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• #TBT to May 8, 1999 vs Sacramento Kings. Karl Malone (3,712 points) passed Magic Johnson (3,701) for the sixth pos… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 23:51 via twitter.com
  #TBT to May 8, 1999 vs Sacramento Kings.Karl Malone (3,712 points) passed Magic Johnson (3,701) for the sixth pos… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Feds readying efforts to fight wildfires this summer after record-high year of blazes

  10-05-2018 23:44
  Washington • Federal officials said Thursday they’re preparing for the coming wildfire season while stressing that many parts of the country — including big swaths of Utah — are susceptible to “significant” blazes this summer.Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Department Secretary Sonny Perdue, who oversees the Forest Service, signed an annual agreement Thursday to cooperate in combating fires that break out this year. For the first time, the agreeme
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Takers

  10-05-2018 23:43
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 11, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br>Be Prepared <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> Want more Bagle
  
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• ‘Trying to relate’: An exercise in empathy trains Utah police officers how to respond to mental-health crises

  10-05-2018 23:40
  When two police officers walked into the room, she told them her upstairs neighbor had been filming her with infrared cameras that revealed her naked body beneath her clothes so that he could post pornography of her online for the world to see.The officers were visibly uncomfortable. Neither man said much as she shouted about being violated.“And scene,” said someone in the corner. The woman — a Salt Lake City police officer playing the role of someone having delusions — r
  
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• Utah public-lands bill that would protect 1 million acres, establish a Jurassic National Monument is drawing fire from conservation groups

  10-05-2018 23:35
  A new land bill introduced in Congress Wednesday seeks to set aside more than a half-million acres of wilderness in Utah’s Emery County.Backed by Utah Rep. John Curtis and Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Emery County Public Land Management Act would also create a 4-square-mile national monument at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry and national conservation areas totaling 383,380 acres, mostly around the iconic San Rafael Swell.Proponents lauded the bill, nearly 20 years in the making, as a locally
  
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• Letter: In-depth stories grasp the human element and belong on the front page

  10-05-2018 23:30
  Thank you for rejecting a shallow view of news. Please do not bury “in-depth human interest stories” in back pages or supplements. We are saturated with traditional front-page stories of mayhem and disaster. This has two dangerous results. First, we become inured to suffering, showing little interest in understanding or alleviating it. Second, we become hypersensitized to low-frequency dangers, leading to a mindset of intolerance against people who pose no real danger.Front-page news
  
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• Letter: Plastic bag requirement undermines Smith’s portable scanner option

  10-05-2018 22:30
  I love my smartphone and I appreciate new ways to streamline grocery shopping (“New portable grocery scanners are rolling out in Utah Smith’s stores,” April 25), but I share concerns recent writers have expressed about displaced store employees and other potential complications.Another big concern for me is: plastic bags? To use the smartphone shopping app, one has to bag one’s purchases in see-through plastic bags? At a time when we know that plastic bags are a scourge o
  
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• 🎥| @spidadmitchell looks back on a remarkable year, his team and his goals. “I don’t think you find a team like th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-05-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  🎥| @spidadmitchell looks back on a remarkable year, his team and his goals.“I don’t think you find a team like th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Wasatch Front inflation surges with the rising cost of houses, gasoline

  10-05-2018 22:28
  Rising housing and gasoline costs lifted the inflation rate over the past year along the Wasatch Front to 3.9 percent, the biggest annual increase since September 2012.The Zions Bank Wasatch Front Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.9 percent from March to April alone, solidifying the year-over-year figure, which was considerably higher than the 2.5 percent inflation rate measured by the National CPI.In a market already facing a price-boosting shortage of homes on the market, climbing interest rat
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Dante Exum plays coy about future with team

  10-05-2018 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... . Injuries aside, he hasn’t always had a clear path to playing time with the Jazz. When he was drafted, Trey Burke was already on the team. Later, George Hill ...
  
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• Sex-abuse lawsuits illustrate USOC’s difficult path

  10-05-2018 22:17
  Denver • Two lawsuits filed recently against the U.S. Olympic Committee illustrate the peril the federation finds itself in over its handling of decades’ worth of sex-abuse cases, while shining a light on the murky relationship the USOC has with the sports organizations it oversees.Martha and Bela Karolyi are suing the USOC , along with USA Gymnastics, seeking damages for the canceled sale of their famed Texas training center — a transaction that tanked in the wake of sex-abuse
  
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• Utah Jazz: Dante Exum plays coy about future with team

  10-05-2018 22:15
  Has former No. 5 overall pick Dante Exum played his last game in a Utah Jazz uniform? Uncertainty abounds about his basketball future. This was supposed to be the year. Following multiple false starts — brought on by a litany of major injuries — the 2017-18 season was going to be our first real taste […]
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• Hawaii volcano could spew boulders the size of refrigerators

  10-05-2018 22:10
  Pahoa, Hawaii • If Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano blows its top in the coming days or weeks, as experts fear, it could hurl ash and boulders the size of refrigerators miles into the air, shutting down airline traffic and endangering lives in all directions, scientists said Thursday.“If it goes up, it will come down,” said Charles Mandeville, volcano hazards coordinator for the U.S. Geological Survey. “You don’t want to be underneath anything that weighs 10 tons when
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: missionary safety, battles over LDS history, scrapping Scouting, praying with Trump and more

  10-05-2018 21:58
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. WantMormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: What mission presidents do 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
  
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• Letter: It’s a shame Ben McAdams thinks he has to turn his back on Pelosi

  10-05-2018 21:28
  I am disgusted at the Republicans using Nancy Pelosi as their poster child to make sure people vote for Mia Love or any other Republican in the midterm elections. What are they afraid of? Pelosi is the first and only woman to achieve the third most powerful position in government: Speaker of the House.Evidently, Republicans are loath to accept a woman in a position of power, especially an effective one. As the Republican Party doesn’t want to talk about what the real elephant in the room i
  
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• Tribune Editorial: The Jazz overachieved this year. Imagine what the team will look like when the players do it again next season

  10-05-2018 21:17
  Back in August, no one in the realm of professional basketball said the Utah Jazz would be one of the eight best teams in the National Basketball Association this year. Except maybe Rudy Gobert. After the loss of all-star Gordon Hayward to the Boston Celtics, after injuries to key players including himself, after a miserable December in which they won only five of 18 games, the ridiculously tall Frenchman declared on Jan. 5, “We will be fine.” In the end, they were so much more than
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - A look at each Utah Jazz player's contract status and outlook for next season

  10-05-2018 21:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... hing the second round of the NBA playoffs for the second straight year, Utah Jazz players cleaned out their lockers, did their exit interviews with team staff ...
  
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• Monson: Donovan Mitchell and the Jazz sang a love song this season, with more verses set to come

  10-05-2018 21:04
  The Utah Jazz love one another.That’s right. They do. They say they do. They play(ed) like they do. Not this much, but thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much.And as the songwriter wrote: “There is beauty all around, when there’s love at the home practice facility.” And as the other songwriter wrote: “All You Need is Love to Go Deep in the Playoffs.”Turns out love neither hurts nor stinks. (Speaking of love and songs, did you know there have been 128 No. 1 hits thro
  
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• A look at each Utah Jazz player's contract status and outlook for next season

  10-05-2018 21:00
  After reaching the second round of the NBA playoffs for the second straight year, Utah Jazz players cleaned out their lockers, did their exit interviews with team staff, and talked to media for the final time the season.
  Here's a look at each player's contract status and outlook on the season and offseason
  
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• .@RenaeIngles: “Resilience to me is one of the most important aspects of leadership.” https://t.co/I28o0dNTy9

  10-05-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  
  .@RenaeIngles: “Resilience to me is one of the most important aspects of leadership.” https://t.co/I28o0dNTy9
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - International draft prospect works out for Utah Jazz

  10-05-2018 20:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... he Jazz By May 10, 2018, 12:27pm MDT Share International draft prospect works out fo ...
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Duke walk-on Besser to bike across the US for charity

  10-05-2018 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  ... tter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Quiz: Do you know these Utah Jazz players? Rockets blast Jazz 113-92 to take series lead Paul scores 27 and Ha ...
  
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• Land bill would create Jurassic National Monument in Utah

  10-05-2018 20:37
  Salt Lake City • New legislation from a pair of Republican Utah lawmakers would create the Jurassic National Monument at a dinosaur fossil site and create a conservation area around the rugged San Rafael Swell.Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis said Wednesday their sweeping new land reform bill would protect nearly 1 million acres of natural lands in central Utah’s Emery County. It has support from local officials.Some environmental activists are planning to fight the measure. The
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Draymond Green elevates game, brings it on both ends for W's

  10-05-2018 20:36 via sportspyder.com
  ... tter Email Print Save Top Comments Most Popular Quiz: Do you know these Utah Jazz players? Rockets blast Jazz 113-92 to take series lead Paul scores 27 and Ha ...
  
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  10-05-2018 20:34 via twitter.com
  
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• The Jazz overachieved this year. Imagine what the team will look like when the players do it again next season

  10-05-2018 20:08
  Back in August, no one in the realm of professional basketball said the Utah Jazz would be one of the eight best teams in the National Basketball Association this year. Except maybe Rudy Gobert. After the loss of all-star Gordon Hayward to the Boston Celtics, after injuries to key players including himself, after a miserable December in which they won only five of 18 games, the ridiculously tall Frenchman declared on Jan. 5, “We will be fine.” In the end, they were so much more than
  
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• Luke Winslow-King’s ‘Blue Mesa’ simple and effective

  10-05-2018 20:08
  Don’t look for ferocious twists and turns on Luke Winslow-King’s “Blue Mesa.” Though he well knows life is usually far from trouble-free, this is a collection of soulfully simple and effective songs with a wide range of guitar sounds and a mix of blues, rock, folk and boogie.Returning to his native Cadillac, Mich., after a long stint in New Orleans, Winslow-King recorded the album in the Tuscan region of Italy with a band including guitarist Roberto Luti, drummer Chris Da
  
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• Engrossing sci-fi fable ‘The Endless’ should make filmmakers Benson and Moorhead names to know

  10-05-2018 20:08
  Aside from boutique horror fans, most filmgoers haven’t heard of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, despite raves for the filmmakers’ 2014 breakout, the monster movie “Spring,” and a spot on Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch list in 2015.But with the duo’s follow-up “The Endless,” they are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. The new movie — a sci-fi freakout that, like “Spring,” includes an “it,” but one that&rsquo
  
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• Unlike past years, Dante Exum won’t spend all summer rehabbing from an injury. That’s a big deal, both for him and the Jazz.

  10-05-2018 20:06
  On a large level, it is hard to believe Dante Exum is still only 22 years old.Sure, he’s older than the wide-eyed teen that he was when he entered the NBA as Utah’s 2014 lottery pick. But, the trials and roadblocks packed into a still-blossoming four year career makes it feel like he’s been around for a lot longer.Exum’s game still has a long way to go. His jumper still needs a lot of work. He has no mid-range game to speak of. And, as his struggles against the Oklahoma C
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Doug Robinson: Utah Jazz's season of (pleasant) surprise

  10-05-2018 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  ...not counting the Texas Legends of the G League — before being traded to the Jazz this season in the Johnson deal. Royce O’Neale joined the Jazz as an undraft ...
  
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• At least 44 killed as dam bursts in Kenya, officials say

  10-05-2018 19:55
  Nairobi, Kenya • Villagers said it started with a loud rumble, then houses collapsed one by one under an approaching wall of water.“We took our children and rushed to higher ground,” farmer Joseph Maina told The Associated Press. Their home was submerged and their crops were washed away but unlike dozens of others, they survived.At least 44 were dead and another 40 were missing Thursday after a dam swollen by weeks of seasonal rains burst in Kenya’s Rift Valley, sweeping a
  
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• Doug Robinson: Utah Jazz's season of (pleasant) surprise

  10-05-2018 19:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — It seemed fitting that in the end, in a do-or-die playoff game, Quin Snyder did what he has had to do all season: He patched together a lineup from his collection of no-name players and made a game of it, this time on the home floor of the best team in the NBA.Only five points separated the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets with seven minutes left in the game Tuesday, when Donovan Mitchell — who scored 22 points in the third quarter — was injured. They went on to l
  
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• Nationwide search underway for suspect in Utah pawn shop robbery where the clerk shot and killed one intruder

  10-05-2018 19:44
  Nearly a week after a Bountiful pawn shop clerk shot and killed one of two armed men who allegedly tried to rob the store, police have released the suspects’ identities.Bountiful police said Thursday that 40-year-old Kleydys Arbolaez-Hernandez, of Denver, was killed during in the May 4 scuffle, and they are still searching for 30-year-old Alexyanis Cutino Jimenez.Jimenez reportedly has ties to Texas and Florida, according to a news release from Bountiful police.The two reportedly entered B
  
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• Is it time to end the charade? Many professional pitchers use a foreign substance when they throw. Should it be allowed?

  10-05-2018 19:19
  Salt Lake Bees pitcher John Lamb takes umbrage at the absurdity of the moment almost four years later. Pitching for Omaha on a humid July day in New Orleans, an umpire ejected Lamb in a one-run game for supposedly throwing at a batter. As Lamb recalls, he’d given up a home run then sailed a curveball behind the batter as he struggled to grip the ball. Lamb’s memory of the moment was refreshed this month when Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer sparked a discussion with social medi
  
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• Letter: Haspel’s complicity in torture should disqualify her from CIA post

  10-05-2018 19:17
  Gina Haspel is under consideration by the Senate to head the CIA. How will our two Utah senators, Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, vote on her confirmation, to occur later this week? They must be aware of her history, recently brought to light by David Irvine in his Salt Lake Tribune commentary.Irvine is an attorney, a former Army strategic intelligence officer and a retired Army brigadier general. He wrote in his usual erudite style of Haspel’s role in “senior operational positions within
  
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• Letter: Humans are alone in destroying life and land for ‘fun’ or evil

  10-05-2018 19:13
  I am sickened by the vandalism of dinosaur footprints at Red Fleet State Park outside Vernal. I am sickened that the human race destroys such treasures.We, of all creation, should make the right decisions about how we treat this Earth. I’m not sure quite how to say it, but “miracle” and “perfection” are words I’ve determined come close to describing our planet.We humans are the only conscious destroyers of life and land for “fun” or evil. Our brain
  
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• Letter: Hatch’s ridiculous rebuke of McCain’s wishes echoes his penchant for funerals

  10-05-2018 19:11
  It makes sense that Sen. Orrin Hatch would castigate Sen. John McCain for saying he doesn’t want President Trump at his funeral. Hatch has often acted as Senate funeral director and likes to uphold tradition. For instance, Hatch tried to hold a funeral for the Affordable Health Act, which McCain spoiled with a remarkably decent display of patriotism.Closer to home, Hatch invited Trump to officiate at the funeral for Bears Ears National Monument, held last December in the Utah Capitol build
  
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• Letter: Democracy isn’t dead in Utah — Ghorbani’s challenge to Stewart is real

  10-05-2018 19:06
  In his May 4 column, Paul Rolly rightly calls out Rep. Chris Stewart for dodging questions at his recent town hall in West Valley City. I agree with Rolly: Stewart is unresponsive and disrespectful to his constituents. His fawning endorsements of the president’s dangerous nonsense are appalling.But Rolly is wrong when he says, “Democracy is dead in Utah.” Stewart is not running unopposed. He has a smart, credible and savvy opponent in Shireen Ghorbani. And The Tribune commits a
  
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• Spotify cuts R. Kelly music from playlists, cites new policy

  10-05-2018 19:00
  New York • Spotify has removed R. Kelly’s music from its playlists, citing its new policy on hate content and hateful conduct.A spokesperson said Thursday that Kelly’s music is no longer available on the streaming service’s owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations. His music will still be available, but Spotify will not promote it.Kelly’s representative didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment.The new policy defines hateful con
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Humor in no short supply in Utah Jazz players' exit interviews

  10-05-2018 18:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... to convince Favors to re-sign with Utah. Last year, the Aussie was among the Jazz contingent that traveled to San Diego in hopes of persuading Gordon Hayward...
  
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• Humor in no short supply in Utah Jazz players' exit interviews

  10-05-2018 18:40
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz’s annual exit interview press conference had all of the things you’d expect: proud reminiscing on a surprisingly successful season, an optimistic outlook on the future, injury inquiries, questions about contract situations and, of course, an entertaining dialogue about the T-shirt Derrick Favors wore in what might be his last official event as a member of the organization.There were also Joe Ingles jokes, but that’s so common it would only b
  
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• [Fanrag Sports] - Radio voices of the departed teams, Jazz and Pelicans, preview the Rockets and the Warriors

  10-05-2018 17:56 via sportspyder.com
  ... ke the radio voice of the Utah Jazz and Sean Kelly the radio voice of the New Orleans Pelicans are both on vacat ...
  
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• +1 to #JazzNation twitter.com/BRUCABI/status…

  10-05-2018 17:54 via twitter.com
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• Political Cornflakes: 3 in 4 Americans support Trump meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, according to new poll

  10-05-2018 17:35
  Three in 4 Americans support President Donald Trump meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, according to new poll. Utah’s Mia Love signs petition to force House vote on immigration proposals. A new bill backed by Utah congressional leaders sets aside more than a half-million acres of wilderness in Emery County.Happy Thursday. Most Americans — regardless of political party — support President Donald Trump sitting down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. A new poll finds
  
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• Letter: Stingy Legislature is OK with providing our kids with a third-tier education

  10-05-2018 17:30
  Reading the recent Tribune article about how to deal with teachers’ salaries is not only disgusting, but an insult to all teachers. The Legislature has no regard for public education; otherwise it would not only properly fund the school districts, but pay teachers what they are worth. Yet each and every year, legislators proclaim that the schools are getting the increase in funding they need to operate, but don’t address the elephant in the room: teachers’ salaries. Not bonuses
  
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• Letter: You have a cachet, Sen. Hatch; demand change — now

  10-05-2018 17:21
  Congratulations, Orrin Hatch, on your long career in the U.S. Senate, representing Utah.In a recent issue of The Salt Lake Tribune, I enjoyed reading about the new center that will soon be built and named in your honor. My request is this: In your final 6½ months as a senior U.S. senator, please address some key goals you have outlined for your new center.That is, how about turning the power of your seniority into your own bully pulpit to demand change and lead by example by working acros
  
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• Utah filmmaker Erika Cohn finds a compelling story in ‘The Judge,’ about pioneering Muslim woman

  10-05-2018 17:18
  What do Polynesian football players in Utah and the first woman to be named a judge in a Palestinian Sharia court have in common?Erika Cohn, a documentary filmmaker born and raised in Salt Lake City, finds both of them fascinating.“I’m really inspired by character-driven narratives that have some sort of social issue or some sort of conversation of where we’re at in the world,” said Cohn during a recent trip home. Cohn — who co-directed the 2015 documentary “I
  
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• Utah man sentenced to prison for having sex with 12-year-old girl

  10-05-2018 17:14
  A 33-year-old Utah County man has been sentenced to prison for having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl.Jeffrey Nicolas Nyman, of Payson, had pleaded guilty in 4th District Court to second-degree felony counts of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a child.On Wednesday, Judge Lynn Davis sentenced Nyman to concurrent terms of 1 to 15 years.In November 2016, Nyman picked up the victim from her junior high school in Taylorsville and took her to a Utah County hotel room, where they had sex, a
  
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