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• Real Salt Lake: Mike Petke fined for criticizing officials

  11-08-2017 23:55
  Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke expected the fine. Now Major League Soccer’s decision has finally arrived.MLS Commissioner Don Garber has issued Petke an undisclosed fine for his public criticism of the officials, the league announced Friday.In addition to Petke, Garber has fined Columbus Crew SC coach Gregg Berhalter and New York Red Bulls coach Jesse Marsch for the same reason.Petke’s fine comes in response to an impassioned critique of MLS officiating and the disciplinary review p
  
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• BYU football: Beau Hoge the clear front-runner to be Tanner Mangum's backup at QB

  11-08-2017 23:47
  Provo • Beau Hoge doesn’t even want to acknowledge it. Not publicly, anyway.But it is looking more and more like the redshirt sophomore from Fort Thomas, Ky., will be Tanner Mangum’s primary backup when BYU coaches release their two-deep chart prior to the opener on Aug. 26 against Portland State.Hoge, the son of former NFL running back and current ESPN NFL analyst Merril Hoge, got the second-most reps at Thursday’s scrimmage, behind only Mangum.“We will just have to
  
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• Prep football: Altamont Longhorns preview

  11-08-2017 23:30
  When a school only has had one winning season in the past 15 tries, the new coach can't be faulted for giving his players an example of something better.That example is about a dozen miles down the road for Altamont."Duchesne has a football program," Richins said. "We have a football team."To ascend to the heights of a powerhouse like Duchesne, Richins first must get Altamont athletes the motivation to join the team. The Longhorns had 26 students participate in the football program last year."If
  
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• August schedule provides Real Salt Lake with ample opportunity for points

  11-08-2017 23:28
  When it comes to playing style, Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke isn’t a fan of parking the bus.“I thought it was ugly and boring the way they killed the game staying back like that,” he said of Houston after a scoreless draw against the Dynamo last week. “But they did what they had to do for a point.”RSL (7-12-5, 26 points) won’t be playing anything like that on its upcoming road trip to D.C. and Montreal. Between Petke’s soccer philosophy and RSL’
  
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• Guam fliers offer emergency tips for threat from North Korea

  11-08-2017 23:22
  Officials in Guam are disseminating fact sheets to help residents prepare for a possible missile strike from North Korea.Guam’s Office of Civil Defense began distributing the guidance Friday, which includes tips on building an emergency supply kit, advice on staying put in concrete structures and reminders about keeping calm.A flier titled “Preparing for an Imminent Missile Threat” says that if an attack warning is issued, people should take cover quickly” under concrete
  
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• [Real Ball Insiders] - Just How Good Is Rudy Gobert?

  11-08-2017 23:16 via sportspyder.com
  ... ering his 5 th NBA season and is primed to take over as the face of the Utah Jazz. The French big man has shined as a defensive star and a complementary piece ...
  
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• Seven kittens rescued from inside a construction loader in Spanish Fork

  11-08-2017 22:58
  Elise Lane has helped rescue numerous feral kittens before, but saving seven kittens straight out of a CAT construction loader certainly ranks among the most memorable. On Wednesday night, Lane, the founder of Ashley Valley Community Cats, got a call from an employee at Green Forest Landscaping who had a problem. “He said: ‘Hey, I found these baby kittens in my bobcat, can you please help me?’” Lane said. After getting Lane’s advice on how to han
  
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• Prep football: Murray Spartans preview

  11-08-2017 22:52
  Murray thinks they’ve found their guys after seeing last year’s coach leave after a season.New coach Todd Thompson has plenty of connections to the Spartans.He was a Spartan before playing at Southern Utah University. His wife went to Murray, just like his parents. He was the school’s wrestling coach for a dozen years and applied for the football job more than once.Now the longtime assistant is in charge.“I finally got a crack at it,” Thompson said. “I’m
  
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• Utah football: Gifted homegrown corner Julian Blackmon ready for his close-up with the Pac-12's best

  11-08-2017 22:51
  Julian Blackmon was where so many of you were.On the couch Sunday night, glued to the TV just like you were as the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” again sent show regulars into the routine nail-biting panic. As armies marched, and kings and queens conversed, and dragons flew overhead, Utah’s starting right corner back looked on as three tennis balls went round and round.Julian Blackmon takes in pop culture with an added twist. He juggles. When the TV is on, he j
  
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• NFL: Dallas RB Ezekiel Elliott suspended 6 games in domestic case

  11-08-2017 22:30
  Dallas • The NFL suspended star Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott for six games Friday, concluding after a yearlong investigation that the league rushing leader caused injuries to his then-girlfriend in three separate incidents last summer.The ruling under the NFL’s personal conduct policy came despite prosecutors in Columbus, Ohio, deciding nearly a year ago not to pursue the case in the city where Elliott starred for Ohio State.According to the letter Elliott received info
  
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• NFL: Bills trade Watkins to Rams; get Matthews from Eagles

  11-08-2017 22:27
  Orchard Park, N.Y. • The Buffalo Bills shook up their roster with two separate blockbuster trades Friday, dealing starting receiver Sammy Watkins to the Los Angeles Rams and acquiring receiver Jordan Matthews from Philadelphia in exchange for cornerback Ronald Darby.The Bills acquired cornerback E.J. Gaines from the Rams.Buffalo also continued stockpiling 2018 draft picks by getting a second-round selection from Los Angeles and a third-rounder from the Eagles. The Bills dealt a sixth-round
  
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• Two killed in Nephi skydiving crash

  11-08-2017 22:11
  Two skydivers died after their parachute malfunctioned on Thursday evening, local police said. The two — instructor and client — were jumping tandem from a Cessna 182 plane near the Nephi City airport at 6:30 p.m., according to a new release from police. Both skydivers, 35-year-old instructor Serena Whelchel, of California, and 41-year-old Wendi Gabaldon, of Tooele, were taken to the Central Valley Medical Center, where they were declared dead, the release stated. Neph
  
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• GOP campaign operative encourages Kid Rock to run for Senate

  11-08-2017 22:00
  Washington • The head of a major Super PAC aligned with Senate GOP leadership encouraged performer Kid Rock to run for Senate against Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow of Michigan.The comments from Steven Law in an interview Friday on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program were surprising. But Law insisted he was quite serious, saying his group would “be actually very interested” in a Kid Rock candidacy.Kid Rock has made some moves to look at the race, including sett
  
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• Canadian couple sentenced in case of underage polygamous marriage

  11-08-2017 21:29
  Cranbook, British Columbia • A former husband and wife from a Canadian polygamous community were sentenced to jail Friday for taking a 13-year-old girl to the U.S. to marry the now-imprisoned leader of their sect.British Columbia Supreme Court judge Paul Pearlman sentenced Brandon Blackmore to a year in jail, while Gail Blackmore, his ex-wife, was given a term of seven months. Both were also ordered to serve 18 months’ probation after their jail time.The pair from the polygamous commu
  
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• BYU football: Beau Hoge the clear frontrunner to be Tanner Mangum's backup at QB

  11-08-2017 21:16
  Provo • Beau Hoge doesn’t even want to acknowledge it. Not publicly, anyway.But it is looking more and more like the redshirt sophomore from Fort Thomas, Ky., will be Tanner Mangum’s primary backup when BYU coaches release their two-deep chart prior to the opener on Aug. 26 against Portland State.Hoge, the son of former NFL running back and current ESPN NFL analyst Merril Hoge, got the second-most reps at Thursday’s scrimmage, behind only Mangum.“We will just have to
  
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• Prep football: American Fork Cavemen preview

  11-08-2017 20:56
  Most coaches might be a little uncomfortable if only one starter on defense was returning.American Fork’s Aaron Behm doesn’t sport anything like Alfred E. Neuman’s “What, me worry?” posture, but he is confident given the overall talent in the Cavemen program.“I wouldn’t say concerned,” Behm said. “You’d always like to have experience, but you’ve got guys that have been waiting their turn.”American Fork has seven returning st
  
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• Letter: Musical is a Mormon verbal Kristallnacht

  11-08-2017 20:54
  Saw “The Book of Mormon” recently on Broadway, then “Fiddler on the Roof” the following night.“Book of Mormon” sets a new standard nadir in the field of raunchy, bigoted satire, making good shock effect use of F-bomb, bestiality, sodomy and other egregious acts. The target of this: Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, angels Moroni and Mormon, the golden plates, not too admirable Ugandans and so on.“Fiddler” was written and produced by Jews (Stein, Bock and
  
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• Salt Lake City has a quidditch team, and it’s competing for a national title

  11-08-2017 20:43
  Quidditch captured the imagination of a generation of readers in the Harry Potter book and movie series — the title character flying through the air trying to secure a victory for team Gryffindor. Now, Salt Lake City’s own Major League Quidditch team is chasing an ultimate victory of its own — battling through a tournament in Texas this weekend for a championship title. There will be beaters, chasers and seekers — plus the requisite ”brooms&rdquo
  
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• Rebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying ‘secede’

  11-08-2017 20:32
  Birmingham, Ala. • Some white Southerners are again advocating for what the Confederacy tried and failed to achieve in the 1860s: secession from the Union.So-called Southern nationalists are among the demonstrators who are fighting the removal of Confederate monuments around the South. They say it’s time for Southern states to secede again and become independent of the United States.It’s not clear exactly how that could happen. But the longtime president of the leading Southern
  
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• Banker: Prices are rising in Utah — and that's a good thing

  11-08-2017 20:30
  The onset of higher summer rates for watering lawns and increased medical costs helped produce a 0.2 percent rise in consumer prices along the Wasatch Front from June to July, twice the amount of the monthly national increase.With that bump, Utah’s year-over-year inflation rate is 3.4 percent, said Ryan Taylor of Cicero Group, the Salt Lake City market-research firm that collected and analyzed data for Zions Bank, the survey sponsor. Consumer prices nationally have risen 1.6 percent over t
  
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• Danish band Mew to give away signed vinyl, meet and greet for Salt Lake City show

  11-08-2017 20:03
  Danish art/prog-rock band Mew is headlining The State Room in Salt Lake City this Wednesday. The band is also looking to make that night a little bit better for one lucky fan.Mew’s management revealed exclusively to The Salt Lake Tribune a contest that will gift the winner a signed copy of the band’s new album, “Visuals,” as well as a meet-and-greet opportunity for the winning fan and a plus-one.Entries must be submitted HERE by Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. MST, and both meet-and-g
  
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• DeVos say school vouchers part of tax overhaul discussions

  11-08-2017 19:59
  Las Vegas • More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses to fund them. But the programs are raising questions about transparency and accountability at a time when supporters are urging that they be expanded into a federal program.Unlike traditional school vouchers, which are directly funded by the states or in the case of Washington, D.C., the
  
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• UDOT: A whole lot of construction going on this weekend

  11-08-2017 19:53
  Motorists will need patience and a measure of road savvy during a construction-heavy weekend on northern Utah’s highways and interstates.Utah Department of Transportation spokesman John Gleason specifically pointed to work on Interstate 215’s East and West Belt Loop routes, and I-15 in Weber County.The East Belt stretch of I-215 in Salt Lake County’s Cottonwood Heights (6200 South) area will see traffic reduced to one lane in both directions Friday night into Monday morning.Cre
  
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• Ella Joy Olsen returns to Salt Lake City setting for new novel exploring family secrets

  11-08-2017 19:53
  After Ella Joy Olsen decided to set her second novel in Salt Lake City, the writer set about doing research in her hometown.In “Where the Sweet Bird Sings,” Emma Hazelton is dealing with her grief over her young son’s death, which leads her to explore her family’s history at the LDS Church’s Family History Library. The young woman uncovers genetic secrets that alter the way she views her marriage and change her relationship with her birth family. Olsen will launch t
  
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• Solar advocates ask state regulators to delay Rocky Mountain Power's net metering hearings

  11-08-2017 19:52
  A group of solar advocates and other parties opposed to Rocky Mountain Power’s request to change electric rates for rooftop solar owners is seeking to delay regulatory hearings on the controversial issue.In a motion filed late Thursday, industry and clean air advocates as well as state and local government representatives asked the state Public Service Commission for a 30-day delay, just as the public hearings were set to resume Monday.But, as of Friday morning, the three PSC commissioners
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: What to expect from Ricky Rubio this season

  11-08-2017 19:44 via sportspyder.com
  ... hat endeared so many of us to him, and it’s what makes his trade to the Utah Jazz so very bittersweet.” With those in Minnesota sad to see him go, what can we ...
  
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• Prep football: Jordan Beetdiggers preview

  11-08-2017 19:43
  No one can accuse the Jordan offense of being anything less than wildly productive in recent years.So if a new coach comes to the school, incumbent quarterback Crew Wakley might be expected to be a little bit worried about how his role might change after throwing for 3,509 yards as a junior last year.But Wakley shouldn’t be too worried because new coach Kaleo Teriipaia isn’t.“We’re more balanced because we have a run threat now,” said Teriipaia, who was an assistant
  
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• More condemnation for racist University of Utah flyers, counseling offered

  11-08-2017 19:16
  The University of Utah office tasked with promoting campus diversity on Friday condemned two racist flyers that were posted and pledged to continue working for social justice.The flyers were found at the Student Life Center; one taped on the wall of the center and another taped crudely over an advertisement near the building.“We are outraged, we are saddened, by these overt expressions of hate,” stated a release from The Office of Equity and Diversity posted to Facebook on
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Gordon Hayward sends 'former Jazzman' JP Gibson a Nintendo Switch as youngster battles cancer again

  11-08-2017 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... ion, and JP told the Deseret News earlier in the month that his new favorite Jazz player is Rodney Hood after Hayward signed as a free agent with the Boston C ...
  
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• Rookies reppin' 🎷 #PaniniNBARookie https://t.co/eoPKVw4GLr

  11-08-2017 19:10 via twitter.com
  
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• Gordon Hayward sends 'former Jazzman' JP Gibson a Nintendo Switch as youngster battles cancer again

  11-08-2017 19:10
  For a time, Gordon Hayward was the favorite player of JP Gibson, the boy who became an honorary member of the Utah Jazz in 2014 while undergoing cancer treatments.JP and his father announced at the end of July that the cancer has returned for the now-7-year-old after more than two years of remission, and JP told the Deseret News earlier in the month that his new favorite Jazz player is Rodney Hood after Hayward signed as a free agent with the Boston Celtics.Hayward's demotion on JP's list didn't
  
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• CHG Healthcare opens new employee-friendly headquarters

  11-08-2017 19:08
  CHG Healthcare has opened its new employee-friendly headquarters in Midvale consisting of two five-story buildings just off Interstate 15 at 7200 South.The company that bills itself as the nation’s largest privately held health care staff provider occupies 282,000-square-feet in the buildings that are connected by a glass “People Hub” that includes lounge areas, meeting spaces and dining areas.The company, founded in 1979, has about 1,400 of its 2,500 employees in Utah.CHG has
  
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• George Pyle: To solve a problem, pretend it's war

  11-08-2017 19:03
  In case you remember Andy Rooney as just an old grouse. ”An Essay on War,” 1971:“I launched the phrase, ‘The war to end war.’ And that was not the least of my crimes.” — H.G. WellsThe tender-hearted among us may never feel good about it. But a great deal of human history — at least the parts of it that anybody bothered to take down — has been about war, rumors of war, wars avoided and war by other means.It is so much a part of us and our imag
  
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• Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers ‘stopped being afraid’ and made a solo album

  11-08-2017 18:44
  Amy Ray, one-half of the folk rock/Americana duo Indigo Girls, has never been shy about also just being an Indigo Girl, with six solo albums to her credit. But her cohort, Emily Saliers, never followed suit in going it alone.Until now.Saliers’ debut solo album, “Murmuration Nation,” was released Friday. Saliers, who spoke to The Tribune ahead of her scheduled headlining appearance Saturday at the Women’s Redrock Music Festival in Torrey, acknowledged she’s pleased s
  
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• [NBA] - QUIZ: The New Jazzman Quiz

  11-08-2017 18:41 via sportspyder.com
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• How well do you know the newest Jazzmen? Take the QUIZ: bit.ly/2hREcZI ✅🤔❌ https://t.co/75W4qPTAxW

  11-08-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  
  How well do you know the newest Jazzmen?Take the QUIZ: bit.ly/2hREcZI ✅🤔❌ https://t.co/75W4qPTAxW
  
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• [KSL] - Who will lead the Jazz in scoring?

  11-08-2017 18:32 via sportspyder.com
  ... hen his team needs one. Last year's playoff run established him as maybe the Jazz's most important offensive player down the stretch of close games. Why he wo ...
  
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• Creole-inspired food truck lets owners embrace and share their roots

  11-08-2017 18:28
  Helena Carter believes everyone is put on Earth to share their gifts, but she didn’t always think that sharing cooking was for her.Carter discovered a love for it early on while helping her chef mother in the kitchen and on catering jobs. But witnessing the day-to-day struggles of the profession firsthand made her hesitant to pursue it as a career.“I told myself I’d do whatever it takes to keep me out of the kitchen at 50,” the now-51-year-old said while sitting outside h
  
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• Three Mormon-rooted religions move past conflicts to find cooperation in tug of war over sacred spaces
  

  11-08-2017 18:20
  Independence, Mo. • There is an open patch of grass at the intersection of River Boulevard and Walnut Street in this Kansas City suburb. It looks like a vacant lot — no structures, no landscaping, no fence.But this 2.5-acre site is sacred to a number of religious groups, all of which trace their origins to Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr. It is here, Smith declared in the 1830s, that Jesus will return — and soon — to rule his kingdom from a beautiful temple.For now, there i
  
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• [The Score] - Watch: Young Jazz fan receives get-well gift from Hayward

  11-08-2017 17:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... Watch: Young Jazz fan receives get-well gift from Hayward | theScore.com nba Watch: Young Jazz ...
  
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• Prep golf: Weber's Connor Howe shoots for rare state three-peat

  11-08-2017 17:33
  Connor Howe’s best score in a competitive round of golf is 62. He shot it as a Weber High sophomore to set a state tournament record and win the first of his two state titles.He also shot the same score last week at a preseason invitational in Syracuse.The calendar just turned to August and Howe already is in midseason form.That 10-under-par round is one the senior hopes can propel him to a third state title. He would be just the fifth golfer in UHSAA history to be a three-time medalist at
  
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• Prep football: Fremont Silver Wolves preview

  11-08-2017 17:32
  Don’t be surprised if new coach Ross Arnold preaches versatility and adaptability during Fremont practices.“Something we try to teach our players at one point or another is that if you truly want to be a great player, you have to get out of your comfort zone,” Arnold said.If anyone had grown accustomed to an assistant coach’s routine, it was Arnold. He spent 20 years on the Fremont coaching staff and was taken by surprise when longtime coach Kory Bosgieter called it quits
  
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• Trump threatened 'fire and fury.' Here's why to some that's perfectly Godlike

  11-08-2017 17:25
  In President Donald Trump’s war of words with North Korea lies a key to understanding some of the religious dynamics of the Trump era. It has to do with the character of God.During the ongoing public back and forth with North Korea, the president Tuesday said the country would “be met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” if it threatens the United States. Later in the day, one of Trump’s evangelical advisers blessed th
  
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• Gehrke: Regulators should reject Rocky Mountain Power’s plan and keep powering the solar industry

  11-08-2017 17:24
  A couple weeks ago there was a knock on my door, the kind I’m sure we’ve all had, from a young man interested in selling me rooftop solar panels.The pitch made sense — get off the grid, produce clean energy and cut your electric bill in the process.It’s the reason you’re probably seeing solar panels atop so many of your neighbors’ homes. Maybe they’re on yours. Around the state, an estimated 20,000 Utahns have installed rooftop solar and are supplementin
  
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• Beyond bluster, US, North Korea in regular contact

  11-08-2017 17:20
  Washington • Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist country and deteriorating relations between the long-time foes, The Associated Press has learned.It had been known the two sides had discussions to secure the June release of an American university student. But it wasn’t known until now that the contacts have continued, or that they have broac
  
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• Owners walk away from debt-ridden, unsafe Utah coal mine

  11-08-2017 17:18
  Helper • Nearly five years after it was closed amid a swamp of defaulted debt and safety violations, Carbon County’s Horizon coal mine remains dormant while state regulators and federal land managers struggle to get owner Hidden Splendor Resources to pay reclamation costs and unpaid royalties.The mine sits about 11 miles west of Helper up the Consumers Road along a tributary of Gordon Creek, where sections of coal debris known as fines descend into a dilapidated retention pond.
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Jazz miss the playoffs?

  11-08-2017 17:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... frica last week). But it is yet another example of how much the Jazz are having an international influence on basketball and the NBA brand. This. ...
  
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• Officials: Baby found in plastic bag in New York doing 'remarkably well'

  11-08-2017 17:17
  Elmira, N.Y. • Officials say an 8-month-old baby found abandoned in a plastic bag left in the backyard of a New York home is doing “remarkably well.”Chemung County Assistant District Attorney Terry Northrup says the infant remained in stable condition at a Rochester hospital Friday, three days after she was found in a white plastic garbage bag left near bushes behind a home in Elmira.Authorities say the child’s 17-year-old mother, Harriette Hoyt, of Sayre, Pennsylvania, ab
  
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• Pesky FrontRunner delays due to 'mechanical issues,' but repairs made

  11-08-2017 17:13
  For much of this week, FrontRunner commuter trains experienced periodic delays blamed by Utah Transit Authority primarily on “mechanical issues.”By late Friday morning, however, maintenance crews completed their work, which had unexpectedly extended into the morning’s peak commute period.“Crews were working during non-service hours to repair and replace components of the FrontRunner system and did not finish before the morning commute began,” UTA spokesman Remi Barr
  
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• You could read Warren Jeffs’ latest revelation from prison, or you could just listen to some guy on Youtube do it

  11-08-2017 17:08
  From time to time throughout his incarceration — 11 years and counting — Warren Jeffs has told us all how this world is going to hell. Jeffs is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. His assessments come in the form of revelations that he sends his followers. They publish them and mail them to elected and public officials across the country. Earlier this year, another revelation went out, apparently. One Youtube subscriber says he r
  
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