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• A Jazz fan was reunited with the man who saved her life while in Australia. IT'S JUST DUSTY IN HERE, OKAY twitter.com/RandomActs_TV/…

  25-05-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
  A Jazz fan was reunited with the man who saved her life while in Australia.IT'S JUST DUSTY IN HERE, OKAY twitter.com/RandomActs_TV/…
  
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• RSL has been good enough at home, but it’s a horror show on the road. Why?

  25-05-2018 23:10
  Real Salt Lake’s game results paint a stark contrast: a four-match winning streak at home and a five-match losing streak on the road.The only matches that broke the mold were the first two of the season, a 1-1 draw at Dallas and a 5-1 loss to LAFC at Rio Tinto Stadium.“When we do something, we do it big, I guess,” Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke said after Saturday’s 4-1 loss at Philadelphia. “We don’t sit back, we don’t do this. We get opened up because
  
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• Trump exempts public-lands outfitters, guides from Obama-era order to pay their workers higher wages

  25-05-2018 23:07
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday overturned an Obama-era order that required outfitters with federal permits for excursions on public lands to pay their workers a higher wage.Trump’s executive order, which takes effect immediately, was unveiled just ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, when summer tourists begin descending on national parks and other lands in large numbers. It also comes at the request of outfitters, who say paying a higher wage would limit the number of em
  
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• Tribune editorial: Let’s be (more) careful out there

  25-05-2018 23:00
  It is a tragic irony that Memorial Day — the day set aside to remember those who have gone before us — marks the beginning of a season that has become known as “The 100 Deadliest Days.”This accident of the calendar flows from the fact that the season from Memorial Day to Labor Day, late May to early September, is the part of the year when more people are on the road, traveling longer distances for more hours and, perhaps inevitably, getting involved in more accidents.The
  
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• UDOT urges avoiding Bangerter Highway soon at 9000 South — for maybe 45 days

  25-05-2018 22:56
  Beginning June 3, motorists may want to avoid Bangerter Highway between 7800 South and 9000 South — for perhaps 45 days.“We expect heavy delays during the morning and afternoon commutes,” said Marwan Farah, Utah Department of Transportation project manager, as crews build a new freeway-style interchange at 9000 South.Bangerter will be reduced from three lanes in each direction there to two — for up to 45 days — to allow installation of such things as new concrete pa
  
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• Utah authors ask FanX to address multiple ‘breaches of trust’ and unite against sexual harassment

  25-05-2018 22:35
  Six Utah authors on Friday sent FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention organizers a joint letter, asking for action on four issues they say are still unresolved after a week of controversy over its responses to sexual-harassment complaints.“While we appreciate that steps are being taken to rebuild trust within the community, our confidence in the current harassment policy and in the organization’s resolution to enforce this policy has been damaged,” reads the letter, signed by Shannon
  
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• Convicted of hate crime, ex-Utah man delivers racist rant before his sentencing

  25-05-2018 22:30
  Facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine after being convicted of a hate crime against a 7-year-old boy and his father, Mark Olic Porter went on a racist rant in court before he was sentenced to nine months in prison Thursday.Appearing before U.S. District Judge Dee Benson, Porter said African-Americans are pimps, drug dealers, violent and dangerous.“We weren’t surprised by the defendant’s statements in the courtroom, because that’s who he’s proven himsel
  
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• Utah fighter Jose Haro, whose career was on the verge of taking off, is now in boxing limbo

  25-05-2018 22:27
  Stansbury Park • The belt is red with a golden eagle and golden gloves, and the boxer won it with an overhand right. The punch buckled his opponent’s knees as his body crashed to the mat. In the middle of a ring in the middle of the country, Jose Haro raised his arms in celebration last June, the United States Boxing Association’s new featherweight champion. Today the champ pulls the belt from a silver case so someone else can hold it. It is far heavier than it looks.Almost a ye
  
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• Jordan routs Olympus, 11-1, caps monstrous run to 5A state baseball championship

  25-05-2018 22:27
  Orem • After two passed balls, the Jordan Beetdiggers had the winning on third base, and Noah Hennings had just one job: Hit the ball. Hard.After Hennings had fouled off a few cuts, Jordan coach Chad Fife approached the plate to talk to his hitter. It was a brief conversation.“He came over to me and said, ‘Get the job done right here,’” Hennings recalled. “‘This is the guy we want up.’”After a long, feisty at-bat, Hennings finally connected on
  
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• Meet the man spending $100,000 to defeat Utah’s medical marijuana initiative

  25-05-2018 22:17
  He once funded and co-wrote a booklet on marijuana after he saw a possible connection between low junior high graduation rates in Utah and the illicit plant. He ran a law firm with his friend U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. He owns a pharmaceutical company that sells nutritional supplements and products marketed to women.Meet Walter J. Plumb III, the real estate developer and philanthropist who has contributed more than $100,000 to the campaign hoping to block the medical marijuana initiative before it c
  
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• A Utah cheerleader was kicked off the squad after she posted a video singing an explicit rap song. Her family is suing.

  25-05-2018 22:11
  A Utah high school dismissed a cheerleader from its squad after she posted a video showing herself and four other girls singing along to a rap song that includes explicit lyrics — though she was not on school property, did not refer to the school and was not participating in a school activity at the time. Her father now intends to fight the district’s action. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Corey Johnson argues that Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum violated the First Amendment in pun
  
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• Letter: Is Mia Love’s ‘no rush’ attitude shaped by donations from gun advocates?

  25-05-2018 22:00
  Mia Love stated after the Parkland, Fla., shooting that something has to be done, but let’s not rush into anything. This year alone there has been an average of one shooting every week, just in schools, and nothing has been done.Gun rights advocates have donated $61,000 to Love’s campaign. Maybe this is the reason for not rushing into anything. This is blood money. The NRA didn’t donate this money just because it thought Love is cute. When you decide to take some action on this
  
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• Commentary: We pray only after all we can do.

  25-05-2018 22:00
  In March, I, among many leaders in the interfaith community, received a letter from Gov. Gary Herbert asking us to pray for precipitation. Rain or snow would help saturate our mountains and keep the forests safe from wildfires, he said.I love prayer. As a woman of faith, I have found through prayer a way to articulate what I have a difficult time saying in any other way. Through prayer, we ask for the safety of our children and in this Valley, famously in 1848, when we called for protection agai
  
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• Tribune editorial: Data center deal points to lessons learned

  25-05-2018 21:54
  A large and well-known tech company seeks deep tax incentives to build a server farm in an open pasture in suburban Utah. The company would invest millions of dollars, bringing hundreds of construction jobs, but once it’s built it would take far fewer jobs to keep the server farm running. It also would take a large chunk of water to keep the servers cool. Is Eagle Mountain’s bid to build a data center between a mink farm and a sewer plant a replay of West Jordan’s 2016 bid for
  
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• #5ForTheFight ✋ https://t.co/eYAUgFQfDZ

  25-05-2018 21:47 via twitter.com
  
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• ‘Trib Talk Live’: Hear Utah first responders talk about how their jobs can impact their mental health

  25-05-2018 21:43
  In a bonus episode of ‘Trib Talk,’ Salt Lake Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce moderates a panel discussion on post-traumatic stress disorder among Utah’s first responders. Panelists include: Rep. Lee Perry, a Utah Highway Patrol lieutenant; Sgt. Lisa Pascadlo, peer-support coordinator at the Salt Lake City Police Department; Shante Johnson, spokeswoman for the Utah State Fraternal Order of Police; and Salt Lake City Fire Capt. Mike Stevens, an advocate for better mental he
  
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• At 30, Joe Ingles averaged career highs in points, rebounds, assists, eFG% and dunks (probably). He broke the Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  At 30, Joe Ingles averaged career highs in points, rebounds, assists, eFG% and dunks (probably).He broke the Jazz… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Rich Lowry: Let’s call the whole thing off

  25-05-2018 21:00
  The Nobel committee will presumably be disappointed, but President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un should stay canceled.The meeting was much more likely to serve Kim’s interests rather than ours, and could well have begun the unraveling of the pressure campaign that is our most reliable point of leverage against the regime.The past week has shown that the North Koreans aren’t to be underestimated — something that is easy to forget because the r
  
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• Letter: NFL’s new anthem policy is both anti-American and immoral

  25-05-2018 21:00
  On May 23 the owners of the National Football League teams made a decision that will go down in history as, not only immoral, but anti-American.Protest against injustice is burned into the psyche of our nation. Protest has always contributed to making our nation more just. Let’s remember the Boston Tea Party, John Brown, Mohammad Ali, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther king, Jr. Each made an enormous contribution in moving our nation “to a more perfect union.”To establish a policy (w
  
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• The Babylon Bee fought Facebook — and won. Now the satirical site is releasing a book full of ‘fake news for the soul.’

  25-05-2018 20:48
  If John Bunyan lived today and had a gift for silly-yet-stinging satire, his “Pilgrim’s Progress” might have read a lot like “How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living.”Or perhaps not.After all, those 17th-century Puritans were not known for knee-slapping quips.But co-authors Adam Ford and Kyle Mann sure are, and their “How to Be a Perfect Christian” — along with their hit Christian satire website The Baby
  
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• Trump sounds optimistic tone about future North Korea talks, suggests June 12 summit could happen after all

  25-05-2018 20:38
  Washington • A day after aborting a summit with North Korea’s leader, President Donald Trump sounded an optimistic note Friday about future negotiations, saying it is even possible that a meeting could take place on June 12 as originally planned.“We’ll see what happens. We are talking to them now,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House on Friday morning. “They very much want to do it. We’d like to do it.”“It could even be the 12th,&r
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz notes: Renae Ingles’ netball return, Coach Wells at BWB Asia

  25-05-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
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• NBA Daily: The Restricted Free Agency Crapshoot

  25-05-2018 20:19 via basketballinsiders.com
  With free agency money scarce, restricted free agents may be impacted the most this summer, writes Lange Greene.
  
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• Utah Jazz notes: Renae Ingles’ netball return, Coach Wells at BWB Asia

  25-05-2018 20:11
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles’ wife, Renae, is re-joining the netball world. Also — Jazz assistant Mike Wells is will be at BWB Asia 2018. Renae Ingles isn’t your average girl. In addition to being the wife of Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles and a mother to twins, she’s a bad mama jama on the netball […]
  Utah Jazz notes: Renae Ingles’ netball return, Coach Wells at BWB Asia - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Letter: Kudos to Gov. Herbert for his superb leadership on clean energy issues

  25-05-2018 20:00
  I would like to thank Gov. Gary Herbert for his outstanding leadership recently on clean energy issues in Utah.Earlier this month, he unveiled his Energy Action Plan, which includes 10 commonsense goals toward a more secure energy future for Utah — including the continued investment in energy efficiency, developing infrastructure for alternative fuels, and supporting energy research and initiatives.Gov. Herbert also signed HCR007 Concurrent Resolution on Environmental and Economic Stewards
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell thinks ‘surprise’ factor will help him win Rookie of the Year

  25-05-2018 20:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... Jazz news: Donovan Mitchell thinks 'surprise' factor will help him win Rookie of...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: So you’re telling me my Subaru is a national security threat?

  25-05-2018 19:57
  What — you didn’t know your Subaru was a national security threat?On Wednesday evening, Trump instructed the Commerce Department to investigate whether to raise tariffs to up to 25 percent on auto imports. The official rationale for launching this probe wasn’t that foreign countries were “dumping” their products at unfairly low prices, stealing our intellectual property or otherwise engaging in the sort of foul play that administrations past have alleged when threat
  
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• Can you guess Utah’s highest-paid CEO? Here’s a look at each state’s:

  25-05-2018 19:32
  Here are the top-paid CEOs by state for 2017, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.The survey considered only publicly traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that filed their proxy statements with federal regulators between Jan. 1 and April 30. Not every state had a publicly traded company headquartered there that was large enough to be included. The survey includes only CEOs who have been in place for at least two years, but it does not limit
  
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• Want a local adventure? Airbnb Experiences have launched in Utah, and you don’t have to be a tourist to go along.

  25-05-2018 19:21
  Learn to forge a rose of metal in Provo.Dine in a Navajo hogan after tending sheep in San Juan County.Paddleboard under the stars in St. George.
  Airbnb’s Experiences program has arrived in Utah — and two weeks after the feature quietly rolled out here, the options are vast and reservations are filling up. The online platform connects travelers to “hosts” chosen by Airbnb to lead activities with a local flair.“We’re booking like crazy, far faster than I thought
  
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  25-05-2018 19:18 via twitter.com
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz ’17-18 Review: Georges Niang shines in the G-League

  25-05-2018 19:16 via sportspyder.com
  ... ouldn’t be more thankful to have such a warm welcome into the Stars and Utah Jazz organization.” Niang’s future may not ultimately be with the Utah Jazz long...
  
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• One of Utah’s most popular swimming holes is closed after two cows died in it

  25-05-2018 19:15
  Just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend, a popular swimming hole on Lake Powell known as the “sweet spot” lost some of its appeal this week after two cows had become stuck in the mud near there and were euthanized.Glen Canyon National Recreation Area closed the cove near Lone Rock Beach to swimming Thursday after it was “deemed unsafe for recreational activities due to potential exposure to decaying cattle carcasses,” the park said in a news release.The spot, near
  
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• Right after the Mormon church gave blacks the priesthood, a polygamous offshoot saw its ranks grow

  25-05-2018 19:14
  A recent blog about happenings in the polygamous Apostolic United Brethren church posed a question: “If you find out from your DNA test that you have a percentage of Nigerian DNA, would you be worried about your right to the Priesthood and all of its blessings?”For some respondents, the answer was yes. “I would acknowledge that I don’t have authority, that my children don’t,” a commenter replied, “and I’d separate myself from my white spouse so as
  
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• If you’re a public sector worker in Utah — you probably don’t need to worry about retirement

  25-05-2018 19:14
  Utah public-sector workers who are counting on a secure retirement, rest easy: The state is drawing praise for how it’s managing money in your pension.A report issued Thursday by the American Investment Council ranked the Utah Retirement Systems third among 163 U.S. public pension plans for its healthy returns from investments in companies and funds that are not publicly traded, known as private equity.The Utah system — which serves more than 200,000 Utah teachers, cops, firefighters
  
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• This Utahn works for an organization some have labeled a hate group. Trump just nominated him to oversee refugees and migration for the whole country.

  25-05-2018 19:06
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated a Utahn who has railed against illegal immigration to serve as a top official at the State Department overseeing refugees and migration.Trump tapped Bountiful’s Ronald Mortensen, a former career foreign service officer, to serve as the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, the White House said Thursday. The Senate must confirm Mortensen for the job.Mortensen, who backed Trump in the 2016 president
  
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• Utah Jazz ’17-18 Review: Georges Niang shines in the G-League

  25-05-2018 19:01
   Georges Niang didn’t log much playing time for the Utah Jazz, but he was a force to be reckoned during his time in the G-League. On January 14, the Utah Jazz signed former Iowa State Cyclone and Indiana Pacers draft pick Georges Niang to a two-way contract. Niang previously had been playing in the G-League […]
  Utah Jazz ’17-18 Review: Georges Niang shines in the G-League - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Letter: Part of homeless services plan is akin to criticizing the Good Samaritan

  25-05-2018 19:00
  With demand for homeless shelter services steadily increasing, the current plan in Utah is to close an 1,100 bed shelter and replace it with a total of only 700 beds. In addition, legislative auditors, the county mayor, the speaker of the House and others are ganging up on The Road Home for operating a low-barrier shelter that serves the most vulnerable people in our society.What’s the plan for helping these people? In winter 2019, what’s going to happen to the mentally ill, those wh
  
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• Ogden doctor dresses up as clown and brings joy to patients

  25-05-2018 18:50
  Ogden • If anybody needed cheering up, it was Kim Call.The Syracuse man has been in the hospital since April 4, with a colon so twisted in knots that it required three surgeries over the past six weeks. He’d just had his feeding tube removed, and the hope among doctors and family was that Call’s long ordeal might finally be turning a corner.So when Dr. Hunter Adams led patient rounds at Ogden Regional Medical Center during the day, his prescription for Call was just what the doc
  
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• Weber County is suing opioid makers and distributors over the effects of prescription painkiller abuse

  25-05-2018 18:47
  Ogden • Another county in Utah is suing opioid makers and distributors over what critics call the ill effects of prescription painkiller abuse.Weber County Commissioner James Ebert announced the 240-page lawsuit on Thursday.The Standard-Examiner reports it names 24 defendants, including opioid makers Purdue Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Cephalon.Purdue makes OxyContin. It says in a statement that curbing opioid abuse is its fight too.Ebert says the intent isn’t to get the drugs off
  
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  25-05-2018 18:31 via twitter.com
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• [Deseret Morning News] - 'It was a really exciting moment': David Stockton reflects on time with Utah Jazz

  25-05-2018 18:29 via sportspyder.com
  ... 1997 and 1998. Perhaps it was fitting, then, that exactly 20 years after the Jazz’s last trip to the Finals and exactly 15 years after he retired, John Stockt ...
  
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• Spanish Fork school custodian arrested more than a year after first accusation of inappropriate conduct with a child

  25-05-2018 18:27
  Fifteen months ago, Janna Slye reported to superiors at Sierra Bonita Elementary in Spanish Fork that she was worried about the school custodian after finding him alone in a bathroom with one of her special education students.Slye said the ensuing backlash from administrators ultimately forced her to resign from the Nebo School District, which investigated the February 2017 incident but found no cause to fire the custodian and later relied on a Spanish Fork Police Department investigation that e
  
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• 'It was a really exciting moment': David Stockton reflects on time with Utah Jazz

  25-05-2018 18:25
  SALT LAKE CITY — Even during the playoffs, fans often use the final minutes of a blowout game to get a head start out of Vivint Arena to beat the traffic.But during the final two months of the season, contests that have well been decided gave a reason for fans to stick around, and even provided some of their loudest cheering. That’s because on these rare occasions, it meant that point guard David Stockton was likely going to get some playing time.The son of Jazz Hall of Famer John St
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell stars (sort of) in latest Game of Zones

  25-05-2018 18:02 via sportspyder.com
  ... rks of the NBA 2K games, but it features some great jokes among the rookies. Jazz fans will certainly most enjoy those of Donovan Mitchell and Ben Simmons mak ...
  
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• Letter: Here’s how the LDS Church should address skin color and its doctrine

  25-05-2018 18:00
  When I first heard of the hoax apology letter I was deeply saddened by the pain this causes to so many within our church. I am further troubled by how few members of the LDS Church seem to be aware of the pain this hoax has caused for many of our fellow members.While only a start, I offer three ideas that, I believe, would go a long way in moving us beyond the past that still haunts us.The first is for the church to issue a letter to be read in all congregations reiterating that cursing based on
  
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