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• BYU coaches believe they can generate enough offense with the talent at hand; they said the same thing last year, too

  25-07-2018 23:27
  Provo • To the chagrin of some of their fans, BYU football coaches didn’t turn to the junior college ranks for offensive help in the offseason.The Cougars didn’t land an accomplished quarterback or receiver, despite lacking offensive firepower and legitimate game-breakers in 2017.They did get fifth-year graduate transfer Dylan Collie, a former Cougar who played receiver at Hawaii the past few years and is the brother of one of the most prolific receivers in BYU history, Austin C
  
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• Pac-12 Media Day live: Herm Edwards is gaining converts — in the locker room at least — as he gets ready for his first season as Arizona State’s coach

  25-07-2018 23:10
  Los Angeles • There isn’t a coaching personality in the Pac-12 Conference like Herm Edwards. That much was evident just a few minutes into his press conference at the Pac-12 Media Day in Hollywood. No coach demanded nearly every reporter to whip out their phones and start recording video. Because Edwards, the former ESPN analyst and head coach of the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs, knows how to deliver a soundbite. When asked if his new team, the Arizona State Sun Devils being p
  
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• Controversial defending champion’s repeat chances collapse in key Tour de France stage

  25-07-2018 23:10
  Saint-Lary-Soulan, France • His tongue dangling from his mouth, his pedal stroke strained, Chris Froome’s hopes of a record-tying fifth Tour de France title slowly drifted away.Up amid the thin and misty air of the Col du Portet — rated the second toughest climb in Tour history — Froome cracked on the feared 17th stage through the Pyrenees on Wednesday, solidifying Sky teammate Geraint Thomas's hold on the yellow jersey."Froomey said on the radio (at) maybe 5K or 4K to go
  
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• HUD gives $2.5M loan to Provo for airport upgrades to attract jet maintenance company and up to 800 new jobs

  25-07-2018 22:25
  The federal government gave a $2.5 million boost Wednesday to help build new facilities at the Provo airport needed to expand an aircraft refurbishment company — and create 400 new high-paying jobs now, and up to 800 eventually.“It’s kind of a big deal,” said Provo Airport Manager Steven Gleason. “It’s going to be spectacular for the airport. Right now we have about 650 full-time employees that work at the airport. This will take us over 1,000.”Duncan Av
  
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• Firefighters contain grass fire on Salt Lake City’s west side, near Interstate 215

  25-07-2018 22:02
  Salt Lake City firefighters contained a grass fire on the city’s west side that burned between 4 and 5 acres Wednesday.The fire, at about 1900 West and Indiana (approximately 900 South), was reported shortly after noon by employees at Salt Lake City’s vehicle fleet, headquartered near there, a Salt Lake City Fire Department spokeswoman said. Fire crews had the blaze was mostly contained within half an hour.No one was injured, and no structures were damaged. Smoke from the fire is ris
  
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• Utah gets small portion of federal funding compared to other states. The Legislature’s rejection of full Medicaid expansion is the main reason.

  25-07-2018 21:23
  While the federal government provides increasingly larger slices of the budget pie in most states, Utah is an exception, according to a new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts.And Utah legislators’ refusal to fully expand Medicaid for low-income people is a key reason why, it says. Utah voters will decide themselves whether to approve full Medicaid expansion through an initiative that will appear as Proposition 3 on the Nov. 6 ballot.The federal government provided 25.7 percent of state rev
  
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• Utah’s Rob Bishop and Democratic counterpart unveil $5 billion plan to start tackling national parks’ maintenance backlog

  25-07-2018 21:12
  Washington • House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop and his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., on Wednesday introduced legislation to earmark some $5.2 billion over five years to fix aging roads, trails and other basic needs at national parks and wildlife refuges that have been piling up for decades.The bipartisan bill, which is matched by a similar Senate measure, is aimed at starting to tackle a nearly $12 billion maintenance backlog at America’s national park
  
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• ‘It was insane:’ Fast-moving Salt Lake City fire doused with helicopters and garden hoses. And the danger remains high.

  25-07-2018 21:04
  Salt Lake City dodged a bullet when a fire raced to the edge of homes near Ensign Peak on Tuesday night, but city officials are tempering their celebration with the knowledge that the fire danger isn’t over yet.“We are not done with the summer. Our fire restrictions are still in place,” Salt Lake Mayor Jackie Biskupski said early Wednesday as she surveyed the aftermath of the fire, which burned more than 100 acres. “We want people to understand that we live in a very dry
  
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• Firefighters respond to grass fire on Salt Lake City’s west side

  25-07-2018 21:03
  Salt Lake City firefighters are responding to a grass fire on the city’s west side.The fire is near 1900 West and 800 South, according to a tweet from the Salt Lake City Fire Department posted at about 12:27 p.m. Smoke from the fire is rising in a plume visible miles away.
  Working grass fire around 1900 West and 800 South. PIO on route. More details to come.— Salt Lake City Fire Department (@slcfire) July 25, 2018This story will be updated.
  
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• Holly Richardson: There are many ways to help refugees in our own community

  25-07-2018 21:00
  As the world’s refugee crisis continues to worsen, more and more individuals — people like you — are asking what they can do to help. You might worry that if you can’t take a trip or donate large dollar amounts, there are not many ways to help. Au contraire. There is plenty you can do, whether you have five minutes, five hours, five days or five weeks.If you can go on a volunteer trip, please jump at that chance! They can be life-changing and soul-expanding. But you do no
  
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  25-07-2018 20:28 via twitter.com
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• Utah Supreme Court rejects UTA’s lawsuit to prevent its supervisors from ever unionizing

  25-07-2018 20:26
  The Utah Supreme Court has rejected as moot a Utah Transit Authority lawsuit that sought to block its supervisors from ever unionizing.That comes after 44 TRAX supervisors voted 25-19 two years ago to reject joining the Teamsters Union — after UTA spent $74,000 (nearly $1,700 per supervisor) on a “union busting” consultant to help dissuade them.Even after that win, UTA continued to push a lawsuit seeking a ruling that its supervisors are not allowed to unionize under the Utah P
  
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• Pac-12 Media Day live: Stanford LB Sean Barton, a Woods Cross grad, is close to return for Cardinal following injury

  25-07-2018 20:26
  Los Angeles • The Cardinal always have a presence in the Beehive State. It will be showcased once more on the roster this season. In 2018, the Stanford football program will have six former Utah prep athletes in Palo Alto, Calif. Back from their LDS Church missions are former Brighton wide receiver Simi Fehoko and East outside linebacker Tangaloa Kaufusi. One of the established Utahns on the roster, however, is nearly back from a season-ending injury and nearly ready to roll.Senior inside l
  
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• Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star vandalized

  25-07-2018 20:10
  Los Angeles • A vandal has destroyed President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Los Angeles police Officer Ray Brown says the vandalism was reported around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, and someone was subsequently taken into custody. Brown did not have any further information about the person.Brown says a pickax was used in the vandalism.The star placed on Hollywood Boulevard near Highland Avenue in 2007 recognizes Trump for his work on the reality show "The Apprentice."Trump
  
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• Lawsuit: Utah child lost 2 fingers caught in escalator

  25-07-2018 20:09
  Salt Lake City • A 3-year-old Utah girl had two fingers amputated when they were caught in a faulty grocery store escalator, her family says in a lawsuit filed against the store and the escalator manufacturer.The girl's mother, Silvia Zamora, said in the lawsuit filed Monday that she heard a scream while she was buying a few ingredients for dinner at a self-checkout register near an escalator on the second floor of Smith's Marketplace in Salt Lake City.She said she found her daughter on the
  
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• Utah library workers told to remove LGBTQ-themed displays

  25-07-2018 20:07
  St. George, Utah • Workers at a southern Utah library say they were pressured to remove buttons and other displays highlighting LGBTQ-themed materials because they are seen as controversial.Joel Tucker, the director who oversees library branches in Washington County, says the buttons and displays at the Hurricane library drew complaints from upset visitors.Library employees who placed the displays and wore the buttons tell the Spectrum that they never received any complaints.They say the LG
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Rudy Gobert shows no mercy at his basketball camp

  25-07-2018 20:02 via sportspyder.com
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• Bagley Cartoon: Monumental Bull

  25-07-2018 19:59
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, July 26, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/23/bagley-cartoon-pioneer/" target=_blank><u>Pioneer Parade is for the Birds</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/21/bagley-cartoon-spy-who/"><u>The Spy Who Did(n’t) Love Me</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opi
  
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• Even at his own camp, @rudygobert27 takes no plays off. #NBADunkWeek https://t.co/98pdVjDnb6

  25-07-2018 19:54 via twitter.com
  
  Even at his own camp, @rudygobert27 takes no plays off.#NBADunkWeek https://t.co/98pdVjDnb6
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Are fireworks worth the risks?

  25-07-2018 19:50
  Last summer, Independence Day fireworks combined with hot and dry conditions to set off dozens of fires throughout Salt Lake County.In response, one city banned fireworks for Pioneer Day, despite warnings that it lacked the authority to do so. And pressure mounted for state lawmakers to shrink Utah’s legal firework season.
  So far, this year has seen fewer blazes, but the dangers remain with tinder-dry conditions and high temperatures. And beyond fires, the noisy, decorative bombs are a fre
  
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• Pac-12 Media Day live: Utah’s Matt Gay, who won Lou Groza Award last year as the nation’s top kicker, will try to repeat the feat in 2018

  25-07-2018 19:04
  Los Angeles • You have to. You just have to include the reigning champ.The Lou Groza Award watch list is, of course, headlined by last year’s winner, Utah kicker Matt Gay. The senior-to-be from Orem who went from walk-on to indispensable special team star headlines the 30-player list for this year’s Lou Groza Award, which honors the best collegiate place-kicker in college football.Gay won in 2017 as he drilled 30 field goals, becoming the fourth kicker in FBS history to reach th
  
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• Kragthorpe: If Utes win their first Pac-12 South title, they will have earned it

  25-07-2018 18:41
  Los AngelesThe Utah Utes received a nice endorsement Wednesday, when the Pac-12′s official football media poll ranked them a strong second behind USC in the South division.The same voters also established just how difficult it will be for the Utes to live up to that forecast, or possibly exceed it.Media members — particularly the 14 of 42 voters who listed Utah No. 1 on their ballots — believe that USC’s quarterbacking uncertainty and the upheaval of three coaching change
  
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• The Red Cross says it’s low on blood in Utah, desperately urges people to donate

  25-07-2018 18:14
  Murray • The Red Cross needs you. It needs your blood. Badly.Blood supplies are running low, locally and nationally. The organization has put out a call for blood and platelet donors of all blood types.Donations have dwindled during the summer months. It’s happening across the country, but it’s amplified in Utah because of the holidays.“It’s a little tougher for us locally, because we have both July 24th and July Fourth,” said Sheri Van Bibber of the Red Cross.
  
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  25-07-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
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• The final day of the @Jazzteamstore sidewalk sale is today! Don’t miss out 🧢 https://t.co/I1iA7YrvyR

  25-07-2018 17:49 via twitter.com
  
  The final day of the @Jazzteamstore sidewalk sale is today! Don’t miss out 🧢 https://t.co/I1iA7YrvyR
  
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• Pac-12 continues in its quest to shorten the length of conference football games

  25-07-2018 17:43
  Los Angeles • Another Pac-12 Media Day, another round of expanded conference initiatives.On Wednesday morning, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said the Pac-12 will further expand its pilot program revealed in 2017 to shorten the length of football games. Scott said at least 30 games are expected to be included in the program, which began in 2017, to minimize the length of college football games as much as possible. Last season, the Pac-12 started with 15 games. Scott said after gathering fe
  
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• What Utah law says about leaving your loaded gun in, for example, a restroom near a children’s play area

  25-07-2018 17:23
  Prosecutors have declined to charge a Utah woman who left a loaded handgun — with a round in the firing chamber — in a children’s-area restroom at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper.While it may not lead to criminal charges, would the incident be enough to deprive the woman of a state-issued concealed carry permit?Probably not, according to a prominent gun-rights lobbyist and gun-safety educator.“Typically, just the act of accidentally leaving a firearm doesn&r
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Attorney General Sessions joins in a ‘lock her up’ chant with high school students

  25-07-2018 17:12
  Attorney General Jeff Sessions joins in a “lock her up” chant with high school students. Utahns celebrate Pioneer Day and President Donald Trump praises pioneers. Sen. Orrin Hatch’s office goes out of its way to prove he’s alive after Wikipedia vandalism.Happy Wednesday. Two years after the presidential campaign, chants of “Lock her up” — referring to Hillary Clinton — are apparently still a thing, and the nation’s top law enforcement officer
  
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• Utes picked to finish second in Pac-12 South

  25-07-2018 15:41
  Los Angeles • Utah is picked a strong second in the Pac-12 South football race. The Utes ranked close behind USC in the official poll, released Wednesday to launch the Pac-12 Football Media Day. The panel of 42 media members gave the Utes 14 first-place votes to USC's 22. The Trojans totaled 225 points to Utah's 209. Arizona is picked third in the South, followed by UCLA, Colorado and Arizona State. The Utes have been picked second in two of their previous seven seasons of Pac-12 membership
  
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• Utah’s remote roads to get more maintenance money, but critics fear the move will scar public lands

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Sprawling across rural Utah is a 30,000-mile spiderweb of unimproved dirt tracks and routes, known as class D roads, that largely cross public lands. Often dead-ending after a few miles, these are the roads less traveled and have not enjoyed a dedicated funding source for maintenance.Until now.Denounced by environmentalists as a sneak attack on public lands, a bill passed out of last week’s special legislative session could divert millions in gas-tax revenue for blading obscure back roads
  
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• The Red Cross says supplies are running low in Utah, desperately urges people to donate blood

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Murray • The Red Cross needs you. It needs your blood. Badly.Blood supplies are running low, both locally and nationally. And the organization has put out a call for blood and platelet donors of all blood types.Donations have dwindled during the summer months. It’s happening across the country, but it’s amplified in Utah because of the holidays.“It’s a little tougher for us locally, because we have both July 24th and July Fourth,” said Sheri Van Bibber of the R
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump has given the U.S. the upper hand in the confrontation with Iran

  25-07-2018 15:00
  It's Tehran's turn for the "fire and fury" treatment.In response to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani telling Donald Trump not to "play with the lion's tail" because "war with Iran is the mother of all wars," the president fired back in an emphatically all-caps tweet warning of "CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE."Since the last time Trump theatrically threatened a regime with destruction he quickly turned around and had warm talks with Kim Jong Un in
  
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• Monica Hesse: Maria Butina was the ultimate NRA Cool Girl

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Whether for real-world CIA handlers or fictional 007's, there is no tactic in spycraft more enduring than the honeypot. And so in the Old Testament, we saw the Philistines deploy Delilah's feminine wiles to undermine Samson, and in the 1980s, we had Clayton Lonetree, the U.S. Marine blackmailed at his Moscow post by a beautiful Soviet. And now we have Maria Butina, allegedly the latest in a long history of double-crossing women whose success depends entirely on how much more they understand men
  
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• Letter: Utah health care industry can and must do better

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Like all physicians, my judgments are subject to error. However, I do feel I am able to use the resources of my profession in a fairly effective and cost-efficient way. Having said that, let me illustrate a "bad judgment/bad outcome" scenario that is becoming all too common in the health care field.Every Wednesday I see patients at a low-income clinic in the Salt Lake Valley. The patients of this facility have little or no financial resources to pay for the "usual" medical care. I recently saw a
  
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• Letter: Stewart’s climate denial costs his constituents

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Southwest Utah has sustained millions of dollars of flood damage to homes, roads and Zion National Park, with more to come. Meanwhile, Rep. Chris Stewart voted for a U.S. House Resolution denying the reality of climate disruption. Wildfires and floods continue to affect the lives of his constituents while he rakes in donations from the fossil fuel industries.Despite repeated requests from constituents that he join the Congressional Climate Caucus, Stewart has refused to acknowledge the reality o
  
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• Letter: Is Greg Hughes inept or corrupt? Either way, he’s a perfect candidate.

  25-07-2018 15:00
  It seems to me if Greg Hughes doesn't know where his property is or who he has dealings with involving some of his deals, that would make me think he was pretty inept, but if he does know who, what and where, that make me think he is a cheating scammer. And if he has his eye on running for governor, he has all the right qualities for political office. Too dumb to know anything, or too crooked to be fair.Paul Jerominski, Salt Lake City
  
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• Letter: Delegation must take action now or Utah will lose magnificent lands forever

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Either Utah’s elected leaders don’t get it or they think going through the motions will secure their office. What have they really accomplished regarding our shared, wild public lands? Congress, thankfully, saw through Rep. Rob Bishop’s failed Public Lands Initiative because it too narrowly followed the wishes of county commissioners. We now have a golden opportunity to extend real protection to some of our best public wild lands in the San Rafael Swell and beyond. But while th
  
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• Leonid Bershidsky: Politicized trolling, with threats and insults on a mass scale, is worse than fake news

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Online disinformation and the spread of deceptive political messages are pernicious, but they aren't necessarily the worst abuse of social networks by governments and political actors. Rational people are resistant to propaganda, and irrational ones only consume messages that stroke their confirmation biases. No one, however, can be impervious to personal attacks on a mass scale.A report by the human rights lawyer Carly Nyst and Oxford University researcher Nick Monaco is an early attempt to stu
  
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• Jonathan Capehart: Mitch Landrieu says of Trump: ‘It’s like he took a knee to Putin’

  25-07-2018 15:00
  "It's like he took a knee to Putin.""He" is President Donald Trump. The person who made this blunt comment about Trump's disgraceful press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16 was Mitch Landrieu. "It really is a national embarrassment," said the recently departed two-term mayor of New Orleans. "Russia's attempt to completely destabilize our democracy is an attack on the country, and I think the president's response is unbelievably weak."Ever since Landrieu deli
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The worst U.S. human rights abuse in decades isn’t over

  25-07-2018 15:00
  The greatest scandal of this presidency — and out of all U.S. presidencies, really — is Russia’s co-opting of President Donald Trump. But that should not diminish the importance or the horror of Trump’s greatest domestic outrage: the cruel, senseless separation of migrant parents from their children with no real plan swiftly to reunite them.The American Civil Liberties Union in a written statement points out that the administration has already missed one deadline and is l
  
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• Hugh Hewitt: Trump rode to power on the modern Know-Nothing movement

  25-07-2018 15:00
  It has been 30 years since Princeton University professor James McPherson published his extraordinary “Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era,” which won a much deserved Pulitzer in 1989. Great books remain references for decades, and now the book deserves a rebirth of sorts. Listening to McPherson’s account of the 1850s, for example, is oddly relevant even as history makes clear that the relatively young Union was in a far more perilous condition then than ours is today.Ther
  
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• Commentary: The community should control the police, not the other way around

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Utah Against Police Brutality, an organization I am a proud member of, recently announced its campaign to implement the Salt Lake City Police Accountability Council. SLCPAC, made up of seven members living in Salt Lake City, will be able to investigate police officers, veto the appointment of the chief of police, strike down any police policy and direct the police chief to discipline any officer for misconduct. SLCPAC is a momentous step toward expanding community control of the Salt Lake City P
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is carrying the torch

  25-07-2018 14:31 via sportspyder.com
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• The first small nuclear modular reactor in the country may be coming soon — and it has early buy-in from nearly 30 Utah municipalities

  25-07-2018 14:00
  The country’s first small nuclear modular reactor (SMR) is gaining traction, and it has the support of nearly 30 municipalities that own their own power in Utah as they brace for a world without coal production. The state currently has no nuclear energy offerings.The Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS), a consortium of municipally owned power systems in Utah and several other western states, has partnered with NuScale Power to study and create the technology. The proposed 12-mo
  
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• Kirby: We’re all pioneers. Figure out a way to settle in or a way to get out.

  25-07-2018 14:00
  A couple of days ago, while checking out at a grocery store, I struck up a dangerous conversation with the clerk.Note: Any conversation between another human being and me is perilous. It’s because I’m never sure what the topic will be, particularly when it’s my turn to speak.Her • “How ya doing today, sir?”Me • “Fat, mean and stupid.”That earned a slight smile, so I decided to press my luck. I took a guess that the clerk was not from Utah. She
  
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• Person walking on tracks is third Utahn killed by a UTA train in last 10 days

  25-07-2018 05:29
  A person walking on the TRAX line in South Salt Lake was struck and killed by a train Monday night.The unidentified victim was on the track just south of the Millcreek Station at 210 West 3300 South. According to UTA, the incident took place about 9:45 p.m. in an area with little lighting, and the operator of the northbound train did not see the victim until just before impact.It was the third death involving a UTA train in 10 days. On July 14, Delwin Laughridge, 53, of American Fork, was killed
  
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• Monson: Embrace the ugly as Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert plan to draw a mustache on the NBA’s Mona Lisa

  25-07-2018 05:15
  In an era of the NBA when every team, if it had its druthers, would be the equal of the Golden State Warriors, not just in overall team quality, but in exciting style of pinball play, the Jazz are going a different way.Their own way.That’s the conclusion — and a mustache, too, on an otherwise pretty portrait — to draw.No copy-catting or caving in for them. They don’t want to prance up and down the court, wowing opponents with their skill, with their artistry, with their h
  
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• Brewers fans cheered Josh Hader. NFL fans should treat kneeling players as kindly.

  25-07-2018 05:10
  When the fans began to rise, Khalif Rainey’s friends who sat in the stands at Milwaukee’s Miller Park picked up their camera phones just as they picked up their jaws. They snapped photos and videos, just to make sure they weren’t imagining what was happening."They were saying, 'I can't believe what I just witnessed,'" Rainey said. And who could? Here was a ballpark faced with how to respond to a pitcher who had posted on social media several years ago, vile, misogynistic, racis
  
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• Grass fire near Salt Lake City’s Ensign Peak damages one home. Three firefighters and two residents were injured.

  25-07-2018 04:54
  Five people were injured and one home was damaged by a fast-moving grass fire near Salt Lake City’s Ensign Peak on Tuesday. And Salt Lake City Fire officials say it could have been much worse.They had evacuated 40 houses as flames spread through about 100 acres near the state’s Capitol.“It was a pretty tremendous effort, honestly, to knock down a fire like that in this heat, in two and a half hours,” said Audra Sorensen, a spokeswoman for the fire department. “Our f
  
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• Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke praises Utahns, Mormon pioneers at Days of ’47 rodeo

  25-07-2018 04:49
  The culminating night of the annual Days of ’47 rodeo kicked off with a special visit from a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet.Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose review of public lands and recommendations led to the reduction of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, offered brief remarks on the topic of religious freedom Tuesday evening as the rodeo’s Pioneer Day event got underway.“Utah also understands that freedom of relig
  
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