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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Tonight the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Clippers face off in a Western Conference Showdown

  05-04-2018 23:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... ions: Tonight’s game will be fought tooth and nail. It won’t be like the the Jazz vs Clippers game a few years ago when Jazz were playing for the playoff live ...
  
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• With his lawsuit finished, a Utah boy with Down syndrome can return to the Boy Scouts — but, right now, he doesn’t want to

  05-04-2018 23:50
  Although Logan Blythe’s family recently dropped its lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, don’t expect the 15-year-old to put his uniform back on anytime soon.Logan’s dad, Chad, says his son still isn’t ready to return to Scouting.“If he changes his mind, or is so inclined to try it after all this, which will probably be in July or August after the Special Olympics is done for the year, we’ll pick it up then. But as it stands right now, it’s pretty
  
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• Utah woman, who delayed telling police her boyfriend killed two missing teens and threw their bodies into mine shaft, fears he could hurt her from jail

  05-04-2018 23:22
  A woman — who twice denied knowing anything about the disappearance of two missing Juab teens, but then led police to an abandoned mine shaft that contained their bodies last week — is facing two counts of obstructing justice.Morgan Reannon Henderson, 34, was charged Thursday in 4th District Court with the two second-degree felonies, one for each of the teens. Her boyfriend, 41-year-old Jerrod Baum, is charged with their murder.In a probable cause statement, police say Henderson feel
  
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• Is Dave Bateman the Utah Republican Party’s financial savior, or its new strings-attached lender?

  05-04-2018 23:17
  Dave Bateman, CEO of the Entrata software company, earlier this year was ballyhooed as a savior of the Utah Republican Party for extinguishing a $410,000 legal debt that threatened to bankrupt it.It turns out that he is less of a benevolent big donor than a lender who “acquired the debt” from party lawyers — for about 40 cents on the dollar — with some strings attached that may surprise party moderates.Bateman makes it clear that he may force the party to pay him the debt
  
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• In lecture to Utah law students, ‘Making a Murderer’ attorney defends the documentary, his client, and the criminal justice system

  05-04-2018 23:08
  Did police tamper with a crime scene involving a young woman killed in Wisconsin? Why not move the trial out of a county with a potentially tainted jury pool?And if Steven Avery didn’t kill Theresa Halbach, who did?“Once the state takes its best shot, if the state turns out to have been wrong, barring a cold DNA kit that’s conclusive or barring some really credible confession by somebody else, that crime is going to go unsolved,” Wisconsin defense attorney Dean Strang sai
  
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• Going off script, Trump bashes immigration at tax cut event

  05-04-2018 23:02
  White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. • Tossing his “boring” prepared remarks into the air, President Donald Trump on Thursday unleashed a fierce denunciation of the nation’s immigration policies, calling for tougher border security while repeating his unsubstantiated claim that “millions” of people voted illegally in California.Trump was in West Virginia to showcase the benefits of Republican tax cuts, but he took a big and meandering detour to talk about his tough im
  
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• Farmers face crucial 60 days that may decide financial future

  05-04-2018 23:00
  Planting season, always a critical time for farmers, just became more nerve-wracking for U.S. growers of soybeans and corn.In a move that caught many in U.S. agriculture by surprise, China on Wednesday announced planned tariffs on American shipments of the two crops. The measures are set to take effect in 60 days. That gives some farmers the opportunity of making a last-gasp switch to another crop. But for others — perhaps most — it’s too late to make a change.“It puts it
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: Laura Ingraham gets an economics lesson

  05-04-2018 23:00
  The fate of conservative pundit Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show is uncertain after a series of advertisers pulled their ads.Companies such as Bayer, Wayfair, Nestle, Hulu, Johnson & Johnson and several more either removed their ads or canceled plans to buy slots after Ingraham made a nasty quip about Parkland, Florida, shooting survivor David Hogg being rejected from a handful of colleges. On Twitter, Hogg called on Ingraham’s advertisers to withdraw their support, and, perhaps th
  
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• Oklahoma GOP leaders scramble to end teacher strike

  05-04-2018 22:30
  Oklahoma City • Thousands of Oklahoma teachers, students and their supporters staged massive demonstrations at the state Capitol for the fourth straight day Thursday while Republican lawmakers struggled to find a way to placate the chanting masses and bring an end to school closures in some of the state’s largest districts.State House and Senate leaders announced they would take up money-raising bills Friday — a rarity for Oklahoma lawmakers who typically don’t go to the C
  
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• Almost all UTA bus, train schedules change on Sunday — driven by new safety system

  05-04-2018 22:02
  The Utah Transit Authority is changing the schedule for nearly all of its bus and train routes beginning Sunday, caused by implementation of a new safety system on the FrontRunner commuter rail system.UTA is implementing federally mandated “positive train control.”It integrates computer, satellite and radio technology to automatically slow trains moving too fast, to help them avoid collisions with other trains or to stop them from entering work zones or passing switches left in the w
  
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• Federal protections sought for mustangs in Montana mountains

  05-04-2018 22:00
  Billings, Mont. • Animal rights advocates announced a lawsuit against the federal government on Wednesday in a bid to make a Montana mustang population the first group of wild horses to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.A prior attempt to secure protections for wild horses across the western U.S. as imperiled wildlife failed. But supporters of the idea said they’re hopeful to succeed this time by concentrating their efforts on a single population they say is genetically un
  
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• Utah highway fatalities down by a third in first quarter of 2018

  05-04-2018 21:56
  Highway fatalities are down by a third in the first quarter of 2018 when compared to the same time period last year, according to data from the Utah Highway Patrol.As of Tuesday, a total of 22 people had died on Utah highways in 2018. During the same time span last year, 33 people were killed on Utah freeways included in UHP’s jurisdiction, which is freeways, and state and federal highways.While the drop may appear drastic, UHP Lt. Todd Royce said, last year’s fatality numbers were a
  
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• BYU’s Tanner Mangum confident he can regain starting quarterback spot in fall, despite being sidelined by Achilles injury this spring

  05-04-2018 21:32
  Provo • Tanner Mangum’s junior season ended abruptly last fall due to an Achilles injury, but the star-crossed BYU quarterback’s optimism never ceases. Most observers of BYU’s spring football camp, which concludes on Saturday with a scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium, believe the 21-game starter and most experienced player in the contest to be the Cougars’ starting quarterback has fallen behind the others. But the self-described “eternal optimist” disagr
  
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• Number of women running for U.S. House seats sets record

  05-04-2018 21:31
  Cherry Hill, N.J. • The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.Their ranks will continue to grow in the weeks ahead, with filing deadlines still to come in more than half the states.In many places, women are running for congressional seats that have never had a female representative.“It’s abou
  
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• Clippers will be fighting for playoff lives when they meet Jazz Thursday night

  05-04-2018 21:22
  On the same night when the Jazz were struggling to close out the visiting Lakers, the Clippers kept their faint playoff hopes alive, squeezing out a three-point victory over the Spurs.The same urgency Quin Snyder asked for after Tuesday night is the urgency the Clippers already have — they have no choice, needing to win out to even have a chance of getting in the Western Conference mix. “They’ve dealt with injury all season, and it’s obviously a credit to Doc [Rivers],&rd
  
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• Celtics' Kyrie Irving needs knee surgery, is out for playoffs

  05-04-2018 21:15
  Boston • The Boston Celtics will have to go through the playoffs without Kyrie Irving.The star point guard will need surgery on his left knee and miss the rest of the regular season and postseason. The team on Thursday put his recovery time at four to five months.Irving hasn't played since March 11 and says he won't dwell on what might have been."The hardest thing to do sometimes is accept the uncontrollable things life throws at you," he wrote in an Instagram post. "It's simply a test of y
  
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• Monson: Let’s all laugh with Trey Lyles: Utah sucks! Quin Snyder is mean! And the fans are ... hmmmm!

  05-04-2018 21:01
  A friend of mine from Chicago once said that anytime anyone criticizes the city in which you live, your town, just put a bow on it, like a prized Berkshire hog at the county fair. Place it on the mantel, like some kind of trophy or shiny commendation. Put a potted plant on it, he said. Wear it with pride, whatever it is, like a badge of honor.Do not overreact, he added. Don’t get defensive.And if that critic is a young NBA player who never was defensive, in any way, taken with the 12th ove
  
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• Trump claimed his plan to put troops on the border is extraordinary. It was routine for Obama.

  05-04-2018 21:00
  President Donald Trump floated the idea Tuesday of deploying troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.“Until we can have a wall and proper security, we are going to be guarding our border with our military,” Trump said at the White House.He continued: “That’s a big step, we really haven’t done that before, or certainly not very much before.”That’s not exactly true. Long-standing concerns about the security of the southern border, cited by Trump, led to National
  
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• Dana Milbank: How Trump is transforming himself into the greatest president ever

  05-04-2018 21:00
  Washington • Outgoing national security adviser H.R. McMaster, in a parting shot at President Trump, said this week that “we have failed to impose sufficient costs” on Russia — joining a consensus view that Trump has been inexplicably soft on Vladimir Putin’s assaults on democracy and stability.But we can all stand down.“Nobody has been tougher on Russia than I have,” Trump announced Tuesday afternoon.Phew.I felt similar relief when, even though he used a
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz point guard Raul Neto will be out for at least 2 more games

  05-04-2018 20:57 via sportspyder.com
  ... the team announced Thursday. The backup guard suffered the injury during the Jazz's 116-99 victory over New Orleans Pelicans on March 11. Neto, who is averagi ...
  
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• Utah Jazz point guard Raul Neto will be out for at least 2 more games

  05-04-2018 20:51
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz point guard Raul Neto is "showing progress" in his recovery from a fractured left wrist, but will not be available for at least the next two games, the team announced Thursday.The backup guard suffered the injury during the Jazz's 116-99 victory over New Orleans Pelicans on March 11. Neto, who is averaging 4.6 points and 1.8 assists, will be re-evaluated on Tuesday.Luckily for the Jazz, Dante Exum returned from a shoulder injury to make his regular-season debut j
  
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• Utah woman who delayed telling police that her boyfriend killed two missing teens and threw their bodies into mine shaft is charged with obstructing justice

  05-04-2018 20:49
  A woman — who twice denied knowing anything about the disappearance of two missing Juab teens, but then led police to an abandoned mine shaft that contained their bodies last week — is facing two counts of obstructing justice.Morgan Reannon Henderson, 34, was charged Thursday in 4th District Court with the two second-degree felonies, one for each of the teens. Her boyfriend, 41-year-old Jerrod Baum, is charged with their murder.On the night of Dec. 29, Henderson had communicated with
  
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• Utah Transit Authority awarded $2.6 million U.S. bus grant

  05-04-2018 20:29
  Salt Lake City • The Utah Transit Authority has been awarded a $2.6 million federal grant as part of a program intended to modernize and improve bus infrastructure across the country.The Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration announced a total of $264 million grants nationally on Thursday.The Utah Transit Authority based in Salt Lake City plans to use the money to help construct a clean fuel center that will replace an older facility that local officials say has
  
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• Ogden courthouse resumes operations after bomb threat that caused evacuation found not credible

  05-04-2018 20:16
  Ogden’s 2nd District courthouse resumed operations Thursday after a morning bomb threat prompted evacuations.The threat was called into the Weber County sheriff’s office and the building had been evacuated by 9:37 a.m., according to tweets from court officials.But by noon, following a law enforcement sweep of the buildig, the threat was deemed not credible.Grant Avenue in Ogden was temporarily closed from 25th Street to 26th Street during the search, police said.
  
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• Celtics' Irving needs knee surgery, out for playoffs

  05-04-2018 20:16
  BOSTON (AP) — Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving will need surgery on his left knee and miss the rest of the regular season and playoffs.The team said Thursday his recovery time will be three to four months.In the upcoming surgery, two screws will be removed. They were implanted after his patellar fracture during the 2015 NBA Finals. Irving recently developed an infection at the site of the screws, and now they must be taken out.The team had said the knee was structurally sound and the kneec
  
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• Surgeon general urges Americans to carry overdose antidote

  05-04-2018 20:15
  Atlanta • The nation’s chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nation’s opioid crisis and save lives.Speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Thursday morning, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued his office’s first national public health advisory in 13 years.Adams said he hopes those who are at risk — as well as their friends and family members — will keep the
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: A win over LA Clippers crucial to homecourt hopes

  05-04-2018 20:15 via sportspyder.com
  ... 1-of-19 from the field. Another effort like that will make life hard for the Jazz. Stopping Williams, who would get my vote for biggest All-Star snub this sea ...
  
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• Woman accusing Missionary Training Center president of rape wants justice and policy changes in the LDS church

  05-04-2018 20:14
  A day after filing a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by the then-president of the LDS Missionary Training Center, the woman at the center of the controversy spoke at a news conference, in which she and her attorney said they want justice, as well as policy changes in the LDS church. McKenna Denson alleges in her lawsuit filed Wednesday against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that the church placed Joseph L. Bishop in charge of the training center in Provo despite “red flag se
  
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• Will race for outgoing House speaker’s seat dredge up nasty feud between former city council rivals?

  05-04-2018 20:02
  After a history soured by accusations, countercharges and ethics investigations, two former rivals from the Draper City Council say they want to focus on the future as they face off in the election to replace retiring House Speaker Greg Hughes.What looked to be a three-way bout has narrowed with the departure of Democrat and current Draper Councilman Alan Summerhays, who told The Tribune he was withdrawing for health reasons.Alex Cragun, Utah Democratic Party executive director, said the organiz
  
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• A new general authority for the LDS Church is also a longtime lobbyist for oil, mining companies

  05-04-2018 20:02
  One of eight newly appointed full-time leaders for the LDS Church has a background in working for extractive industries and is currently the president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute.According to a biography released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Jack N. Gerard, 60, was sustained as a General Authority Seventy on March 31.The biography also states that Gerard, originally from Idaho Falls, has worked as CEO of several companies, including McClure, Gerard &a
  
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• Utah Jazz: A win over LA Clippers crucial to homecourt hopes

  05-04-2018 20:01
  With the Western Conference playoff race still very much undecided, the Utah Jazz need to take care of business at home against the LA Clippers. Tobias Harris and the Los Angeles Clippers did the Utah Jazz a major solid on Tuesday. By hanging on for a 113-110 win over the San Antonio Spurs, the Jazz […]
  Utah Jazz: A win over LA Clippers crucial to homecourt hopes - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Fox Sports] - PREVIEW: LA Clippers in Utah to take on Jazz (5:30p, Prime Ticket)

  05-04-2018 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... of-16 shooting from  — his fifth career 30-point game — to outlast them. The Jazz struggled with everything from closing out on shooters to stopping transitio ...
  
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• Dylan, Kesha change pronouns in songs to honor LGBTQ couples

  05-04-2018 19:41
  New York • Bob Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined popular love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by switching pronouns.The six-song album, “Universal Love,” was released digitally Thursday and includes Benjamin Gibbard of alternative band Death Cab for Cutie, singer-songwriter Valerie June and Kele Okereke of the indie rock group Bloc Party.Dylan reworked “She’s Funny That Way” into “He’s Funny That Way,&rdqu
  
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• An LGBT activist created a ‘South Park’ parody series to criticize the Mormon church and ask for tips about its tax status

  05-04-2018 19:35
  Fred Karger is a longtime LGBT-rights activist with a history of criticizing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.And now he’s doing it through “South Park.”A “South Park” parody, actually, dubbed “Salt Park.” Set to go live on YouTube on Saturday, April 7, “Salt Park” is a five-episode animated series with the same look as the long-running Comedy Central show, but with slightly tweaked character names — instead of Stan, Kyle
  
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• Bomb threat that caused Ogden courthouse evacuation not credible, police say

  05-04-2018 19:34
  A bomb threat that caused evacuations at Ogden’s 2nd District courthouse Thursday morning was likely not credible, police said.The threat was called into the Weber County sheriff’s office and the building had been evacuated by 9:37 a.m., according to tweets from court officials.As of 9:48 a.m., security had begun sweeping the building, officials said, and at 9:54 a.m., Ogden police tweeted that the threat was “not substantiated,” though law enforcement officials were foll
  
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• Amid all the gross-out humor of ‘Blockers,’ some moments of inspired lunacy

  05-04-2018 19:10
  In “Blockers,” Leslie Mann plays Lisa, the single mom of a high-school senior named Julie (Kathryn Newton), a vivacious teenager who, as the movie opens, announces a newfound goal of losing her virginity on prom night.Julie’s best friends Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan) and Sam (Gideon Adlon) quickly warm to the plan, agreeing that, as with everything else in their lives, they’ll take the leap together — or at least at the same time. When Lisa spies the trio’s t
  
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• Nanny charged with seven counts of sex abuse allegedly told Utah victim she was ‘teaching him to be a good husband’

  05-04-2018 19:08
  An Arizona woman, who allegedly sexually abused a Utah boy she nannied over a period of 10 years, “convinced” the victim she was “teaching him to be a good husband,” according to charges filed in Utah this week.The woman, who is now 68, was the boy’s nanny from 1999 to 2009 in Salt Lake County. She has been charged in 3rd District Court with five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, and two counts of forcible sex abuse, a second-degre
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Why the Utah Jazz can make a Cinderella run in the 2018 NBA Playoffs

  05-04-2018 18:50 via sportspyder.com
  ... t of the first round, but that hasn’t always been the case. Let’s assume the Jazz prevail over the Spurs. At this point, their second round opponent would eit ...
  
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• Thomas E. Ricks: Why do so many veterans kill themselves?

  05-04-2018 18:47
  Why do so many soldiers continue to take their own lives at a higher rate than their civilian counterparts, whether young or old? I’ve spent a lot of time stewing about this over the past few days.It began Monday morning, when I got a note from a vet in a very dark place and contemplating the act. He’d served in Vietnam. His risk of suicide is about 22 percent higher than that of his nonveteran peers, according to a report last year from the Department of Veterans Affairs.That aftern
  
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• Max Boot: Xenophobic hysteria from the commander in chief

  05-04-2018 18:37
  Hide your valuables! Safeguard your women! Flee for the hills! The Visigoths are at the gates. We’re all doomed!That, roughly, is the message that President Donald Trump conveyed this week with his incessant tweeting — hysterical, cowardly, inhumane and deranged in equal parts — about the “caravan” of Central American migrants making their way through Mexico toward the United States.Alerted by those crack intelligence analysts at “Fox & Friends,” Tru
  
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• Letter: Why do we tolerate and support Israel’s sadistic treatment of Palestinians?

  05-04-2018 18:36
  Watching some of the video news clips coming out of Gaza this last weekend, I wondered who we Americans are that we willingly fund and support Zionist Israel? The U.N. reported that Israel killed at least 15 Palestinians and injured another 1,416, the majority hit by Israeli sniper bullets.Israel has built a cement wall around Gaza and topped the wall with sniper watch-towers. Penned-in Palestinians are refugees simply demanding they be given their freedom and be allowed to return to their homes
  
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• Letter: Young people are taking charge to make change as we speak — let’s get behind that

  05-04-2018 18:35
  It’s time to stop telling young generations that they’re the future. At 23 years old, as the youngest state Democratic Party vice chairman in the nation, I’ve seen that young people are taking the charge. Whether it is from the students in the March for Our Lives, the young people running for office, or the many young entrepreneurs in business, we are creating the change we wish to see in the world.Young people are clearly showing that they cannot stand by while our planet with
  
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• Tony Finau goes through warmup after being cleared to play in the Masters

  05-04-2018 18:00
  Augusta, Ga. • Tony Finau was on the driving range, hitting full shots a little more than an hour before his tee time in the Masters.
  The Lehi resident is scheduled to tee off at 10:43 a.m. MDT in his first official round at Augusta National Golf Club, playing with Bernhard Langer and Yuta Ikeda. Finau occasionally flexed his foot between shots and had conversations with his coach, Boyd Summerhays, but appeared to be swinging without discomfort.
  Finau dislocated his ankle Wednesday afternoo
  
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• Michelle Quist: Martin Luther King Jr. still inspires youth today, and prosecutors should pay attention

  05-04-2018 17:31
  It’s almost too big a task to write about Martin Luther King Jr. Especially as a privileged white woman. And I don’t get points for recognizing that. Because I’ve gotten enough points in my upper-middle-class white life already.But I still lament the way the world is. As Thomas Merton wrote to Coretta Scott King the morning after King’s assassination 50 years ago, “Some events are too big and too terrible to talk about. … In imitation of his Master he has lai
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump is trying to put in place the policies that got him elected — and creating backlash among supporters

  05-04-2018 17:28
  President Donald Trump is trying to put in place the policies that got him elected — it’s creating backlash among supporters. A woman is suing the LDS Church, alleging that the then-MTC president raped her. ACLU director visits Utah, talks tough on Trump. Happy Thursday. When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to secure the nation’s borders, be tough on China and crack down on immigration. Enacting those policies, though, has frustrated many of his supporters and enrag
  
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• Michelle Quist: Martin Luther King Jr. still inspires youth today, and adults should follow suit

  05-04-2018 17:26
  It’s almost too big a task to write about Martin Luther King Jr. Especially as a privileged white woman. And I don’t get points for recognizing that. Because I’ve gotten enough points in my upper-middle-class white life already.But I still lament the way the world is. As Thomas Merton wrote to Coretta Scott King the morning after King’s assassination 50 years ago, “Some events are too big and too terrible to talk about. … In imitation of his Master he has lai
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz can reshape the NBA G-League forever with Darius Bazley

  05-04-2018 17:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... there that think the Utah Jazz wouldn’t draft him because they wouldn’t be able to sign him at any point in ...
  
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• ‘Weekly Run’ podcast: How have the Jazz revitalized Ricky Rubio’s game? And whom do they want to see in the first round of the playoffs?

  05-04-2018 17:05
  By his own assessment, Ricky Rubio is having the best season of his NBA career, an opinion backed most recently by a pair of terrific offensive performances against the Timberwolves and the Lakers. And Rubio’s return to Minnesota, where he spent the first six seasons of his career, only highlighted the success he has enjoyed with the Jazz.Did the T-Wolves simply fail to put the right kind of talent around the point guard? What has empowered Rubio in Utah? We discuss that and more in the la
  
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• For months, Utah’s gun background check system didn’t have the latest mental health records. The problem? A computer glitch.

  05-04-2018 17:02
  For four months, Utah’s gun background check database lacked a chunk of criminal records pertaining to mental incompetence because of a database glitch in the state court system. And for about 13 months, due to a lapse by another state agency, the federal firearm background check system was missing the same information.Between November and March, the state’s gun background check system did not receive records from the Utah court system that would prevent someone who had either been f
  
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• Police say suspect fired gun in empty school, stole a car and orange juice from southern Utah homes before his arrest

  05-04-2018 16:42
  Police arrested a man Wednesday night after they say he fired shots in an empty high school and stole a car from a homeowner he held at gunpoint.The 28-year-old suspect broke into Cedar City High School about 9:15 p.m., when a witness reported hearing someone smashing and breaking things inside, according to a news release from Cedar City police.The suspect was gone before police arrived at the scene, the release said, but surveillance video showed the man carrying what appeared to be a handgun
  
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