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• Judge Memorial wears down San Juan in state tourney opener

  16-02-2018 23:54
  Heber City • Everything, it seems, has changed for the Judge Memorial girls’ basketball team.But there is at least one constant: Victories at the state tournament in recent years.The Bulldogs, seeded third out of Region 13, disposed of San Juan 56-39 on Friday afternoon in a Class 3A state tournament game played at Wasatch High School.“I think we’re going to do well. We lost a couple of seniors who were real important to us last year,” diminutive Judge senior guard E
  
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• Utah State's Koby McEwen is adjusting as opponents ramp up the pressure on him

  16-02-2018 23:47
  He’s only a sophomore at Utah State, but Koby McEwen’s adventure in the state of Utah is now in its sixth year. First, it was four years of a boarding school experience followed by his current role of college student.And it has all been because of basketball.“Number one, he really likes to play. Number two, he really wants to play for a long time — wherever basketball takes him,” Utah State coach Tim Duryea said.Right now, McEwen’s upward trajectory has hit a
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - SC7: The Still-Somehow-Criminally-Underestimated Joe Ingles + Six Other Jazz Topics

  16-02-2018 23:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... tch my attention. When Kemba Walker tries to cut off a very common pass, the Jazz immediately deploy the counter to such a hard overplay with some “blind pig. ...
  
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• "Hope ... it's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight." #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/XMIVAukcbA

  16-02-2018 23:31 via twitter.com
  
  "Hope ... it's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight."#5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/XMIVAukcbA
  
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• New Sandy Mayor Bradburn: ‘I got this one wrong’ — gives back 10% raise and then some

  16-02-2018 23:25
  Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn ran and won office last fall on a pledge to cut spending. So imagine the blowback this week when news broke that, after cutting positions in his office, he gave himself a $15,000 raise.On Friday, he gave it all back and then some, reducing his salary by $43,000. “I’m the first to admit I got this one wrong,” he said. “I’m new at this, and it was the wrong way to go.”KUTV reported Thursday that Bradburn, after trimming $20,000 in other
  
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• Baby Spida and Bébé Stifle — raising them up right (Via: @jonahfrost) #FanFriday https://t.co/0mnzBHf4dA

  16-02-2018 22:44 via twitter.com
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Utah Priorities

  16-02-2018 22:35
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Crazy Talk<br>GOP Goes Clubbing<br>Strange Attraction<br>Dystopian Dr. Seuss<br>Teaching Her a Lesson<br>Deficit Doggie<br>Parading one’s insecurities<br>The EnergySolutions solution<br>Release the Memo!<br>Dangling Donald<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• This weeks @AFCU Instant Rewind ⏪ 5⃣ - 💨💥 4⃣ - 🔁💪 3⃣ - ⏱️👌 2⃣ - 🚫🖐️ 1⃣ - 😳🆒 https://t.co/jF968NTMKi

  16-02-2018 22:23 via twitter.com
  
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• Looking for a place to smoke? Try the Utah State Capitol, where tobacco bills have floundered this session

  16-02-2018 22:06
  Efforts by some lawmakers to create laws and taxes that could curb the use of tobacco and nicotine products have sputtered this session as some legislators note a deadline for passing bills is fast approaching.Bills to raise the age to purchase tobacco, tax electronic cigarettes and designate Capitol Hill a smoke- and tobacco-free area have all struggled to gain traction as the 45-day legislative session passed the halfway point this week.House members said they feared they’d create an unw
  
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• New Sandy Mayor Bradburn: 'I got this one wrong' — gives back 10% raise and then some

  16-02-2018 22:03
  Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn ran and won office last fall on a pledge to cut spending. So imagine the blowback this week when news broke that, after cutting positions in his office, he gave himself a $15,000 raise.On Friday, he gave it all back and then some, reducing his salary by $43,000. “I’m the first to admit I got this one wrong,” he said. “I’m new at this, and it was the wrong way to go.”KUTV reported Thursday that Bradburn, after trimming $20,000 in other
  
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• Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell is in demand at All-Star Weekend

  16-02-2018 22:03
  Los Angeles • Surrounded by potential adversaries, Donovan Mitchell sees only friends.The Jazz guard has a burgeoning battle for Rookie of the Year with Philadelphia’s Ben Simmons: “He’s close to being an All-Star this year. He can do a lot of things that other rookies really can’t. He’s instinctive. He knows the game.”Mitchell is facing off with Dallas’ Dennis Mitchell Jr. (among others) Saturday night in the Slam Dunk Contest: “I know that h
  
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• Utah-Arizona towns, known for a polygamous sect, make another change — this time the police chief

  16-02-2018 22:02
  Two federal juries in two years said that the police force in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., discriminated against those in the community who did not follow the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Other lawsuits against the marshal’s office for wrongful arrests were settled, costing the towns and their insurers millions of dollars. Throughout, the communities’ chief marshal, Jeremiah “Jerry” Darger, kept his job — until M
  
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• Having escaped last-place Pepperdine, BYU sets sights on San Diego

  16-02-2018 21:56
  San Diego • There has been little margin for error for BYU’s basketball team this season. The Cougars rely heavily on three players — Elijah Bryant, Yoeli Childs and TJ Haws — for their scoring and don’t get much help from their bench. When one of the Big Three has an off night, trouble usually ensues. That was evident Thursday as the third-place Cougars struggled with last-place Pepperdine at Firestone Fieldhouse before Bryant took over in overtime and delivered a 7
  
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• Utah lawmaker seeks to add a statewide fee to water bills to fund projects, such as the Lake Powell Pipeline

  16-02-2018 21:44
  A proposal to strip cities of their ability to protect nearby sources of drinking water ran into opposition, so the legislator behind the idea changed it to ask cities to help fund big Utah water projects, like the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline, instead.The controversial bill, HB135, originally took aim at the authority Utah’s cities wield over watershed areas. But a substitute released late Thursday by Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, would allow municipalities to protect some of the land around
  
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• Utah family theater company’s popular ‘Juanito Bandito’ shows are racist and hurtful, national group says

  16-02-2018 21:37
  Juanito Bandito, a character who regularly stars in northern Utah’s Pickleville Playhouse stage shows, is ”racist, hurtful entertainment,” according to a complaint signed by a national group of playwrights and directors.Recent Twitter and Facebook posts have sparked a theater-world firestorm that took the character’s creator, TJ Davis, by surprise. Davis, of Smithfield, has been performing the character for about 10 years in melodrama shows at his family’s Bear Lake
  
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• Commentary: Could Utah Sen. Romney challenge President Trump in 2020?

  16-02-2018 21:35
  Mitt Romney is now an announced candidate for the U.S. Senate. He did so in an online video aired Friday morning — rather than making a traditional announcement before a room of supporters. His announcement featured scenes of Utah’s mountains and people as well as the state capitol and the Utah Olympic Oval.He declared, “I have decided to run for United States Senate because I believe I can help bring Utah’s values and Utah’s lessons to Washington” and that &l
  
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• Bright lights 💡🎙 #NBAAllStar #KickstartRisingStars #VerizonDunk https://t.co/feqpSZ1XMr

  16-02-2018 21:07 via twitter.com
  
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• Gehrke: Over filet mignon, KSL bosses warned lawmakers that noncompete bill could harm reporting — and I have the tape

  16-02-2018 21:06
  Could getting rid of media noncompete clauses — which prevent broadcast journalists from leaving one station and going to work for another for up to a year — turn the virtuous KSL into money-obsessed materialists?That’s the concern expressed by Keith McMullin, a former general authority for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the current president of Deseret Media Corporation, the church’s media arm, which owns KSL, the Deseret News and other outlets.Durin
  
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• A former Utah State University student described her rape and the school’s response on Facebook. Now the school is investigating.

  16-02-2018 20:59
  Logan • Utah State University’s president assured students Friday morning that there will be a thorough investigation after several former students posted claims this week on social media of systemic sexual violence and harassment within its music program — including a report that a piano faculty instructor raped a student in 2009.Noelle E. Cockett, who was out of town, spoke to about 50 music students and faculty in a video chat, telling them that the recently surfaced reports
  
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• Romney's Utah bid for Senate could revive rift with Trump

  16-02-2018 20:54
  Mitt Romney and President Donald Trump have harshly criticized each other but also have been willing to sit down to talk when it’s mutually beneficial.Romney’s announcement Friday that he is running for the U.S. Senate in Utah creates the potential for more battles or deal-making.A look back at some of the most memorable moments in recent years between the two wealthy businessman and politicians:2011: Trump derides Romney as ‘small business guy’In an interview with CNN, T
  
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• As elderly homeless numbers grow, lawmakers want to know if living center bills, discharges are driving the problem

  16-02-2018 20:43
  Senior citizens are a growing segment of Utah’s homeless — so lawmakers want to see how much of that may come from residents being forced to leave assisted living centers for such things as nonpayment or disruptive behavior.The House Business Committee voted unanimously Friday to advance HB263 to the full House.Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Murray, the bill’s sponsor, said it will require assisted living centers to report to the state anytime they are forcing the release of residents, all
  
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• Utah County Jail culinary program offers inmates the opportunity ‘to take something with them back into society’

  16-02-2018 20:41
  Provo • The smell of fresh-baked bread fills the air of the commercial kitchen as an industrial dishwasher hums in the background. Men in a variety of colored hairnets and maroon shirts, with Utah County Jail printed in black lettering, wipe down tables, peel vegetables, and prep meals.The Utah County Jail Culinary Arts program utilizes inmates labor in the commercial kitchen. The kitchen produces thousands of meals a day for the Meals on Wheels program, jail staff, and for the inmates them
  
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• No mercy! #NBAAllStar #KickstartRisingStars https://t.co/xq27fvfo5G

  16-02-2018 20:39 via twitter.com
  
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• Utah man determined to bring chess to schools nationwide

  16-02-2018 20:28
  Logan • A school secretary in the tiny Kansas town of Lost Springs, population 70, was surprised to see an old man stop by unannounced one day. He introduced himself as Warren Pugh and asked if they had any chess sets.“He just happened to be driving by, and he saw that there was a school, so he dropped in to talk to us,” Terri Bina said.Bina, who works at the pre-K-12 Centre School, said Pugh provided her with articles and statistics on the benefits of chess. He was out of chess
  
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• Utah man convicted of murder, attempted murder in Wyoming

  16-02-2018 20:25
  Rock Springs, Wyo. • A Utah man has been found guilty of killing a woman and stabbing another during a knife attack at a Wyoming hotel.The Rocket-Miner reports that 20-year-old Bradley Ross Fairbourn was found guilty on Thursday of the first-degree murder of Naisha Rae Story and the first-degree attempted murder of Linda Natalia Arce. The 12-person jury deliberated for more than five hours before reaching its decision.Fairbourn, who chose not to have the jury consider a lesser offense durin
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Rockets GM Daryl Morey celebrates Warriors loss on Twitter

  16-02-2018 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  ... n and egg bagel. That was my morning, every morning at Louisville.” The Utah Jazz training staff put a stop to that habit, but he still loves the drink. Last...
  
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• Magazine obtains ex-playmate's account of Trump affair

  16-02-2018 20:23
  New York • President Donald Trump had a nine-month extramarital affair with the 1998 Playboy Playmate of the year beginning in 2006, showing the woman his wife’s bedroom in Trump Tower and bringing her to his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, according to the woman’s eight-page, handwritten account of the relationship obtained by The New Yorker magazine.The woman, Karen McDougal, confirmed in the story published online Friday that she wrote the account but said she wa
  
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• FBI says it failed to investigate tip on Florida suspect

  16-02-2018 20:20
  Parkland, Fla. • The FBI received a specific report last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate the tip, the agency said Friday.A person who was close to Nikolas Cruz called the FBI’s tip line on Jan. 5 and provided information about Cruz’s weapons and his erratic behavior, including his disturbing social media posts. The caller was concerned tha
  
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• When it comes to dunking, the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell might just be the perfect machine

  16-02-2018 20:17
  Los Angeles • Between the takeoff and finish of a dunk, there’s an instant that hums with a rising intensity, when a crowd realizes what is about to happen.It’s punctuated with sharp intakes of breath that precedes awe. It’s an instant that leaves an imprint.Donovan Mitchell has been creating that imprint since he was 15 years old.Mitchell was asked recently if he felt like his life was about to change when he competes at the Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday night in Los Ange
  
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• Lawmakers pass bill to allow ‘water cremation’ as an alternative to burial, traditional cremation

  16-02-2018 19:55
  The Senate voted Friday to give Utahns an option besides burial or cremation to handle bodies: alkaline hydrolysis.It is sometimes also called flameless cremation, water cremation or green cremation.The Senate voted 22-2 to pass HB121, and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for consideration. The House earlier passed it 53-14.In that process, a machine uses a chemical bath to dissolve protein, blood and fat. Some machines can dissolve a body in as little as three hours.Brad Walker, speaking for the Ut
  
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• Interfaith Month to highlight charitable works of Utah’s religious groups

  16-02-2018 19:54
  Utah’s many religious groups will share beliefs, traditions and their common call to charitable service during Monday’s Generosity of Faith Fair.The three-hour event at South Salt Lake’s Center for Spiritual Living, 332 Bugatti Ave., begins at 4 p.m. with a panel discussion exploring common Christian, Jewish, Muslim and other faiths’ teachings stressing care for the poor and hungry.It’s all part of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable’s annual “Interfaith
  
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• Quicker divorces: Utah Legislature OKs shortening waiting period from 90 to 30 days. Governor has final say

  16-02-2018 19:49
  A bill to shorten Utah’s waiting period for divorce from 90 days to 30 days is going to Gov. Gary Herbert for his consideration.
  The Senate voted 25-1 on Friday to concur with House amendments to SB25, which originally would have totally eliminated the waiting period.
  It ran into some controversy when some lawmakers argued that it sends the wrong message about the sanctity of marriage.
  “For me, it’s a perception issue,” Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, said in earlier debate,
  
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  16-02-2018 19:47 via twitter.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - When it comes to dunking, the Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell might just be the perfect machine

  16-02-2018 19:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... ity Wednesday November 22, 2017. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) as the Utah Jazz host the Portland Trail Blazers ...
  
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• 13 Russians charged in Mueller investigation

  16-02-2018 19:41
  Washington • Thirteen Russians and three Russian entities were charged Friday with an elaborate plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, federal prosecutors announced Friday.The indictment , brought by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, alleges that Russians used bogus social media postings and advertisements fraudulently purchased in the name of Americans to sway political opinion during the race between Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, his Democrati
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Dan Gilbert: After brain surgery, Nick Gilbert first asked whether Cavaliers beat Thunder

  16-02-2018 19:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... n and egg bagel. That was my morning, every morning at Louisville.” The Utah Jazz training staff put a stop to that habit, but he still loves the drink. Last...
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - 2018 NBA All-Star Weekend: Slam Dunk Contest Preview | SI.com

  16-02-2018 19:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... awn comparisons to Steve Francis and a young Derrick Rose. Donovan Mitchell, Jazz If there’s one major downside to the composition of this year’s field, it’s...
  
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• He cut off a police officer’s ear in Salt Lake City, but he won’t go to prison

  16-02-2018 19:20
  A man who pleaded guilty to cutting an officer’s head with a wrought-iron lawn ornament was sentenced to probation on Friday. Leon Dane Hall, 25, on Dec. 20 entered a guilty plea in 3rd District Court to two charges of assault against a police officer, both third degree felonies. A charge of interference with an arresting officer, a class B misdemeanor, was dismissed.“I’m sorry for hitting the officer,” Hass said at a sentencing hearing on Friday. “I was really scar
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: How Donovan Mitchell could take over All-Star Weekend

  16-02-2018 19:16 via sportspyder.com
  ...STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, the home of All-Star Weekend. Live Feed utah jazz Utah Jazz: Three games in, Jae Crowder appears to be perfect fit The J-Notes ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 Mountain Dew Kickstart Rising Stars game preview

  16-02-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... From SLC Dunk Trending Find Tickets Fri Feb 23 Portland Trail Blazers @ Utah Jazz 7:00 PM - Vivint Smart Home Arena - Salt Lake City, UT Sat Feb 24 Dallas Mav ...
  
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• Here’s your first look of Metallica’s James Hetfield playing a Utah Highway Patrol trooper in upcoming Ted Bundy biopic

  16-02-2018 18:58
  If it’s hard to imagine the frontman of Metallica as a Utah Highway Patrol trooper, now you don’t have to — because James Hetfield is playing one in an upcoming movie.Hetfield, the guitarist and singer for the legendary metal band, recently shot scenes in director Joe Berlinger’s biographical drama about serial killer Ted Bundy, “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.”Berlinger this week posted on Instagram a photo from the set, with Hetfield in a UHP un
  
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• Jennifer Lawrence is great — but the plot of ‘Red Sparrow’ is in shambles

  16-02-2018 18:43
  The reheated Cold War thriller “Red Sparrow” casts Jennifer Lawrence as an injured Russian ballerina who is forced into a second career as a spy, trained to use her body and skills to seduce the enemy into giving up their secrets.It’s a perfect role for Lawrence, because it compels the exquisitely talented actress to use her body and skills to seduce the viewers into thinking they are watching a more interesting movie than this one.Lawrence plays Dominika Egorova, whose career
  
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• Utah family theater company’s ‘Juanito Bandito’ melodrama sparks national racism complaints

  16-02-2018 18:32
  Juanito Bandito, a character who regularly stars in northern Utah’s Pickleville Playhouse stage shows, is ”racist, hurtful entertainment,” according to a complaint signed by a national group of playwrights and directors.Recent Twitter and Facebook posts have sparked a theater world firestorm that took the character’s creator, TJ Davis, by surprise. Davis, of Smithfield, has been performing the character for about 10 years in melodrama shows at his family’s Bear Lake
  
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