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• [KSL] - Jazz open newly renovated arena to public, unveil Jazz note statue

  26-09-2017 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... new workout and medical rooms, individual shower stalls (yes, previously the Jazz showered communally), safes in the player lockers, and much more. Starks thi ...
  
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• Real Salt Lake notes: Streaking RSL says it can still get better

  26-09-2017 23:26
  It would have been one thing to end Seattle’s 13-match unbeaten streak with the best performance of the season. But it was even more promising for Real Salt Lake to beat the Sounders 2-0 and still have things to improve on.“The one thing we talked about early this morning was it wasn’t the cleanest first half,” Petke said after Tuesday’s training session. “But mentality-wise we found a way through it. And let me re-phrase, I don’t think it was terrible.
  
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• Witch doctors are sacrificing children in drought-stricken African country

  26-09-2017 23:18
  Katabi, Uganda • Jackline Mukisa sobbed as she described how her 8-year-old son was found in a nearby swamp in February without teeth, lips, ears and genitals.“My innocent son died a painful death,” said Mukisa, 28. “How could somebody intend to murder my son?”A motorcyclist offered John Lubega a lift as he walked back from school, according to fellow students who saw him last. His remains suggest he was slowly killed as part of a human sacrifice ritual performed by
  
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• Skeleton slider, Olympic veteran Katie Uhlaender opens up after losing her best friend, Steve Holcomb

  26-09-2017 23:17
  Park City • Tears tumbled down each cheek, each droplet falling onto the lap of Katie Uhlaender. At the very mention of her best friend’s name, the onset wave of memories and advice and eventually heartbreak slams into her. He’s gone, and the grieving process continues for those surrounding the U.S. Bobsled & Skeleton Federation and all of Team USA.At this week’s Olympic Media Summit, friends and athletes took turns discussing the loss of Park City’s Steven Holco
  
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• Commentary: Remember when liberals wanted evangelicals to be more political?

  26-09-2017 23:15
  For an evangelical of my generation — born during World War II — there is some irony in the frequent complaints these days about how evangelicals have become too “politicized.” When I started thinking seriously about political matters in the early 1960s, a major complaint about evangelicalism — especially from more liberal theological types — was that we were not political enough. American soldiers were fighting a controversial and undeclared war in Southeast
  
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• Senate Republicans admit defeat in efforts to gut Obamacare

  26-09-2017 23:10
  Washington • Conceding defeat in the latest effort to gut Obamacare, Senate GOP leaders on Tuesday canceled a vote on a Republican health-care plan that couldn’t attract enough support to pass, ending – for now – a seven-year-old Republican crusade to jettison the law.The “health care [fight], as far as I am concerned, is over,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told reporters, noting the Senate will now pivot to overhauling the U.S. tax code. “Tax reform is wher
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz notes: Jazz open camp by working on — what else? — defense

  26-09-2017 23:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... rookie guard Donovan Mitchell and veteran small forward Thabo Sefalosha. But Jazz vets like Derrick Favors, Rudy Gobert, Joe Ingles and Rodney Hood are all fa ...
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Jazz open camp by working on — what else? — defense

  26-09-2017 23:03
  The first day of practice.It’s always a great occasion in NBA circles, welcomed by coaches and players. Media day is finished. The first preseason game is on the horizon, and it’s time to truly get to work.The Utah Jazz did just that on Tuesday morning in their newly renovated facility. And Jazz coach Quin Snyder was as predictable as any in emphasizing what his team worked on for roughly 90 minutes.Hint. They didn’t work very much on the offense.“We worked a lot on defen
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz camp notes: Taylor Braun signed, Mitch Kupchak in the house

  26-09-2017 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... h Jazz show no shortage of confidence during Media Day 18h ago Utah Jazz Media Day: Ingles didn’t get a call from Hayward 19h ago Utah Jazz Media Day ...
  
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• Commentary: Kneeling in the NFL — from a religious perspective

  26-09-2017 23:01
  From a Catholic perspective, the controversy over kneeling during the national anthem is strange. Many people, like President Donald Trump, are criticizing players for kneeling because they say it shows disrespect. For Catholics, however, kneeling during liturgy is a sign of respect. In fact, kneeling before the American flag might be considered idolatrous.Catholics have had their own controversies over kneeling. If you visit Catholic churches in Europe, you will discover that many if not most o
  
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• Utah Soccer: Utes' Carly Nelson named Pac-12's goalkeeper of the week

  26-09-2017 22:49
  Utah’s Carly Nelson was named the Pac-12 Goalkeeper of the Week for the first time on Tuesday.The sophomore made a career-high 10 saves in a shutout of No. 10 USC on Saturday. The highlight of Nelson’s afternoon occurred in the 88th minute when she stopped a Trojan penalty kick to preserve the point for Utah.It was her second shutout of the season and fifth of her career. Nelson is now third in the Pac-12 with 3.56 saves per contest.This is the 13th weekly honor for Utah since joinin
  
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• Utah Jazz camp notes: Taylor Braun signed, Mitch Kupchak in the house

  26-09-2017 22:39
  News from the first day of Utah Jazz training camp, including another signing and an appearance by former LA Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak. Entering media day, the Utah Jazz had 19 players on hand to participate in training camp. On their first official day of practice on Tuesday, the team brought that total to the […]
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• Couple charged in fatal hit-and-run auto-pedestrian crash sentenced to jail time

  26-09-2017 22:35
  A Weber County couple accused of leaving the scene of a fatal hit-and-run auto-pedestrian crash in West Haven have been sentenced to jail time and probation.Cody Ray Sanders, 27, and his girlfriend, Noelle Autumn Bradbury, 28, both of Hooper, were charged in connection with the May 5 death of 82-year-old Harry Green, of West Haven.Sanders was charged in 2nd District Court with third-degree felony counts of failure to remain at the scene of a fatal accident and obstructing justice. He pleaded gui
  
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• Open for business: Utah Jazz officially christen renovated Vivint Smart Home Arena

  26-09-2017 22:27
  There was one final flourish to unveil on Tuesday morning before fans could get a look at the $125 million renovation job to the home of the Utah Jazz.With the drop of a curtain, the Larry H. Miller Group revealed the J-Note statue, what the team owners and company regard as a future iconic spot in front of the upgraded, modern facility that came together in just 129 days.Gail Miller, the chairwoman of the Miller Group, soldiered through a teary speech as she dedicated — for the second tim
  
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• Utah congressional hopeful John Curtis removes ’build the wall’ Facebook ads after complaints

  26-09-2017 22:22
  Provo Mayor John Curtis, the Republican candidate for Utah’s vacant congressional seat, has removed two campaign ads posted on Facebook — one exhorting Congress to “build the wall” and the other calling to “stop sanctuary cities.”The messages on immigration were quickly attacked as hostile and Trump-like while Curtis suggested his “team underestimated how contentious” the rhetoric was.“I’ve always been an advocate of not using divisive
  
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• Head Coach Quin Snyder Practice Interview - 9.26.17 📽️: on.nba.com/2yqx0XU https://t.co/xqhoAaIFmq

  26-09-2017 22:20 via twitter.com
  
  Head Coach Quin Snyder Practice Interview - 9.26.17📽️: on.nba.com/2yqx0XU https://t.co/xqhoAaIFmq
  
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• Utah residents ask Supreme Court to hear prairie dog case

  26-09-2017 22:08
  Salt Lake City • Southern Utah residents who say federal safeguards for the Utah prairie dog prevent them from doing what they want with their property are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case.Attorneys for residents in Cedar City say in a Tuesday court filing that a March decision by an appeals court to strip Utah state officials of control of the burrowing critters amounts to “untrammeled federal intrusion.”A state plan that went into place after a lower court judg
  
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• How travel insurance works in case of a hurricane like Irma or Maria

  26-09-2017 22:07
  Ever wonder what would happen if your dream Caribbean cruise was threatened by a major hurricane such as Irma or Maria.According to Squaremouth, a travel insurance comparison site, travelers on a cruise or to an island affected by a hurricane can get a refund.“Travelers can be refunded their entire trip cost if their flight or cruise to the Caribbean is cancelled by the storm as well as if accommodations at their destination are rendered uninhabitable,” said the company in a news rel
  
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• Garrison Keillor: The gentle people shall prevail

  26-09-2017 22:00
  I passed through Houston Monday and found a lot of cheerful stoicism (“It could’ve been worse”) a month after Harvey had messed with Texas. Some boarded-up windows downtown, some houses awaiting demolition. A man told me his church was organizing volunteers to muck out houses hit by the hurricane. I only ever heard “muck out” in reference to cleaning a cow barn -- in this case, they’d be ripping up carpet, rotten floorboards, pulling out sheetrock, spraying wi
  
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• Donovan Mitchell Practice Interview - 9.26.17 📽️: on.nba.com/2y73uds https://t.co/hBd77RFVTg

  26-09-2017 21:50 via twitter.com
  
  Donovan Mitchell Practice Interview - 9.26.17📽️: on.nba.com/2y73uds https://t.co/hBd77RFVTg
  
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• Utah Jazz officially christen renovated Vivint Smart Home Arena

  26-09-2017 21:37
  There was one final flourish to unveil on Tuesday morning before fans could get a look at the $125 million renovation job to the home of the Utah Jazz.With the drop of a curtain, the Larry H. Miller Group revealed the J-Note statue, what the team owners and company regard as a future iconic spot in front of the upgraded, modern facility that came together in just 129 days.Gail Miller, the chairwoman of the Miller Group, soldier through a teary speech as she dedicated — for the second time
  
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• Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive for the first time

  26-09-2017 21:36
  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia • Saudi Arabia says it will allow women to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom.The kingdom, which announced the change on Tuesday, was the only the country in the world to bar women from driving and for years had garnered negative publicity internationally for detaining women who defied the ban.Women’s rights activists since the 1990s have been pushing for the right to drive, saying it represents their larger struggle for equal rights under
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz officially christen renovated Vivint Smart Home Arena

  26-09-2017 21:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... eam president Steve Starks. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Jazz unveil renovations for the arena, starting with the J-Note statue and then o ...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Sign Taylor Braun

  26-09-2017 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  ...by Luke Adams The Jazz have filled the final spot on their 20-man training camp roster by signing f ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: The Vertical] - NDSU's Braun Signs with Utah Jazz, Reports to Training Camp

  26-09-2017 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  ...his fourth professional season in 2017-18.   Braun will wear No. 24 for the Jazz.   Print Friendly Version Sponsors Related Stories 09.03.17 Kory Brown Inks...
  
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• Early concepts revealed for two Salt Lake City homeless shelters; public forum tonight

  26-09-2017 21:07
  Salt Lake City homeless shelter concepts by The Salt Lake Tribune on ScribdMore than nine months after their controversial siting, two new Salt Lake City homeless shelters inched closer to life with Tuesday’s release of preliminary design concepts.Next up: more public feedback.The proposal (seen above) from Salt Lake City-based ajc architects shows two-level, all-inclusive shelters that not only house 200 beds but a wide range of homeless services — including courtyards, kitchens, b
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz sign wing Taylor Braun; training camp roster now at maximum of 20 players

  26-09-2017 21:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz's training camp roster now stands at the maximum of 20 players, as the team...
  
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• Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says President Trump’s attack on NFL was ‘diabolically brilliant’

  26-09-2017 20:57
  Orem • Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says President Donald Trump just pulled a “diabolically brilliant” move by criticizing NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem — but one that deepens and exploits divisions in the country for cynical political gain.Catering to extremists has become a winning election strategy that Cox warned is seen closer to home in Utah’s caucus-convention system.“I don’t think it’s good for us. I don’t think it’
  
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• Mormon historian, scientist to speak on why his church needs to go further to embrace its LGBT members

  26-09-2017 20:55
  Independent Mormon historian and scientist Gregory Prince holds fast to his faith, but he believes just as strongly that his church eventually must find a way to fully embrace its LGBT adherents.
  Such views have been milestones in Prince’s decadeslong mission to merge his secular renown as a leading infectious disease researcher with his lifelong membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In his former role, he has written or co-written some 150 scholarly papers. As a ch
  
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• Utah Jazz sign wing Taylor Braun; training camp roster now at maximum of 20 players

  26-09-2017 20:50
  SALT LAKE CITY— The Utah Jazz's training camp roster now stands at the maximum of 20 players, as the team announced Tuesday afternoon that it has signed wing Taylor Braun to a contract.The 6-foot-7, 210-pound Braun played collegiately at North Dakota State and has spent the last three years playing in Europe. He first played for a team in Belgium and then was in Germany last season, where he averaged 8.0 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.As a senior for the Bison, Braun was nam
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Free Agent Taylor Braun

  26-09-2017 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... rench Immersion Assembly September 22, 2017 NIKExNBA September 21, 2017 Jazz to Hold Scrimmage at Hill Air Force Base September 21, 2017 Proceeds from JP ...
  
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• Republican leaders: Senate won't vote on Obamacare repeal

  26-09-2017 20:48
  Washington • Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party’s banner campaign promise.Leaving a lunch of Republican senators who’d gathered to discuss their next steps on the issue, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other leaders decided that “the votes are no
  
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• What will Mormonism’s outer darkness and other versions of the underworld be like? Beats the hell out of me.

  26-09-2017 20:42
  General Conference. Time for counsel from LDS leaders as to how we can avoid going to hell. This is good. Hell isn’t supposed to be pleasant.One of the things I like about being a Mormon is that our version of hell makes sense. At least it does to me. I’ve never bought into all this stuff about being jabbed with pitchforks while I roast on a spit over an eternal flame.Mormons don’t really believe in a hell. The afterlife operates more like a time-share sales pitch with the prim
  
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• Before athletes took a knee: 7 movies where sports and social issues collided

  26-09-2017 20:41
  “Can’t we keep politics out of sports?” was the question that echoed across America this weekend, thanks to two concurrent controversies: Dozens of NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem in protest against police violence and racial injustice, and the rescinded invitation from the White House for Stephen Curry and the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.Politics and social issues are as much a part of sports as referees and scoreboards. Issues of feminism and gender equ
  
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• We've signed free agent @taylorbraun2324 Details: on.nba.com/2yqI86Z https://t.co/JZZBNllr7A

  26-09-2017 20:39 via twitter.com
  
  We've signed free agent @taylorbraun2324Details: on.nba.com/2yqI86Z https://t.co/JZZBNllr7A
  
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• Catherine Rampell: 'Reasonable' Republicans are betraying us, too

  26-09-2017 20:37
  President Trump clearly has no clue what’s happening on health care, taxes or really any other major policy front. He has also made abundantly clear that he has no interest in getting up to speed.Unfortunately, Trump’s unseriousness has become so grotesque, so all-consuming, that it has distracted us from dozens of other dilettantes and demagogues in Washington -- far too many of them other members of Trump’s own political party.Trump may be a toddler, we keep telling ourselves
  
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• Dana Milbank: Hatch brings the gavel down on handicapped demonstrators

  26-09-2017 20:14
  Washington • Maybe the Senate janitor’s closet was already booked?For Monday’s hearing on the Cassidy-Graham bill to repeal Obamacare -- the one and only hearing scheduled on the measure -- Republicans trying to hurry it through Congress gave every sign that they did not want to be noticed.Senate hearing rooms that could have fit hundreds were left idle Monday afternoon, and instead Republicans chose one that could fit just 30 members of the public, leaving hundreds waiting in t
  
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• Albert Hunt: Yes, Trump's goal is to inflame racial tensions

  26-09-2017 19:58
  Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with professional athletes has one purpose: to inflame racial tensions.The president says his demand that National Football League owners fire those players who protest racial injustice by kneeling during the pre-game national anthem is about patriotism and respect for the flag.That claim is rejected not only by the NFL, but by Trump’s history on the topic and by the context. It was at a campaign rally in Alabama where the president told NFL coaches to ge
  
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• Letter: Why we intend to shut down Ben Shapiro

  26-09-2017 19:50
  We have no shame in saying that we intend to shut down Ben Shapiro. This is not a decision we came to based on youthful emotions, or out of some desire for the world to be “one big safe space.” This decision was arrived at based on a real, material understanding of the political environment of Utah, and the material effects of an emboldened far right.As an example; Utah is already a state with a homelessness and suicide crisis amongst LGBTQ youth. Ben Shapiro has openly called transg
  
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• Full federal court to hear 'Making a Murderer' appeal

  26-09-2017 19:50
  Madison, Wis. • A federal appeals court will consider arguments Tuesday over whether detectives tricked a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series into confessing and whether he should go free in a case that puts police practices in the spotlight.Oral arguments in Brendan Dassey’s case are before all 12 judges of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago. Dassey’s lawyers and state attorneys are each expected to speak for half an hour and an
  
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• Commentary: Strong Economies need Protected Public Lands

  26-09-2017 19:30
  My wife and I recently ventured from our home in Montana on a two-week road trip to the Southwest. The excursion took us deep into Utah’s majestic canyon country and the West’s ongoing clash over our federal public lands, a conflict most recently inflamed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendation to shrink a number of our National Monuments.While the environmental, social and political issues around these fights remain contentious, one thing has become abundantly clear:
  
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• SLC's Jackie Biskupski offers advice to ABC's 'The Mayor'

  26-09-2017 19:23
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski is offering advice to Courtney Rose, the mayor of Fort Grey, Calif.The quality of the advice doesn’t actually matter, because Courtney Rose is a fictional character; Fort Grey is a fictional city; and Biskupski is featured in an advertisement for the new ABC sitcom “The Mayor.”In the show, Courtney (Brandon Michael Hall) is a wannabe rapper who runs for mayor to boost his music career — and surprises everyone, including himself, when
  
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• Balance between representing country, ongoing protests weighs heavily on U.S. Olympic bobsled hopefuls

  26-09-2017 19:22
  Park City • There are towns in her home state in which Kehri Jones has been told not to stop in. Not for any reason. Drive on has been advice when passing through various cities in Texas.Now, four months out from the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, Jones doesn’t mention any inkling of fear of potentially heading to South Korea as leaders of the U.S. and North Korea continue to trade barbs.Yet a warning remains in the state of her birth, where she was raised and became
  
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• I’ve covered 50 straight Mormon conferences — here’s what stands out

  26-09-2017 19:21
  On my first assignment covering LDS General Conference in April 1992, I was leaning over the railing of the Salt Lake City Tabernacle’s balcony to scrutinize the appearance and health of the men in red velvet chairs — thrones, really — the top men in Mormonism.I noted the one designated for then-Church President Ezra Taft Benson was empty.The 92-year-old leader, suffering the effects of old age and ill health, had not addressed the LDS masses since 1989, a few years before I be
  
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• Utah chiropractor sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax evasion

  26-09-2017 19:01
  A Orem chiropractor has been sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax evasion and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service.In addition, Louis Delynn Hansen, 65, who also owned a health care products business, was ordered to pay $342,699 in restitution to the IRS.Hansen, who represented himself at trial, was convicted by a federal jury in July and U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups meted out the punishment on Monday.An indictment accused Hansen of presenting a check to the IRS in March 2012 for $
  
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• 🎷 #TheJNote https://t.co/XSc7ySG2Pu

  26-09-2017 18:58 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah students score high on AP tests for 2017

  26-09-2017 18:43
  Utah’s high school students bested their national peers in taking and passing Advanced Placement exams this year, earning college credit for subjects like English, mathematics and science.Statewide, 26,544 public school students took a combined 40,755 AP tests in 2017, according to data released Tuesday by College Board, a 5.4 percent increase in the number of participating students compared to 2016. The state also saw an AP pass rate of 67 percent, determined by students earning a score o
  
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• House investigators demand details on private emails

  26-09-2017 18:37
  Washington • A top House Republican has demanded details on the use of private emails by some of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers.Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina conservative who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the top Democrat on that panel, Rep. Elijah Cummings, cite a recent Politico report that Jared Kushner set up a private email account after the election to conduct work-related business.The New York Times reports that at least six of T
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Hey MLS — make one team wear white jerseys!

  26-09-2017 18:36
  Major League Soccer is always looking for ways to make the TV viewing experience better for fans at home. (And, thus, get more people to watch.) Here’s something it could do that would cost the league absolutely nothing. Make one of the teams wear white jerseys. What could be easier? For me, the Portland-Real Salt Lake game on Sept. 17 was unwatchable. Portland was outfitted in dark-green jerseys, shorts and socks; RSL was in dark red jerseys, shorts and socks. I might just as well have b
  
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• Commentary: Governor represents a shrinking view of Utah’s reality

  26-09-2017 18:34
  To: Governor Gary HerbertFrom: Resident Brody LevenDear Gov. Herbert,Do you remember inviting me into your house? A 21-year-old student body president at Westminster College, I ate dinner at your table. My move to Utah for its landscape and higher education, you said, was what the state needed. I remember you taking ownership of what attracted me to Utah. You were confident I’d stick around.Eight years have passed, and you were right. I’ve made Utah my home. My generation and I start
  
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