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• In hate crime trial, Utah man testifies neighbor assaulted him with stun device, yelled racial slur at his 7-year-old son

  20-03-2018 23:53
  When he heard a neighbor at the Adagio apartment complex in Draper yell a racial slur at his son, Mike Waldvogel said, he was shocked.He dashed outside in his bare feet to get the 7-year-old, who had been riding his scooter in a courtyard.The shouting, which by then was coming from inside an apartment, picked up as he walked by and Mark Olic Porter walked onto his patio, Waldvogel said. He started to tell Porter that he didn’t care what he said when he was inside but he was not to talk to
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Steph Curry will likely be back before Sunday’s Jazz-Warriors showdown

  20-03-2018 23:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... ld be far from an oddity to see Utah drop that game. However, the Jazz’s outlook in that contest had been looking significantly better recently as...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: The Utah Jazz arrow stays green

  20-03-2018 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... ng to Elias Sports Bureau research, this is only the fourth season in Jazz history in which Utah has won 21 times over a 23-game span. They also did it ...
  
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• Whose twitter ritual/style do you like the best? 👀 Poll presented by: @Qualtrics

  20-03-2018 23:24 via twitter.com
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• Utah Jazz: Steph Curry will likely be back before Sunday’s Jazz-Warriors showdown

  20-03-2018 23:14
  Golden State’s Steph Curry is targeting a return to action this Friday, which is bad news for the Utah Jazz who visit the Warriors on Sunday. In case you hadn’t already heard, the Utah Jazz have been playing some pretty good basketball of late. And when I say pretty good, what I really mean is […]
  Utah Jazz: Steph Curry will likely be back before Sunday’s Jazz-Warriors showdown - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gov. Herbert signs 136 more bills — including enabling more toll roads, reducing days for fireworks

  20-03-2018 23:14 via sportspyder.com
  ... he Salt Lake City International Airport to obtain four more bars. Also, Utah Jazz fans will — for the first time — be able to carry a beer from their VIP dinn ...
  
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• Gov. Herbert signs 136 more bills — including enabling more toll roads, reducing days for fireworks

  20-03-2018 23:14
  Gov. Gary Herbert may have writer’s cramp. He signed 136 bills into law on Tuesday — including one to enable more toll roads statewide and one to reduce the number of days that residents may set off fireworks.Others will provide contraceptives for low-income parents, change how the state provides information discouraging abortion to women considering the procedure, and erase controversial signs saying restaurants are not licensed as bars.Herbert has now signed into law 325 bills pass
  
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• Innovations Early College High School in Salt Lake City is losing its second principal this year amid questions of financial mismanagement

  20-03-2018 23:04
  A hybrid high school in Salt Lake City will see three principals in a single school year when its current head administrator steps down in April.In a letter to parents dated Monday, Innovations Early College High School acting principal Tara Radmall announced she plans to leave the school — and Utah — to pursue a business opportunity in Colorado.“Rest assured that the district is committed to Innovations,” Radmall wrote, “and that I will continue to work diligently
  
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• Summit becomes the first county in Utah to sue opioid industry over addiction epidemic

  20-03-2018 23:00
  As pharmaceutical companies dump tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of lawmakers throughout the country annually, the number of opioid prescriptions written has skyrocketed.On that path to making billions of dollars, Big Pharma has left a trail of dead bodies — victims of accidental overdoses from the synthetic heroin. In an effort to curb what has been labeled an epidemic in Utah, Summit County sued 25 companies and individuals it believes caused a flood of opioids in the county
  
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• Organizers of Park City’s St. Regis concert series are scrambling for a new venue

  20-03-2018 22:52
  After 14 years at Deer Valley, one of Utah’s bigger summer concert programs is looking for a new home — and fast.The Park City Institute is seeking an outdoor venue for the St. Regis Big Stars Bright Nights concert series, and officials go before a Park City government committee Wednesday to look at three city-managed locations.This year’s series “is going to be a series of nine pop-up concerts,” said Teri Orr, the institute’s executive director.Orr said she a
  
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• Feds sells leases on archaeologically rich southern Utah lands for oil and gas

  20-03-2018 22:50
  Historic preservationists are fighting the Bureau of Land Management’s sale of new leases in southeast Utah for oil and gas — including, they say, a wealth of archaeological treasures embedded in the landscapes around Recapture and Montezuma canyons and Alkali Ridge.
  None of the controversial public lands offered for leasing are within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument, but all are close enough to Hovenweep and Canyon of the Ancients national monuments that th
  
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• Utah heads west to play Saint Mary’s in NIT quarterfinals; a win will send them east to the Big Apple

  20-03-2018 22:06
  The Utes know who they are and how they need to play to thrive. There’s no reinventing a team identity in March. Either the messages have sunk in by this point or it probably just isn’t ever going to happen.Utah posted 95 points and enjoyed its most-productive offensive performance of the season Monday to advance to the NIT quarterfinals for the first time since 1992.Monday night’s drubbing of LSU set up the second-seeded Utes (21-11) on a date with top-seeded Saint Mary’
  
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• Real Salt Lake’s Nick Rimando is already the all-time MLS leader in shutouts. Now, he’s widening the gap.

  20-03-2018 22:05
  Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando stood among the yellow training mannequins Tuesday, in discussion with goalkeepers coach Todd Hoffard as his training session wrapped up.Rimando, despite feeling some discomfort in his adductor during Saturday’s 1-0 win against the Red Bulls, has participated in two light training sessions since logging a shutout in RSL’s third match of the season.The veteran RSL goalkeeper kept his 138th clean sheet on Saturday, but with 26 shutouts between Rim
  
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• Alexandra Petri: If Trump fires Mueller, Republicans will be, like, really disappointed

  20-03-2018 22:00
  When President Donald Trump gleefully leapt to Twitter to revel in the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, to observe that the Mueller investigation is a WITCH HUNT led by “hardened Democrats” (Robert S. Mueller III is a Republican) and to point out that the House investigation found no collusion (“Our committee was not charged with answering the collusion idea,” mumbled Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, on “Meet The Press”), it seemed as though he wa
  
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• Utah County passes nondiscrimination deal for Freedom Festival in light of LGBTQ group’s exclusion from last year’s parade. But the nonprofit says clause doesn’t apply to the parade.

  20-03-2018 21:56
  The Utah County Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved giving $100,000 in taxpayer funds to America’s Freedom Festival — with the stipulation that the nonprofit abide by a nondiscrimination agreement after event organizers last year blocked an LGBTQ group from walking in the parade. But event organizers told The Salt Lake Tribune that they will use private money to put on the parade, leaving open the possibility that they won’t abide by the nondiscrimination clause in decid
  
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• Police searching for man suspected of sexually assaulting woman on a Sandy footpath

  20-03-2018 21:47
  Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman on a footpath in Sandy on Monday afternoon.Sandy police Sgt. Jason Nielsen said a 911 call came in about 1 p.m., reporting the assault near 10100 South and about 200 East, just east of the Sandy Civic Center TRAX station. The area includes several paths, including the Porter Rockwell Trail, and others that extend from Dewey Bluth Park to Dimple Dell Regional Park.The victim, a woman about 40 years old, told police she’d been walki
  
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• Police are offering a cash reward for help locating a man they believe to be armed and dangerous

  20-03-2018 21:45
  South Jordan police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man they believe to be armed and dangerous.Police describe Salvador Valdez as a Latino with black hair, brown eyes, a goatee and a Denver Broncos tattoo on the upper part of his right arm. Valdez stands about 6 feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds.According to a police news release, Valdez is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and a witness with a baseball bat March 9 at the Sizzler restaurant in So
  
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• New lawsuit describes now-Rep. John Curtis, other Provo officials as ignoring complaints of police chief’s sexual misconduct

  20-03-2018 21:35
  Less than a year after John King took over as Provo’s police chief in late 2013, then-Mayor John Curtis called a meeting with police department supervisors.He told the staffers that there had been complaints about the new police chief, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, including a complaint that King had sexually harassed a dispatcher. With King by his side, the mayor told the supervisors he did not want to receive any more complaints about the new police chief, according to the lawsui
  
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• Granite police officer shoots teenager in West Valley City park

  20-03-2018 21:24
  West Valley City • A Granite School District police officer shot a driver Tuesday afternoon after the officer was thrown onto the hood of a car.The officer was patrolling a neighborhood near Hunter High School when he saw a car full of teenagers and smelled marijuana, Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said.When he got close to the car, it “lurched” forward and the officer was thrown onto the hood, Horsley said.The officer then shot the driver, who was taken to the ho
  
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• Monson: Like the legend who coached the Jazz before him, Quin Snyder deserves to be named NBA Coach of the Year

  20-03-2018 21:16
  Two truths are on a collision course in the weeks ahead:• Quin Snyder should be the NBA’s coach of the year.• The veracity of that claim will not make it happen.We’ve been down this winding county two-lane before.You said it, I said it, we all said it in years gone by when Jerry Sloan should have won the league’s top coaching honor. It was as plain as the bent nose on Jerry’s face.It did no good.It never happened.Not once.Guys like Sam Mitchell instead won it, A
  
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• Ex-UNLV coach Dave Rice — a former Utah State and BYU assistant — is among USU’s targets for basketball vacancy

  20-03-2018 21:13
  The Washington Huskies’ basketball season ended Monday night, preventing them from visiting Utah for an NIT quarterfinal game. The timing could be helpful to Utah State. Washington assistant coach Dave Rice is high on USU’s list of potential replacements for Tim Duryea, sources in Logan said. Mark Fox, recently fired after nine years as Georgia’s coach, and longtime Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd also are believed to be among the coaches considered by USU athletic director John
  
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• Trump congratulates Putin on his re-election, discusses ‘arms race’

  20-03-2018 21:02
  Moscow • President Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election victory in a phone call on Tuesday, the Kremlin said.At the White House, Trump confirmed the call and said he congratulated Putin “on the victory.” Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he and Putin would get together “in the not-too-distant future.”Some world leaders have hesitated to congratulate Putin, since his re-election occurred in an environment of
  
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• Conor Sen: Cities don't need more jobs. They need more workers.

  20-03-2018 21:00
  A funny thing happened after Amazon invited cities to compete for its second North American headquarters: Somehow, other corporations got the idea that they would be the winners.There’s been a disturbing trend in corporations seeing the tax breaks offered to Amazon and deciding they’re entitled to the same when they pursue their own expansions or relocations. There’s nothing inherently wrong with municipalities offering tax breaks in exchange for jobs, but it shouldn’t be
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Is Rudy Gobert a top-10 player in the NBA? Should the Jazz tank a couple to set up a better playoff matchup?

  20-03-2018 20:59
  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.Is Rudy Gobert a top 10 player? #tonytalks— Colton (@DonOfAMitch) March 19, 2018To me, he without question is a top-10 overall player. If Rudy Gobert’s current defensive impact were an offensive impact, we’d be calling him James Harden or Stephen Curry. That’s how impactful he’s be
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Bloodsuckers

  20-03-2018 20:55
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, March 21, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below. <br>Killing Justice<br> A Tale of Two Moabs <br> Nesting Fib Face <br> The Kids Are Alright <br> Putin on Fifth Avenue <br>DeVos at the Wheel<br>Democratic Senior Discount<br> Trade War<br>Counting the Minutes <br> Boys and their Broomsticks<br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz mailbag: Is Rudy Gobert a top-10 player in the NBA? Should the Jazz tank a couple to set up a better playoff matchup?

  20-03-2018 20:39 via sportspyder.com
  ... olosha. He’s been tremendous in that regard, and it’s one of the reasons the Jazz are very interested in bringing him back next season. Article continues belo ...
  
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• BLM auctions archaeologically rich southern Utah lands for oil and gas

  20-03-2018 20:23
  Historic preservationists are fighting the Bureau of Land Management’s sale of new leases in southeast Utah for oil and gas — including, they say, a wealth of archaeological treasures embedded in the landscapes around Recapture and Montezuma canyons and Alkali Ridge.
  None of the controversial public lands set for leasing are within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument, but all are close enough to Hovenweep and Canyon of the Ancients national monuments that the U.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: A reminder of just how wrong Trump apologists were

  20-03-2018 20:00
  President Donald Trump is reportedly “more confident” in his job — what results provide him with such confidence is unknown — and hence we see an undiluted Trump. The promise that one day he would pivot, or become presidential, was ludicrous. In fact, he has gotten worse with time.We now see unrestrained Trump — the one who hates criticism; who must continually pummel his opponents; who never bothers to learn about subjects on which he expounds; who thinks everyone
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Like the legend who coached the Jazz before him, Quin Snyder deserves to be named NBA coach of the year

  20-03-2018 19:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... n Conference playoff contenders. Compare the names. In the Jazz’s case, it looks like somebody tilted the league’s junk drawer as a bunch of ...
  
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• Utah County leaders say Freedom Festival can’t use $100K of taxpayer dollars to discriminate in light of LGBTQ group’s exclusion from parade

  20-03-2018 19:44
  The Utah County Commission approved a measure Tuesday morning to provide America’s Freedom Festival with more than $100,000 in taxpayer funds — but with the stipulation that it will not use that money to discriminate on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation or other factors.Commissioner Nathan Ivie noted that “concerns raised about some exclusion” prompted the creation of a nondiscrimination clause in the county’s agreement with the organization, which produces
  
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• An argument between a man and his father led up to a South Salt Lake stabbing

  20-03-2018 19:41
  A man called South Salt Lake police on Monday night to report that he had just stabbed his father in the heart.Police arrived and found the man’s father, 65-year-old Richard Phelps, dead in an apartment he shared with his son near 2700 South and 300 East.Officers arrested the son, 38-year-old Warren Richard Phelps, who told police that he had stabbed his father with a knife, according to arrest documents. An argument — which involved a television — led up to the stabbing, accor
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz injury update: Derrick Favors out vs. Atlanta

  20-03-2018 19:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... e likes of Jae Crowder and Jonas Jerebko to step up their game. Luckily, the Jazz have been phenomenal with Crowder in action. The lineup of Ricky Rubio, Dono ...
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Unlikable Jazz are easy team to love

  20-03-2018 19:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... . During the 2016-17 season, the Jazz amassed a total of 13 technical fouls, led by Gobert’s nine. The other four...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Derrick Favors is having a career year

  20-03-2018 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... y 10,000 years. Kurt Helin put out some polls on twitter and it appears that Jazz fans came out in full force. OR people around the country are actually belie ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - While You Were Sleeping: Jazz Get Some Help

  20-03-2018 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... le McGee aren’t gonna win you too many games on their own. The Standings The Jazz are now 2.5 games up on the Nuggets and with 11 games remaining for DEN, 12...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz host Atlanta Hawks going for second 10-game streak of season

  20-03-2018 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... ant to miss out on home court in the first round of the playoffs because the Jazz went 0-2 against one of the worst teams in the league, so let’s not do that. ...
  
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• Dana Milbank: All hail Ryan Zinke, our imperial viceroy

  20-03-2018 19:00
  Washington • Were these normal times, we would now be saying “sayonara” to Ryan Zinke.President Trump’s secretary of the interior has inspired a half-dozen ongoing investigations into his travel expenses, his blending of official business with political activities and personal pleasure, and his whimsical management of a 70,000-person, 500 million-acre agency.And now this:Testifying before Congress last week, Zinke was questioned by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, D-Hawaii, who ment
  
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• Utah Jazz injury update: Derrick Favors out vs. Atlanta

  20-03-2018 18:46
  The Utah Jazz will be without starting power forward Derrick Favors, who is dealing with a knee injury, in tonight’s contest against the Atlanta Hawks. With Dante Exum back in action and after Ricky Rubio dodged an apparent right knee contusion bullet, Utah Jazz fans had to know that it was only a matter of […]
  Utah Jazz injury update: Derrick Favors out vs. Atlanta - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah County Commission says Freedom Festival can’t use $100k of taxpayer dollars to discriminate in light of LGBTQ group’s exclusion from parade

  20-03-2018 18:46
  The Utah County Commission approved a measure Tuesday morning to provide America’s Freedom Festival with more than $100,000 in taxpayer funds — but with the stipulation that it will not use that money to discriminate on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation or other factors.Commissioner Nathan Ivie noted that “concerns raised about some exclusion” prompted the creation of a nondiscrimination clause in the county’s agreement with the organization, which produces
  
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• "Yeah, I told everyone the next day that we would win the next 21-23 (games) and it's worked out well." 😂 📽️:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 18:43 via twitter.com
  "Yeah, I told everyone the next day that we would win the next 21-23 (games) and it's worked out well." 😂📽️:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 10th Circuit Court rules against Utah Republican Party’s attempt to overturn signature-gathering election law

  20-03-2018 18:43
  The Utah Republican Party lost a big legal battle Tuesday in its attempt to overturn a 2014 Utah election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot through the caucus-convention system and/or by collecting signatures.The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver upheld the law, called SB54, in a 2-1 decision, saying “states must have flexibility to enact reasonable, common-sense regulations designed to provide order and legitimacy to the electoral process.”Republicans had ar
  
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• New BYU WRs coach Fesi Sitake inherited some receiving talent, and more is on the way

  20-03-2018 18:38
  Provo • Perhaps the most glaring of all the shortcomings Ty Detmer’s BYU offense had in 2017 was at receiver. The group collectively was below average by almost any statistical measure. Receivers struggled to get off the line of scrimmage against man-press defense, couldn’t get open consistently and seemed to have more than their share of drops. There were no big-play guys. Of course a revolving door at quarterback didn’t help. Due to injuries, three QBs started, five guys
  
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• He was the arborist in a Utah town. He’s accused of cutting down 18 trees in an act of vandalism.

  20-03-2018 18:34
  Just over a year ago, someone chopped down 18 trees and smashed glass bottles of a foul-smelling liquid around Springdale town hall. At the time, police suspected the vandal to be a disgruntled employee, the town’s former arborist who had planted those trees over the past two Arbor Days.On Monday, the arborist was arrested.Shane Curtis Lowery, 52, was charged in 5th District Court on Tuesday with second-degree felony criminal mischief. Lowery was accused of causing approximately $20,000 wo
  
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• Two Utah men get married, in matching tuxedos, at Mount Everest base camp

  20-03-2018 18:29
  Utah couple Jesse Zamora and Ivan Ward didn’t just go to great lengths to plan their wedding, but to great heights — into the Himalayas, to the base camp of Mount Everest.We did it! It was as perfect a morning and wedding as we could dare dream of.The sunrise over #MountEverest lit and warmed our ceremony, and our friends and family helped create an experience that was truly unparalleled. 🤵🏼🏔🤵🏻 - We’ll share more about our wedding day whe
  
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• "No ceiling. No floor." 📽️: on.nba.com/2u4w51Z https://t.co/bL6c8Zd999

  20-03-2018 18:28 via twitter.com
  
  "No ceiling. No floor."📽️: on.nba.com/2u4w51Z https://t.co/bL6c8Zd999
  
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• Ex-UNLV coach Dave Rice — a former Utah State and BYU assistant — is among USU’s targets for vacancy

  20-03-2018 18:27
  The Washington Huskies’ basketball season ended Monday night, preventing them from visiting Utah for an NIT quarterfinal game. The timing could be helpful to Utah State. Washington assistant coach Dave Rice is high on USU’s list of potential replacements for Tim Duryea, sources in Logan said. Mark Fox, recently fired after nine years as Georgia’s coach, and longtime Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd also are believed to be among the coaches considered by USU athletic director John
  
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• Can America stop killing unwanted pets by 2025? New CEO for Best Friends says yes — and Utah can do it by 2019.

  20-03-2018 18:21
  When Julie Castle stopped by an animal sanctuary in Kanab back in 1992, she had no idea it would change her life.Castle is the new CEO of the Best Friends Animal Society, which has become the largest and best-known no-kill animal group in the country. And she’s determined that Best Friends will lead the effort to end euthanizing shelter animals by the year 2025.“I’m very confident,” Castle said. “It’s going to be a lot of work, but it’s definitely doable
  
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• Welcoming game day like 🤗 https://t.co/ru3uw7bsDa

  20-03-2018 18:20 via twitter.com
  
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• New lawsuit describes Provo officials ignoring complaints of police chief’s sexual misconduct

  20-03-2018 18:16
  Less than a year after John King took over as Provo’s police chief in late 2013, then-Mayor John Curtis called a meeting with police department supervisors.He told the staffers that there had been complaints about the new police chief, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, including a complaint that King had sexually harassed a dispatcher. With King by his side, the mayor told the supervisors he did not want to receive any more complaints about the new police chief, according to the lawsui
  
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• Rolly: Don’t blame the lobbyists — the Legislature was going to kick Salt Lake City to the curb no matter what

  20-03-2018 18:15
  After the Utah legislative session ended nearly two weeks ago, the three state senators who represent Salt Lake City were outraged at the job the lobbyists hired by Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s administration did for the city.The mayor, the city council and the legislators whose districts are within Salt Lake’s boundaries believed the capital was kicked to the curb by the Republican-dominated Legislature with the bill on developing an inland port in Salt Lake’s northwest quadrant.T
  
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