• Pierce: Utah native Roseanne is once again the biggest thing on TV — can the battles be far behind?

    For the first time since 1989, a native Utahn is starring in the No. 1 show on television.Weirdly enough, it’s the same native Utahn starring in the same show. “Roseanne” was the most-watched show on TV then; it’s the most-watched show on TV now. And Roseanne Barr — who was born and raised in Salt Lake City — was and is the star of the hit sitcom.Clearly, the world has changed a lot since 1989, when “Roseanne” tied with — gulp — “
  • South Jordan again has two Mormon temples as Eyring rededicates an updated Jordan River Temple

    South Jordan joined Provo on Sunday as the two Utah cities with a pair of operating Mormon temples after President Henry B. Eyring rededicated the Jordan River Temple.The edifice, closed for an extensive makeover since February 2016, originally opened in 1981 and quickly became one of the busiest in the global Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In a news release, Erying, second counselor in the faith’s governing First Presidency, referred to that earlier dedicatory prayer nearly f
  • While doctors and nurses care for the body, chaplains at Utah hospitals try to bring peace to patients and families of all faiths

    Outside little Ruthie Yanez’s Primary Children’s Hospital room window, the sun breaks through leaden skies as a cold, light rain blows through the Salt Lake Valley below.But the 5-year-old girl must create her own sunshine these days. Surgery to remove a brain tumor has left Ruthie’s soft, chocolate brown eyes sightless; her overall condition remains “guarded” after several weeks at the hospital.Doctors don’t know if Ruthie’s blindness will prove permane
  • Utah’s Savage Cos. to merge with Kansas grain and milling operations

    Kansas City, Mo. • Kansas City-based Bartlett and Co. is merging with Savage Cos. into a Utah-based conglomerate.The companies announced the merger Wednesday but the terms weren’t released. The Kansas City Star reports the merger will fold Bartlett, which formed in 1907, into Savage Cos., based in Salt Lake City. The transaction is expected to be completed in August.Savage provides services to such industries as oil refinery, power generation and chemicals. Bartlett is involved in the
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  • Interstate 15 near Bountiful reopens after tanker rollover

    Bountiful • Utah Highway Patrol officials say a tanker rollover crash closed a portion of Interstate 15 near Bountiful for several hours Sunday.A semitrailer was hauling a main tanker and a second smaller trailer when the smaller trailer rolled for an unknown reason at about 8 a.m. Sunday. The interstate reopened just after 1:30 p.m. Highway Patrol officials say the crash caused the smaller trailer to rupture.The trailer was hauling compressed calcium chloride, a chemical used for de-icing.
  • Obama’s education secretary: Let’s boycott school until gun laws change

    Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter: Parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.His tweet came hours after a shooting rampage at a Houston-area high school Friday killed 10 people — a mass shooting that came just three months after 17 students and staffers were slain at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.When Peter Cunningham, a former education department employee, tweet
  • [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz ’17-18 review: Ekpe Udoh will block your shot

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    In his first season with the Utah Jazz, Ekpe Udoh served as a reliable backup center that blocked a lot of shots and brought loads of energy off the bench. My J-Notes colleague Jared Woodcox reviewed Raul Neto’s season yesterday on Raul’s birthday. So, it felt fitting to review Ekpe Udoh‘s season with the Jazz on […]
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  • Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice. And still 10 people died.

    Santa Fe, Texas • They, like so many others, thought they had taken the steps to avoid this.The school district had an active-shooter plan, and two armed police officers walked the halls of the high school. School district leaders had even agreed last fall to eventually arm teachers and staff under the state’s school marshal program, one of the country’s most aggressive and controversial policies intended to get more guns into classrooms.They thought they were a hardened target,
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    The Utah Jazz have plenty of tough decisions to make this offseason as they look to continue their ascent towards NBA title contention. As all Utah Jazz fans witnessed last summer, the NBA offseason can be a time of tough decisions and shattered dreams. Fortunately, not only was the decision of former Jazzman Gordon Hayward […]
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  • [Deseret Morning News] - 20 years ago: Utah Jazz sweep Los Angeles Lakers

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    Editor's note: Every Sunday, the Deseret News takes a look back into our archives.Karl Malone led the Utah Jazz with 32 points and 14 rebounds as the Jazz swept the Los Angeles Lakers with a 96-92 victory in the Western Conference Finals.Jeff Hornacek had his best scoring game of the series with 15 points. Greg Ostertag was the high scorer off the bench with 11 points.The win left the Jazz with a potential long wait before a possible Finals rematch with Chicago."I'd love a rematch with Chicago,"
  • The cheap drug spice is on the rise in Salt Lake City — and it’s killing people

    The following story was written and researched by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.When David Shay began smoking spice, he believed he was choosing a safe, legal alternative to marijuana. “I wasn’t able to smoke marijuana because of drug tests at my job,” he says, “but this I could do.”At first, it was a lot like pot. “I’d smoke it after work and in the evenings, things like that.”But Shay’s
  • [Deseret Morning News] - Dante Exum, Raul Neto both face offseason decisions with Utah Jazz and free agency

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  • Dante Exum, Raul Neto both face offseason decisions with Utah Jazz and free agency

    SALT LAKE CITY — Dante Exum and Raul Neto have a lot in common.Both are foreign-born point guards who play for the Utah Jazz. Both were thrust into starting roles as rookies ahead of a more experienced point guard in consecutive seasons. Both have battled injuries and both missed significant portions of the 2017-18 season. Both are free agents this summer.But neither is expected to be taking over starting point guard duties anytime soon as long as Ricky Rubio is with the team and playing a
  • Utah teens who persuaded lawmakers to recognize climate change join Gov. Herbert at resolution signing

    Ogden • A group of Utah teenagers, which had persuaded state lawmakers to adopt a resolution that recognizes the consequences of climate change and encourages the reduction of emissions, met with Republican Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday for a ceremonial signing of the statement."The main message of the resolution is that economic viability and environmental stewardship aren’t different things,” Mishka Banuri, a junior at West High School in Salt Lake City, told the Standard-Exa
  • Leonard Pitts: For some, ‘faith’ has little to do with Jesus

    Today, we will discuss one of the most pressing threats to American Christianity. Meaning, of course, American Christians.Yes, that’s an overly broad statement. All those Christians whose faith requires them to live the Good News, to feed the hungry, to house the homeless, speak for the voiceless and welcome the stranger, surely do not threaten the faith. To the contrary, they empower it. They are what Christianity is supposed to be.But we’re here to contend with what Christianity to
  • Utah native Roseanne is once again the biggest thing on TV — can the battles be far behind?

    For the first time since 1989, a native Utahn is starring in the No. 1 show on television.Weirdly enough, it’s the same native Utahn starring in the same show. “Roseanne” was the most-watched show on TV then; it’s the most-watched show on TV now. And Roseanne Barr — who was born and raised in Salt Lake City — was and is the star of the hit sitcom.Clearly, the world has changed a lot since 1989, when “Roseanne” tied with — gulp — “
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  • Commentary: There’s another part of the Mormon church’s former ban on black men from receiving the priesthood that we shouldn’t forget

    This year, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is celebrating the receipt of Official Declaration 2. The revelation, published by the LDS First Presidency in June 1978, proclaims that all worthy men, regardless of race, can hold priesthood office.However, the Declaration’s importance is not limited to male ordination. It also ended a restriction against peoples of African descent participating in the LDS temple ordinances, which Mormons believe allow family relationships to con
  • Tribune Editorial: Utah can’t escape responsibility for inmates it has farmed out to county jails

    Prison inmates who are in the custody of the state of Utah are the responsibility of the state of Utah. The fact that they have been farmed out to one of the 21 county jails that make money by taking some pressure off the crowded state prison does not change that fact in the least.So it should not have taken a scandal, a crackdown on one of the county jails involved and, now, an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit to push the Utah Department of Corrections to take a lot more care in making su
  • Commentary: Hatch should make Utah’s wilderness-study areas accessible to vehicles

    I read in The Tribune the other day that Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis are co-sponsoring the Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018, which involves a lot of the San Rafael Swell. From what it said in the paper, it probably addresses a lot of issues that need to be addressed.I do have a concern about what the paper said, that the bill, “proposes moving 436,643 acres of wilderness study areas in Emery County into permanent wilderness areas and expanding them to 577,986 acres
  • Kirby: No Scouting, but Mormons still can earn merit badges for having lots of babies, serving missions, wearing white shirts and more

    One person who makes church tolerable for me is Easton Henrie. We have a lot in common. We’re both Mormon, we have the attention span of lightning and generally couldn’t care less about what’s happening in church. That’s where the similarities end. Easton is 2, cute and fast. I’m 65, slow and look like I was found at a landfill. He’s getting smarter, while I’m becoming increasingly confused.I’m sad to report that Easton’s parents, Jennifer an
  • New technologies could help Utahns save water — but are we willing to use them?

    How do you get Utahns, many of whom consider overwatering their yards a basic human right, to start conserving instead?Experts hope that another of the state’s great loves — technology — might hold the answer.So-called “smart” timers and controllers — devices that turn automatic sprinkler systems on and off based on weather conditions and other data — have huge potential to save water in Utah, according to researchers and government officials studying th
  • The bedside of a dying child is ‘holy ground,’ a place where Utah chaplains can offer tears, prayers and solace but no easy answers

    Part of David Pascoe’s job as a palliative care chaplain is to stand by the bedsides of dying children, bearing and sharing the rage and despair of broken parents.At Primary Children’s Hospital, it is a duty that drills down to the core of faith and the very essence of being human.“There are about 160 to 200 deaths at Primary Children’s Hospital every year,” Pascoe explains. “Kids are flown in here from a five-state area. We take the worst of the worst cases,
  • Operation Rio Grande has helped clean up heroin and meth in Salt Lake City — but spice is on the rise, and it’s killing people

    The following story was written and researched by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.When David Shay began smoking spice, he believed he was choosing a safe, legal alternative to marijuana. “I wasn’t able to smoke marijuana because of drug tests at my job,” he says, “but this I could do.”At first, it was a lot like pot. “I’d smoke it after work and in the evenings, things like that.”But Shay’s
  • ‘Now I can touch the peace’: Utah chaplains bring healing, hope, comfort and faith — any faith — to patients

    Outside little Ruthie Yanez’s Primary Children’s Hospital room window, the sun breaks through leaden skies as a cold, light rain blows through the Salt Lake Valley below.But the 5-year-old girl must create her own sunshine these days. Surgery to remove a brain tumor has left Ruthie’s soft, chocolate brown eyes sightless; her overall condition remains “guarded” after several weeks at the hospital.Doctors don’t know if Ruthie’s blindness will prove permane
  • Commentary: There is a high cost to keeping Utah children poor and hungry

    After the birth of my son, I can’t tell you how many times my husband and I would imagine what it would be like for families who must decide between meals and boxes of diapers.How lucky I felt to have a job that offered unpaid leave so that I could be with my babe for the first three months of his life, and how fortunate I was that with my husband’s job and a tiny savings, we were able to afford it. I thought a lot of my own mother. She raised me by herself on a teacher’s salar
  • Commentary: Unless Utah voters begin to care and learn how their candidates fund their campaigns, dark money will continue to win elections

    No one wants to talk about it, not many want to learn more about it, and fewer people want to speak against those that accept it.I figure at my age, I have little to lose in exposing it. I’m refusing to take it, and so are many other new candidates in 2018 mid-term election. Still, a large number of incumbents are on record for accepting large amounts of it. And without your taking notice, they will win with it. Just a moment’s effort at a website like FollowTheMoney.org will reveal
  • MLB roundup: Dodgers sweep day-night doubleheader vs. Nationals

    Washington • Matt Kemp had a pinch-hit, two-run double in the ninth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers survived a sterling performance by Max Scherzer to beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Saturday night and sweep a day-night doubleheader.Scherzer struck out 13 in seven innings, and Washington led 4-3 entering the ninth. But closer Sean Doolittle (1-2) allowed singles to Austin Barnes and Logan Forsythe, and Kemp then hit a line drive to the wall in left field to score them both.Erik Goe
  • No contest: LeBron, Cavs pound Celtics early in Game 3 rout

    CLEVELAND (AP) — Before taking the floor, LeBron James stood in the hallway with his teammates outside Cleveland's locker room and pounded his chest with both hands.The Celtics got thumped next.James had 27 points and 12 assists, Kevin Love added 14 rebounds and the Cavaliers looked like a different team on their home court, tightening the Eastern Conference finals with a 116-86 victory in Game 3 over Boston on Saturday night.Outplayed during two losses in Boston, the Cavs used a three-day
  • Commentary: Utah’s public lands belong to the nation, not to local off-road drivers

    Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis have just introduced legislation that includes a range of awful provisions for the San Rafael Swell and portions of Labyrinth and Desolation canyons.It protects less land as wilderness than is already protected for those values. It makes off-road vehicle problems worse with an unprecedented legislative scheme. It undoes a protected area for coal mining. It allows Utah politicians to sue the United States to put off-road vehicles through areas designated wild
  • LeBron, Cavs overpower Celtics 116-86 at home in Game 3 of East finals

    Cleveland • LeBron James had 27 points and 12 assists, Kevin Love added 14 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers looked like a different team on their home floor, tightening the Eastern Conference finals with a 116-86 victory in Game 3 over the Boston Celtics on Saturday night.Outplayed during two losses in Boston, the Cavs used a three-day break in the series to regroup and re-grip this series. They built a 19-point lead in the first quarter, pushed it to 30 in the second half and overpower
  • Kevin Harvick wins NACAR All-Star race to claim $1 million prize

    Concord, N.C. • Nothing can stop Kevin Harvick these days, not an experimental rules package or a field of racers with nothing but pride on the line, and the hottest driver in NASCAR scored a $1 million payday by winning the All-Star race.Harvick’s win Saturday night came exactly 11 years to the day of his only other win in Charlotte Motor Speedway’s exhibition event. This time the victory is part of a raging hot streak that brought him into the All-Star race with five points ra
  • Commentary: There is a difference between criticism and bigotry

    Honest and civil criticism based on truth is an essential component of any democracy. Bigotry is an expression of visceral hatred against a person or a people. Both are protected free speech, but the first strengthens democracy while the second erodes it. A controversial opinion column by Michael Robinson in the May 6 Salt Lake Tribune has raised the question of what differentiates the two. The author claims his commentary simply represented criticism of human rights abuses by the Israeli govern
  • Still battling cancer, Utah‘s Holly Rowe gets a chance to call a WNBA game for ESPN

    Utah native Holly Rowe has a new assignment at ESPN — she’ll be behind the mic calling a WNBA game, even as she continues to battle cancer.It’s certainly not the first time the University of Utah grad has covered the league. She was the color commentator for the Utah Starzz (since moved to San Antonio) back in 1997. But since she joined ESPN in 1998, she’s been working the sidelines of everything from college football and basketball to gymnastics, swimming, the Little Lea
  • Lightning hold off Capitals, 3-2, for 3-2 series lead

    Tampa, Fla. • Cedric Paquette scored in the opening minute and Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 shots to help the Tampa Bay Lightning hold off the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Saturday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final.Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan also scored as the home team won for the first time in the best-of-seven matchup, with the Lightning taking a 3-2 series lead and moving within one victory of advancing the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in four seasons.The Capit
  • Utah high school ‘truly sorry’ after calling inner-district rivals ‘ghetto’ and ‘stupid’ in yearbook

    Nebo School District officials have been working to ease tensions after Maple Mountain High School printed a yearbook spread using derogatory words to describe its inner-district rival, Springville High School.The page is a word cloud shaped like Springville High School’s logo — a stylized S, with a devil face inside — and titled “Describe Springville.” The page characterizes Springville as, among other things, “ghetto,” “lame,” “stupid
  • Commentary: Southern Utah environmental group’s new aggressive tone isn’t going to help its cause

    The recently submitted Emery County land bill has all the makings of what has become an all-too-common public land conflict in Utah: local vs. national management, urban vs. rural communities, wilderness vs. OHVs. If we can find a way to throw a Bundy into this thing, we’ll have sagebrush rebellion BINGO.The problem, much like in the case of Bears Ears, is that a group of people who’ve been working for years on a solution now find themselves stuck in the middle of a political conflic
  • 1 dead, 1 injured in cougar attack in Washington state

    North Bend, Wash. • One man was killed and another seriously injured when they encountered a cougar Saturday while mountain biking in Washington state, officials said.Authorities said the two men were on a morning bike ride in the foothills near North Bend when the attack occurred. The town is about 30 miles east of Seattle.The mountain lion ran into the woods and officers with the Washington Department of Fish and Game later tracked it down and shot and killed it, said Capt. Alan Myers of
  • Real Salt Lake‘s road woes continue with big loss at Philadelphia

    Real Salt Lake’s road woes continued with a 4-1 loss to the Philadelphia Union at Talen Energy Stadium on Saturday, the fifth multiple-goal loss on the road for RSL already this season.The Union (4-5-2) opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Fafa Picault took the ball up the left side, dribbling into the penalty box before his pass by Marcus Epps was one-timed into the goal.Philadelphia doubled its lead 13 minutes later. Midfielder Alejandro Bedoya took over possession and passed it to Bor
  • Warriors eager to get back on the court, respond from loss

    Oakland, Calif. • One good beating per series is plenty for Draymond Green and Golden State.The Warriors got it in Game 2 at Houston, and now the defending champions plan to do what they seem to do best: bounce back with brilliance.As the Western Conference finals showdown shifts to Oracle Arena for Sunday’s Game 3, tied at one game apiece, the Warriors have spent the past few days discussing their Game 2 troubles and what they’re striving to do in order not to be dominated agai
  • In deadly Texas school shooting, a confession but no clear motive

    Santa Fe, Texas • The mother of one of the 10 people killed at a Texas high school said her daughter recently rejected the romantic advances of the 17-year-old charged in the shootings, a possible motive for the violent tragedy.Sadie Rodriguez said her daughter, Shana Fisher, had made clear that she was not interested in Dimitrios Pagourtzis.“He continued to get more aggressive,” Rodriguez told The Associated Press in an interview conducted Saturday via Facebook. “She fina
  • Commentary: Jesus saw the children. Why don’t today’s Christians?

    “The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever.” This is the answer White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly gave NPR in response to a question about whether it’s “cruel and heartless to take a mother away from her children.”He was defending a new policy from the departments of Justice and Homeland Security that separates parents (who arrive at the US-Mexico border with their children and have no visa) from their kids. These families are
  • Bear River rallies past Spanish Fork to win Class 4A softball crown, 5-4

    Spanish Fork • Taylor Fox wasn’t trying to make the ultimate play. She simply wanted to get on base.Over four years, Bear River High coach Calvin Bingham’s driven home that line of thinking. Make the right play, and the big plays will come. On Saturday afternoon in a sun-baked Class 4A softball state title matchup, trying to make the right play turned into the biggest of plays for Bear River.The Bears rallied for a 5-4 win over Spanish Fork by scoring three runs in the bottom of
  • Commentary: Losing Utah rock art would be like burning family photos

    Not long ago, I entered a canyon with Diane Orr, the head of preservation at the Utah Rock Art Research Association. The walls were tortuous and scarred, marked with serpentine breaks where rock gave way to underground springs that seeped from beneath the bedrock. This was a desert landscape that went against conventions, a sheen of emerald enveloped in a bottomless dark, trees looming, light all but swallowed by canopies of leaves and stalks of chalky white flowers.At its end, the back plates o
  • Justify-ing the hype even more, favorite wins foggy Preakness, keeps Triple Crown bid alive

    Baltimore • Justify emerged from the fog and sloshed his way to another victory, holding off several hard-charging challengers to win the Preakness on Saturday and keep alive the chance for trainer Bob Baffert’s second Triple Crown champion in four years.On a sloppy track similar to the conditions in the Kentucky Derby, Justify improved to 5-0 and will go to the Belmont Stakes in New York on June 9 looking to do the same thing American Pharoah did for Baffert in 2015. Justify showed n
  • GOP State Central Committee ousts some minorities despite cries of racism, continues civil war over new election law

    Midvale • It was probably appropriate that the Utah GOP State Central Committee met Saturday at the Top Golf driving range clubhouse because teed-off moderate and conservative wings of the party spent the day swinging — at each other.That included:• The right wing successfully ousted — over protests by moderates — several minority and female members of the 183-member central committee of GOP leaders from around the state. It came despite complaints that it amounted to
  • Viva Las Vegas! Knights a win from Stanley Cup Final

    Las Vegas • Marc-Andre Fleury sat shirtless in front of his locker, staring blankly, his exhausted gaze fixed nowhere. Pads still strapped to his legs after another spectacular night's work, the Vegas Golden Knights goalie looked as if he were trying to gather his thoughts, trying somehow to make sense of it all.The rest of the hockey world is, too, as the newly minted Knights play Sunday with the most improbable prize of all at stake — a chance to go to the Stanley Cup Final.The stor

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