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• Up to 30 homes burned in Dollar Ridge wildfire in eastern Utah, governor says

  03-07-2018 23:35
  Locals tell me they were told this afternoon to get out, as #DollarRidgeFire inches closer. Evacuations have now been ordered for Pinion Ridge south of Hwy 40. pic.twitter.com/d05mP8qsuM— Lauren Steinbrecher (@LaurenSnews) July 2, 2018Duchesne • The Dollar Ridge Fire has destroyed 20 to 30 homes, Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday. The fire has burned 19,000 or 30,000 acres, depending on who‘s counting.Even if it’s the smaller number, the bigger number might be a preview.Firef
  
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• [KSL] - Raul Neto returns to Jazz on 2-year contract

  03-07-2018 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... Wojnarowski was the first to break the news. Neto played in 41 games for the Jazz last year in an injury-laden season, averaging 4.5 points and 1.8 assists in ...
  
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• How Jeff Van Gundy became ‘the voice of the NBA’

  03-07-2018 23:28
  When an NBA head coach gets fired, he typically takes some time away from the spotlight. But when Jeff Van Gundy was dismissed by the Houston Rockets after four seasons on May 18, 2007, he was in the ESPN broadcast booth that very night, calling Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals between the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns.“I remember him coming right in, and we were thrilled for a number of reasons,” said Mike Breen, a voice on NBA telecasts for more than 25 years who wo
  
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• Jazz get a first look at Grayson Allen in summer league — and it’s a mostly positive one

  03-07-2018 23:14
  Grayson Allen sat at the podium in the bowels of Vivint Smart Home Arena, his first professional game behind him. He’s went through pre-draft workouts with the Utah Jazz, and after being picked in the first round, endured a three-day minicamp. But Monday night, following a summer league win over the San Antonio Spurs, is when it finally hit him.“It feels real now,” Allen said. Ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies — a game in which Allen will sit out
  
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• One brother spent the afternoon in the hospital while the other three took care of business. Here's the story of t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 23:13 via twitter.com
  One brother spent the afternoon in the hospital while the other three took care of business.Here's the story of t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• England finally wins penalty shootout at World Cup; will meet Sweden in quarterfinals

  03-07-2018 23:10
  Moscow • England ended its long run of penalty misery and reached the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time in 12 years, beating Colombia 4-3 in a shootout on Tuesday.Eric Dier scored the decisive kick after a 1-1 draw.England will play Sweden in the quarterfinals in Samara on Saturday. It is the furthest England has progressed in any tournament since the David Beckham era, when a golden generation of players exited the 2002 and 2006 World Cups in the last eight.England took the lead i
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Report: Utah Jazz guard Raul Neto agrees to two-year, $4.4 million extension

  03-07-2018 22:53 via sportspyder.com
  ... g 40.4 percent from beyond the arc. He will enter his fourth season with the Jazz. Earlier this summer, Neto volunteered with the fifth annual Americas Team C ...
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Raul Neto, Jazz Reportedly Agree to Contract Extension

  03-07-2018 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  ... t reported Neto's agreement with the Jazz. Yahoo Sports' Shams Charania added the deal is worth $4.4 million over two...
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz, Raul Neto Agree To Two-Year Deal

  03-07-2018 22:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... 3:37pm CST by Luke Adams The Jazz have reached a contract agreement with free agent point guard , reports ESPN ...
  
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• Sources: Jazz, Raul Neto Agree to Contract Extension

  03-07-2018 22:39 via basketballinsiders.com
  Utah guard Raul Neto has agreed to a contract extension, league source tells ESPN. Utah guard Raul Neto has agreed to a contract extension, league source tells ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 3, 2018 Sources: Two year deal for Neto. Sources: Two year deal for Neto. https://t.co/NEQovwzGEn — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 3, 2018 […]
  
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• Why a teacher carried her 2-year-old up to Scott Pruitt’s restaurant table and asked him to resign

  03-07-2018 22:02
  We can only speculate what Scott Pruitt thinks about when he eats lunch. But he looked relaxed at his table at Teaism on Monday afternoon — exactly 500 days into his directorship of the Environmental Protection Agency; five days after the agency’s top ethics official recommended widening an investigation into accusations that he misused his power; about five hours before The Washington Post reported that Pruitt once asked a subordinate to help find his wife a job, and less than five
  
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• Teen taken at U.S. border tells of ‘icebox’ cages with 60 girls

  03-07-2018 21:54
  A 15-year-old girl who was forcibly separated from her mother after fleeing to the U.S. from El Salvador described to a Washington State investigator how she was crammed into a windowless room with 60 other girls and deprived of proper sleep or food for three days.The room was divided by wire fencing into three cages, with each one holding 20 separated girls — some as young as 3 years old, according to an affidavit filed late Monday in federal court in Seattle. The girls, who weren’t
  
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• Trump to revoke Obama policy using race in school admissions

  03-07-2018 21:44
  Washington • The Trump administration is rescinding Obama-era guidance that encouraged schools to take a student’s race into account in order to promote diversity in admissions, a U.S. official said Tuesday.The shift would give schools and universities the federal government’s blessing to take a race-neutral approach to the students they consider for admission.The action comes amid a high-profile court fight over admission at Harvard University as well as Supreme Court turnover
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Did Our Schools Now cut a bad deal for education funding?

  03-07-2018 21:39
  On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune reporter Benjamin Wood chats with Austin Cox, campaign manager for Our Schools Now, about November’s non-binding public vote on a 10-cent gas tax increase to support Utah’s public education system. A lightly-edited transcription of their conversation is included below.Benjamin Wood: Last summer, a group of Utah business and education community leaders formally launched the Our Schools Now initiative, a campaign to enact
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump wants more tax cuts, and I agree. Sort of.

  03-07-2018 21:13
  President Trump wants more tax cuts. And for once, I agree with him!Sort of.In a Fox News interview that aired Sunday morning, Trump touted his one and only major legislative achievement — his deficit-funded $1.9 trillion tax cut — and expressed great enthusiasm for slashing taxes further.“We’re doing a phase two,” he said. “We’ll be doing it probably in October, maybe a little sooner than that.”He was vague about what “phase two” would
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee spoke with President Trump about high court vacancy as a conservative news outlet reports he’s out of the running

  03-07-2018 20:42
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee spoke Monday with President Donald Trump about a possible nomination to the Supreme Court, though Lee’s office would not elaborate.The news comes amid a report that the White House is not seriously considering Lee for the vacancy created by the pending retirement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. The nonprofit arm of the Daily Caller said Monday night that Lee is no longer on the short list Trump is weighing ahead of his expected July 9 ann
  
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• Up to 30 homes burned in wildfire in eastern Utah, governor says

  03-07-2018 20:39
  Locals tell me they were told this afternoon to get out, as #DollarRidgeFire inches closer. Evacuations have now been ordered for Pinion Ridge south of Hwy 40. pic.twitter.com/d05mP8qsuM— Lauren Steinbrecher (@LaurenSnews) July 2, 2018Duchesne • The Dollar Ridge Fire has destroyed 20 to 30 homes, Gov. Gary Herbert said Tuesday. The fire has burned 19,000 or 30,000 acres, depending on who‘s counting.Even if it’s the smaller number, the bigger number might be a preview.Firef
  
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• Jazz get a first look at rookie Grayson Allen in summer league — and it’s a mostly positive one

  03-07-2018 20:39
  Grayson Allen sat at the podium in the bowels of Vivint Smart Home Arena, his first professional game behind him. He’s went through pre-draft workouts with the Utah Jazz, and after being picked in the first round, endured a three-day minicamp. But Monday night, following a summer league win over the San Antonio Spurs, is when it finally hit him.“It feels real now,” Allen said. Ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies — a game in which Allen will sit out
  
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• Roster update for tonight's game against Memphis: Grayson Allen -OUT (rest) Trey Lewis - OUT (concussion protocol)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 20:32 via twitter.com
  Roster update for tonight's game against Memphis:Grayson Allen -OUT (rest) Trey Lewis - OUT (concussion protocol)… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Day 2 of @UtahJazzSL is here! Who are you most excited to see lace 'em up tonight? See you at @vivintarena! >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 20:27 via twitter.com
  Day 2 of @UtahJazzSL is here! Who are you most excited to see lace 'em up tonight? See you at @vivintarena!>>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Suspect wrote he aimed to kill everyone at Maryland newsroom

  03-07-2018 20:24
  Baltimore • A man charged with slaying five people at a Maryland newspaper sent three letters on the day of the attack, police said, including one that said he was on his way to the Capital Gazette newsroom with the aim “of killing every person present.”Sgt. Jacklyn Davis, a spokeswoman for Anne Arundel County police, said the letters were received Monday. They were mailed to an attorney for The Capital newspaper, a retired judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and a Ba
  
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• Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy says he’s resigning in protest over budget, plans to release 128 inmates

  03-07-2018 20:21
  Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy says he’ll leave office at the end of the month in protest over what he says is a budget shortfall of up to $1 million and plans to release up to 128 inmates and possibly eliminate 20 employee positions.He said the decision to quit effective Aug. 1 came from a dispute with the commission over how to plug a budget gap he says was created by the high health-care costs of one of the jail’s inmates.
  Tracy surprised the County Commission when he took the micr
  
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• SLC International Airport in top 10% globally for on-time performance, one of only six in U.S.

  03-07-2018 20:17
  Salt Lake City International Airport has got the punctuality thing down, it seems.It is one of only six U.S. airports — and the busiest among them — to earn a top five-star rating for on-time performance over the past year.The airport saw 86.5 percent of its departures and arrivals occur within 15 minutes of scheduled times, according to the flight-information company OAG for the period of June 2017 to May 2018. The data include cancelled flights.OAG issues five-star ratings to the t
  
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• Indianapolis church cages Holy Family in immigration protest

  03-07-2018 20:05
  Indianapolis • An Indianapolis church has placed statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in a cage of fencing topped with barbed wired to protest the Trump administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy.The statues were erected Tuesday morning outside Christ Church Cathedral on downtown Indianapolis’ Monument Circle and surrounded by the fencing.The Episcopalian church’s dean and rector, the Rev. Stephen Carlsen, says the display that’s part of the church&rsqu
  
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• Monson: Jazz have big plans, even if their initial moves don’t blow you away

  03-07-2018 19:42
  The Utah Jazz this offseason aren’t blowing the doors off anything or anybody. Instead, they’re lulling people to sleep. They’re doing what they were expected to do: Bore you to death, re-signing their guys, keeping open their options for future possibilities, and finding improvement in other ways.Those other ways are pretty much contained in a cardboard box that is, compared to what some other teams are doing, kind of beige and blah and … well, square.Dennis Lindsey isn
  
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• Utah gymnastics announces 2019 schedule

  03-07-2018 19:36
  The Utah women’s gymnastics team will host defending national champion UCLA and compete against two Big Ten schools and three Southeastern Conference programs in 2019, when the NCAA will use a new format to determine the national champion.The Utes will open the season in January against Penn State, according to the framework of the schedule announced Tuesday — with exact dates in many cases to be determined by the Pac-12 Networks’ television schedule. The meet vs. Penn State at
  
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• Love and McAdams are fighting over ‘Dreamers,’ while most Utahns agree they should be allowed to stay

  03-07-2018 19:10
  Congress can’t decide how to handle this hot potato that divides Republicans nationally. But a new poll shows that seven of every 10 Utahns now favor allowing undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children to remain here.Debate about those “Dreamers” also is among the loudest controversies in Utah’s only close major race, between Republican U.S. Rep. Mia Love and Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams.McAdams says Love is all talk and no action on def
  
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• "The Utah fanbase is incredible.” @GraysonJAllen went from looking at an NBA arena last week to playing in front o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 18:07 via twitter.com
  "The Utah fanbase is incredible.”@GraysonJAllen went from looking at an NBA arena last week to playing in front o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Rock On: Public enemy No. 1 in Utah? Gordon Hayward, Deron Williams or Enes Kanter?

  03-07-2018 18:06
  FULL MEMBERSHIPThe 2018 Ute football team features both the Lou Groza and Ray Guy award winners — something no team in NCAA history has done — thanks to the return of punter Mitch Wishnowsky and placekicker Matt Gay.How good are they?The kickers are being called teammates, instead of "little guys over there with clean uniforms."BOBBY BALLOkotoks Dawgs manager Mitch Schmidt became an internet sensation after video showed him hucking chairs onto the baseball field during a game against
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz get a first look at rookie Grayson Allen in summer league — and it’s a mostly positive one

  03-07-2018 17:45 via sportspyder.com
  ... pe: Derrick Favors gets paid and the Jazz get flexibility in a deal that should work well for both parties Jazz bringi ...
  
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• Jazz fans get their first look at rookie Grayson Allen in Utah Summer League

  03-07-2018 17:33
  Grayson Allen sat at the podium in the bowls of Vivint Smart Home Arena, his first professional game behind him. He’s went through pre-draft workouts with the Utah Jazz, and after being picked in the first round, endured a three-day minicamp. But Monday night, following a summer league win over the San Antonio Spurs, is when it finally hit him.“It feels real now,” Allen said. The 6-foot-5 guard out of Duke put up an impressive stat line against the Spurs in a 92-76 win with 11
  
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• Perhaps 300 people evacuated after wildfire burns in eastern Utah; wind expected to fan flames again today

  03-07-2018 17:23
  Locals tell me they were told this afternoon to get out, as #DollarRidgeFire inches closer. Evacuations have now been ordered for Pinion Ridge south of Hwy 40. pic.twitter.com/d05mP8qsuM— Lauren Steinbrecher (@LaurenSnews) July 2, 2018The Dollar Ridge Fire has burnt 19,000 or 30,000 acres, depending on who‘s counting. Even if it’s the smaller number, the bigger number might be a preview.Firefighters have not been able to contain the blaze and another windy day is predicted in e
  
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• RSL’s Danny Acosta rediscovered himself and convinced Mike Petke to give him a second chance

  03-07-2018 17:14
  Herriman • Like all of you, Mike Petke went in search of answers, too.And like all of you, the Real Salt Lake coach was waiting. And waiting. And waiting some more. Petke was hoping to see the club’s physically-imposing, in-fear-of-nothing 20-year-old left back resurface. Not literally. Because he knew where Danilo Acosta was:On the bench. Some nights, Acosta didn’t make RSL’s bench. Other nights, he found himself in Tulsa, Okla. for the Real Monarchs in the USL. That was
  
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• Gehrke: Fireworks may be fun, but consider the risk to property, pets, health and human life. Just don’t light the fuse!

  03-07-2018 17:11
  You can tell by the panic in my dogs: It’s fireworks season again.Still, freaked-out pets are one of the less-obnoxious parts about the annual bombardment that, despite the Legislature shortening the window to legally ignite fireworks, still feels like it lasts straight through the month.Last year, 100 Midvale residents were forced to flee their homes after an errant firework landed in a bush and set an apartment building ablaze.It was one of 70 fireworks-related calls that firefighters re
  
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• “I saw that it was here and I thought it was pretty cool. If I was a kid, I would die if my hero came to this. I ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 16:53 via twitter.com
  “I saw that it was here and I thought it was pretty cool. If I was a kid, I would die if my hero came to this. I ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trump orders U.S. flags lowered to honor slain journalists

  03-07-2018 16:49
  Washington • President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. flags on federal property be flown at half-staff through sunset Tuesday to honor five newspaper journalists slain in Maryland’s capital.The order comes after Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said Monday that Trump had declined his request to lower the flags.The White House has reversed its decision and will permit Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley to lower U.S. flags to half-staff in remembrance of the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette
  
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• A 300-pound daughter, a white missionary mimicking a Japanese accent — while some say this satire about Utah can go too far, one co-writer has no regrets

  03-07-2018 16:39
  It started as a satirical dart thrown to deflate Utah’s dominant culture, a little theater production put on in a Unitarian church to get people to laugh and maybe gasp a little.Over the past 40 years, “Saturday’s Voyeur” has grown into a Salt Lake City institution, a summer delight that draws thousands to the Salt Lake Acting Company’s 200-seat theater over a good chunk of the summer — still making people laugh and, occasionally, do spit-takes into their wine
  
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• Navy vet killed by campus police had concealed gun permit

  03-07-2018 16:18
  Portland, Ore. • A Navy veteran who was fatally shot by Portland State University campus police during a fight outside a bar had a permit to carry a concealed handgun, a news organization reported Monday.Sgt. Brent Laizure, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that Jason Erik Washington had a valid concealed carry permit.Washington, 45, who is black, was shot to death by campus police outside a bar in downtown Portland late Friday. The
  
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• Morning links: Kyle Kuzma excited to play with LeBron; Danny Ainge says Gordon Hayward is progressing

  03-07-2018 16:17
  As news spread of LeBron James' decision to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers, one person with local ties who will be directly impacted shared his excitement.Former University of Utah star Kyle Kuzma, who had a solid rookie season with the Lakers last year, posted multiple tweets welcoming James to the City of Angels.LAKESHOWWWW. @KingJames let's go my brotha???????? let's rock— kuz (@kylekuzma) July 2, 2018
  pic.twitter.com/feiLrFQcZW— kuz (@kylekuzma) July 2, 2018
  Kuzma also welcomed
  
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• Utah Jazz Summer League Recap: Day One

  03-07-2018 16:15 via basketballinsiders.com
  Matt John breaks down day one of Utah Jazz Summer League from Salt Lake City.
  
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• What’s new for Amazon’s Prime Day? Deals at Whole Foods.

  03-07-2018 16:14
  New York • Amazon’s Prime Day deals are coming to the aisles of Whole Foods as the online retailer seeks to lure more people to its Prime membership after a recent price hike.This year’s sales event, which starts July 16, will be six hours longer than last year’s and will launch new products. Amazon hopes to keep Prime attractive for current and would-be subscribers after raising the annual membership fee by 20 percent to $119 and to $12.99 for the month-to-month option. O
  
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• Is God male? The Episcopal Church debates whether to change its Book of Common Prayer.

  03-07-2018 16:10
  The terms for God, in the poetic language of the prayers written for centuries, have almost always been male: Father. King. Lord.And in the Episcopal Church, the language of prayer matters. The Book of Common Prayer, the text used in every Episcopal congregation, is cherished as a core element of Episcopal identity.This week, the church is debating whether to overhaul that prayer book — in large part to make clear that God doesn’t have a gender.“As long as ‘men’ and
  
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• Rescue of Thai youth soccer team trapped in cave could take months, warn officials

  03-07-2018 16:09
  Singapore • The rescue of 12 members of a boys’ soccer team and their coach in northern Thailand could take months, the Thai navy said Tuesday, as officials weigh the best extraction options after a dramatic nine-day rescue mission.Thai authorities are committed to “100 percent safety” in extracting the boys and their coach from a partially flooded network of caves, Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn said Tuesday morning, according to the Associated Press. Options i
  
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• ‘Healthcare professional’ arrested for allegedly murdering eight babies in British hospital

  03-07-2018 15:59
  London • Police on Tuesday arrested a “healthcare professional” on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to kill six other infants as part of “Operation Hummingbird,” an inquiry into the sudden and unexplained deaths of 17 babies at a top-tier public hospital in Britain.The female suspect worked at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital south of Liverpool.Detectives were brought into the case following the mysterious deaths of 17 babies at
  
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• Warriors add a fifth All-Star in center DeMarcus Cousins

  03-07-2018 15:57
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — As he has long desired, DeMarcus Cousins will finally get a chance to play for a winner once he's healthy from a torn left Achilles tendon.When Boogie returns to the court this season, the volatile big man will give the Golden State Warriors five 2018 All-Stars in their starting lineup to chase another title — with Cousins trying for his first after never appearing in the playoffs. The center, who has had his problems with technical fouls, will sign with the tw
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Free Agent Rumors: Neto, Wizards, J. Green, Parker

  03-07-2018 15:51 via sportspyder.com
  ... salary guaranteed for 2018/19, and now locked up to his rookie contract, the Jazz have 10 players on guaranteed deals so far for next season. If the club inte ...
  
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• Sponsor of Utah’s Medicaid work requirements unfazed by Kentucky court decision

  03-07-2018 15:30
  Utah is still waiting for federal approval or denial of its Medicaid expansion plan, which would impose work requirements on patients and rely on increased federal funding to provide health care to roughly 70,000 people.But on Friday, a federal judge ruled against Kentucky’s Medicaid program, the first in the nation requiring beneficiaries to work, volunteer, or go to school as a condition of health-care coverage. Despite the similarities, Rep. Robert Spendlove, R-Sandy, said he expects th
  
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• Tribune editorial: Standing up for American freedoms

  03-07-2018 15:29
  This time of year, newspapers like to print a lot of stuff about the American founding documents. The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and, this week particularly, The Declaration of Independence.Some of us are closer to those events than others.The Capital Gazette — then known as the Maryland Gazette — started publishing in 1727. That was 64 years before newspapers were protected by the First Amendment. And it was 49 years before the Declaration that won the newspaper, and the whole
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch among Republicans weighing confrontation over Trump’s tarrifs

  03-07-2018 15:28
  As frustration over President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war mounts within the Republican party, some senators are weighing confrontation. “I’d like to kill ’em,” said Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, referring to the administration’s expanding list of tariffs. He is pushing legislation in his Finance Committee to reign Trump in — an effort that seems to have more support from GOP leaders than some that would place new checks on the president’s power to im
  
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