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• [NBA] - Dennis Lindsey & Coach Snyder - End of Season Interview

  09-05-2018 23:55 via sportspyder.com
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• Former Ute Raelon Singleton announces transfer to Houston

  09-05-2018 23:55
  Former Utes wide receiver Raelon Singleton will play out his final year of eligibility at the University of Houston.Utah announced in January that Singleton, the team’s second-leading receiver this past season, would leave the program for family reasons. A native of Crosby, Texas, which is outside Houston, Singleton announced his intentions to seek a graduate transfer via social media.I want to thank @UHCougarFB @CoachApplewhite and the rest of the coaching staff for giving me this opportu
  
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• ‘We have a lot of work to do, a lot of evaluation.’ Jazz ready to get down to business in offseason

  09-05-2018 23:51
  The game was all but decided, his season seconds from being over, when Ricky Rubio started to make plans for next spring.The Utah Jazz’s starting point guard leaned over to rookie Donovan Mitchell, put his face close to the youngster’s ear. Mitchell was injured late in Tuesday’s conference semifinal game with the Houston Rockets, his foot hurt and he was only wearing one shoe. Remember the pain, Rubio told Mitchell, let it wash over you.“Then let this feeling go,” h
  
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• Viewmont basketball star Mercedes Staples commits to Minnesota

  09-05-2018 23:49
  Viewmont High School basketball standout Mercedes Staples has committed to the University of Minnesota, the shooting guard announced Wednesday on Twitter. Staples originally signed with Clemson but requested a release to explore her options elsewhere after the school fired coach Audra Smith.minnesotaaaaa🎉 pic.twitter.com/4Cq6u5TiTt— mercedes staples (@mercedesstaples) May 9, 2018“I never thought I’d have to go through this process again, but I couldn’t have done i
  
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• With unrestricted free agency looming, Derrick Favors says foundation in Utah will play a role in decision this summer

  09-05-2018 23:47
  Derrick Favors has felt it all during his time in Salt Lake City. No. 15 was there during the losing skids, during the coaching changes, during the times when the postseason seemed too farfetched to even entertain. The 6-foot-10 power forward remains the original building block for the post-Deron Williams era for the franchise, the longest-tenured Jazzman.Favors’ emotions on the court have run the gamut while in Utah, eight seasons in all. And they’ll play a role in his decision this
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz will miss special 2017-18 season, but they're excited about the future

  09-05-2018 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... xum, and a smiling Exum confirmed that report, saying, "I think the Jazz want me back." He said the rest is for his agency to figure out. Jerebko is...
  
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• After waiting two years behind bars for a trial, three Utah men are found not guilty of gang-raping a 9-year-old girl

  09-05-2018 23:47
  For two years, three Vernal men sat behind bars and waited.Accused of brutally gang-raping a 9-year-old girl in 2016, the men — Larson RonDeau, Jerry Flatlip and Randall Flatlip — had pleaded not guilty to charges. As the case twisted and turned through the justice system, their attorneys made several attempts to have the case dismissed — but were never successful.And, after two years of waiting, their side of the story was finally told during a high-stakes trial that could hav
  
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• Suspect in ‘violent’ homicide of 15-year-old Utah girl arrested in Colorado

  09-05-2018 23:34
  Police have a man in custody whom they have now named as a suspect in the “violent” homicide of 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw.After police found Bagshaw dead in her Salt Lake City home on Monday, they began a nationwide search for Shaun French, 24, who was located and arrested Wednesday in southeast Colorado.According to Sgt. Brandon Shearer, French had been in a relationship with Bagshaw, and on Tuesday, police issued a warrant for him for three counts of unlawful sexual activity with
  
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• Kragthorpe: They’re stuck in the West, but the Jazz like where they stand after a season of improvement

  09-05-2018 23:28
  Jazz forward Jae Crowder knows what good NBA teams look like, having played recently for Boston and Cleveland. Crowder cited only geography when asked what those clubs have that the Jazz lack. “Yeah, they’re playing in the Eastern Conference,” Crowder said Wednesday as the Jazz conducted exit interviews at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus. “It makes a difference.”Utah is not scheduled to move East, barring seismic shifting, so the Jazz’s challenge of competing
  
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• Erik McCree's full exit interview ⤵️ >> on.nba.com/2G00izK

  09-05-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
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• Following historic rookie season, Donovan Mitchell still has things to work on: ‘This isn’t a victory-lap summer’

  09-05-2018 23:20
  The sequel, they say, will be even better. It’ll be difficult to top, too, because all hits are hits solely on the premise that they make an impact that lasts forever. No one will forget Donovan Mitchell, and no one will forget Donovan Mitchell Year 1. For good reason. After a season that saw a late lottery pick evolve into an everyday talking point, an offensive dynamo who routinely waged war on rims in arenas around the NBA and enchanted a fan base always in search of its next darling, t
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - Jazz players hopeful after 2018 playoffs: 'We'll be back'

  09-05-2018 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  ...UPS & DOWNS AND LEARN FROM IT ALL! I WANNA THANK MY FAMILY, TEAMMATES & THE JAZZ ORGANIZATION FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY THE GAME I LOVE TO PLAY. ...
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Be Prepared

  09-05-2018 23:11
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, May 10, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br> Keep on Truckin’ Trump <br>We Care About Memories <br> The Liar’s Club <br>Utah Jazz and Hamilton <br>Sucking Newspapers Dry<br>The Mudslinging Begins<br>Butchering the Truth <br>Road to the Peace Prize <br>Teacher’s Pest <br> The Dr. Seuss Reboot <br>Want
  
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• Transit officials blame Operation Rio Grande for drop in ridership with the shift of homeless people from downtown Salt Lake City

  09-05-2018 23:00
  Transit ridership is down 4.3 percent so far this year — a decline officials blame on fewer homeless people using the Free Fare Zone in downtown Salt Lake City as a result of Operation Rio Grande.“With the shifting distribution of the homeless, we’re getting significantly reduced numbers in the Free Fare Zone,” said Steve Meyer, the new interim executive director of the Transit District of Utah, which was called UTA until Tuesday.That news came in a board committee meetin
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Hoops Rumors’ 2018 NBA Award Picks: Defensive Player Of The Year

  09-05-2018 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  ... d. Giving him the award this season feels right. Dana Gauruder: Rudy Gobert (Jazz) Utah finished second in the league in fewest points allowed in the paint an ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Pelicans, Davis, enter offseason encouraged, yet unsatisfied

  09-05-2018 22:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... Jazz 113-92 to take series lead Paul scores 27 and Harden has 24 as Houston wins...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz news: Donovan Mitchell encouraged with deep postseason run: ‘This is just the beginning’

  09-05-2018 21:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... e beginning' Connect with us ClutchPoints Jazz news: Donovan Mitchell encouraged with deep postseason run: ‘This is just th ...
  
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• Monson: Jazz have big and happy plans for their future

  09-05-2018 21:35
  It was the strangest thing.As the Jazz filed out of Toyota Center on Tuesday night, having tasted defeat for the last time this season by way of a 10-point loss to the Rockets, a very mild kind of disappointment descended, the kind that was so mild that it seemed more like delight. There was no anger, no sense of doom and gloom. There was an aura of finality but only an oxymoronic temporary one, one that lasted for … oh, about two minutes, and then … poof, it was gonzo. The feel wa
  
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• Commentary: Mormon Church retreats from the Boy Scouts — and reality

  09-05-2018 21:33
  I would not have been a Boy Scout if I had not been a Mormon. And if I had not been a Boy Scout, I would have been missed out on one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.So it is with sadness that I see that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced on Tuesday that it will officially cut ties with the Boy Scouts of America. Instead of encouraging boys to join the 108-year-old organization, the church is instead developing its own young men’s program designed to prov
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Brad Rock: Utah Jazz can't stand pat and rise much further

  09-05-2018 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  ...defense. But how does that put them into contention for a championship? The Jazz already have a top scorer in Mitchell. Then what? Houston was Exhibit A of w ...
  
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• Holly Richardson: The blessings of Ramadan

  09-05-2018 21:25
  It was hard to miss the bulky ring on Mahmoud’s index finger, so I asked him about it.“It is to remind me to be grateful to Allah,” he said, as he explained he clicked it each time he thought of something be grateful for.That day’s count? Eighteen hundred. Eighteen hundred times he found a reason to send a short prayer of gratitude heavenward. I think I’m doing well if I do a daily gratitude list of five items.Mahmoud is a Syrian refugee living in Turkey with his fa
  
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• Brad Rock: Utah Jazz can't stand pat and rise much further

  09-05-2018 21:25
  SALT LAKE CITY — Houston coach Mike D’Antoni was all smiles after the Rockets had jettisoned the Jazz from the playoffs, Tuesday night. But that’s just him. He’s a positive guy.D’Antoni couldn’t say enough good things about the Jazz. Well, maybe he could. He limited it to his opening statement.“Before we get started …” he began.In other words, let’s do the obligatory tribute to a team you beat in five games.“Utah played really, rea
  
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• Americans were freed 1 hour before flight out of Pyongyang

  09-05-2018 21:23
  Pyongyang, North Korea • After months of anticipation and drama, the release of three American detainees by North Korea played out amid high-stakes diplomacy and was only sealed about an hour before the top U.S. diplomat was wheels-up from Pyongyang.The three men, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, walked on their own from a van and onto the plane of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It was the culmination of Pompeo’s 12-and-half-hour visit to the North Korean capital, which incl
  
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• After waiting two years behind bars for a trial, three Utah men are found not guilty of gang-raping 9-year-old girl

  09-05-2018 21:21
  For two years, three Vernal men sat behind bars and waited.Accused of brutally gang-raping a 9-year-old girl in 2016, the men — Larson RonDeau, Jerry Flatlip and Randall Flatlip — had pleaded not guilty to charges. As the case twisted and turned through the justice system, their attorneys made several attempts to have the case dismissed — but were never successful.And, after two years of waiting, their side of the story was finally told during a high-stakes trial that could hav
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Hugging co-workers can be problematic. But banning workplace embraces won’t stop sexual misconduct.

  09-05-2018 21:20
  In this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Benjamin Wood, Tribune reporter Taylor Stevens, and employment attorney Jonathan Driggs discuss hugging in the workplace, and how unwanted physical contact can become problematic for employers and employees.A lightly edited transcript of their conversation is included below.
  Benjamin Wood: Sandy City’s former police chief and a Utah author have recently come under fire, both amid allegations of inappropriate touching.The two men des
  
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• Salt Lake City police say suspect in ‘violent’ homicide of 15-year-old girl is in custody

  09-05-2018 21:17
  Police have a man in custody whom they have now named as a suspect in the “violent” homicide of 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw.After police found Bagshaw dead in her Salt Lake City home on Monday, they began a nationwide search for Shaun French, 24, who was located and arrested Wednesday in Colorado.According to Sgt. Brandon Shearer, French had been in a relationship with Bagshaw, and on Tuesday, police issued a warrant for him for three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor.
  
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• Salt Lake City gives rail-car firm 20-year, $9.6 million development deal to create 1,000 jobs, amid worries that inland port plan could take the money

  09-05-2018 21:13
  A first-of-its-kind Salt Lake City development incentive to help a Swiss rail-car maker build and staff a manufacturing plant with 1,000 employees won city approval Tuesday, despite concern that a state-driven inland port plan could siphon money away from the $9.6 million deal.Stadler Rail plans a nearly 1 million-square-foot plant to be built in four phases on a 63-acre site near 5600 West and Interstate 80 in the city’s northwest quadrant. Under the agreement with the city’s Redeve
  
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• Wildlife officials couldn’t find this Utah poacher. Then he posted a Facebook video of his buddy excavating his yard with a stolen backhoe.

  09-05-2018 21:10
  Utah wildlife investigators had a tip about a Duchesne County poacher and photos of him with ill-gotten elk. But he was nowhere to be found. Then the suspect, Kenneth Swenson, succumbed to the social media hazard of oversharing.Swenson posted a Facebook video of his friend doing construction work near Swenson’s rural home with what turned out to be a stolen backhoe, investigators said. Officers recognized a mountain in the background. They also spotted an old, “banana-yellow” t
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: LDS mission presidents are in the news, but what do these influential church leaders do?

  09-05-2018 21:03
  They decide which Mormon missionaries should be paired up as 24/7 “companions.” They make sure the young proselytizers stay healthy and safe. They shepherd these eager elders and sisters through any crisis of mind, faith or body. In the end, LDS mission presidents can rank among the most influential church leaders in individual lives.This week on “Mormon Land” — and in the wake of recent revelations about misconduct by a couple of former mission presidents — J
  
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• David Von Drehle: After the newspapers are gone

  09-05-2018 21:03
  This question is suddenly urgent in Denver, of all places, a thriving metropolis that used to be one heck of a newspaper town. Long after most places had settled on a single local paper, the Mile High City sustained a swashbuckling newspaper war, pitting the broadsheet Denver Post against the tabloid Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky finally died during the depths of the Great Recession, just shy of its 150th birthday. Now, a barrage of cuts and resignations in recent weeks may have left the Denver
  
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• Jazz Locker Cleanout Live: Joe Ingles delivers the funny

  09-05-2018 20:54
  The Joe Ingles Show delivered Wednesday, as it typically does. The Utah small forward had a few memorable soundbites before summer vacation during Jazz locker room cleanout. After the Jazz were ousted in five games against the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference semifinals Tuesday night, Ingles made media members chuckle on more than one occasion. Asked about Utah’s impending free agents this offseason, Ingles deadpanned regarding Derrick Favors: “Fav said I didn’t need t
  
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• Raptors’ Dwane Casey voted by peers as NBA coach of the year; Jazz’s Quin Snyder receives votes

  09-05-2018 20:53
  The Toronto Raptors’ Dwane Casey was the NBA’s best coach this season, according to his fellow NBA coaches.Casey was announced Wednesday as the coach-of-the-year selection by the National Basketball Coaches Association. The award, named for longtime NBCA executive director Michael H. Goldberg, is voted on only by the league’s head coaches.A media panel voted separately for the NBA’s Coach of the Year award, which will be announced June 25.“To be honored by your peer
  
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• Utah Rep. Mia Love signs on to a petition to buck the House’s Republican leadership and force a vote on legislation for young immigrants

  09-05-2018 20:52
  Republican Rep. Mia Love has signed on to a petition — sidestepping her party’s leadership — to force the House into a vote on legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation. It’s a somewhat audacious move for the Utah congresswoman. But it’s one that rarely gains enough support to work. While it’s expected that most of the 193 Democrats in the House will add their names, the discharge petition would require at least 25 GOP lawmakers to
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Going from 5th in the lottery to 5th seed in the playoffs made this Jazz season one to remember

  09-05-2018 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  ... g was off the charts and showed that the Jazz might have just drafted a very special player. His 8 steal game had me fanni ...
  
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• Canyons School District follows nearby districts in raising teacher salaries and giving out one-time stipends

  09-05-2018 20:26
  Canyons School District will raise starting salaries for new teachers and hand out one-time bonuses to licensed educators.The board voted unanimously Tuesday to hike the starting salary 4.5 percent, to $41,835 for the 2018-19 school year. Educators, including new hires, will also receive a one-time $500 bonus.About 180 veteran teachers who started work before July 1998 and 40 elementary dual-immersion teachers will receive an additional $500 bonus. In addition to bonuses, Canyons teachers will r
  
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• Element Bistro pulls flavors from around the world to its hip corner in Cottonwood Heights

  09-05-2018 20:19
  Cottonwood Heights • There’s a little corner on Bengal Boulevard with a three-way stoplight that’s been a neighborhood hotspot for years — but just what restaurant is hip and happening that moment is ever-changing.Enter Element Bistro, the first business to occupy the new building addition across the street from Angel Café.Element Bistro straddles a tapas and wine bar without fully devoting itself to either. With the addition of Sunday brunch and weekday lunch, Elem
  
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• Megan McArdle: I went back to the man who hit me. Why?

  09-05-2018 20:00
  It’s been a quarter-century, and I can still hear clearly the sound of my voice that night. It wavered with a plaintive, childish note as I spoke into the phone: “He hit me.” That sound, which I had never before heard in my own voice, broke something. I started to cry.I don’t remember exactly what happened after that. Eventually he wasn’t there anymore, and my roommate and her boyfriend were, holding my hand while I debated whether to break up with him.Some part of
  
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• Trump muses about yanking news media credentials in response to negative coverage

  09-05-2018 19:38
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday raised the prospect of taking away credentials from news media outlets that he believes are reporting negatively on his administration, claiming that the “Fake News” is “working overtime” against him.“Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt?” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Take away credentials?”The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous s
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump fires the Iran deal live on TV!

  09-05-2018 19:28
  Washington • In announcing a U.S. pullout from the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, President Trump boosted exports of a product his administration manufactures in abundance: chaos.In the Oval Office, standing beneath a portrait of George Washington, Trump spoke at length about the “very weak,” “disastrous,” “poorly negotiated” and “totally unacceptable” deal, which is a “great embarrassment,” a “giant fiction” and a “h
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz locker room updates: Jazz plan to try best to keep Exum

  09-05-2018 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... uston are ‘clearly in front of us’ Lindsey believes the metrics that say the Jazz are somewhere between the third- and sixth-best teams in the NBA. The realit ...
  
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• Cache County officials approve sales tax increase

  09-05-2018 19:11
  Logan, Utah • Officials in a northern Utah county have adopted a one-quarter of 1 percent tax increase to fund transportation projects.The Herald Journal reports the Cache County Council voted Tuesday to approve the tax increase, which will raise the sales tax in Logan from 6.6 percent to 6.85 percent.The new tax revenue will fund transportation projects including road work, sidewalks, traffic signals and public transit.County residents will now pay an additional 25 cents on a purchase of $
  
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• [KSL] - Patrick Kinahan: Jazz ceiling keeps soaring higher

  09-05-2018 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... is Paul winning the game down the stretch against a ragtag but feisty Jazz lineup, Donovan Mitchell's incredible third quarter, and the optimism surrou ...
  
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• 🎥| @CJC9BOSS is live ⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video… https://t.co/Ye4UHxjOpr

  09-05-2018 19:04 via twitter.com
  
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• Audit of Utah’s court system finds need for controls over surcharge payments; weaknesses in online records system

  09-05-2018 19:01
  A routine audit of Utah’s Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has found some weaknesses in internal controls involving the collection of surcharges and the operation of an online repository of court records.In a report released Wednesday, the Office of the State Auditor noted that justice courts are required to remit to the State Treasurer surcharges imposed for violations of state law. However, neither the AOC nor the State Treasurer’s Office has established a control to ensur
  
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• Utah’s Fox 13 will be sold by Sinclair to Twenty-First Century Fox

  09-05-2018 18:57
  New York • Media company Twenty-First Century Fox has agreed to buy seven TV stations from Sinclair Broadcast Group for $910 million, including Utah’s KSTU Fox 13.The move comes as Sinclair is selling some stations to meet regulatory approval for its pending $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media. Meanwhile, Disney is pursuing a $52 billion takeover of much of Fox, though TV stations will stay with Rupert Murdoch’s family under a new Fox company.Stations in Miami, Denver, Sea
  
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• 🎥| @ThaboSefolosha is live ⤵️ facebook.com/utahjazz/video… https://t.co/x7mMrUZu6u

  09-05-2018 18:56 via twitter.com
  
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• Element Bistro pulls flavors from around the world from its hip corner in Cottonwood Heights

  09-05-2018 18:55
  Cottonwood Heights • There’s a little corner on Bengal Boulevard with a three-way stoplight that’s been a neighborhood hotspot for years — but just what restaurant is hip and happening that moment is ever-changing.Enter Element Bistro, the first business to occupy the new building addition across the street from Angel Café.Element Bistro straddles a tapas and wine bar without fully devoting itself to either. With the addition of Sunday brunch and weekday lunch, Elem
  
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• Diesel Brother and monster truck enthusiast Dave Sparks buys Utah’s Fremont Island in Great Salt Lake

  09-05-2018 18:55
  Fremont Island, the Great Salt Lake’s third largest and only privately owned island, has been acquired by an investor group headed by monster truck entrepreneur David “Heavy D” Sparks.Famous as the star of the Discovery Channel program “Diesel Brothers,” Sparks and his partners are seeking an easement across 6 miles of state-owned lakebed to access their new property, according to the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (FFSL).The sale of the 3,000-acre
  
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• Commentary: Here’s what Trump doesn’t know about knives, guns and murder

  09-05-2018 18:54
  Many in Britain took great exception to President Donald Trump’s comments about the rash of knife attacks and murders that have plagued London in recent months. Speaking to the National Rifle Association’s annual convention last week, Trump called back to an old NRA talking point when, after noting Britain’s “unbelievably tough gun laws,” he added: “They don’t have guns, they have knives and instead there’s blood all over the floors of this hospita
  
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• Black Lives Matter’s Utah chapter has a plan to reduce police shootings

  09-05-2018 18:32
  Lex Scott is the founder of the Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter, and she wants police to stop killing people of color.Wednesday, the Salt Lake City Police Department released body-cam video of the April 18 shooting death of 32-year-old Delorean Pikyavit, an American Indian.In addition, Elijah James Smith, 20, a black man, was shot and killed by West Valley Police on April 8. He was unarmed. Smith was suspected of stealing a cellphone.Scott, a Utah native, wants to propose legislation that wou
  
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