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• Kick off your Holiday week with the @MountainAmerica Threes of the Week 👌🔥👌 https://t.co/qSmMzlAAp5

  20-11-2017 23:53 via twitter.com
  
  Kick off your Holiday week with the @MountainAmerica Threes of the Week 👌🔥👌 https://t.co/qSmMzlAAp5
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz to Host Bear’s Sock Drive

  20-11-2017 23:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... Home Arena will receive a pair of tickets to the Jazz-Nuggets contest. The giveaway is for one pair of tickets per person, subject ...
  
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• Prosecutors say 28 deaths probed in Salt Lake City opioid-drug ring case

  20-11-2017 23:41
  Salt Lake City • Prosecutors say they're investigating 28 overdose deaths that could be connected a multimillion-dollar opioid drug ring based out of a suburban Salt Lake City basement.No charges have been filed in connection with those allegations, but prosecutor Michael Gadd said Monday a defendant accused in the scheme should stay in jail amid the ongoing investigation.Lawyers for 31-year-old Drew Wilson Crandall say prosecutors don't have evidence to accuse him in overdose deaths. Defen
  
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• Real Monarchs coach Mark Briggs named USL Coach of the Year

  20-11-2017 23:32
  Mark Briggs, the coach who brought the Real Monarchs their first-ever trophy, can add another award to his list accomplishments this season: Coach of the Year.The USL revealed Monday that Briggs was voted Coach of the Year by team management and a league-wide media panel.“The award symbolizes the collective efforts of the entire organization this season,” Briggs said in a team release. “We accomplished a lot this season, and it hasn’t quite sunk in just how much we accomp
  
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• Charlie Rose harassed us, eight women say

  20-11-2017 23:26
  Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS, also co-h
  
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• ‘It is intentional sabotage’: Utahns rally against Republican tax-reform bills

  20-11-2017 23:25
  First, Bonnie Mitchell used her savings. Then she took out a second mortgage on her Salt Lake City home. When that wasn’t enough, she began draining money out of her retirement account.Now, five years since the car crash that crumpled her spine like a baseball bat hitting a tower of Legos, the bills keep coming.“My life was at a peak and then … ,” she said with a snap of her fingers. “It’s just insurmountable.”After the fender bender, doctors discovered
  
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• Second woman accuses Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching

  20-11-2017 23:04
  Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., on Monday faced new allegations of inappropriately touching women, but there are no signs he plans to step down amid the swirl of controversy now surrounding him.The latest accusation surfaced when Lindsay Menz, 33, of Frisco, Texas, told CNN that Franken, 66, grabbed her when they posed for a photo together at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair. Franken, a second-term senator, already faces a Senate ethics investigation into allegations that he inappropriately touched a fel
  
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• Marc Thiessen: Yes, the Clintons should be investigated

  20-11-2017 23:04
  President Donald Trump’s critics are arguing that GOP calls for the Justice Department to investigate Hillary Clinton and Democrats’ ties to Russia are an effort to distract from the real Russia investigation, into potential Trump-Russia collusion.No, they are not.Ever since Watergate, the mantra of all major corruption investigations has been to “follow the money.” Well, Americans of all political stripes should be outraged by the fact that both Democrats and Republicans
  
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• Hatch a champion of the little guy? Give me a break, senator

  20-11-2017 23:04
  Sen. Orrin Hatch got angry last week when Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio had the temerity to suggest the Republican tax bill was a giveaway to the rich that eventually would hurt the poor and middle class.“I come from poor people,” the Utah Republican blustered. “And I’ve been here working my whole stinkin’ career for people who don’t have a chance. And I really resent anybody saying that I’m just doing this for the rich. Give me a break.”Th
  
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• Kragthorpe: Utah offensive lineman Salesi Uhatafe understands life and loss, and the value of teammates

  20-11-2017 22:57
  One last time at Rice-Eccles Stadium, Utah offensive lineman Salesi Uhatafe will crouch in the middle of the warmup formation and lead the Utes through a lively chant before Saturday’s Senior Day game vs. Colorado.His teammates have surrounded him for five seasons, ever since he lived through the deaths of two family members and a high school friend who would have played with him in college. Uhatafe already experienced one emotional Senior Day, when the school honored Gaius Vaenuku’s
  
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• Kalani Sitake says communication with BYU AD Tom Holmoe remains open, positive as losses pile up in abysmal season

  20-11-2017 22:44
  Provo • Kalani Sitake has had many conversations with athletic director Tom Holmoe through the course of one of the worst seasons in school history, the second-year BYU football coach said Monday during his last formal press conference of the year.“I know where we sit, and I know how to get it fixed, and how to improve,” Sitake said after the Cougars dropped to 3-9 with an embarrassing 16-10 loss to UMass last Saturday. “And that’s the goal, to improve on it. But th
  
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• Brighton's tired of waiting, will open three ski runs on Tuesday

  20-11-2017 22:44
  Brighton Resort has pushed up its opening day to Tuesday, able to open three runs off of two lifts because of snowmaking and natural snow from Friday’s storm.A base of 10 to 20 inches exists in the area serviced by the Majestic and Explorer lifts, said resort spokesman Jared Winkler. That’s allowing Brighton to groom and open Explorer, Hawkeye Access and Shoulder to Lower Majestic runs.With the limited terrain, Winkler said, tickets will cost $45 for people age 11 and older. Children
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Which Ricky Rubio is the real Ricky Rubio?

  20-11-2017 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... That always leads to the question, “Where did they put Donovan?” Often, Utah Jazz players suffer from being grossly underrated (see also, NBA 2017 Defensive P ...
  
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• Brutally killed by Charles Manson's followers, Sharon Tate became the face of victim's rights

  20-11-2017 22:28
  Sharon Tate begged for more time. She was due to give birth to a son in two weeks and pleaded, "Please don't kill me. I just want to have my baby." One of Charles Manson's followers then stabbed the actress 16 times, and with a towel dipped in her blood, wrote "PIG" on her front door.Fifteen years after her daughter's death, Doris Tate conjured that futile plea as she sat across from a Manson Family member convicted of killing Tate and four others at the star's home on Aug. 9, 1969."What mercy,
  
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• Utah man and woman sentenced to prison in drug-related robbery, homicide

  20-11-2017 22:26
  A man and woman accused in the February shooting death of a man at a Salt Lake City apartment during a drug-related robbery have been sentenced to prison.Brody Richard Olson, 37, of West Jordan, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree felony murder for fatally shooting 51-year-old Melvin Dyer while at the apartment to steal drugs.Olson was sentenced last week to 15 years to life at the Utah State Prison by 3rd District Judge Mark Kouris.Tonita Ronette Holland, 39, of West Valley City —
  
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• Zimbabwe's Mugabe ignores calls to quit, faces impeachment

  20-11-2017 22:11
  Harare, Zimbabwe • Zimbabweans mobilized Monday for a major push to oust President Robert Mugabe, an increasingly isolated figure who faces impeachment proceedings and more street demonstrations even as he ignores calls to resign.While there is a widespread consensus that the 93-year-old president should step down after nearly four decades in power, Mugabe has refused. The country has known no other leader since independence from white minority rule in 1980.The conflicted role of the milita
  
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• Garrison Keillor: It's Thanksgiving. Be Happy.

  20-11-2017 22:02
  For evolution, the Constitution,And the ATMs of banks,The Times and Post and the whole West Coast,I want to give sincerest thanks.A Mozart sonata, my inamorata,And a first-rate BLT.For Silverman (Sarah) and the Obama era,I give thanks most thankfully.I’m a fraud, a fake, a big mistake, a creep.I’m over a barrel but I care a lot for Meryl Streep.And so, once again, the feast of gratitude for the gifts of Providence -- profiteroles, procreation, Prokofiev, the profession of faith, the
  
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• Kyle Whittingham expounds further on controversial decision to take timeout that led to Utah’s loss at Washington

  20-11-2017 21:50
  Kyle Whittingham would’ve bet his house against what eventually transpired Saturday night in Seattle.And he would’ve lost.Utah’s head coach said so at his Monday press conference.“I would’ve bet my house that they would not have gone the distance on our defense in that amount of time and maneuver into field-goal range,” Whittingham said, “but they did, so credit to them. We weren’t able to make a play.”The timeout he called with 23 seconds le
  
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• What does Kane County want in a redrawn Grand Staircase-Escalante monument?

  20-11-2017 21:42
  When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced he would visit Kanab last spring, Kane County officials knew they had a rare opportunity to influence the changes he might suggest for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The 1996 designation of the 1.9-million-acre monument still angers many of their friends and neighbors.While the County Commission didn’t have a formal proposal, local officials wanted something in writing to offer Zinke, according to County Attorney Robert Van Dyke.So
  
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• Kyle Whittingham expounds further on controversial decision to take timeout that led to loss at Washington

  20-11-2017 21:42
  Kyle Whittingham would’ve bet his house against what eventually transpired Saturday night in Seattle.And he would’ve lost.Utah’s head coach said so at his Monday press conference.“I would’ve bet my house that they would not have gone the distance on our defense in that amount of time and maneuver into field-goal range,” Whittingham said, “but they did, so credit to them. We weren’t able to make a play.”The timeout he called with 23 seconds le
  
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• Della Reese, who called Utah home while filming ‘Touched by an Angel,’ dies at 86

  20-11-2017 21:37
  The first time I met Della Reese, she hugged me.It was an extraordinarily hot day in the summer of 1994. “Touched by an Angel” had not yet premiered, but the cast and crew were filming an episode at a bar on south Main Street in Salt Lake City, and I was there to do interviews.The first thing Reese said when I went to her trailer was, “Come here and give me a hug.”She was a rather formidable presence, and I could hardly decline.That’s what Della Reese was like. The
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Bring the government to the people?

  20-11-2017 21:32
  The head of the U.S. Department of the Interior is said to be toying with the idea of moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management out to the part of the country where the land it manages is.Secretary Ryan Zinke, along with a couple of members of Congress from Colorado, are brainstorming a plan to move the BLM HQ and its 500-some staff members out to, say, Salt Lake City, or maybe Denver.The idea, and it is reasonable enough, is that the vast majority of the 247 million acres of publ
  
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• Utah named best state government for digital services

  20-11-2017 21:31
  Utah offers the best digital services of any state, according to the Center for Digital Government, a national research and advisory institute.It handed its first place State Government Experience award on Monday to Gov. Gary Herbert. Second place went to Indiana, and third place was awarded to Arkansas.The group said Utah “stands out in its attention to detail and commitment to putting its entire technological toolbox to work for its citizens.”Dustin Haisler, chief innovation offic
  
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• Participant in Utah mortgage modification scam sentenced to a year in prison

  20-11-2017 21:24
  The last defendant in a Utah mortgage modification scam that prosecutors say involved millions in losses has been sentenced to a year in federal prison.U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball also ordered John McCall, of Park City, to pay nearly $416,000 in restitution for his part in the fraud. McCall, who had pleaded guilty under a deal with prosecutors, was sentenced Thursday.A February 2015 indictment alleged that McCall and five others working with CC Brown Law LLC, which was headquartered at vari
  
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• Frances McDormand gives her best performance since ‘Fargo’ in intense drama 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'

  20-11-2017 21:19
  If you thought Frances McDormand couldn’t find a character as rich in detail and emotional resonance as Sheriff Marge Gunderson in “Fargo,” allow me to introduce you to Mildred Hayes, the grieving small-town mom at the center of writer-director Martin McDonagh’s bracing drama “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”The billboards in the title are on a road near Mildred’s house in Ebbing — and it’s in front of one of them, we learn, that t
  
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• A new coalition seeks Rosie Tapia’s killer after 22 years

  20-11-2017 21:14
  The family of 6-year-old Rosie Tapia won’t let die her 1995 abduction and murder, and said Monday they have new leads in the case, but need the public’s help putting together the remaining pieces of the puzzle.Attorney Karra Porter said the family now has a volunteer coalition who are seeking to solve the 22-year-old Salt Lake City case. Porter said they have identified three new persons of interest — two men and a woman, who are suspects or witnesses — who may be involve
  
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• Prosecutors won't seek death penalty for Utahn charged in Alaska cruise ship death

  20-11-2017 21:06
  Juneau, Alaska • Federal prosecutors in Alaska do not plan to seek the death penalty in the case of a Utah man accused of killing his wife during a cruise in Alaska.Kenneth Manzanares, 40, of Santa Clara, has been charged in U.S. District Court with murder in the death of his wife, 39-year-old Kristy Manzanares, in July. He has pleaded not guilty.While the state of Alaska does not have capital punishment, the death occurred while the ship was in U.S. waters.Kristy Manzanares was found July
  
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• Paul Waldman: Why Democrats should tell Al Franken to resign

  20-11-2017 21:06
  When it comes to sexual harassment and misconduct, it’s safe to assume that when one accusation is made against a prominent man, there will be more to follow. And so it is now, as CNN reports:“A woman says Sen. Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010, telling CNN that he grabbed her buttocks while taking a photo at the Minnesota State Fair.“It is the first allegation of improper touching by Franken, who is a Democrat, while he was in office. It comes just days after Leea
  
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• Trio of strong actors cut loose in war drama ‘Last Flag Flying’

  20-11-2017 20:21
  Two wars, Vietnam and Iraq, intersect in memory and grief in “Last Flag Flying,” a drama that gets considerable mileage out of its three outstanding leads.It’s 2003, just after the start of the Iraq War, when soft-spoken Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) walks into a bar owned by motormouthed ex-Marine Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston), who’s also holding court with his regulars. “You don’t recognize me, do you?” Doc asks Sal, and soon Doc has to
  
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• Della Reese, of TV's ‘Touched by an Angel,’ has died at 86

  20-11-2017 20:07
  Los Angeles • Della Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama “Touched by an Angel,” has died at age 86.A family representative released a statement Monday that Reese died peacefully Sunday evening in California. No cause of death or additional details were provided.Before “Touched by an Angel” debuted in 1994, Reese was mainly known as a singer, although she
  
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• Thanksgiving travelers to stuff I-15 with up to 45-minute delays

  20-11-2017 20:01
  Early Thanksgiving travelers are expected to stuff Interstate 15 with heavy traffic and delays this week.The Utah Department of Transportation is predicting heavy delays — of up to 45 minutes — on Interstate 15 along the Wasatch Front during the evening commute on Wednesday, as many people head out of town or escape from work a bit early for the holiday.UDOT said its engineers expect a 25 percent increase in traffic on both Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, compared to a typical weekda
  
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• Sandy police find body in front yard of rental home and are investigating

  20-11-2017 19:50
  A 44-year-old man was found dead in a front yard overnight in Sandy. The body was found outside a rental home near 8000 S. 1300 East late Sunday or early Monday. Sandy police Sgt. Jason Nielsen said the renter called 911 and officers arrived to find the body in the front yard. The deceased is a friend of the renter, Nielsen said. Police consider the death suspicious and are investigating it as a homicide, Nielsen said, though he emphasized that is standard procedure whenever a body is found in a
  
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• Utah ski resorts giddy over Olympic bid, worried by DUI law

  20-11-2017 19:46
  Utah ski officials kick off the new season energized by the growing possibility of another Winter Olympics bid and buoyed by two straight seasons of record visitation. But there’s also some concern that publicity surrounding the state’s strict new DUI law that goes into effect next year may keep skiers and snowboarders away by adding to the long-held stigma that visitors can’t have fun in Utah.DUI law controversy State lawmakers voted to lower Utah’s blood alcohol limit f
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy’s Quest for DPOY - Episode 3

  20-11-2017 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... tar More From SLC Dunk Trending Find Tickets Wed Nov 22 Chicago Bulls @ Utah Jazz 7:00 PM - Vivint Smart Home Arena - Salt Lake City, UT Sat Nov 25 Milwaukee...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Minus Rudy Gobert, the Utah Jazz have a Top 10 offense

  20-11-2017 19:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... Johnson, and Udoh. They should be able to take care of the rock, instead the Jazz are 28th in the league which continues to undermine their improvement on the ...
  
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• White House aides divided over scope, risks of Russia probe

  20-11-2017 19:22
  Washington • Six months into a special counsel's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, White House aides and others in President Donald Trump's close orbit are increasingly divided in their assessments of the expanding probe and how worried administration officials and campaign aides should be about their potential legal peril, according to numerous people familiar with the debate.Some in the West Wing avoid the mere mention of Russia or the investigation
  
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• After border agent is killed and partner injured in Texas, Trump renews call for wall

  20-11-2017 19:21
  Authorities were searching southwest Texas for suspects or witnesses after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and his partner injured Sunday while on patrol in the state's Big Bend area, officials said.Agent Rogelio Martinez and his partner were "responding to activity" near Interstate 10 in Van Horn, Texas, when both were seriously injured, according to a Customs and Border Protection news release.Martinez's partner called for help. Other agents arrived, provided medical care and took them t
  
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• Lawmakers could up Wyoming booze taxes

  20-11-2017 19:10
  Casper, Wyo. • An interim legislative committee is considering higher taxes on alcohol sold in Wyoming.Bills before the Interim Joint Revenue Committee would raise the sales tax on malt beverages from one-half cent per 100 milliliter to four and three-fourths centers per liter; raise the sales tax on wine and spirits an additional one cent per 750 milliliters; and raise the tax on malt beverages an additional one cent per 12 ounces to fund an alcohol abuse recovery fund.The Casper Star-Trib
  
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• BYU alumnus helps make computer-simulated cloth look real for Pixar’s ‘Coco’

  20-11-2017 19:09
  When Emron Grover was growing up in Draper, and when he attended at Brigham Young University, he had two passions: art and computers.“Growing up, I wanted to be an artist. I was an artist drawing, everywhere, everything,” Grover said in a recent interview. But in his teens, as the internet took off, he went the more technical route and enrolled at BYU, where he started out as a computer-science major.“Little did I know that this mix of artistic and technical was exactly what I
  
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• As clock ticks on tax bill, White House signals a compromise

  20-11-2017 19:09
  Washington • President Donald Trump's budget director said Sunday that the White House is willing to remove a contentious provision taking aim at the Affordable Care Act from the Republican tax overhaul plan if politically necessary, a move that would fundamentally reshape the effort in the Senate.In a television interview, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said the Trump administration would be fine with jettisoning a proposal to repeal the ACA's individual mandate if
  
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• Trump puts North Korea back on state sponsors of terrorism

  20-11-2017 19:04
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Monday announced that he has re-designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terror, a move aimed at increasing pressure on Pyongyang a decade after the George W. Bush administration removed the rogue nation from the list.Trump made his decision public during a brief photo op at a Cabinet meeting, calling it “a very critical step” that “should’ve happened a long time ago.” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
  
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• Sydney Leroux, FC Kansas City teammates headed to Utah’s new women’s soccer franchise

  20-11-2017 19:04
  The rights to FC Kansas City players will be assigned to Real Salt Lake’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, the league announced Monday.The NWSL has re-acquired FC Kansas City’s membership interest in the league, and the club has ceased operations. The announcement comes four days after RSL announced that it is launching an NWSL team for the 2018 season.While the Salt Lake side is technically a new club, it also will be assigned Kansas City’s 2018 draft picks, posi
  
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• Testing The Process TONIGHT... Tipoff: 5 PM MT #UTAatPHI https://t.co/xHj2E5OewK

  20-11-2017 19:03 via twitter.com
  
  Testing The Process TONIGHT... Tipoff: 5 PM MT#UTAatPHI https://t.co/xHj2E5OewK
  
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• Jazz shootaround: Derrick Favors eager for chance to take on Sixers' Embiid

  20-11-2017 18:53
  Philadelphia • Derrick Favors is ready for the challenge of facing Joel Embiid.That is if Joel Embiid plays Monday night against the Utah Jazz. The Philadelphia 76ers star big man is listed as questionable with knee soreness and will be a game-time decision.Even if he doesn’t play, that should mean little to the Jazz. After all, the Sixers, without Embiid, walked out of Vivint Smart Home Arena with a 104-97 win against the Jazz two weeks ago. JJ Redick and Dario Saric peppered Utah wi
  
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• Defunct FC Kansas City’s players headed to Utah’s new women’s soccer franchise

  20-11-2017 18:17
  The rights to FC Kansas City players will be assigned to Real Salt Lake’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, the league announced Monday.The NWSL has re-acquired FC Kansas City’s membership interest in the league, and the club has ceased operations. The announcement comes four days after RSL announced that it is launching an NWSL team for the 2018 season.While the Salt Lake side is technically a new club, it also will be assigned Kansas City’s 2018 draft picks, posi
  
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• Animal rights group shares this undercover video of diseased and mistreated turkeys at Utah barns

  20-11-2017 18:17
  An animal rights group has targeted the Utah-based Norbest turkey plant in Moroni, releasing documents on Monday that shows the national producer allowed extreme confinement of birds, injured and diseased animals to go untreated, and sick poultry to be pecked to death by others in the flock.
  The leader of Direct Action Everywhere says his group went undercover numerous times between January and September 2017, collecting video, photographs and written documents from 14 turkey barns in San Pete C
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Philadelphia 76ers: Keys to keep momentum rolling

  20-11-2017 17:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz-76ers key matchup: Derrick Favors takes on Joel Embiid by John Keeffer ...
  
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• Theo's journey: A transgender child at war with his body

  20-11-2017 17:46
  Homestead, Fla. • Theo Ramos learned how to cut himself when he was in fifth grade, when his body seemed to revolt.Exploring online was easy, with hashtags like #scars, #hurt and #brokeninside.Nothing made sense back then, but Theo absorbed what he saw on websites like a religion. All he could focus on was how the exterior he was born with — that of a girl — didn't look or feel right. That was six years ago, when he had another name and a different gender.Back then, Theo felt th
  
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• Greg Sargent: Democrats hope to make Trump pay for his awful tax plan

  20-11-2017 17:35
  One looming challenge Democrats face is to close what you might call the “pluto-populist gap” — the vast disconnect between how working-class whites perceive President Donald Trump’s instincts and intentions on the one hand, and his full-on embrace of the congressional GOP’s plutocratic agenda on the other.Democrats believe the massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that Trump and Republicans are now pushing gives them a way of doing just that — jus
  
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• What the parasites in a defector's stomach tell us about North Korea

  20-11-2017 17:30
  The North Korean defector had sped across the demilitarized zone in a stolen jeep, then crawled south as the men who had been his comrades moments ago shot at him with handguns and AK-47 rifles.South Korean soldiers found the defector under a pile of leaves, bleeding from at least five gunshot wounds.He was brought to doctors, who expected to find the soldier in bad shape. But what they also found when they opened him up gave the world a glimpse into just how bad things are in North Korea.Doctor
  
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