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• Roger Goodell gets 5-year, $200 million extension as NFL commissioner

  06-12-2017 23:54
  New York • Roger Goodell has signed a five-year contract extension to remain commissioner of the NFL through 2024.A memo from the NFL’s compensation committee to team owners and obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press confirms that Goodell and committee chairman Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, have signed the extension.That extension has been a source of controversy because Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones objected to the process.All 32 owners approved in May the compen
  
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• The red Russian uniforms won’t be in Pyeongchang, but the athletes will

  06-12-2017 23:53
  Moscow • By invitation only, there will be Russians competing at the Pyeongchang Olympics.And likely winning some medals.Although the International Olympic Committee has barred the Russian team from competing in Pyeongchang because of widespread doping at the 2014 Sochi Games, the country will be represented by "Olympic Athletes from Russia" and competing under the Olympic flag.The IOC says the OAR team will be picked by a panel of anti-doping and medical officials from various organization
  
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• Suns' star Devin Booker expected to miss 2-3 weeks with groin injury

  06-12-2017 23:50
  Phoenix • Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker is expected to be sidelined two to three weeks because of a groin injury.The Suns said Wednesday that Booker strained his left adductor late in a 126-113 loss in Toronto on Tuesday night and would have an MRI. Booker froze in place near midcourt, and trainers came out to examine him before two teammates awkwardly carried him off the floor.Booker had 19 points against the Raptors after scoring a season-high 46 points Monday night in a victory in Phila
  
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• Man suing Salt Lake City K-9 officer for unleashing police dog is arrested after news conference at attorney’s office

  06-12-2017 23:46
  A man who on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against a Salt Lake City K-9 officer for unnecessarily unleashing a police dog on him in July, was arrested following an afternoon news conference at his attorney’s office on charges related to the July episode.Jackie Joseph Sanchez was arrested on a $5,000 warrant issued in connection with misdemeanor charges of assault against a police officer, interference with an arresting officer and disorderly conduct.Sanchez, 61, was charged with the co
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Book of Mormon Boy

  06-12-2017 23:33
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.The Lost TribesMonumental ScamTaking the Fall for TrumpTrickle Down or TreatBeauty of Bears EarsConsumer Financial Predation BureauThe Nazi Next DoorSwamp CreatureNon-Net-Neutral JerkFuture Factory Famers of AmericaWant more? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Gehrke: Steve Bannon’s attack wasn’t just targeting Mitt Romney, it pitted Alabama’s evangelicals against Mormons

  06-12-2017 23:23
  Steve Bannon is a festering, scabby boil on the backside of democracy, undermining the American electoral process, pitting citizens against one another and grinding any notion of civil debate into oblivion.*Unfortunately, he’s also smart.He has built a career on understanding how to use race and gender and politics as a weapon to drive wedges between Americans.We are seeing that play out in Alabama, after Bannon went to stump Tuesday night for accused child molester and, oh yeah, U.S. Sen
  
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• Holly Richardson: Why it matters that the Silence Breakers are the Person(s) of the Year

  06-12-2017 23:18
  Muriel Rukeyeser, poet and political activist said “If one woman told the truth about her life, the world would split open.” Time Magazine has recognized the world splitting open.“For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, the Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year.”When The Salt Lake Tribune tweeted the news about the Silence Breakers being named as Person(s) of the
  
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• Utah homeless up slightly from 2016, but down since 2010

  06-12-2017 23:16
  Salt Lake City • Federal housing officials say Utah's homeless population increased slightly last year but the number of veterans and families with children experiencing homelessness continues a seven-year decline.The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the results Wednesday of its annual count of the homeless on a single night last January.It says more than 2,800 homeless were counted in Utah communities. That's an increase of 1.6 percent from 2016, but about a 13 percent
  
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• The number of police officers in Utah is down by about 650 — not including the 5 disciplined on Wednesday

  06-12-2017 23:14
  Sandy • If you’re considering a career in law enforcement, Maj. Scott Stephenson wants you to know that police forces across Utah are hiring.“It’s absolutely amazing how many vacancies” there are, he said Wednesday.Stephenson directs the state police academy in Sandy. On Wednesday, he told the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST) that the latest figures show there are 8,148 active peace officers in the state.Utah, at one point, had about 8,800 pe
  
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• Kids play jurors in Salt Lake Acting Company’s new trial of the Big, Bad Wolf

  06-12-2017 23:12
  On Wednesday morning, schoolkids overwhelmingly oinked and squealed their verdict freeing the charming Alexander T. Wolf (Derek Gregerson) — aka “big and bad” — on trial in a Piggsylvania court for huffing and puffing and, well, killing two little pigs.“Permission to break into song,” ruled a pink-collared Judge Juris Prudence (Betsy West) from the bench.The kid jurors from Open Classroom and Park View elementary schools voted before the closing act of Salt La
  
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• Higher wood-burning fines aimed at Utah’s winter inversion days — forecast to start this week

  06-12-2017 22:52
  It’s that time of year: chestnuts roasting on open fires, but this season, with toughened state penalties against wood burning, in hopes that residents will find other ways to make the season bright.If the forecast holds, Utah’s Wasatch Front is due for its first major inversion of the season this week, with cold weather conditions creating a kind of temperature lid that keeps air pollution hovering over the valley.Regulators at the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) on Wednesday ena
  
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• Hatch, Herbert, Mormon observers blast Bannon’s attack on Romney’s LDS faith as ‘disappointing and unjustified’

  06-12-2017 22:52
  Washington • Insulted by former presidential adviser Steve Bannon’s verbal attacks this week on Mitt Romney, Mormons, elected leaders and scholars decried the rhetoric as “disappointing,” “unjustified” and “ugly politics.”Bannon, who formerly served as top White House strategist for President Donald Trump, blasted Romney on Tuesday night at a rally for embattled GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore in Alabama. Romney had tweeted earlier that Moore would be
  
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• Weber State football coach Jay Hill signs extension through 2023

  06-12-2017 22:48
  Ogden • Weber State has signed football coach Jay Hill to an extension that keeps him in charge of the program through the 2023 season. The deal adds two years to a five-year extension signed in January.The Wildcats won a school-record 11 games this season and two FCS playoff games for the first time in school history. The Big Sky Conference champions are 11-2 and face No. 1 James Madison in the quarterfinals Friday.Weber State finished the regular season ranked No. 9 in the nation in the F
  
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• Roger Goodell gets 5-year extension as NFL commissioner

  06-12-2017 22:47
  New York • Roger Goodell has signed a five-year contract extension to remain commissioner of the NFL through 2024.A memo from the NFL's compensation committee to team owners and obtained by The Associated Press confirms that Goodell and committee chairman Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, have signed the extension.That extension has been a source of controversy because Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones objected to the process. All 32 owners approved in May the compensation committe
  
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• UTA says its ridership is down because homeless riders were swept up in Operation Rio Grande

  06-12-2017 22:44
  Cleaning out drug dealers and criminals through Operation Rio Grande may help attract more Utah Transit Authority passengers long term, but officials say it now is one reason the agency is seeing a reduction in ridership.Some of the people swept up — plus the homeless who relocated for services elsewhere — had used TRAX at nearby free-fare zone stations, such as Old Greek Town, Planetarium and Salt Lake Central, UTA President and CEO Jerry Benson told his board Tuesday.“We thin
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Donovan Mitchell Answers Utah’s Need for Scoring, Star Power

  06-12-2017 22:32 via sportspyder.com
  ...the physical tools to eventually be elite. He’s not there quite yet, as the Jazz are no better defensively with him on the floor than with him on the bench a ...
  
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• .@spidadmitchell has hit 61 threes through his first 25 games, the most ever by a rookie in their first 25 games pl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-12-2017 22:31 via twitter.com
  .@spidadmitchell has hit 61 threes through his first 25 games, the most ever by a rookie in their first 25 games pl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What’s new in Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier lineup? Other people

  06-12-2017 22:13
  Eyes and ears aren’t enough for the New Frontier program, the most experimental part of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.“New Frontier’s always had an interest in immersive storytelling, storytelling that engages the body,” said Shari Frilot, the Sundance programmer who curates New Frontier, whose slate of 27 programs was revealed Wednesday.Many of the works in New Frontier are virtual-reality programming, which require headsets that seem to surround the viewer with image
  
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• No, I didn’t go to the anti-Trump rally — why waste my time?

  06-12-2017 22:08
  Although I didn’t vote for him, and I still don’t like the fact that he’s using oxygen better served in the lungs of a feral hog, I didn’t go downtown to protest President Donald Trump’s visit to Utah.Why? Because my wife wanted me to fix the sink in the bathroom. Also, I had a deadline for work. More important, I couldn’t be bothered to waste my time.Calm down. If you were one of those waving a sign outside the Utah Capitol on Monday, I’m not saying tha
  
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• Salt Lake City police officer sued for ordering dog attack on intoxicated man that resulted in ‘to-the-bone’ injuries

  06-12-2017 21:09
  A federal lawsuit against Salt Lake City police officer Benjamin Hone alleges Hone unnecessarily released a police dog on a man, causing “horrific” to-the-bone injuries and 42 bite marks, resulting in multiple surgeries and $30,000 in medical bills.The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court. It names Hone and Salt Lake City. The lawsuit alleges that Salt Lake City officer Jose Munoz was dispatched on a report of two intoxicated males causing a disturbance at a bus stop at
  
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• Tony Beltran expected to be out for nine months after knee surgery

  06-12-2017 21:07
  It’s rare for Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke to stress the severity of an injury, and he wasn’t exaggerating when he said in October that Tony Beltran was “very badly hurt.”Beltran is expected to miss the first half of the 2018 season after the team announced he underwent two successful surgeries on his right knee. The second of the two surgeries was performed Nov. 30, and team orthopedic surgeon Andrew Cooper estimated a nine-month recovery.“Because it was a multi
  
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• 6 women claim Weinstein cover up was racketeering

  06-12-2017 21:05
  New York • Six women filed a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday, claiming that the movie mogul’s actions to cover up assaults amounted to civil racketeering.The lawsuit was filed at a federal court in New York seeking to represent a class of “dozens, if not hundreds” of women who say they were assaulted by Weinstein.The lawsuit claims that a coalition of companies and people became part of the growing “Weinstein Sexual Enterprise” and that they worke
  
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• Slamdance Film Festival unveils five Beyond features and 67 short films

  06-12-2017 21:03
  Five more feature films, and a collection of short films from 26 countries, have been added to the line-up of the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival.Festival programmers announced Wednesday the features in the Beyond program, as well as 67 short films in narrative, documentary, animation, experimental genres as well as Slamdance’s own Anarchy sidebar.Slamdance runs Jan. 19-25 at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Park City’s Old Main Street, concurrent with the larger Sundance Film Festival. For
  
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• Noah Feldman: Trump lawyer is wrong about obstruction of justice

  06-12-2017 21:03
  It’s happening: President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Dowd asserted Monday that the “president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under” Article II of the Constitution and “has every right to express his view of any case.”This radical view of what lawyers call the “unitary executive” isn’t completely crazy, especially if you take Dowd’s words charitably.But it is wrong. The president can indeed expres
  
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• As Donovan Mitchell surges, former Jazz Rookie of the Year Darrell Griffith is rooting him on

  06-12-2017 21:02
  The night Darrell Griffith learned he held a long-standing record was the same night he lost it.Griffith got a text from the Utah Jazz’s PR staff last Friday night. His rookie single-game scoring Jazz record of 38 points, the one he held for 36 years? It had been surpassed by Donovan Mitchell against the New Orleans Pelicans.Griffith was floored that he had held the record for so long, but not by Mitchell’s 41 points.That’s because Griffith, whose number hangs from rafters in b
  
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• Trump flouts warnings, declares Jerusalem Israel’s capital

  06-12-2017 20:52
  Washington • Defying dire, worldwide warnings, President Donald Trump on Wednesday broke with decades of U.S. and international policy and formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.Despite urgent appeals from Arab and European leaders and the risk of anti-American protests and violence, Trump declared it was time for a new approach to Mideast peace after decades of failure. Calling Jerusalem Israel’s capital, he argued, was merely recognizing the obvious.“We cannot
  
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• Utah County employee accuses Commissioner Greg Graves of sexual harassment

  06-12-2017 20:51
  Provo • A Utah County employee has accused Greg Graves, a county commissioner, of sexual harassment, the two other commissioners confirmed during a public hearing on Wednesday.Commissioner Nathan Ivie called on his colleague to resign, following an investigation into the complaint and what Ivie described as other claims by additional employees. “On Wednesday I voted to release information pertaining to internal investigations into Commissioner Graves conduct. I felt it important that
  
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• Utah lawmakers co-sponsored bill benefiting their employer

  06-12-2017 20:34
  Salt Lake City • A review from the Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press finds that Utah has one of the country’s highest numbers of lawmakers working for a single company — with four working for Zions Bank.Legislators who work for Zions say the bank never tells them how to vote, even on a major bond bill this year that benefited the bank.Utah, like many states around the country, has a citizen legislature in which most lawmakers hold another job outside of public
  
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• #TakeNote #ROTY twitter.com/utahjazzpr/sta…

  06-12-2017 20:31 via twitter.com
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• Taylor Swift explains her blunt testimony during her sexual assault trial

  06-12-2017 20:28
  Taylor Swift was featured on Time’s Person of the Year cover on Wednesday, as one of 2017′s “silence breakers” who spoke out during this year’s cultural reckoning surrounding sexual harassment and abuse.At first, some may have been confused to see Swift — a famously apolitical celebrity who has been criticized for not taking any political stance in this divisive year — categorized as one of “the voices that launched a movement,” as the magazi
  
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• Commentary: Don’t mess around with Jerusalem

  06-12-2017 20:28
  They say that President Donald Trump is about to announce that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.Some will say that it is an early Hanukkah gift for the Jewish people.I don’t want to be an ingrate, but when it comes to Hanukkah gifts, I’ll take an Amazon gift card, anytime.There is no question in my mind, and in the mind of any Jew: Yes, of course, Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel. The Jewish state, the Jewish nation, the Jewish people hav
  
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• [Deadspin] - It's Better When Bradley Beal Just Shoots A Lot

  06-12-2017 20:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...miserable dead-eyed 11-point showing in a 47-point blowout loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday night. Maybe that was rock bottom. In any event, last night Beal d ...
  
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• A teacher in hiding inspires students in moving drama ‘The Fencer’

  06-12-2017 20:04
  The Estonian drama “The Fencer” is evidence that some things — like Hollywood-style dramas about an inspirational teacher and a bunch of plucky students — are universal.The movie is based on the true story of Endel Nelis (played by Märt Avandi), who was a champion fencer back in Leningrad, but exiled to a small village in Estonia in 1952. The reason for his fugitive status: Like most Estonian men during World War II, he was drafted into Hitler’s army — an
  
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• Utah health care providers are steadily raising rates and charging widely different amounts for common procedures, report says

  06-12-2017 20:02
  Utahns on average spend less on their health care each year than residents of any other state, due partly to more active lifestyles and abstaining from tobacco and alcohol.But a new report says that per-capita health costs in the state are nevertheless rising fast — and not because Utahns are seeking more health care. Rather, the trend is primarily tied to hospitals and other providers steadily raising rates, and sometimes, charging widely different amounts for common procedures, the repor
  
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• Family reunions and buried revelations in documentary ‘Aida’s Secrets’

  06-12-2017 20:02
  Sometimes a documentarian can only be as good as the material available, and that turns out to be a severe limitation for directors Alon and Shaul Schwarz in the telling of “Aida’s Secrets.”Izak Szewelwicz was born in 1945, just after the end of World War II, in the Bergen-Belsen displaced-persons camp, set up by the Allied forces near the Nazi concentration camp of the same name. Izak was sent to Palestine for adoption as a toddler and grew up (and still lives) in Israel, not
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is demanding national attention

  06-12-2017 19:55 via sportspyder.com
  ... e huge respect. Every player that goes against Donovan comes away impressed. Jazz fans are very lucky! — moni (@monilogue) (h/t ) More From SLC Dunk Trending...
  
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• Wood-burning fines are going to help prevent Utah’s winter inversion days — forecast to start this week

  06-12-2017 19:52
  It’s that time of year: chestnuts roasting on open fires, but this season, with toughened state penalties against wood burning, in hopes that residents will find other ways to make the season bright.If the forecast holds, Utah’s Wasatch Front is due for its first major inversion of the season this week, with cold weather conditions creating a kind of temperature lid that keeps air pollution hovering over the valley.Regulators at the Utah Division of Air Quality (DAQ) on Wednesday ena
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder 12/5: Jazz depleted in back-to-back

  06-12-2017 19:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... Gobert was on his second game back from a three-week absence and the Jazz rotation was short a couple of key pieces that could have been difference ma ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Let’s just say it, it’s time for Ricky Rubio to hit the bench

  06-12-2017 19:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... AndrewDBailey) December 6, 2017 Nevertheless, such was exactly the case. The Jazz went into the fourth quarter with a solid 12-point lead after being in front ...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Favors, Jerebko, Thunder, Crawford

  06-12-2017 19:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... es also provided an opportunity for free agent addition , who moved into the Jazz starting lineup with Gobert and sidelined, notes . He returned to a reserve...
  
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• Putin won't block athletes from Olympics amid anger at team ban

  06-12-2017 19:48
  Vladimir Putin, fresh on the heels of the widely anticipated announcement that he'll seek a fourth term as president, said that Russia won't stop its athletes from competing under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics after the national team was banned from the Games."Without any doubt, we won't put up any barrier and won't prevent our athletes from participating if they want to compete as individuals," Putin said Wednesday in Nizhny Novgorod. Many of the athletes "have prepared all their l
  
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• Dana Milbank: The Supreme Court cake case has an easy answer

  06-12-2017 19:43
  Washington • There will come a time, hopefully before long, when it won’t be legal to discriminate against gay people any more than it would be to deny goods or services to African-Americans, women or the disabled.But we’re not at that point yet. Hence the need for Tuesday’s food fight at the Supreme Court.On the justices’ plates: whether a baker can refuse on First Amendment grounds to make a cake for a gay wedding because it offends his Christian beliefs. Layered t
  
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• No, I didn’t go to the anti-Trump rally — my track record with protests is ugly

  06-12-2017 19:37
  Although I didn’t vote for him, and I still don’t like the fact that he’s using oxygen better served in the lungs of a feral hog, I didn’t go downtown to protest President Donald Trump’s visit to Utah.Why? Because my wife wanted me to fix the sink in the bathroom. Also, I had a deadline for work. More important, I couldn’t be bothered to waste my time.Calm down. If you were one of those waving a sign outside the Utah Capitol on Monday, I’m not saying tha
  
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• [Fanrag Sports] - The Starting 5 | Donovan Mitchell emerges as a dynamic scorer

  06-12-2017 19:03 via sportspyder.com
  ...polish, and Uggetti breaks a lot of that down here. It’s not just about the Jazz rookie’s numbers; it’s the experience of watching him play, which is why it’ ...
  
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• Franken’s support fades as female Democrats seek resignation

  06-12-2017 18:58
  Washington • Sen. Al Franken’s support among his fellow Democrats appeared to collapse Wednesday as a group of female Democratic senators called upon him to resign amid sexual misconduct allegations. His office said he would make an announcement Thursday, but did not specify the subject.Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Patty Murray, D-Wash., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Maggie Hassan, D-
  
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• We have assigned Tony Bradley to the @slcstars. https://t.co/RRV22saJpQ

  06-12-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  
  We have assigned Tony Bradley to the @slcstars. https://t.co/RRV22saJpQ
  
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• Utah Jazz: Let’s just say it, it’s time for Ricky Rubio to hit the bench

  06-12-2017 18:30
  Ricky Rubio’s woes as starting point guard for the Utah Jazz were once again on display in a disheartening loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder last night. When the Utah Jazz traded for Ricky Rubio this offseason, I was optimistic about the role he would play with the team. He had been an entertaining player […]
  Utah Jazz: Let’s just say it, it’s time for Ricky Rubio to hit the bench - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder 12/5: Jazz depleted in back-to-back

  06-12-2017 18:07
  The Utah Jazz saw their six-game win streak come to an end at the hands of Russell Westbrook and the Oklahoma City Thunder. After leading by 17 in the third quarter, the Utah Jazz faltered to allow the Oklahoma City Thunder to rally back in their road game on Wednesday night. Thanks to a thunderous fourth […]
  Utah Jazz-OKC Thunder 12/5: Jazz depleted in back-to-back - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Draper city names its new police chief

  06-12-2017 18:05
  Draper City officials have announced their next pick for police chief: John Eining, who had previously served as deputy chief.Eining has been the interim chief for the last two weeks, after city council members voted to abruptly fire previous chief Bryan Roberts.City officials won’t say publicly what led to the chief’s dismissal, saying only that “it was time for a change.”Eining has been with the department since February 2014, according to a Wednesday news release.&ldqu
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The president doesn't need to have committed a crime to be impeached

  06-12-2017 18:03
  President Trump’s lawyer John Dowd argued that a president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer. (It sounds better in French - ” L’etat c’est moi!”) He was swiftly denigrated by lawyers and lay pundits, who pointed out that “several court cases and articles of impeachment — as well as, in the words of one expert, ‘common sense’ ” — suggest otherwise.However, it’s also important to recall th
  
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