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• Stockton & Buzzer-Beaters. amirite? #tbt https://t.co/8P0KgXMtrK

  12-10-2017 23:52 via twitter.com
  
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• Developer, ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl pleads not guilty to federal tax evasion

  12-10-2017 23:42
  Embattled Utah developer Terry Diehl has entered pleas of not guilty to federal felony charges of tax evasion and filing a false return for allegedly hiding $1 million of income so he could avoid a tax bill.Diehl entered his plea Thursday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court.The charges were brought in a superseding indictment handed up by a grand jury Oct. 5, and increases to 14 the total number of counts Diehl now faces in federal court.The original dozen counts, filed in April, alleg
  
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• State school board approves 'Hamilton' education program over objections of cost, vulgarity and inaccuracy

  12-10-2017 23:38
  When the Broadway smash “Hamilton: An American Musical” tours through Utah next spring, a group of roughly 2,300 students will be treated to a special matinee performance.The Utah Board of Education endorsed the Hamilton Education Program on Thursday, allowing high school juniors from primarily rural and low-income areas to participate in a performing arts and U.S. history curriculum centered around the lives of Alexander Hamilton and America’s Founding Fathers.“We‘
  
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• Committee decides dressing up as American Indians will no longer be part of annual Wellsville ‘Sham Battle’

  12-10-2017 23:35
  White residents will no longer paint themselves red and role play as American Indians attacking Mormon settlers during rural Wellsville’s annual “Founders’ Day” festivities, under an informal agreement by a committee tasked with revising the controversial and deeply held tradition.“We felt that was the best direction to go at this time,” Mayor Thomas Bailey said Thursday.The small focus group studying the issue decided Monday night that after more than 80 year
  
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• Rolly: D.A. Sim Gill, under fire for justifying Harmon shooting, says he’s eager to meet one on one with his critics

  12-10-2017 23:05
  Our society has become as divided as any time in history, largely due to the political climate on the national level and the distrust that has grown between law enforcement and the public on the local level.That was the assessment of Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill this week, two days after protesters called for his ouster after he ruled that a Salt Lake City police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a black man.
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• Persistence through adversity nothing new for BYU fullback Brayden El-Bakri

  12-10-2017 22:56
  Provo • Brayden El-Bakri loved collisions on the football field while growing up in the Brighton High area, working hard to prove other people, and BYU football, wrong about his athletic abilities.So when an offer to walk on at BYU came from running backs coach Joe DuPaix in 2012, the 210-pound tailback jumped at the opportunity, turning down chances to play at smaller programs — possibly on scholarship.El-Bakri, now a junior who weighs around 240 pounds, still hasn’t been put o
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jimbo’s Mailbag – Prepping for a Gobert Statue

  12-10-2017 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... l fly off the shelves.   Q: If God was one of us, would he look like [former Jazz center Kyrylo]Fesenko? @My_Lo I’m going to go ahead and say no to this and h ...
  
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• Utah and Trojans QB Sam Darnold are very familiar with each other

  12-10-2017 22:46
  USC redshirt sophomore quarterback Sam Darnold quickly has become one of the faces of college football.Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine cover boy, SportsCenter studio appearances, Heisman Trophy candidate, projected top pick in next year’s NFL Draft.He also will be a main focus of the Utah defense in Saturday’s clash of Pac-12 Conference South Division contenders.The mobile 6-foot-4, 220-pound Darnold is the first in a gauntlet of potential NFL draft pick quarterbacks the Ute
  
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• Utah Grizzlies poised for another deep ECHL playoff run

  12-10-2017 22:40
  The Utah Grizzlies have made 10 consecutive playoff appearances. The plan for the 2017-18 season is to make it 11, and make a deep postseason run, at that.Anything short of that will be a disappointment.“Our expectations are to win and we need to get off to a fast start,” Grizzlies coach and general manager Tim Branham said, as his team prepped for a this weekend’s season-opening games against rival Colorado — Friday on the Front Range and Saturday at the Maverick Center
  
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• Congress approves expanded protections for federal whistleblowers

  12-10-2017 22:38
  Washington • Congress voted Thursday to boost the protection of federal whistleblowers from retaliation, part of a bid to uncover bad behavior at the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government agencies.The House easily cleared the bill, 420-0. It now goes to President Donald Trump for his signature, having previously passed the Senate in May.The measure would extend whistleblower protections to federal employees who are in probationary periods and provide training to ensure workers
  
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• No verdict yet in Koerber fraud trial, but jurors to continue deliberations Saturday

  12-10-2017 21:52
  Jurors in the Rick Koerber fraud trial had deliberated for approximately 38 hours by the time they left U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Thursday afternoon without having reached a verdict.The 12-member jury will return on Saturday morning to continue discussions in the case of the former real estate guru, who is accused of illegal business dealings and running a Ponzi scheme.The trial has lasted nearly seven weeks so far.Jurors deliberated on Friday and on Monday through Thursday.Jury s
  
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• Derrick Bernard Favors from Atlanta, GA, is the longest tenured Jazzman - entering his 8th season. Fav bout to bea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 21:52 via twitter.com
  Derrick Bernard Favors from Atlanta, GA, is the longest tenured Jazzman - entering his 8th season.Fav bout to bea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ‘Marshall’ turns civil-rights icon’s story into tense courtroom thriller

  12-10-2017 21:50
  Having played Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman adds to his repertoire another African-American hero — Thurgood Marshall, the civil-rights lawyer and (later) Supreme Court justice — in the hard-hitting courtroom drama “Marshall.”Boseman plays Marshall as a 33-year-old lawyer working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In fact, he was the NAACP’s only lawyer, crisscrossing the country taking up cases of b
  
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• Noah Feldman: The guy in the bully pulpit can't be a bully

  12-10-2017 21:49
  President Donald Trump can’t carry out his threat to take away the National Football League’s tax-exempt status aimed at making the league force players to stand for the national anthem. That would be a clear violation of the First Amendment.It’s true that the NFL had voluntarily given up its tax break two years ago, which means that Trump’s threat wouldn’t have practical effect even if he could make it stick. But as the Supreme Court recently held, even an effort t
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s name removed from credits of made-in-Utah TV show ‘Yellowstone’

  12-10-2017 21:49
  The Harvey Weinstein scandal has affected the made-in-Utah TV series “Yellowstone” — but only in the most superficial way.Weinstein’s name has been removed from the credits, where he was listed as an executive producer because it’s being produced under the auspices of The Weinstein Company. But that was his only involvement in the series, which is being headlined by Kevin Costner.Other than removing a line from the credits of a show that won’t premiere until s
  
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• Who will become the new face of Utah men's basketball? Stay tuned

  12-10-2017 21:48
  San Francisco • There were those no-look assists from Delon Wright, the old-school punishing post moves from Jakob Poeltl and the baselines drives that so often finished in a thunderous one-handed slam from Kyle Kuzma.They are part of the recent past, though, inscribed into the memory of all Utah fans.The Utah men’s basketball program has gone 3-for-3 in the last three seasons, seeing its star talent come to the program as under-the-radar talents who morphed into eventual first-round
  
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• Murray structure fire affecting traffic Thursday afternoon

  12-10-2017 21:46
  A structure fire in Murray on Thursday afternoon was affecting traffic in the area of 4500 South and 200 West and sent up a large plume of smoke at about 1:30 p.m.Unified Fire Authority spokesman Eric Holmes said it was not immediately clear what type of structure was burning, or how the blaze began. Fire crews from Unified and the city of Murray had responded to the scene, and were setting up an offensive attack at about 1:45 p.m.The Utah Department of Transportation tweeted at about 1:35 p.m.
  
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• State Records Committee orders the attorney general to release its secret opinion on the special 3rd District election

  12-10-2017 21:32
  Citing a public interest in the way elections are managed, the Utah State Records Committee ruled unanimously Thursday that the attorney general’s office should release a written legal opinion it prepared for the Legislature on the governor’s unilateral action to set rules for the special 3rd Congressional District election.The attorney general’s office had decided not to release the document, citing ethical concerns about a conflict of interest. The Legislature let the matter
  
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• Should a tour company be able to land its helicopters near Utah’s Canyonlands National Park?

  12-10-2017 21:10
  A Moab company offering helicopter tours hopes to use parcels of state trust lands in eastern Wayne County to ferry customers near Utah’s Horseshoe Canyon. That proposal has sparked a debate among state and federal regulators, and an environmental group, over whether the flights could degrade the wilderness experience on nearby public lands and Canyonlands National Park.Pinnacle Helicopters has petitioned the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) for a legal righ
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Despite appearances, ‘Mindhunter’ is about murderers, not Mormons

  12-10-2017 21:09
  Jonathan Groff doesn’t play a Mormon in the new Netflix series “Mindhunter,” he just looks as if he’s playing one.Set in 1979, “Mindhunter” (which starts streaming Friday) centers on Holden Ford (Groff, “Glee,” “Looking”), a young FBI agent who becomes a serial killer profiler before the terms “serial killer” and “profiler” were in use. About 16 minutes into Episode 1 (of 10), Holden meets a young woman in a bar
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - This Utah Jazz team will play with fire

  12-10-2017 21:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... ow sits back and relaxes. I think he will want to show to everyone, not just Jazz management, that he is worth every penny. And we have no reason to believe h ...
  
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• How does a 3-year-old get left at a Utah corn maze? It’s a numbers issue, polygamous father says.

  12-10-2017 20:46
  Robert says his wife called him in a such a panic, she could barely get the words out of her mouth.Their 3-year-old son wasn’t home when she woke the other kids for school Tuesday morning, she told him. The police were on their way to the house to look for him.But before officers began their search, Robert said, they called headquarters to ask if any stray or wandering children had been located. Turns out a 3-year-old boy had been found the day before at a corn maze in West Jordan.“W
  
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• Stylish drama ‘Professor Marston’ reveals the kinky origins of ‘Wonder Woman’

  12-10-2017 20:10
  Comic-book origin stories don’t get more fascinating and downright kinky than the story behind the creation of “Wonder Woman,” which writer-director Angela Robinson tells with verve and style in the drama “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.”The professor of the title is William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), shown in 1945 having to defend his brainchild, the Amazon princess Wonder Woman, to a Catholic-sponsored bluenose (Connie Britton) investigating salacious m
  
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• D.A. Sim Gill, under fire for justifying Harmon shooting, says there’s a disconnect between police and public — but he’s always eager to listen

  12-10-2017 20:08
  Our society has become as divided as any time in history, largely due to the political climate on the national level and the distrust that has grown between law enforcement and the public on the local level.That was the assessment of Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill this week, two days after protesters called for his ouster after he ruled that a Salt Lake City police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a black man.
  Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally Sunday wanted G
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Less than three days after signing him, Utah Jazz waive Torian Graham

  12-10-2017 20:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... und guard out of Arizona State made no appearances on the court for the Jazz after being signed on Monday afternoon. Given that Utah signed and released...
  
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• Utah’s Negro Bill Canyon renamed Grandstaff Canyon by federal board

  12-10-2017 19:55
  Washington • A federal board voted Thursday to rename Negro Bill Canyon in southern Utah, saying the race-based moniker was offensive and citing local support for changing it. It will now be called Grandstaff Canyon.The Grand County Council requested the change to honor William Grandstaff, a black man who ran cattle in the area just north of Moab, by using his real name instead of the pejorative term that had been the canyon’s name in recent years. The canyon’s name once include
  
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• Less than three days after signing him, Utah Jazz waive Torian Graham

  12-10-2017 19:55
  Just three days after signing him, the Utah Jazz announced Thursday that they have waived Torian Graham.The 6-foot-5, 190-pound guard out of Arizona State made no appearances on the court for the Jazz after being signed on Monday afternoon. Given that Utah signed and released him so quickly, it is likely Graham has been designated as an "affiliate player," which means he would join the G League's Salt Lake City Stars if he opts to sign a G League contract.NBA teams can designate up to four affil
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Waive Torian Graham

  12-10-2017 19:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... ing in 3.3 per game. Graham’s brief stay on Utah’s NBA roster will allow the Jazz to make him an affiliate player for the Salt Lake City Stars, their G League ...
  
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• Calling it a beginning, Trump signs health care order

  12-10-2017 19:46
  Washington • Frustrated by health care failures in Congress, President Donald Trump directed his administration Thursday to rewrite some federal insurance rules as a beginning of renewed efforts to undermine “Obamacare,” the program he’s promised to kill.“With these actions, we are moving toward lower costs and more options in the health care market,” Trump said before signing his directive in the Oval Office. Trump said he will continue to pressure Congress to
  
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• White Horse Spirits and Kitchen is a classy addition to Main Street in SLC — but be prepared to wait

  12-10-2017 19:38
  White Horse Spirits and Kitchen on Main Street is the third downtown dining and drinking establishment for the owners of The Bourbon Group — the newest sibling to Whiskey Street, next door, and Bourbon House, a block and a half north.White Horse bills itself as a modern American brasserie — an apt description given its focus on snackable dishes. But it is first and foremost a high-end bar, with a backlit wall of bottles at the center.Its beverage calling cards are the stellar selecti
  
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• We have waived Torian Graham Details: on.nba.com/2i7FgJm Good luck to you, @Torian_Graham! https://t.co/3VXhVsq5xD

  12-10-2017 19:31 via twitter.com
  
  We have waived Torian GrahamDetails: on.nba.com/2i7FgJmGood luck to you, @Torian_Graham! https://t.co/3VXhVsq5xD
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Waive Torian Graham

  12-10-2017 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... iewsShootaround Interviews Postgame InterviewsPostgame Interviews Game Night Jazz Dancers Utah Jazz Bear ProForm Stunt Team Gameday Giveaways Utah Jazz Dunk T ...
  
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• Developer, ex-UTA board member Terry Diehl enters not-guilty pleas to federal tax charges

  12-10-2017 19:28
  Embattled Utah developer Terry Diehl has entered pleas of not guilty to federal felony charges of tax evasion and filing a false return for allegedly hiding $1 million of income so he could avoid a tax bill.Diehl entered his plea Thursday in Salt Lake City’s U.S. District Court.The charges were brought in a superseding indictment handed up by a grand jury Oct. 5, and increases to 14 the total number of counts Diehl now faces in federal court.The original dozen counts, filed in April, alleg
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: 6th man is Joe Johnson

  12-10-2017 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... ons fairly well: Turns out we consider him the 6th most valuable on the Utah Jazz roster. One of the best storylines from that series was Joe Johnson absolute ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: All Aboard the Donovan Mitchell Hype Train

  12-10-2017 19:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... etter-than-average defensive team in each of Snyder's three seasons, . The Jazz didn't force a lot of turnovers (), but more stops should still generate mor ...
  
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• Gary Ott, former Salt Lake County recorder, was diagnosed with dementia more than a year before he was most recently re-elected

  12-10-2017 18:44
  A doctor who examined former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott in October 2013 — more than a year before he was most recently elected — said he diagnosed Ott with dementia at the time.An attorney in former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott’s guardianship case said in court Thursday that Ott has advanced Alzheimer’s disease.The statements, from an Ogden neurologist and an attorney representing Ott’s siblings in the case, were the first times the severity of his con
  
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• Broadway’s Sutton Foster and ‘Downton’s’ Hugh Bonneville will join Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Christmas

  12-10-2017 18:44
  Get ready for a thoroughly Downton Christmas.Sutton Foster, who won Tony Awards for her performances in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Anything Goes,” will headline the Mormon Tabernacle Choir‘s Christmas concerts. The narrator will be Hugh Bonneville, best-known for playing the patriarch on the long-running British drama “Downton Abbey.”Free tickets for the concerts, scheduled Dec. 14-16 in the 21,000-seat LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake Ci
  
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• Voice issues resolved, Alison Krauss continues on with her ‘incredible gift’

  12-10-2017 18:42
  Alison Krauss is calling from her tour bus on a Saturday afternoon, and straightaway starts off the conversation by apologizing, noting she slept in a bit late and is tired and so “I don’t sound very good!”Of course, Alison Krauss is probably the only person who might ever dare suggest that Alison Krauss doesn’t sound very good.Non-songwriting singers don’t become 27-time Grammy winners without immaculately, impeccably pristine vocal ability, after all.The thing is,
  
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• 'Why so much hate?' Mexico’s largest state rocked by slayings of women

  12-10-2017 18:32
  Villa Cuauhtemoc, Mexico • Just like any other day, Dr. Jessica Sevilla Pedraza went to work at the hospital that morning, came home for a quick lunch and then left again. The plan was to see more patients, hit the gym and be back in time for her usual dinner with dad before he went to his night-shift job.Instead a hospital co-worker showed up at the family’s door in the evening. She said a man had come in with a bullet wound in his leg and told doctors he had been with Sevilla when g
  
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• Utah Sports Hall of Fame celebrates the state's history with 50th-anniversary event

  12-10-2017 18:22
  Doug Toole has been conscious of trying to expand membership beyond stars of traditional sports and include more female athletes as the selection committee chairman of the Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation in recent years.Yet this group already included trap shooter Hortense Wood Hardesty, honored in 1976.She’s part of the diverse history of Utah sports, which will be celebrated Monday. Founded in 1967, the USHOFF will observe a 50-year anniversary by welcoming about 80 previous inductee
  
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  12-10-2017 18:19 via twitter.com
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 128: Our NBA Season Predictions, Dante Exum, Blade Runner 2049

  12-10-2017 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  ... okie of the Year and Coach of the Year? We discuss our predictions. The Utah Jazz have completed their 2017-18 preseason campaign undefeated. We talk about th ...
  
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• Actor Luke Evans talks about equality, power and playing Wonder Woman’s liberated creator

  12-10-2017 18:08
  William Moulton Marston put himself in a position many men wouldn’t dare place themselves: between two smart, powerful and sexually adventurous women.But Marston — the Harvard-trained psychologist whose research led to the invention of the lie detector, and who created the most popular female superhero of all time, Wonder Woman — was no ordinary man.That’s the opinion of Luke Evans, the 38-year-old Welsh-born actor who plays Marston in the erotically charged biographical
  
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• 'He's better than this,' says Thomas Barrack, Trump's loyal whisperer

  12-10-2017 17:47
  New York • Thomas Barrack Jr., a billionaire who is one of President Donald Trump's oldest friends, had spent weeks trying to smooth the way for a May presidential meeting in Saudi Arabia with Gulf leaders.All initially went well. Trump praised Qatar — where Barrack, who is Arab American, has deep business ties — as a "crucial strategic partner." Then Trump reversed course a few weeks later and attacked Qatar as "a funder of terrorism at a very high level."Barrack was taken abac
  
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• Utah picked seventh in Pac-12 men’s basketball preseason poll, Arizona takes top spot

  12-10-2017 17:43
  San Francisco • A trendy preseason pick for the No. 1 overall team in the country is — to no surprise — the Arizona Wildcats. They also top the annual Pac-12 preseason men’s basketball media poll.Arizona was listed atop the poll Thursday morning for the 15th straight time going back to 1989-90. The No. 1 prediction is also the fifth time in the last six seasons the Wildcats have earned such a designation. Arizona star Allonzo Trier is one of three starters from last year&r
  
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• Former Brighton High, USC football player Osa Masina takes plea deal in Utah rape case

  12-10-2017 17:41
  Former Brighton High and University of Southern California linebacker Osa Masina has accepted a plea deal, avoiding a trial in his felony rape case.Masina, 20, pleaded guilty to three lesser charges of sexual battery, all Class A misdemeanors, during a hearing Thursday morning in 3rd District Court. He had been scheduled to stand trial next week on a first-degree felony charge of rape and two first-degree felony charges of forcible sodomy, with each of those three counts carrying a potential max
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump does nothing to stop 175 American deaths a day

  12-10-2017 17:21
  Washington • Americans are dying at the rate of 175 a day from opioid overdoses, but President Trump has yet to deliver his promised strategy to end the crisis.And so the people’s representatives, in the absence of presidential leadership, did about the only thing they could do. They had a day of opioid karaoke.There wasn’t actual music. But it was open-mic day Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The panel invited members of Congress to take the witness sea
  
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• U.S. withdraws from UNESCO, the UN's cultural organization, citing anti-Israel bias

  12-10-2017 17:07
  The United States plans to withdraw from UNESCO, citing financial reasons, as well as what it said was an anti-Israel bias at the U.N.'s educational, cultural and science organization.The decision to withdraw from UNESCO, which the United States helped found, was announced Thursday morning by the State Department, which said the United States would remain involved as a nonmember observer. It will take effect at the end of 2018.It marks yet another decision by the United States to distance itself
  
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• Girl killed, mother injured in Salt Lake City crash

  12-10-2017 17:01
  A young girl died of injuries sustained when an SUV slammed into a tree near a Sugar House intersection late Wednesday night, Salt Lake City police say.
  The child’s mother, who was driving the vehicle when it crashed, was taken to University Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, said Salt Lake City police Detective Keith Horrocks.
  The accident, near 2700 South and Chadwick Street (roughly 1400 East), was first reported at 10 p.m.
  Horrocks said the SUV was westbound on 27
  
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• Commentary: Deal will slow the growth of solar energy in Utah

  12-10-2017 16:57
  The new solar agreement between Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Rocky Mountain Power is all RMP. Despite other “stakeholders” at the table, RMP, owned by Warren Buffet, received everything it wanted. Just by threatening higher costs on solar customers, RMP has succeeded in curbing the growth of solar in our state and gained new advantage over the industry with new rules of the game.The solar industry is growing 15 times faster than the national average. But not in Utah, RMP’s idle t
  
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