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• Brenden Sander has made a name for himself as top-seeded BYU hosts MPSF volleyball semifinals Thursday vs. USC

  18-04-2018 23:50
  Provo • Brenden Sander still gets compared to his big brother, just not nearly as often as he did when he arrived at BYU a few months after the great Taylor Sander departed. As much as anything else, that goes to show just how well Brenden has replaced Taylor on the nationally prominent BYU men’s volleyball team. Taylor is an Olympian and a mainstay on one of the top professional teams in Italy after a sensational four-year career at BYU that concluded in 2014.Coach Shawn Olmstead now
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Congressional Obstruction

  18-04-2018 23:27
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, April 19, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>The Rent Is Too Damn High!<br>Hannity Dumpty <br>Storm Warning<br>Dotard’s Last Stand<br>Patriarchal Boost<br> Super Fun X-Ray Glasses! <br> Gunning for Abortion<br>Champagne Swamp<br>Voter Suppression Goal <br>A Lawyering Man of Briefs <br>Want more Bagley? Become a
  
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• Two U.S. Senate candidates from Utah have failed to file personal finance reports as required by federal law

  18-04-2018 23:26
  Washington • Two candidates for the U.S. Senate seat from Utah – Republicans Mike Kennedy and Larry Meyers — have not filed their personal financial disclosures as required under federal law.The two candidates, who have each raised more than the $5,000 threshold that triggers the reporting, were supposed to have filed a list of their assets, liabilities and other income-related information with the Senate one month before the Utah Republican Party Convention on Saturday.As of We
  
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• Polygamists’ son, whose birth was seen on their TV show, dies in house fire in southeast Utah

  18-04-2018 23:19
  A house fire Saturday killed a 2-year-old boy at Rockland Ranch — a polygamous community in southeast Utah. Adonijah Foster was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after the fire started, said his father, Enoch Foster. The birth of Adonijah was seen in the first few minutes of the first episode of his family’s documentary television show, “Three Wives, One Husband.” The show premiered last year in Britain and recently aired in the United States on the TLC Network. Adonijah w
  
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• ‘You Were Never Really Here’ is a good, maybe even great film, and also hard to like

  18-04-2018 23:05
  Joaquin Phoenix assumes a hooded, bearlike presence in “You Were Never Really Here,” a disquieting urban thriller directed by Lynne Ramsay. As Joe, a taciturn hit man whose specialty is rescuing young women who have been abducted and forced into sex trafficking, Phoenix is a lurking, skulking bundle of anxieties and retributive obsession, a dangerous mash-up of Holden Caulfield’s beneficent alter ego in “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Taxi Driver’s”
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz-OKC Game 2 Preview: Can the Jazz steal home court advantage?

  18-04-2018 22:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell nominated for Dunk of the Year by Ryan Aston ...
  
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• Utah Jazz-OKC Game 2 Preview: Can the Jazz steal home court advantage?

  18-04-2018 22:32
  The Utah Jazz will look to bounce back from their Game 1 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder and steal home court advantage with a victory tonight. The Utah Jazz fell short in their first game of the 2018 NBA Playoffs as the fourth-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder led by Paul George and Russell Westbrook proved […]
  Utah Jazz-OKC Game 2 Preview: Can the Jazz steal home court advantage? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park

  18-04-2018 22:26
  The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’ experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama, remained on her hands and knees on top of a table for more than an hour as Sims sought to repair a hole between her bladder and vagina without giving her any anesthesia, which was not widely used then.Lucy quickly developed blood poisoning after Sims tried to fashion a catheter out of a piece of sponge, which Sims later admitted was “stupid” of h
  
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• From aerospace to hog farms, study finds trade war with China will cost Utah businesses $60 million in exports

  18-04-2018 22:15
  A diverse group of Utah businesses will take financial hits if President Donald Trump’s tariffs compel China to take retaliatory measures, according to a World Trade Center Utah analysis released Wednesday.Utah’s aerospace industry, aluminum recycling companies, beef and hog ranchers, plastics manufacturers and transportation-equipment suppliers, wheat farmers and orchard owners are all among the big losers if a trade war flares up between the U.S. and China, the nonprofit trade prom
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - An inside look at a film session with Donovan Mitchell, Quin Snyder and Johnnie Bryant

  18-04-2018 22:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... h video) is pretty fascinating. Here are some highlights of how Mitchell and Jazz coaches work on his game in the film room, as described by writer Tim MacMah ...
  
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• Karen Tumulty: Barbara Bush was as authentic as her pearls were fake

  18-04-2018 22:00
  When Wellesley College invited Barbara Bush to speak at its 1990 graduation, protests broke out on campus. A hundred and fifty students spelled out their objections in a petition to the school’s president at the time, Nannerl Keohane: “Wellesley teaches that we will be rewarded on the basis of our own merit, not on that of a spouse. To honor Barbara Bush as a commencement speaker is to honor a woman who has gained recognition through the achievements of her husband, which contravenes
  
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• An inside look at a film session with Donovan Mitchell, Quin Snyder and Johnnie Bryant

  18-04-2018 21:59
  SALT LAKE CITY — It's standard protocol for NBA players to have film sessions with their coaches. It is, however, uncommon for the public to get a peek into the specifics of these training opportunities.The Utah Jazz recently allowed ESPN inside of the film room while Donovan Mitchell was working with coaches Quin Snyder and Johnnie Bryant, and the behind-the-curtain peek (with video) is pretty fascinating.Here are some highlights of how Mitchell and Jazz coaches work on his game in the fi
  
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• ‘Great Utah Shakeout’: State braces for potentially devastating earthquake

  18-04-2018 21:56
  Furniture will be knocked over; books and heavy valuables will be hurled across rooms. Buildings may be leveled and power lines may collapse. And after the shaking ends, fires will rage and aftershocks will continue to destabilize the valley. That’s what Wasatch Front residents can expect when a major earthquake hits.The state records hundreds of small earthquakes each year, but more damaging earthquakes happen about every 350-400 years, according to the Utah Geographical Survey.And it has
  
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• Introducing the Tribune’s new podcast — ‘Trib Talk,’ with a launch episode about medical marijuana and the Mormon church

  18-04-2018 21:55
  We’re excited to announce a new podcast produced by The Salt Lake Tribune — “Trib Talk.”Readers may recognize the name, which previously referred to a series of live video chats hosted by then-reporter and now-Tribune Editor Jennifer Napier-Pierce. Like the original “Trib Talk,” the new podcast will feature Tribune reporters and invited guests discussing the latest news and diving into topics that impact Utahns.The first episode, launched Wednesday, focuses on
  
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• BYU’s Elijah Bryant announces he will turn pro, forgo his senior season of eligibility

  18-04-2018 21:47
  Provo • BYU’s basketball program is losing one of its best players before the player’s college eligibility is exhausted for the second straight year.Leading scorer Elijah Bryant, who just completed his junior season but will graduate next week, announced on his YouTube channel that he is turning professional.“I am honored to say that I have graduated from BYU and look forward to connecting more dots with great people around the world. Follow my journey as I chase my dreams
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz City Edition jerseys and shirts return for playoffs

  18-04-2018 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  ...year, Zions Bank teamed up with the Jazz to provide fans with their own City Edition playoff shirt for the first home ...
  
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• Sandy City passes one of the strictest idle-free ordinances in Salt Lake County

  18-04-2018 21:38
  Watch out, idlers — Sandy’s mayor has signed the city’s first idle-free ordinance, and it’s one of the strictest in Salt Lake County. The ordinance, passed with one dissenting vote at the council’s March 27 meeting, prohibits drivers from idling their car’s engine for more than one minute on public property or private property open to the public. Exemptions include traffic, use of law enforcement and fire equipment vehicles and repairing or inspecting a car. A
  
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• She Instagrammed her exotic drug-smuggling vacation. Now ‘Cocaine Babe’ is going to prison.

  18-04-2018 21:34
  A Canadian woman who tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia has been convicted and sentenced to eight years behind bars.Melina Roberge, 24, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to smuggling 95 kilos (209 pounds) of the drug into the Sydney Harbour in 2016, following an exotic weeks-long cruise that she and an accomplice documented on social media.Roberge and her accomplice, Isabelle Lagace, had turned their Instagram accounts into travel diaries in the summ
  
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• Mormon leader delights in songs of ‘precious children’ as he wraps up African tour

  18-04-2018 21:29
  For LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson, the welcoming voices of a Zimbabwean children’s choir both warmed his heart and underscored the need to teach the gospel to future generations of Africans.“This is a sight that I shall always remember,” the 93-year-old Mormon leader said Tuesday during a visit to the southern African nation’s capital, Harare.Hundreds of children, singing the classic Mormon Primary song “I Am a Child of God,” were among a crowd of 4,0
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell nominated for Dunk of the Year

  18-04-2018 21:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...the edge, though. And I wouldn’t count Mitchell out for DOY honors, either. Jazz fans can vote for the Slam Dunk Contest winner guy by tweeting “#DunkOfTheYe ...
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - 'I've got to be smart with it': Donovan Mitchell (left foot contusion) questionable for Game 2 vs. Thunder

  18-04-2018 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  ... part of valor when you’re talking about the health of a 21-year-old whom the Jazz plan to build around for many years to come. That said — at the risk of putt ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell nominated for Dunk of the Year

  18-04-2018 21:13
  We all know about the Rookie of the Year race, but Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell could also pick up some hardware for his dunking prowess. For Utah Jazz fans, Donovan Mitchell‘s Rookie of the Year candidacy has been a hot button issue. In Philadelphia, Ben Simmons has been doing things not seen since Magic […]
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell to take ‘smart’ approach with injury

  18-04-2018 21:10 via sportspyder.com
  ... being tripped up on a driving layup in the third quarter. The rookie led the Jazz in scoring with 20.5 points per game and is eager to take the floor as eager ...
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Dealing with an injured toe, Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell will decide tonight if he will play in Game 2

  18-04-2018 21:07
  Oklahoma City • They say in the playoffs there’s less margin for error. There’s also less margin for cruel twists of fate.That’s why the Jazz-Thunder series may rest on just one toe.It’s the toe Donovan Mitchell stubbed in the second half of Game 1, an injury which he came back from in the game, but has since been limited in practices at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mitchell said Wednesday morning that “I don’t think I’ve ever been to the training room
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz making adjustments on both ends; Donovan Mitchell remains questionable

  18-04-2018 21:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... ay you. There's a lot there." There are certainly small adjustments that the Jazz will make, especially in how the team will defend Paul George, who proved to ...
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: Trump and the rest of the world offer little hope for Syrian refugees

  18-04-2018 21:00
  Speaking to The Washington Post last week, a senior administration official offered a concise version of President Donald Trump’s ideal national-security strategy. Trump’s “dream would be to have a strong military that protects our homeland,” the official told my colleague Greg Jaffe. “We’d wall ourselves off and strike at our discretion and then retreat to defending our homeland.”Trump is no isolationist — instead, he often invokes an image of a m
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Game-Time Decision for Game 2 vs. Thunder with Foot Injury

  18-04-2018 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... er Report Crowder on Playoff Match-ups, Adjustments for Game 2 via Locked On Jazz Robert Gained Respect for Adams During Draft Workouts via DeseretNews.com Mi ...
  
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• Utah women’s basketball star Emily Potter signs with WNBA’s Seattle Storm

  18-04-2018 20:59
  The Seattle Storm of the WNBA announced Wednesday that they have signed Utah women’s basketball center Emily Potter to a free agent contract.“We are so proud of Emily,” Utah head coach Lynne Roberts said in a news release. “The Seattle Storm is a fantastic organization and it is an honor to have a player be a part of that. She has WNBA potential and this is the first step. We are excited for her to have this opportunity.”Seattle’s training camp starts on April
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz, Donovan Mitchell look to rebound in Game 2

  18-04-2018 20:50 via sportspyder.com
  ...way he doesn’t play. - knee - out for season What to Watch For: Defense The Jazz did what they needed to do defensively. They scared OKC out of the paint to...
  
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• Seven electric new novels about the wired life

  18-04-2018 20:43
  The stuff of science fiction has become our staff of life. Mobile phones, genetic modification, 3-D printing — we’re now accustomed to these miracles, but even 10 years past the tech gold rush, stories about Silicon Valley still fascinate us.Several 2018 novels show different approaches to life in the wired lane. Funny, sad, scary, creepy and sometimes all of the above, these books will make you think about how much of our time is devoted to the digital world.Tech-chick lit• &ld
  
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• Road trips and redemption in Netflix’s ‘Kodachrome’

  18-04-2018 20:43
  The characters in the new film ”Kodachrome,” a good-natured if by-the-numbers road trip and relationship drama with Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris, are enchanted by the analog. Music is to be listened to on vinyl. Maps are to be read, and not by Siri, to get to a destination. Photographs are best on film. And face time is better than FaceTime when it comes to making amends for decades of bad behavior.It’s a little funny, then, that Netflix is ultimately the reaso
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert, OKC Thunder's Steven Adams developed mutual respect during 2013 predraft workouts

  18-04-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... n are once again matched up, but now in a head-to-head playoff series as the Jazz and Thunder are playing in round one. Adams now has long hair with a full go ...
  
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• ’Inappropriate’ Utah Jazz ticket purchase for Plymouth officials has ‘tax consequences’ for town’s few residents

  18-04-2018 20:02
  Nearly everyone in the state loves the Utah Jazz, but the state auditor’s office says the $684 for two tickets — plus $47.51 for a game trip meal — are examples of “inappropriate expenditures” for town personnel in Plymouth, Box Elder County.It says buying them at town expense may have “tax consequences.” After all, the $732 spent comes out to nearly $2 each for the 377 residents that the U.S. Census Bureau estimates lives there.The auditor’s offic
  
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• Utah Jazz's Rudy Gobert, OKC Thunder's Steven Adams developed mutual respect during 2013 predraft workouts

  18-04-2018 20:00
  After an intense predraft workout on June 20, 2013, a baby-faced Rudy Gobert greeted a scrum of media at the Portland Trail Blazers practice facility.Just six days before his 21st birthday, the Frenchman matched up against Pittsburgh’s Steven Adams for the third time as they prepared for the 2013 NBA Draft.“It’s like I’m taller but he’s stronger so we just compete and try to play hard and he’s good,” Gobert admitted.“It’s cool, it’s fun
  
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• East African Mormons look forward to a Nairobi temple

  18-04-2018 19:45
  Nairobi, Kenya • The LDS Church will break ground for a temple in Nairobi to serve its growing number of East African followers.The church confirmed the plan this week during the visit of its president, Russell M. Nelson. The new leader — installed in January after the death of President Thomas S. Monson — made Kenya his third stop on a global tour that church officials bill as an effort to connect with the faithful.The growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints i
  
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• Salt Lake County warns of possible hepatitis A exposure at Edible Arrangements store over the past month

  18-04-2018 19:44
  Health officials say recent customers of an Edible Arrangements store in Murray may have been exposed to hepatitis A.Those who ate fruit baskets or other items from the store at 5211 South State Street in Murray between March 21 and April 13 may be at risk if they have not previously received a vaccination for the viral disease, according to the Salt Lake County Health Department. The possible exposure occurred when an employee infected with hepatitis A worked while ill. About 600 arrangements o
  
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• Recreational pot sales back on table along Nevada-Utah line

  18-04-2018 19:18
  West Wendover, Nev. • The legal sale of recreational marijuana on the Nevada-Utah line may not be banned after all.The mayor of West Wendover, Nevada is using his veto power to put the question back on the table.The City Council voted earlier to ban recreational pot sales in the town along U.S. Interstate 80 on the Utah line.But Mayor Daniel Corona vetoed that decision Tuesday night, reopening the matter for debate. It wasn’t immediately clear when the city council might take the matt
  
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• Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57, selected as next president of Cuba

  18-04-2018 19:17
  Havana • Cuba on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as sole candidate to succeed Raul Castro as president of Cuba, the centerpiece of an effort to ensure that the country’s single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.The virtually certain unanimous approval of the National Assembly will install someone from outside the Castro family in the country’s highest government office for the first time in nearly
  
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• Southern Utah man gets 100 years in prison for sexual abuse of five girls

  18-04-2018 19:11
  Ogden • A 38-year-old southern Utah man convicted of sexually abusing five young girls will spend the rest of his life behind bars.A judge in Ogden sentenced Jacob Streeper of Riverdale to at least 100 years in prison. He still faces sentencing for two additional felony charges after he violated a court order and contacted victims after his arrest.The Standard-Examiner reports that Streeper maintained his innocence during Monday’s sentencing hearing but said he was “deeply sorry
  
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  18-04-2018 19:07 via twitter.com
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• Utah Corrections director Rollin Cook stepping down to spend more time with family, take advantage of professional opportunities

  18-04-2018 19:05
  Rollin Cook — who has served five years as the executive director of the Utah Department of Corrections — is stepping down, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.Cook’s departure will be effective May 15. The governor will appoint an interim director in the near future.“I am grateful for Rollin’s years of dedicated service to the State of Utah, and for his leadership in the Department of Corrections,” said Gov. Gary R. Herbert in a news release. &ldq
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - When it comes to nice, Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City are cut from the same cloth

  18-04-2018 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... e I met here was being paid by the travel bureau. At the same time, like the Jazz crowd, Thunder fans are fiercely invested. In some NBA cities, the noise is...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell to make game-time decision for Game 2: 'It's a matter of being smart'

  18-04-2018 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... scored 27 points and grabbed 10 rebounds but couldn’t finish the game as the Jazz fell to OKC, 116-108. He said he felt “pretty good” during shootaround but w ...
  
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• Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell to play, start in Game 2 against Thunder

  18-04-2018 18:55
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell will play and start in today's Game 2 of the team's playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Jazz announced about an hour before game time.Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant pushed Mitchell through a series of drills following today's shootaround at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.Mitchell didn’t appear to be limping with the left foot contusion, but the first-year guard was still listed as questionable heading into the
  
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• Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell to make game-time decision for Game 2: 'It's a matter of being smart'

  18-04-2018 18:55
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Utah Jazz assistant coach Johnnie Bryant pushed rookie Donovan Mitchell through a series of drills following today's shootaround at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.Mitchell didn’t appear to be limping with the left foot contusion, but the first-year guard is still listed as questionable heading into today's Game 2 of Utah’s playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.“I’m real determined on playing but if my body can’t, I’m not going to
  
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• Utah’s San Juan County files its own claim against U.S. government over access to Recapture Canyon

  18-04-2018 18:54
  San Juan County is spending tens of thousands of dollars claiming a right of way through controversial Recapture Canyon.Without state support, officials in the southeastern Utah county recently filed a stand-alone lawsuit against the U.S. government, citing various historic records indicating the county maintained a “road” there since 1886.The canyon, famed for cliff dwellings and an illegally built ATV trail, has been a source of friction for years between county officials and feder
  
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