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• It's Hammer Time!! ⚒️ @WasatchFord https://t.co/PUjPolvItU

  19-12-2017 23:52 via twitter.com
  
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• The Lakers are still trying to move beyond the 'darkness of the Kobe Era'

  19-12-2017 23:32
  Los Angeles • The basketball world descended on Staples Center Monday night to celebrate Kobe Bryant, to honor his two decades of service to the Los Angeles Lakers by retiring not just one, but two numbers in his honor. It was a fitting tribute to one of the unique players in basketball history, one who formed a perfect marriage between player and city.But as the Lakers again celebrated Bryant's brilliant career Monday night, the man tasked with trying to move on from the Kobe Bryant Era &m
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump's ticket to survival is to ban all the words

  19-12-2017 23:30
  Video: The Trump administration is prohibiting HHS agencies from using certain words and phrases in official documents being prepared for the 2018 budget. (Monica Akhtar, Juliet Eilperin, Lena Sun/The Washington Post)(Monica Akhtar, Juliet Eilperin, Lena Sun/The Washington Post)Washington — President Trump has the best words — and only the best. If there is a word he does not like, or a phrase or proper noun that is not performing up to his expectations, he calls that word into his o
  
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• Utah’s Raelon Singleton excited to play a bowl game in Texas

  19-12-2017 23:20
  Utah wide receiver Raelon Singleton will try to treat next week’s game like every other time he’s strapped on pads as a college player, but it won’t be like the other games.When the Utes play West Virginia in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl in the Dallas’ Cotton Bowl, Singleton, a resident of Crosby, Texas, will play a football game in hishome state for the first time since his senior year of high school in2013.“This is big time, the first time my grandparent
  
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• 12 reported dead as foreign tourist bus crashes in Mexico

  19-12-2017 23:13
  Mexico City • At least 12 people died when a bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early Tuesday, officials said.Seven Americans and two Swedes were among the injured, Quintana Roo state Civil Defense spokesman Vicente Martin said. He said authorities hadn’t yet established the nationalities of the dead.Video images from the scene showed the bus on its side in vegetation off the two-lane highway, with some survivors lying on the
  
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• Utah Jazz to unveil red rocks-inspired 'City' jersey Dec. 27

  19-12-2017 23:11
  If you have a Twitter account and a pulse, you’ve probably seen some leaks of the Utah Jazz fourth uniform designed by Nike.But the team announced Tuesday that it officially will reveal the new jerseys Dec. 27, likely slating them for a game debut in January.The rumor mill has gotten ahead of the planned release of many of Nike’s “City” jerseys, which have been promised as some of the most personal designs of the NBA overhaul. While Utah’s blue and white jerseys mos
  
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• Lady Gaga achieves 'dream' with Las Vegas residency

  19-12-2017 22:48
  Las Vegas • Lady Gaga will join the list of superstars with regularly scheduled shows in Las Vegas in 2018, when she kicks off a two-year residency in December.Gaga in a statement Tuesday says it has been her "life-long dream" to perform in Las Vegas. She says she is humbled to be joining a historical line-up of performers that include Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.The announcement comes at the end of a successful year for the superstar that included a stunning Super Bowl pe
  
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• Don't wait to buy your holiday booze Utah — unless you like to wait in long lines

  19-12-2017 22:42
  Don’t wait until Saturday to make your Christmas liquor run, Utah liquor officials are warning. Unless, of course, you prefer to wait in a long line and want limited choices.
  “If there’s any way you can shift your shopping to another day, please do it,” pleaded Sal Petilos, the director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control on Tuesday.
  Dec. 23 is typically one of the busiest days at Utah’s state-owned liquor stores as shoppers stock up on holiday wine
  
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• After nearly 30 years in prison for murder, Utah man released

  19-12-2017 22:34
  After spending nearly all of his adult life in prison for murder, 49-year-old Frank Gene Powell walked out of the Utah State Prison in Draper on Tuesday morning. He was a free man for the first time in nearly 30 years.Powell could have potentially been in prison for the rest of his life, punishment for running over and killing someone with a truck on Nov. 29, 1987. The slaying came shortly after he and Glen Candland got in an argument about who had the faster pickup truck.At a Nov. 7 hearing wit
  
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• Jonathan Capehart podcast: Congresswoman wants to know what happened to U.S. soldier at 'Trump's Benghazi'

  19-12-2017 22:30
  “The American people need to know what happened to Sgt. La David Johnson. And I think that his family needs to know what happened to Sgt. La David Johnson.”Two months after Johnson was killed during a mission in Niger, Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., still has questions. “It’s sort of like a cover-up,” she said in the latest episode of “Cape Up.” “And from the very beginning, I was calling it ‘Mr. Trump’s Benghazi.’ ”This epi
  
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• Four takeaways from a new book that challenges Mormons to learn more about their own doctrine and to discard Protestant notions about the God they worship

  19-12-2017 22:24
  Mormons are indeed Christians, but even studious Latter-day Saints have much to learn about the depth of their own doctrine and what it says about the Jesus they worship.So say LDS scholars Fiona and Terryl Givens in their provocative new book, “The Christ Who Heals: How God Restored the Truth That Saves Us.”In it, the authors urge Mormons to adopt a more benevolent view of God the Father and to see Jesus as a healer of wounds as much, if not more than, as a savior from sin.Mormons &
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah Women and the Hive Mind

  19-12-2017 22:24
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017.You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.Tax Cut Hail MaryMueller Gets BustedBargain Basement Bears EarsThe Nine Billion Names of TrumpBishop’s Interview QuestionChristmas is Carbon!Middle Class Has to Pony UpThe Drug CzarBook of Mormon BoyThe Lost TribesWant more? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Data shows Utah is ‘headed in the right direction’ with criminal justice reforms, report says

  19-12-2017 22:21
  Two years after Utah implemented the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) to reduce recidivism and help offenders become law-abiding members of society, the set of reforms appears in many cases to be working, a recent report says.The prison population, as well as the number of inmates behind bars for drug-possession and other non-violent crimes, has dropped and resources are focused on more serious and violent offenders, according to the 2017 annual report on the JRI by the Utah Commission on C
  
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• Model Lauren Wasser lost a leg because of toxic shock syndrome. Here's what she wants you to know.

  19-12-2017 22:19
  Lauren Wasser woke up in a hospital bed 80 pounds heavier than she was supposed to be — filled with fluids to try to flush the toxins from her body.She struggled to move, and her feet felt like they were being lit with a lighter again and again. But the model did not know how dire her situation was — until she overheard a nurse discussing the surgery that would upend her life: Wasser, just 24 years old at the time, would need a below-the-knee amputation on her right leg."I just lost
  
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• Utah lawmakers gear up with bills to limit the governor's authority to call special elections

  19-12-2017 22:16
  After some bad blood this year over the process Gov. Gary Herbert unilaterally imposed to replace retired Rep. Jason Chaffetz, two state lawmakers would like to formally set the rules for a special congressional election — and they intend to vest that authority in the Utah Legislature.The in-the-works bills from Reps. Dan McCay and Jeremy Peterson, with files opened for the upcoming session in January, don’t lay out specific visions for how that oversight would operate. But they are
  
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• Utah's four House members vote for biggest tax overhaul in three decades

  19-12-2017 22:12
  Washington • Utah’s four House members – all Republicans – voted Tuesday to pass the most sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in three decades ahead of expected Senate passage that would give the GOP its first major victory under President Donald Trump. While celebrated by Republicans, the plan has been derided for giving the wealthy and corporations a big tax break compared to middle-class Americans.The Senate is set to vote later Tuesday, and Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mik
  
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• A horror thriller filmed in Utah is among the additions to 2018 Sundance Film Festival line-up

  19-12-2017 22:08
  A scary movie filmed in Utah, a hard drama about surrogate childbirth, a documentary about the standoff between Native Americans and a pipeline project, and the arrival of drag icon RuPaul are among the late additions to the 2018 Sundance Film Festival line-up.Eight movies, two career retrospectives, and a virtual-reality presentation have been added to the 110-plus films already announced for the festival, the Sundance Institute announced Tuesday.For Utah movie lovers, one of the highlights wil
  
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• Utah has reached 74 percent of its debt limit as the state economy booms. Worker shortages, poor air quality and federal policies are risks

  19-12-2017 22:02
  Utah government agencies are pushing closer to the limit on the amount of debt they can take on at one time under the Utah Constitution, according to a year-end state financial analysis by the state’s finance division.Utah now has $3.87 billion in various kinds of debt and long-term liabilities. It owes nearly $2.2 billion in general obligation bonds alone, or about $719 for every Utahn, according to the analysis released Tuesday, known as the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. That&rs
  
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• A tribute to our fans, our community, and our state. Nike City Edition coming 12/27/17. #TakeNote https://t.co/cCZWdX97IN

  19-12-2017 21:57 via twitter.com
  
  A tribute to our fans, our community, and our state. Nike City Edition coming 12/27/17.#TakeNote https://t.co/cCZWdX97IN
  
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• Update: Utah man says he did not kill elephants, instead sought permit to import African trophies for a filmmaking project

  19-12-2017 21:55
  Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information.A Utah hunter appears to have been caught up in a contentious debate over whether trophy hunting of elephants and other endangered wildlife improves species’ chances of survival, or instead ushers them toward extinction.South Ogden resident Cliff Graham was among 16 U.S. hunters awarded permits by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) this year to import elephant trophies from the African county of Zimbabwe &md
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder: Keys to close out the road trip with a win

  19-12-2017 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz react: Gordon, CP3 and Capela crush in the clutch by Ryan Aston Utah Jazz at ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at OKC key match-up: Who can stop Steven Adams?

  19-12-2017 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  ...center prior to Rudy’s return to action and he’s clearly been missed in the Jazz’s latest two defeats. If he’s able to get back to the force he was mere week ...
  
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• Commentary: The opioid crisis isn't just about negligence. It's about complicity.

  19-12-2017 21:35
  For years, the opioid crisis was described as one of negligence. In this narrative, doctors overprescribed pills that shouldn’t have gone to patients and pharmaceutical companies overzealously promoted medications while playing down the risks.But new reporting demonstrates how this version, as worrying as it sounds, might understate the role of drugmakers in the opioid crisis. The Post and “60 Minutes” reported that some of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most exper
  
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• RSL announces its 2018 season and home openers

  19-12-2017 21:24
  Real Salt Lake will open the 2018 season at Dallas on March 3. The home opener at Rio Tinto will be the following weekend, when RSL takes on the newest addition to Major League Soccer, LAFC.MLS plans to release the full 2018 schedule for the now 23-team league in January.RSL is familiar with opening the season on the road, something the team will do this year for the ninth time in 10 seasons. Last season, RSL kicked off the year with a scoreless draw at Toronto, extending its opening match unbea
  
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• Utah man charged with murder after allegedly drugging his girlfriend's drink with meth

  19-12-2017 21:03
  A Salt Lake County man has been accused of putting methamphetamine into his girlfriend’s wine — reportedly because he thought it would spice up their sex life — and causing her fatal overdose last year.Joshua Ryan Bridgewaters, 36, of Taylorsville, was charged on Monday in 3rd District Court with first-degree felony murder for 33-year-old Stacey Buchanan’s May 2016, death. Bridgewaters also was charged with obstructing justice, a second-degree felony; and tampering with a
  
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• Utah Jazz at OKC key match-up: Who can stop Steven Adams?

  19-12-2017 21:00
  Despite the fact that the Utah Jazz will have their hands full with the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Big 3 on Wednesday, big man Steven Adams may very well present the biggest challenge for them. Although the Oklahoma City Thunder boast an extremely talented and star-studded Big 3 of Russell Westbrook, Paul George and Carmelo Anthony, […]
  Utah Jazz at OKC key match-up: Who can stop Steven Adams? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Rock On: Investigate Larry Krystkowiak and Jazz Gaming injuries

  19-12-2017 20:50
  ENEMY MINENick Emery may have texted apologies to Larry Krystkowiak, but that doesn’t mean BYU and Utah are besties.Krystkowiak told reporters that he and the former BYU guard exchanged pleasantries via text last summer. But asked if the schools should play annually, the Ute coach said, “No, I don’t think so. That’s my personal opinion, no.”He went on to say the problems he caused the athletic department, after canceling the 2016 game, “had some implications t
  
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• Spilled formic acid closes eastbound lanes of State Route 201 in Salt Lake County

  19-12-2017 20:42
  Crews were dispatched to clean up a hazardous materials spill on State Route 201 near Redwood Road on Tuesday morning.A lock broke on the back of a semi truck and two boxes containing formic acid fell out, according to West Valley Fire Department spokesman Jeff Fox.One of the boxes — which contained ten small bottles of formic acid — broke open, Fox said. Four of the 400-milliliter bottles cracked open, spilling high-grade formic acid onto the middle of the road, Fox said.The West Va
  
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• House passes massive tax package; Senate to vote next

  19-12-2017 20:37
  Washington • Gleeful Republicans on Tuesday muscled the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three decades through the House. House Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed criticism of the widely unpopular package and insisted “results are what’s going to make this popular.”The vote, largely along party lines, was 227-203 and capped a GOP sprint to deliver a major legislative accomplishment to President Donald Trump after a year of congressional stumbles a
  
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• Four months of jail for Utah man accused of causing 22 car crashes in five years for insurance payouts

  19-12-2017 20:13
  WEST JORDAN ∗ A Utah man received a 120-day jail sentence Tuesday for purposefully causing 22 car crashes in a five-year period to collect insurance money.Navid Monjazeb, 37, appeared to be opposed to the sentence. His attorney, Katherine Conyers, advocated for the judge to follow a presentence investigation report recommending six days in jail with credit for time served.Monjazeb contended that he wasn’t 100 percent at fault for all the accidents.“I know I didn’t do eve
  
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• Whose kicks are your favorite? 👟🤔 Poll brought to you by: @Qualtrics

  19-12-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  Whose kicks are your favorite? 👟🤔Poll brought to you by: @Qualtrics
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin wins women’s giant slalom again, shows she’s the one to beat in the Olympics

  19-12-2017 20:10
  Courchevel, France • Mikaela Shiffrin is getting more aggressive in defense of her World Cup and Olympic titles.The American won a World Cup giant slalom on Tuesday, her third victory of the season and 34th of her career — one more than U.S. men's great Bode Miller.This season, Shiffrin has also won a slalom, her best discipline, plus a first ever downhill to underline her expanding repertoire. She is the defending World Cup champion and has already opened up a big overall lead.She cr
  
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• Trump talked about rescinding Gorsuch's nomination

  19-12-2017 20:08
  Washington • For nearly eight months, President Donald Trump has boasted that appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court ranks high among his signature achievements.But earlier this year, Trump talked about rescinding Gorsuch's nomination, venting angrily to advisers after his Supreme Court pick was critical of the president's escalating attacks on the federal judiciary in private meetings with legislators.Trump, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions, was upset tha
  
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• Hazmat situation closes eastbound lanes of State Route 201 in Salt Lake County

  19-12-2017 20:03
  Crews were dispatched to clean up a hazardous materials spill on State Route 201 near Redwood Road on Tuesday morning.The Utah Department of Transportation closed all eastbound lanes of traffic at Redwood Road on SR-201 for the cleanup. Authorities did not immediately release what the hazardous material is.The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story as information becomes available.
  
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• Monica Lewinsky, live, sparks questions before Park City speech

  19-12-2017 20:01
  Mention the name Monica Lewinsky, and she still sparks controversy. Just ask Park City Institute artistic director Teri Orr, who booked Lewinsky to speak Jan. 6 as an activist against cyberbullying.“Is this the best the Park City Institute can come up with?” asked James F. Oshurt, of Millcreek, in a Tribune Public Forum letter last week, which prompted more than 100 online comments.Those comments prompted a Google alert to mortgage-industry executive Vincent Valvo, who placed a call
  
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• Utah Jazz at Oklahoma City Thunder: Keys to close out the road trip with a win

  19-12-2017 19:59
  The Utah Jazz are in desperate need of a win as they close out their grueling six-game road trip with a contest against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Utah Jazz fought hard against the Houston Rockets for nearly the entire contest on Monday night, but were eventually outmatched as the Rockets caught fire in the […]
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• Jazz mailbag: Are the referees sticking it to the Jazz?

  19-12-2017 19:54
  Tony Jones, one of the Tribune’s Utah Jazz beat reporters, will answer questions submitted on Twitter each week in his Jazz mailbag. Here are this week’s questions and answers.
  Do you think refs hold a grudge against DL’s comments on Woj’s pod? #TonyTalks— Joseph Stuart (@jstuart87) December 19, 2017
  I don’t think anyone holds a specific personal grudge against Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey. I also think the Jazz go through plenty of games where they get
  
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• Utah Catholics urged to pray for end to abortion, euthanasia and on behalf of refugees, homeless

  19-12-2017 19:36
  The leader of Utah’s 300,000-plus Catholics is calling on his flock to pray for 40 straight days to support the dignity of human life.But Bishop Oscar A. Solis’ new initiative is about more than seeking an end to abortion. The head of the Diocese of Salt Lake City also worries about euthanasia and the less-than-charitable attitudes emerging in some quarters toward the poor, the homeless, immigrants, refugees and the mentally challenged.“He wants to bring the diocese together to
  
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• Bobsled federation says two Russians should not be suspended from Pyeongchang

  19-12-2017 19:26
  Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexandr Zubkov and top skeleton athlete Aleksandr Tretiakov should not be suspended by the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation for now, according to an independent panel that contends they were not treated fairly in the investigation of state-sponsored doping surrounding the Sochi Olympics.The three-person panel for the IBSF reached its conclusions after concluding that the acceptance of testimony by former Moscow and Sochi laboratory director Grig
  
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• Ricky Rubio's adjustment to the Jazz is taking a little longer than anticipated

  19-12-2017 19:25
  Oklahoma City • Long after his teammates left the floor at the Toyota Center following Monday morning’s shootaround in Houston, Ricky Rubio stayed behind to get shots up with Utah Jazz assistant Igor Kokoskov.It was tedious work, featuring countless 3-pointers, runners and floaters from different depths and angles. Occasionally, Kokoskov would stop Rubio and offer Utah’s starting point guard words of advice. But mostly, Rubio was in consistent motion, trying to fix the shot that
  
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• MLS plans expansion team in Nashville; announcement tomorrow

  19-12-2017 19:25
  New York • A person with direct knowledge tells The Associated Press that Major League Soccer plans to announce Wednesday that Nashville will be awarded an expansion team.The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because a public announcement was not authorized.The league called a news conference for Wednesday for an announcement on the "future of soccer in Nashville" and said MLS Commissioner Don Garber will attend along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Nashville Mayor Megan Barry
  
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• Commitment to defense could make BYU basketball relevant again in top-heavy WCC

  19-12-2017 19:24
  Provo • BYU coach Dave Rose said his team is determined to be “relevant” in the national college basketball picture this season after his Cougars defeated Utah 77-65 at the Marriott Center last Saturday to snap the Utes’ three-game winning streak in the series.The 9-2 Cougars have won six straight and are moving in the right direction, but there’s still a long ways to go.For instance, BYU is nowhere to be found in ESPN’s Bracketology predictions for the 68-team
  
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• Want to help fight bad wintertime air? Take transit. This Friday, it’s free

  19-12-2017 19:20
  Under mostly clear skies and only moderately bad air quality, Salt Lake City and county elected officials and the Utah Transit Authority on Tuesday announced an inversion-fighting day of free transit fares Friday to promote ridership on one of the season’s busiest shopping days.“Free Fare Friday” is a one-off demonstration to promote public awareness. The brainchild of outgoing City Council Chairman Stan Penfold, it will lift the $2.50 fare on all buses and trains in the UTA&rs
  
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• Ann Cannon: For me, Dad’s sweetness outranks LaVell Edwards’ legend as a football coach

  19-12-2017 19:12
  This isn’t the column I planned.I meant to write about the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — how the exchange between a male and female vocalist used to sound like flirting when I was growing up in the 1960s but how, in light of today’s ongoing conversation about sexual misconduct, it comes across as something significantly more sinister.Halfway into the piece, however, I realized my heart just wasn’t in it because all I really want to do this morning is
  
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• Utah teen pleads guilty to helping plan the shooting of 14-year-old Deserae Turner

  19-12-2017 18:56
  Logan • A 17-year-old boy who helped plot the shooting of a 14-year-old girl in February pleaded guilty on Tuesday to reduced charges.Jayzon Decker admitted that he plotted the death of Deserae Turner, along with his friend 17-year-old Colter Danny Peterson, who has admitted pulling the trigger.Decker spoke quietly Tuesday as he pleaded guilty in 1st District Court to first-degree felony attempted aggravated murder and second-degree felony obstruction of justice. Aggravated robbery and othe
  
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• Letter: Reducing garbage truck traffic one can at a time

  19-12-2017 18:50
  Every Monday morning in my neighborhood, we hear the sounds of garbage collection — all day long. I’m not writing to complain about that, I am writing this letter to educate and possibly help alleviate the length of time our garbage trucks run up and down our streets.A couple years ago, I read in our Avenues newsletter that we could help with gas and time efficiency of these trucks and crew by not placing our cans (any color) out to the curb until they’re at least half full.It&
  
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• Former Navy pilot describes encounter with UFO studied by secret Pentagon program

  19-12-2017 18:50
  For most of his 18-year career as a U.S Navy pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor said his mother-in-law used to ask him a question: had he seen a UFO? For 15 years, the answer was no.But one clear afternoon off the coast of California in 2004, he says, that changed.Fravor, the commanding officer of a Navy squadron at the time, said he saw a flying object about the size of his plane that looked like a Tic-Tac after a break in a routine training mission. The object moved rapidly and unlike any other thing h
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Two moderate senators disappoint those who bought their tax bill rhetoric

  19-12-2017 18:48
  The Post reports:“A crucial GOP senator is raising questions about the bill after finding out that it includes a tax break that could financially benefit him and politically tarnish him.“Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., says he wasn’t aware of this new tax break for wealthy real estate developers like him, but the left is whacking him for initially withholding support yet later backing the bill around the same time that this provision was included.“Corker, who is retiring next y
  
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• Letter: Trump supporters: You have become Trump

  19-12-2017 18:47
  I would like to share this letter sent to me by a friend with the hope that it will inspire readers to realize that their support for President Trump and his totally inept, constantly lying administration is a big part of the current chaos and dysfunction of our government.Trump supporters:You are Trump.You are not “like Trump.” You have become Trump.You send every racist tweet you fail to condemn.You utter every insult you explain away.You speak every lie you fail to correct.You col
  
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• Former BYU star Kyle Collinsworth signs with Dallas Mavericks

  19-12-2017 18:40
  Kyle Collinsworth is one step closer to seeing his NBA dreams come true.The former BYU star and NCAA record-holder signed a two-way contract with the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday.https://twitter.com/dallasmavs/status/943164992769089536In turn, the Mavs cut former Jazz center Jeff Withey and guard-forward Antonius Cleveland.Collinsworth went undrafted out of BYU in 2016 but has continued to progress with the Mavericks' G-League affiliate, the Texas Legends. The 6-foot-6 guard has shown the versati
  
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