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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jimbo’s Mailbag – Arena Rumors and VERY Early Season Predictions

  31-08-2017 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... eader. One who understands and appreciates nonsense centered around the Utah Jazz. 2. Do you has a blog where these mailbag answers go? I DO has a blog! This...
  
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• Utah State football: Underdog Aggies hope to capitalize on opportunities vs. No. 9 Wisconsin

  31-08-2017 23:22
  You might have seen this scenario before.An underdog squad hits the road and gets an early chance after a mistake on the other side. But the heavy favorite gets right back on track, and then starts to steamroll, when the opportunity goes awry.Utah State coach Matt Wells is determined that you won’t see that happen. And make no mistake, his Aggies are firmly in the underdog role Friday night.No. 9 Wisconsin welcomes Utah State into Camp Randall in the season-opener for both squads. The host
  
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• Our thoughts and prayers are with the many affected by Hurricane Harvey. For info on how to help:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-08-2017 23:08 via twitter.com
  Our thoughts and prayers are with the many affected by Hurricane Harvey.For info on how to help:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - EuroBasket 2017: Former Utah Jazz F/C Boris Diaw, France upset by Finland

  31-08-2017 22:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... nst Iceland in their opener. Next: Rodney Hood open to extension; should the Jazz bite? Groups C and D will begin play on Friday in Cluj-Napoca, Romania and I ...
  
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• DACA supporters plan rally at the Capitol, amid rumors Trump will repeal program

  31-08-2017 22:43
  Utahns plan to rally at the State Capitol building on Thursday night in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, amid indications that President Donald Trump may soon end the program.
  “With rumors circulating that President Trump plans on repealing DACA, the urgency to defend the program is critical,” said a news release from Unidad Inmigrante, the grassroots organization planning the event.The program, implemented in 2012, allows undocumented immigrants wh
  
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• EuroBasket 2017: Former Utah Jazz F/C Boris Diaw, France upset by Finland

  31-08-2017 22:30
  Former Utah Jazz big man Boris Diaw and France were upset by Finland in their EuroBasket 2017 Group A opener. Groups A and B tipped off play at EuroBasket 2017 in Finland and Israel on Thursday. And, just like that, we already have our first big upset. In their opening bout, former Utah Jazz big man Boris […]
  EuroBasket 2017: Former Utah Jazz F/C Boris Diaw, France upset by Finland - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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  31-08-2017 22:15 via twitter.com
  
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• ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ remains magical, 40 years later

  31-08-2017 22:03
  Looking back 40 years, it’s clear now that Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science-fiction thriller “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” — hitting theaters this week in a remastered edition — is the Rosetta Stone for understanding everything Spielberg did after.Remarkably, the movie holds up exceedingly well, even better than its box-office rival in 1977, George Lucas’ “Star Wars.” While the two movies are evenly matched in terms of special-effects w
  
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• She looks like a Jazz Fan for life!! 🎷 #JazzNation twitter.com/AdrianSmithee/…

  31-08-2017 21:31 via twitter.com
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• Prosecutors: New charges could be coming in drug-ring case

  31-08-2017 21:27
  Prosecutors say at least one more person could face charges in what authorities call a multimillion-dollar opioid-drug ring based out of a suburban Salt Lake City basement.Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gadd said during a hearing Thursday that new charges could be filed in the coming weeks. Authorities are also investigating whether any overdose deaths are connected to drugs sold online.Authorities say 27-year-old Aaron Shamo and five others sold fake prescription-drug pills online to t
  
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• Recounts coming in Salt Lake City, Sandy council races

  31-08-2017 21:00
  After two weeks awaiting final election results, four city council candidates in Sandy and Salt Lake City will have their misery prolonged through a recount.Dea Theodore finished just nine votes ahead of Jim Edwards in Sandy’s District 3 race, having seen her 45-vote election night lead dwindle until, at one point in the ballot-counting, they were tied.“I think I‘m cautiously optimistic,” Theodore said.
  Asked if he believes he’s likely to make up that ground he need
  
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• BYU football: Cougars brace to face SEC powerhouse LSU

  31-08-2017 20:59
  Provo • When BYU announced in 2010 that it was leaving the Mountain West Conference and forging a path as an independent in football, athletic director Tom Holmoe said the Cougars would try to play the “best of the best” on the biggest stages possible.That certainly will happen Saturday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as BYU continues its seventh season of independence against one of the blue bloods of college football, Louisiana State University. The LSU Tigers have won three na
  
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• Groups seek ban on high-dose opioids citing overdose danger

  31-08-2017 20:57
  Chicago • Safety advocates and state health officials are formally calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban high-dose opioid painkillers to prevent accidental overdose deaths among patients and people who abuse drugs.A petition filed Thursday asks the FDA to ban opioid pills that, when taken as directed, would add up to a daily dose of more than 90 milligrams of morphine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that level is dangerous for most patients and doesn&rs
  
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• Voting by mail helped nearly double turnout in Salt Lake County primary, officials say
  

  31-08-2017 20:51
  In Utah’s 3rd Congressional District, where Provo Mayor John Curtis won the Republican nomination, only two of the seven counties did not vote by mail. And turnout there was far lower in those two than elsewhere.“It shows again that voting by mail does what we thought it would — increase turnout,” said Mark Thomas, state elections director for Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox.Cox’s office on Thursday completed the final vote canvass in the congressional primary, confirming Curt
  
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• Audio of 2014 shooting in Salt Lake courthouse: Four gunshots then an order to ‘drop the pen’

  31-08-2017 20:50
  There is a boing sound — the kind you might make when you strike a narrow tube with a microphone on the end of it — some rustling and then someone saying, ”Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!”Then there is the sound of four gunshots. “Don’t f--king move!” someone next says, presumably to Siale Angilau, the criminal defendant who was just shot inside a federal courtroom. “Drop the pen out of your hands!” someone else yells. A marshal w
  
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• First comes love, then comes marriage — and deciding what name to use

  31-08-2017 20:42
  Tradition — and the law — used to dictate that women changed their name upon marriage. Today, Utah women and men are making choices together about what name to use in their families — and often what they choose isn’t what they grew up expecting.In the five years from the beginning of 2012 through 2016, nearly 105,000 Utahns changed their names after marriage, according to the Social Security Administration. But the agency said it doesn’t track those changes by gende
  
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• Woman killed on I-15 off-ramp was arrested 4 days earlier in Rio Grande sweep

  31-08-2017 20:41
  Police on Thursday released the identity of a woman who was struck and killed while trying to cross an Interstate 15 off-ramp in Salt Lake City’s predawn darkness.
  SLCPD Detective Robert Ungricht said 28-year-old Cassandra Squires, an Orem woman who may have recently become homeless, died at the scene after being hit by a car exiting I-15 at 600 South early Wednesday morning.
  Ungricht confirmed that Squires, who had a long misdemeanor history of drug-related convictions, had been arrested
  
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  31-08-2017 20:41 via twitter.com
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• UHP increasing DUI patrols for Labor Day weekend

  31-08-2017 20:33
  The Utah Highway Patrol is increasing patrols — specifically targeting drunken drivers — over Labor Day weekend.There have been an average of 28 alcohol-related crashes during Labor Day weekend over the last five years, making it the holiday with the third highest percentage of alcohol-suspected drivers, said a news release from the Department of Public Safety.Multiple police agencies are participating in the DUI-enforcement campaign, and several participating bars, including:Fiddler
  
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• FBI arrests person of interest in eastern Utah reservation homicide

  31-08-2017 20:31
  A person of interest in the homicide of 20-year-old Sukakee Manyhides last week was arrested Wednesday, the FBI said.Drew Black, 30, was arrested without incident in Salt Lake County, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Barker said.Manyhides’ body was found under suspicious circumstances on Aug. 23, on a road northwest of Whiterocks. The community of about 350 is north of Roosevelt, on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.On Saturday, officials arrested Zhondee Nephi, 30, and announced they were als
  
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• Yours truly inducted into a high school hall of fame? Pigs really do fly

  31-08-2017 20:25
  Back when the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, Charles Barkley uttered the following astute observation:“You know the world is off tilt when the best rapper is a white guy [Eminem], the best golfer is a black guy [Tiger Woods], the tallest basketball player is Chinese [Yao Ming] and Germany doesn’t want to go to war.”Add to that conundrum this: A “C” student with self-esteem issues and attendance problems in his teenage years being inducted into his high
  
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• Lakers fined $500K by NBA for tampering involving Paul George

  31-08-2017 20:19
  New York • New Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka’s contact with Paul George’s agent violated the NBA’s anti-tampering rule and has resulted in Los Angeles being fined $500,000.The league said Thursday that a law firm’s independent investigation didn’t find evidence of an agreement or an understanding that the Lakers would sign or acquire George, who was with the Indiana Pacers at the time. Paul later was traded to Oklahoma City.The NBA had warned the Lakers ab
  
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• ‘Remember, we only shoot black people,’ Georgia police officer told a woman — on camera

  31-08-2017 19:59
  A Georgia police officer has been accused of making racist statements to a woman during a traffic stop, telling her that the police officers “only shoot black people.”Dash cam video shows the Cobb County officer, who has been identified as police Lt. Greg Abbott, standing outside a vehicle during a DUI traffic stop in July 2016.The woman, who was a passenger in the vehicle, can be heard telling the officer that she did not want to put her hands down to reach for her phone because &ld
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: It's not worth buying a ticket to ‘Marvel's Inhumans’

  31-08-2017 19:52
  The premiere of ABC’s “Marvel’s Inhumans” starts screening in IMAX theaters Friday, and there are two very good reasons not to spend money on it.First, the theatrical version is a 75-minute cut-down of the first two episodes, which will run 84 minutes in their entirety. For free. On Friday, Sept. 29, on ABC.Second, from what TV critics have seen, “Inhumans” is awful.That’s not exactly a review. TV critics have seen an unfinished version of Episode 1, and
  
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• Foothill Drive ramps reopen in time for Utah football game rush

  31-08-2017 19:46
  All Foothill Drive ramps around Interstate 80 in Salt Lake City reopened about 9 p.m. today, the Utah Department of Transportation announced.The closures had been in place since the spring, when UDOT began repairing several bridges in the area of Foothill Drive and Parleys Canyon, near I-80 and Interstate 215.In a Facebook post, UDOT said the goal was to finish the bridge work before the first University of Utah football game Thursday.The areas reopening tonight include I-80 east to Foothill Dri
  
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• Prep football: ‘He’s just a winner’: Steady QB Jaxon Mansfield leads Clearfield to 2-0 start

  31-08-2017 19:17
  Clearfield • Andre Dyson searched for a quarterback around whom he could rebuild his alma mater’s struggling football program when he took over as Clearfield’s football coach three and a half years ago.It wasn’t long before he noticed then-freshman Jaxon Mansfield.“He’s just a winner, first and foremost,” Dyson said. “The first day he walked into this building you could tell there was something about him. He loves to compete, likes the big stage and
  
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• Festival celebrates Brazilian food, music and culture in Salt Lake City

  31-08-2017 19:08
  Celebrate Brazil’s food, music and culture on Saturday, Sept. 9, during the 13th annual Utah Brazilian Festival.The celebration takes place from 1 to 7 p.m. at The Gateway, 100 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City. It is sponsored by the non-profit, Viva Brazil Cultural Center.The Samba Carnaval Parade begins at 1 p.m. with drummers and dancers in colorful costumes from the high-energy percussion ensemble Samba Fogo.Admission is free, but bring your wallet and sample Brazilian churrasco (barbecue),
  
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• Dana Milbank: Financial clouds swirling over Capitol

  31-08-2017 19:07
  Washington • Hurricane Harvey has devastated Texas. Now board your windows, evacuate the low ground and watch the damage it is poised to unleash on the nation’s finances.Harvey makes landfall in Washington as soon as next week, when President Trump is expected to ask for what could be tens of billions of dollars in storm relief. And paying for storm recovery will be but the first blow to fiscal discipline in what looks to be a particularly active, and calamitous, spending season.After
  
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• U.S. shutters Russia's San Francisco consulate in retaliation

  31-08-2017 19:01
  Washington • The United States is retaliating against Russia by forcing closure of its consulate in San Francisco and scaling back its diplomatic presence in Washington and New York.The State Department says move is in response to the Kremlin forcing a cut in U.S. diplomatic staff in Moscow. Spokesman Heather Nauert says the move brings the U.S. and Russia into “parity,” with each having three consulates in the other country.Moscow forced the cut in American diplomatic staff ear
  
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• ’I’m honestly worried Craig is going to kill you,’ niece told John Williams the day before fatal fire

  31-08-2017 18:52
  The last time Laura Forsgren spoke to her uncle, well-known Salt Lake City restaurateur John Williams, she urged him not to go to his East Capitol Street home.Williams had served an eviction notice to his estranged husband the previous day, and had unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against Craig Crawford.Forsgren told Williams she loved him, and said he could stay with her family.“I begged him,” Forsgren recalled from the witness stand Thursday. “Please, come back to ou
  
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• Mormon church helping victims of flood-ravaged West African nation

  31-08-2017 18:51
  The Mormon church’s humanitarian aid program, though heavily invested in flood relief efforts under way in Texas, has not forgotten the victims of a deadly mudslide in the West African nation of Sierra Leone.LDS Charities officials confirmed Wednesday that they have shipped and delivered relief supplies including mattresses, food, water and emergency aid to 105 families so far.The items were distributed on the ground by area Mormon and community leaders in Sierra Leone. The vast majority o
  
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• Utah forecast: Cooler weather ahead of weekend heat

  31-08-2017 18:05
  Slightly cooler temperatures come to northern Utah as the work week winds down, thanks to a moist, southwesterly air mass drifting over the region.
  Increased cloud cover, isolated thunderstorms and rain showers rolled over the Wasatch Front Thursday, with high temperatures — just recently near triple digits — forecast to dip into the mid- to upper-80s.
  Friday’s forecast calls for clear, sunny skies, but highs still will remain in upper-90s territory. Saturday, however, will see
  
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• Holly Richardson: The Macaroni and Cheese Sandwich and Other Tales

  31-08-2017 18:04
  When my husband was in his early 20’s, he was at his parents home with his brother who was in his late teens. The two of them were hungry and made a deal to share lunch preparation duties. My brother-in-law agreed to make macaroni and cheese and my husband agreed to make sandwiches.When the mac and cheese was done, my husband slapped a spoonful between two pieces of bread and said “Ta da! Sandwiches!”His brother was not amused. In fact, it was a good twenty years before he coul
  
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• Letter: The centrist option

  31-08-2017 17:58
  Like many Utahns, I agree with some “conservative” positions (e.g., fiscal responsibility is good) and with some “liberal” positions (e.g., splitting families by deportation is bad). So it is very frustrating to have a political choice only between extremes: extreme Democrats who call people “deplorable,” extreme Republicans who abhor compromise and Green/Libertarian /etc. politicians who have only an extremely small chance of being elected.Given such limited
  
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• Utah Shakespeare’s long-lost play revels in its quick wits

  31-08-2017 17:40
  Cedar City • All in. That’s the spirit of the three terrific actors who craft comedy magic before our eyes in “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged).”The play’s a contemporary Monty Pythonesque romp that throws everything and the kitchen sink into a Shakespearean witch’s brew. Even the canon completists among us don’t need to worry: Theatrical quips are tossed out so quickly that you don’t need to check any boxes. Just hang on
  
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• Moab restaurateurs, solar panel manufacturer, Mormons and evangelicals among Utahns helping with Houston relief

  31-08-2017 17:28
  Utahns are gathering resources to help feed and support displaced Texans after Hurricane Harvey left Houston and its environs submerged and floundering.A couple from Moab are driving a 30-foot mobile kitchen to Houston to cook for people who cannot access their water-logged kitchens. John and Laurie Clayton have been making food for crews fighting wildfires across Utah for the past six years, according to John Clayton.In addition to their kitchen-converted trailer, they own Moab restaurant Sunse
  
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• Life-and-death issues anchor Neil LaBute’s dark new play at Utah Shakespeare Fest

  31-08-2017 17:28
  Cedar City • Neil LaBute’s play “How to Fight Loneliness,” which just opened a world premiere run at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, is the kind of contemporary play I love to argue about.This well-paced production offers sharp, layered acting in an intense drama about a couple dealing with life-and-death issues. Jodie (Tessa Auberjonois) and Brad (Brian Vaughn) invite an acquaintance, Tate (Corey Jones), to help them solve an unsolvable problem after her brain cancer recur
  
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• Fire lines tested by winds, but hold at Bountiful-area blaze

  31-08-2017 17:27
  Gusty overnight winds tested newly dug containment lines, but they held against the flames as crews worked to hem in the Bountiful-Summerwood Fire on Thursday.
  “Things are looking really good today,” Fire Information Officer Kim Osborn said. “Our crews are continuing work on completing lines around the fire, but the going is slow due to the rugged terrain and really thick brush up there.”
  About 70 firefighters, aided by water-bearing helicopters and a fire-retardant laden
  
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• Letter: Can Hatch be trusted?

  31-08-2017 17:20
  Sen. Orrin Hatch prides himself as a conservative leader willing to support bipartisan solutions. Yet recent efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act beg the question: Does Hatch really work on behalf of Utahns?The senator sat on the small, secretive committee behind the failed Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), which held zero public hearings, considered no proposals from colleagues across the aisle and produced legislation opposed by every major patient advocacy group.Most troubling of a
  
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• Letter: Zoos are indispensable

  31-08-2017 16:45
  I’d like to comment on Eric Rumple’s op-ed piece regarding permanent closure of Hogle Zoo. Close the zoo, and replace it with video screens? Really? I hope not.I’ve been a working research biologist for nearly 50 years, a serious nature photographer for almost that long, and a lover of all things natural since I was old enough to begin asking real questions about the universe I could see, feel and smell.I’m sure you’re aware that zoos are the last havens for a great
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - After years abroad, Royce O'Neale ready to make Utah his new basketball home

  31-08-2017 16:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... the league, he knew that teams had “interest,” whatever that meant. The Utah Jazz, though, unlike the other teams O’Neale had worked out for, wanted more than ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - After years abroad, Royce O'Neale ready to make Utah his new basketball home

  31-08-2017 16:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... e Pelicans, O’Neale didn’t seem to do enough to get an NBA contract, but the Jazz — known for finding hidden gems behind their use of advanced stats and thoro ...
  
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• News roundup: Ivanka Trump supports ending Obama policy aimed at addressing gender pay gap

  31-08-2017 16:07
  Ivanka Trump supports ending Obama policy aimed at addressing gender pay gap. U.S. attorney general visits Utah, speaks about national security. State lawmakers debate sales tax for food. Happy Thursday. Ivanka Trump joined her father’s administration pledging to protect women and champion equal pay. On Wednesday she announced her support for discontinuing an Obama policy addressing the gender pay gap through gathering data. Her statement: “Ultimately, while I believe the i
  
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• Zephyr Teachout: Google is coming after critics in academia, journalism; it's time to stop them

  31-08-2017 16:05
  About 10 years ago, Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who coined the term network neutrality, made this prescient comment: “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king.”Wu was right. And now, Google has established a pattern of lobbying and threatening to acquire power. It has reached a dangerous point common to many monarchs: The moment where it no longer wants to allow dissent.This summer,
  
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• Royce O'Neale ready to make Utah his new basketball home

  31-08-2017 16:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — Royce O’Neale waited two years to get the phone call.Sitting in his hotel room in July, O’Neale was keeping up with all the unprecedented NBA chaos amid the unbearable summer heat. He checked his social media accounts, waiting for another shakeup as stars like Chris Paul, Paul George and Gordon Hayward departed from their original clubs. Then his agent called.Having networked around the league, he knew that teams had “interest,” whatever that meant.
  
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• For Utah gas prices, hurricane adds to usual holiday increase

  31-08-2017 16:05
  The price of gas is climbing heading into Labor Day, which is pretty typical for the last three-day weekend of summer.
  But this year, the ravages of Hurricane Harvey on Gulf Coast oil refineries are sure to boost holiday gas prices even more.“The near-term combinations of Labor Day, increased demand and the tightened supply levels in the Gulf means U.S. motorists are likely to see gas prices increase 5 to 15 cents [a gallon] in the coming week,” said AAA Utah spokesman Michael Blasky
  
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• After years abroad, Royce O'Neale ready to make Utah his new basketball home

  31-08-2017 16:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — Royce O’Neale waited two years to get the phone call.Sitting in his hotel room in July, O’Neale was keeping up with all the unprecedented NBA chaos amid the unbearable summer heat. He checked his social media accounts, waiting for another shakeup as stars like Chris Paul, Paul George and Gordon Hayward departed from their original clubs. Then his agent called.Having networked around the league, he knew that teams had “interest,” whatever that meant.
  
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• Woman posts picture of premature baby born in amniotic sac

  31-08-2017 16:04
  Pittsburgh • A Pittsburgh woman gave birth to her premature son in a vehicle on the way to the hospital — with the baby still in its amniotic sac.Raelin Scurry posted an Instagram photo of the newborn taken on the way to Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC on Aug. 5.Scurry tells KDKA-TV she had the boy’s father, Ean Vanstory, drive her to the hospital while she dialed 911. The boy, called E.J., is named for his father.Scurry works in medical research and knew the baby w
  
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• Wells Fargo says 3.5 million accounts involved in scandal

  31-08-2017 16:04
  New York • Wells Fargo is now saying 3.5 million accounts were impacted by its fake accounts scandal, a dramatic increase from the 2.1 million accounts it originally estimated.After the bank acknowledged in September 2016 that its employees opened 2.1 million accounts without getting customers’ permission, Wells Fargo agreed to look for fake accounts going back an additional two years to 2009. This was because news reports showed that problems at Wells started before 2011, which is wh
  
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