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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at point guard

  09-06-2018 23:13 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz: Five free agent options at point guard

  09-06-2018 23:02
  In the first of a five-part series, we’ll take a look at five free agent point guards that the Utah Jazz could consider this offseason. The Utah Jazz concluded an exciting 2017-18 season, but it’s clear that the entire team is ready to get back on the hardwood and take yet another step forward next […]
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• ‘Yeah! It’s market season!’: Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market is open for summer

  09-06-2018 22:38
  The excitement level for Holly Byers-Stewart was off the charts Saturday during opening day of Salt Lake City’s Downtown Farmers Market in Pioneer Park.“Yeah! It’s market season,” she cheered after sipping an apple-cider slushie. “I come every year on opening day. I love it.”
  The state’s premier summer market is celebrating its 27th season with nearly 200 food producers and vendors and 100 artists and craftspeople. It continues every Saturday through Oct
  
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• Want a better view of Utah’s hot housing market? Try a military-grade reconnaissance plane.

  09-06-2018 22:22
  Information can be incredibly powerful in the world of commercial real estate — and Amber Surrency and her crew from CoStar Group are in Utah to collect mountains of it.Flying low over the Wasatch Front with a military-grade reconnaissance plane, employees with the global real estate information firm are scouring for new construction projects, capturing coordinates and high-resolution images in the midst of a building boom throughout the metro area.CoStar Group’s data, maps and analy
  
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• Kragthorpe: The way they’re built, the Jazz will have to defy NBA personnel trends to get anywhere. Yeah, Paul George would help.

  09-06-2018 21:09
  Now that the Warriors have extended their reign in the NBA with another championship, the localized issue is what the Jazz can learn from Golden State’s success. The immediate question revolves around what the Jazz could ever do to catch the Warriors. The discussion of who is ahead of the Jazz, though, might be less important than how those guys are doing it.A broader subject is in play, with the NBA trending toward personnel and a style that makes someone like Jazz center Rudy Gobert an e
  
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• ‘He’s lived about 29 lives’: Wyoming pilot walks away from second plane crash in five years

  09-06-2018 19:13
  Jackson, Wyo. • When Charlie Peet felt the engine sputter on his canary yellow kit-built airplane, he headed straight for the runway.He’d taken off from the driveway in front of his house and buzzed his landing strip, a mowed stretch of grass next to a life-sized moose statue on his Grumpy Moose Ranch, when the engine started to run rough.“With a rough engine that thing could quit on me any time,” Peet said. “I came in high and fast because if the engine quit, I want
  
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• Idaho utility sues Environmental Protection Agency over dams requirement that could cost customers up to $100 million

  09-06-2018 19:12
  Boise, Idaho • An Idaho utility has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contending the agency failed to act on a request by the state of Idaho to modify water temperature standards below a hydroelectric project where federally protected fall chinook salmon reproduce.The lawsuit filed Wednesday by Idaho Power Co. in U.S. District Court seeks to force the agency to act on a 2012 request by Idaho allowing warmer water temperatures in the Snake River below the Hells
  
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• Letter: Romney’s deficit TV ads are sickening

  09-06-2018 18:55
  I am sickened by Mitt Romney’s TV ad in which he claims to be a “deficit hawk.” The increase to the deficit is largely due to the new Trump/Republican income tax bill that mainly benefits large businesses and corporations. The average American, not so much.There are two ways to lower the deficit — increase taxes or cut back on services. Romney has had a kumbaya with Trump and in the ad does not place blame on Trump’s policies for the increase in the deficit, nor doe
  
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• Fourth time’s the charm: Romania’s Simona Halep tops American Sloane Stephens to win French Open

  09-06-2018 18:28
  Paris • Simona Halep kept telling everybody who would listen: She was a different player. She was stronger mentally. She wanted so much to finally win a Grand Slam title and was sure that, one day, she would.After three losses in major finals, maybe Halep was trying to convince herself as much as anyone else she actually could do it. Either way, she was right.Halep added Grand Slam trophy No. 1 to her No. 1 ranking, coming back from a set and a break down to beat Sloane Stephens 3-6, 6-4, 6
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - ICYMI: Favors incites panic among Utah Jazz fans with cryptic tweet once again

  09-06-2018 17:14 via sportspyder.com
  ...tons of decisions still to be made, my bet is that he’s simply messing with Jazz fans once again. Perhaps he’s just headed out on a trip, kind of like when h ...
  
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• ICYMI: Favors incites panic among Utah Jazz fans with cryptic tweet once again

  09-06-2018 17:04
  Derrick Favors sent Utah Jazz fans for a loop once again with yet another vague and cryptic tweet. You’ve just got to love Derrick Favors. Not only is he as reliable and steady as they come on the court, sacrificing whatever the team asks of him and working his tail off night in and night […]
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• Letter: America has lost its social conscience

  09-06-2018 17:01
  We just returned from visiting our neighbors in Canada. We have also visited New Zealand several times. Like the United States, Canada and New Zealand were “settled” by Europeans, especially the British. Both nations have turned out to be very socially conscious and caring for their elderly as well as the well-being of all their citizens.On the other hand, we in America turned out to be self-centered and very money-oriented. The American attitude seems to be: “I have mine and I
  
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• ‘Lockdown, lockdown’ is a kindergarten nursery rhyme at Massachusetts school

  09-06-2018 17:00
  It’s not unusual for the walls of a kindergarten classroom to be plastered with colorful posters.But a poster in a Somerville, Mass., school caught the attention of Georgy Cohen and her husband, Rick Healey — and it didn’t have anything to do with ABCs or washing your hands.Handwritten in multicolored markers, the neat block print read:Lockdown, Lockdown, Lock the door<br>Shut the lights off, Say no more<br>Go behind the desk and hide<br>Wait until it’s
  
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• Letters: Where are the Utahns whose jobs are being ‘stolen’?

  09-06-2018 17:00
  We keep hearing from our political leaders that there are too many immigrants taking jobs away from American citizens. Based on this, there should be some evidence that American citizens are actually looking for work. As a local employer who has posted position openings for the past six months on five job sites, I have not seen any attempt by American citizens to really find work. Some have scheduled interviews, without showing up; a few have been offered jobs, but failed to show up. Both groups
  
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• Letter: Utah’s leaders are morally bankrupt

  09-06-2018 17:00
  For the past two weeks I’ve called Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee and Rep. Mia Love nearly every day. Every call, I ask if they have made any official statement about the separation of children from their parents at to the border. Every call, their polite staffers tell me no.If you look, you will find stories of toddlers being taken from their mothers and fathers, little children flown hundreds of miles away from their parents, kids crying themselves to sleep in foster homes, parents unabl
  
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• Letter: There’s more than one way to protest

  09-06-2018 17:00
  Ms. Sagendorf’s self-imposed “diet” from football (“Shame on kneelers,” June 1) must have been a great sacrifice for her. She has the right to protest whatever she thinks is justified. I am confused as to why some people think their cause is more warranted than others. The First Amendment does not say to protest this way only.Millions of men and women “of color” have fought for their country and their rights; taking a knee is a respectful and peaceful wa
  
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• Letter: Organized religion ruins the party again

  09-06-2018 17:00
  Again religion spoils it all, by people who think that God is on their side. All religions think that God is on their side. Just look at all the religious wars from the past. They even killed in the name of their God. And how many people were excommunicated from their church? After many years of searching for the meaning of life, Buddha came to the conclusion that organized religion was not the answer. His conclusion was “Do good only.”Ria van Lent, Woods Cross
  
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• Letter: After federal changes, birds need our help more than ever

  09-06-2018 17:00
  We’re grateful to Gov. Gary Herbert for his leadership in declaring May as Month of the Bird, celebrating the importance of birds and the places they need.While celebrating birds in Utah, we also commemorate the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), which has saved numerous species from extinction over the past century.Even with the act’s protections, birds still face human-caused threats — they can die when landing on uncovered oil pits or fly into unseen tall st
  
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• IHOP’s new name is confusing the masses. But for Arabic speakers, it’s always been IHOB.

  09-06-2018 17:00
  On Monday, the International House of Pancakes prompted Internet furor with one head-scratching tweet.“For 60 pancakin’ years, we’ve been IHOP,” wrote the company. “Now, we’re flippin’ our name to IHOb.”What would the “b” stand for? The American breakfast chain wouldn’t say. Its curious customers would have to wait until June 11 to find out.Speculation abound. Surely the “b” could stand for “breakfast,” som
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Mitchell ups Paul George recruitment to another level

  09-06-2018 16:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... which jumped to an impressive 28 points per game in the playoffs. As much as Jazz fans teased him for the nickname “Playoff P”, I don’t think they’d mind havi ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018 NBA Draft Player Profile: Anfernee Simons

  09-06-2018 16:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... e he’s already close to someone important on the team. : Anfernee Simons and Jazz rookie are very close. I asked about Simons after a preseason game in Octobe ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Mitchell ups Paul George recruitment to another level

  09-06-2018 16:30
  Donovan Mitchell recently mentioned that he would have a conversation with impending free agent Paul George about joining the Utah Jazz and he’s apparently taking that recruitment very seriously. In Donovan Mitchell‘s recent appearance on the Woj Pod with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, he insinuated that he would be having a conversation with impending free agent […]
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• How Mark Harlan’s career path crisscrossed the country and led him to ‘a dream job’ as Utah’s athletic director

  09-06-2018 16:17
  Some might say it’s a little too serious, a little too silly even, but in college, colors invoke a reaction. You’re either red or you’re blue, gold or orange or green. As an athletics administrator with sky-high ambition, it might behoove you to have a diversified closet because one day, who knows where you’ll land. Mark Harlan proved as much when he was unveiled as Utah’s first new athletic director in 31 years earlier this week, busting out a crimson red tie he sa
  
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• Want a better view of Utah’s hot real estate market? Try a military-grade reconnaissance plane.

  09-06-2018 15:00
  Information can be incredibly powerful in the world of commercial real estate — and Amber Surrency and her crew from CoStar Group are in Utah to collect mountains of it.Flying low over the Wasatch Front with a military-grade reconnaissance plane, employees with the global real estate information firm are scouring for new construction projects, capturing coordinates and high-resolution images in the midst of a building boom throughout the metro area.CoStar Group’s data, maps and analy
  
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• Recent off-the-cuff remarks by U.S. ambassadors leaves former Foreign Service director calling them ‘bombastic and bullying appointees’

  09-06-2018 15:00
  Washington • The art and protocols of effective diplomacy are coming under new scrutiny after a series of mostly off-the-cuff remarks by U.S. ambassadors that caused consternation abroad and at home.At least four times in recent months — twice in the past week alone — envoys appointed by President Donald Trump have said things that have made professional diplomats question whether the current crop of political appointees is getting adequate training and understands the norms exp
  
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• Letter: Has The Tribune decided that Layton doesn’t need papers?

  09-06-2018 15:00
  I moved to Layton from Las Vegas 25 years ago. I’ve been a Salt Lake Tribune patron for as long as I can remember. Ten days ago, my paper stopped being delivered. Eight days and five phone calls to the “Customer Service” department — in name only — I received a paper on a Monday and Tuesday. Then once again my paper stopped.I know an actual paper is yesterday’s news. I know it’s archaic to still get one delivered. We recycle, and my wife and I share a pa
  
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• Holly Richardson: Learn to appreciate the ordinary moments in your life

  09-06-2018 14:30
  Last week, I wrote about the value of deliberately creating memories and I have previously written about the value of tradition and of family stories. Our lives and our memories often revolve around those special times.But there is also value in the ordinary and the routine.What seems commonplace to us can be extraordinary to others. One hundred years from now, what will your great-great-grandchildren want to know about your daily life? What will you want them to know?When our family volunteered
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump is not destroying himself, and he’s not going away

  09-06-2018 14:00
  Right now, Donald Trump is in the strongest political position since the initial months of his presidency.He’s not in robust shape — he’s ticked up into the mid-40s — but the slow upward trend in polls has been evident since March.Too much shouldn’t be read into the numbers, except for the basic conclusion that Trump hasn’t destroyed himself and isn’t going away. Trump may not even harm the interests of Republicans in the midterms any more than any other
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The Constitution is being violated in plain sight

  09-06-2018 14:00
  “Emoluments” is just an elegant word for corruption, at least in our Constitution. The framers were particularly worried about foreign powers bribing or trying to influence the infant republic. Their solution was to allow gifts, money and the like to be accepted by members of the executive branch only if Congress approved. Put differently, one of the constitutional duties elected lawmakers take on is the responsibility to prevent the corruption, or appearance of corruption, by foreig
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump is waging a trade war in the dumbest way possible

  09-06-2018 14:00
  Video: Trump says he didn’t start a trade war with China. But Post opinion writers say there will still be American casualties. (The Washington Post)President Trump says we need to be “smarter” in how we deal with other countries. And yet his approach to extracting concessions from our trading partners has proved very, very dumb.Notwithstanding Trump’s Twitter declarations, trade wars are neither good nor easy to win. In a trade war, every side loses, experiencing lost j
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Donovan Mitchell posts photo with Paul George on Twitter at beginning of NBA offseason

  09-06-2018 08:14 via sportspyder.com
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• Donovan Mitchell posts photo with Paul George on Twitter at beginning of NBA offseason

  09-06-2018 08:03
  Donovan Mitchell has begun his recruitment of Paul George.A day after a podcast was published in which the Utah Jazz guard told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski that he would try to convince George to sign with the Jazz this offseason (which officially began Friday night as the Golden State Warriors won the NBA championship), Mitchell posted a photo on Twitter of himself with George.With June 8 being declared National Best Friends Day, Mitchell captioned the photo with that hashtag and added the eyes e
  
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• Back-to-back titles, and Finals MVPs, for Kevin Durant

  09-06-2018 07:42
  Cleveland • Kevin Durant went back-to-back, twice.It’s now two straight NBA championships for the Golden State Warriors, and two consecutive NBA Finals MVP awards for the forward who played a huge role in getting them to those titles.Durant scored 20 points in the Game 4 clincher Friday night, a 108-85 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers — but his series will be remembered most for what he did in Game 3. Durant scored 43 points in that game, including a 33-foot 3-pointer in the fin
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alumni: Hood & Co. face uncertain future after Finals loss

  09-06-2018 07:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... ould fit the team in the event that James leaves. More from The J-Notes Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell aiming to recruit Paul George to Utah Utah Jazz notes: Rub ...
  
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• LeBron says after NBA Finals that he played with broken hand

  09-06-2018 07:39
  Cleveland • LeBron James walked into his final interview of the NBA Finals with one last surprise: A dark brace on his right hand, covering an injury he’s hidden for a week.“Pretty much played the last three games with a broken hand,” James said.The cause: He punched something after Game 1 of the finals, his frustration having obviously boiled way over when the Cleveland Cavaliers let the series opener against the Golden State Warriors get away amid late-game miscues and o
  
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• Utah Jazz alumni: Hood & Co. face uncertain future after Finals loss

  09-06-2018 07:31
  Former Utah Jazz ballers Rodney Hood, George Hill and Kyle Korver could all be playing for different teams in the next year following the Cavs’ NBA Finals loss. I’ve said it before, but a refresher seems apropos after the Cleveland Cavaliers officially washed out of the 2018 NBA Finals on Friday. In the Association, a […]
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Warriors win 2nd straight title, sweep Cavs

  09-06-2018 06:07 via sportspyder.com
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• [The Daily Herald] - Dub Dynasty: Warriors sweep Cavs for second straight title

  09-06-2018 06:06 via sportspyder.com
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• Warriors sweep away Cavs to win second straight NBA title

  09-06-2018 05:51
  Cleveland • Golden State. Golden still.Stephen Curry scored 37 points, Kevin Durant added 20 and a triple-double and the Warriors stamped themselves a dynasty after winning their second straight NBA title and third in four years Friday night, 108-85 over the Cleveland Cavaliers to complete a sweep and perhaps drive LeBron James from his home again to chase championships.Overcoming obstacles all season long, the Warriors were not going to be denied and won the fourth straight finals matchup
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Warriors up big, closing in on another title

  09-06-2018 05:37 via sportspyder.com
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• Commentary: Next time you get behind the wheel, think of someone who would be devastated if you didn’t return

  09-06-2018 05:00
  I want to tell you a story about Julia.Julia should have graduated from college last month with a degree in public relations, but she has been dead for six months, lying in the cold ground next to a cathedral in suburban Philadelphia.I had the privilege of getting to know Julia in 2015 when I helped her with a journalism course. I was a graduate student working as a tutor for the university’s student athletes, and she was a lacrosse player with a healing smile and a big personality.Outsid
  
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• The HandleBar is a new Salt Lake City ‘biker’ bar geared toward cyclists and any other thirsty patrons

  09-06-2018 04:25
  Salt Lake City’s booming Marmalade neighborhood has a new watering hole that offers residents a twist on the traditional “biker” bar.
  The HandleBar, 751 N. 300 West, opened earlier this week and is geared toward thirsty cyclists and anyone who appreciates a thick, twisting mustache, said David Morris, co-owner with Jesse Wilkerson.
  Those names might sound familiar. HandleBar is the fifth Utah bar for Morris — who sports an impressive mustache and sideburns. He currently o
  
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• Vatican seeks ‘courageous’ ideas to combat priest shortage

  09-06-2018 04:09
  Vatican City • The Vatican called Friday for courageous proposals to cope with a shortage of priests in the Amazon and said it wouldn’t rule out debate on whether married men could step in to fill the “precariously thin presence” of the Catholic Church in the vast region.In a preparatory document seeking input from South American bishops for the Vatican’s 2019 meeting on the Amazon, organizers also said the church must identify new “official ministries” f
  
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• Tribune editorial: It’s right that Utah judges have more information before setting bail

  09-06-2018 04:00
  “Let us know a little more before we act.”
  — Sherlock HolmesTo have such an attitude toward any part of the criminal justice system would seem, well, elementary.But the court system in Utah has been spinning its judicial wheels for a long time now, before finally launching a new system that is designed to give judges more information about which of the freshly arrested defendants brought before them need to be locked up pending trial, and which ones don’t.The delay was no
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Shocked by Trump’s aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was made by Obama.

  09-06-2018 02:57
  It was never a question of “if.”It was always a matter of “when.”The seizure of a New York Times reporter’s phone and email records has sent a chill down the spine of every reporter concerned about protecting his or her sources.That means every serious reporter — especially those in Washington who report on politics and national security.It is disturbing because reporters need to be able to do their jobs, unfettered. But absolutely no one should be surprised.F
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - The Latest: Lue says 1 game at time is only way for Cavs

  09-06-2018 02:42 via sportspyder.com
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• [The Daily Herald] - Bagley labels all the Ayton talk at No. 1 'disrespectful'

  09-06-2018 02:20 via sportspyder.com
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell says he’ll recruit Thunder’s Paul George to Utah Jazz

  09-06-2018 02:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... layoffs in the future. Fortunately for them, it was a quick development. The Jazz not only made the playoffs despite losing big man Rudy Gobert for a chunk of ...
  
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• Hogle Zoo tiger Kazek dies one month short of 15th birthday

  09-06-2018 02:01
  For keepers at the Hogle Zoo’s tiger exhibit, mornings are going to be much quieter after Kazek the tiger’s death.The big cat died early Friday, a month short of his 15th birthday, after battling inflammatory bowel disease for 10 years. A necropsy also found a mass growing in his small intestine, according to a news release from the zoo.Now, when keepers come into work, their morning routine will be absent the tiger’s signature greeting: a unique tiger vocalization that is a cr
  
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• Therapist killed, five injured when truck hits outdoor table at Starbucks in Millcreek

  09-06-2018 01:57
  Millcreek • A therapist who stopped at a Millcreek Starbucks Friday morning was killed when a pickup truck careened into the store’s parking lot, hitting the outside cafe table where she and two other patrons sat.Five people were injured in the collision, which occurred at about 9:15 a.m. at the Starbucks at 4744 S. Highland Drive in Millcreek.Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said the Dodge Ram sped west from the parking lot of a Subway sandwich shop on the east side of Highland
  
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