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• [Real Ball Insiders] - Why Gordon Hayward and the Celtics Will NOT Work Out as Planned

  10-08-2017 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... e biggest moves of the NBA off-season, All-Star Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz and headed east, to the Boston Celtics. While Hayward’s departure devastated ...
  
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• Prep football: Roy Royals preview

  10-08-2017 23:39
  It was a bitter end to what started as a sweet season for Roy coach Fred Fernandez and the Royals last year.After starting 6-1 with home wins over Jordan and rival Fremont, Roy sputtered into the playoffs and swiftly was knocked out in the Class 5A first round.“We didn’t finish very strong,” Fernandez said. “We got beat up at Northridge, we were able to beat Weber in overtime but then got beat by a four-seed, albeit a really good four-seed in American Fork. We just want t
  
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• Improved conditions on tap for Speed Week, which begins Saturday on the Salt Flats

  10-08-2017 23:28
  Bonneville Salt Flats • Southern California Timing Association officials have been busily preparing three courses on the Bonneville Salt Flats in anticipation of Speed Week.The colorful annual event, which has been plagued by poor salt conditions and bad weather the past few years, will begin Saturday morning with inspections.Time trials — which require two runs to record a record — may start as early as Saturday afternoon as speed enthusiasts from all over the world gather on t
  
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• Rural Box Elder school granted a 4-day week to free students for family ranch work

  10-08-2017 23:27
  A small, rural school in northwest Utah is hoping to boost attendance by keeping students home on Fridays.The Utah Board of Education voted unanimously on Friday to let Park Valley Elementary and Secondary School operate on a four-day schedule this fall.Park Valley enrolls roughly 30 students in kindergarten through 10th grade. But most students at the school in Box Elder County miss between one-fourth and one-third of their classes due to family ranching obligations, teacher Hallie Kunzler said
  
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• Autopsy identifies body in river as that of missing St. George woman

  10-08-2017 23:26
  An autopsy has identified a badly decomposed body found in a wash near southern Utah’s Santa Clara River last weekend as that of a missing St. George woman.St. George police confirmed Thursday that the Utah State Medical examiners Office had identified the deceased, found Saturday morning by a hiker, as 32-year-old Amy Crawford.
  The cause of her death, as well as how long she had been dead, were still under investigation, police stated.
  Crawford was reported missing by her family last mont
  
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• Politicians blocking people on social media ignites debate

  10-08-2017 23:14
  Salt Lake City • An emerging debate about whether elected officials violate people’s free speech rights by blocking them on social media is spreading across the U.S. as groups sue or warn politicians to stop the practice.The American Civil Liberties Union this week sued Maine Gov. Paul LePage and sent warning letters to Utah’s congressional delegation. It followed recent lawsuits against the governors of Maryland and Kentucky and President Donald Trump.Trump’s frequent and
  
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• Earnest Inc.’s expansion add to Utah’s growing financial tech sector

  10-08-2017 23:12
  Another San Francisco financial tech company is expanding operations into Utah, looking to add 500 jobs with a capital investment of $5.6 million.Earnest Inc., a startup that offers low-interest, no-fee loans using its software to analyze applicants’ creditworthiness, will expand its operations into Salt Lake County, the company and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development announced Thursday.Earnest is the third fintech company from San Francisco to recently announce plans to ex
  
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• Monson: Time for Air Whitt offense at Utah? In Pac-12, there's no need

  10-08-2017 23:11
  Much has been written and said about Utah’s attack under new offensive coordinator Troy Taylor — what it should be, what it shouldn’t be, what it needs to be, what it doesn’t need to be, what it can be, what it can’t be, what it will be and what it won’t be.All of that coming inside the challenge of playing in the Pac-12, a supposedly enlightened conference where enlightened football is played, where enlightened football is required to be played in order to be
  
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• An adventurous life is told through ‘Letters From Baghdad’

  10-08-2017 23:09
  The documentary “Letters From Baghdad” lifts the veil of anonymity on one of the 20th century’s forgotten figures — a woman who literally redrew the map of the Middle East — but falls short in explaining why her actions were so consequential.Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) left her family’s estate in Yorkshire to study at Queen’s College and later Oxford, one of the few women in a world dominated by men. She traveled extensively in the Middle East, making conn
  
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• One man stands up to Hitler in riveting ‘13 Minutes’

  10-08-2017 23:08
  The German drama “13 Minutes” is a riveting story about one man’s attempt to stop World War II when it had barely started, by acting on the evil he saw but few of his countrymen did.Georg Elser plotted by himself to do what the Allied forces couldn’t: to kill Adolf Hitler. He came quite close, planting a bomb at a Nazi party meeting in Munich on Nov. 8, 1939, only two months after the German invasion of Poland that started World War II. It worked, too — except that
  
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• ‘Annabelle: Creation’ delivers old-school scares

  10-08-2017 23:08
  Among horror franchises, “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2” are among the smartest, and scariest, titles on the shelf — while their spinoff siblings, the idiotic “Annabelle” and the new and slightly sharper “Annabelle: Creation,” have labored to catch up.As the title implies, “Annabelle: Creation” is a prequel, providing the origin story to the creepy doll that channeled a demon (and a Mansonlike cult) to ’70s suburbanite
  
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• Kristen Stewart’s ‘Come Swim’ headlines Sundance shorts collection

  10-08-2017 23:07
  This year’s Sundance Short Film Tour presents seven small gems that played at this year’s Sundance Film Festival — an engaging mix of genres and styles, most of them focusing on people in moments of crisis and decision.The collection leads with the festival’s most talked-about short, which earned that honor because of its director, “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart. “Come Swim” is a densely layered 17-minute collage of impressionist images and whispe
  
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• A chaotic life, put in order in ‘The Glass Castle’

  10-08-2017 23:06
  Memoirs, and movies about memoirs, call to mind the axiom of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard that “life must be understood backwards, but … it must be lived forwards.”In memoirs, a writer can clean up the messy bits of a life, plot out the patterns of behavior that in the moment one rides like a surfboard on the waves. And in adapting memoirs to film, as with the dysfunctional family drama “The Glass Castle,” there’s a second pass at smoothing
  
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• Real Salt Lake finally getting healthy after terrible stretch of injuries

  10-08-2017 23:04
  The Real Salt Lake athletic training staff had to set up portable tables to accommodate the constant flow of injured players into the training room.“It’s about as messy as it is to have the whole family over for thanksgiving dinner, said forward Chad Barrett, who has been a training room regular since his March 31 knee surgery. “You’re just putting up tables everywhere, taking up space that’s normally used for other things. And that’s a pleasant time, whereas
  
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• Prep football: Westlake Thunder preview

  10-08-2017 22:59
  Coach Louis Wong’s Timpview teams won five state championships between 2004 and 2009, and he’s aiming to build Westlake into a similar power.Westlake grabbed one win in league play in tough Region 4 last year. If the Thunder can duplicate that this season, they would put themselves in position for a playoff berth because the region only includes five teams.The problem for the Thunder is that the other four include high-riser Pleasant Grove and perennial powers Bingham, Lone Peak and
  
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• Albert Hunt: The bloom is off the rose with Jared and Ivanka

  10-08-2017 22:57
  Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were the golden couple destined to dazzle Washington and shape the administration of President Donald Trump. That glitter is gone, replaced by policy failures, poor judgments and ethical embarrassments.The president’s daughter and son-in-law have not brought a contemporary generational sensibility to the White House, as they once proposed to do, and instead have created significant problems.Kushner, devoid of government experience or diplomatic expertise, was
  
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• New party seeks to end state funding for closed Republican primaries

  10-08-2017 22:52
  The new United Utah Party is calling for the state to stop spending taxpayer money on GOP primaries where only registered Republicans may vote.“There is no reason the voters should pay for a party’s primary election when that party refused to allow all taxpayers who are eligible voters from voting in the primary,” said Richard Davis, chairman of the new party that targets middle-of-the-political-spectrum Utahns.In Utah, the dominant GOP allows only registered Republicans to vot
  
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• Book review: 'The Blinds' moves at a brisk pace

  10-08-2017 22:49
  The prison system — and how to treat incarcerated criminals — has always been problematic, no matter the plan. Adam Sternbergh’s imaginative “The Blinds” doesn’t solve the problem but offers an unusual alternative: round up the most violent murderers, house them in a remote, unescapable town and, as a kicker, wipe their memories clean.“The Blinds” expertly melds the thriller with the Western, adding a soupcon of medical-science fiction while paying
  
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• Rodents rise up in animated trifle ‘Nut Job 2’

  10-08-2017 22:40
  If nothing else, “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature” is the beneficiary of good timing, as many will consider it not as bad as the last animated movie on the schedule, the painfully terrible “The Emoji Movie.”In fact, “The Nut Job 2” is not only better than “The Emoji Movie” — if it were worse, I’d be removing my eyeballs with a melon baller — but a slight improvement on its forgettable predecessor from 2014.The first “Nut Job&
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant to participate in first Basketball Without Borders in Israel

  10-08-2017 22:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... hout Borders camp there. Next week, Jazz assistant coach and former University of Utah guard Johnnie Bryant will do t ...
  
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• Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant to participate in first Basketball Without Borders in Israel

  10-08-2017 22:11
  Last week, Utah Jazz wing Thabo Sefolosha went to South Africa to participate in a Basketball Without Borders camp there.Next week, Jazz assistant coach and former University of Utah guard Johnnie Bryant will do the same in Israel.NBA, WNBA and FIBA representatives will conduct camps for the top 62 boys and girls ages 17 and under from 22 countries. The event is touted as an opportunity to bring hundreds of youth together from Christian, Druze, Jewish and Muslim communities.This will mark the fi
  
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• Trump to declare opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’

  10-08-2017 22:07
  Bedminster, New Jersey • President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a “national emergency” and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic.“The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it’s a national emergency. We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,” Trump told reporters during a brief question
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Kelly has to do more or Trump’s presidency may never recover

  10-08-2017 21:55
  It’s entirely possible that the Trump presidency is beyond repair. President Donald Trump has accomplished none of his major priorities (except for putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court) and has proved himself to be an unreliable and inept partner for the Republicans on Capitol Hill. He surely isn’t going to be able to accomplish more in his second six months than he was in his first, when he was supposedly at the peak of his popularity and power.Moreover, special counsel Robert
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s base is drifting away — and may never return

  10-08-2017 21:51
  Polls released over the past week or so show President Donald Trump’s overall approval rating sinking and, more ominous for the president’s psyche, an erosion among his most devoted followers.Politico reports: “Only 40 percent of registered voters approve of the job Trump is doing as president, the new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows, down from a high-water mark of 52 percent in March. And the percentage who approve strongly - one way to measure the size of Trump’s mo
  
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• Washington Post Commentary: Stop arguing facts and listen to the other person’s values

  10-08-2017 21:50
  Worries about “political polarization” and of our “post-factual era” impeding political debate in our society have become commonplace. Liberals, in particular, are often astonished at the seeming indifference of their opponents toward facts and toward the likely consequences of political decisions.“Donald Trump has been helped by a conservative-media environment in which there is no penalty for being wrong all the time,” Josh Barro wrote at Business Insider ba
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Ekpe Udoh

  10-08-2017 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... rsen (@andyblarsen) July 21, 2017 That is in fact the biggest thing that the Jazz need out of Udoh for him to reach his best case scenario – rim protection. W ...
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Coach Johnnie Bryant to Participate in First Basketball Without Borders Camp in Israel

  10-08-2017 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... ryant - Mic'd Up July 12, 2016 Jazz New Nike Uniform Photo Collection August 09, 2017 Jazz Reveal First Two Unif ...
  
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• After confusion over law, teacher who had sex with underage student sentenced to 195 days in jail, goes free

  10-08-2017 21:34
  A former Utah County teacher who admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old student has been sentenced to 195 days in jail and placed on three years of probation.Third District Judge Kraig Powell, who imposed the punishment on Tuesday, gave Sarah Lindsay Lewis credit for the 195 days she already has served and also ordered her to register as a sex offender, according to court records. The sentence ends a legal proceeding that had even confused lawyers. At one point, Lewis had pleaded guilty
  
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• Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Ekpe Udoh

  10-08-2017 21:33
  The big question facing Utah Jazz free agent signing Ekpe Udoh is whether or not his solid play from the last two seasons overseas can translate into the NBA. In the previous edition of the Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series, I took a look at recent Utah Jazz draftee Tony Bradley who certainly has the […]
  Utah Jazz Best Case/Worst Case Scenario Series: Ekpe Udoh - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Monson: Time for Air Whitt offense at Utah? In Pac-12, there's no need for it

  10-08-2017 21:32
  Much has been written and said about Utah’s attack under new offensive coordinator Troy Taylor — what it should be, what it shouldn’t be, what it needs to be, what it doesn’t need to be, what it can be, what it can’t be, what it will be and what it won’t be.All of that coming inside the challenge of playing in the Pac-12, a supposedly enlightened conference where enlightened football is played, where enlightened football is required to be played in order to be
  
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• Utah approves signature-gathering for 2018 medical marijuana initiative

  10-08-2017 21:31
  Backers of legalizing medical marijuana in Utah received a go-ahead from state elections officials Thursday to start gathering signatures needed to qualify the measure for the November 2018 statewide ballot.Officials with the Utah Patients Coalition said they will begin collecting signatures next week — with a stated goal of gathering all 113,143 signatures required before the January start of the 2018 legislative session.“Our volunteers – many of them patients or caregivers th
  
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• Teen charged with manslaughter in crash that killed two classmates, injured a pregnant woman and her baby

  10-08-2017 21:27
  A 18-year-old who survived a crash that killed two of his high school classmates and injured a pregnant woman and her baby faces 30 years in prison.Abraham Miranda was charged Wednesday with two felony counts of manslaughter and a misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment. The manslaughter counts each carry up to 15 years in prison. Feb. 16 about 11:30 a.m., Miranda, of Salt Lake City, was driving a car north on 300 West at 95.8 mph in a 40 mph zone, charges state. Seventeen-year-old
  
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• Polygamous towns on Utah-Arizona line pay to settle cases against 2 men who say they were wrongly arrested at former zoo

  10-08-2017 21:27
  Towns on the Utah-Arizona line will pay $221,000 to two men who claimed they were wrongfully arrested at an old zoo in 2015. Patrick Pipkin and Andrew Chatwin will each receive $100,500 to settle their claims and another $10,000 each in attorneys fees, according to an agreement entered into a federal court record in Phoenix. The money settles their lawsuit against Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.Two plaintiffs remain — Seth Cooke and a business he formed, called Prairie Fa
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Two potential 2018 free-agency fits for the Utah Jazz

  10-08-2017 21:26 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell’s time with CP3 could pay big-time dividends by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Prep football: Pleasant Grove Vikings preview

  10-08-2017 21:25
  Take it back one year for Mark Wootton, when he accepted the coaching job at Pleasant Grove.“I didn’t even know what we had,” Wootton said. “And I had people tell me we didn’t think we’d do that well.”Skeptical prognostications bore out for a few weeks as the Vikings started 1-4. But Pleasant Grove then went on a winning streak that lasted through the rest of the regular season.With a slew of sophomores on the field, the flash of success ended with a fir
  
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• Trump declares opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’

  10-08-2017 21:22
  Bedminster, New Jersey • President Donald Trump is officially declaring the opioid crisis a “national emergency.”Trump made the announcement before holding a security briefing Thursday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.He tells reporters the drug crisis afflicting the nation is a “serious problem the likes of which we have never had” and says he’s drawing up documents “to so attest.”A drug commission convened by Trump recently called for
  
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• BYU football: Texas Tech transfer Tanner Jacobson will be primary punt returner, backup strong safety in 2017

  10-08-2017 21:21
  Provo • It was only a matter of time before Texas Tech transfer Tanner Jacobson found a way to get on the field for BYU. The 5-foot-10, 185-pound junior is just too good of a player to spend the entire game on the sidelines, coaches say.Jacobson, younger brother by seven years to former BYU receiving great McKay Jacobson, will be the Cougars’ primary punt returner in 2017, special teams coach Ed Lamb said last week. Jacobson, from Southlake, Texas, returned punts and kickoffs in high
  
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• Marc Thiessen: Trump's immigration vision isn't the Reagan way

  10-08-2017 21:17
  It was not that long ago that a Republican presidential candidate vowed that “we will make America great again.” His name was Ronald Reagan, and he made that promise to restore American greatness at the most appropriate place he could imagine: in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty.It is worth recalling Reagan’s words that day, as we debate the Trump administration’s proposal to cut legal immigration in half.The Statue of Liberty has at its base a poem, “The New Col
  
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• Where’s the Love? Congresswoman’s constituents say they were left off her invite list

  10-08-2017 21:15
  Rep. Mia Love’s town-hall alternative in which she met with small groups in her office last week was formulated for safety reasons, the Utah congresswoman has said.She has cited the incivility and high emotions members of Congress have faced at town halls, the recent shooting of a Republican congressman at a baseball practice and concerns about safety in her own Utah County neighborhood.But some constituents, who have complained on social media that they were never notified of her invitati
  
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• NCAA adopts sexual violence policy, emphasizing education

  10-08-2017 21:14
  NCAA member schools will be required to provide sexual violence education for all college athletes, coaches and athletics administrators under a policy announced Thursday by the organization’s board of governors.Campus leaders such as athletic directors and school presidents will be required to attest that athletes, coaches and administrators have been educated on sexual violence each year. The move follows a number of high-profile assault cases, including Baylor.The policy also requires c
  
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• Two potential 2018 free-agency fits for the Utah Jazz

  10-08-2017 21:11
  A look at a few of the potential fits with the new-look Utah Jazz from next summer’s free agent class. There were no star players to be had for the team this summer, but the Utah Jazz still picked up some talented free agents. Not just from the NBA pool, but from abroad as well. The Jazz […]
  Two potential 2018 free-agency fits for the Utah Jazz - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Does he drink alcohol? Nominee for Utah liquor commission is staying quiet until confirmation

  10-08-2017 21:11
  Park City attorney Thomas N. Jacobson has been appointed to the state liquor commission, the governor’s office announced Thursday.Jacobson, who has been a practicing attorney in California and Utah for more than 40 years, is a graduate of Utah State University and received his law degree from the University of Utah in 1972.Does he drink alcohol? Jacobson has declined interviews until his confirmation by the Utah Senate. A hearing is expected in late September.In a news release announcing h
  
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• Clinton woman found dead, husband arrested on unrelated charges

  10-08-2017 21:01
  Police confirm they found a woman dead in a Clinton home, but they do not believe her husband -- arrested on unrelated warrants and other charges -- was responsible for her death.
  Clinton police Lt. Shawn Stoker said officers initially went to the couple’s home at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday to check on the woman at her employer’s request; she had failed to show up for work. No one answered their calls or knocks, and without permission to enter the residence, the officers left.
  However, fami
  
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• 311 still ‘just trying to channel some good vibrations’

  10-08-2017 20:56
  The band 311 doesn’t believe in taking summer vacations.Summer, in fact, is when they go to work.For the 18th straight year, the genre-bending band originating from Omaha and now based in Los Angeles is taking its Unity Tour out for a summer spin, including a stop Saturday at USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City.Guitarist Tim Mahoney told The Tribune in a phone interview that while the group has discussed eventually abandoning its moratorium on touring in the other seasons, right now it
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Season preview: Utah Jazz

  10-08-2017 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... of length, mobility, athleticism and timing … Last year, he became the first Jazz player to make an All-NBA Team since Deron Williams back in 2010 … With the...
  
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• Official picked to monitor operations in polygamous towns

  10-08-2017 20:54
  Phoenix • A judge has appointed an official to monitor municipal decisions in a polygamous community in Arizona and Utah as a punishment for a religious discrimination verdict.Roger Carter, city manager of Washington, Utah, was appointed to monitor operations in the sister cities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, on behalf of the court.His appointment on Aug. 3 was a response to a 2016 verdict that concluded nonbelievers were denied police protection, building permits and water h
  
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• Season preview: Utah Jazz

  10-08-2017 20:39
  STAYING: Joel Bolomboy, Alec Burks, Dante Exum, Derrick Favors, Rudy Gobert, Rodney Hood, Joe Ingles, Joe Johnson and Raul Neto.
  ADDED: Tony Bradley (North Carolina), Eric Griffin (Hapoel Gilboa Galil), Jonas Jerebko (Boston), Donovan Mitchell (Louisville), Royce O’Neale (Gran Canaria), Ricky Rubio (Minnesota), Thabo Sefolosha (Atlanta) and Ekpe Udoh (Fenerbahce).
  GONE: Boris Diaw, Gordon Hayward (Boston), George Hill (Sacramento), Trey Lyles (Denver), Shelvin Mack (Orlando)
  
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• Utah man indicted for bank robbery 5 months after being released from prison for bank robbery

  10-08-2017 20:36
  A Utah man who was released from prison a few months ago after serving a lengthy sentence for a series of bank robberies is back behind bars, accused of pulling two credit union heists in July.Jeremy Van Duren, 43, of West Jordan, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on two counts of credit union robbery. He faces up to 20 years in prison on each count if convicted.Van Duren was indicted on 16 counts of bank robbery in 2004 in a series of robberies in Salt Lake County and eventually pl
  
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• The Cricket: Considering the movies’ nuclear options, from ‘Godzilla’ to ‘WarGames’

  10-08-2017 20:31
  It was 1954, nine years after the first atomic bombs were detonated — first on the testing grounds of New Mexico, then on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — that the fears of nuclear annihilation felt by the Japanese and the world first manifested themselves in the form of a giant lizard monster.It’s a weird confluence of time, or a sign that history and irony are close companions, that Haruo Nakajima, the 88-year-old former stuntman and actor who wore the monster suit in the original &l
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell’s time with CP3 could pay big-time dividends

  10-08-2017 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... rds, they encouraged Mitchell to stay the course. More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz reveal two new Nike uniforms for 2017-18 14h ago NBA 2K18 video reveals one...
  
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