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• SLC mayor touts magic-bullet solution to airport TRAX extension, though Council wonders why details are secret

  29-08-2017 23:35
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski told the City Council on Tuesday that there may be a way for light rail to reach an under-construction terminal at the Salt Lake City International Airport without breaking the bank, but council members wondered why she wouldn’t share more details.What’s changed? The city previously hadn’t allowed the Utah Transit Authority to contemplate a street-level extension of its airport TRAX line, UTA CEO Jerry Benson said after Biskupski’s Tu
  
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• Utah wildlife officials propose allowing more cougar hunting permits

  29-08-2017 23:11
  The Utah Wildlife Board will vote Thursday on a controversial proposal to increase the number of cougar hunting permits.
  The Division of Wildlife Resources is proposing that the number of cougar permits increase from 531 to 565, a recommendation expected to please hunters but upset those who contend the state is already allowing too many of the big cats to be killed.
  Figures show that the 531 permits issued for the last hunt resulted in about 400 cougars being killed.Hunters not only like to hun
  
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• Navajo solar plant breaks new ground

  29-08-2017 23:02
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A giant array of solar panels near the famed sandstone buttes of Monument Valley has begun producing electricity for the Navajo Nation at a time when the tribe is bracing for the loss of hundreds of jobs from the impending closure of a nearby coal-fired power plant.The Kayenta Solar Facility is the first utility-scale solar project on the Navajo Nation, producing enough electricity to power about 13,000 Navajo homes.The plant comes at a time when the area’s energy l
  
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• 'Patti Cake$' an energetic ode to mothers, daughters and Jersey

  29-08-2017 23:01
  A Jersey girl aims to take on the world in “Patti Cake$,” a do-rags-to-riches story as overflowing with exuberance and charm as its plucky title character.Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald) has been called Dumbo since grade school, on account of her plus-size figure. But she has another name for herself: her rap handle, Killa P. She has elaborate fantasies that her mad rhymes will take her to stardom by impressing her idol, a superstar rapper named O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah).Patti&rsqu
  
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• Garrison Keillor: How did we get here anyway?

  29-08-2017 23:01
  An old man gets absorbed in our national drama, same as you -- the paper is full of it, the madman who has moved into our lives -- and then suddenly I am distracted by the memory of lawn mowing. I once loved mowing, then I hired young men to do it, and now a gang of them comes every week and they roar around for half an hour while I read the paper. Maybe I would be happier if I mowed instead.Mowing was my mother’s remedy for a boy’s melancholy. She didn’t believe in melancholy.
  
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• Mexican restaurant in Midvale shut down for the second time in two years for health hazards

  29-08-2017 22:39
  A Mexican restaurant in Midvale has been shut down for the second time in two years after  Salt Lake County Health Department inspectors found 41 potential health problems  — including 19 violations described as critical to human health.
  Restaurant La Coqueta, 630 W. Center St., was closed Monday ”for presenting an imminent health hazard,” according to this report on the department website.The “inability of the walk-in cooler to maintain a temperature of 42 degr
  
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• State audit recommends the Lone Peak Fire Department improve its financial policies

  29-08-2017 22:36
  Lone Peak Public Safety District is changing its financial policies after an audit by the state of Utah found incidents that increased the risk of public funds being misused, including vehicles being sold without proper documentation.  The Office of the State Auditor conducted the investigation into the district — which covers firefighting operations in Alpine, Highland and Cedar Hills — after receiving complaints through a hotline, and issued recommendations on Tuesday. Th
  
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• Lives will be at risk if judge releases video of Utah courtroom shooting, lawyer says

  29-08-2017 22:24
  An attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said that giving journalists video of a marshal shooting and killing a defendant in a courtroom would incite retaliation from a violent street gang. “Your Honor, the stakes in this case cannot be any higher,” the lawyer, Leah Brownlee Taylor, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul J. Cleary at the beginning of oral arguments Tuesday. She told Cleary that the Tongan Crip Gang still wants to avenge the death of Siale Ang
  
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• Dueling experts testify about what role Utah man’s psychosis played in arson murder

  29-08-2017 22:15
  In the early morning hours of May 22 of last year, a security camera captured Craig Crawford, shirtless and wearing no shoes, rushing in and out of the East Capitol Street home where his husband, John Williams, lived.The silent grainy black-and-white video depicts 48-year-old Crawford bringing stacks of papers and boxes into the home, and rushing back outside. Soon, a flicker of light pulses from inside of the home. He dashes back into the home, holding an oil can, and leaves once more empt
  
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• Ann Cannon: I’ve kept in touch with my Houston son and his family throughout Harvey — but even texts and gallows humor can't keep the fear from rising

  29-08-2017 22:09
  This is the text we received from our son last Thursday: “In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a big hurricane coming our way.”Our son and his family live in Houston, and if we hadn’t heard about that big hurricane then, we’ve certainly heard about it now. The whole world has heard about it now. Harvey hit the Gulf Coast of Texas like a heavyweight prizefighter. But instead of leaving the ring after dropping his opponent in the first round, Harvey has lingered, j
  
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• Business leaders want Mexican gray wolves in Grand Canyon area

  29-08-2017 22:07
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • More than 60 business leaders have urged the federal government to release endangered Mexican gray wolves into the Grand Canyon area in northern Arizona and eastern Utah.The business leaders are submitting their request in a joint letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.The federal agency is seeking public comments on its draft plan that limits the wolf-recovery efforts to just one zone south of Interstate 40 in Arizona and New Mexico.The business leaders include own
  
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• Letter: Utah congressmen should join the climate caucus

  29-08-2017 22:06
  Once again, we are presented clear evidence of our entering a dangerous era regarding the Earth’s climate. In the 2017 draft, “National Climate Assessment,” 13 federal agencies have presented concise, data-backed conclusions that today’s climate is changing rapidly compared to any historic natural climatic changes.The frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation and extreme heat events are increasing in Utah and most regions of the world. Human activities, especially em
  
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• Elite Utah medical team responds to Hurricane Harvey in Houston

  29-08-2017 21:57
  The call came a few days ago to prepare as Hurricane Harvey gathered strength before deluging Houston with rain and destruction.Utah’s Disaster Medical Assistance team answered — assembling at the Salt Lake City International Airport on Tuesday for the first time as an entire 36-person unit in its 10-year history. Headed by University of Utah anesthesiologist Steven Bott, the group will fly to Dallas to await instruction on where best to deploy their skills in Houston.Similar to a Na
  
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• Trump's Cabinet struggles with whether to defend their boss

  29-08-2017 21:51
  Washington • Some seek their distance, delicately taking issue with President Donald Trump’s most controversial remarks. Others decide it’s safer to stand by him. Most would rather say nothing at all.Under intense pressure, members of Trump’s Cabinet are struggling to walk the line between rebuking their notoriously thin-skinned boss and defending comments that struck even many loyal Republicans as offensive. Though the friction has been building for months, Trump’s
  
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• Letter: Call out Trump’s bluster

  29-08-2017 21:51
  At this point, I believe it has occurred to most thinking people to be more afraid of President Donald Trump’s reckless bluster than of Kim Jong Un’s aggression in the current contest to see who can be the biggest nuclear macho stud. After all, threats from North Korea are nothing new, but responding to them with schoolyard taunting is. And it’s painfully obvious that Trump can’t intimidate a man who grew up in a family culture of “kill your family members before th
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump has united blacks and Jews

  29-08-2017 21:51
  Washington • President Trump has united us, after all.He brought together the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Jews.This modern-day miracle was on display Monday, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Mall, 54 years to the day after the great man gave his greatest speech. There, clergy of all varieties, but mostly rabbis and black ministers, came together in common cause against the despicable anti-Semitism and racism Trump has unleashed, most conspicuously in Charlottesville.Sharpton has b
  
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• A group of protesters demanded that a Native American swastika be removed from an SLC market — but were they right?

  29-08-2017 21:36
  The swastika is a widely despised symbol that instills fear and terror. It is also a sacred, centuries-old symbol found in the Hindu and Buddhist religions and American Indian culture; the Navajo call it the rolling log.But with the swastika’s ancient origins overshadowed by its prominent use in Nazi Germany, four browsers at the Aug. 13 Urban Flea Market in Salt Lake City were furious to see it prominently featured on what was purported to be a Navajo blanket.Michael Sanders, who organize
  
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• Former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer finally meets Pope Francis

  29-08-2017 21:31
  Washington • Sean Spicer finally got to meet the pope.Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirms the former White House press secretary attended a meeting with Pope Francis on Sunday.The audience was part of an annual meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network, which gathers lawmakers from across the world.Vatican Radio posted photographs of the event on its Facebook page. One picture shows Spicer in the front row, taking photos of the pope with his phone.Spicer, who is Roman Cath
  
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• Judge: Lynyrd Skynyrd film violates 3-decade-old 'blood oath'

  29-08-2017 20:48
  New York • A film created with help from a former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer violates a “blood oath” surviving band members made not to exploit the band’s name and history, a judge concluded as he blocked its distribution, siding with a surviving member of the 1970s pioneering southern rock group and the widow of its lead singer.The decision by U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet was unsealed Monday at the request of a lawyer for a Los Angeles-based independent record label that
  
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• Group sets hearings for ballot initiative aimed at curbing ‘gerrymandering’ of political districts

  29-08-2017 20:42
  The Better Boundaries ballot initiative has scheduled seven public hearings this week to discuss its proposal to form an independent commission to handle once-every-decade redrawing of congressional and legislative district boundaries.The meetings are part of the process required by the state before it will give that group the green light to start collecting the required 113,143 signatures needed to put the initiative on the ballot.“We are pleased to continue taking the steps necessary to
  
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• Letter: Be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it

  29-08-2017 20:41
  Memo to Rep. Paul Ray, (R-Clearfield; anti-California): Sir, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.A viable secession movement in California would be highly likely to trigger convening the second American constitutional convention in order to hold the nation together. One of many very important outcomes from that undertaking can be counted on to be the adoption of the fundamental principle of “one person, one vote.”Uh oh, true “democracy,” instead of
  
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• Why do people join hate groups? Former members explain

  29-08-2017 20:40
  Cries of “Nazis, go home!” and “Shame! Shame!” filled the air as Angela King and Tony McAleer stood with other counterprotesters at the “free speech” rally in Boston two weekends ago.They didn’t join the shouting. Their sign spoke for them: “There is life after hate.”They know because McAleer and King were once young extremists themselves, before they co-founded the nonprofit Life After Hate to help former white supremacists restart their liv
  
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• Speaker Hughes, Mayor Biskupski air dispute over Operation Rio Grande on the radio

  29-08-2017 20:27
  House Speaker Greg Hughes and Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski took an apparent dispute over Operation Rio Grande to the radio airwaves on Tuesday.Hughes told KSL’s Doug Wright he was ”frustrated” by Biskupski, and Biskupski called in to respond that she was ”aghast” at his comments.Then Hughes, after Biskupski declined his request to share the line, replied that Biskupski had spread a ”false narrative” to downtown homeless service pr
  
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• Utah State football notes: Aggie newcomers shake up status quo in starting lineup

  29-08-2017 20:26
  Logan • Days before the season opener at Wisconsin, it looks like more than a few newcomers will be starting for USU against the Badgers.That includes redshirt freshman Jordan Nathan at wide receiver and three juniors who transfered to Utah State from junior colleges.Nathan is a 5-foot-9, 175-pound freshman from Monrovia (Ca.) who reshirted his first season with the Aggies last year.At outside linebacker, Louy Compton (6-foot-3, 230 pounds) is tabbed as a starter after playing last year at
  
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• Utah football: Do the North Dakota Fighting Hawks have a fighter’s chance?

  29-08-2017 20:25
  They’re led by a man who goes by Bubba.They’re a little more than an hour away from the Canadian border.They’re the reigning Big Sky Conference champions.And yes, the North Dakota Fighting Hawks have history on their mind. North Dakota faces a Top 25-ranked FBS opponent for the first time ever Thursday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium when Utah (No. 25 in the preseason coaches’ poll) welcomes one of the premier FCS-level programs to christen the 2017 season.“When you ge
  
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• Electronic device explodes in backpack at Taylorsville High School, causes minor injuries to three students

  29-08-2017 20:21
  A small electronic device in a Taylorsville high school student’s backpack exploded Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries to three students, officials said.The explosion occurred about 9:45 a.m., said Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley. The explosion caused a small burn on one student’s arm, a smaller burn to another student’s arm, and a third student inhaled smoke, Horsley said.Students were treated by paramedics at the school and their parents and guardians refus
  
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• Provo-Orem transit project is full steam ahead as opponents drop legal challenges

  29-08-2017 20:19
  Citizens groups have abandoned legal challenges aimed at halting a controversial $190 million bus rapid transit (BRT) project in Provo and Orem, after a 4th District judge ruled Monday against one of their two lawsuits.The groups had delayed appealing a similar loss in a sister lawsuit to await the outcome of the second one. Now they say it is too late to appeal both in time to qualify to put the anti-BRT measure on the November ballot for voters to decide — so they are dropping legal chal
  
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• Logan woman named Utah hunter educator of the year

  29-08-2017 20:15
  Becky Smith has spent 21 years teaching hunter education and gun safety to mostly eager young students.That dedication earned the Logan resident the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ award for the 2016 Hunter Education Instructor of the Year.She loves to hear stories from former students. For example, on a routine traffic stop a few years ago, a Logan police officer surprised Smith by asking her if she taught hunter safety.It turned out that the officer’s son was a student in Smit
  
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• Monson: Nature can be one vicious mother, and the BYU-LSU football game bends to its brutal power — as it should

  29-08-2017 20:14
  Just when you think football is king, when football thinks it is king, when it considers itself the most important thing in the world, Mother Nature rolls in and kicks it aside, makes it scramble, and, most significantly, puts it in complete perspective.It bows and bends to and battens down and sometimes bitches about the extreme powers of the planet.But, man, they are there and they can be cruel and unrelenting and devastating. They blow mighty trees down. They batter houses and then flood them
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Mr. President, the flood victims should come first, not your photo op

  29-08-2017 20:14
  The exaggerated and unfair criticism of President George W. Bush in viewing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina from the air now afflicts all presidents. Afraid of being labeled insensitive and not wanting to miss a chance for praise (Oh, thank you for coming, Mr. President!), President Donald Trump heads today to Texas, where first responders are still searching for trapped residents, tens of thousands may be without homes for an extended basis, floodwaters are still waist-high in parts of Hou
  
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• A guide to hunting in Utah, a year-round game

  29-08-2017 20:13
  As the days get shorter and late summer morphs into fall, thousands of Utah hunters prepare to head into the mountains, fields and marshes.Some are already there. The deer archery season began in mid-August. Others are close, with the dove hunt kicking off the bird-hunting season Friday. And the waterfowl season is just over a month away.The reality, though, is that hunting seasons and regulations have become so complicated that pursuing game must be a year-round passion.• There are permits
  
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• Racial content sweeps away 'Gone With the Wind' screening

  29-08-2017 19:57
  Memphis, Tenn. • A Tennessee theater has canceled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film.Officials at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre have announced that the film will not be shown during its summer movie series in 2018. Theater president Brett Batterson says in a statement that “the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population.”The film was shown at
  
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• Catherine Rampell : Trump may see himself in Joe Arpaio

  29-08-2017 19:56
  Washington • There are lots of compelling reasons not to pardon the country’s most famous racist in the middle of a hurricane.So why exactly did President Trump decide to pardon Joe Arpaio?Maybe, some speculated, Trump wanted to toss some red meat to his base. Trump’s recent Phoenix campaign-rally crowd practically frothed at the mouth when he hinted at a coming pardon of the former Maricopa County sheriff. As Trump’s overall approval hovers around 35 percent, a high-profi
  
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• Forget car dealerships. NBA stars are investing in Silicon Valley and tech startups

  29-08-2017 19:55
  Long gone are the days of NBA stars investing in car dealerships (ala Karl Malone Honda). Now, basketball’s premier stars are investing in startups.According to Bloomberg, Golden State Warriors star Andre Iguodala has spent many days hearing pitches from startups to invest in.Iguodala has led the charge of NBA players looking to invest in Silicon Valley and startups, dropping hard-earned dimes into online retailer Casper, finance app NerdWallet and Zappos.com, among many others.“Ten
  
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• Utah's governor in Singapore, Vietnam for trade mission

  29-08-2017 19:54
  Gov. Gary Herbert flew to Singapore on Thursday and will remain there until he heads to Vietnam on Tuesday.Utah is a big player in the world's economy. Our trade mission to Singapore aims to make business, political & cultural ties even stronger. pic.twitter.com/4kQ5kdjfUV— Gov. Gary Herbert (@GovHerbert) August 28, 2017The trip is hosted by the World Trade Center Utah and includes meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, other government officials and business groups.The
  
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• Elite Utah medical unit deployed to flood-ravaged Texas

  29-08-2017 19:42
  An elite Disaster Medical Assistance Team flew out of Salt Lake City Tuesday to help with relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey’s massive flooding of the Houston area.It was the first full deployment for the Utah DMAT-1 unit since it was first recruited and organized 10 years ago, said Jolene Whitney, manager of the Specialty Care Program for the Utah Department of Health’s Emergency Management and Preparedness Bureau.In all, 36 unit members — including doctors, n
  
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• Ousted Navajo Head Start leader says she was illegally dismissed, faced repeated harassment

  29-08-2017 19:06
  Farmington, N.M. • The ousted superintendent for Navajo Head Start says she was illegally dismissed from the program last month and often faced harassment.The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico, reports (https://goo.gl/L8ApRH) Sharon Singer recently filed a grievance alleging that her removal violated tribal law.Singer also says she faced harassment, intimidation and a hostile work environment by her supervisor, Department of Diné Education Superintendent of Schools Tommy Lewis Jr
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Three Utah State games will stream on Facebook; ESPN still loves BYU

  29-08-2017 18:57
  The Utah State football team will be on Facebook quite a bit this fall — a quarter of its regular season. We’re not talking about the players going online. Three USU games — Sept. 7 vs. Idaho State, Sept. 23 at San Jose State and Oct. 14 vs. Wyoming — will be produced for and streamed on Facebook. Stadium, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting — the parent company of KUTV-Ch. 2, KMYU-Ch. 12 and KJZZ Ch. 14 in Utah (and 170 other stations around the country) &mdas
  
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• Gorge on late-summer fruit with this tangy orange fruit dip

  29-08-2017 18:55
  Late summer fruit is perhaps my favorite. Berries are juicy and sweet, in their last flourish before slipping away into elite and expensive status. Peaches and plums are soft and caramel-like in flavor. Even the humble pebbly-skinned cantaloupe boasts rich orange flesh and syrupy-sweet flavor.Like most in-season produce, it is least inexpensive this time of year, which makes my wallet happy. I’ll admit: I almost always overbuy late summer fruit. Perhaps it’s the threat of my favorite
  
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• NFL making $40 million available for medical research

  29-08-2017 18:53
  New York • A year after the NFL pledged $100 million in support of independent medical research and engineering advancements, a huge chunk of that soon will be awarded to such research, primarily dedicated to neuroscience.A Scientific Advisory Board assembled by the NFL is set to launch its program to solicit and evaluate research proposals for funding. The board, comprised of independent experts, doctors, scientists and clinicians, and chaired by retired U.S. Army General Peter Chiarelli,
  
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• Utah’s Tank Hollow Fire nears 4,200 acres

  29-08-2017 18:10
  Entering its third week, the lightning-caused Tank Hollow Fire had blackened nearly 4,200 acres of timber, grass and brush in Spanish Fork Canyon by Tuesday.
  Fire Information Officer Jason Curry said the blaze, which began on Aug. 11 about 20 miles east of Spanish Fork and north of U.S. 6, was holding at 20 percent containment. Crews don’t expect to have the blaze, burning in remote, rugged and steep terrain, fully hemmed in until Oct. 15.
  Complicating the efforts of some 260 firefighters
  
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• Medicare to foot the bill for treadmill therapy for leg pain

  29-08-2017 18:00
  Chicago • Three times a week, Rita Driscoll steps onto a treadmill at a Minnesota hospital under the eye of a rehab therapist. She walks until it hurts — pushing her limits, walking faster and adding steeper inclines.The retired school aide has leg pain caused by clogged blood vessels. Until recently, monitored walking wasn’t an option for people with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, because most insurance doesn’t cover it.“I’m not giving up my legs,” s
  
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• NBA players past, present and future who will play in Eurobasket 2017

  29-08-2017 17:39
  During the FIBA Eurobasket tournament, fans will watch some of the best basketball players in the world. Many have experience in the NBA.
  Below we have sorted through those who will participate that have played professionally in the United States:
  Those who are currently active are listed in plain text.
  Those who are no longer playing have their name presented in italics while others who have not made their debut have an asterisk * by their name.
  For those who have not yet made their debut, we l
  
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• When the old begins anew 👏👏👏 https://t.co/IdvzG338q6

  29-08-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  
  When the old begins anew 👏👏👏 https://t.co/IdvzG338q6
  
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• Utahn Thomas Wright elected to Republican National Committee post

  29-08-2017 17:19
  Thomas Wright — former chairman of the Utah Republican Party and now its national committeeman — was elected over the weekend as one of eight chairmen and chairwomen of the Republican National Committee. That group includes four men and four women.
  
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• Pac-12 football: Arizona tries to climb out of South cellar, starting with win over Utes

  29-08-2017 17:13
  Arizona’s football season preview looks a lot like Arizona State’s forecast.
  
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• Mormon temple flooded in Houston suburb; LDS missionaries to help in Harvey cleanup efforts

  29-08-2017 17:13
  Mormon missionaries in Tropical Storm-ravaged Houston will assist relief and cleanup efforts as floodwaters subside, the LDS Church says.
  
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• Rainbow trout’s days are numbered on select national forest streams

  29-08-2017 17:11
  The Dixie National Forest is poised to wipe out a sport fishery on two streams to restore native trout to parts of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
  
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• Merkel: Europe still 'hasn't done homework' on refugees

  29-08-2017 17:08
  Berlin • Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that she did the right thing by allowing large numbers of migrants into Germany two years ago, but said Europe hasn’t done enough to resolve the refugee problem properly since then.
  
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• Sawtooth Mountains offer wet and wild adventure a short drive from the Wasatch Front

  29-08-2017 17:07
  Northwest of Great Salt Lake, across the Snake River Plain and into the mountains of central Idaho, the famously spiked peaks of Sawtooth Range cut into the horizon.
  
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