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• Real Monarchs open USL playoffs with No. 1 seed, favorite status

  19-10-2017 23:59
  The Real Monarchs popped Champagne and tossed beer in the plastic-lined locker room. They passed around the silver shield with the large USL engraved in the center.“It was so exciting to see the guys celebrate as a team, see the coach actually have a smile on his face for once,” veteran midfielder Sebastian Velasquez joked. “It was a great feeling.”The Real Monarchs claimed the club’s first piece of hardware in its three-year history two weeks ago with the best regu
  
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• #tbt 3/22/17 @RudyGobert27 goes for 35p/15r/4b @AFCU https://t.co/1PyPNRxBva

  19-10-2017 23:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Letter: Animals don’t belong in public places

  19-10-2017 23:45
  Owners of pets, fake service animals and emotional support animals, be courteous to other customers, employees, those with disabilities and service animals by leaving nonservice animals at home.The ADA defines a service animal as a dog that is trained to perform a task for someone with a disability. The task must be directly related to the disability.The ADA definition does not include pets, or emotional support animals, or any animal besides a dog or miniature horse.Your animal poses a health a
  
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• Resurgent Derrick Favors full of fight in season opener vs. Nuggets

  19-10-2017 23:44
  There were stretches where the Utah Jazz just were trying to survive in the season opener before the bench took off and crushed the Denver Nuggets.Derrick Favors was helping the starters stay afloat, scoring the first eight points in the third quarter with a layup, dunk and pair of mid-range jump shots. Even when it felt like the game was going south, the 26-year-old gave the Jazz some spark.“We just had to go out there and fight,” he said. “That was the whole thing.”The
  
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• Gary Ott dies after Alzheimer’s battle; former top aide blames his family

  19-10-2017 23:43
  After years spent suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disease, mostly hidden from public view, former long-time Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott died Thursday morning in hospice care in St. George.He was 66.Ott’s death followed a four-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. The details of his diagnosis were first made public just last week in a court battle between Ott’s siblings and his former fiancee and assistant, Karmen Sanone.A judge has yet to rule on who wou
  
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• [KSL] - Off the deep end: What a deep rotation means for the Jazz

  19-10-2017 23:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... phasis on keeping bodies fresh in order to avoid diminishing returns. If the Jazz are to maintain an accelerated pace throughout the season, they would be wis ...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Monument Removal

  19-10-2017 23:38
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. Want more? Become a fan of Bagley on Facebook at www.facebook.com/notrobertkirby.Comforter-in-ChiefOrrin’s Drug ProblemDrug Dealing LowlifesWhat Do We Do With Creepy Pervs?InfernoTaking a Knee in SLCTrump IQ TestPollutionpaloozaCongress and the NRAIt’s Good to Be King
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Resurgent Derrick Favors full of fight in season opener vs. Nuggets

  19-10-2017 23:34 via sportspyder.com
  ...Monson: Jazz know what they are, who they are, and they like it Favors’ performance also...
  
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• Our Schools Now holds onto majority support, as organizers say signatures are rolling in

  19-10-2017 23:16
  A Utah campaign to generate more than $700 million in annual public education funding is well on its way to securing a spot on the November 2018 ballot, according to Zions Bank CEO Scott Anderson.Anderson, who co-chairs the Our Schools Now ballot initiative, said Wednesday organizers had already gathered one-fourth the required number of voter signatures, with the remainder expected months before the April 15 deadline.“We have gathered about 28,000 signatures,” Anderson said. “
  
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• True-life ‘Only the Brave’ better when it focuses on firefighters’ lives, not their deaths

  19-10-2017 23:10
  The spirit of the Granite Mountain Hotshots — the Arizona crew who in 2013 were caught in the deadliest incident for U.S. firefighters since the 9/11 attacks — lives on in “Only the Brave,” a drama that captures the group’s camaraderie, self-sacrifice and unspoken heroism.Because the movie is based on true events, complaining about spoilers is rather useless. It’s also, for most of the movie, beside the point, because director Joseph Kosinski focuses more on t
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: After arduous road, the old Alec Burks is back in effect

  19-10-2017 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... none were as impactful statistically as Burks. When he was on the court, the Jazz posted a net rating of 46.3. Meanwhile, the Jazz were outscored by 5.9 point ...
  
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• Another week, another long road trip for the BYU Cougars

  19-10-2017 22:03
  Provo • Optimism and enthusiasm reigned at the BYU football program’s media event last summer as the Cougars discussed their 2017 schedule and how they would travel more than 17,500 miles and play in five different time zones.“It is going to be a blast to take Cougar football all over the place, play in front of our fans all around the country,” quarterback Tanner Mangum said back in June.Reality set in early Thursday morning, however, as alarm clocks went off around town
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Rudy Gobert is MVP

  19-10-2017 21:57 via sportspyder.com
  ...We are spoiled to have him. To finish off our ranking of the 2017-2018 Utah Jazz roster, I’ll give a quick recap of how the voting went down. Rudy Gobert (si ...
  
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• Former lawmaker — who drinks ‘coffee, water and occasionally alcohol’ — appointed to Utah liquor board

  19-10-2017 21:46
  Former Republican state Rep. Sophia M. DiCaro has been appointed to the board that oversees the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and issues liquor licenses to restaurants, bars and businesses in the state.
  DiCaro currently is the chief compliance officer for The Cynosure Group, an investment advisory firm in Salt Lake City. She has 15 years experience in public policy, program evaluation, budgeting and economic development — skills she believes will be helpful as a member of t
  
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• Utah Jazz: After arduous road, the old Alec Burks is back in effect

  19-10-2017 21:45
  In his squad’s season opener, Utah Jazz guard Alec Burks got back to playing the exciting brand of basketball that inspired his ‘Houdini’ nickname. The Utah Jazz’s season-opening win over the Denver Nuggets yielded a plethora of positive developments. For a team that many expected to struggle offensively, the Jazz encouraged with their ability to […]
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• Utah horse trainer accused of animal cruelty pleads guilty to disorderly conduct

  19-10-2017 21:45
  A former employee of a Juab County lavender farm — who allegedly tied a horse to a truck and repeatedly dragged it across the ground by its neck — has resolved the criminal case against him by pleading guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.Freeman A. Yoder, 39, of Nephi, was charged in last year in 4th District Court with one count of aggravated cruelty to an animal, a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.On Thursday, Yoder pleaded guilty to disorderly c
  
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• [Fanrag Sports] - Nikola Jokic-Rudy Gobert was a contest of very different Goliaths

  19-10-2017 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... n the defense, and especially Gobert, took over down the stretch in a 106-96 Jazz win. The Nuggets amassed only 13 points in the fourth quarter, while the Jaz ...
  
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• Real Salt Lake’s Tony Beltran will miss season finale against Sporting KC

  19-10-2017 21:33
  Real Salt Lake will be without right back Tony Beltran this weekend — and perhaps beyond if RSL makes the MLS playoffs.
  The veteran defender suffered a knee injury in RSL’s match at Colorado on Sunday when Colorado forward Dominique Badji turned his hip into Beltran’s swinging leg in the 24th minute. Badji was issued a yellow card for the play.“He got injured on a crap play in a crap environment,” RSL coach Petke said after Thursday‘s training session. “
  
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• Our Intro Video is 🔥🔥🔥 #TakeNote https://t.co/uy49D8OLl5

  19-10-2017 21:31 via twitter.com
  
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• Gov. Herbert says lawsuit is right way to solve dispute over secret AG’s opinion on special election

  19-10-2017 21:23
  Gov. Gary Herbert says it is unethical for the attorney general to represent both him and the Legislature when the two are in conflict, as they are currently on whether Herbert overstepped his authority in setting rules for the special 3rd Congressional District election.So he said Thursday that he actually applauds legislative leaders for deciding to sue over the matter — seeking to force release of a secret attorney general’s opinion about the election — so it may give &ldquo
  
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• Dana Milbank: The White House says free trade causes wife-beating. Why stop there?

  19-10-2017 21:22
  Washington • So now we know: Free trade causes abortion, wife-beating and infertility.This exciting new discovery was made — or, rather, made up — by the Trump White House as it sought to find arguments to justify scuttling the Trans-Pacific Partnership, NAFTA and other vehicles of international trade.The Washington Post’s indispensable Damian Paletta reports that the two-page document, which he obtained, was “prepared and distributed” by Peter Navarro, an econ
  
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• Play #SuperRudyBlock! 🎮🏀✋ We're giving away a Legend Edition Gold @NBA2K TOMORROW! 👀 PLAY & ENTER TO WIN ➡️… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 21:14 via twitter.com
  Play #SuperRudyBlock! 🎮🏀✋We're giving away a Legend Edition Gold @NBA2K TOMORROW! 👀PLAY & ENTER TO WIN ➡️… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 30 years ago today, Utah’s Alta Club admitted its first female member, and she’ll ‘always be remembered’ for that historic moment

  19-10-2017 20:59
  Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of a significant event affecting the Salt Lake City business community.On Oct. 19, 1987, the Alta Club, a social gathering place for many of he most influential community leaders, inducted Genevieve Atwood as the first woman member in the club’s 104-year history.It was the most earthshaking change for the club since its decision to allow Mormon members just a few years after its 1883 founding.For years, female guests were forced to enter the club, at th
  
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• Gary Ott, the former Salt Lake County recorder, dies after battle with Alzheimer's disease at age 66

  19-10-2017 20:54
  After years spent suffering from a progressive neurodegenerative disease, mostly hidden from public view, former long-time Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott died Thursday morning in hospice care in St. George.He was 66.Ott’s death followed a four-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. The details of his diagnosis were first made public just last week in a court battle between Ott’s siblings and his former fiancée and assistant, Karmen Sanone.A judge has yet to rule on
  
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• ICYMI - Jazz 106, Nuggets 96 HIGHLIGHTS 🎥 https://t.co/SzovJPGErd

  19-10-2017 20:51 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI - Jazz 106, Nuggets 96HIGHLIGHTS 🎥 https://t.co/SzovJPGErd
  
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• BYU men's basketball picked third — again — in WCC preseason poll

  19-10-2017 20:44
  Provo • Coaches believe there will be a changing of the guard in the West Coast Conference men’s basketball race this season, but BYU yet again won’t be the team doing the changing.A team other than Gonzaga has been picked to win the WCC title for the first time in 17 years. Saint Mary’s is the unanimous preseason favorite in the annual poll of the WCC’s 10 coaches, followed by Gonzaga and BYU.The Gaels received nine first-place votes (coaches can’t vote for th
  
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• With hunting season hitting full swing this weekend, keep the Utah Turn-in-a-Poacher hotline in mind

  19-10-2017 20:35
  With the general mule deer season starting Saturday, the waterfowl hunt open and fishing still available, many hunters and anglers are afield.Division of Wildlife Resources law-enforcement officers are asking those who see illegal hunting activities, such as shooting animals but not retrieving them, to report any activity that seems suspicious.Division of Wildlife Resources Captain Mitch Lane said DWR conservation officers catch plenty of wildlife violators but could always use the public’
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Weinstein is just the tip of the Hollywood scandal iceberg

  19-10-2017 20:34
  One thing is certain about Hollywood’s widening sexual harassment scandal — it’s only just begun. It is not just about Harvey Weinstein. It didn’t begin with him. One wonders if his victims were emboldened by the falls of Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes at Fox News. And the suspension and then resignation of Amazon Studios chief Roy Price after he was accused of sexual harassment by a producer seems clearly related. I’ve met Price, and he didn’t make a fa
  
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• ‘The Snowman‘ is a police thriller that’s as cold as ice and as dull as dirt

  19-10-2017 20:24
  Imagine an icicle slowly forming off the nose of a severed head, and you get a sense of how unsettlingly gross and endlessly boring the cold-as-ice police procedural “The Snowman” is.Meet Harry Hole (pronounced “HOE-leh”), the alcoholic Oslo police inspector at the center of 11 novels by the Norwegian crime novelist Jo Nesbø, with “The Snowman” (written in 2007) being his seventh. Hole (played by Michael Fassbender) has received a cryptic letter, writte
  
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• Romantic story pumps life into inspirational drama ‘Breathe’

  19-10-2017 20:24
  As an inspirational true-life drama of overcoming adversity, “Breathe” is predictably heartwarming, but as a romance, about two people sticking together in the face of overwhelming odds, it’s downright beautiful.The movie tells the story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, two tireless advocates for the rights of the disabled. The story starts with Robin (Andrew Garfield) as a young, athletic man, charming and courting Diana Blacker (Claire Foy). The two are married, and Diana accomp
  
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• Spain set to strip Catalonia of powers over independence bid

  19-10-2017 20:21
  Barcelona, Spain • The crisis over Catalonia’s quest for independence escalated Thursday, as Spain’s central government prepared the unprecedented step of stripping the wealthy region of some of its self-governing powers after its leader refused to abandon secession.In his latest display of brinkmanship, Catalan President Carles Puigdemont sent a letter to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy just minutes before a deadline set by Madrid for him to backtrack on his calls to seced
  
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• Police seek public’s help after skateboarder injured in hit-and-run

  19-10-2017 20:21
  Salt Lake City police are asking for help to identify the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that injured a skateboarder in early October.At about 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, a 33-year-old man was skateboarding near 200 West 700 South, when a white sport utility vehicle — possibly an Isuzu Rodeo — struck and dragged him, according to a news release from the police department.The vehicle then fled the scene. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in serious condition.Anyone w
  
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• Game of Throws: What went wrong for the Utes at the Coliseum?

  19-10-2017 20:21
  From Darren Carrington standing alone in the back of the end zone, to each of Sam Darnold’s third-down conversions, the Utes seemed to be just one play away from victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum.Instead, Kyle Whittingham and company have now lost two straight as they look to regroup against Arizona State.What went wrong in Los Angeles? Will Tyler Huntley be back on the field Saturday? And what can Utah expect against a Sun Devil crew coming off a huge upset win over Washington?We discus
  
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• Double duty: Miles Teller plays real-life heroes in two movies this month

  19-10-2017 20:21
  Filming back-to-back movies — one about firefighters battling wildfires, the other about U.S. soldiers returning from combat and facing PTSD — the actor Miles Teller had an unusual resource at his disposal: Each time, the man he was playing was on the set.“Maybe it’s weird if you feel unprepared, but if that’s the case, you didn’t do your homework,” Teller said, in a phone interview, of the two true-life roles, as a firefighter in “Only the Brave&r
  
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• ICE interested in more detention sites for immigrants, including in Salt Lake City area

  19-10-2017 20:20
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting information from private and public contractors for possible new detention sites in the Salt Lake City area for detained immigrants.In a request for information posted to a federal contracting website last week, ICE said it was attempting to identify “multiple possible detention sites to hold criminal aliens and other immigration violators,” who are priorities for detention and deportation under policies amended by the Trump Administr
  
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• Arizona State's Harry, Ballage could cause Utah’s defense some headaches

  19-10-2017 20:20
  Phillip Afia didn’t flinch. Not that he was supposed to.“There’s never a challenge or anybody in front of us that I’d ever be afraid of and think, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do?’ Never,” said Utah’s sophomore free safety. “No matter who we face.”A solid, expected response by a member of one of the most-respected defenses in the country. Afia is right, too. This week is no exception. Defenses in the Pac-12 Conference routinely study an
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - How NBA League Pass is Changing

  19-10-2017 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... ncy – but this is an example of where those numbers can lead you astray. The Jazz had one of the lowest frequencies of such plays in the league; their efficie ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Utah Jazz Emerge Victorious

  19-10-2017 18:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...on the other end had The Viv rocking and ultimately sealed the game for the Jazz. is going to do great things for the Utah Jazz. Rubio finished the game with ...
  
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• Former Salt Lake City councilman convicted in New York in $2.5 million fraud case

  19-10-2017 18:33
  Former Salt Lake City councilman Eric Jergensen and a co-defendant were convicted Wednesday in New York of conspiring to defraud an aerospace company of $2.5 million.A jury returned the guilty verdict after a seven-day trial in U.S. District Court in Syracuse and sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 16. Jergensen — whose legal name is Keith Eric Jergensen — and Debashis Ghosh, of Chicago, face a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.Jergensen, 58, and Ghosh, 53, &m
  
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• Arizona State's Harry, Ballage could cause Utah defense headaches

  19-10-2017 18:33
  Phillip Afia didn’t flinch. Not that he was supposed to.“There’s never a challenge or anybody in front of us that I’d ever be afraid of and think, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do?’ Never,” said Utah’s sophomore free safety. “No matter who we face.”A solid, expected response by a member of one of the most-respected defenses in the country. Afia is right, too. This week is no exception. Defenses in the Pac-12 Conference routinely study an
  
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• Monson: Jazz know what they are, who they are, and they like it

  19-10-2017 18:25
  So this is the way it’s going to be.The Jazz actually are going to rely on defense for their offense.And that counterintuitive mind-pretzel isn’t some manufactured bit of BS a coach likes to say and players like to mock and kick to the curb. It is the Jazz’s reality. It is their way to winning. It is their lonely path forward.Quin Snyder knows it. Rudy Gobert knows it. Donovan Mitchell knows it. Derrick Favors knows it. The usher in Row 3 knows it.If the defense sags, the offen
  
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• ICE interested in more detention sites for immigrants in Salt Lake City area

  19-10-2017 18:23
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement is soliciting information from private and public contractors for possible new detention sites in the Salt Lake City area for detained immigrants.In a request for information posted to a federal contracting website last week, ICE said it was attempting to identify “multiple possible detention sites to hold criminal aliens and other immigration violators,” who are priorities for detention and deportation under policies amended by the Trump Administr
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Jazz know what they are, who they are, and they like it

  19-10-2017 18:20 via sportspyder.com
  ... that’s more out of balance than a Beyonce backflip. It will not work for the Jazz. Teams like Golden State, Houston, Oklahoma City, and, yeah, Denver, a club...
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert expected to defend special election against lawsuit threats from Legislature

  19-10-2017 18:10
  After legislative leaders Wednesday night voted to pursue a lawsuit to obtain a secret attorney general’s opinion on the special election, Gov. Gary Herbert is expected to field questions about the dispute at his monthly news conference Thursday.
  Herbert’s office has up to now been vocal in arguing to keep the legal opinion as a confidential document. The Legislature requested the opinion on the question of whether Herbert overstepped his authority in unilaterally setting rules for t
  
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• Danté will be be having surgery on his shoulder next week. Everyone stop what you’re doing and @ @daanteee to wish… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 18:07 via twitter.com
  Danté will be be having surgery on his shoulder next week. Everyone stop what you’re doing and @ @daanteee to wish… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mormon missionaries evacuated because of Madagascar plague

  19-10-2017 18:04
  An outbreak of pneumonic and bubonic plague has forced evacuation of nearly 80 Mormon missionaries from the southeastern African island nation of Madagascar.LDS Church officials stressed Thursday that the evacuation was precautionary, and that none of the missionaries had shown signs of the deadly disease.“Missionaries serving on the island of Madagascar are in the process of being transferred out of this area or temporarily reassigned to other missions,” the church stated.The evacua
  
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• Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey talks about Ricky Rubio, Donovan Mitchell additions

  19-10-2017 17:58
  Close to this time last season, the leadership in the Utah Jazz organization sat down with Joe Ingles to tell him a hard truth: He was penciled in as the fifth wing in the rotation.A year later, Ingles has a starting role and a new expensive contract.So no: Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey doesn’t always see what’s coming.“We think we know some things about our team,” he said, “But for any person in sports to say they have a crystal ball and know how it’s a
  
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• Letter: When will our leaders stand up to NRA?

  19-10-2017 17:57
  Until we acknowledge that the common American person does not need automatic weapons that have rapid fire capacity and can kill or maim hundreds in a matter of minutes, we will be known around the world as the most violent place on Earth.I try not to get discouraged and I keep trying to hope for change. But my son who is a major in the military said, “Mom, if the leaders of this country would choose not to restrict access after the shooting of children and teachers in Newtown, then they ne
  
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• Trump's health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance

  19-10-2017 17:56
  Washington • If President Donald Trump prevails in shutting down a major “Obamacare” health insurance subsidy, it would have the unintended consequence of making free basic coverage available to more people, and making upper-tier plans more affordable.The unexpected assessment comes from consultants, policy experts, and state officials, who are trying to discern the potential fallout from a Washington health care debate that’s becoming even more complicated and volatile.Wh
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Will the president fix the ACA mess he made?

  19-10-2017 17:56
  The compromise from Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., would provide states with greater flexibility under the Affordable Care Act in exchange for authorizing cost-sharing reduction payments known as CSRs for two years. Those payments help offset deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers who obtain insurance under the ACA.Trump insisted he’d been involved in crafting the deal. (Then Obamacare wasn’t dead?) Republican lawmakers, however
  
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