• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Tony Bradley, Grayson Allen won’t play on Thursday

    ...Rookie of the Year candidate, he could prove to be yet another steal by the Jazz staff. His shot hasn’t been falling, but he’s made great plays (and often th ...
  • Utah Jazz: Tony Bradley, Grayson Allen won’t play on Thursday

    Tony Bradley and rookie Grayson Allen will both be sidelined for the Utah Jazz’s latest summer league bout in Las Vegas. Tournament play has officially begun at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. But if you were hoping to catch a glimpse the Utah Jazz’s Grayson Allen and Tony Bradley on Thursday night, you’re […]
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  • Judge finds Young Living acted in ‘bad faith,’ orders it to pay doTerra $1.8 million

    A Utah judge has ordered the therapeutic oils company Young Living Essential Oils LC to pay competitor doTERRA Inc. about $1.8 million in attorney fees and other costs related to a long-running lawsuit over executives who left the former company to start the latter.Young Living lost that lawsuit last year; doTERRA argued the suit never had merit and Young Living should pay its legal fees.Fourth District Judge Christine Johnson, on Tuesday, ordered the fees be paid. In her written ruling, Johnson
  • Dana Milbank: Look what crawled out from under Trump’s rock

    Washington • Behold, a new breed of Republican for the Trump era.Seth Grossman won the Republican primary last month for a competitive House seat in New Jersey, running on the message "Support Trump/Make America Great Again." The National Republican Congressional Committee endorsed him.Then, a video surfaced, courtesy of American Bridge, a Democratic PAC, of Grossman saying "the whole idea of diversity is a bunch of crap." Grossman then proclaimed diversity "evil." CNN uncovered previous in
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  • What you might have missed: News, standouts and revelations from around the NBA at the Las Vegas Summer League

    Las Vegas • What once was a summertime curiosity has become the NBA’s most important offseason gathering.As Las Vegas Summer League teams shuffle in and out of hot gyms, so too do the NBA’s biggest power brokers: owners, general managers, agents, union officials and more. In the stands of Thomas & Mack and in the hotel ballrooms of Vegas, deals are being discussed and struck, and the future of the league is being hammered into place.Of course a good deal of that happens on t
  • Will there be a special session on controversial port next week? Today’s key meeting of Salt Lake City and Utah officials may answer that question

    State and Salt Lake City officials are working to see if they can reach an agreement on changes to a controversial international trading hub planned for the city’s northwest corner, but the mayor’s office is unhappy with the shadowy nature of the negotiations.City Council members have been talking with state leaders about changes to the law that was passed in the eleventh hour of the legislative session in March, when lawmakers agreed to set up what will be one of the world’s l
  • Hugh Hewitt: Kavanaugh will row the court in a different direction

    The modern confirmation process for the Supreme Court is full of rules: the "Ginsburg Rule," the "Biden Rule," the "Reid Rule" and the "McConnell Rule." Often their definitions and their relevance are hotly contested. What isn't contested is that the court itself has a widely recognized and easily understood rule: the "rule of four." That rule is key to understanding the full impact of confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the court.The rule of four holds that for the court to grant certiorari to
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look to counter Orlando’s Magic

    ... g considering the recent Sportando report of him signing a contract with the Jazz. Maybe we’ll find out what kind of contract it is? Stanton Kidd is expected...
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  • 8 protesters arrested at Utah office of private prison company with contracts to hold undocumented immigrants

    Centerville • Police arrested eight protesters who disrupted the offices of a Utah-based business that operates private prisons that hold undocumented immigrants, demanding the Management and Training Corporation withdraw from its contracts with the government immediately.About 25 protesters entered the building at Marketplace Business Park at 500 North and 400 West at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, some chaining themselves to the structure and to each other. When Centerville police arrived and told
  • ‘New information’ prompts U.S. government to reopen Emmett Till case

    Birmingham, Ala. • A year after a book on the brutal slaying of black teen Emmett Till revealed that a key figure in the case acknowledged lying, the federal government has reopened its investigation of the 1955 crime that helped build momentum for the civil rights movement.A federal report sent annually to lawmakers under a law that bears Till's name said the Justice Department is reinvestigating Till's slaying in Mississippi after receiving "new information."The report issued in late Marc
  • Online sales tax decision could give Utah another $60M

    Utah could collect another $60 million in online sales tax revenue after a key U.S. Supreme Court decision, but most of that money is expected go to an already promised tax break for manufacturers, officials said Thursday.The revenue would come on top of about $140 million the state takes in from online businesses like Airbnb and Amazon that already agreed to pay last year. A special legislative session could soon be called where lawmakers would hammer out exactly how sales tax will be collected
  • Cities grappling with how to deal with electric scooters

    Milwaukee• Overnight in dozens of cities across the U.S., the electric scooters arrive, often without warning to public officials, parked along sidewalks and ready to be taken for a spin with a few taps on a smartphone.It's not long before they attract attention — and it's not always positive: Lawsuits and cease-and-desist orders have sometimes followed the arrival of California-based companies Bird Rides Inc., LimeBike and Spin, with city officials saying the scooters aren't legal to
  • Alliance of American Football will allocate players using college affiliation first

    When the Alliance of American Football makes its first snap next February, there could be lots of familiar names playing for each of the eight teams.Makes sense, too, because a brand new league needs as many hooks to attract fans as it can find. The Alliance is going with a geographic allocation system that takes advantage of where players attended college, or where they performed in the NFL.For example, if former Alabama standout running back Trent Richardson opts to join the Alliance, he would
  • Utah Highway Patrol probes death of pedestrian on I−215

    The Utah Highway Patrol has identified the man who was hit and killed by a vehicle weeks ago on U.S. Interstate 215 in Salt Lake City and is asking for the public's help to track down suspects in the possible hit-and-run.The highway patrol said Wednesday state investigators had a difficult time positively identifying the victim as 29-year-old Brennon Robert Day of Salt Lake City because of advanced body decomposition.Lt. Todd Royce says the body likely had been there for one to three weeks befor
  • Flash floods, rockfalls close parts of Zion National Park

    St. George • Flash floods in southern Utah have closed several roads and trails at Zion National Park.The National Park Service said Thursday that the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway from Canyon Junction to the East Entrance is closed indefinitely due to damage overnight from flooding and rock falls.No injuries have been reported.Officials say the national park near St. George north of the Arizona line received 3 inches of rain in a short amount of time Wednesday night.Zion Canyon Scenic Drive also
  • Tony Bradley (left wrist contusion) and Grayson Allen (rest) are out for tonight’s summer league game.

    Tony Bradley (left wrist contusion) and Grayson Allen (rest) are out for tonight’s summer league game.
  • Supreme Court could return abortion debate to the states

    Boston • Anticipating renewed fights over abortion, some governors and state lawmakers already are searching for ways to enhance or dismantle the right in their constitutions and laws.President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has raised the possibility that a conservative court majority could weaken or overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which created a nationwide right to abortion. That could fan an already raging battle in states over w
  • Doug Robinson: NBA is allowing the rich to get richer

    SALT LAKE CITY — Free agency is still underway in the NBA, and it's yet to be determined where this leaves the league's teams, but no matter what happens there will remain one big question:Whaddya mean the Warriors signed DaMarcus Cousins?!!!!!How is that fair?How many elite players can one team hoard in the NBA?The Warriors not only signed Cousins, but they signed him for a bargain at $5.3 million for one year. The most talented big man in the game cost them some spare change they had lyi
  • Doug Robinson: NBA free agency: The rich get richer

    SALT LAKE CITY — Free agency is still underway in the NBA, and it's yet to be determined where this leaves the league's teams, but no matter what happens there will remain one big question:Whaddya mean the Warriors signed DeMarcus Cousins?!!!!!How is that fair?How many elite players can one team hoard in the NBA?The Warriors not only signed Cousins, but they signed him for a bargain at $5.3 million for one year. The most talented big man in the game cost them some spare change they had lyi
  • This week in Mormon Land: Congregations cut in Mexico, teen hoops star chooses church over basketball, missionaries may face new hurdles in Europe

    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.Less is more in MexicoMexico boasts the second largest population of Mormons of any nation (behind the United States) but the number of LDS congregations there is shrinking.In the past month or two, the Utah-based faith has elim
  • We face the @OrlandoMagic TONIGHT at 8pm MDT for our first game of @NBASummerLeague tournament play. #NBASummer |… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

    We face the @OrlandoMagic TONIGHT at 8pm MDT for our first game of @NBASummerLeague tournament play.#NBASummer |… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  • Will there be a special sesson on controversial port next week? Today’s key meeting of Salt Lake City and Utah officials may answer that question

    State and Salt Lake City officials are working to see if they can reach an agreement on changes to a controversial international trading hub planned for the city’s northwest corner, but the mayor’s office is unhappy with the shadowy nature of the negotiations.City Council members have been talking with state leaders about changes to the law that was passed in the eleventh hour of the legislative session in March, when lawmakers agreed to set up what will be one of the world’s l
  • Monson: BYU should swallow its pride, bag independence and breathe life back into its football program

    Many people have criticized BYU football’s move to independence, as other sports at the school were stashed — and in some cases, left to suffer — in the West Coast Conference.That questioning/commentary is nothing new.Former football coach Bronco Mendenhall championed the move initially, talking about winning national titles and other nonsense, and then later, when the Cougars struggled to consistently win games against far-flung teams with superior talent, said the status was
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Boris Diaw honored by Hall of Fame, Vote for Donovan

    ... expected’ to sign Stanton Kidd to a deal Grading each Utah Jazz offseason decision thus far Utah Jazz: Despite Udoh’s return, Tony Bradley s ...
  • Terry Nish, patriarch of Utah’s ‘fastest’ auto racing family, dies at 80

    Race car driver Terry Nish, known as “Terrible Terry” for his aggressive nature on the track and described as the patriarch of the “World's Fastest Family,” died recently at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 80.A celebration of Nish's life and racing career will be held Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. at the Nish Motorsports Race Shop, 818 W. South Temple.In 2007, Nish became only the second auto racing figure inducted into the Utah Sports Hall of Fame, following Bonneville
  • Utah Jazz: Boris Diaw honored by Hall of Fame, Vote for Donovan

    Former Utah Jazz big man Boris Diaw has received an award from the Hall of Fame. Also — Jazz star Donovan Mitchell has another chance at some hardware. The most interesting man in the basketball world is at it again. One-time Utah Jazz big man Boris Diaw was already the sport’s answer to James Bond. […]
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  • Utah finalizes what coach Larry Krystkowiak calls a ‘grueling’ non-conference men’s basketball schedule

    The Utah men’s basketball team will host Maine on Nov. 8, launching what coach Larry Krystkowiak labeled a “grueling” nonconference schedule in 2018–19, the school announced Thursday.The Utes' marquee games already had been publicized, including home games vs. Tulsa and Nevada, road games with Minnesota and Kentucky and a meeting with BYU at Vivint Smart Home Arena in the Beehive Classic. “I believe our program is at a place where we are up for the challenge and we
  • Protesters disrupt Utah office of private prison company with contracts to hold undocumented immigrants

    Centerville • A group of protesters disrupted the offices of a Utah-based business that operates private prisons that hold undocumented immigrants, demanding the Management and Training Corporation withdraw from its contracts with the government immediately.“There’s this place right in our community that has blood on their hands,” said Taylor Goldstein, the group’s designated spokesperson. The Management and Training Corporation is “operating immigrant detentio
  • ‘Trib Talk’: Will Utah ban abortion and same-sex marriage under the new Supreme Court?

    On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” reporter Benjamin Wood discusses the nomination of Brett Kavanuagh to the U.S. Supreme Court with Jason Perry, director of the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, and Michelle Quist, an attorney and Republican candidate for the Salt Lake County Council. A lightly-edited transcription of their chat is included below. Benjamin Wood: On Monday, President Donald Trump named Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his pick to replace Ju
  • Drivers may pay twice as much to use I−15 express lanes starting Saturday as UDOT doubles maximum toll

    After discussing it for nearly a year, the Utah Department of Transportation is doubling the maximum toll for express lanes on Interstate 15 beginning Saturday.The maximum for drivers using electronic transponders has been $1. It now will rise to $2 for segments of about 10 miles in length. Tolls vary according to how heavy traffic is. The minimum toll during light-traffic times is 25 cents per segment.The primary purpose of express lanes is to encourage people to carpool. Use of those lanes is
  • Where a historic Utah railway once stood, a model locomotive made by train enthusiasts now chugs along

    Provo • Train bells sound from a Highland home as Jim Smeltzer cruises on railroad tracks through his driveway atop a green locomotive. Though having many bells and whistles of its own, the train is far from full size — roughly 13 percent as big as the real deal.Since 2004, the Smeltzers’ land surrounding their home has been a model railyard. Jim’s love of trains, however, spans much further back than that.“I’ve always had a love of trains,” said Jim, 84,
  • Truck carrying radioactive waste dirt burns on I−80 near Toeele

    Trailer fire near GrantsvilleA trailer carrying radioactive dirt has caught fire on westbound I-80 near Grantsville. Updates here: via.fox13now.com/FsRkSPosted by Fox 13 News on Thursday, July 12, 2018A semi-trailer hauling 82,000 pounds of radioactive waste dirt burst into flames Thursday morning on I−80 near Tooele, but no one was injured and there was “no threat to the public,” according to the North Tooele Fire District.The fire was reported at 7:17 a.m. on I-80 westbound a
  • Lawyer: Stormy Daniels’ arrest was part of sting operation

    Porn actress Stormy Daniels was arrested at an Ohio strip club and accused of letting patrons touch her in violation of a state law, and her attorney said Thursday she was set up in a sting operation.While Daniels was performing Wednesday night at Sirens, a strip club in Columbus, some patrons touched her in a “non-sexual” way, her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told The Associated Press.He told MSNBC later Thursday that police had prepared a sting operation with multiple officers. He sai
  • Country star Keith Urban bringing pop, rock, EDM and even disco to Friday’s ‘genre-fluid’ show in Utah

    Keith Urban may have been raised on country music while growing up in New Zealand and Australia, but he didn’t become one of its biggest stars by divining inspiration solely from old Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton records.Ahead of his Friday show at USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Urban told The Salt Lake Tribune that he’s currently digesting tracks from Drake’s new album, “Scorpion”; he’s obsessed with UK grime/punk/EDM duo Sleaford Mods; he loves Pos
  • [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can the Jazz contend for a championship?

    ... rs, coaches, scouts, general manager,fans, injury luck, timing, etc. Can the Jazz really do it? They have shown that they are a good team, but can they be a g ...
  • Leonid Bershidsky: What this World Cup says about immigration

    Three of the four national teams that made it to the World Cup semifinals — France, Belgium and England — are, one might think, icons of European diversity. Immigrants and sons of immigrants are overrepresented on these squads compared with the demographics of these countries as a whole. But one could also see this diversity as a sign that integration isn’t working too well in much of Europe.France’s starting lineup in Tuesday’s semifinal against Belgium contained f
  • Commentary: Do Americans really want to trash NATO?

    President Donald Trump is at it again. Having just arrived in Brussels for the NATO summit, he marked the occasion by launching a full-scale attack on the Germans, whom he promptly accused of being “captive to Russia.” Germany is not just any country, mind you — it’s one of our most important allies, whose troops are still serving by our side in Afghanistan. But given everything that has happened so far, I doubt anyone at the summit was really surprised. On Tuesday, Trump
  • Commentary: We are in a battle for our nation’s soul

    When in 2008 Barack Obama was elected the nation’s 44th president, American voters (some 69 million) fulfilled Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s civil-rights-era dream:“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”And despite pundits’ warnings against reading too much into this victory, many of us were thrilled by the sight of the nation’s f
  • Gehrke: Even if you like guns, Utah Gun Exchange’s tactics against March for Our Lives is a poor strategy

    Every responsible gun owner — and there are millions of them in this country — knows that owning a firearm is a serious responsibility, so exercising that Second Amendment right is not to be taken lightly.Neither is exercising a First Amendment right to assemble and protest.Both points are evidently lost on the owners of the Utah Gun Exchange, who seem to care little about exercising either right in a sensible manner.The Utah Gun Exchange, if you are unfamiliar, is an online advertis
  • Holly Richardson: U.S. puts profits ahead of the lives of the world’s babies

    There is no question about what decades of studies have found. Breastfeeding is best for babies. But somehow the United States can’t quite get on board with a resolution that says as much, instead using bullying and threats of retaliation to try and kill it off at a spring meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.It was supposed to be a simple thing — a noncontroversial resolution that would reaffirm policies already, including limiting deceptive advertising practice for breast
  • Letter: Declaration of Independence is about the collective good

    In a recycled column about the Fourth of July, George Pyle writes: “Independence Day is not about flags, fireworks, military hardware, past presidents or any other icons or graven images. It is about the importance of individual liberty and the recognition that the protection of that liberty is the primary duty of government.”I could be wrong, but the Declaration of Independence strikes me as having less to do with “individual liberty” than with the collective good. Phras
  • Letter: Tribune’s story about Rocky was tabloid journalism

    Having just read Nate Carlisle’s article on Rocky Anderson’s law office published on June 17, I am somewhat speechless.Employee challenges more than likely are the norm and not the exception with companies the world over. Why, therefore, does a case of two disgruntled colleagues at his law office, while painful and difficult on all sides, suddenly become front-page “newsworthy”? There are avenues open to employees to express grievances that would give all parties an oppor
  • Letter: Let’s seize Trump’s ill-gotten assets

    Your editorial rightly condemns the abhorrent practice of civil asset forfeiture.In a country that proclaims itself dedicated to due process and the rule of law, it is intolerable that law enforcement can profit from seizing people’s property without either bringing charges or securing a conviction.But there is one redeeming feature. Since we have a president who (in defiance of the emoluments clause) seems intent on enriching himself and his family, whether by Russian money laundered thro
  • Letter: Holladay needs more housing

    Utah is growing, and all of us should be more than thrilled with that. In fact, over the past 10 years, Utah was the fastest-growing state in the nation. The problem? We have too many heads and not enough beds.So it’s no secret that we need smart development in Utah. Especially if we want our children and grandchildren to be able to afford to live in this state and not be priced out.The recipe for affordability is diversification in housing product. Enough with the NIMBY mindset. Think of
  • Letter: Utah hunters and ranchers call the shots on coyotes

    Regarding the need to "remove" coyotes from the environment, it is fascinating (to me) that the state’s Wildlife Resources conducted a three-year longitudinal study of coyote removal on Monroe Mountain, with half of the area devoted to coyote eradication and the other half where no efforts were made to kill coyotes. This was done to determine fawn survival if coyotes were removed.When I spoke with an individual at Wildlife Resources knowledgeable with the results of the study, he said it w
  • Postmates arrives in Utah, and it’s delivering pretty much anything

    On a recent trip to Los Angeles, Utahn Mishea Kucher discovered the delivery app Postmates.“I didn’t have a car and was staying relatively far from most stores, so it was a hassle to try to get food or even stop by somewhere and get drinks,” said the 22-year-old from Sandy. “So, for our groceries, snacks, whatever we needed, we just had Postmates bring it to us. And it was so great!”The app has added four Utah cities — Salt Lake City, South Jordan, West Jordan
  • As developers build three new homeless shelters, some state leaders are asking: Will they be enough?

    In less than a year, Utah plans to close the big homeless shelter in downtown Salt Lake City known as The Road Home and replace it with three smaller ones. But even as crews construct those new shelters on land picked following much controversy, state leaders are trying to determine if they’ll need more.A small group has been meeting in recent months to discuss whether the state’s current three-shelter plan will serve all of the people in need of a home, shelter or other services as
  • Makers of ‘Sorry to Bother You’ and ‘Blindspotting’ talk about their different roads to tell stories of race and violence

    Two of this summer’s most intriguing and controversial movies — both depicting racial tensions and class divides in Oakland, Calif. — each started with a small germ of an idea.“All I knew is it would take place in the world of telemarketing, and [the main character] would be in a struggle,” writer-director Boots Riley said about his absurdist comedy, “Sorry to Bother You.”For Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, the writers and stars of the urban drama “
  • Trump administration cut the funding for Obamacare navigator grants so much that Utah programs may not bother participating

    A federal program aimed at helping people choose and enroll in Affordable Care Act insurance faces a fresh round of funding cuts so steep that the two Utah organizations that participate say it may no longer be worth doing so.“We’re down to the bare minimum amount,” said Matt Slonaker, executive director of the Utah Health Policy Project, or UHPP. “It’s not going to be enough to even make us interested“ in applying for ACA navigator grants.Last year, the Trump
  • Political Cornflakes: Steve Bannon is in London ahead of Trump, talking with far-right leaders from Britain and France

    Fresh off NATO meetings in Brussels, President Donald Trump will make his way to London. His former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, beat him there. Bannon has been holding meetings with other far-right European and British populists in his hotel, including the architect of “Brexit" and the boyfriend of Marine Le Pen, the populist French leader and failed presidential candidate. Bannon is also acting as a Trump surrogate in British and European media as the region prepares for a U.S. presid

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