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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: G League well represented at NBA Finals

  31-05-2018 23:51 via sportspyder.com
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• Salt Lake City’s Kelsey Chugg struggles in opening round of U.S. Women’s Open

  31-05-2018 23:50
  Salt Lake City’s Kelsey Chugg is not in last place in the U.S. Women’s Open field, but she’s close to it after posting an 11-over-par 83 on Thursday at Shoal Creek, Ala.Chugg, one of 29 amateurs and 17 first-time contestants, was a respectable 2 over through six holes, but she double-bogeyed the par-4 No. 7 and triple-bogeyed the par-4 No. 12.Chugg then played the last six holes in 2 over.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell wins NBPA’s Leader of the New School award

  31-05-2018 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... oice Awards, which are voted on by the players. In his first season with the Jazz, Donovan Mitchell finished averaging 20.5 points, 3.7 rebounds 3.7 assists,...
  
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• Call it a comeback: Serena Williams to third round at French Open after stirring rally

  31-05-2018 23:15
  Paris • Eventually, this looked a little bit like one of those Serena Williams comebacks of old, filled with top-notch strokes and full-throated screams of “Come on!”For the first half-hour in the French Open’s second round Wednesday, the 23-time Grand Slam champion generally played the way you would expect from someone competing at her first Grand Slam tournament in 16 months — and first since she gave birth to a daughter last September.And then, suddenly, Williams
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Potential draft target Kevin Huerter remaining in NBA Draft

  31-05-2018 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... tor in his decision process. — Jeremy Woo (@JeremyWoo) May 31, 2018 The Utah Jazz aren’t a team that gives out draft promises, so especially considering that...
  
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• [Fansided: Purple and Blues] - Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss named MVP, Hayward’s surgery

  31-05-2018 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... t offseason. I would expect him to look to rectify that this summer. And the Jazz have retained his draft rights, so they would have first dibs if he can impr ...
  
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• As an undrafted rookie, @BucketsONeale00 made his presence known from game one of the season all the way through th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-05-2018 23:03 via twitter.com
  As an undrafted rookie, @BucketsONeale00 made his presence known from game one of the season all the way through th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: the lives of black Latter-day Saints past and present — and whose idea was the priesthood and temple ban in the first place?

  31-05-2018 23:00
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: the life of a black Mormon The year after the LDS Church lifted its ban on black men and boys holding its all-male priesthood and on black women and girls entering its temples, Cathy Stokes became a Mo
  
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• Mississippi officer fired after excessive force complaint on Utah State basketball recruit

  31-05-2018 22:58
  Jackson, Miss. • A Mississippi police officer has been fired after being accused of using excessive force against a 19-year-old basketball player who will be going to Utah State University.Interim Jackson Police Chief Anthony Moore said officer Vincent Lampkin was fired after an “extensive investigation,” and asked citizens not to judge the entire department by “one bad actor.”John Knight III told authorities that the officer pulled him over in May and attacked him a
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Royce O'Neale End of Season Highlights 17-18

  31-05-2018 22:57 via sportspyder.com
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• Salt Lake City mayor names new 911 director to replace fired former boss

  31-05-2018 22:53
  Salt Lake City Mayor has named Lisa Burnette as director of the Salt Lake City 911 Bureau.Burnette has been the agency’s interim director since Jan. 3, when the previous leader, Scott Freitag, was pulled over for drunken driving. He was fired the next day.“Lisa has proven to be a highly effective leader and administrator as interim director of SLC911,” Biskupski said in a letter to the City Council, which must confirm the appointment for it to take effect. “Under her lead
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 Utah Jazz Team Grades: Erik McCree

  31-05-2018 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... 2:00pm MDT Share 2018 Utah Jazz Team Grades: Erik McCree Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports While our last Team...
  
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• BYU books five kickoff times in first half of football season

  31-05-2018 22:47
  BYU will play three night games and two afternoon games in the first six weeks of the 2018 football season, with one more kickoff time to be announced in the first half of the schedule.The late kickoffs (all times MDT) include the Sept. 1 season opener at Arizona (8:45 p.m.), the Sept. 8 home opener vs. California (8:15 p.m.) and the Friday, Oct. 5 game vs. Utah State (7 p.m.).The afternoon games in the first month are Sept. 15 at Wisconsin (1:30 p.m.) and Sept. 22 vs. McNeese State (4 p.m.). Th
  
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• More 👏 draft 👏 workouts 👏 https://t.co/McNvfyFnKd

  31-05-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - McCaffery not surprised Tyler Cook returns to Iowa

  31-05-2018 22:25 via sportspyder.com
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• How RSL effectively adjusted to absences in its midfield in the big home win over Houston

  31-05-2018 22:12
  Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke dubbed the first 45 minutes of Wednesday night’s 2-1 win over the Houston Dynamo, “our best first-half performance of the year,” and it was also a first half with a new midfield lineup.With RSL scheduled to play five matches in 15 days and with midfielder Albert Rusnák away on international duty, Damir Kreilach took a more attacking role. Captain Kyle Beckerman was rested, with Nick Besler — normally a defender for RSL — and Su
  
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• ‘Glee’ star will join ‘Mary Poppins’ and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Pioneer Day concerts

  31-05-2018 22:07
  The former star of “Glee” and his Broadway co-star will perform with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at a pair of Pioneer Day concerts. Matthew Morrison — who played “Glee” club director Will Schuester (aka “Mr. Schue”) for six seasons of the Fox TV musical — will reteam with Laura Michelle Kelly, his co-star in the Broadway production of “Finding Neverland.” Morrison and Kelly will be the featured performers in, appropriately enough, Broa
  
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• Charlotte Fox, climber of the tallest peaks, survivor of 1996 Everest disaster, dies after an apparent fall at home

  31-05-2018 21:55
  Charlotte Fox’s eyes were frozen behind her contact lenses. The snow had begun falling as Fox and her fellow climbers descended from the top of the world, the peak of Mount Everest, where she could see for 100 miles in every direction. But now, trapped in the middle of a blizzard with the force of a hurricane, in temperatures somewhere south of 40 below, she couldn’t see anything. She was out of oxygen. Her feet were numb with frostbite. No longer able to stay moving, she scrunched h
  
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• Utah, Pac-12 kickoff times set for first three weeks of the season

  31-05-2018 21:46
  The Pac-12 Network has lined up its first three weeks of the 2018 college football season. And the only appearance for the Utes on the network that span is Week 1.Utah’s 2018 season-opener against Weber State on Thursday, Aug. 30, is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The remainder of Utah’s early-season non-conference schedule will air on the ESPN networks.Utah’s trip to face Northern Illinois at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb, Ill., on Saturday, Sept. 8, is schedu
  
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• BYU will skip Santa Clara and Pepperdine once each in WCC’s 2018-19 men’s basketball schedule

  31-05-2018 21:46
  BYU will play Santa Clara and Pepperdine once each in 2018-19 in the West Coast Conference’s new basketball scheduling format, with the list of the upcoming season’s opponents announced Thursday.The WCC is moving from a double round-robin format to a 16-game conference schedule as part of the “Men’s Basketball Enhancement Plan,” designed to keep the WCC’s lower-tier programs from hurting the credentials of the league’s NCAA Tournament contenders. That in
  
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• Decades ago he abandoned his family and assumed a new identity. An Ancestry.com search unraveled his lies.

  31-05-2018 21:44
  In 1993, Richard Hoagland seemed to be living the good life. He had a young wife and two sons, Matthew and Douglas. Business was good enough at his insurance company to pay for a five-bedroom house outside Indianapolis, a speedboat tied up at a nearby lake and a closet stuffed with designer suits.Then he went AWOL.On Fed. 10, Hoagland told his wife he was going to the hospital. When she called the emergency room, her husband wasn’t there. He wasn’t anywhere. His passport and toothbru
  
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• Colorado allows illegal immigrants to renew licenses online or by mail in an effort to boost the state’s agricultural workforce

  31-05-2018 21:28
  Denver • Immigrants who are in the country illegally but have valid Colorado driver licenses can now renew those licenses online or by mail.Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law Tuesday a measure that’s designed to boost the ranks of the state’s agricultural workforce.Colorado has issued the driver licenses since 2014. But they had to be renewed in person every three years at one of just three Department of Motor Vehicles offices devoted to that purpose.The waiting list for ren
  
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• Denver airport will add 39 more gates by 2021

  31-05-2018 21:25
  Denver • Denver’s airport is expanding to keep up with a growing number of passengers and flights.Denver International Airport broke ground Tuesday on a $1.5 billion project to add 39 more gates across its three concourses by spring 2021, a 35 percent increase.Denver’s airport opened in 1995. It was built to handle up to 50 million passengers a year but 58 million people passed through last year.In 2017, Denver also approved contracts to renovate the airport’s terminal and
  
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• Utah Jazz: Potential draft target Kevin Huerter remaining in NBA Draft

  31-05-2018 21:20
  After withdrawing from a pre-draft workout with the Utah Jazz to mull his draft decision over, Maryland’s Kevin Huerter has officially declared for the 2018 NBA Draft. Last Monday, the Utah Jazz were scheduled to have Maryland standout Kevin Huerter in town for a pre-draft workout. Unfortunately, as my J-Notes colleague Ryan Aston pointed out […]
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• 😏 @spidadmitchell #TakeNote twitter.com/TheNBPA/status…

  31-05-2018 21:09 via twitter.com
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• [The Daily Herald] - Warriors had to get ready in a hurry for the NBA Finals

  31-05-2018 20:48 via sportspyder.com
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• Chris Hill’s replacement will have a daunting task as Utah’s athletic director — here’s what they’ll need to do

  31-05-2018 20:37
  On Friday morning, a red Ute-branded coach bus will open its doors, and when Chris Hill eventually takes his first step on, it officially signals the end to the most important era in the history of Utah athletics.It’s his official au revoir as the history-making athletic director waves goodbye to the job he’s held for the last 31 years. When the bus pulls out of the circle on the south side of the Huntsman Center, it will take with it all modern Utah athletics has ever known, taking
  
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• Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss named MVP, Hayward’s surgery

  31-05-2018 20:27
  Utah Jazz draftee Nigel Williams-Goss picked up some year-end hardware abroad. Also — an update on Gordon Hayward’s ongoing rehab. While Utah Jazz fans have spent the year contemplating about Dante Exum‘s future with the team, another Jazz guard has been quietly boosting his profile in Europe. Nigel Williams-Goss, Utah’s selection at No. 55 in […]
  Utah Jazz: Nigel Williams-Goss named MVP, Hayward’s surgery - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site -
  
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• I-15 to close for 8 hours Sunday in Lehi, other weekend closures in Taylorsville and Syracuse may complicate travel

  31-05-2018 19:10
  Interstate 15 is scheduled to close for eight hours early Sunday morning in Lehi as crews demolish a bridge — and officials are also warning about two other road closures this weekend that could complicate travel in Taylorsville and Syracuse.I-15 is scheduled to close in both directions Sunday between midnight and 8 a.m. between 2100 North and Lehi’s Main Street. The Utah Department of Transportation urges drivers to avoid the area, or allow extra time for the detour route.During the
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Guest commentary: Utah Jazz need long-term fix at power forward

  31-05-2018 19:00 via sportspyder.com
  ... s under Jason Kidd lacked an environment for helping players develop. If the Jazz’s top-notch developmental staff got a chance to work with Parker, who knows...
  
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• Guest commentary: Utah Jazz need long-term fix at power forward

  31-05-2018 18:58
  The Utah Jazz’s summer has begun, and all eyes are on what Dennis Lindsey will do to improve this team. After watching the Jazz struggle against the Rockets in the playoffs, help is needed to ease the scoring burden placed on Donovan Mitchell.This offseason, Lindsey could have as much as $20 million in cap space to play with if the Jazz let Derrick Favors walk in free agency, renounce the rights to Dante Exum and Raul Neto and then waive the non-guarantees for next year on Thabo Sefolosha,
  
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• #NationalSmileDay https://t.co/nzqyc79kSB

  31-05-2018 18:43 via twitter.com
  
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• Holly Richardson: Dear graduates: It’s time to enjoy the journey, make mistakes and dedicate part of your life to service

  31-05-2018 18:33
  High school graduation season is once again upon us, and this year our family has three children getting diplomas. We are excited to fight traffic and sit on hard seats so we can cheer for them — and I mean that sincerely. If some of those graduates are like most of my kids, it’s easy to think that, after 13 years of school, they’ve made it to “the end.” It is an important milestone, to be sure, but it’s really just a beginning. That’s why we call gradua
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 NBA Draft Player Profile: De’Anthony Melton

  31-05-2018 18:28 via sportspyder.com
  ... e his length to contribute to the team identity defensively. However, if the Jazz stick to the 21st pick and select a player there, Melton would be a bit of a ...
  
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• Alexandra Petri: What to call racist remarks instead of calling them racist remarks

  31-05-2018 18:15
  Washington • So, someone has said something racist. But you don’t want to say they have said something racist. That would be upsetting! What do you do?One solution is to do what outlets like 10TV.com did when “Roseanne” was canceled after Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet: “UPDATE: ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ following star’s controversial tweet,” it posted on Twitter. The Los Angeles times tweeted: “Breaking: ABC cancels ‘Roseanne&rsq
  
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• Letter: America’s lands boss is giving away Utah lands to his friends in the fossil fuel industry

  31-05-2018 17:48
  I am deeply concerned about our lands near Capital Reef National Park that have been put up for gas and oil leasing by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. The beauty of these public lands is the reason I moved to Utah. I believe we have a responsibility to protect and preserve these natural gifts for future generations.I am grateful to have grown up immersed in nature, forming a profound appreciation for the importance of a healthy environment. With no television, my playground was the wilderness of
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Tennessee congresswoman criticized for linking gun violence to the availability of porn

  31-05-2018 17:38
  Tennessee congresswoman criticized for linking gun violence to the availability of porn. Facebook to build data center in Eagle Mountain. Kitchen and Plumb face off in debate for state Senate seat.Happy Thursday. A Tennessee politician was criticized this week for linking the cause of gun violence to the availability of pornography. Rep. Diane Black, who is a candidate for Tennessee governor, drew criticism this week for saying that the “root” causes of gun violence included the &ldq
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - DeRozan, Embiid lined up for NBA Africa game in South Africa

  31-05-2018 17:31 via sportspyder.com
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• Upstill: Utah Jazz need long-term fix at power forward

  31-05-2018 17:25
  The Utah Jazz’s summer has begun, and all eyes are on what Dennis Lindsey will do to improve this team. After watching the Jazz struggle against the Rockets in the playoffs, help is needed to ease the scoring burden placed on Donovan Mitchell.This offseason, Lindsey could have as much as $20 million in cap space to play with if the Jazz let Derrick Favors walk in free agency, renounce the rights to Dante Exum and Raul Neto and then waive the non-guarantees for next year on Thabo Sefolosha,
  
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• Letter: When representing Utah, Ben McAdams would fight for people who can’t fight for themselves

  31-05-2018 17:20
  Regarding the race between Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams and Rep. Mia Love, it appears to me that we in Utah should not make this a proxy fight about Rep. Nancy Pelosi.Instead, we should ask which candidate would be willing to put him- or herself on the line to fight for the rights of poor people and families being torn apart at the border. We have to be civilized enough to recognize the insanity of the idea that poor people are not smart enough, or hard-working enough, to succeed. We have
  
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• Letter: If only we had a phone that doubled as a gun

  31-05-2018 17:16
  As we have progressed from using rock, club, hatchet, knife, sword, to pistol — which the National Rifle Association advises everyone should pack, along with our cellphone — we are becoming physically encumbered. It is a real nuisance.Since new pistols will be made of plastic (to evade pesky magnetometers), why not combine pistol and phone into one device?Apple could, say, get together with Smith and Wesson and establish a new company (how about Banana?) and make phones available fro
  
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• George F. Will: How Mitch McConnell is winning the long game

  31-05-2018 17:00
  Washington • Franklin Roosevelt, afflicted by the disease at age 39, died in April 1945 at the polio recuperation facility he had created in Warm Springs, Georgia. Before then, Mitch McConnell living in Five Points, Alabama, began going there for treatment for the polio that struck him at age 2, in 1944.After paralysis by polio, an inner iron undergirded the ebullience of FDR, who hitherto had relied on privilege and charm. McConnell, who had none of the former and is parsimonious with the
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Cathy Stokes discusses her life as a black Latter-day Saint and the state of race relations inside and outside the church

  31-05-2018 16:52
  The year after the LDS Church lifted its ban on black men and boys holding its all-male priesthood and on black women and girls entering its temples, Cathy Stokes became a Mormon.As the Utah-based faith prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of that priesthood/temple ban, this black Latter-day Saint discusses her conversion on Chicago’s South Side and the state of race relations inside and outside the faith.Click here:
  
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• Morning links: Utah Jazz's Joe Ingles may eventually take countryman Andrew Bogut's path back to Australia

  31-05-2018 16:36
  Could Joe Ingles of the Utah Jazz end up playing in Australia’s NBL when his playing days in the NBA are over? It’s a path he told the Sydney Morning Herald he may be interested in pursuing, just as former University of Utah star Andrew Bogut is doing."I'll weigh it up when I get to that part of my life but if they've got a spot on a team, I'll take it," Ingles said.— Alex Smith getting to know is receivers in Washington. (redskinswire.com)— All access with Kylie Fitts. (
  
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• Letter: Facts do matter when it comes to protecting Utah lands

  31-05-2018 16:14
  Eric C. Ewert in an op-ed on May 29 informs us that facts related to the stripping of natural resources, particularly associated with Utah’s national monuments, are irrelevant in the eyes of those who believe their right of entitlement to all lands is sacrosanct.Historically, that attitude produced the “Dirty Thirties,” the devastating Dust Bowl era of the Great Plains. For those who remain forever uneducated in the overexploitation of either public or private lands, conservati
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Downbeat: Offseason Edition

  31-05-2018 16:12 via sportspyder.com
  ...on by his peers as players in the NBA. The NBPA Also voted to represent the Jazz for the Backbone Award. Both are great awards and some awesome recognition f ...
  
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• Letter: Altered hunting practices in Alaska seem downright cruel

  31-05-2018 16:02
  I have been anticipating a letter to the Public Forum ever since reading an article in the May 23 edition. None has appeared, so now I write.No one I knew, while growing up in California, was a hunter, unless they were hunting for seashells on the California shore. Having moved to Utah, my experience widened, and I have come to know and care for those who do hunt the elk, deer, moose, etc.What disturbed me on May 23 was the article allowing Alaskan game officials to alter hunting practices that
  
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• New film ‘Jane & Emma’ captures the friendship between a black convert and the beloved wife of Mormonism’s founder

  31-05-2018 15:57
  Many modern Mormons see black LDS pioneer Jane Manning James as heroic. What they may not know is what an unlikely, even risky, friendship the 19th-century free black member had with the first lady of Mormonism, Emma Smith.In an era when tensions over slavery later would explode into the Civil War, Jane and Emma’s personal and religious bond cut across racial and social lines. Their mutual affection ran so deep that both wanted to be “sealed” as family for eternity. Emma propos
  
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• Worker strike would cost largest Las Vegas casinos over $10M a day, union says

  31-05-2018 15:47
  Las Vegas • The union representing thousands of Las Vegas casino workers estimated Wednesday that the two largest resort operators would lose more than $10 million a day combined if housekeepers, cooks and others go on strike at any time starting Friday.The Culinary Union released documents explaining how it thinks a one-month strike would impact MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, which operate more than half of the properties that would be affected if 50,000 workers walk
  
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• Tribune editorial: Romney is right to call out bigotry when he sees it. And he sees it.

  31-05-2018 15:43
  Mitt Romney may or may not be a flip-flopper or a carpetbagger, two labels his primary election opponent tried repeatedly to hang on him in Tuesday’s debate and beyond.Republican voters can decide the accuracy, and the relevance, of those charges when they vote in their U.S. Senate primary June 26.But the label that Romney has used to describe one American who inexplicably was invited to speak at the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem is correct and bold.Robert Jeffress is a bigo
  
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