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• Suspect in school shooting said victim who died bullied him

  14-09-2017 23:58
  Rockford, Wash. • A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting four classmates at a rural high school in Washington state had been meeting with a school counselor over suicidal thoughts before bringing two guns from home and killing a student he said had bullied him, according to court documents released Thursday.The documents and his classmates detailed troubling behavior by Caleb Sharpe, saying he brought notes to school about doing “something stupid,” was obsessed with past school s
  
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• Noah Feldman: Bakers can be artists, but they still can't discriminate

  14-09-2017 23:58
  Cake baking is an art. Or so says a group of professional wedding cake bakers who have filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in what promises to be the blockbuster case of the upcoming term, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The brief is obviously intended to support the claim of a baker to be exempt from anti-discrimination laws that say he must serve gay customers. It’s altogether reasonable to think that a professional baker is an art
  
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• [ESPN] - Boris Diaw to play in France for Paris-Levallois

  14-09-2017 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  ...rebounds and 3.5 assists in stints with the Hawks, Suns, Hornets, Spurs and Jazz. ...
  
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• A fascinating character study of a teen struggling with his sexual identity goes nowhere in ‘Beach Rats’

  14-09-2017 23:46
  Writer-director Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” which won her the Directing Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, starts off as an interesting character study of a young Brooklyn tough grappling with his sexuality — but the movie turns out to be going nowhere slowly.Frankie (Harris Dickinson) spends his days hanging out with his pals, filling the dull hot hours of a Brooklyn summer. He listlessly pursues Simone (Madeline Weinstein), who kisses him under the Fou
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - Jazz sign guard Mitrou-Long to training camp roster

  14-09-2017 23:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... what you are reading about Facebook Email Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Jazz sign guard Mitrou-Long to training camp roster The Utah Jazz have signed gua ...
  
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• Horror or not, ‘mother!’ is a weird, wild trip that’s sure to be a love-it-or-hate-it kind of movie

  14-09-2017 23:33
  A critic could spend a lot of time and verbiage just trying to categorize movie writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”Is it a horror movie? A marital drama? A psychological thriller about jealousy and fame? A symbolic tale of humans wrecking the environment? A parable of the creative process and the stresses of pleasing the crowd vs. satisfying one’s muse? A biblical allegory, pairing an inattentive God with a submissive Mother Nature?Your guess is as good as mine i
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Drug court opens for Operation Rio Grande arrestees, LDS Church supports baker who refused to serve same-sex couple, and the gap widens between 3rd District candidates

  14-09-2017 23:25
  The kickoff of a new drug court program adds to the treatment efforts of Operation Rio Grande. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throws its support behind a Colorado bakery shop owner who refused on religious grounds to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. And as the November general election nears, polling shows a wide gap between Utah’s 3rd Congressional District Republican candidate Provo Mayor John Curtis and Democratic candidate Dr. Kathie Allen.At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lak
  
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• Outlandish director Alejandro Jodorowsky celebrates his salad days in surreal, emotional ‘Endless Poetry’

  14-09-2017 23:12
  If you are at all familiar with the movies of madman director Alejandro Jodorowsky — like the ’70s cult hits “El Topo” or “The Holy Mountain,” or his aborted effort to adapt Frank Herbert’s “Dune” — then you have an inkling of the divine weirdness that fills his autobiographical drama “Endless Poetry.”If you’re new to Jodorowsky’s work, I have two words for you: Buckle up.“Endless Poetry” shows Jodoro
  
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• Spy thriller ‘American Assassin’ delivers furious action fueled by trio of stars: Michael Keaton, Dylan O’Brien, Taylor Kitsch

  14-09-2017 23:11
  The spy yarn “American Assassin” gives new meaning to the phrase “all killer, no filler,” as it delivers its action at regular, bloody intervals, with minimal breaks for the messiness of character development.This adaptation of Vince Flynn’s airport-friendly best-seller opens with a rather nasty example of “fridging” — the story device of killing off a female character as motivation for the lead male character. In this case, it’s in Ibiza whe
  
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• Gov. Herbert wishes GOP would drop lawsuit challenging new election law

  14-09-2017 23:06
  Gov. Gary Herbert wished aloud Thursday that the Utah Republican Party would drop its lawsuit challenging the state’s new election law, which is driving a wedge between the party’s right wing and moderates.But he concedes that maneuvering by conservatives has probably successfully forced party leaders to proceed against his wishes — and their own.When asked at his monthly KUED news conference if the GOP should drop the lawsuit, Herbert said, “They would be wise to do that
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: Ball Don't Lie] - Boris Diaw, lover of coffee and wine, says au revoir to the NBA, for now

  14-09-2017 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... og in the Spurs’ 2014 title run. Diaw played last season for the 51-win Utah Jazz, making his 10th playoff appearance in 14 years and even starting at center...
  
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• History of India’s independence, told at plodding pace, in ‘Viceroy's House’

  14-09-2017 22:57
  In the movie “Viceroy’s House,” director Gurinder Chadha delivers a deeply personal story of the lives shattered as a result of the partition of India and Pakistan when British rule ended in 1947.Unfortunately, that story — of Chadha’s grandmother, one of the 14 million displaced when the Muslim-majority Pakistan was cleaved from Hindu-dominated India — is revealed through a few title cards at the end of a plodding period drama that puts the Brits in the foreg
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ranking the 2017-2018 Utah Jazz Roster: Tony Bradley debuts at 13th

  14-09-2017 22:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...early. That being said, Bradley certainly has his work cut out for him. The Jazz have decent depth in the front court, so finding time may prove difficult fo ...
  
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• Salt Lake City doubles number of municipal buildings with solar panels

  14-09-2017 22:39
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced Thursday that Utah’s capital city has doubled the number of municipal buildings with solar panels.A total of 756 solar panels were installed at seven facilities, including five fire stations, at a cost of $500,000 that is expected to be paid back through utility savings.A city news release said the panels will provide anywhere between 17 and 92 percent of electricity needs at Fire Stations 1, 4, 7, 10 and 13, as well as the Regional Athletic
  
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• [USA Today] - Jazz sign guard Mitrou-Long to training camp roster

  14-09-2017 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... on's Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Jazz sign guard Mitrou-Long to training camp roster AP Published 3:20 p.m. ET Sep ...
  
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• BYU football: No regrets for well-traveled Utah prep great Austin Kafentzis, a former Wisconsin, Nevada QB

  14-09-2017 22:24
  Provo • Austin Kafentzis says he doesn’t have any regrets.But the most decorated high school quarterback the state of Utah ever has produced can’t help but wonder what this weekend might have been like if he had stayed at Wisconsin in the spring of 2015 after graduating early from Sandy’s Jordan High.“It would have been awesome. Everything has kind of come full circle in a weird way,” Kafentzis said Wednesday as his fourth college football team, BYU, readied it
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz sign new player but who is Nazareth Mitrou-Long?

  14-09-2017 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... r — he was born outside of the U.S. The Mississauga, Ontario, native joins a Jazz team that features players from eight different countries. Mitrou-Long was r ...
  
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• Utah Jazz sign new player but who is Nazareth Mitrou-Long?

  14-09-2017 22:16
  The Utah Jazz officially added another player to their roster leading up to training camp.If you heard the news and wondered just exactly who Nazareth Mitrou-Long is, you're not the only one.For starters, Mitrou-Long is a 23-year-old shooting guard who overcame hip injuries to put together a solid senior season in the Big 12 at Iowa State. Although a longshot to make the Jazz's regular season roster — the Jazz already have shooting guards Rodney Hood, Alec Burks and Donovan Mitchell &mdash
  
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• Judge orders birth certificates issued to children born secretly on polygamous compound in South Dakota

  14-09-2017 21:58
  Holladay • After hanging up from the conference call with the judge, Sarah Allred turned to her 9- and 6-year-old daughters.“Congratulations, ladies,” Allred said. “You’re finally my kids.”“I was always your kid,” the 9-year-old replied.Yes, but without birth certificates, it was difficult to prove that. The two girls were born in secrecy on the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compound near Pringle, S.D.At a hea
  
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• Utah woman whose car was struck by a small plane thought she’d been hit by a cement truck

  14-09-2017 21:55
  A Utah woman recovering from a car crash thought a cement truck plowed into her vehicle. It wasn’t until she was sitting on a sidewalk that she realized her car had been struck by a plane.The family of Samantha Sandoval told The Associated Press that it’s a miracle she walked away with only scrapes and a broken pinkie after a plane made an emergency crash landing Tuesday, sparking a fire on the single-engine plane and the rear half of Sandoval’s black sedan.Roy police say bysta
  
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• Lawyers need to be involved before a disaster strikes, expert says at Utah conference

  14-09-2017 21:33
  West Jordan • As New Orleans began rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, many residents were unable to prove they owned their late parents’ home because there was no will showing they had inherited the property.Without clear title, getting disaster assistance to rebuild became difficult, according to Georgia State University law professor John Marshall, who worked with New Orleans authorities to help revitalize the city. He said the property title situation was just one o
  
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• Herbert: Zinke signaled Grand-Staircase should be shrunk

  14-09-2017 21:16
  Salt Lake City • Utah’s governor says Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has signaled he’s recommending that President Donald Trump shrink Utah’s two-decade old Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.Gov. Gary Herbert said at a press conference on KUED-TV Thursday that he doesn’t know specifically what Zinke recommended for the 1.9-million acre (7,700-square kilometer) area or Utah’s new Bears Ears National Monument.Trump asked Zinke to review 27 sprawling land
  
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• Governor Gary Herbert says changes to tough DUI law can wait until next year

  14-09-2017 21:03
  While he’s backed off plans to call a special legislative session this year to alter Utah’s new toughest-in-the-nation drunken driving law, Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday outlined some major changes he would like to see next year.Those include imposing lighter penalties for those who barely exceed the new 0.05 percent blood alcohol limit for impairment, while continuing existing tougher punishment for those who violate the current 0.08 standard.Another option, Herbert said, may be to
  
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• Monson: BYU and Utah’s injury paranoia has reached ridiculous proportions

  14-09-2017 20:40
  The injuries affecting BYU — Tanner Mangum’s ankle — and Utah — Chase Hansen’s unknown body part — this week, and those programs unwillingness to discuss them or disclose anything about them, have underscored the fact that covering college football has changed through the years — and not for the better.Mangum is scooting around in plain view with a boot on his ankle and Hansen missed the final series of the BYU game and was absent from at least part of a
  
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• Google hit with class action lawsuit over gender pay

  14-09-2017 20:36
  Menlo Park, Calif. • Google faces a new lawsuit accusing it of gender-based pay discrimination. A lawyer representing three female former Google employees is seeking class action status for the claim.The suit, filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, follows a federal labor investigation that made a preliminary finding of systemic pay discrimination among the 21,000 employees at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The initial stages of the review found women ear
  
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• Tribune Editorial: The same sex marriage battle is over

  14-09-2017 20:28
  How long will the state of Utah force its LGBTQ residents to battle for their constitutional rights?On Tuesday, the Utah Supreme Court heard a case brought by two married men who attempted to enter a surrogacy contract with a woman willing to bear their child. A Utah district court judge refused to validate the gestational agreement because the state statute requires that a “mother” provide medical evidence she is unable to have children. In the case of two married men, there is
  
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• Latin Mass fans celebrate 10-year anniversary — without Pope Francis

  14-09-2017 20:27
  Vatican City • Fans of the old Latin Mass descended on Rome on Thursday for their annual pilgrimage, facing indifference to their cause, if not outright resistance, from none other than Pope Francis.Ten years after Pope Benedict XVI passed a law allowing greater use of the Latin Mass, Francis seems to be doing everything possible to roll it back or simply pretend it never happened.In recent weeks, he has affirmed with “magisterial authority” that the reforms of the 1960s allowin
  
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• Bob Dylan to play two shows in Salt Lake City

  14-09-2017 20:22
  Mr. Tambourine Man is coming to Salt Lake City.It was announced this week that legendary folk rocker Bob Dylan will perform two shows with his band at the downtown Eccles Theater on Oct. 17-18.Tickets go on sale to the public Friday at Live-at-the-Eccles.com, 801-355-ARTS and the Eccles Theater box office (Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.), 131 S. Main St.Rhythm and blues/gospel singer Mavis Staples will open both shows.Dylan became known as the “voice of a gener
  
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• House backs $1.2T spending bill with more money for military

  14-09-2017 20:21
  Washington • The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion spending bill that provides billions more dollars for the military while sparing medical research and popular community development programs from deep cuts sought by President Donald Trump.The vote was 211-198 for the massive measure that wrapped the 12 annual spending bills into one in advance of the end of the budget year on Sept. 30. Even though the Senate still must act, the government will keep operating
  
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  14-09-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Boris Diaw will play in France with opt-out clause for NBA return

  14-09-2017 20:11 via sportspyder.com
  ...future who will play in Eurobasket 2017 Boris Diaw, San Antonio Spurs, Utah Jazz, DunkWire DunkWire, Boris Diaw, San Antonio Spurs, Utah Jazz, Boris Diaw, Sa ...
  
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• Report: Boris Diaw will play in France with opt-out clause for NBA return

  14-09-2017 20:11
  NBA veteran Boris Diaw has reportedly signed a contract to play in Europe for Levallois Metropolitans. The French-born player returns home.
  Boris Diaw will play in French Top division with Paris-Levallois according to @DavidCozette
  — Sportando (@Sportando) September 14, 2017Diaw, 35, will play in France next season after he was waived by the Utah Jazz earlier this offseason. His home games will be played in Levallois-Perre, the northwest suburbs of Paris approximately four miles from
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Legacy Awaiting Donovan Mitchell

  14-09-2017 20:04 via sportspyder.com
  ...NBA offseason, Donovan Mitchell is showing he is ready to play for the Utah Jazz. “It’s up to me to show them they made the right decision.” Mitchell finds h ...
  
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• Senate to grill Jon Huntsman next week about his nomination to be the ambassador to Russia

  14-09-2017 19:59
  Washington • Jon Huntsman will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday as the nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia.Huntsman has been approved by the Senate three times previously – without a single objection – for other posts, including as U.S. ambassador to China under President Barack Obama. Tuesday’s hearing, paired with another nominee to be the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, is normally a perfunctory move
  
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• Utah football: Marquise Blair brings his hard-hitting brand of play to Utes' secondary

  14-09-2017 19:50
  North Dakota ran a typical running play on its second possession in the season opener at Rice-Eccles Stadium against Utah. There was a handoff, players grappled at the line of scrimmage, a lineman pulled to lead the running back around the right side. Then swoof! Something flashed into the picture, the lineman went flying off his feet and the running back bolted in the opposite direction.What happened? Marquise Blair. The Utes’ chiseled 6-foot 2, 190-pound junior college transfer came up f
  
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• ‘It’ is a hit, and Hollywood struggles to figure out why

  14-09-2017 19:50
  The Losers’ Club was a big winner last weekend.Director Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 best-seller “It” did in a weekend what only 11 movies all summer could do: Top the vaunted $100 million mark at the box office.According to the numbers-crunching site Box Office Mojo, “It” scored $123.4 million between Thursday-night previews and the close of business Sunday. That number shattered several records simultaneously, becoming the bigges
  
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• Utah men's basketball: High-scoring 6-foot-5 guard Devante Doutrive joins Utes

  14-09-2017 19:48
  The Utah men’s basketball team has announced that 6-foot-5, 190-pound shooting guard Devante Doutrive has joined the program with intentions of sitting out the 2017-18 season as a redshirt.Doutrive, a resident of Woodland Hills, Calif., averaged 22.3 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 2.7 steals per game last winter while guiding Birmingham High School to a Los Angeles city championship. Doutrive was the L.A. City Section Player of the Year.He began his high school career in Alaska at W
  
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• Ben Harper challenges listeners on racial, social issues: ‘Are you in or are you out?’

  14-09-2017 19:45
  Every time a black NFL player takes a knee or raises a fist during the playing of the national anthem in protest of societal injustices and police brutality, much of the public response is some variation on the theme: “Poor oppressed millionaire. If you’ve got it so bad in this country, why don’t you move somewhere else and see if you can make a fortune playing a game there.”Instead of football, California-born singer-songwriter Ben Harper plays “an eclectic mix of
  
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• Canadian woman files appeal after bringing 13-year-old girl across border to marry FLDS leader Waren Jeffs

  14-09-2017 19:10
  Cranbrook, British Columbia • A Canadian woman is seeking to have her conviction overturned after she was sentenced to seven months in jail for taking a 13-year-old girl to the United States to marry the leader of a polygamous church.Gail Blackmore filed an appeal Wednesday arguing that British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman was wrong to find her guilty and imposed a sentence that is unduly harsh and excessive.Blackmore and ex-husband Brandon Blackmore were found guilty in Feb
  
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• Appeal filed in Canada child-bride case

  14-09-2017 18:27
  Cranbrook, British Columbia • A Canadian woman is seeking to have her conviction overturned after she was sentenced to seven months in jail for taking a 13-year-old girl to the United States to marry the leader of a polygamous church.Gail Blackmore filed an appeal Wednesday arguing that British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman was wrong to find her guilty and imposed a sentence that is unduly harsh and excessive.Blackmore and ex-husband Brandon Blackmore were found guilty in Feb
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Free Agent Nazareth Mitrou-Long

  14-09-2017 18:21 via sportspyder.com
  ... h Box Social Menu Social MenuSocial Menu Photo by Matthew Holst/Getty Images Jazz Sign Free Agent Nazareth Mitrou-Long Posted: Sep 14, 2017 Facebook Google Pl ...
  
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• Governor Gary Herbert may spell out more details of special session in Thursday news conference

  14-09-2017 18:19
  Gov. Gary Herbert plans to call Utah lawmakers into special session next week to take actions needed in connection with Operation Rio Grande — the planned two-year effort to curb lawlessness and drug dealing around the downtown homeless shelter.Details are sketchy, but may be spelled out in more detail Thursday at the governor’s monthly news conference and KUED.Operation Rio Grande launched last month with a focus on law enforcement and resulted in the arrest of hundreds over several
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 124: Utah Jazz, NBA News and Summer Box Office Recap

  14-09-2017 18:16 via sportspyder.com
  ...office; Jazz players entertain on Twitter; Joe Ingles excited for the new practice facili ...
  
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• We've signed Free Agent Nazareth Mitrou-Long. Details: on.nba.com/2vVEuRN https://t.co/KI25NlncC5

  14-09-2017 18:15 via twitter.com
  
  We've signed Free Agent Nazareth Mitrou-Long.Details: on.nba.com/2vVEuRN https://t.co/KI25NlncC5
  
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• Utah little league whiz Sam Gordon pushing state prep sports officials to create football for girls

  14-09-2017 18:00
  Herriman • The last time most people saw Sam Gordon, she probably was racing past boys in a football highlight video, sitting next to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell or on the front of her own Wheaties box.On a recent afternoon, some five years after becoming a YouTube sensation for her touchdown runs, the teenager was weaving in and out of the crowds at Herriman High School, a bag of candy under one arm and a sign-up sheet in her hand. Her goal, however, remained the same: to score another
  
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• Celebrate food, art and culture during Festa Italiana in Salt Lake City

  14-09-2017 18:00
  Celebrate Italian food, music and culture during Festa Italiana, a street festival at The Gateway in Salt Lake City.
  Hosted by the Italian-American Civic League and Alfa Romeo Salt Lake City, the festival runs from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, and noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17.Admission is free, but bring your wallet to enjoy Italian food from 15 local restaurants. Free entertainment includes an Italian opera performance and music by Etnosound, Vincenzo Bencini & Luca de
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Rudy Gobert > Gordon Hayward

  14-09-2017 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  ...holds a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego. Zanik returns to the Jazz after spending the 2016-17 season as the assistant general manager of the Mi ...
  
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• Power lines to connect Wyoming wind energy to Southwest

  14-09-2017 17:33
  Rawlins, Wyo. • Construction on transmission lines to connect energy generated from wind farms in southern Wyoming to southwestern states is planned to begin in 2019.Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported on Thursday that the TransWest Express Transmission Project is looking to build 730 miles of transmission lines with 3,000-megawatt capacity.The lines would connect from a terminal outside Rawlins, Wyoming, and run through northwest Colorado and Utah to end at another terminal near Las Vegas.
  
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• [The Sports Quotient] - Utah's Wing Situation May Not Be That Bad

  14-09-2017 17:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... es per 48 minutes mark since 2011-12. With Johnson coming off the bench, the Jazz can keep him fresh deeper into the season. Last year he was particularly exc ...
  
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• Biskupski is finding it’s easier to criticize as a candidate than it is to govern as a mayor

  14-09-2017 17:27
  During the 2015 Salt Lake City mayor’s race, then-challenger Jackie Biskupski scolded incumbent Ralph Becker for allegedly not taking sexual harassment claims from city employees more seriously.She referred to a lawsuit three female police officers filed over sexual harassment from a top official in the police department that she said Becker mishandled. And she mentioned a harassment claim from a former female battalion chief and fire marshal in city’s fire department who said she wa
  
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