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• Salt Lake City man gets probation for shooting a burglar running away from home

  12-01-2018 23:34
  A Salt Lake City man found guilty of illegal discharge of a weapon for firing at a burglar fleeing his mother-in-law’s vacant home was sentenced Friday to probation.Glen Wayne Decker, 53, was staking out the house, located near 1100 E. Harvard Ave. (about 1150 South), with his wife on the evening of April 27, 2016, according to court documents. The home had been burglarized the night before.They left the backdoor, which had recently been kicked in by intruders, unsecured. As the couple la
  
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• Utah focused on Draper prison land in Amazon pitch, emails show

  12-01-2018 23:31
  Utah officials trying to persuade Amazon to build its new headquarters in the state decided the site of the aging prison in Draper would be the best spot to pitch for the project, according to public records from a city that participated in the process.The state put the Draper area at the top of its list of potential locations for the headquarters following a Sept. 15 meeting of stakeholders, according to emails released by the city of West Jordan under a public records request.It’s not cl
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Republicans have more reasons to be scared about the midterms

  12-01-2018 23:31
  The party of President Donald Trump is taking a beating in the polls. The latest Quinnipiac poll finds that 52 percent of those surveyed favor a Democratic majority in the House, and only 35 percent a GOP majority. Among independents, only 30 percent favor a Republican majority. Numbers for the Senate are nearly identical.It is no mystery why the Republicans are in such disfavor. For one thing, most people really don’t like policies many Republicans have adopted:“Undocumented immigra
  
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• Utah Jazz at Charlotte Hornets: Keys to closing road trip on a high note

  12-01-2018 23:09
  The Utah Jazz will look to close out their current four-game road trip strong as they visit the Charlotte Hornets tonight. The Utah Jazz earned a rare road win on Wednesday night as they toppled the Washington Wizards in exhilarating fashion. However, it isn’t the first time that they’ve sneaked in a thrilling victory amidst […]
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz at Charlotte Hornets: Keys to closing road trip on a high note

  12-01-2018 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Royce O’Neale proving worthy of extended minutes by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• [KSL] - Hood fined $35K for slapping phone from fan's hand

  12-01-2018 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  ... areer-high 16.5 points per game this season as the Jazz have struggled to a 17-24 record. He picked up the second technical foul whi ...
  
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• NBA Daily: Trade Chatter From The G-League Showcase

  12-01-2018 23:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  The 2018 G-League Showcase brought the entire league into one place, and there was no shortage of trade chatter.
  
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• George Pyle: The controversy over the New York Times obituary on Mormon President Monson says more about the offended than it does about the newspaper

  12-01-2018 22:55
  “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”— William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act 3, Scene II “Journalism,” according to a 19th century British journalist you never heard of, “largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.”G.K. Chesterton’s aphorism is appropriate for one of this week’s big media kerfuffles, the widespread
  
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• Mormon church ‘is better because of Monson,’ says his likely successor, Russell Nelson; funeral procession to begin in streets of Salt Lake City

  12-01-2018 22:34
  Top LDS authorities and rank-and-file Mormons, along with civic, business, religious and political leaders, united at the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday for the funeral of President Thomas S. Monson.The 90-year-old LDS “prophet, seer and revelator” died Jan. 2.Senior apostle Russell M. Nelson, his likely successor to head The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presided over the service and was scheduled to offer the concluding sermon.Other speakers i
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah hoping to end road trip with win in Charlotte

  12-01-2018 22:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...have allowed him to be a prolific scorer despite his lack of NBA length. vs Jazz frontcourt Sam Sharpe-USA TODAY Sports If Derrick Favors proves unable to go ...
  
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• Monson: Sometimes, you’ve gotta let it $%@#ing rip. Just ask Utah athletic director Chris Hill

  12-01-2018 22:23
  Sometimes, you just gotta #@%&ing shout.You know what I mean?Sometimes, the %$#& gets real and you just have to let it out, at the top of your lungs.Let the $%@# hit the wall, or go right through the wall.It doesn’t matter if you’re the athletic director at a major university.Or if you’re a doctor.I mean, you’re still human, and you can’t take this %$#&, anymore.Just because you want to rip the %&#@ing arms off the head of hare-brained officials on a
  
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• Utah man who allegedly placed his mother's body in a coal bin for two weeks had promised her a 'green burial,' charges say

  12-01-2018 22:19
  A Panguitch man who allegedly kept his mother’s body in a coal bin for weeks after she died told police that he’d promised her a “green burial,” charging documents say.Pete Marker, 66, was charged Thursday in 6th District Court with abuse or desecration of a human body, a third-degree felony, and failure to report finding a human body, a class B misdemeanor. His mother, 90-year-old Roma Bowman, had reportedly died Dec. 25, more than two weeks prior to when police found he
  
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• Karen Attiah: It's not just Trump: Western media has long treated black and brown countries like 's---holes'

  12-01-2018 22:17
  The president of the United States essentially called black and brown countries “s---holes.” The internet is aflame with outrage over his comments. There are already many calls to apologize, and there will be more to come.But let’s be real: U.S. media has long treated black and brown countries like “s---holes.” This TV-loving president is a product of a media culture that has systemically covered places in Africa and places like Haiti only as war-ravaged, disease-ri
  
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• 1:24 & 3:30. Enjoy. @spidadmitchell #NBAVote #KiaROY #TakeNote twitter.com/NBA/status/951…

  12-01-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  1:24 & 3:30. Enjoy.@spidadmitchell #NBAVote#KiaROY #TakeNote twitter.com/NBA/status/951…
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - NBA fines Rodney Hood $35,000 for slapping phone out of fan's hand

  12-01-2018 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... rt. The incident took place with 2:21 left in the third quarter of a 107-104 Jazz victory at Washington. The 6-foot-8, 206-pound sharpshooter has averaged a c ...
  
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• Top University of Utah administrator Ruth Watkins has a 1 in 3 chance of being the school’s first female president

  12-01-2018 21:58
  The search for a new University of Utah president is down to three people, including two out-of-state candidates and a senior administrator at the Salt Lake City campus.A presidential search committee released its finalists on Friday, teeing up a round of private interviews and a vote by the state’s Board of Regents next week to replace outgoing U. President David Pershing.The candidates are Nicholas P. Jones, an executive vice president at Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Katsouleas,
  
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• NBA fines Rodney Hood $35,000 for slapping phone out of fan's hand

  12-01-2018 21:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz guard Rodney Hood has been fined $35,000 by the NBA for slapping a phone out of a fan's hand.
  Hood was forced to leave Wednesday's game against the Washington Wizards after receiving a second technical foul. He knocked the phone out of a fan's hand while walking past the man who was sitting courtside and looked to be recording Hood exiting the court.
  The incident took place with 2:21 left in the third quarter of a 107-104 Jazz victory at Washington.
  The 6-foot-8,
  
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• Get to Lumpy's on Highland tonight at 5PM to cheer on the Jazz as they take on the @Hornets! 📺🎉 #UTAatCHA 3000 S.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-01-2018 21:49 via twitter.com
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• National poll: 61 percent of Mormons approve of President Donald Trump — highest of any religious group

  12-01-2018 21:48
  Washington • While some prominent Mormons are among the more vocal critics of President Donald Trump, Mormons overall give the president the highest marks of any religious group, a new polling report shows.An aggregation of the Gallup Daily Tracking poll last year shows that 61 percent of Mormons surveyed approve of Trump’s job as president, just above the 60 percent of white, non-Hispanic Protestants — mainline and evangelical — who back the president. About half of all P
  
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• "Moms are always right, just so you guys know.” — @spidadmitchell on @SportsCenter (Only RT if you love your mom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-01-2018 21:43 via twitter.com
  "Moms are always right, just so you guys know.” — @spidadmitchell on @SportsCenter (Only RT if you love your mom… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Utah awards financial incentives to firms working on flight control, autonomous vehicles

  12-01-2018 21:18
  A Cache County company that manufactures robotic hardware and software systems to help manage driverless vehicles has been given a $166,000 state grant to expand its operations and add 135 jobs over the next five years.The Governor’s Office of Economic Development board also offered Parker Hannifin Corp., which services the aerospace industry and other high-technology markets, a potential $1 million tax-credit rebate to bring 77 jobs to Ogden.Who’s getting the money?• Autonomous
  
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• NBA fines Jazz's Rodney Hood $35,000 for smacking phone out of fan's hand

  12-01-2018 21:18
  A slap on the way off the court Wednesday night will be an expensive one for Rodney Hood.The fourth-year Jazz guard was fined $35,000 for smacking the phone out of a fan’s hand after being ejected for two technical fouls against the Washington Wizards.It is one of the league’s largest fines so far this season. Boston’s Kyrie Irving and Los Angeles’ Austin Rivers previously were fined $25,000 for heated interactions with fans involving foul language.Such a moment is rare f
  
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• Limited snow putting a crimp on visits to Vail's ski resorts, including Park City Mountain

  12-01-2018 21:01
  Visits are down almost 11 percent to Vail Resorts’ 13 North American ski areas, including Park City Mountain, due to the limited snow so far this winter, the company reported Friday.“Given the truly historic low snowfall across our western U.S. resorts, we are pleased with our results to date,” said Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz, citing the mitigating influence of season pass sales. Although visitation is down 10.8 percent, he noted, lift-ticket revenue was up 1.6 percent compared
  
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• Commentary: The tax reform package shirks government responsibility

  12-01-2018 20:57
  Republicans in Congress and the White House have enacted a tax reform package that will decrease government income, while increasing the federal deficit and the national debt. These outcomes would not always be bad, but in present circumstances, they are inexcusable.When could one justify reducing government income — i.e., tax collections? This would make sense if the government had a large surplus or was making substantial programmatic cuts. Neither of these is currently the case.Increasi
  
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• Knights of the Crystal Blade founders married each other's 7- and 8-year-old daughters, Utah affidavit says

  12-01-2018 20:51
  The leaders of a fundamentalist Mormon offshoot called Knights of the Crystal Blade took each other’s daughters as child brides, according to a search warrant that was recently unsealed.The men, Samuel Shaffer and John Coltharp, were arrested in December and charged with kidnapping after an Amber Alert was issued for Coltharp’s daughters.Iron County Sheriff’s Office Detective Nathan Houchen detailed an interview with Shaffer in a search warrant affidavit submitted Dec. 11. Shaf
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: Should the Jazz make a deal for Nikola Mirotic? We break down the rumored trade talks.

  12-01-2018 20:26
  With less than a month to go before the NBA’s trade deadline, the rumor mill is starting to churn. The hottest one in Jazzland? A possible deal for Chicago’s Nikola Mirotic.On this episode of the Weekly Run, the Tribune’s Jazz basketball podcast, we look at the good and bad of Mirotic’s game, why he would fit in Quin Snyder’s system, and why it may be unwise to deal for the Bulls forward.Here’s what else we’re discussing:1:15 — The Jazz broke Steph
  
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• Light pollution controls make Torrey the first ‘dark sky’ town in Utah

  12-01-2018 20:21
  New streetlights, bulb shields and a lighting ordinance have made Torrey the first town in Utah — and the 18th in the world — to be recognized as an International Dark Sky Community.Torrey also is the first national park gateway town to earn the designation, according to the International Dark Sky Association.“Together we take a major step forward in achieving an important goal of the International Dark Sky Places Program to join parks and neighboring communities in dedication
  
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• Doug Robinson: LaVar Ball is the man and mouth that can't be stopped

  12-01-2018 20:15
  SALT LAKE CITY — Stage parents are nothing new to sports; we’ve all seen them (or been one). But when it comes to greatness — that is to say awfulness — maybe nobody this side of Marv Marinovich or Earl Woods has ever topped LaVar Ball.By now you probably know Ball’s M.O., but just in case: He’s the blowhard dad who has used the careers of his basketball-playing sons to sell sneakers, make money, promote himself and annoy as many people as possible in the proc
  
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• Utah man gets 1 to 15 years in prison for shooting

  12-01-2018 20:02
  Provo • A Utah man who pleaded guilty to shooting another man in the chest has been sentenced to one to 15 years in prison.The Herald Extra reports that 22-year-old Caleb Plainer pleaded guilty to second-degree aggravated assault in November. He will receive credit for the time he has already served in jail.Plainer was arrested and charged in July after the 22-year-old victim called 911 saying he had been shot.Authorities say Plainer told them he suspected the man he shot had been messing w
  
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• Jazz 🎷 // Hornets 🐝 Tipoff: 5PM MT #UTAatCHA https://t.co/S8ewc7uUoy

  12-01-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  
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• Mitt Romney to speak next week at Utah Silicon Slopes Tech Summit

  12-01-2018 19:45
  Organizers of a Utah technology summit say former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has agreed to speak at next week’s event in Salt Lake City.The former presidential candidate who is expected to make a run for the U.S. Senate in Utah next year is scheduled to speak at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit next Friday.More than 10,000 participants have registered for the two-day event that opens on Thursday at the Salt Palace Convention Center.Romney is expected to talk about technological and econo
  
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• Navajo Nation to open first tribal police academy

  12-01-2018 19:41
  Gallup, N.M. • The Navajo Nation will train its own police officers at its new Navajo Nation Police Academy.Navajo Nation Public Safety Director Jesse Delmar says no other tribe has its own police academy.Delmar says the Navajo Nation Police hired 20 recruits Wednesday who will be trained in Chinle, Arizona.They could begin training as soon as February.The Gallup Independent reports the Navajo academy will use curriculum based off of the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training curricu
  
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• Jahshire Hardnett’s interest in BYU started with a familiar name: Jimmer

  12-01-2018 19:23
  Provo • One word immediately came to his mind when Jahshire Hardnett’s junior college coach in Florida told him BYU was interested in talking to him about possibly transferring there to play Division I basketball.“Jimmer,” he said. “That’s Jimmer’s school. Everybody has heard about [former BYU star Jimmer Fredette]. I remember the tournament run he had. So that’s why I had some interest. Prior to that I didn’t know anything about them.”T
  
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• List of three finalists for University of Utah president’s job includes top U. administrator Ruth Watkins

  12-01-2018 19:06
  The search for a new University of Utah president is down to three people, including two out-of-state candidates and a senior administrator at the Salt Lake City campus.A presidential search committee released its finalists on Friday, teeing up a round of private interviews and a vote by the state’s Board of Regents next week to replace outgoing U. President David Pershing.The candidates are Nicholas P. Jones, an executive vice president at Pennsylvania State University; Thomas Katsouleas,
  
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• Feeling blue? “Paddington 2” will give you a warm, fuzzy feeling

  12-01-2018 19:02
  Even if theaters started serving marmalade sandwiches, the giddy experience of seeing the witty and whimsical “Paddington 2” could not be any more sweet.The prospects for “Paddington 2” were grim at the outset. Here is a children’s movie tossed off in the post-holiday doldrums, a sequel to a 2015 British import that didn’t exactly set the North American box office on fire, and jumping studios because its original American distributor, The Weinstein Company, ha
  
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• Our apologies: Here are Friday, Jan. 12's comics and puzzles

  12-01-2018 18:55
  Due to a technical error, today’s comics and puzzles were not printed in today’s paper. The Salt Lake Tribune offers its sincere apologies. Below, you can find the correct comics and puzzles. Thanks for reading.
  
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• Rich Lowry: Buy Trump off with his border wall

  12-01-2018 18:39
  There is a very easy way for Democrats to get major concessions from President Donald Trump on immigration: Give him his wall.This is the key to a deal codifying the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era de facto amnesty for a segment of so-called Dreamers. All it takes is giving Trump a plausible start to the wall that the president can then, in his inimitable way, promote as the greatest structure built on a border since Hadrian began his famous handiwork at the norther
  
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• Emails: Utah focused on Draper prison land in Amazon pitch

  12-01-2018 18:36
  Utah officials trying to persuade Amazon to build its new headquarters in the state decided the site of the aging prison in Draper would be the best spot to pitch for the project, according to public records from a city that participated in the process.The state put the Draper area at the top of its list of potential locations for the headquarters following a Sept. 15 meeting of stakeholders, according to emails released by the city of West Jordan under a public records request.It’s not cl
  
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  12-01-2018 18:18 via twitter.com
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• Kragthorpe: Jazz's Rodney Hood and Utes' Chris Hill expressed some healthy emotions — just in the wrong ways

  12-01-2018 18:10
  Rodney Hood and Chris Hill were tired of losing.That’s the best explanation for the recent incidents in basketball arenas involving the Jazz player and the University of Utah’s athletic director that are mildly embarrassing and not fully excusable.Hood undoubtedly will be fined by the NBA. Hill issued a statement of apology for his behavior, possibly keeping him from being reprimanded by the Pac-12.Each deserves some degree of public shame. Yet their actions – Hood’s knoc
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Trump Tower

  12-01-2018 18:06
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Walmart Severance<br>It’s a Hard Knock Life<br>The Never Ending Story<br>Trump Trolls America<br>Alt-Slavery<br>Orrin’s Old Job<br>Comparing Arsenals<br>Farewell to Orrin<br>Whose Land Is This?<br>2017 Year in Review<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Donovan Mitchell appears on SportsCenter, drumming up publicity for sensational rookie campaign

  12-01-2018 18:03
  Charlotte, N.C. • If any children were allowed to stay up late to watch Donovan Mitchell on ESPN on a school night, this was the last piece of advice they heard from the Jazz rookie:“So hope all the kids out there who don’t like listening to their mothers yell and scream at them: Moms are always right. Just so you know.”Yup, that sounds like Mitchell.Utah fans have gotten to know the 21-year-old guard well in the past few months, particularly as he’s taken off as the
  
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• Last night, @spidadmitchell appeared on the @notthefakeSVP show 📺👓 #NBAVote #KiaROY #TakeNote #MACUMoment https://t.co/3be2gHLk5u

  12-01-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell appears on SportsCenter, drumming up publicity for sensational rookie campaign

  12-01-2018 17:07 via sportspyder.com
  ...“the most exciting rookie in the NBA,” late Thursday night on SportsCenter. Jazz fans already think so, but the nation will have to get on board for him to w ...
  
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• Oscar winners, rock stars and a Supreme Court justice: Which celebrities will you be seeing on the red carpet at Sundance ’18?

  12-01-2018 16:56
  You’ll always see big stars at the Sundance Film Festival, just by watching them on the screen — but it’s also a lot of fun to see them in the flesh, talking in Q&A’s after the screenings about making those movies.The best time to see celebrities is during the festival’s first weekend in Park City, which is also when demand for tickets and crowds on Main Street are at their highest. By Tuesday, many of the celebrities start heading back to Los Angeles and New Yo
  
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• Utah law enforcement finds Jeep in Juab County but no sign of missing teens

  12-01-2018 16:55
  Searchers found a Jeep belonging to two missing teens in Juab County on Thursday, but said there was “no sign” of the teens.Riley Powell, 18, and Breezy Otteson, 17, left Tooele in the Jeep about 9:30 a.m. Dec. 30. They were planning to head to Eureka, Otteson’s aunt Amanda Hunt said in a Facebook post, but they haven’t been seen or heard from since.A family member reported them missing to sheriff’s offices in both Juab and Tooele counties. Almost two weeks later, s
  
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• [Sporting News] - Donovan Mitchell isn't just Rookie of the Year material — he's a future star

  12-01-2018 16:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... er would give him more room to operate in the half court. It’s something the Jazz will have to keep in mind as they start to build the next version of this te ...
  
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• More black bears, high demand from hunters will lead to bigger Utah hunt in 2018

  12-01-2018 16:30
  More bear hunting will be allowed in Utah this year.The state wildlife board voted Thursday to issue 860 bear permits, up 102 from 2017. About half of permit recipients kill a bear, said Darren DeBloois, mammals coordinator for the state Division of Wildlife Resources. In 2017, 365 bears were legally killed.“The increase in permits [is] based in an increased number of bears,” DeBloois told the board. State biologists estimate at least 3,000 to 3,500 black bears live in Utah, a number
  
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• Rolly: Remembering the Mormon prophet and the Catholic publisher — They were personal friends, press rivals

  12-01-2018 16:29
  Here’s a story about LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson that touched me personally.And, with Monson’s funeral Friday at the 21,000-seat Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, this story is about another funeral.Monson was known to be a warm, gentle man with a keen sense of humor. He was a close friend of my beloved boss, longtime Salt Lake Tribune Publisher Jack Gallivan, a devout Catholic who battled the Mormon church on his paper’s editorial pages over alcohol polic
  
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