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• Utah snowpack lowest in 30 years in many mountain locations

  26-12-2017 23:43
  Utah’s snowpack is looking anything but good — in some areas it is the lowest or second lowest it’s been in 30 years.That may not be news to skiers and snowboarders, who have been thrashing through brush and rocks for weeks. And if the weather pattern continues, it could spell trouble come summer if reservoirs fail to fill. Farmers and ranchers already are feeling some pain.But, as Mark Struthwolf, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said Tuesday, “Things ca
  
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• Utah Guard intelligence unit headed to Afghanistan for year

  26-12-2017 23:22
  Draper • More than a dozen members of the Utah National Guard are preparing for a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.A departure ceremony is planned Thursday at Utah Guard Headquarters in Draper for 15 soldiers from the 142nd Military Intelligence Battalion.Lt. Col. Steven Fairbourn said Tuesday they've been assigned to a mission in Afghanistan where they will process and analyze country-wide information to help U.S. forces gain a better understanding of the battlefield and fight enemy ins
  
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• Live: Utah takes down West Virginia 30-14 to capture Heart of Dallas Bowl trophy

  26-12-2017 23:13
  Dallas • The Utes improved to 11-1 under coach Kyle Whittingham in bowl games, and they won their fourth in four years with a 30-14 victory over West Virginia in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.Utah running back Zack Moss rushed for more than 100 yards, and quarterback Tyler Huntley scored on a pair of rushing touchdowns as Utah finished the season with a record of 7-6 to secure its fourth consecutive winning season.Moss and Huntley bot
  
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• Hatch office dismisses scathing Tribune editorial as click bait

  26-12-2017 23:05
  Sen. Orrin Hatch’s office responded to a scathing Salt Lake Tribune editorial by dismissing it as a baseless attack meant only to attract clicks to its website.
  “Everyone celebrates Christmas differently,” said Hatch spokesman Matt Whitlock in a statement. “We all sincerely hope the members of The Salt Lake Tribune editorial board find joy this holiday season in something beyond baselessly attacking the service and integrity of someone who [has] given 40 years for the peo
  
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• Jazz shootaround: ‘Kuzmania’?Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell says he’s paying attention but avoiding the hype

  26-12-2017 23:01
  Denver • The hottest rookie fashion statement in the NBA is coming out of Los Angeles. And it isn’t Big Baller Brand.L.A. media reported that hyped guard Lonzo Ball had a shirt hanging in his locker that read, “Kuzmania” after Kyle Kuzma dropped 31 points on the Minnesota Timberwolves on Christmas. It’s a good bet that it’s going to be a hit given that the former Utah Utes standout is leading all rookies with 18.1 points per game.Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell ha
  
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• Freshman QB Jordan Love appreciates extra practice time in preparation for Utah State's bowl game

  26-12-2017 22:26
  Logan • It took most of the season for Utah State coach Matt Wells to find his quarterback of the present.Heading into this week’s bowl game, however, it seems safe to say the Aggies have their quarterback of the future. So while everyone around the Utah State football team is focused on a bowl win over New Mexico State, a victory that would give them a winning record this season, reaching this point should pay dividends for the Aggies in 2018.“From that standpoint, you could ar
  
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• Live: Utah heads to fourth quarter with 17-6 lead in Heart of Dallas Bowl

  26-12-2017 22:00
  The Utah Utes, coming off a regular-season finale rout of Colorado, plays West Virginia in the Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl on Tuesday morning with a chance to finish the season above .500. Follow the action here with The Tribune’s Lynn Worthy, Kurt Kragthorpe and othersA Twitter List by matttraub
  
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• Start the new year right with a hike

  26-12-2017 21:58
  There are few better ways to start a new year than to take a hike.Some folks on New Year’s Day organize these on their own to popular spots such as Angels Landing at Zion National Park or the Delicate Arch at Arches.But for those looking for a formal group, four New Year’s hikes around the state being offered by Utah State Parks might fill the need to get outdoors and hike off some of those holiday calories.According to Utah State Parks, the state agency will host hikes at Antelope I
  
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• Media face challenges in rush to sexual misconduct reckoning

  26-12-2017 21:57
  New York • Talk-show host Tavis Smiley isn’t just angry at PBS for firing him on sexual misconduct charges. He’s angry about his depiction in the media.Smiley believes that if he hadn’t talked publicly about romantic relationships with subordinates at his company, the behavior that led to his downfall, the public would make little distinction between him and those who have been accused of sexual assault or rape.Conflation of different forms of misbehavior — the idea
  
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• Who punishes a prosecutor? In Utah, probably no one

  26-12-2017 21:36
  It was during a July 2013 hearing that a Utah County judge declared Steve Turley's constitutional right to a fair trial — and perhaps Utah's wiretapping laws — had been violated.The transgression: County prosecutors and investigators watched a live video feed while the former Provo councilman consulted with his attorney after they had met at the prosecutors' office to discuss fraud allegations lodged against him. A recording was made of the conversation, but it was later destroyed.Th
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kyle Kuzma’s Christmas game impresses Donovan Mitchell: ‘I’m real proud of him’

  26-12-2017 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... is incredible. “I’m real proud of him,” he added. “I text him all the time.” Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell says he’s proud of Lakers rookie Kyle Kuzma after his ...
  
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• CBS analyst says 6-6 is pretty darn good if you’re Utah State

  26-12-2017 21:22
  Is just making it to a bowl game enough at a time when all a college football team has to do to make it to the postseason is go 6-6?“It depends on what you’re expecting Utah State to be,” said Corey Chavous, who will be in the CBS Sports Network broadcast booth when USU plays New Mexico State in the Arizona Bowl on Friday. If you’re expecting Utah State to be playing to the level of, say, Alabama, then 6-6 is disappointing. If you’re more realistic about who the Agg
  
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• Kyle Kuzma’s Christmas game impresses Donovan Mitchell: ‘I’m real proud of him’

  26-12-2017 21:20
  DENVER — Christmas was good for Donovan Mitchell.First, he gifted his younger sister, Jordan, with a jacket; belt, Adidas gear and her first pair Yeezy’s.Then Utah Jazz arrived in Denver on Monday evening ahead of Tuesday’s battle against the Nuggets, but the star rookie was certainly able to catch the Los Angles Lakers nightcap against the Minnesota Timberwolves on TNT.Mitchell typically stays focused on what he’s doing in Utah, but it was hard to miss Lakers rookie and
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Jazz unveil incredibly distinctive red/orange jerseys

  26-12-2017 21:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... of our state. Another special aspect of the City Edition uniform is that the Jazz will be wearing a state of Utah logo that features the basketball lines from ...
  
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• BYU students work to help with debt collection lawsuits

  26-12-2017 20:41
  Salt Lake City • A class of law students at Brigham Young University is working to help Utah residents with their debt collection lawsuits.KUER-FM radio reports Salt Lake City lawyer Kimball Parker is leading the group of nine students in a semester-long project to work on a technology solution that can provide legal assistance free of charge.The group, called LawX, wants to get free, easily accessible legal help to those who are facing a debt lawsuit.The details of the technology solution
  
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• Much-improved San Diego adds intrigue to WCC men’s basketball race

  26-12-2017 20:34
  Provo • From BYU’s perspective, there is good and bad news as the 2017-18 West Coast Conference men’s basketball race begins later this week.The good news is that the two teams picked to finish ahead of them in the league standings, Gonzaga and Saint Mary’s, might not be as good as they were last year. The Zags (10-3) and Gaels (11-2) still are powerful and likely will battle the next nine weeks for the regular-season title, but they’ve seemingly dropped back to the
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look for rare December win against Denver Nuggets

  26-12-2017 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... done next to nothing in a Jazz uniform and looks like a budding star halfway through his rookie campaign. A ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz Have a Bold New Look

  26-12-2017 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... efenses and make a play. One scout told Bleacher Report he'd expect the Utah Jazz to hang up on anyone calling to make a trade offer for Mitchell, even it inc ...
  
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• Live: West Virginia hits FG to cut Utah lead to 7-3 early in second quarter at Heart of Dallas Bowl

  26-12-2017 20:16
  The Utah Utes, coming off a regular-season finale rout of Colorado, plays West Virginia in the Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl on Tuesday morning with a chance to finish the season above .500. Follow the action here with The Tribune’s Lynn Worthy, Kurt Kragthorpe and othersA Twitter List by matttraub
  
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• Paul Waldman: Russia is going to attack our next election

  26-12-2017 20:10
  The Russians are coming for our elections - to disrupt them, to discredit them, and even to affect their outcome. They’ll be coming in 2018, and in 2020. The trouble is that even if we figure out what they’re up to, our own government may be unable or unwilling to stop it.That’s the conclusion one has to come to upon reading reports like the new one from The Washington Post’s Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Jaffe, which describes how powerless the federal government
  
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• Ann Cannon: New Year’s resolutions from my 10-year-old self that still hold true today

  26-12-2017 20:10
  My mom gave me a diary for Christmas the year I was in the fifth grade at Edgemont Elementary. The cover, embossed with gold lettering, was made of faux leather the color of a Bass Weejuns penny loafer. It had a lock and a key, and I thought that diary—my first — was the most sophisticated thing I’d ever owned.Just imagine! If you owned a diary, even if you were just an ordinary girl growing up on an ordinary street in an ordinary town in America, you could still write a book (
  
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  26-12-2017 19:52 via twitter.com
  
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• [The Players' Tribune] - Our 17 Favorite Photos From 2017

  26-12-2017 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... icially retired from basketball after L.A.’s first-round playoff loss to the Jazz last April. He now works as an analyst for ESPN. Photo By Adam Glanzman/The...
  
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• A bench, a bird, an arch: The eccentric legacy of Richard Johnston's public art in Salt Lake City

  26-12-2017 19:40
  Michael Hall watches people every day take a seat on the odd little metal bench in Salt Lake City’s Avenues neighborhood.“The one I notice the most is when a parent and a child take a rest there,” said Hall, director of Jane’s Home, the mansion-turned-gathering place on South Temple and T Street. “Those [city] blocks are pretty long for little kids.”The bench, a random bit of whimsy along a busy street, is part of the legacy of public art of Richard Johnston,
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets: Keys to getting back on track

  26-12-2017 19:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz finally unveil audacious ‘City Edition’ uniform by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Avalanche danger in northern Utah rated as high

  26-12-2017 19:31
  An avalanche warning for northern Utah mountains was continued Tuesday after Christmas storms helped create dangerous conditions on many backcountry slopes.The Utah Avalanche Center, which rated the danger of snowslides as high, extended the warning to 6 a.m. Wednesday. The affected areas are the Bear River range; the western Uintas; and all of the Wasatch range, including the Ogden, Provo, Salt Lake City and Park City area mountains.People have been caught in numerous natural and human-triggere
  
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• Former BYU defensive end Ezekiel Ansah has three sacks, former USU linebacker Zach Vigil records 12 tackles as local stars of NFL Week 16

  26-12-2017 19:22
  Each week, we’ll recap notable performances from local BYU, Utah, USU and SUU alumni in the NFL. Here’s what stood out from Week 16 of the 2017 NFL season:Denver Broncos at Washington (Washington won, 27-11)• Broncos RB Devontae Booker (Utah) had eight carries for 47 yards and five catches for 24 yards. He also returned two kicks for 26 yards and lost a fumble in 30 offensive snaps and eight special teams snaps.• Broncos OT Garett Bolles (Utah) played all 74 offensive snaps
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: Maybe the free world doesn't need a leader

  26-12-2017 19:07
  Who is the leader of the free world? Important as the question sounds, I’m beginning to wonder if it’s better left unanswered.The U.S. president is no longer the obvious choice. Even the new U.S. National Security Strategy, filled with bombastic statements such as “the whole world is lifted by America’s renewal and the reemergence of American leadership,” acknowledges growing competition among powers. And of course “America first” is the slogan of a nati
  
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• 🎷 🆚 ⛏️ - Tonight!! Tipoff⌚️: 7PM MT #UTAatDEN https://t.co/1myojgPLjN

  26-12-2017 18:59 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah Jazz at Denver Nuggets: Keys to getting back on track

  26-12-2017 18:10
  The Utah Jazz, who have struggled mightily on the road, will have their work cut out for them as they face the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center tonight. Last week the Utah Jazz earned a big home win over the San Antonio Spurs in one of those outings that made fans think that perhaps […]
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• Author says it’s time for a ‘Nature Fix’ for a longer, happier life

  26-12-2017 17:55
  After writing a well-received book on breasts, author Florence Williams turned to the importance of nature to a person’s basic well-being.She doesn’t find the subjects of “Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History” and “The Nature Fix” that different.“Actually they are not,” said the journalist on a recent trip to Salt Lake City to speak to the Utah Nature Conservancy Board. “Both are environmental health books. The first was about how the env
  
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• Utah deputy punches through frozen pond to rescue boy

  26-12-2017 17:30
  New Harmony • A sheriff's deputy in southern Utah punched through a frozen pond on Christmas Day to rescue a drowning 8-year-old boy.Washoe County Sheriff's Lt. David Crouse says the boy was chasing his dog at about 5 p.m. Monday when another child saw him fall through the ice on a pond in New Harmony north of St. George.He says sheriff's Sgt. Aaron Thompson broke a path through the ice until he was close enough to dive in and locate the boy about 25 feet from the shoreline.Crouse says the
  
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• Elderly southwest Utah woman dies in Christmas Eve fire

  26-12-2017 17:21
  St. George • A Christmas Eve fire has claimed the life of a bedridden woman in southwest Utah.Santa Clara Fire Chief Dan Nelson says a family member who tried to rescue the elderly woman has been hospitalized with burn injuries at a hospital in St. George.Police responded to the blaze at a home in Ivins at about 7 p.m. Sunday.Fire crews from St. George helped battle the blaze but investigators say the home was a total loss. They believe the fire began in a bedroom but they haven't determine
  
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• 'Stranger Things' co-star and pink Power Ranger are first guests booked for 2018 Salt Lake Comic Convention

  26-12-2017 17:19
  The first two celebrities booked for the newly renamed Salt Lake Comic Convention have been announced: A teen star of “Stranger Things” and a former Power Ranger.Gaten Matarazzo and Amy Jo Johnson will make appearances at the sixth annual convention, set for Sept. 6-8 in the Salt Palace Convention Center, organizers announced to fans on Christmas.Matarazzo plays Dustin Henderson, one of the four friends sucked into the mystery in their Indiana town in “Stranger Things.” D
  
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• Dense fog and ice cause 14-vehicle crash on I-15 in Utah County

  26-12-2017 16:51
  Be careful on your Tuesday morning commute: Fog and icy roads are slowing travel and have led to a multiple-vehicle crash in Utah County.The National Weather Service has issued a dense fog advisory mainly in Davis, Weber and Utah counties effective until 11 a.m. Tuesday.Patchy fog is affecting portions of Interstate 15 and the Legacy Parkway, according to the weather service.The Utah Highway Patrol reported a 14-car car pileup on northbound I-15 in the Springville area. The crash closed three ri
  
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• What to watch for: Your Utah-West Virginia game guide

  26-12-2017 16:12
  Time, Place and [Radio Waves in] Space • The Utes and West Virginia clash in the eighth Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas at Cotton Bowl Stadium 11:30 a.m. (MT) Tuesday. You can watch on ESPN or listen on ESPN 700 AM, Sirius 137/XM 202/Internet 962.Line • Utah is a 6.5-point favorite as of Monday.Opposing coach • Dana Holgorsen is in his seventh season as Mountaineers coach, and he’s at the helm for the sixth bowl appearance. He came into this season ranked fourth on the program
  
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• Monson: New Jazz uniforms color Utah’s world

  26-12-2017 16:11
  A team’s uniform is a big deal. It’s an emblem, a flag, a banner.Fans take that signature seriously. They don’t want their team goofing too wildly with the vestment they love, the robe which the gladiators representing them wear into battle against other armies of other city-states.There’s a fine line, then, between properly updating, modernizing, making more chic that which has been recognized as a standard in the community for seasons past, and letting that uniform beco
  
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• Facing deportation, a Utah mother of four spends Christmas in the airport before returning to Guatemala

  26-12-2017 15:52
  As Maria Santiago Garcia checked in for her flight at the Salt Lake City International Airport, with five large suitcases in tow, the word “American” loomed above her in clean, bold letters.It was just a brand, the airline she and her four children were using for their journey to Santiago Garcia’s native Guatemala.But it was more than that: it was the reason she and her children were leaving. While they are American citizens, she is not. That designation made all the difference
  
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• Gordon Monson: New Jazz uniforms color Utah’s world

  26-12-2017 15:27
  A team’s uniform is a big deal. It’s an emblem, a flag, a banner.Fans take that signature seriously. They don’t want their team goofing too wildly with the vestment they love, the robe which the gladiators representing them wear into battle against other armies of other city-states.There’s a fine line, then, between properly updating, modernizing, making more chic that which has been recognized as a standard in the community for seasons past, and letting that uniform beco
  
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• Gomberg: Inspired by a persistent, tough congresswoman, this New Year, I’m ‘reclaiming my time’

  26-12-2017 15:27
  Remember this summer when Rep. Maxine Waters “reclaimed her time” and boldy stopped Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in his tracks during a House Financial Services Committee meeting? He tried to give her compliments and roundabout answers as a way of evading her questions, so she utilized a procedural rule, reclaiming her time, to shut him down (and up and down again!).In an age when women’s voices — especially those in politics — are often silenced or highly crit
  
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• She was late just once to her job at Hill Air Force Base. So when the 75-year-old didn't show up last week, her co-workers began to worry.

  26-12-2017 15:25
  As far as most people can remember, Chiyoko Copeland had only been late to her job once.Even then, Copeland, who had worked in the dining hall at Hill Air Force Base since 1995, wasn’t technically tardy. She was just standing outside, waiting for her shift to start. She didn’t realize her watch battery had died and her clock was wrong. “I had to get my phone and show it to her,” said Isilda Abel, Copeland’s project manager.
  That’s why when Copeland didn’
  
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• Salt Lake City mayor's new adviser focused on ending ‘school-to-prison pipeline’

  26-12-2017 15:25
  Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s new adviser on education says she felt the Utah school system was working against her during the four years she taught at Glendale’s Edison Elementary School.Angela Doan often found herself choosing between meeting students’ needs and adhering to standards set by elected leaders with no experience in the classroom. That teaching stint at Edison, she said, led her to refocus her career on education policies more centered on teachers and st
  
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• Slipping toward homelessness, a 69-year-old Utahn searches in vain for work and financial aid

  26-12-2017 15:24
  The holidays haven’t be so happy for 69-year-old Jim Lamm — he is about to be homeless.Lamm has reached out to a dozen public and private agencies in Salt Lake County, seeking assistance to stave off eviction until he can find work. But he has had no luck. Some have said they can’t help him because he isn’t homeless or has not received an eviction notice.There are several agencies who do provide limited rental assistance, but none is set up to pay Lamm’s rent for th
  
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• Rolly: Homeless Utahn’s life gets turned around, thanks to ‘Miracle on Rio Grande Street’

  26-12-2017 15:24
  Brandon Kitchen owns a home in Clinton, where he is rearing his twin boys with his partner.He has a full-time job with Industrial Piping and Welding, which is putting him through trade school to become a licensed pipe fitter.If all that seems unremarkable, it should be noted that less than three years ago, Kitchen was just getting out of a halfway house in Salt Lake City after serving 21 years in federal prison. He was homeless, alone and had no prospects.Because it’s Christmastime, let&rs
  
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• In breakthrough, polygamous sect members reach agreements to stay in homes on Utah-Arizona line

  26-12-2017 15:21
  They refused to sign agreements. They refused to pay $100 a month. They let the property taxes go unpaid. They moved from house to house to stay ahead of constables with eviction orders. Or they moved out of their community altogether rather than cooperate with the legal entity they thought was an affront to their religion and the so-called apostates working for it.But after 12 years of impasses, members of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints appear to have
  
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• ‘He left us with his art’: Utahns still mourning Joey Kirk, graffiti artist and Heavy Metal Shop son

  26-12-2017 15:21
  Like all memorial gatherings, the one for Joey Kirk was sad. But it was also celebratory.Joey’s parents, Kevin and Angie, who own the beloved Salt Lake City independent record store The Heavy Metal Shop, greeted and hugged Joey’s many friends who showed up that night at the Beehive Social Club. Some they hadn’t seen in years. Some Joey had only told them about.There were two cakes, one a frosted nod to Joey’s graffiti tag, MOST. The phrase REIGN IN PARADISE KING MOST ador
  
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• Big Cottonwood Canyon town on the horizon? Brighton residents seek incorporation, local control.

  26-12-2017 15:20
  Back in the 1870s, Scottish immigrants William and Catherine Brighton claimed about 100 acres near the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon and began to build a community.At the time, Utah history books say, the spot was a way station for miners traveling between Park City and Alta.At its peak, the area — which became known as Brighton — was host to a hotel, post office, sawmill, bakery, dairy service and the Brighton store.“It was not incorporated, but it functioned like a town,&rdquo
  
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• Utah mother of four spends last Christmas in the U.S. in the airport before being deported to Guatemala

  26-12-2017 09:33
  As Maria Santiago Garcia checked in for her flight at the Salt Lake City International Airport, with five large suitcases in tow, the word “American” loomed above her in clean, bold letters.It was just a brand, the airline she and her four children were using for their journey to Santiago Garcia’s native Guatemala.But it was more than that: it was the reason she and her children were leaving. While they are American citizens, she is not. That designation made all the difference
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz finally unveil audacious ‘City Edition’ uniform

  26-12-2017 09:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... om/DuT5oY3qot — Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) December 25, 2017 Admittedly, I’ve been skeptical of these jerse ...
  
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