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• Quickly and quietly, Salt Lake City added 39 new units of low-income housing at an old motel that will help keep people out of homelessness

  01-04-2018 23:47
  There was little fanfare when Salt Lake City landed dozens of new apartment units for residents making about minimum wage, an elusive and much-needed — if temporary — type of housing amid a statewide effort to pull people out of homelessness.There was no news conference to unveil the apartments. No ribbon-cutting. No ceremony. To passers-by, the rundown Capitol Motel on State Street near 1700 South has changed little. But inside, quiet work has taken place after a recent change in ow
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah has a drug problem. It’s not marijuana.

  01-04-2018 23:27
  Utah has a drug problem, that much is for certain.What is also certain is that our drug problem is not, has not been and — no matter the fate of a referendum now working its way toward the state ballot — will not be marijuana.A petition drive favoring a vote on making medical uses of cannabis legal in Utah is moving along and, if it gets on the ballot in November, polls indicate that it will pass by a Putin-like majority.The effort has as much support as it does, clearly, as a popula
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Simmons, Sixers beat Hornets 119-102 for 10th straight win

  01-04-2018 23:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• The latest from last day of Mormon General Conference: Another stunner — church is replacing its home and visiting teaching programs

  01-04-2018 23:14
  After a dizzying day of historic changes under new LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, the 188th Annual General Conference resumed on Easter Sunday with yet another momentous announcement: “Home teaching” by male Mormons and “visiting teaching” by female Latter-day Saints to members in their congregations will be discontinued and replaced with a “ministering” program.What is home teaching and visiting teaching? Well, it’s hard to live in Utah and not
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Michigan going for 2nd NCAA title; 'Nova for 2nd in 3 years

  01-04-2018 22:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• Letter: To fix homelessness, tackle treatment first

  01-04-2018 22:30
  In 2016, Utah’s annual estimate of people experiencing homelessness was 13,460. Since 20 to 25 percent of the homeless population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness that means that (approximately) 2,700 homeless people in Utah are mentally ill.People with poor mental health are more susceptible to factors that can lead to them becoming homeless. They are more likely to be poor, disaffiliate themselves from their family and friends (and people in general),
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Meet Kickstradomis, the favorite sneaker customizer of NBA players

  01-04-2018 22:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... guys to work with him. Custom “5ForTheFight” Crazy Explosive 17 Low for Utah Jazz guard Ricky Rubio that honors his mother and former coach Flip Saunders (ima ...
  
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• Tony Finau, and the chip that earned him a trip to the Masters

  01-04-2018 22:05
  Tony Finau knew a top-10 finish in the third event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs in mid-September would send him to the Tour Championship in Atlanta. Yet as he played that final round near Chicago, he was thinking about a venue 140 miles east of Atlanta. Finau’s target was Augusta National Golf Club and his first appearance in the Masters. “It was the only thing on my mind,” the Lehi resident said recently. “There was nothing more important to me in my career
  
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• Israel rejects calls for investigation after 15 Palestinians killed, hundreds injured in violence at Gaza border

  01-04-2018 22:02
  Jerusalem • Israel’s defense minister on Sunday rejected international calls for an investigation into deadly violence along Gaza’s border with Israel, saying troops acted appropriately and fired only at Palestinian protesters who posed a threat.Fifteen Palestinians were killed and over 700 wounded in Friday’s violence near the Israeli border, according to Palestinian health officials. It was the area’s deadliest violence since a war four years ago.Human rights group
  
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• Meet Kickstradomis, the favorite sneaker customizer of NBA players

  01-04-2018 21:56
  Salvador Amezcua found himself at a crossroads last year. While rehabilitating from a car accident, he was scrolling through his 100,000 followers on Instagram. Upon going through the list, he stumbled across Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns and, with nothing to lose, decided to send him a message about possibly doing a custom sneaker.
  “I just shot my shot and reached out to him through a DM, and he responded within a minute,” says Amezcua, 31. “I figured this
  
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• ‘Hope and dignity’: Pope Francis calls for peace in Easter message

  01-04-2018 21:55
  Vatican City • On Christianity’s most joyful day, Pope Francis called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, “beginning with the beloved and long-suffering land of Syria” and extending to Israel, where 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border two days before Easter Sunday.Francis reflected on the power of Christianity’s core belief — that Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion — in his formal “Urbi et Orbi” East
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NCAA Latest: Michigan's Robinson played for DIII title, too

  01-04-2018 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Kansas' season ends in Final Four loss to Villanova

  01-04-2018 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• Karen Tumulty: The Trump administration's plan to make people disappear

  01-04-2018 21:45
  As long as there has been a census, there have been complaints about how it was conducted.Ours is believed to have been the first country to have required that its entire population be counted on a regular basis. The Constitution stipulated that there be an “actual enumeration” of all U.S. residents within three years of Congress’s first meeting and every 10 years thereafter.But when the 1790 population tally came in at a disappointingly low 3.9 million residents, skeptics &nda
  
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• Commentary: Even atheists should read the Bible

  01-04-2018 21:41
  On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal was compelled to issue an amusing, if embarrassing, correction after misquoting Israel’s prime minister the day before. “An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Benjamin Netanyahu said Moses brought water from Iraq,” The Journal confessed. “He said the water was brought from a rock.”In his speech, Netanyahu had referenced the Old Testament tale in which Moses strikes a rock with his staff to draw water for the Isra
  
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• Letter: Curtis owes us an apology

  01-04-2018 21:30
  In reference to Rep. John Curtis and Provo’s former police chief, John King:Under no circumstances should you ever, ever complain about your ability to fundraise as a result of lying to protect a predator. John King ruined lives and you kept him in a position to do it and then you let him go with praise and a party. How this affects you is not important. Helping his victims is the only important thing right now.Apologize to them, apologize to us, and stop making excuses for your sorry beha
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NCAA Latest: Illinois HS standouts going head to head again

  01-04-2018 21:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• Kate Kelly: Although the Mormon church still treats women as subhuman, more members are speaking up

  01-04-2018 21:05
  April 6 is the five-year anniversary of the launch of Ordain Women. Many of us met in person for the very first time at that event at the University of Utah, during the male-only Priesthood Session of General Conference.Some in the audience shielded their faces from the press, afraid to be targeted by their family or ward members, even for passively attending a public meeting. Over the last five years many have boldly joined the movement at great personal risk, and have reinvigorated the convers
  
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• BYU’s physical, hard-hitting spring camp is producing injuries, but coaches are willing to take risks to improve program

  01-04-2018 20:43
  Provo • It is a risk that BYU football coach Kalani Sitake is willing to take. After all, desperate times call for desperate measures.The primary theme that has arisen out of the Cougars’ 2018 spring football practices as they try to recover from last year’s disappointing season is the physicality of this particular camp. Big hits, take-to-the-ground tackling and even fierce, gladiatorlike contact in “mano a mano” drills have taken place in the first 12 practices, an
  
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• The latest from last day of Mormon General Conference: Apostles ‘freely express’ their views, then seek unity and God’s approval, Nelson says

  01-04-2018 20:41
  After a dizzying day of historic changes, the 188th Annual General Conference resumed on Easter Sunday for the final two sessions of a gathering that already has seen Russell M. Nelson sustained as the LDS Church’s 17th president, two new apostles chosen who reflect the growing global diversity in the U.S.-born faith and a seismic shift in how the adult male priesthood operates in every Mormon congregation across the globe.The 93-year-old Nelson, conducting his first General Conference ses
  
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• Commentary: How to lose the Second Amendment

  01-04-2018 20:20
  As mass shootings have increased, and the death toll keeps mounting, children across America have become increasingly afraid of attending school.Is the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in jeopardy? Thousands and thousands of young people, in city after city, have been demonstrating, marching and demanding legislative action to stop gun violence in America. These young people will soon become voters and elected representatives. If nothing happens, or only token change, designed to placat
  
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• Letter: On gun control, nothing has changed since the Million Mom March 18 years ago

  01-04-2018 20:16
  There is nothing like a mother’s love for her children! Mothers would rather lay down their own life than lose a child! Eighteen years ago, on Mother’s Day, mothers across the nation rallied for stricter gun control with the Million Mom March.Personally, the only thing I wanted for Mother’s Day was for my children to march with me in support of gun laws that would offer the protection that I couldn’t guarantee to them! Nothing has changed in 18 years! In fact you could sa
  
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• Three novels that aim for the heart of America’s deadly love affair with guns

  01-04-2018 20:00
  Three new novels about America’s deadly gun culture arrive this spring. Given the recent massacre in Florida, that seems like a gruesome coincidence, but don’t be too amazed. We suffer so many shootings in this country that it’s impossible to publish a book about guns that doesn’t bleed into the day’s news.Which poses a challenge: Who wants to turn from the looping clips of dying children to the pages of novels that re-enact those same horrors? Or, to put it another
  
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• Trump says 'NO MORE' on deal for 'Dreamer' immigrants

  01-04-2018 19:52
  Palm Beach, Fla. • President Donald Trump declared Sunday that a deal to help “Dreamer” immigrants was “NO MORE” and threatened to pull out of a free trade agreement with Mexico unless it does more to stop people from crossing into the U.S. He claimed they’re coming to take advantage of protections granted certain immigrants.“NO MORE DACA DEAL!” Trump tweeted one hour after he started the day by wishing his followers a “HAPPY EASTER!”He
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz visit Minnesota Timberwolves with playoff seeding on the line

  01-04-2018 19:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... s played this season at 2,445. comes in at 26th with 2,400. They’re the only Jazz players in the top 50 and only Mitchell ranks in the top 50 of minutes per g ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - NCAA Latest: Not much public faith in Michigan upset of Nova

  01-04-2018 19:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... et for national title game Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz Autopsy disputes police account of fatal Sacramento shooting Syracuse could...
  
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• Letter: Let the CDC do its job researching gun violence

  01-04-2018 19:30
  I’m a rural physician and gun owner. The current death rate by guns is an epidemic. What’s unique about this epidemic is that the deaths are abhorrently violent, which causes trauma and subsequent psychological difficulties for families and the community at-large. It is extremely important to address this issue head-on.I understand some gun owners fear losing their guns, while on the other side, some people believe no one should own a gun. Neither is likely to happen. There is a spec
  
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• Letter: On guns, Mia Love is all talk

  01-04-2018 19:19
  Let’s be clear about Rep. Mia Love’s stance on guns and gun laws. She co-sponsored both the bill to de-regulate silencers (HR367) and the bill (HR38) to undermine existing Utah gun laws by allowing visitors from states with no permitting process at all (including domestic violence abusers and other violators of our laws) to conceal carry their weapons in Utah.To be fair, politicians do change their minds, and while it is commendable that Rep. Love is willing to ban bump stocks and &l
  
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• The latest from final day of Mormon General Conference: Speakers with roots from across the globe issue calls to spread Christ’s ‘pure love’ and guard against falling away

  01-04-2018 19:18
  After a dizzying day of historic changes, the 188th Annual General Conference resumed on Easter Sunday for the final two sessions of a gathering that already has seen Russell M. Nelson sustained as the faith’s 17th president, two new apostles chosen who reflect the growing global diversity in the U.S.-born faith and a seismic shift in how the adult male priesthood operates in every Mormon congregation across the globe.Nelson, conducting his first General Conference session as the LDS presi
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Derrick Rose describes experience of being waived by Utah Jazz as ‘weird but bittersweet’

  01-04-2018 19:14 via sportspyder.com
  ...of Crowder. Rose is a game-time decision (sprained right ankle) to face the Jazz today at 5 p.m. MT in the Target Center, but is preparing his mind and body...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The fate of the Western Conference Playoff Race could be decided today

  01-04-2018 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... y a five games remaining. Utah, San Antonio, and New Orleans tied for fourth Jazz win Rockets win New Orleans Win Let’s get crazy. In this scenario, the Utah...
  
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• Derrick Rose describes experience of being waived by Utah Jazz as ‘weird but bittersweet’

  01-04-2018 18:55
  MINNEAPOLIS — For 48 hours, former league MVP Derrick Rose was a member of the Utah Jazz.Rose was part of the three-team deal with Cleveland that also sent Jae Crowder to the Jazz on Feb. 8.Then on Feb. 10, the Jazz announced that they waived him.According to Rose, he never even visited Salt Lake City.“No. I didn’t go. I was still in Cleveland,” Rose said. “They allowed me to be there. My agent worked things out with them.”After being released, Rose eventually
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Is Donovan Mitchell the Lady Gaga of the NBA?

  01-04-2018 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... City Saturday November 25, 2017. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) shoots as the Utah Jazz host the Chicago Bulls,...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio questionable for Sunday’s bout at Minnesota

  01-04-2018 18:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... r asked KAT whether there’s still animosity from their last matchup with the Jazz: “What do you think?” — Tim Faklis (@timfaklis) March 31, 2018 Unfortunately ...
  
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• Is Donovan Mitchell the Lady Gaga of the NBA?

  01-04-2018 18:48
  These are good times for Donovan Mitchell. The Utah Jazz are hotter than they’ve been in years. He won the NBA dunk contest. He’s one of the frontrunners to win the league’s Rookie of the Year award.And he’s about to be a star of Young Hollywood.The website/streaming channel spent five days following the Jazz player around when he was in L.A. for the NBA’s All-Star weekend because he’s a “Rookie on the Rise.” And Mitchell is the focus of a new seri
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio questionable for Sunday’s bout at Minnesota

  01-04-2018 18:42
  Ricky Rubio, who continues to deal with hamstring soreness, has been listed as questionable for tonight’s bout between the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves. The Utah Jazz will have yet another chance to make a significant leap in the standings on Sunday evening when they visit the Minnesota Timberwolves in a bout that could have […]
  Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio questionable for Sunday’s bout at Minnesota - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion a
  
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• Leonard Pitts: We’ve seen this movie 100 times before

  01-04-2018 18:26
  Maybe we should just skip to the end.Is that sacrilege? Is it too cynical by half? After all, this is the part where we’re supposed to be waiting for answers and pretending to believe justice might be done.But if you’ve seen a movie a hundred times, it is difficult not to mouth the dialogue ahead of time. Similarly, it is pretty hard not to have a strong sense of where this latest police shooting of an unarmed black man is, barring the unexpected, likely heading.The district attorney
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - By the Stats: Jazz down the Grizzlies

  01-04-2018 18:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... of percentage). The Jazz are 3-0 in games where Ingles has a double-double. Rudy Gobert Jeff Swinger- ...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota: Keys to getting a playoff altering win

  01-04-2018 16:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz notes: Jeremy Evans gets called up, Mark Eaton’s new book by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota: Keys to getting a playoff altering win

  01-04-2018 16:00
  As the regular season is drawing to a close for the Utah Jazz, they find themselves in a heated race for the final spots in the Western Conference Playoffs. They’ll look to earn a massive victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday. As the final two weeks of the season are upon us, every game […]
  Utah Jazz vs. Minnesota: Keys to getting a playoff altering win - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Tribune editorial: Chris Hill was a game changer for University of Utah athletics

  01-04-2018 15:49
  It would have been a fitting tribute to outgoing University of Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill if Utah’s men’s basketball team had managed to win the National Invitational Tournament the same week he announced his retirement. On the other hand, maybe Thursday night’s second-place finish is the most fitting tribute. He can put the almost trophy alongside the Utes’ second-ranked finish in the 2009 AP football poll and the second place finish in the 1998 NCAA men’s b
  
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• ‘I couldn’t touch the piano for years’: Piano students at Utah State University describe a culture of sexism, discrimination and favoritism

  01-04-2018 15:00
  Tonya Pruhs recalls taking off her engagement ring before her piano lessons at Utah State University, fearing she’d be shunned by teachers who routinely said women weren’t serious musicians once they were married.Rachel Speedie passed up offers at prestigious conservatories to accept a scholarship at USU — and then had to fly home to Nevada to train with her high school teacher when faculty refused to work with her.Carrie Day Franklin slogged through nearly a decade at USU as a
  
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• No relief for fired Salt Lake City female battalion chief despite Civil Service Commission ruling in her favor

  01-04-2018 14:46
  Martha Ellis, the first female battalion chief at the Salt Lake City Fire Department, was demoted and then sacked a year ago after filing discrimination claims against her superiors.The city’s Civil Service Commission’s report issued in November said that Ellis, a 22-year department veteran and onetime city fire marshal, was wronged and the city should reinstate her. But four months later, the city has not done so.Instead, the city attorney continues to fight her in federal court, r
  
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• Baseball roundup: It’s official, Dodgers won’t go scoreless and winless

  01-04-2018 07:10
  Los Angeles • Kenta Maeda struck out 10 over five scoreless innings, and the Los Angeles Dodgers finally found their offense to beat the San Francisco Giants 5-0 on Saturday night for their first win of the season.After striking out 18 times in a pair of 1-0 defeats to open the season, the Dodgers got the loudest cheers in the first inning for a sacrifice fly by Yasiel Puig that scored their first run off Derek Holland (0-1). Matt Kemp followed with an RBI single to make it 2-0.Kike Hernand
  
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• Warriors’ win over Kings marred by scary injury to Patrick McCaw

  01-04-2018 07:08
  Sacramento, Calif. • Golden State guard Patrick McCaw left on a stretcher late in the third quarter of the Warriors’ 112-96 win over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night after a terrifying thud to the floor following an undercut by Vince Carter that appeared unintentional.McCaw was transported to UC Davis Medical Center for further evaluation, the team said.He drove the baseline and went down with a thud at the 41.8-second mark of the third quarter, hit in the lower body by Carter.
  
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• Kirby: So I turned down the call to be a Mormon apostle, but LDS leaders sure are inspired when they say we need to forgive everyone — even them

  01-04-2018 06:48
  When the brethren approached me last week about the possibility of accepting a call as a member of the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, I gave them the appropriate answer.It was easy. They didn’t just ask if I wanted to be an apostle. They insisted they had given it a great deal of thought and prayer, and Heavenly Father had confirmed it with undeniable signs.I thought of the only sign that would have convinced me that it was God’s idea that I become an apostle &mdas
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Nets deny Heat a clincher, beat Miami 110-109 in OT

  01-04-2018 06:43 via sportspyder.com
  ...in OT classic for Final 4 Brown's 3-pointer lifts Celtics to 97-94 win over Jazz NCAA Latest: Villanova-Michigan set for national title game Autopsy disputes ...
  
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• A long road to the Masters from Tony Finau’s ‘humble beginnings’ in Salt Lake City

  01-04-2018 06:24
  The greens have been skinned, leaving only a sand base on the small, elevated surfaces where Tony Finau learned to chip and putt. Chained baskets serve as targets and numbered signs direct players around the reconfigured disc golf course, although the original nine-hole Jordan River Par 3 layout remains traceable. The landmarks include the mound in the No. 1 fairway that once challenged the PGA Tour’s longest driver to fly his tee shot 90 yards just to get over it. As he stood on the manic
  
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• Villanova beats Kansas, will play Michigan for the NCAA Tournament title

  01-04-2018 06:04
  San Antonio • The Final Four had been set for decades: Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Kentucky were crowned as college basketball’s royalty.They are the bluebloods of basketball — where deep NCAA Tournament runs are the norm, NBA prospects play, hardwood rules the sports landscape and an air of superiority reigns in programs rich in tradition and with alumni rich enough to help fund state-of-the-art practice facilities or arenas.Grandpa might tell you UCLA or Indiana should st
  
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