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• Grand Teton park to outshine bigger Yellowstone for eclipse

  18-08-2017 23:59
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • Its jagged, soaring peaks rise high over northwest Wyoming, but Grand Teton National Park is always in the shadow of its world-renowned neighbor, Yellowstone National Park.But thanks to the total solar eclipse Monday, Grand Teton is expected to outshine, and overshadow, one of the nation’s most popular parks — at least for the day. Grand Teton is directly in the path of the eclipse — where the sun is completely blocked by the moon.“We anticipate it t
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Mavericks to sign former Jazzman Jeff Withey

  18-08-2017 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  ...repeatedly shown that he belongs in this league. More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz: NBA 2K18 ratings are in for Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell 2h ago Three-Poin ...
  
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• Charlottesville mayor calls for swift removal of Lee statue

  18-08-2017 23:42
  Richmond, Va. — The mayor of Charlottesville on Friday called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the city’s right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a request that was swiftly rejected by the state’s governor.Mayor Mike Signer said recent clashes over race and the Confederacy had turned “equestrian statues into lightning rods” and urged Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe to convene a special session of the General Assembly.Signer&
  
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• Utah Jazz: Mavericks to sign former Jazzman Jeff Withey

  18-08-2017 23:30
  Center Jeff Withey is the latest Utah Jazz alum to find a new basketball home, coming to terms on a deal with the Dallas Mavericks. Another former Jazzman has agreed to a deal with a new team. According to Shams Charania of The Vertical, big man Jeff Withey is set to join the Dallas Mavericks. It will be […]
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• O.C. Tanner, already supporting refugees in college, will now help them pursue dream careers

  18-08-2017 23:29
  Not fluent in English but needing a job, Selma Mlikota had been a Bosnian refugee in Utah for less than a year when O.C. Tanner hired her in August 1998 to make commemorative rings.That initial break launched a career. She climbed through the ranks to a position where she developed training programs for people who sell O.C. Tanner’s employee-recognition products worldwide.Now she will put her experience to work helping other refugees find meaningful careers through O.C. Tanner’s inte
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre features a rock ’n’ roll twist on the Robin Hood legend

  18-08-2017 23:23
  In an entertainment world that’s richly invested with superhero origin stories, now comes a new stage version of the Robin Hood story.That’s the new angle of David Farr’s “The Heart of Robin Hood,” which debuted in 2011 at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and is receiving a regional premiere at Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City.When Merry Marion joins the Merry Men<br>Where • Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valle
  
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• Game Night with the Jazz - Our annual charity event in support of cancer research.🎲🏀🎮 Save the date- 10/5 at… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-08-2017 23:22 via twitter.com
  Game Night with the Jazz - Our annual charity event in support of cancer research.🎲🏀🎮Save the date- 10/5 at… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Barcelona's victims include U.S. man celebrating anniversary

  18-08-2017 23:16
  Paris — The dead and injured in Barcelona were a snapshot of the world — men, women and children from nearly three dozen nations — testifying to the huge global appeal of the sun-kissed city.Families, friends and government officials from Paris to Sydney, San Francisco to Berlin scrambled Friday to discover whether their loved ones and citizens were among those mowed down by suspected Islamic extremists who zig-zagged down Barcelona’s always crowded Las Ramblas promenade
  
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  18-08-2017 23:11 via twitter.com
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz notes: A Pink Grandma passes away; Jeff Withey signs with Dallas

  18-08-2017 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... e Pink Grandmas on multiple occasions. During the Jazz's playoff series against the Golden State Warriors, the Jazz awarded Mori an ...
  
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• Western mountain resorts are making money this summer

  18-08-2017 22:55
  Mountain resorts across the West are making more money this summer even though visitation is down a bit.Property-management companies at 20 mountain-destination communities took in 7.7 percent more revenue in July than they did a year earlier, despite occupancy being down 1.7 percent, according to DestiMetrics, a Denver-based research company that tracks resort lodging in Utah and seven other Western states.That 7.7 percent gain is right in line with projections for the whole season, added Desti
  
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• Cities seek creative ways to prevent car or van attacks

  18-08-2017 22:52
  Paris — From Barcelona to Times Square and beyond, extremists have used vehicles as deadly weapons with alarming frequency in recent years, whether to promote jihad, get attention or express despair.In response, ugly concrete blocks as well as more aesthetic deterrents are sprouting up in front of landmarks and ordinary public places around the world. Security experts say such barriers would have minimized the fatal damage wreaked on Spain this week — yet warn that as long as motor v
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Brad Stevens wasn't sure Gordon Hayward was coming to the Boston Celtics, coach admits

  18-08-2017 22:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ining the Boston Celtics this summer after starting his career with the Utah Jazz. More The Herd With Colin Cowherd Videos FOX Sports Go LIVE NOW FEATURED UPC ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Report: Jeff Withey agrees to one-year deal with Dallas Mavericks

  18-08-2017 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... ear center out of Kansas played 51 games in each of his two seasons with the Jazz, and was a serviceable backup to Rudy Gobert. A California native who played ...
  
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• Report: Jeff Withey agrees to one-year deal with Dallas Mavericks

  18-08-2017 22:15
  Jeff Withey has reportedly found a new home.The Vertical's Shams Charania reported Friday that the big man who has spent the past two seasons with the Utah Jazz has agreed to a one-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks.Financial terms of the deal were not reported.https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/898632075653259264The four-year center out of Kansas played 51 games in each of his two seasons with the Jazz and was a serviceable backup to Rudy Gobert.A California native who played collegiatel
  
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• Podcast: Troy Williams is a captain. Will he be the Utes' starting quarterback?

  18-08-2017 22:02
  Utah offensive coordinator Troy Taylor says the Ute’s deadline for naming a starting quarterback is Aug. 31 at 5:30 p.m. – and that’s only if they get the ball first.Is the QB competition really that close? Will it be Troy Williams, who was just named an offensive captain for a second season? Or has Tyler Huntley done enough to win the job? Tribune beat writers Lynn Worthy and Chris Kamrani examine the quarterback battle, Taylor’s autonomy as a player caller under Ky
  
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• Indian speedskater chases dream of making PyeongChang 2018 at the Utah Olympic Oval

  18-08-2017 21:54
  Kearns • Lap after lap, day after day, Stephen Paul looks up and hopes he’ll soon see the orange, green and white stripes of the Indian flag high above his head. In his four and a half years training at the Utah Olympic Oval, he’s moved from an inline skating background to learning speed skating to training six to eight hours per day for a shot at the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. His dream, born on wheels in his native India and honed on the ice that
  
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• Commentary: Bannon’s chaos had no place at the White House

  18-08-2017 21:53
  The most important thing to know about Steve Bannon, the departing White House “chief strategist,” is that he was an amateur. And just as Richard Neustadt tells us that the presidency is no place for amateurs, the same is true for White House senior staffers. The most important thing to know about Donald Trump’s first staff is that the actor (and activist) Kal Penn, who was part of yet another advisory group which collapsed on Friday, has more White House experience than Bannon
  
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• Hurricane police department employee accused of selling evidence

  18-08-2017 21:52
  An employee of the Hurricane Police Department has been was arrested for allegedly selling police evidence through his daughter’s online store.Kurt Tanner, an evidence technician, was charged Monday in 5th District Court with one count of third-degree felony misuse of public money because the money from the sale wasn’t returned to the city, as is normally done when police evidence is sold or auctioned off. Tanner, 54, of St. George, is accused of giving the evidence to a company
  
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• Sending our love to the family of Keiko Mori- affectionately known as one of the @PinkGrandmas. You're forever par… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-08-2017 21:51 via twitter.com
  Sending our love to the family of Keiko Mori- affectionately known as one of the @PinkGrandmas.You're forever par… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Golf: Utah Women's Open makes its debut in Provo

  18-08-2017 21:26
  Provo • Organizers of the Utah Women’s Open had a modest goal of attracting 40-player field in the golf tournament’s first year, and they came close to achieving it.The breakdown between pros and amateurs is not quite how they pictured it, though. A partial overlap with the LPGA Tour Qualifying Tournament apparently has kept some out-of-state pros from coming to East Bay Golf Course for the 36-hole event, scheduled Saturday and Sunday.A field of 11 pros, including some recent co
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: NBA 2K18 ratings are in for Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell

  18-08-2017 21:12 via sportspyder.com
  ...17, 2017 More from The J-Notes Three-Point Threat Episode 10: Lineups, Utah Jazz Schedule, Breakout Players 7h ago Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert provides excellent...
  
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• BYU football: Redshirt sophomore Beau Hoge earns nod as Tanner Mangum's primary backup

  18-08-2017 21:04
  Provo • If starter Tanner Mangum needs to leave a BYU football game in 2017 for any reason, redshirt sophomore Beau Hoge says he will be far more ready to lead the offense than he was two years ago.On Thursday, offensive coordinator Ty Detmer acknowledged the worst-kept secret in training camp: Hoge will be Mangum’s primary backup.“Yeah, [Hoge] is the solid No. 2 right now and he will get the reps, what little reps the backup gets during the season. He will take all of those.&rd
  
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• Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn welcomes Mormon backing of LGBTQ concert, but says ‘PR move’ doesn’t atone for church policies

  18-08-2017 21:03
  The LDS Church’s endorsement this week of a fundraising concert for LGBTQ support groups sends a mixed message, says former Mormon Tyler Glenn, the outspoken lead singer for Neon Trees.Glenn, who is gay, is referring to a statement posted Wednesday on the church’s website that praises the Aug. 26 LoveLoud Festival in Orem as an effort to unite participants in addressing LGBTQ “teen safety and to express respect and love for all God’s children.”“We join our voi
  
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• Letter: Stop falling for the Fox

  18-08-2017 21:00
  Once upon a time, far away in the land called Ideology, there lived a young man. He was happy. Life was good. Each day, he spent hours listening to his trusted friend, the fox, who counseled him with great wisdom. The fox, it seemed, always knew what was best.As the years passed, the man noticed his life was changing, that it was not as good. But each day the fox convinced him not to fear, that his life was good. And so, the man believed the fox.But, over time, the man’s life became hard.
  
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• Utah Jazz: NBA 2K18 ratings are in for Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell

  18-08-2017 20:53
  NBA 2K18 player ratings for Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert and rookie Donovan Mitchell have been revealed. Agree or disagree, Jazz Nation? Retired players may not understand it. Your local ‘Get off my lawn!’ guy would probably complain that it was the byproduct of millenials inheriting the Earth. Nevertheless, it’s that time of year when player […]
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: The future for Ricky Rubio and Dante Exum

  18-08-2017 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... ntract at the peak of his prime. Depending on how the next two years go, the Jazz could seek to retain their new floor general, but his individual play won’t...
  
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• Sierra Leone death toll now up to 450 after mudslides

  18-08-2017 20:48
  Freetown, Sierra Leone — Rescue officials in Sierra Leone warned Friday that the chances of finding survivors in the debris of this week’s mudslides “are getting smaller every day,” as bereaved and homeless survivors faced the magnitude of all they have lost.Burials and rescue efforts pressed on amid the threat of further disaster. Up to 450 bodies have been recovered in and around the capital, Freetown, after Monday’s mudslides and flooding, according to Dr. Simeon
  
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• Chicken Little folk tale inspires Salt Lake City artists for annual Rose Exposed showcase

  18-08-2017 20:43
  Against the national backdrop of protests turning violent, immigration raids and presidential claims of “fake news,” six Salt Lake City performing arts groups considered themes for their annual Rose Exposed collaboration.As something of a joke, Linda C. Smith, artistic director of Repertory Dance Theater, suggested the Chicken Little and Turkey Lurkey folk tale of “The Sky Is Falling.” “It was one of those ‘aha’ moments, where I thought: ‘That&rsqu
  
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• Eat your way around the globe at Wasatch International Food Festival in West Valley City

  18-08-2017 20:35
  The second annual Wasatch International Food Festival offers a diverse menu whether you’re hungry for gourmet food  or street eats.During the two-day event, at the Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City, food trucks and restaurants will sell everything from tacos and barbecue to the foods of Africa, Cuba and Puerto Rico.For dessert there are ice cream, churros and Italian ice.Live music and chef demonstrations will be part of the celebration.
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• Real Salt Lake: With a trip to Montreal, it's back to the east coast for RSL's road warriors

  18-08-2017 20:17
  Real Salt Lake is in the midst of its heaviest two weeks of travel all season.After last weekend’s disaster of a weather-induced match postponement and a delayed flight home from D.C., RSL has yet again made the trip back east. This time they’ve crossed the border to land in Montreal.“You just have to be used to it, and if you’re not you have to adapt quickly,” captain Kyle Beckerman said of travel in MLS. “It’s tough, it is. If you just take out the soc
  
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• Dish of the Week: Red curry with soft-shell crab at Fav Bistro in Holladay

  18-08-2017 20:04
    Red curry with soft-shell crab • $18.95Fried soft-shell crab isn’t a common dish in our desert state, so this is a treat. One whole crab comes perched atop a pool of moderately spicy red curry sauce studded with bell peppers, carrots and bamboo tips. You eat the crab, shell and all, ladle the sauce over the provided white rice, and everyone goes home happy. Except the crab.Fav Bistro • 1984 E. Murray Holladay Road, Holladay; 801-676-9300; Sunday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.;
  
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• Letter: Our own Idi Amin?

  18-08-2017 20:03
  I just returned from vacation to learn that President Donald Trump in a tweet has floated the idea of pardoning himself. He doesn’t seem to believe he has ever done anything wrong; he’s a celebrity, after all, and hugely rich, and can therefore, he says, do anything with impunity. So I’m uncertain which act he was thinking of pardoning in himself.When I heard, I’m afraid what instantly came into my mind was the scene in “Schindler’s List,” wherein conce
  
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• Commentary: The Antiquities Act was meant to protect Indian history

  18-08-2017 20:02
  Bureaucrats and politicians currently threaten the heritage of Native Americans — the groups whose histories the Antiquities Act of 1906 was intended to protect.Earlier this year, President Trump ordered Secretary of the Interior Zinke to review whether 27 national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations are “too big.” If Trump’s concern is one of scale, he should take the time to listen to Native communities &mda
  
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• Citing Trump remarks, entire president's arts council quits

  18-08-2017 20:02
  New York — Another presidential advisory committee appears to be breaking up.Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and the entire membership of the President’s Committee On the Arts and Humanities have announced their resignation. A letter dated Friday, and signed by 16 of 17 committee members, cited the “false equivalence” of President Donald Trump’s comments about last weekend’s “Unite the Right” gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump has bla
  
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• Utah football: When it comes to the defensive line, Utes are in the deep end

  18-08-2017 19:50
  Not that he has to even consider it, but Kyle Whittingham does not pause when asked one of the many questions that tend to recirculate during interviews. Because by now, it’s a given, an obvious answer.“What do you feel like your most solidified position group is at the moment?”“Defensive line,” Whittingham says a split-second later.To absolutely no one’s surprise.On a defensive front seemingly gets annually replenished with next-level talent, this year’
  
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• Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Trump's turbulent White House

  18-08-2017 19:42
  Washington — Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump’s White House, is leaving.Trump accepted Bannon’s resignation on Friday, ending a turbulent seven months for his chief strategist, the latest to depart from the president’s administration in turmoil.White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday would be Bannon’s last day on the job.“We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” she said in a stateme
  
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• Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead

  18-08-2017 19:37
  Helsinki — A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland’s western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.A suspect — a man whose identity was not known — was being treated in the city’s main hospital but was in police custody. Security was being stepped up across the Nordic country, Interior Minister Paula Risikko told reporters at a new
  
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• Letter: It’s a matter of human rights

  18-08-2017 19:14
  It takes an incredibly brave and dedicated individual to put his/her/their life on the line to protect the safety and well-being of the people of this country. However, it takes an incredibly ignorant individual to say courage and dedication is not enough to be allowed to serve in the military, but gender identification is a factor as well.Recently, on June 26, Recently, President Donald Trump proposed banning transgender individuals from serving in the military. The 1,500 transgender individual
  
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• You are a gentleman and a wonderful teammate @theborisdiaw ☕️ Much love 🤝 twitter.com/TheNBPA/status…

  18-08-2017 19:10 via twitter.com
  You are a gentleman and a wonderful teammate @theborisdiaw ☕️ Much love 🤝 twitter.com/TheNBPA/status…
  
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• Victim of Bonneville Salt Flats crash identified

  18-08-2017 19:00
  The Tooele County Sheriff’s office on Friday released the identity of a man killed in a head-on crash at the Bonneville Salt Flats Speedway earlier this week.
  Sheriff’s Lt. Ron Johnson said that 65-year-old Christopher Clay, of Rohnert Park, Calif., was a passenger in a 1987 Ford pickup truck that collided with a minivan on Wednesday.Clay was pronounced dead shortly after the crash, which occurred on an access road to the area where speed trials are conducted.Five other people &mdash
  
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• Hale Centre Theatre features a rock-and-roll twist on the Robin Hood legend

  18-08-2017 18:50
  In an entertainment world that’s richly invested with superhero origin stories, now comes a new stage version of the Robin Hood story.That’s the new angle of David Farr’s “The Heart of Robin Hood,” which debuted in 2011 at Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and is receiving a regional premiere at Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City.When Merry Marion joins the Merry Men<br>Where • Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valle
  
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• Letter: The people are the clients

  18-08-2017 18:49
  As a resident of Wayne County, I much appreciate The Tribune’s editorial of July 29 concerning the former Wayne County attorney. However, I believe that an essential element of American democracy was overlooked.LeEllen McCartney, like the commissioners and like everyone who is elected (up to and including the president of the United States), is hired and paid by the citizens of either the county, the state or the country. They are, as the phrase goes, civil servants. When McCartney (whom I
  
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• Low-key Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell spends summer in the spotlight

  18-08-2017 18:30
  SALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell is this city personified — quiet, under the radar and on the rise.Coming into the 2017 NBA draft, Mitchell was a widely unrecognized guard, operating behind the scenes as national experts fixated on the likes of Lonzo Ball and Markelle Fultz. But the 13th overall pick snatched the spotlight this summer, becoming one of the league's most interesting prospects.There was a noticeable difference between Mitchell and his peers in NBA summer league —
  
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• 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and letters of recommendation
  

  18-08-2017 18:12
  Ever ask anyone for a letter of recommendation? I try not to. I already know what even my closest friends would say to a potential employer.“Hire him if you want. Just make sure he takes his meds. And keep his wife’s phone number on file.”That’s an exact quote from a letter of recommendation Sonny wrote for me earlier this year. I was fed up with this newspaper being owned by a New York hedge fund. So I applied for a position as a field reporter for the Western Bean Revie
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Miami Heat roster up to 17 with addition of former Boston Celtics forward Jordan Mickey

  18-08-2017 18:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... iami Heat Boston Celtics NBA Tyler Johnson Dion Waiters Rodney McGruder Utah Jazz CAPTION Erik Spoelstra on Heat's offseason moves. Erik Spoelstra on Heat's o ...
  
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• Frail Mormon leader Thomas S. Monson to celebrate 90th birthday with 'quiet family affair'

  18-08-2017 18:08
  Frail and in failing health, LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson will celebrate his 90th birthday Monday with a “quiet family affair” in Salt Lake City.
  Monson’s daughter, Ann M. Dibb, said in a news release that family members will gather for a low-key party, including lemon cake and ice cream.The “prophet, seer and revelator” of the 16 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also urged fellow Mormons to mark his birthday by reaching out to tho
  
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• Prep football: Pick 6 — Six games to watch in Week 1

  18-08-2017 17:56
  Lehi at Alta, 7 p.m.
  A pair of quarterbacks who put up impressive numbers last season will try to one-up each other. Hawks QB Will Dana threw for 3,595 yards and 42 touchdowns last season. He was helped by running back Josh Davis, who ran for 2,645 yards, but Davis has graduated. Pioneers QB Cammon Cooper, who is committed to Washington State, completed 309 of his 486 attempts for 2,059 yards and 38 TDs last season. It’s safe to assume there will be some points scored in this one.TribPreps
  
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• Tina Fey returns to ‘Weekend Update’ to talk Charlottesville

  18-08-2017 17:32
  New York • Tiny Fey has returned to “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live” to discuss the violence surrounding a white nationalist rally near her alma mater’s campus in Charlottesville.Fey sported a University of Virginia sweatshirt Thursday on “Weekend Update: Summer Edition.”She says it broke her heart to see “these evil forces” descend on Charlottesville.She also criticized President Donald Trump for blaming “both sides&rdquo
  
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• Romney: If Trump doesn't apologize it could lead to 'an unraveling of our national fabric'

  18-08-2017 17:15
  Former 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took to Facebook on Friday to urge President Donald Trump to apologize for his comments about the bloody rally in Charlottesville, Va. that equated white supremacists and neo-Nazis to the counter-protesters fighting against racism. Here is what Romney, who now lives in Utah, wrote:“I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president’s Charlottesville statements. Whether he intended to or not, what he
  
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