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• Four percent tuition hikes expected for University of Utah, Utah State

  26-03-2018 23:53
  The Utah Board of Regents is expected to vote Friday on a statewide tuition hike of 1.5 percent for Utah’s public colleges and universities, according to materials released Monday.Additional campus-level increases, known as “Tier 2”, are also under consideration, potentially bringing the total hike in tuition next year to 3.9 percent at the University of Utah and Utah State University; 3.5 percent at Dixie State University; and 2.5 percent at Weber State University.The board is
  
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• Park City residents evacuated after construction crew finds mining-era dynamite under a home

  26-03-2018 23:27
  A construction crew found a crate of mining-era dynamite while working on an older home in the Old Town area Monday morning, Park City officials said, causing evacuations.Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk said that the explosives were discovered just before 10 a.m. on the 900 block of Empire Avenue.Shortly before 1 p.m., the Unified Fire Authority Bomb Squad arrived to remove the dynamite, Park City officials tweeted. Residents were evacuated from Crescent Street to 12th Avenue and between Lowell
  
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• Want to meet @rickyrubio9? Open your Jazz app and click on "Offers & Promotions" to reserve your spot after Wednes… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-03-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
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• Utah telemarketing companies that dialed millions of Do Not Call numbers ordered to pay $500K

  26-03-2018 23:26
  Three Utah telemarketing companies and their owner will pay a penalty of approximately $500,000 for flooding phones on the Do Not Call Registry with nearly 100 million calls and making more than 4 million additional calls that included misleading statements to induce the sale of DVDs.In an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby imposed the penalty and also entered a permanent injunction that prohibits Forrest S. Baker III and his companies — Feature Films for Families Inc.,
  
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• Kragthorpe: Chris Hill’s Ute legacy includes Pac-12 membership and a 30-year tenure that will never be matched

  26-03-2018 23:23
  All of this happened because Chris Hill started driving west on I-80 without a job in the interest of romance, because Olympus High School once chose someone else to coach the Titans’ basketball team and because he liked living in Utah so much that he never left.Hill’s 30-plus-year tenure as the University of Utah’s athletic director will end later this spring, when he walks out of the Huntsman Center and into retirement. He’ll always believe he was an unlikely choice for
  
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• Monson: Shrewd and unobtrusive, Chris Hill handled the angels and demons of college athletics, and lifted the Utes in a profound way

  26-03-2018 23:22
  Chris Hill had, i swear, two diminutive apparitions over his opposite shoulders that day nearly eight years ago, the day it was announced in a crowded fourth-level box at Rice-Eccles Stadium that Utah was headed for what would now be known as the Pac-12.One was an angel, the other a devil.One represented all the hard work Hill had put in to make that day happen, and the promise of what could come next. The other illustrated the difficult challenge of lifting the Utes to a position of competitive
  
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• #⃣1⃣🚫 #TakeNote twitter.com/NBATV/status/9…

  26-03-2018 23:12 via twitter.com
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• Floating trash on the Jordan River threatens entire species of waterfowl, but a new project aims to fix that

  26-03-2018 23:08
  It’s not just the oceans that are plagued by plastic — Utah’s inland sea has a trash problem of its own, and conservationists hope that installing a sort of filter on the Jordan River will put a stop to it.Unveiled Monday, a new floating “trash boom” is being installed on the river above Farmington Bay that will help skim off massive amounts of flowing garbage and debris, preventing it from reaching open waters, sensitive wetlands and bird habitat of the Great Salt
  
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• It’s Cottonwood Heights Day in Millcreek City

  26-03-2018 23:03
  During Millcreek’s first few months as a city, its council occupied a temporary workspace in the Mt. Olympus Improvement District, where leaders held weekly meetings in a small conference room and sat in metal folding chairs that Councilwoman Cheri Jackson had supplied.When the council moved in January to Millcreek’s new city offices at 3330 S. 1300 East, Cottonwood Heights donated almost “every stick of furniture” in the building, said Millcreek Mayor Jeff Silvestrini. T
  
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• Salt Lake City expands consumer protection outreach to help with predatory lending, business scams

  26-03-2018 23:02
  Salt Lake City will use a $112,000 two-year grant to help consumers work through complaints involving landlord-tenant disputes, impounded vehicles, and suspect financial practices such as payday loans and fly-by-night contractors.The city will use the money to develop a centralized clearinghouse that residents can contact to get direct assistance or be routed to the right agency, such as the state Division of Consumer Protection. A website is coming, but consumers can start getting help right aw
  
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• Give us a "👌" if you love buckets from behind the arc 🙌 #ThreesoftheWeek @MountainAmerica https://t.co/S9k0ekCa73

  26-03-2018 23:02 via twitter.com
  
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• Commentary: Twelve science-fiction rules for life

  26-03-2018 23:00
  Like so many other scribes, I have been inspired by psychologist Jordan Peterson’s fascinating book to sketch my 12 rules of life. But mine are different, because each is drawn from canonical science fiction. Why? Maybe because this is the literature on which I grew up, or maybe because I have never lost the taste for it. Or maybe because the sci-fi canon really does have a lot to teach about the well-lived life. Here, then, are my 12 rules. I cannot pretend that I always follow them, but
  
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• NetSmartz gets state funding to keep running program that teaches Utah students about internet safety

  26-03-2018 22:39
  A program that teaches elementary and high school students across Utah to use the internet safely — covering such topics as cyberbullying, sexting and online predators — will continue to run after surviving budget cuts considered during the legislative session.Utah NetSmartz is funded by a grant through the Utah Attorney General’s Office and works directly with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in the AG’s office. NetSmartz is run out of the Boys and Girls C
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - By the Stats: Utah Jazz beat sort-of Golden State Warriors

  26-03-2018 22:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... even assists in five of his last seven games and has the most assists of any Jazz player in March (81). After Ingles shot 4-7 from three Sunday, the Jazz are...
  
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• Russian shopping mall fire kills 64; no alarms reported

  26-03-2018 22:04
  Moscow • Witnesses say fire alarms were silent and many doors were locked when a blaze at a Russian shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 people in Siberia.The fire at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, a city about 3,000 kilometers (1,900 miles) east of Moscow, was extinguished by Monday morning after burning through the night.Sixty-four deaths were confirmed after firefighters finished combing through the four floors of t
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Bleacher Report calls Utah Jazz “the team no one wants to face in the playoffs”

  26-03-2018 21:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... stseason. Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck said it best when he stated that the Jazz are “the team no one wants to face in the playoffs” as you can see in the vi ...
  
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• USU names Craig Smith as head coach basketball coach

  26-03-2018 21:42
  Utah State will introduce South Dakota’s Craig Smith as the school’s basketball coach Tuesday morning in Logan. USU announced Monday that Smith was athletic director John Hartwell’s choice to replace Tim Duryea, after Smith visited the campus Sunday. Smith is not the kind of big-name hire that some may have anticipated when Hartwell told KVNU Radio that fans would be “blown away” by the level of interest in the job. His work in four seasons at South Dakota, however,
  
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• Utah athletic director Chris Hill retiring after trailblazing 31-year career leading the Utes

  26-03-2018 21:33
  An era is soon coming to a close, and what an era it has been.At a press conference on Monday, Utah athletic director Chris Hill will announce that he is retiring this spring, ending a career at the university that not only spanned four decades, but continually launched the Utes into the national spotlight over his 31 years at the helm.“Chris Hill leaves a tremendous legacy at the University of Utah,” said University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins in a school news release. “
  
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• On Palm Sunday, Pope Francis urges youths to raise their voices

  26-03-2018 21:20
  Vatican City • Pope Francis on Palm Sunday urged young people not to be silent and let their voices be heard — even in the face of corrupt or silent elders.The pope’s message comes on the heels of a meeting of young Catholics who told the Vatican they want a more transparent and authentic church, and a day after hundreds of thousands marched in youth-led rallies across the United States to demand greater gun control.“The temptation to silence young people has always existe
  
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• Bleacher Report calls Utah Jazz “the team no one wants to face in the playoffs”

  26-03-2018 21:14
  The Utah Jazz are playing well and shaping up to be one of the most daunting opponents in the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs. My, what a season and what a turnaround it’s been for the Utah Jazz in 2017-18. Once an afterthought sitting at 19-28 after a dismal loss to the Atlanta […]
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• Man dies after explosion at northern Utah Autoliv factory

  26-03-2018 21:13
  A man died early Monday morning after an explosion at an Autliv Facilities factory in Box Elder County.Police received a call that the Promontory factory, which produces airbags for vehicles, was on fire about 2:12 a.m., according to a news release from the Box Elder County sheriff’s office.Ronald Larson, 64, of Cache Valley, was trapped inside the facility, and personnel at the site were trying to extricate him, the release said. Larson had reportedly been alone in the mixing portion of t
  
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• Jazz re-sign David Stockton to another 10-day contract

  26-03-2018 21:10
  There will be a Stockton on the Jazz roster for a little longer.On Monday morning, the Jazz signed point guard David Stockton to a second 10-day contract. Stockton, who is the son of Jazz hall of famer John Stockton, made his first appearance in Sunday’s win over the Golden State Warriors, scoring two points on a pair of free-throws. David Stockton came to the Jazz from the G-League Reno Bighorns. With the Jazz, he has served as the third point guard, while Raul Neto recovers from a fractu
  
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• Holly Richardson: How can we bear one another’s burdens if we don’t believe them?

  26-03-2018 21:08
  The news stories over the past week of the alleged sexual abuse of a young LDS missionary by her Missionary Training Center (MTC) president have rocked me. It is horrific. It is sobering. My teenagers are asking me about “rape rooms” in the MTC. (Talk about a conversation I never thought I’d have.)There is also deep sorrow for the way this sister missionary has been treated, ignored and disbelieved. It feels like not only was she molested by a trusted church leader, but she was
  
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• Park City residents evacuated after construction crew finds what may be dynamite under a home

  26-03-2018 21:00
  A construction crew found what they suspected to be dynamite while working on an older home in the Old Town area Monday morning, Park City officials said, causing evacuations.Park City police Capt. Phil Kirk said that the potential explosives were discovered just before 10 a.m. on the 900 block of Empire Avenue.Shortly before 1 p.m., a bomb squad arrived to remove the suspected dynamite, Park City officials tweeted. The Park City Library is set up to shelter those evacuated in the Old Town area
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Getting to the Bottom of It

  26-03-2018 20:55
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, March 27, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Warmonger<br>One Word – Plastics<br>Adoration of the Donald<br>Bloodsuckers<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>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Dante Exum is quickly re-establishing himself after return from shoulder surgery, strengthening Jazz bench

  26-03-2018 20:48
  Oakland, Calif. • Maybe he forgot. Maybe Kevon Looney never knew.As the Warriors forward switched onto Dante Exum after a screen, he was already too late. The Jazz backup point guard was blowing by Looney on the way to the hoop, a 6-foot-6 wraith.The NBA has known since 2014, when Exum was picked 5th overall, that the Australian has speed to burn. But maybe the league has needed a refresher, because Looney isn’t the only defender who has been caught trying to play catch-up since Exum
  
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• MLS week in review: Zlatan Ibrahimović makes a big splash in L.A. with the Galaxy

  26-03-2018 20:12
  Zlatan Ibrahimović didn’t wait for Los Angeles to welcome him. Instead, welcomed the city to zLAtan.The L.A. Galaxy aren’t playing around with this rebuild, which they showed by officially announcing the signing of one of the most prolific soccer players in the game on Friday. And thus, an extraordinarily bold, yet charismatic, soccer player enters the city of celebrities.#zLAtan pic.twitter.com/S73CpaNMaP— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) March 23, 2018Asked if L.A. was big enough f
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz Battle Squad

  26-03-2018 19:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... 7. It seems that when Rubio is confident and his shot is falling, the entire Jazz team follows suite. Rubio is a critical part of the Jazz playoff hopes, and...
  
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• Elizabeth Smart wants her name removed from anti-porn bill

  26-03-2018 19:52
  Providence, R.I. • A proposal targeting online pornography and human trafficking billed as the “Elizabeth Smart Law” has grabbed headlines around the country for its unusual approach: require a filter which can be lifted with a $20 fee.But Smart, who was kidnapped from her Utah home as a teenager in 2002, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to demand her name be removed from it.And the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography advocacy group, demanded last year
  
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• No deathbed conversion for atheist Stephen Hawking

  26-03-2018 19:02
  It happens a lot after famous nonbelievers die: People assert the nonbeliever had a deathbed conversion to Christianity.And it happened again after the recent death of physicist Stephen Hawking, who, by his own account, did not believe in God.“We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God,” Hawking said in 2011. “No one created the universe and no one directs our fate.”But that did not stop a Facebook page call
  
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• Johnson Amendment, keeping churches out of overt political forays, remains intact in omnibus spending bill

  26-03-2018 18:57
  Washington • The part of tax law that prohibits houses of worship from engaging in explicit political activity will remain intact for now — despite concerns that Republican lawmakers would try to repeal it in the latest massive federal spending bill.The more-than-60-year-old law, often referred to as the Johnson Amendment, bars churches and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing political candidates. Some conservatives — mostly evangelical Christian leaders and a few Repu
  
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• Utah athletic director Chris Hill retiring after trail-blazing 31-year career leading the Utes

  26-03-2018 18:45
  An era is soon coming to a close, and what an era it has been.At a press conference on Monday, Utah athletic director Chris Hill will announce that he is retiring this spring, ending a career at the university that not only spanned four decades, but continually launched the Utes into the national spotlight over his 31 years at the helm.“Chris Hill leaves a tremendous legacy at the University of Utah,” said University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins in a school news release. “
  
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• From ‘Downton’ to Jerusalem, actor Hugh Bonneville searches for Jesus

  26-03-2018 18:41
  Of course an actor like Hugh Bonneville would be captivated by the drama of the last week of Jesus’ life, with his triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, his challenging of the priests in the temple, his betrayal by Judas and his sentencing to crucifixion at the hands of a mob.What will surprise many is that Bonneville, 54, whose biggest role to date has been as Lord Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has a theology degree from Cambridge University, where he was taught Christian history
  
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• USU’s names Craig Smith as head coach basketball coach

  26-03-2018 18:39
  Utah State will introduce South Dakota’s Craig Smith as the school’s basketball coach Tuesday morning in Logan. USU announced Monday that Smith was athletic director John Hartwell’s choice to replace Tim Duryea, after Smith visited the campus Sunday. Smith is not the kind of big-name hire that some may have anticipated when Hartwell told KVNU Radio that fans would be “blown away” by the level of interest in the job. His work in four seasons at South Dakota, however,
  
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• Woman dead after driver flees from Utah wildlife officer, runs red light and collides with car

  26-03-2018 18:33
  A woman died and two others were critically injured Sunday after the driver of a Jeep — who was reportedly fleeing from a Utah wildlife officer — collided with a car in a Salt Lake County intersection.On Sunday morning, an officer from the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, tried to speak with the Jeep’s driver on a frontage road near the Lee Kay shooting range, 6000 W. 2100 South, about “possible criminal activity,” according to a news release f
  
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• Does tithing requirement for entry into LDS temples amount to Mormons buying their way into heaven?

  26-03-2018 18:24
  Money may be the root of all evil, but, for Mormons, it also provides a pathway to the highest heaven.That’s because to gain access to the sacred spaces and saving rituals of a Mormon temple, LDS believers must donate 10 percent of their income to the church.No payment? No entrance.“You can earn [a place in the presence of our Father in Heaven],” LDS apostle Marion G. Romney once said, “by observing faithfully day by day, and year by year, the law of tithing and the other
  
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• [Washington Post: Early Lead] - Stephen Curry hopes to prove Steve Kerr wrong on his recovery time

  26-03-2018 18:15 via sportspyder.com
  ...the West’s final playoff spots: the Thunder, Pelicans, Spurs, Timberwolves, Jazz, Nuggets and Clippers — the teams that are fourth through ninth in the stand ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Breaking: David Stockton Gets Second 10-Day Contract with Utah Jazz

  26-03-2018 18:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... ints in a Jazz uniform, you might just be a Utah Jazz fan. — Jake Lee (@jacobrexlee) I’m not crying. You’re crying. Anyway, things ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Could first-round showdown against banged-up Warriors be ideal?

  26-03-2018 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  ... first round series – a series that could very well pit them against the Utah Jazz, who find themselves in eighth place for now only because Minnesota, who hol ...
  
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• [Give Me Sport] - Donovan Mitchell passes Stephen Curry for the second most threes by a rookie | GiveMeSport

  26-03-2018 17:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... he team's number one offensive option relatively quickly. Mitchell leads the Jazz in scoring with an average of 20.3 points per game. The 21-year-old has allo ...
  
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• [The Athletic] - Five observations from the Warriors’ 110-91 loss to the Jazz – The Athletic

  26-03-2018 17:31 via sportspyder.com
  ... NH Toggle navigation Five observations from the Warriors' 110-91 loss to the Jazz Mar 26, 2018 3 SALE: Free trial and 30% off Try The Athletic free for a week ...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz notes: A Stockton in a Utah uniform happened — and he'll get more chances

  26-03-2018 17:20 via sportspyder.com
  ... aff, great everything. I’ve had a great experience and hope to continue it.” Jazz coach Quin Snyder was glad to be able to get Stockton — and Georges Niang —...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - John Stockton's Son David Reportedly Signs 2nd 10-Day Contract with Jazz

  26-03-2018 17:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... Son David Reportedly Signs 2nd 10-Day Contract with Jazz Featured Columnist March 26, 2018 Comments Comment Bubble Icon Rick Bowmer/A ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Could first-round showdown against banged-up Warriors be ideal?

  26-03-2018 17:03
  Although no one would have imagined it even a few weeks ago, with how banged up the Golden State Warriors have been, could they end up being an ideal first-round playoff matchup for the Utah Jazz? All season long, the narrative in the crowded Western Conference has been that the lower playoff teams battling for […]
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• Interstate 80 shuts down in Summit County after more than 30 crashes in the area, with one person dead

  26-03-2018 17:00
  Both eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Summit County were closed Monday morning after more than 30 crashes occurred in the area, one of which was fatal.The freeway was closed at Echo Junction, mile marker 172, about 7:30 a.m., and traffic was being diverted onto Old Echo Road while the Utah Department of Transportation brought snow plows and salt trucks into the area, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.Roads in the area were “extremely snowy and icy,” and at least o
  
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• Interstate 80 shuts down in Summit County after 20 to 30 crashes in the area, with one person dead

  26-03-2018 16:39
  Both eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Summit County were closed Monday morning after 20 to 30 crashes occurred in the area, one of which was fatal.The freeway was closed at Echo Junction, mile marker 172, about 7:30 a.m., and traffic was being diverted onto Old Echo Road while the Utah Department of Transportation brought snow plows and salt trucks into the area, according to the Utah Highway Patrol.Roads in the area were “extremely snowy and icy,” and at least one p
  
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• Utah’s jail standards show importance of day-to-day policies as lawsuits target largest jails for deadly breakdowns in inmate medical care

  26-03-2018 16:32
  After years of fighting to keep them private, the association representing Utah’s county sheriffs released hundreds of jail standards for public view.The late-January release moved Utah closer in line with states that give the public a glimpse of instructions jailers follow when holding inmates who either are serving short-term sentences or have been arrested but not yet tried. The standards make clear, say some sheriffs and a handful of attorneys representing inmates who died in custody,
  
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