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• One Utah county has decided to create an oversight panel for its prosecutors

  22-08-2017 23:55
  The Utah County Commission on Tuesday took the first steps toward establishing a panel that will ensure their prosecutors are behaving ethically. The commissioners approved a resolution to establish a prosecutorial review committee by the end of this year.It’s the first of its kind in Utah — and possibly the nation.After a string of high-profile criminal prosecutors ended in acquittals or dismissed charges, a group of Utah County residents in May asked county commissioners to fo
  
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• Utah couple killed in Idaho boat crash

  22-08-2017 23:54
  A Centerville couple died Monday in a boating crash in Idaho. Neal Jenkins, 68, and his wife, Elaine Jenkins, 65, were boating with 65-year-old Mike Kingston, of Idaho Falls, at Blacktail Park on the Ririe Reservoir. All three were ejected during a turn at 3:12 p.m., according to a news release from Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office. After being ejected, the three were ”struck by the boat as it turned in circles around them,” the release said.Nearby boaters
  
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• BYU football: Matt Hadley switches to linebacker to fill void left by Francis Bernard
  

  22-08-2017 23:50
  Provo • Matt Hadley hasn’t played as many positions at BYU to match the number of years he’s been in the football program, but he is getting close.The senior from Connell, Wash., was projected a couple weeks ago to replace Kai Nacua as BYU’s starting free safety, but Francis Bernard’s starting weakside linebacker spot opened up last week with news of his non-availability, and Hadley has been moved to that spot.“I am just honestly grateful that the coaches trust
  
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• Utah volleyball tries to push program forward by blending experience and youth

  22-08-2017 23:47
  There’s not a lot of middle ground on Utah’s volleyball roster. A wealth of experience resides in a trio of senior returners, but they’re outnumbered by eight new faces in the form of seven incoming freshmen and one transfer.Despite the influx of youth, the track record of that senior group and the program’s success in recent years proved enough for the Utes to garner a No. 23 ranking in the AVCA preseason poll as well as fourth in the Pac-12 preseason poll.The Utes, who
  
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• As opioid addiction skyrockets, Intermountain Healthcare pledges to slash prescriptions by end of 2018

  22-08-2017 23:43
  Intermountain Healthcare announced Tuesday it will be doling out fewer opioids during the next year and a half, with a goal of reducing the Utah-based health care system’s prescriptions for acute pain by 40 percent.This move — which comes as opioid addiction use and overdose deaths are skyrocketing in Utah and across the U.S. — could have a sizable impact, given Intermountain’s reach through its 22 hospitals and 180 clinics in the Intermountain West. Intermounta
  
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• Real Salt Lake: San Jose match gives RSL an opportunity to catch up

  22-08-2017 23:31
  It might be now or never for Real Salt Lake.A win against San Jose on Wednesday would bring RSL within one point of the Earthquakes in the Western Conference.A loss would put RSL seven points behind San Jose with just seven games left in the season.“We know this is a huge game for us,” forward Brooks Lennon said. “Obviously we’re close in points, and these are the kinds of games that you need to win to get into the playoffs.”RSL (8-13-5, 26 points), which plays at h
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz PR director hired as SLC Stars president

  22-08-2017 23:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... ips, community relations, and all of the off-floor aspects of the Stars. The Jazz's basketball operations department will continue to lead the Stars' basketba ...
  
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• Who was better: Tim Duncan or Karl Malone?

  22-08-2017 22:58
  These are the two best power forwards the game has seen. It’s almost too hard to pick one.
  
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• Letter: The Utah prison scam moves forth

  22-08-2017 22:55
  They used golden shovels at the groundbreaking for the new state prison; perfect for Gov. Gary Herbert’s suggestion that this prison is “about restoring lives.” We all know there is nothing resembling altruism in the scam that is the prison move. Will they bring out those golden shovels when the developers break ground on all the planned new development in Bluffdale, at the site of the existing prison? Probably, and all paid for by Utah taxpayers to benefit a handful of develop
  
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• Rep. Chris Stewart meets with Utah refugees, hears about their fears of Trump

  22-08-2017 22:34
  Republican Rep. Chris Stewart listened Tuesday as leaders of Utah’s refugee community expressed their fears, frustrations and distrust of President Donald Trump.“One of our biggest concerns,” said longtime advocate Pamela Atkinson, “is we don’t feel the new administration… really understands the refugees and who they are.”In the first few months of his presidency, Trump has pushed for — and recently succeeded in implementing — a travel ban t
  
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• Two 16-year-olds charged with murder for allegedly shooting a sleeping woman

  22-08-2017 22:33
  Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with murder in adult court for allegedly shooting and killing a woman as she slept in her home.Daniel G. Garcia and Tre’von Jordan Zamora, both of Ogden, are charged with first-degree felony murder for the shooting death of 47-year-old Maria Sanchez.
  Charging documents say that police responded to Sanchez’s Ogden home at 12:11 a.m. on Aug. 13 near Grant Avenue and 28th Street, where she had been shot in the head while sleeping. Sanchez
  
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• Missouri governor halts man's execution after DNA questions

  22-08-2017 22:33
  St. Louis • Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday halted the scheduled execution of condemned killer Marcellus Williams after DNA testing raised questions about whether he actually committed the crime.Just hours before Williams was to be put to death, the Republican governor said in an email that he was issuing a stay of execution. Williams was convicted of fatally stabbing former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a 1998 burglary at her suburban St. Louis home. Williams&r
  
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• Feds ask state to prove it can pay for proposed Lake Powell Pipeline

  22-08-2017 22:13
  State officials and other proponents of the Lake Powell pipeline may have just two months to convince federal regulators that their project is backed by a robust plan to pay off more than $1 billion in costs.The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has indicated it cannot review the state’s yet-to-be-completed application for permission to build the pipeline in southern Utah because it lacks an adequate financial analysis.Federal regulators have given the state 60 days to submit the financ
  
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• Letter: Speed up or stay away

  22-08-2017 22:11
  The entrance ramps that access freeways are called “acceleration lanes.”To “accelerate” means to speed up. When entering a freeway, drivers need to be at the posted speed limit (or prevailing traffic speed) in order to merge onto the freeway without causing traffic delays.Anyone unwilling or unable to follow this basic concept needs to stay off the freeway.JoAnne PogueWest Valley City
  
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• Commentary: Why Christians can stay hopeful in this time of political darkness

  22-08-2017 22:11
  Seventy percent of Americans are dissatisfied “with the way things are going in the United States at this time,” according to a Gallup poll.This presumably includes a large number of Christians — a group of people who assert they have reasons to hope no matter how dismal the moment. Christian hope, of course, is not tethered to the success of America. But the darkness of our present age raises questions about how followers of Jesus can nurture the light of hope.Writer Zach Hoag
  
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• Letter: Lead us into the light of day

  22-08-2017 22:10
  What happened in Charlottesville finally tore the scab off America and revealed the ugly sores beneath. If we continue pretending that the USA was not built by anti-Semites, colonizers and white supremacists on the backs or slaves, American Indians, immigrants and indentured servants and that we need to own up to our institutionalized white elitism, then moving out of this abyss is unlikely.Marching against these sores is fine, but will not be enough. We must elect leaders for all, take responsi
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Lake Street Dive's jazz-infused pop a good fit for Red Butte, but it goes down a little too smooth

  22-08-2017 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... t embraces a little more soul and sex, maybe roughs out some of the polished jazz edges, this band has the potential to make music that’s less reliable and mo ...
  
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• Lake Street Dive's jazz-infused pop a good fit for Red Butte, but it goes down a little too smooth

  22-08-2017 21:59
  In a lot of ways, Lake Street Dive and Red Butte Garden go together. The band’s brand of contemporary jazzy pop complements the Red Butte crowd the way wine goes with cheese.Rachel Price’s voice is a flat-out weapon, and when she unleashes it, it’s something to behold. She got her training at the New England Conservatory of Music and the jazz influences are clear.But the Lake Street Dive sound is almost too polished and plays it way too safe. The band, after all, is named after
  
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• Letter: Managing wild horses

  22-08-2017 21:55
  I disagree with Rob Hammer’s Aug. 13 wild horse commentary. While working as a botanist for the Bureau of Land Management in southwestern Wyoming and northern Nevada, I witnessed the damage wild horses do to natural resources first-hand. Not only do horses trample springs and other water sources, they scare away wildlife so they cannot drink. Unlike cattle, horses tear out the vegetation and can completely denude areas where they have congregated. They also spend the full year in the same
  
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• Admit it, you looked directly at the solar eclipse. Here's how to know if you’re going blind.

  22-08-2017 21:54
  You gazed skyward Monday to witness in awe as the moon plunged the Earth into a cold shadow by temporarily blotting out most — or in some areas, all — of the sun’s light.
  And despite the warnings leading up to the Great American Solar Eclipse, against your own better judgement, you pulled down your protective glasses for the briefest of moments to steal a furtive glance at the sun with your naked eyes.#SolarEclipse17 I looked straight at the sun during the eclipse and now my ey
  
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• Silicon Slopes moves to give Utah tech leaders a greater voice in education, public policy

  22-08-2017 21:53
  The nonprofit Silicon Slopes wants the state’s tech leaders to play a bigger role in guiding public policy in Utah, announcing two new partnerships this week that will help the industry shape education, legislation and other issues.Silicon Slopes and the Salt Lake Chamber said Tuesday they will work together on business and community challenges, from developing the state’s workforce to clearing the air.On Wednesday, Silicon Slopes will host the announcement of a new Pathways program
  
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• Man arrested in holdup of Salt Lake City drug treatment clinic

  22-08-2017 21:47
  An gun-toting man intent on holding up a downtown Salt Lake City drug treatment clinic was disarmed and fled, only to be arrested in Bountiful.
  Salt Lake City detectives say the 46-year-old California man went to the Tranquility Place clinic, 160 E. 800 South, about 10:40 a.m. Monday to obtain methadone, It’s used to treat heroin addicts. Police say the man became angry when he was denied the drug.
  Clinic employees told him to leave, but instead he displayed a handgun in his waistband
  
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• Two 16-year-olds charged with murder for allegedly shooting a sleeping woman dead

  22-08-2017 20:59
  Two 16-year-old boys have been charged with murder in adult court for allegedly shooting and killing a woman as she slept in her home.Both teens, Daniel G. Garcia and Tre’von Jordan Zamora, were charged Friday in 2nd District court with murder, a first-degree felony, for the death of Maria Sanchez and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony.Zamora was also charged with purchase, transfer, possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person, a third-degree felony, and possession
  
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• Salt Lake City Stars announce Jonathan Rinehart as new team president

  22-08-2017 20:59
  The Salt Lake City Stars have a new team president — one who is innately familiar to media covering the Utah Jazz.Jonathan Rinehart was named Tuesday morning to the role in which he’ll oversee ticket sales, community relations, partnerships, marketing and other non-basketball aspects of the G-League team’s operations.Rinehart comes to the Stars after spending a dozen years working for the Jazz, of which the Stars are an affiliate. He’s been a central figure in Utah’
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Salt Lake City Stars announce Jonathan Rinehart as new team president

  22-08-2017 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... ible in a larger organization with as many moving parts and resources as the Jazz. “You can’t be afraid to get your hands dirty and get in there,” he said. “I ...
  
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• Pac-12 football: Washington State now has some substance to go with the style in Mike Leach's program

  22-08-2017 20:55
  In the middle of last season, Washington State was really good. The Cougars’ start and finish were different stories.How many college football teams ever have an eight-game winning streak — and eight victories, total? That’s the 2016 Cougars’ distinction. They lost a season-opening game to a Big Sky Conference team for the second year in a row and then fell to Boise State. Later, the Cougars stumbled through a Holiday Bowl defeat against a depleted Minnesota team after en
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Rinehart named president of Jazz's G League affiliate

  22-08-2017 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... rt will continue as executive director and the primary organizer of the Utah Jazz Summer League. The Stars organization moved from Boise, Idaho, to Salt Lake...
  
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• 300 brand new seats are being installed every day at @vivintarena. Check out the progress! 💺🛠 #ArenaRising… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-08-2017 20:44 via twitter.com
  300 brand new seats are being installed every day at @vivintarena. Check out the progress! 💺🛠#ArenaRising… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Rinehart named president of Jazz's G League affiliate

  22-08-2017 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... rt will continue as executive director and the primary organizer of the Utah Jazz Summer League. The Stars organization moved from Boise, Idaho, to Salt Lake...
  
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• Letter: Academic facts of life

  22-08-2017 20:40
  An Aug. 3 Tribune article indicated a University of Utah department head is having a mental hernia over the recent $10 million donation by the Charles Koch Foundation. To this infantile imaged ideologue, allow me to explain the institutional fiscal facts of life. Where do you think all that funding for excessive, tenure-created professorial compensation comes from, a saintly tooth fairy? All the while student fees continue to rise in a never-ending cycle, forcing increasing debt of many barely a
  
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• Utah to obey order for DEA drug database search

  22-08-2017 20:35
  Utah will obey a court order to let the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration search a prescription-drug database without a warrant, despite a state law designed to protect patient privacy.The state disagrees with the ruling that found people can’t expect privacy in the highly regulated prescription-drug industry, but state attorneys have decided not to appeal after reviewing similar cases, said Utah Attorney General’s Office spokesman Dan Burton in a statement Monday.A federal appeal
  
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• Garrison Keillor: Never been here before

  22-08-2017 20:25
  Anxious times in America. There was a news story a few weeks back, “Interrupted Sleep May Lead To Alzheimer’s,” and next to it, a wine review with the line “Vivacious and well balanced, with chewy tannins and flavors of fresh red fruits.” You know and I know that a vivacious beverage will not compensate for losing your marbles. And now, driving to California, I find that I must enter a password in order to change the time zone on my laptop clock. Evidently, someone
  
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• In Vermont, biking across Lake Champlain on an old rail causeway

  22-08-2017 20:24
  SOUTH HERO, Vt. • Abandoned rail lines have been converted into recreation paths all over the United States. But the Island Line Trail in Vermont is unusual: It includes a causeway that runs across the open waters of Lake Champlain, from the Vermont mainland to the island community of South Hero. And that causeway includes a gap to allow boats through.So how do bikers and others get across the 200-foot (61-meter) gap, known as the cut? An in-season ferry takes them from one side to the othe
  
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• Victim of Magna drive-by homicide is identified; search for shooter continues

  22-08-2017 20:21
  The Unified Police Department on Tuesday identified Will Ryan, 17, as the victim of a shooting late Saturday in Magna.A second teenage boy who was wounded in the shooting has returned home, according to a tweet from UPD. Detectives are still looking for two suspects.  UPD Detective Ken Hansen on Monday said two 17-year-old boys were “hanging out in the front yard” near 8000 W. 3380 South about 10:45 p.m. Saturday when a white car drove by and gunfire erupted.Investigators believ
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - NBA rookies think Donovan Mitchell was steal of the draft

  22-08-2017 20:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... " category, behind only Josh Jackson and Jordan Bell. Tony Bradley, whom the Jazz picked 28th overall via a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers, also received a ...
  
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• From Utah's Mirror Lake Highway, many places to sit and reflect

  22-08-2017 19:58
  Mirror Lake • The U.S. Forest Service often greets visitors to the areas it manages with signs that read, “Land of Many Uses.”That certainly fits the 78-mile stretch of Utah Highway 150, commonly known as the Mirror Lake Highway, that runs from Kamas to Evanston, Wyo.This National Scenic Byway is a place where ATV and four-wheel-drive trails can be found at the edge of Utah’s largest wilderness area.On a given day, sightseers drive the scenic road to elevations as high as
  
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• NBA rookies think Donovan Mitchell was steal of the draft

  22-08-2017 19:55
  Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell has become one of the most popular first-year players in the NBA after an impressive summer league run. His 37-point performance in the final game of the circuit and brand deal with Adidas earned Mitchell plenty of media attention. But he's also turning the heads of his peers.Every year, the NBA releases a survey completed by the incoming rookie class in which they predict the futures of their contemporaries.In a draft stacked with high-profiled talent, Mitchell
  
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• Boeing, Northrop get contracts for nuclear missile work in Utah, other locations

  22-08-2017 19:44
  Washington — The Air Force said Monday it has awarded contracts to Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for work that could lead to replacement of the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missiles.The contracts are part of a planned overhaul of the U.S. nuclear arsenal that will cost tens of billions of dollars.The Air Force said that it gave Boeing a $349 million contract and Northrop Grumman a $329 million award to advance the technology needed to replace the Minuteman III missiles
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s choice to go to Arizona for a campaign-style rally is bizarre, even for him

  22-08-2017 19:43
  Coming a week after President Donald Trump’s disastrous comments about Charlottesville and a day after a speech about sending more young men and women into combat, Trump’s choice to go to Arizona for a campaign-style rally is bizarre, even for him. It is now when he should be reassuring the country that he’s mentally and emotionally fit to lead. Americans are entitled to question the judgment of a president who just days ago was repeating (approvingly!) a known hoax about Gen.
  
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• Celebrity ambassadors help National Park Service mark 101st birthday

  22-08-2017 19:41
  How do you top a centennial? The National Park Service marks its 101st birthday Friday amid a “Parks 101” campaign enlisting celebrities as ambassadors for the park system’s hidden gems.Parks 101 ambassadors have included cast members from the cable show “Queen Sugar” touring Chalmette Battlefield in Louisiana, and Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and other spots in Washington, D.C. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter K
  
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• Utah volleyball: Utes try to push program forward by blending experience and youth

  22-08-2017 19:24
  There’s not a lot of middle ground on Utah’s volleyball roster. A wealth of experience resides in the trio of senior returners, but they’re vastly outnumbered by new faces to the program — eight new faces in the form of seven incoming freshmen and one transfer.Despite the influx of youth, the track record of that senior group and the program’s success in recent years proved enough for the Utes to garner a top-25 ranking (No. 23) in the AVCA Preseason Poll as well as
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: New Pac-12 Networks chief thinks he can work with DirecTV

  22-08-2017 19:23
  The incoming president of the Pac-12 Networks already has been asked repeatedly about DirecTV, but he’s not complaining. “It’s the right question,” said Mark Shuken, who believes it’s still possible to come to an agreement for the satellite TV giant to carry P12N. And he was the president/CEO of DirecTV Sports Networks (including ROOT Sports Rocky Mountain) from 2009 to 2011. “One of the things that I know about DirecTV,” he said, “is that they po
  
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• ESPN ranks Utes fan base as the 'happiest' in Utah over BYU, Utah State

  22-08-2017 18:38
  College football fans should be happy this time of year for the simple reality that games will be back on television and teams back on the field. After the usual long summer, elation is creeping in with the impending autumn slate of Utah, BYU and Utah State games — starting Saturday as BYU takes on Portland State. However, the Utes fanbase is the happiest of the happy in Utah according to ESPN, followed by BYU and Utah State. Utah has the 32nd happiest fans in the country, f
  
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• W. Jordan police: Missing 79-year-old man found
  

  22-08-2017 18:27
  Police say a 79-year-old West Jordan man, missing since Sunday, has been found alive and well.
  Oscar De Leon, who suffers from arthritis and memory loss, had been last seen walking near his home on Sunday, West Jordan police Detective J.C. Holt said.“Mr. De Leon was located last night in good healthy and no further assistance is needed [from the public],” Holt confirmed Tuesday.
  WJPD had earlier issued a missing and endangered person alert for De Leon.
  Holt said that De Leon was loca
  
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• Utah forecast: Cosmic dragon foiled, sun comes out again to bake state

  22-08-2017 18:01
  The eclipse is over. Once again, the sun-eating dragon of ancient lore was foiled, and the more contemporary predictions of the End of Days fell as flat as those latter-day seers prophet bona fides.
  Maybe it was all that earthly noise-making that put the cosmic winged serpent to flight, or heaven’s mercy — or the moon finally just got out of the way of Old Sol’s rays. Whatever, it was Little Orphan Annie who proved the prophet, lyric and true.Like the young lady said, the sun d
  
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  22-08-2017 18:01 via twitter.com
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Curb your expectations for Derrick Favors this season

  22-08-2017 17:59 via sportspyder.com
  ...him or keep him, bench him or start him, waive him or re-sign him. The Utah Jazz are no different. Derrick Favors is that bone of contention for many Jazz fa ...
  
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• Phoenix Mayor: Now is not the time for Trump to visit my city

  22-08-2017 17:42
  Nearly 50 years ago, moments after learning that an avowed racist had gunned down Martin Luther King Jr., a young presidential candidate took the stage in Indianapolis to break the news to a largely African-American crowd.“What we need in the United States is not division,” Sen. Robert F. Kennedy implored. “What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another.
  
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• Become obsessed with clafoutis, a custardy fruit pancake

  22-08-2017 17:40
  This summer, I became obsessed with making clafoutis — big baked custardy fruit pancakes. If you look up the definition of clafoutis, it is referred to as a tart or fruit covered with flan. But, I think the taste and texture is more like a big thick crepe or custardy pancake.Regardless, they are delicious for breakfast served with maple syrup or for dessert with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Truthfully, it is almost as good the next day sliced and eaten straight from the fridge. My good fr
  
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