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• Utah man charged with driving drunk during crash that killed teen passenger

  05-12-2017 23:59
  An 18-year-old Millard County man has been charged with automobile homicide and other counts for allegedly driving drunk when he rolled his car Friday, causing the death of his 15-year-old female passenger.George Jakob Schafer, of Delta, was charged Monday in 4th District Court with second-degree felony auto homicide for the death of Noelia Orona. The count carries the possibility of up to 15 years in prison. Schafer also was charged with third-degree felony counts of failure to remain at the sc
  
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• Dana Milbank: The White House's latest fallback: Who cares if Trump colluded with Russia?

  05-12-2017 23:59
  Washington — At first, it was all so simple. The Trump White House said there were “no contacts” — zero, zilch — between Trump’s campaign and Russia. But in time this elegant defense encountered a formidable opponent: reality.And so for a year now, Trump and his advisers, facing mounting evidence of their campaign’s entanglement with Russia, have redrawn lines of defense and revised talking points with such daring that it has amounted to a veritable Mars
  
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• Commentary: To save the Republican Party from Trump, Romney must shove Hatch aside.

  05-12-2017 23:55
  Love him or hate him (I’m admittedly in the first camp), Mitt Romney is a gentleman. That’s why he’s waiting patiently for senior Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch -- in office more than 40 years -- to decide on retirement before jumping into the 2018 Utah senate race.It’s admirable. It’s also time for Romney to shove Hatch aside.Not because of Romney’s stature: Both men are GOP elder statesmen. And not because of Hatch’s Senate record: They’d likel
  
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  05-12-2017 23:41 via twitter.com
  
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• Supreme Court seems divided in case of baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple

  05-12-2017 23:33
  Washington • The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Tuesday over whether the First Amendment protects a Colorado baker from creating a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy likely to cast the deciding vote.Kennedy, who wrote the court’s 5-4 decision in 2015 saying gay couples have a constitutional right to marry, speculated about what might happen if a decision in baker Jack C. Phillips’ favor prompted requests for bakers across the country to ref
  
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• Steelers LB Ryan Shazier remains in hospital with back injury

  05-12-2017 23:33
  Pittsburgh • Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier will remain in a Cincinnati hospital until at least Wednesday to undergo further testing on a spinal injury suffered in the first quarter of Monday night's win over the Bengals.Shazier left Paul Brown Stadium on a stretcher less than four minutes into his team's 23-20 victory over Cincinnati following a tackle that left the 25-year-old writhing on the turf, his legs motionless. He underwent extensive testing overnight, with the team s
  
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• Man accused of fatally shooting woman in Magna home last summer arrested in Texas

  05-12-2017 23:30
  Law enforcement on Tuesday found a 46-year-old man who had been on the run since July, when he was accused of shooting and killing a woman in a Magna home.Agents with the United States Marshals Service arrested Gino James Cecala in Dallas, Texas, Unified Police Detective Chuck Malm said. As of 3 p.m., Malm said he was unsure of the circumstances surrounding Cecala’s arrest.Cecala allegedly shot 25-year-old Paige Espinoza early in the morning on July 16 while she was at her boyfriend’
  
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• Pioneer Theatre Company’s ‘Newsies’ overflows with high-stepping energy and exuberance

  05-12-2017 22:59
  What’s not to like about “Newsies,” which just opened a run at Pioneer Theatre Company? The Disney hit has a range of music that fills the stage with exuberance and energy — from soulful ballads to rousing song-and-dance numbers, penned by the multiple-award–winning Jack Feldman and Alan Menken — and a lot of snappy dialogue by Harvey “Torch Song Trilogy” Fierstein.But the real key to its success is the surefire formula of its storyline: The underd
  
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• [Yahoo Sports: Ball Don't Lie] - Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz are red hot, but can they stay that way?

  05-12-2017 22:56 via sportspyder.com
  ...unselfish, and the team you don’t know who is going to score.” According to Jazz radio voice David Locke, Snyder calls the practice of getting into the paint ...
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Westbrook, Thunder look to halt Jazz 6-game winning streak

  05-12-2017 22:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... e second time in his seven-year career. “I think he’s just being efficient,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. “His finishing is really, really good right now. He’ ...
  
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• [USA Today] - Burks scores 27, Jazz run away from Wizards 116-69

  05-12-2017 22:50 via sportspyder.com
  ...Burks scored 27 points for his third straight game with 20 or more, and the Jazz blew out the Wizards 116-69 on Monday night. "We played really well," Jazz c ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Is Rodney Hood expendable after all?

  05-12-2017 22:29
  Despite the absence of Rodney Hood, the Utah Jazz have played some of their best basketball of the season over the last four games. Is this a coincidence produced by a small sample size or something more? Coming into this season, there were high hopes among Utah Jazz fans that Rodney Hood could transform into […]
  Utah Jazz: Is Rodney Hood expendable after all? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz win streak leads to burst in NBA Power Rankings

  05-12-2017 22:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... ely great on offense, too. I'm taking the wait–and–see approach for now. The Jazz have won five straight games thanks to some huge second halves. , scoring ov ...
  
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• George Pyle: The Ghost Dance returns, this time to lead the white man to ruin

  05-12-2017 21:41
  The whites and the Indians of Utah may have more in common than either of them thinks. If you collapse the last 140 years.About that long ago, a belief in something called the Ghost Dance spread rapidly through many Native American nations in the Southwest and Great Plains. It was a religious movement founded by a member of Nevada’s Northern Paiute tribe, a mystic named Wovoka.During a solar eclipse on Jan. 1, 1889, Wovoka said, he had a vision of a renewal of the Native peoples of North A
  
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• Recreation industry leaders launch campaigns against Utah monument reductions

  05-12-2017 21:36
  Outdoor gear merchants are aggressively pushing back against President Trump’s order Monday to reduce two Utah monuments by almost 2 million acres combined.Patagonia’s website on Monday and Tuesday opened to a stark black screen with a short message in big, white letters: “The President Stole Your Land.””“In an illegal move, the president just reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This is the largest elimination of pr
  
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• Punter Mitch Wishnowsky, kicker Matt Gay lead Utes' All Pac-12 honorees

  05-12-2017 21:34
  Utah punter Mitch Wishnowsky and kicker Matt Gay earned first team all Pac-12 Conference honors to lead a group of 10 players recognized by the conference Tuesday. Wishnowsky, last year’s Ray Guy Award winner and a finalist for this year’s award, was the only two-time first-team selection on this year’s team.Utes selected to the second team were wide receiver Darren Carrington II, guard Salesi Uhatafe, cornerback Julian Blackmon and punt returner Boobie Hobbs.Center Lo Falemaka
  
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• Salt Lake City police put use-of-force tactics on display

  05-12-2017 21:02
  Staring down Salt Lake City police officers playing the role of suspects wielding dummy guns and knives, media members, who were playing the role of cops, hesitated. And in that split-second, the media members had been shot or stabbed.“You never know who you are going to get and what you are going to deal with,” Sgt. Michael Burbank told the trigger-shy media crowd trying to better understand the line on lethal force.
  The scenarios took place Tuesday morning at the Salt Lake City Pol
  
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• Greg Sargent: The Republican Party, following Trump, just embraced Roy Moore. Now what?

  05-12-2017 20:55
  The news that the Republican National Committee is now fully embracing the candidacy of Roy Moore in the Senate race in Alabama elicited shock and horror among some political observers. GOP pollster Matthew Dowd insisted that Republicans will now have “zero moral authority” to attack Democrats accused of sexual harassment. CNN’s Chris Cillizza agreed, suggesting Republicans had put “winning at the core of what your party believes.”But what if Republican operatives a
  
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• Marijuana growers crave this Brigham Young University student’s organic fertilizer

  05-12-2017 20:50
  Joseph Walker says he’s killed his weight in worms.But after a dozen tries, Walker believes he’s come up with an effective process for encouraging worms to eat — and more important, to poop — and then converting their teeny droppings into an organic fertilizer.The Brigham Young University student’s main customers are commercial growers of marijuana, a market that’s exploding as more states approve pot use for medicinal or recreational purposes.“This mark
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Left and right voted for populism. They got plutocracy.

  05-12-2017 20:50
  Populism, RIP.It croaked on a birthday of sorts. This month marks 10 years since the Great Recession -- and thereby the social movement it unleashed -- was born.This obituary begins in December 2007, when the spark of the financial crisis grew into a fire. The conflagration would go on to blaze through more than 8 million jobs, trillions of dollars in wealth, millions of foreclosed homes and half the value of the stock market.Older and middle-age workers would lose jobs and nest eggs. Younger wo
  
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• 19-year-old Utah man told police he ‘exploded’ before allegedly abusing and killing his crying 2-month old baby

  05-12-2017 20:43
  A 19-year-old man from Clearfield was arrested Monday for allegedly abusing his 2-month-old son, who died on Saturday. Clint Corydon Nokes told police he “finally exploded” because he was tired of the baby’s crying. He would “chuck” the infant onto the couch or into his swing, he told police, and would pull the baby out of the swing by his legs. Earlier last week, the infant hit his head in the kitchen sink after Nokes dropped him into it, according to a probable ca
  
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• Monson: Utes in the ... uh, Zaxby’s Bowl? Utah fans have earned a pass

  05-12-2017 20:29
  There are three kinds of excited over bowl games outside the four playoff slots these days, including for Utah fans considering the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl:No. 1 • So fired up you’re going to rearrange holiday plans, blow off family and friends and years of Yuletide tradition to head off to the game’s destination, live in a hotel over part of the holiday, spend thousands of dollars on accommodations, food, rental car, airline passage and game tickets, and pay for marr
  
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• IOC suspends Russia from Winter Olympics; individuals will be allowed to compete

  05-12-2017 20:13
  Lausanne, Switzerland • Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the upcoming Pyeongchang Olympics as neutrals despite orchestrated doping at the 2014 Sochi Games, the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday.The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic committee and IOC member Alexander Zhukov, and also banned Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko from the Olympics for life. Mutko was the sports minister in 2014 and is the head of the organizing committee of soccer’s next Wor
  
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• [Deadspin] - Donovan Mitchell Will Get You Buckets

  05-12-2017 20:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... as The Look Donovan Mitchell Is A Good Reason To Watch Utah Jazz Games Utah's Ekpe Udoh Is A Delightful Anomaly About the author Giri Nathan...
  
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• Gun maker's exploding rifle leaves trail of injured hunters

  05-12-2017 20:11
  Iowa City, Iowa • It was the opening day of deer hunting season, and Ronald Hansen says he loaded his rifle the same way he had countless times before, aimed at a target and fired a shot.This time, the gun barrel exploded, knocking the farmer from Hampton, Iowa, backward, severely damaging his right hand and ear and burning his face.Unknown to Hansen, the manufacturer of the rifle that injured him in 2014 had received other complaints of explosions and injuries over the prior decade. Custom
  
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• Utah’s Obamacare sign-ups are on the upswing this year, despite efforts to dismantle the law

  05-12-2017 20:08
  Utahns are signing up in droves for health insurance under Obamacare during the latest enrollment period, despite slashed federal advertising, reduced spending on navigators to explain the program — and a general uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under President Donald Trump.Through 26 days of open enrollment for 2018, nearly 63,000 state residents had enrolled in coverage on healthcare.gov, either with Intermountain Healthcare SelectHealth, or University of Uta
  
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• Border arrests fall, deportations soar in Trump's first year

  05-12-2017 20:07
  Washington • Border Patrol arrests plunged to a 45-year low, but detentions by deportation officers away from the U.S.-Mexico border soared during President Donald Trump’s first months in office, as his efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration system took effect.In all, the Border Patrol made 310,531 arrests during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a decline of 25 percent from a year earlier and the lowest level since 1971. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wh
  
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• Utah man sentenced to prison for ‘senseless’ Easter Sunday shooting death and robbery

  05-12-2017 19:59
  The last 20 seconds of Matthew Holt’s life were spent in fear.For those last few seconds, as he struggled with the man who would shoot and kill him in a Easter Sunday robbery near the Jordan River Parkway, he lived in terror.It doesn’t seem like a long time, 3rd District Court Judge James Blanch said. But it was — and to illustrate that, Blanch let 20 seconds of silence pass in his courtroom Tuesday before sentencing Holt’s killer, 36-year-old Jeffery Ray Shepherd, to spe
  
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• Feds sue home owners association along Utah Lake, claiming illegal dumping of pollutants in water

  05-12-2017 19:58
  The United States government is suing the Saratoga Springs Owners Association, a home owners association on the shore of Utah Lake, claiming illegal dumping in violation of the Clean Water Act.The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Utah.The lawsuit names Saratoga Springs, along with Cross Marine Projects, Inc., an underwater construction company. It claims the two entities were involved in the illegal dumping of dredged rock, dirt and sand into Utah Lake or its conjoined wetland
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jazz rookie doing what Deron Williams and Gordon Hayward couldn’t

  05-12-2017 19:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... ay. On draft night, the Jazz general manager said of Mitchell, "He loved us. We loved him. It’s kind of a ...
  
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• Ballet West’s classic ‘Nutcracker’ feels new again with dramatic makeover

  05-12-2017 19:45
  As Ballet West debuted its $3 million makeover of costumes and sets of its beloved “Nutcracker” by founder Willam Christensen, theatergoers reacted with the kind of enthusiasm typically reserved for a brand-new ballet — and in fact this production felt like all that was old is new again.Act I opens on a wintry Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum family holiday party. The new set begins with a big-picture view of the street that lifts away to place us outside the Stahlbaums’ fr
  
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• Arches National Park celebrates end of massive road project with free entry this weekend

  05-12-2017 19:45
  Winter is normally the quiet time at Arches National Park.But not this year.The park will waive entrance fees Saturday and Sunday to celebrate the recent completion of a monthslong road project that inconvenienced visitors and caused closures much of 2017.The project lasted nine months and replaced roads that were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The $16 million worth of road work included the resurfacing, restoration and rehabilitation of approximately 23 miles of roads and pullouts, in
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - December Dates with OKC Will Be Valuable Down the Stretch

  05-12-2017 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... igning MVP Russell Westbrook. With Westbrook limited to just six points, the Jazz took the win 96-87. In the last two games, wins over Minnesota and San Anton ...
  
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• 🎷 🆚 🌩 - TONIGHT Tipoff: 6PM MT #UTAatOKC https://t.co/IjHLUr4l6c

  05-12-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-Washington Wizards 12/4: Jazz basketball is magical

  05-12-2017 19:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... g to continue exactly as it has been, or at least to this same level. If the Jazz were somehow able to do so, that would put them on pace for an offensive rat ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder: Keys to keep the win streak alive

  05-12-2017 19:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz-Washington Wizards 12/4: Jazz basketball is magical by Tyler Crandall ...
  
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• Donovan Mitchell Will Get You Buckets

  05-12-2017 19:00 via deadspin.com
  Fresh off his 41-point statement game on Friday, Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell has remained hot as hell. His contribution to Utah’s all-devouring 116-69 destruction of the Wizards was 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting; he sat the entire fourth quarter. Mitchell’s 16.7 points per game put him third among all rookies and…Read more...
  
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• Oklahoma's leading rusher accused of rape in woman's protective-order request

  05-12-2017 18:59
  A woman filed a protective order Monday against Oklahoma running back Rodney Anderson, the leading rusher for the College Football Playoff-bound Sooners. In the order, the woman refers to herself as a "victim of rape."In the protective order, which was obtained by the Oklahoman's Brooke Pryor, the woman says the incident took place after she met Anderson and his friends at a bar on Nov. 16, two days before the Sooners' game at Kansas. The woman claims she planned on taking an Uber home but "Rodn
  
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• LaVar Ball says he hasn't been thanked for the 'patriotic' shoes he sent President Trump

  05-12-2017 18:57
  LaVar Ball, the aspiring shoe entrepreneur and impresario of his family's soap opera, fired the latest dart in his verbal spat with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying in an interview that he had never been thanked for the "patriot" shoes he had mailed to the White House.Ball told CNN's "New Day" that he had sent the president three pairs of red, white and blue Big Baller Brand shoes (the signature shoe goes for $395 a pair) to "show him that we're patriotic" but "didn't get a thank you."H
  
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• Wanna take your dog for a swim? Head to Utah’s newest canine aquatic center

  05-12-2017 18:56
  Anybody can take their dog for a walk. But now Salt Lakers can take their dog for a swim at a center that rivals anything you’ll find for humans.DogMode, which opened 20 years ago as a doggie daycare/boarding facility, has added a doggie swimming pool. Well, an Aquatic Fitness Center for dogs — a fancy name for a fancy facility.“There are other pools for dogs, but nothing exists like this,” said owner Susan Butler. “And I don’t think anybody else is going to b
  
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• #TakeNote twitter.com/NBA/status/937…

  05-12-2017 18:54 via twitter.com
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• [NBA] - The Roundup—Jazz 116, Wizards 69

  05-12-2017 18:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... team effort. Utah outscored the Wizards 35-15 in the second period as all 10 Jazz players who saw the court finished the first half with at least one assist a ...
  
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• When you see last night's final score 😱 https://t.co/cDjx9pw4V3

  05-12-2017 18:36 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah man sentenced to prison for Easter Sunday shooting death and robbery

  05-12-2017 18:28
  A man who pleaded guilty to the Easter Sunday shooting death and robbery of 46-year-old Matthew Earl Holt near the Jordan River Parkway last year has been sentenced to prison of up to life.Jeffery Ray Shepherd, 36, of Tooele, told the court Tuesday, “I’m truly sorry for what happened and all the pain and suffering I’ve caused.”The victim’s mother, Maxine Holt, said of losing her only son: “The grief is absolutely crushing. I cannot bear it. My heart is broken.
  
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• Pierce: Which would you choose — the Super Bowl or the Olympics?

  05-12-2017 18:27
  If you had your choice of attending Super Bowl LII or the 2018 Winter Olympics, would you go to Minneapolis or South Korea? Mike Tirico chose PyeongChang. The sportscaster, who is calling all of NBC’s Thursday night games and hosting all the Sunday night games this season, will not be involved in the network’s coverage of the Super Bowl, something NBC gets only every third year. But it’s not as if he’s just headed to South Korea as a fan of winter sports. He is NBC&rsquo
  
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• Out of Trump's monument actions, Rep. Chris Stewart seeks to create a new national park

  05-12-2017 18:23
  Washington • A day after President Donald Trump shrunk two national monuments in Utah, Rep. Chris Stewart is introducing legislation to take one of the remaining protected areas and turn it into a national park. Stewart, R-Utah, says he’s introducing legislation Tuesday to create what would be Utah’s sixth national park out of the original Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: a 100,000 acre area that includes one of the more iconic scenery in the area that features anet
  
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• With a potential pro career in her sights, Utah all-American runner Grayson Murphy charging for more

  05-12-2017 18:21
  Her own journey isn’t what fuels Grayson Murphy, but it does put those hundreds upon hundreds of miles into perspective. Every time the senior and now three-time all-American runner laces them up, she can’t help but look back. All the tough decisions she made during her three collegiate stops got her here, a spot she admitted she never imagined being.“I think it’s important to remember where you came from,” the Utah record-setting runner said. “I think that&rs
  
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• Here’s a look at key lands left out of Trump’s new monuments — and what areas remain protected

  05-12-2017 18:20
  Where Utah once had two large national monuments, the state now has five smaller ones under an order signed Monday by President Donald Trump — but several high-value sites the original monuments were designed to protect are left out.On a swift visit to Salt Lake City Monday morning, Trump dramatically reduced the once 1.35-million acre Bears Ears to 202,000 acres in two new renamed monuments and the Grand Staircase-Escalante to three new monuments totaling more than 1 million acres, down f
  
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