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• Squally Canada was solid and Kavika Fonua impressed, but BYU will still spread carries around against LSU

  30-08-2017 23:58
  Provo • Rarely last season did BYU enter a game feeling overmatched at running back. Jamaal Williams, who became the leading rusher in school history in the middle of 2016, was a generational-type back who has proven to not be easy to replace.That won’t be the case, however, as the Cougars (1-0) go into Saturday’s showdown with No. 13 LSU at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. BYU will continue its “by-committee” approach to carrying the ball, but the Tigers are expected to
  
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• Beware: Wasps swarming in City Creek Canyon

  30-08-2017 23:54
  Over the rustling of wind in the leaves and the rippling of a mountain stream, an unmistakable sound hums through City Creek Canyon on a recent hot afternoon.Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.It’s the season for yellow jackets, other wasps and bees in the Wasatch Foothills, and they are flying thick, according to cyclists who say they have been swarmed and attacked in City Creek Canyon.“It was like being dive-bombed by wasps and hornets, all over the place,” cyclist Jenny Sonntag said Tuesd
  
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• It’s Kyle Whittingham’s 13th year, but Utah’s opener vs. North Dakota rings in a new era

  30-08-2017 23:49
  Uncertainty plays a big part in the excitement surrounding Thursday’s University of Utah’s season opener. It’s akin to the the mix of anxiousness and fear after strapping into a roller coaster.The Utes plan to unveil a new offensive system expected to mark a significant departure from the identity of the recent past. First-time starters will sprinkle the field both offensively and defensively as the program attempts to reload after sending 16 players to the professional ranks,
  
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• Salt Lake City will require commercial building owners to report energy scores

  30-08-2017 23:46
  Owners of Salt Lake City’s largest buildings — or many of them, anyway — will have to report their energy usage.The City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday that city officials believe will cut energy costs and reduce air pollution, even if it’s not all they had once hoped for.The new ordinance requires owners of commercial buildings larger than 25,000 square feet to provide the city with an annual measure of their energy usage — a step toward the city’s goals
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Small-ball should be used more frequently

  30-08-2017 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... J-Notes Utah Jazz: Former Jazzman Dee Brown gets coaching gig The J-Notes Utah Jazz offseason...
  
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• U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein tells Utah anti-terrorism conference that law enforcement must remain vigilant

  30-08-2017 23:44
  The nation faces serious threats from terrorism  — both foreign and domestic — and law enforcement must remain vigilant to prevent attacks, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Wednesday during a speech in Salt Lake City.Some of the most powerful tools to confront terrorists are Joint Terrorism Task Forces and fusion centers — including Utah’s Statewide Information and Analysis Center — that share information about threats, said Rosenstein, the
  
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• Real Salt Lake uses the break to recuperate

  30-08-2017 23:36
  This bye week, unlike the Gold Cup break, is about recuperating for Real Salt Lake.RSL will use its break in play to recover after two consecutive trips back east followed by two home games last week.“It’s about not dropping off physically but not overly exerting them,” RSL coach Mike Petke said, “about keeping them mentally focused but getting them rest physically and mentally. And then we’ll obviously work on the things we need to work on leading into the Vancouve
  
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• FBI offers $10,000 reward for "Double Hat Bandit," suspected of robbing four banks in Utah

  30-08-2017 23:29
  Police have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man they believe is responsible for at least 13 robberies, including four in Utah, the FBI announced Wednesday. The so-called “Double Hat Bandit” wears two hats — a baseball cap under a beanie — and robs bank branches located inside grocery stores, according to a news release from the FBI.In Utah, he has robbed four banks:— Dec. 19, 2016, U.S. Bank, 4065 S. Redwo
  
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• Pac-12’s initiative to shorten game lengths begins with Utah’s opener vs. North Dakota

  30-08-2017 23:13
  The Pac-12 is out to mix things up a bit.On Wednesday, the conference announced additional details on an incoming “test program,” designed to improve game-day experiences for fans both at various stadiums around the league as well as those watching over the air.The goal is to shorten the length of football games, which over the years have continually extended.The Pac-12 will implement new pilot initiatives at all of its non-conference games on Pac-12 Networks. That includes a combina
  
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• Utah State football: No. 9 Badgers are going to be a handful for Aggies

  30-08-2017 23:03
  Despite a bunch of personnel shuffling — including the quarterbacks — and schedule difficulties a year ago, the Wisconsin Badgers still almost won the Big Ten championship. No wonder Badger fans are hoping for more in 2017.Expectations were more limited in 2016, as LSU, Ohio State and Michigan all graced the schedule.And though they used a two-quarterback rotation through stretches, the Badgers were still at the doorstep of the Rose Bowl until they relinquished a 28-7 lead against Pe
  
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• U.S. clears first 'living drug' for tough childhood leukemia

  30-08-2017 22:33
  Washington • Opening a new era in cancer care, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients’ own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.The CAR-T cell treatment developed by Novartis and the University of Pennsylvania is the first type of gene therapy to hit the U.S. market — and one in a powerful but expensive wave of custom-made “living drugs” being tested agains
  
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• George Pyle: Hurricane washes up some good old ideas

  30-08-2017 22:30
  This lead from a Politico article earned a lot of social media attention yesterday.-- Trump relishes role as chief executive of Harvey response -- Josh Dawsey | PoliticoCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- It was a presidential trip to a deluged state where the president didn’t meet a single storm victim, see an inch of rain or get near a flooded street.Am I the only one who remembers what that is an homage to? One of the greatest of all time.-- Oxford Journal: Whereas, He Is an Old Boy, If a Young Ch
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Rockmonster Unplugged: NBA executives should be politicians

  30-08-2017 22:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... uccess. (This happened to be a year when the Spurs swept the Jazz in the playoffs.) Williams talked with me after a game in Orlando one year,...
  
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• Rockmonster Unplugged: NBA executives should be politicians

  30-08-2017 22:05
  Seeing Danny Ainge’s bid to make Boston a champion (again), made me smile. Not because he can’t do it (I still think Golden State will repeat, barring injuries), but because Ainge is a likable guy with a pretty laidback delivery.“Trader Dan” actually is approachable, polite and professional.That got me thinking about other current and former general managers I’ve interacted with such as R.C. Buford (San Antonio), Pat Williams (Orlando), Scott Layden (Minnesota, New
  
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• 16-year-old in stable condition after bullet pierces hand, leg at Sandy residence

  30-08-2017 22:03
  A 16-year-old boy was in stable condition after a bullet went through his hand and hit his leg at a Sandy condominium on Wednesday morning.
  Police are investigating the circumstances of the 11 a.m. shooting, which happened near 9000 South and 700 West, said Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen. The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story as information becomes available.
  
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• Nashville mayor no fan of evangelicals’ ‘Nashville Statement’ condemning same-sex marriage

  30-08-2017 21:52
  A coalition of evangelical leaders released a “Christian manifesto” Tuesday that states marriage should be between a man and a woman, and condemns the acceptance of “homosexual immorality or transgenderism.”The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood outlined the views in what it called “The Nashville Statement,” and offered it as guidance to churches on how to address issues of sexuality. A group of evangelical leaders, scholars and pastors endorsed the sta
  
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• Sour grapes: Robbers empty Paris cellar of vintage wines

  30-08-2017 21:22
  Paris • A Paris wine collector returned from holiday this week to a nasty surprise, finding a hole in his cellar and emptiness where his valuable collection of vintage wines had been.Paris police said Wednesday some 250 to 300 bottles, worth up to 1,000 euros — or $1,200 each — were stolen from the cellar in the 6th arrondissement of Paris sometime between July 28 and Monday, while the owner was vacationing.The robbers apparently broke through the wall of the basement cellar fro
  
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• Moth flights accompany Utah Symphony at dramatic redrock concert

  30-08-2017 21:17
  Springdale • “Thank you. That was divine,” said one concertgoer wearing shorts to a Utah Symphony staff member while filing out of Tuesday night’s outdoor concert.That idea of the transcendent — in nature and in music — was the theme for the kickoff concert of the Utah Symphony’s Great American Road Trip, attended by more than 1,300 people. The redrock cliffs of Springdale’s O.C. Tanner Amphitheater provided a striking backdrop as the orchestra&rsqu
  
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• Utah football: Utes’ opener vs. North Dakota has more than the usual anticipation

  30-08-2017 21:14
  Uncertainty plays a big part in the excitement surrounding Thursday’s University of Utah’s football season opener. It’s a kin to the the mix of anxiousness and fear in those moments after strapping into a roller coaster before speeding around curves, through twists and down steep hills.The Utes plan to unveil a new offensive system expected to mark a significant departure from their conservative identity of the recent past. First-time starters will sprinkle the field both offen
  
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• GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to help wall

  30-08-2017 21:05
  Washington • President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Harvey-caused epic flooding, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a massive spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when lawmakers return from their August recess
  
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• Letter: Removing statues

  30-08-2017 20:57
  “The word is about, there’s something evolving…”I have mixed feelings on the removal of Confederate statues. First of all, they are art. A fellow artist created a sculpture. A form of beauty in every form of freedom of speech.“Whatever may come, the world keeps revolving…”Second, these works of art represent part of our past. They serve as a remembrance of our forefathers. Even though the Confederates were considered an enemy, we shared some of the sam
  
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• Joel Osteen blames 'false narrative' for Harvey criticism

  30-08-2017 20:40
  Houston • Joel Osteen is defending the decision not to open his Houston megachurch as a shelter during the initial flooding from Harvey in the face of withering criticism on social media.The televangelist maintained on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday that his Lakewood Church was inaccessible due to floodwaters during the early part of the storm. He says the 16,000-seat former basketball arena is prone to flooding and that “the last thing we would do is put peo
  
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• Utah charter school for teen moms abandons fight to reopen

  30-08-2017 20:14
  Kairos Academy will remain closed after administrators abandoned their plans to contest the school’s termination.The Utah Board of Education announced Wednesday that a Sept. 5 hearing for the West Valley City charter school had been cancelled, due to the school withdrawing its appeal of a July closure vote of the State Charter School Board.“Staff from Kairos Academy, the Utah State Charter School Board, and the Utah State Board of Education are working with nearby school districts an
  
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• 16-year-old in stable condition after bullet pierces hand, leg at Sandy residence
  

  30-08-2017 20:13
  A 16-year-old boy was in stable condition after a bullet went through his hand and hit his leg at a Sandy condominium on Wednesday morning.
  Police are investigating the circumstances of the 11 a.m. shooting, which happened near 9000 South and 700 West, said Sandy Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen. The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story as information becomes available.
  
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• Trump says 'talking is not the answer' with North Korea

  30-08-2017 20:06
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Wednesday that “talking is not the answer” to North Korea, after it upped the stakes in its standoff with Washington by calling for more weapons launches in the Pacific.Trump’s morning tweet followed a highly provocative North Korean missile test Tuesday that flew over Japan, a close American ally.But his comment contradicted statements from his Cabinet officials and was likely to deepen confusion over his administration’s pol
  
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• Police dog and suspect wounded during shooting episode in St. George

  30-08-2017 19:42
  A man and a police dog were injured during a shooting episode in St. George late Tuesday night, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office hasn’t released the suspect’s condition. But the canine was reportedly in stable condition following surgery. Events began just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, when a man allegedly stole a truck after assaulting the vehicle’s owner near 400 North Bluff Street, according to a Wednesday news release
  
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• Letter: Why should teachers have to work for free?

  30-08-2017 19:41
  Why does a person who has completed four years of learning how to be a teacher have to teach one year without pay? They are letting people teach who have had no schooling teach and get paid for it, while the person who has gone to college for four years gets no pay. How is that fair?Verla WithersTaylorsville
  
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• Tank Hollow Fire at 4,500-acres plus, but containment work progressing

  30-08-2017 19:38
  The Tank Hollow Fire had blackened nearly 4,600 acres on Wednesday, but crews reported good progress in gradually hemming in the blaze that has been burning in Spanish Fork Canyon since Aug. 11.
  The lightning-sparked blaze, about 20 miles east of the city of Spanish Fork and north of U.S. 6, was 32 percent contained as of mid-day Wednesday, according to the Interagency Fire Center.
  Full containment was still a ways off, with a date of Oct. 15 projected.
  Late Tuesday, the fire had spread northeas
  
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• Enter your ugly fruits and vegetables in Salt Lake City's Perfectly Wild Produce Contest

  30-08-2017 19:34
  Backyard gardeners and commercial growers can celebrate nature’s humor by entering their misshapen and imperfect fruits and vegetables in the Perfectly Wild Produce Contest.Sponsored by Wasatch Cooperative Market, the competition takes place Saturday, Sept. 9, at the Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West. It’s one of several activities taking place during Utah’s Eat Local Week., Sept. 9-16.
  To enter, take your ugly produce to the Co-op’s booth in the no
  
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• Kathy Griffin isn’t apologizing for that Trump photo anymore

  30-08-2017 19:32
  Los Angeles • Kathy Griffin retracted her apology for a gory image of a fake Donald Trump head, saying anger against her was overblown and should be directed at Trump and his administration.A feisty Griffin, interviewed Tuesday on Australian TV in advance of an international comedy tour, slammed the president and his actions as she reversed course from her tearful mea culpa in May.“So the picture happened, the outrage was ridiculous, I made an apology, and now in light of all the craz
  
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• Pac-12 football: Initiative to shorten game lengths begins Thursday with Utah’s opener vs. North Dakota

  30-08-2017 19:31
  The Pac-12 is out to mix things up a bit.On Wednesday, the Pac-12 Conference announced additional details on an incoming “test program,” designed to improve game-day experiences for fans both at various stadiums around the league as well as those watching over the air.The goal? Shorten the length of football games, which over the years have continually extended in length.The Pac-12 will implement new pilot initiatives at all of its non-conference games on Pac-12 Networks. That i
  
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• Cupbop serves up a winning combo for success in Utah and beyond

  30-08-2017 19:31
  Midvale • “Combo!”“Combo!” chime back the other employees behind the counter.A manager teases one of the customers for ordering the lowest spice level, calling him Baby Spice and encouraging him to add more kick to his food.Shouting orders and joking with customers — along with an atmosphere that includes bright yellow walls — are the signatures of Cupbop, a quick-service restaurant that serves Korean barbecue in a bowl.The style appears to be working.The
  
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• Washington Post Commentary: Why people hate Joel Osteen

  30-08-2017 19:29
  Twitter is loathing Houston’s megawatt-smile, mega-pastor Joel Osteen right now. What gives?Joel Osteen won't open his church that holds 16,000 to hurricane victims because it only provides shelter from taxes.#HoustonStrong— Alan Spencer (@MrAlanSpencer) August 28, 2017
  Joel Osteen and the rest of the "prosperity gospel" peddlers are parasites!#JoelOsteen pic.twitter.com/uXt0s4RdvQ— Give Him The Finger (@protestcards) August 29, 2017
  The question over whether Osteen’s 38,
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Utah Jazz players are arriving in SLC!

  30-08-2017 19:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... yers are returning to Salt Lake City! Via Donovan Mitchell Instagram Are the Jazz starting open scrimmages? I really hope so, because I need to hear the stori ...
  
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• First-time Utah novelist earns publishing-world acclaim with 'My Absolute Darling'

  30-08-2017 19:04
  Among the early raves for Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, there’s this bit of gushy praise from Stephen King. “The word ‘masterpiece’ has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but ‘My Absolute Darling’ absolutely is one.”In “Darling,” released Tuesday, Tallent has created an original female voice in the character of 14-year-old Turtle Alveston, who lives with her charismatic, autodidact, redneck father, Martin, in the backwoods of coastal N
  
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• Washington Post Commentary: From Houston, this looks like a 'black elephant'

  30-08-2017 19:00
  I’ve covered the news in Houston for 3½ years and have already seen two devastating floods and now what is being described as a one-in-800-years flood brought on by Hurricane Harvey.That suggests to me that something is happening here that’s way bigger than the largely made-up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation’s fou
  
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• Case dismissed against Utah firm that finds long-lost heirs

  30-08-2017 18:57
  A judge is dismissing a federal antitrust case against a Salt Lake City company that’s part of a little-known industry specializing in tracking down heirs to unclaimed inheritances.U.S. District Judge David Sam decided the business ties identified by prosecutors didn’t necessarily stifle competition.The Department of Justice declined to comment Tuesday.Prosecutors had said the firm Kemp & Associates and executive Daniel Mannix conspired with other companies for more than 14 years
  
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• Kragthorpe: Is Troy Taylor the Utes' offensive solution? Kyle Whittingham is 'excited' to find out

  30-08-2017 18:55
  Fans keep packing Rice-Eccles Stadium, so the University of Utah’s marketing strategy is nowhere near as aggressive, or necessary, as in the old days. Nobody’s making the promises of Urban Meyer’s first season, when the summertime ads spoke boldly: “You ain’t seen Utah football like this before.”That statement became true then, and it could happen again in the program’s Pac-12 era. In coach Kyle Whittingham’s seemingly never-ending search for a pro
  
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• Letter: We don’t want war

  30-08-2017 18:54
  Kim Jong-un and the North Korean people, in spite of the fact our president threatens you with, “fire and fury” — words I understand he pulled right out of, well, you know, that place where the sun doesn’t shine — we don’t spend our days contemplating how to bomb, conquer and destroy you.As a matter of fact, until our president told you that, “We are locked and loaded” — again words he pulled from that same anatomical location — you wer
  
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• A rocking 'Robin' steals hearts at Hale Centre Theatre

  30-08-2017 18:48
  West Valley City • Everyone knows and loves Robin Hood, the charming rogue who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But what if Robin isn’t actually an altruistic antihero? What if he’s just a common criminal?That’s one of the twists in “The Heart of Robin Hood,” David Farr’s rollicking adventure now making its regional premiere at Hale Centre Theatre with new music by Dave Tinney and Rob Moffat.The other big twist — and this one won’t
  
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• Fox hires conservative commentator Tomi Lahren

  30-08-2017 18:47
  New York • Fox News Channel has hired conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, who has hosted shows on The Blaze and One America News Network along with working for a political action committee supporting President Donald Trump.The network said on Wednesday that Lahren will have a “signature role” on a digital product under development and be a commentator on the network’s opinion programming. Her primary home will be on Sean Hannity’s show, where she was to debut on We
  
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• Flames turned back from Bountiful homes, crews closing containment lines

  30-08-2017 18:18
  Homeowners in a luxury subdivision along the eastern foothills of Bountiful kept their windows closed Wednesday, but otherwise breathed a sigh of relief after an overnight wildfire scare.The Bountiful-Summerwood Fire began in tinder-dry oak brush and grass about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, and initially burned within about a quarter-mile of the 50-home Summerwood development. However, winds shifted upslope overnight and the blaze, remapped from 150 to just 75 acres,  burned into unoccupied BLM and U
  
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• U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein addresses Utah anti-terrorism conference

  30-08-2017 18:10
  The number of Americans trying to travel to join the Islamic State has “dropped significantly,” from 6 to 10 a month a few years ago to, often, one or none now, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Wednesday during a speech in Salt Lake City.Much of the credit for the decrease belongs to the military, which has fought ISIS on the battlefield, Rosenstein said, adding that people are less inclined to join a losing cause.In addition, Rosenstein credited law-enforcement offic
  
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• Orem Owlz move two games to Ogden after LoveLoud Festival caused damage to field

  30-08-2017 18:08
  The Orem Owlz will move two of the team’s final seven regular season home games to Ogden after a music festival damaged the Brent Brown Ballpark field. Wednesday and Thursday night’s games will be played at the Ogden Raptors’ Lindquist Field after equipment and the crowd at the LoveLoud Festival damaged the field on Aug. 26. Owlz general manager Rick Berry said the team’s groundskeepers and outside groups, including workers from the Salt Lake Bees’ grounds
  
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• Raising them right 🤝 #TakeNote twitter.com/bentleyjmitch/…

  30-08-2017 18:07 via twitter.com
  Raising them right 🤝#TakeNote twitter.com/bentleyjmitch/…
  
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• Morning links: Detmer says BYU's age advantage is 'overblown'; Sesame Street character sounds like LSU coach

  30-08-2017 18:05
  Since we are three days away from the BYU-LSU game, critics are starting to talk about the players' ages, saying, according to The Advocate, that the Cougars' average older age is an unfair advantage.“I’m 24 and you’re 19; I’m going to have a maturity over you,” former BYU assistant coach Norm Chow said in the story. “It’s a unique place. They play with 25-, 26-year-old kids, mature guys that never have issues off the field.”Critics believe the mat
  
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• Where are the condemnations of Harvey as ‘God’s punishment’?

  30-08-2017 18:02
  When Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area in 2012, the floodwaters in Lower Manhattan were still rising when some pastors pointed out what, to them, was obvious.“God is systematically destroying America,” the Rev. John McTernan, a conservative Christian pastor who runs a ministry called USA Prophecy, said in a post-Sandy blog entry that has since been removed. The reason God was so peeved, he asserted, was “the homosexual agenda.”McTernan belongs to a subse
  
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• More than 1.7 million Muslims gather in Mecca for start of hajj

  30-08-2017 17:57
  Mecca, Saudi Arabia • In Saudi Arabia, more than 1.7 million pilgrims are marking the start of the hajj pilgrimage Wednesday by circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca — Islam’s holiest site — and performing a series of rites that trace the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad.Muslims believe the rites also trace the footsteps of the prophets Ibrahim and Ismail — Abraham and Ishmael in the Bible.The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God i
  
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• 25 years after Ruby Ridge standoff, radical movement grows

  30-08-2017 17:42
  Spokane, Wash. • It’s been a quarter-century since a standoff in the mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked an expansion of radical right-wing groups in the United States that continues today.The gunfight at Ruby Ridge occurred when agents approached Randy Weaver’s property near the Canadian border looking for a place to arrest the military veteran on gun charges. They had been investigating him for possible ties to wh
  
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• Man critical after hit-run motorcycle-pedestrian collision in S. Salt Lake

  30-08-2017 17:39
  A man was in critical condition Wednesday after being hit by a motorcycle that sped away from the South Salt Lake collision scene overnight.South Salt Lake police spokesman Gary Keller said investigation into the incident was in its early stages. Police had little information other than that witnesses reported the unidentified man was struck just before midnight and that the motorcyclist did not stop.
  The incident occurred at 3300 South and 900 West, near the Salt Lake County jail and a Maverik
  
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