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• Utah Jazz Media Day: Rodney Hood aims to win Most Improved Player

  25-09-2017 23:56
  Utah Jazz guard Rodney Hood will assume a larger role with the team this season. His hard work coupled with an increased workload should aid in his quest to win Most Improved Player. G-Time is officially over in Salt Lake City. When the Utah Jazz take the court during the 2017-18 NBA season, Rodney Hood […]
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• Sen. Orrin Hatch says he has a fix for immigration turmoil in wake of President Trump's decision to end DACA

  25-09-2017 23:51
  Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch joined a Republican-led effort Monday that proposes rigorous vetting requirements for young immigrants to “earn the right to citizenship” over a 15-year period — a legislative fix that comes nearly three weeks after President Donald Trump’s decision to dissolve an Obama-era program serving as a protection against deportation.“This is a bill that literally could pass, that could solve these problems, that could end the screaming and shouting tha
  
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• “We’ve got a lot of guys who can score the basketball - it’s going to be fun!” https://t.co/12IEHTGIdK

  25-09-2017 23:27 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah football notes: Secondary again looking like a big-play unit for the Utes

  25-09-2017 23:21
  Utah’s reconstructed secondary, featuring a bevy of first-year starters and newcomers to the program, started Pac-12 Conference play by forcing five turnovers and scoring a defensive touchdown against Arizona in Tuscon Friday night.The Ute defense intercepted three passes and recovered two fumbles in a 30-24 win at Arizona Stadium, Utah’s first win there since 2011, to improve to 4-0. Cornerback Casey Hughes forced two fumbles, one in the second quarter and one in the fourth, while s
  
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• Dodo Dash 5K fun run to benefit Parley’s Trail in Salt Lake City

  25-09-2017 23:14
  The Dodo Dash 5K fun run at Sugar House Park on Saturday, Sept. 30, will raise funds for the developing Parley’s Trail system, which is celebrating the completion of two more sections this year.Registration costs $25 per runner age 15 and older, or $22 per runners who sign up in groups of four or more. The entry fee is $10 for youth ages 9 to 14 and free for kids 8 and younger.Runners receive a $20 gift card to The Dodo Restaurant, just north of the park, and T-shirts will be given to the
  
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  25-09-2017 22:56 via twitter.com
  
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• Petula Dvorak: Trump ignores Puerto Rico's devastation to tweet about the NFL

  25-09-2017 22:54
  “Puerto Rico is a fantastic place and deserves the best, which is what we will deliver. Every detail will be important to me.”If only.President Donald Trump said this about his failed golf course in Puerto Rico back in 2008, when he promised that his brand would revive a troubled resort and help buoy the recession that hit the island especially hard.Instead, the resort fell into bankruptcy and left the Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill.And this weekend, instead of
  
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• Weber State football: Wildcats remain No. 18 in FCS coach's poll, move up to 20th in STATS rankings

  25-09-2017 22:49
  After a dominating 41-3 win over UC Davis in its Big Sky football opener Saturday, Weber State continued to climb in the national polls.The Wildcats remained ranked 18th in the nation in the FCS Coaches poll and jumped three spots to 20th in the STATS FCS media poll.This is the highest ranking for Weber State under head coach Jay Hill and is the highest the Wildcats have been ranked in either poll since 2010. WSU is one of just two ranked teams from the Big Sky, behind Eastern Washington who is
  
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• Hatch says it may be ‘virtually impossible’ to pass Obamacare replacement

  25-09-2017 22:49
  Washington • Just before he began the first hearing on the GOP health care bill, Sen. Orrin Hatch said it may be “virtually impossible” for the Senate to pass an Obamacare replacement this week with possibly four or more defections of GOP senators. Hatch, a Utah Republican who says he is still undecided on whether he’ll support the latest Obamacare repeal effort, opened the Senate Finance Committee hearing Monday noting that he hoped to have a serious discussion of the le
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz media day live blog

  25-09-2017 22:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... pm We're waiting live for media day to begin We should have Quin Snyder, Jazz head coach, and Dennis Lindsey, Jazz general manager, come to the podium fir ...
  
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• Report: Salt Lake City police can build public trust through better training and accountability

  25-09-2017 22:44
  In 2014 and 2015, a spate of deadly shootings by police officers grabbed headlines in Utah and put the public on edge. Two of the shootings occurred in the capital city and led to an investigation by the Salt Lake City Human Rights Commission.A lack of public trust, a need for more accountability and increased training were among the critiques outlined in a recent report on the Salt Lake City Police Department.The Human Rights Commission investigation began under then-Mayor Ralph Becker in 2015
  
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• We are LIVE on utahjazz.com and Facebook with media day interviews! https://t.co/SCO7uaH2ls

  25-09-2017 22:43 via twitter.com
  
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• You might be surprised whom Mormon prophets could call family: Elvis, Shakespeare, Johnny Depp — even Barack Obama

  25-09-2017 22:41
  What do the late LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley and sometimes-bad-boy actor Johnny Depp have in common?They are distant cousins: 10th cousins five times removed, to be exact. Their common ancestor is Sir Thomas Knyvett, born in 1485, a close associate of England’s volatile King Henry VIII.Knyvett often joined in the jousts and pageants of the king’s glittering court — traits that his flamboyant 14th great-grandson Depp may have inherited. Knyvett also was a courageous
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Rise’n’shine Utah Jazz fans, preseason basketball is one week away

  25-09-2017 22:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing Looking deeper into the preseason schedule, however, it may not give the Jazz the best preparation possible. Utah will play their five games over the cour ...
  
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• Ticket dispute over conservative speaker at University of Utah raises accusations of racial discrimination

  25-09-2017 22:32
  Members of a diverse group of University of Utah students say they were blocked from receiving tickets to an upcoming speech by conservative writer Ben Shapiro after spending the night on campus to secure a spot in line.Event organizers dispute those claims, saying instead that the student group exploited a loophole in order to butt in front of a queue of hundreds of people outside the U. student union on Saturday morning. “We were happy to give them tickets if they would have waited in li
  
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• BYU student says his caffeine-delivery service is still popular even though Coke ban is over

  25-09-2017 22:31
  Since Brigham Young University now sells the real-deal upper of Coca-Cola, you’d think that change would be a downer for an entrepreneur who built a business around delivering juiced-up sodas to caffeine-starved students. But it’s not. Students on the Provo campus, at least so far, seem to crave the convenience as much as the caffeine.
  Last March, Wesley Monahan — a 27-year-old music major at the LDS Church-owned school — launched “Caffeine Corner,” a delivery
  
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• U.S. Olympians excited about a 2026 or 2030 winter games on American soil, including a possible SLC bid

  25-09-2017 22:30
  Park City • Jackie Wiles’ Olympic dream was borne here in 2002.The alpine skier from Oregon watched as Julia Mancuso and other Team USA skiers competed in the Salt Lake City games, and left determined to be on those slopes herself one day.“I am here where I am today because I was able to witness that,” said Wiles, who is vying for a chance to compete in Pyeongchang in February. “… I was so inspired and I’ve had that dream from that moment since.”Th
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Live coverage: Utah Jazz 2017 Media Day

  25-09-2017 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  ... SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will officially begin the post-Gordon Hayward with the beginning of training ...
  
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• New 2017 grades issued for Wasatch Front high schools

  25-09-2017 22:26
  The Utah Board of Education released statewide school grades on Monday, with scores generally down compared to 2016.Below is a list of new grades for Wasatch Front high schools, listed in order for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (latest score in bold.) Find scores for all schools at the board’s State School Grades website.Statewide, 8 high schools earned an A grade while the number of high schools earning an F grade was 26.That’s two more Utah high schools than received As last year
  
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• NBA players express frustration with Trump's words

  25-09-2017 22:18
  LeBron James is not backing down on his comments about President Donald Trump, and countless other players and coaches in the NBA made it clear at media days around the league Monday that they are equally fed up with what could perhaps be described as a pattern of actions from the White House that they would call divisive or worse.Politics were the storyline of the NBA on the first official business day of the season for most of the league’s clubs. That was no surprise, given the events of
  
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• After 32 years with the same hymns, many Mormons are wishing for different songs to sing

  25-09-2017 22:18
  Despite the rumors you’ve been hearing since the day the LDS Church published its current hymnal in 1985, there are no new editions on the near horizon.Church staffers still are translating hymn texts and compiling country-specific editions of “Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” for use all over the world. While a generation of English-speaking Mormons has grown up with “the green hymnbook,” church music manager Diane Bastian observed in 2015
  
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• Coziness between the Mormon church and the Legislature? Why does this song sound so familiar?

  25-09-2017 22:17
  Former state Sen. Steve Urquhart’s recent revelation on his Facebook page about the secretive lobbying nature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints revived an old controversy but it still rings a familiar tune.Urquhart’s accusations about Utah’s predominant religion using a back-door approach to pull the strings at the Legislature echoed those of former state Rep. Carl Wimmer, who left the Mormon faith to become an evangelical Christian. He wrote on his Facebook pa
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - [Audio] SLC Punks Podcast: Utah Jazz training camp preview

  25-09-2017 22:15 via sportspyder.com
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• Rise’n’shine Utah Jazz fans, preseason basketball is one week away

  25-09-2017 22:14
  After a seemingly endless offseason for many die-hard Utah Jazz fans, the preseason is just one week away. The summer for the Utah Jazz was nothing short of entertaining. We saw Donovan Mitchell announced as a Jazzman on draft night and follow up with an outstanding summer league campaign. Dante Exum showcased his skills as […]
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• Jennifer Rubin: Just when you think Republicans can't get more irresponsible …

  25-09-2017 22:12
  If you thought it absurd and incredibly irresponsible for Republicans to propose last week a slipshod, radical health-care bill that would not even allow for a Congressional Budget Office score, then the Sunday night amendments cooked up by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will infuriate you.The timing alone should be enough to stop the bill. Reworking one-sixth of the economy before the only hearing on the subject - and without time for senators to digest a fraction of the
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz 2017 Media Day

  25-09-2017 22:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will officially begin the post-Gordon Hayward with the beginning of training camp practices on Tuesday. Like the other 29 teams in the league, the team on Tuesday is holding its annual Media Day at the new-look Zions Bank Basketball Campus.Follow along with us as general manager Dennis Lindsey, head coach Quin Snyder and players meet with the media.A Twitter List by desnewssports
  
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• Charges: Utah murder defendant apparently believed victim had broken into his home

  25-09-2017 22:00
  A man accused of fatally stabbing another man at a Magna gas station this month apparently believed the victim had broken into his home earlier that day, according to charging documents.Jose Francisco Hernandez, 44, of West Valley City, is charged in 3rd District Court with first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony obstructing justice in the Sept. 8 death of 29-year-old Eugene Edgar Rowland.Witnesses told police that Hernandez ran up to Rowland at a Shell gas station at 7210 W. 3500 So
  
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• Church used unemployment scam to boost funds, ex-members say

  25-09-2017 21:45
  Spindale, N.C. • When Randy Fields’ construction company faced potential ruin because of the cratering economy, he pleaded with his pastor at Word of Faith Fellowship church to reduce the amount of money he was required to tithe every week.To his shock, Fields said church founder Jane Whaley proposed a divine plan that would allow him to continue tithing at least 10 percent of his income to the secretive evangelical church while helping his company survive: He would file fraudulent un
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz announce 2017-18 training camp roster, schedule

  25-09-2017 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... eale G/F 30 Naz Mitrou-Long G   Roster notes: Naz Mitrou-Long is joining the Jazz on a camp deal and, barring something unexpected, won’t be on the opening ni ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Joel Bolomboy evades mental hurdles amid uncertainty

  25-09-2017 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... ther he’d be headed to a game on a bus with the Stars or in a plane with the Jazz. But his schedule was circumstantial, dependent on factors not under Bolombo ...
  
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• Utah Jazz's Joel Bolomboy evades mental hurdles amid uncertainty

  25-09-2017 21:10
  SALT LAKE CITY — Beating the star-studded Los Angeles Clippers in seven games in the first round of the NBA playoffs — on the road, at that — gave the Utah Jazz every reason to celebrate, even after getting swept by the Golden State Warriors in the semifinals.The series victory and subsequent elimination were enough to earn a break — some time on the beaches of Florida or a retreat to the cobblestone streets of Italy.But for Jazz forward Joel Bolomboy, the end of the seas
  
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• Utah Jazz announce 2017-18 training camp roster, schedule

  25-09-2017 21:08
  The Utah Jazz have announced the 19-man crew that will participate in this week’s training camp in preparation for the 2017-18 NBA season. It’s finally here. After an offseason’s worth of angst and anticipation, we’ve hit the first day of the 2017-18 NBA calendar — Utah Jazz Media Day. With it comes the tip-off of […]
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• Utah football: Kyle Whittingham says Tyler Huntley, Kylie Fitts’ injuries are not season-ending

  25-09-2017 20:57
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham confirmed during his weekly news conference ton Monday hat sophomore quarterback Tyler Huntley did not suffer a season-ending injury in Friday night’s game against Arizona in Tucson.The Utes typically do not provide injury updates on players who are expected to return during the season, and Whittingham didn’t give any indication how long Huntley or any of the other Utes who sustained injuries such as defensive end Kylie Fitts could be out. The Ute
  
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• BYU football: Cougars hold players-only meeting, vow to turn season around

  25-09-2017 20:57
  Provo • Moments after BYU’s embarrassing 40-6 loss to Wisconsin on Sept. 16 at LaVell Edwards Stadium, senior linebacker Fred Warner and the rest of the Cougars’ captains got together in the locker room and scheduled a players’ only meeting.They held it two nights later at the stadium, several players and coach Kalani Sitake acknowledged at Monday morning’s weekly press briefing as the Cougars wrapped up their bye week and turned their attention to Friday’s riv
  
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• Salt Lake City, county mayors highlight new emergency response program at schools

  25-09-2017 20:48
  If a natural disaster were to hit hard along the Wasatch Front, how prepared would residents be?It’s a question worth asking given the images of devastating hurricanes, wildfires and a powerful earthquake that have dominated the news in recent weeks.It’s also one that’s long-nagged government leaders in Salt Lake City and County, where the homes of more than a million Utahns sit precariously perched on a fault line that could someday crack without warning.Such a disaster would
  
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• Ticket dispute at University of Utah raises accusations of racial discrimination and line-jumping

  25-09-2017 20:23
  Members of a diverse group of University of Utah students say they were blocked from receiving tickets to an upcoming speech by conservative writer Ben Shapiro after spending the night on campus to secure a spot in line.Event organizers dispute those claims, saying instead that the student group exploited a loophole in order to butt in front of a queue of hundreds of people outside the U. student union on Saturday morning. “We were happy to give them tickets if they would have waited in li
  
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• Sen. Orrin Hatch says he has fix for immigration turmoil in wake of President Trump's decision to end DACA

  25-09-2017 20:20
  Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch joined onto a Republican-led effort Monday that proposes rigorous vetting requirements for young immigrants to “earn the right to citizenship” over a 15-year period — a legislative fix that comes nearly three weeks after President Donald Trump’s decision to dissolve an Obama-era program serving as a protection against deportation.“This is a bill that literally could pass, that could solve these problems, that could end the screaming and shoutin
  
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• You might be surprised who Mormon prophets could call family: Elvis, Shakespeare, Johnny Depp — even Barack Obama

  25-09-2017 20:13
  What do the late LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley and sometimes-bad-boy actor Johnny Depp have in common?They are distant cousins: 10th cousins five times removed, to be exact. Their common ancestor is Sir Thomas Knyvett, born in 1485, a close associate of England’s volatile King Henry VIII.Knyvett often joined in the jousts and pageants of the king’s glittering court — traits that his flamboyant 14th great-grandson Depp may have inherited. Knyvett also was a courageous
  
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• 'Gayest Bake Sale' organizers ask Mormon church for $4.4K donation

  25-09-2017 20:11
  The organizers of a gay-themed bake sale in Salt Lake City have asked the Mormon church to match the more than $4,000 in donations the event raised and lend its support to programs that promote safety for LGBTQ youth struggling with suicide.“In our hearts, we truly believe that we all want the same thing,” co-organizers Kat Kellermeyer and Hillary McDaniel wrote in a letter emailed to the public affairs office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday. “We wa
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: NY congressman to athletes: We have your back

  25-09-2017 20:10 via sportspyder.com
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• [The Daily Herald] - Cavaliers expect guard Thomas to play in games by January

  25-09-2017 20:10 via sportspyder.com
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• Studying 1 million people to end cookie-cutter health care

  25-09-2017 19:51
  Washington • In a quest to end cookie-cutter health care, U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact — and to finally customize ways to prevent and treat disease.Why does one sibling get sick but not another? Why does a drug cure one patient but only cause nasty side effects in the next?Finding out is a tall order. Today, diseases typically are treated based on what wo
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz announce training camp roster

  25-09-2017 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... nced its training camp roster Monday. Nineteen players will take part in the Jazz's camp (teams are allowed a maximum of 20), with 14 of them having fully gua ...
  
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• Utah GOP brings battle over nominations to appeals court

  25-09-2017 19:38
  Denver • Utah Republicans were pressing ahead with a legal battle that has divided the party for three years, arguing before a federal appeals court Monday that a state law changing how political parties nominate their candidates is unconstitutional.The lawwsuit going before the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the Utah GOP’s second attempt to chip away at the 2014 law, which allows candidates to bypass the party’s nominating conventions and instead participate
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Forgotten man: Derrick Favors ready to bounce back with Jazz

  25-09-2017 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... inant centers in the league while Favors struggled to stay on the floor. The Jazz then brought in , who had a career year, and , who started eating up major m ...
  
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• Utah Jazz announce training camp roster

  25-09-2017 19:34
  The Utah Jazz will officially begin practicing Tuesday in preparation for the 2017-2018 season, and the team announced its training camp roster Monday.Nineteen players will take part in the Jazz's camp (teams are allowed a maximum of 20), with 14 of them having fully guaranteed contracts for the season, plus two with two-way contracts.Teams are allowed to carry 15 players during the regular season. Joel Bolomboy, Raul Neto and Royce O'Neale are the three players without fully guaranteed contract
  
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• 'Star Trek: Discovery' doesn't stink — it's actually pretty good

  25-09-2017 19:33
  “Star Trek: Discovery” doesn’t suck.Phew!There was reason to fear that the seventh “Trek” series might be terrible because the Powers That Be at CBS didn’t screen it for critics before Sunday’s premiere, and that’s almost always a bad sign. But the first hour was good and the second hour was better … so it does appear that this was a botched rollout rather than a problem with quality.(And it seemed even more bungled because the first episode
  
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• Kragthorpe: SLC Track Club's Making Strides program captures young runners at the starting line

  25-09-2017 19:21
  At first, Meryl Call remembers, the fifth-grade girls she was coaching wanted to attend the weekly sessions only “to put on their matching pink shoes, chat with girlfriends and repeatedly ask if they could have their treat,” she said.But then something about the Making Strides program began to register with the girls. “I saw the girls’ attitudes shift as they became more interested in improving their speed and consistency and always trying to beat the fifth-grade boys,&rd
  
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• Decades after ‘Little Rock Nine,’ school segregation lingers

  25-09-2017 19:02
  Little Rock, Ark. • Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 1957.It had been three years since the Supreme Court had declared “separate but equal” in America’s public schools unconstitutional, but the decision was met with bitter resistance across the South. It wou
  
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• Feds move ahead with oil and gas leases on southern Utah lands rich in ancient Puebloan ruins

  25-09-2017 18:58
  The Bureau of Land Management plans to move forward on nearly 52,000 acres of proposed oil and gas leases in archaeologically sensitive parts of southeastern Utah.Among the 43 parcels to be auctioned in March are several that span Recapture and Jenny canyons, Mustang Mesa, Alkali Ridge and Montezuma Creek — all spots harboring a rich record of Ancestral Puebloan habitation dating back centuries, according to an environmental review released on Friday.Environmental and historic preservation
  
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