cringeworthy

  05-08-2017 17:09
  How often have you heard someone say, “I’m not good at math,”or, “I’ve never been a ‘math person’”? As math educators, we’re used to parents, students, fellow teachers — and even strangers — sharing their math struggles with us.But math doesn’t have to be cringeworthy. Math instruction has evolved quite a bit since we were children. Gone are the days of focusing extensively on math drills alone. Utah students are instead lea
  
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• Thabo Sefolosha is captain for Team Africa in the #NBAAfricaGame! 🏀🌍 Tune in NOW to ESPN 2! https://t.co/gqAX68fZIM

  05-08-2017 17:03 via twitter.com
  
  Thabo Sefolosha is captain for Team Africa in the #NBAAfricaGame! 🏀🌍 Tune in NOW to ESPN 2! https://t.co/gqAX68fZIM
  
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• Commentary: A Bible study led by 92-year-old Jimmy Carter is a sight to behold

  05-08-2017 17:00
  Plains, Ga. • We wake at 5 a.m. because we are told everyone in our hotel has come for the same reason — to see 92-year-old Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, conduct Bible study at Maranatha Baptist Church.An hour later, still 45 minutes before sunrise, my wife and I, along with her brother and his wife, are driving 10 miles west from Americus to Plains.The man handing out numbers at Maranatha Baptist says that, at 6:25 a.m., we are car No. 72, and he reckons that
  
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• Catherine Rampell: If Trump were an immigrant, he'd probably be deported

  05-08-2017 16:40
  WASHINGTON • How might President Trump fare in the “merit-based” immigration scheme he just endorsed?If he were an immigrant, there’s a decent chance he’d get kicked out of the country.The economy-crippling bill that Trump embraced this week includes much to dislike. It would cut legal immigration levels in half, flouting Trump’s prior pledges not to reduce legal immigration or be unfair to those who’ve patiently waited in line -- some for years.Despite w
  
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• Kirby: Trapped in the time warp of home renovation

  05-08-2017 16:39
  My wife and I closed on our retirement nest in April. It’s now August and we still aren’t moved in. A bit of remodeling was needed before we could do that. A bit turned out to be nearly five months.Note: I am not retiring from The Tribune. That would require a divorce bunker rather than a nest. I am, however, retiring from mowing a square mile of yard. Our new backyard will be the size of a planter box. We’re moving into a separate apartment in our eldest daughter’s
  
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• Letter: Time to improve the ACA, not bash it

  05-08-2017 16:37
  Good suggestions abound for fixing the Affordable Care Act, rather than letting it implode as President Trump wishes. Let’s not hurt millions of Americans. Congress and the Trump administration could enforce the requirement that most people have health insurance. Those with cars are required to have driver’s insurance. This is no different; everyone needs health care at some point.Trump and HHS Secretary Tom Price should encourage healthy people to enroll. They do the opposite. Trump
  
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• Letter: Ardean Watts was a divergent thinker

  05-08-2017 16:37
  As an adolescent I was captivated by an iconic Utahn named Ardean Watts. Watts with his Brigham Young beard and his punk music attitude (before punk music existed) gave me hope that a divergent thinker could survive and flourish in what I understood to be a very homogeneous town.The first time I saw Watts he was downtown playing the piano outside, an uncommon sight in those days. I asked my mother, a piano teacher, about this man. “Oh, he’s Adrean Watts, he is wonderful,” she e
  
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• Letter: New administration is riding the momentum

  05-08-2017 16:36
  I see now Republican attempts to credit the current administration with strong economic numbers. I heard the latest White House press secretary credit this administration with a “million new jobs” since January.What I remember is when the previous administration entered the White House the U.S. economy was in a free fall. Over the eight years in office this administration managed to, at the very least, point the economy in the right direction. So what I believe is, given the ineptitu
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: KAT, Westbrook, Rubio, Jazz

  05-08-2017 16:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... is known to visit OKC periodically during the offseason, Dawson adds. Newest Jazz point guard no longer has to worry about trade talk after the deal that brou ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Royce O’Neale

  05-08-2017 14:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...questioning that the former Baylor Bear has some skills, but he’ll need the Jazz development team to work wonders on him to truly transform him into an NBA t ...
  
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• Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Royce O’Neale

  05-08-2017 14:30
  Royce O’Neale was a surprise addition to the Utah Jazz, but he has the chance to take major advantage of the opportunity extended to him. After adding the likes of Thabo Sefolosha, Jonas Jerebko and Ekpe Udoh this offseason, most fans figured that the Utah Jazz were done making moves at that point. Their roster […]
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah should let California be California

  05-08-2017 14:10
  It’s April Fools’ Day at the Utah Legislature. At least Rep. Paul Ray thinks it is.Ray has started drafting a resolution for the 2018 legislative session in support of California seceding from the union. But he doesn’t really support it. His resolution is a message – a “wake-up call” – from Utah to California saying that Utah is tired of California’s whining and efforts to control other states.OK.Here’s the message California would likely ret
  
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• [Jazz Fanatical] - Offseason Odds and Ends

  05-08-2017 09:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... ears to get to that number. Flashback to 2012: Eight. Why on earth would the Jazz decide to cover this instead of getting rid of it? Seriously, why? (Tweet ha ...
  
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• Saints' rookie Williams keeping eyes on the ball

  05-08-2017 07:40
  Metairie, La. • Saints rookie safety Marcus Williams figures it won’t be difficult to measure whether the investment New Orleans has made in him is paying off.He was selected in the second round of last spring’s draft largely because he demonstrated an ability to intercept passes during his college career at Utah. He’ll be expected to do so again in the NFL.“I feel like that’s what I hold myself accountable to do is go get the ball,” Williams said after a
  
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• Bees lose second straight to Sky Sox

  05-08-2017 07:21
  Only an inning and a half had been played between the Salt Lake Bees and Colorado Springs Sky Sox, but damage had already been done as Bees starting pitcher John Lamb surrendered three runs on five hits. With the Sky Sox vaulting to an early three-run lead, Colorado Springs would add a valuable insurance run in the sixth. Bees pinch-hitter Rey Navarro provided hope in the ninth inning, driving a deep two-run homer over the right-field fence, cutting Colorado Springs lead to a single run. But it
  
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• Family holds out hope to find American Fork man despite few tips checking out

  05-08-2017 07:20
  Family members of of a man who last seen leaving his American Fork home July 27 believe he is “alive and will come home to us safely.”According to a statement posted to the Bring Paul Home Facebook page, Paul Swenson’s family is shifting its focus “from daily searches out of Salt Lake City to a nationwide scope as investigators continue to follow various leads.”Family members told police that Swenson “wasn’t acting like himself” before he left home
  
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• EPA chief to reconsider paying claims over mine waste spill in Utah, Colorado and New Mexico

  05-08-2017 05:44
  Silverton, Colo. • The Environmental Protection Agency will reconsider whether to pay farmers, business owners and others in three states for economic losses caused by a mine waste spill that government crews accidentally triggered in 2015, the agency’s leader said Friday during a visit to the site.EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who toured Gold King Mine with Colorado lawmakers on the eve of the disaster’s second anniversary, said he told people to resubmit claims rejected unde
  
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• When will we see ‘Operation Rio Grande’? Utah’s leaders have some things to work out, first.

  05-08-2017 05:34
  It has a name, at least. Unofficially.In tweets, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox referred to an all-hands-on-deck effort to reduce lawlessness around Salt Lake City’s downtown homeless shelter as #OperationRioGrande.But more than a week after elected officials announced at the state Capitol that they were coming — in lockstep — for area lawbreakers, they continue to first seek a clear path forward.More info on #OperationRioGrande will be coming out in the next 10 days.Thanks to everyone w
  
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• Holly Richardson: We all need some white space in our lives

  05-08-2017 05:23
  White space is a concept many people are familiar with. In art, it’s often called “negative space.” White space is not just “blank space,” however — it is used deliberately. It is a fundamental element of design that allows the objects to exist. It’s the space that as one artist described it, provides “visual breathing room for the eye.”I have a daughter who is an amazing artist and sometimes she creates her work by taking a blank piece of wh
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Sending the wrong message

  05-08-2017 04:39
  It’s April Fools’ Day at the Utah Legislature. At least Rep. Paul Ray thinks it is.Ray has started drafting a resolution for the 2018 legislative session in support of California seceding from the union. But he doesn’t really support it. His resolution is a message – a “wake-up call” – from Utah to California saying that Utah is tired of California’s whining and efforts to control other states.OK.Here’s the message California would likely ret
  
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• Three Wyoming girls are struck by lightning in Utah, police say

  05-08-2017 04:30
  Three girls were seriously injured when lightning struck them near Lily Lake in Summit County on Friday afternoon, authorities said.The sisters — ages 2, 7 and 8 — were hit about 1:30 p.m., though a call for help didn’t reach Summit County emergency responders until nearly a half-hour later, due to the spotty cell service in the area, sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright said.Two of the girls were in critical condition and were flown to a Salt Lake City-area hospital by helicopter
  
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• Attorney for indicted real estate guru seeks recusal of all U.S. judges in Utah

  05-08-2017 03:44
  The former attorney for indicted real estate investment guru Rick Koerber went to bat for him again on Friday, this time facing off against every federal judge on the bench in Utah.Criminal defense attorney Marcus Mumford, who managed to get a first criminal case against Koerber tossed out three years ago, is again part of Koerber’s legal team as he faces a second case, set to go to trial in less than three weeks on 18 charges.U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby was scheduled to hold a final
  
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• Attorney general says Justice Department has tripled number of leak probes

  05-08-2017 03:40
  Washington • Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that the Justice Department has more than tripled the number of leak investigations compared with the number that were ongoing at the end of the last administration, offering the first public confirmation of the breadth of the department’s efforts to crack down on unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information.The announcement seemed designed both to reassure the president, who has criticized the attorney general of being &ldq
  
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• Prep football: Olympus defensive end Cameron Latu chooses Alabama over Utah, others

  05-08-2017 03:30
  Holladay • Four-star recruit Cameron Latu tapped his mother, Jill Argust, on the shoulder as she was doing laundry last Saturday.She turned and he looked at her intently.“Mom,” he said, “I’ve decided I’m going to commit.”Argust held in her excitement until she was sure he was confident in his decision.“I was just on cloud 9 ever since,” she said.Latu, a star defensive end at Olympus High, announced his commitment to the University of Alabama i
  
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• Kelsey Chugg wins her fourth Utah Women's State Amateur crown

  05-08-2017 03:22
  Fruit Heights • Utah Golf Association membership director Kelsey Chugg won the Utah Women’s State Amateur golf tournament for the fourth time on Friday afternoon, defeating BYU golfer Anna Kennedy 2 up in the championship match.Chugg, 26, didn’t play flawless golf at Davis Park Golf Club, not too far from the course she grew up playing, Schneiter’s Riverside Golf Course. But her putting was terrific.She also won the Women’s State Am in 2012, 2013 and 2015.Kennedy, a
  
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• Under Trump, gains against ISIS have ‘dramatically accelerated’

  05-08-2017 03:18
  Nearly a third of territory reclaimed from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since 2014 has been won in the past six months, due to new policies adopted by the Trump administration, a senior State Department official said Friday.Brett McGurk, the State Department’s senior envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition, said that steps President Donald Trump has taken, including delegating decision-making authority down from the White House to commanders in the field, have “dramatically
  
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