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• California’s deadly Carr Fire doubles in size again

  28-07-2018 23:55
  Redding, Calif. • Fueled by an incendiary combination of scorching temperatures, dry air and unpredictable winds, the deadly Carr Fire has doubled in size to 80,906 acres - almost the size of the city of Philadelphia. The wildfire has forced thousands to flee, torched 500 buildings and killed two firefighters trying to contain it.Fire Inspector Jeremy Stoke was killed battling the Northern California blaze, the Redding Fire Department announced. The other firefighter, a privately hired bull
  
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• Wildfire closes 23-mile stretch of I-70 in southern Utah

  28-07-2018 23:51
  Cove Fort • An 11-day-old wildfire shifted direction Saturday, forcing closure of a 23-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near its junction with Interstate 15 in southern Utah.Officials said the closure of I-70 in both directions was due to safety concerns for both firefighters and the public.The lightning-sparked fire started July 17 about 7 miles (11 kilometers) east of the instates' junction near Cove Fort about 155 miles south of Salt Lake City.The fire had burned about 1.7 square miles (4 s
  
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• Monson: BYU quarterbacks should listen to the sage advice of this former Ute

  28-07-2018 22:19
  With college football camps about to open, and quarterback battles about to rage in some of them — at BYU, for instance — nobody’s more fully informed on this business than Troy Williams.He has seen the highs of great opportunity, of running the show, and the lows of the lack of it, of standing on the sideline, rooting for the success of his replacement.The former Utah starter was rather surprisingly relegated by coaches to backup status just prior to last season, his senior ye
  
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• BYU’s declaration of football independence is looking a little frayed after seven years, but most Cougar fans and school leaders want to stay the course

  28-07-2018 22:19
  Provo • Stay the course as a college football independent or go back to a conference?Seven years after BYU left the Mountain West, a conference it helped form, and going it alone in football, the Cougars’ marquee sports program is at a crossroads.After a dismal 2017 season in which the Cougars went 4-9 and fired one of the most beloved figures in their football history, Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, the stay-or-go question has divided fans, media members and former players more tha
  
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• With a fresh start as a linebacker, Utah’s Chase Hansen is primed for a big finish

  28-07-2018 21:33
  Hollywood, Calif. – Utah receiver Britain Covey wishes he could have “Chase Hansen” as a superpower. Hansen just hopes to remain a healthy version of himself as a senior linebacker, applying the physical traits that his teammate envies.Imagining someone with Covey's hands and shiftiness, standing 6-foot-3 and weighing 230-plus pounds, is a fantasy. The real possibility of Hansen's playing a full season in 2018, pressuring quarterbacks and making tackles all over the field, is a
  
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• September 29 can’t come soon enough. >> on.nba.com/2mOXONu

  28-07-2018 17:53 via twitter.com
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Jae Crowder

  28-07-2018 17:29 via sportspyder.com
  ...Kawhi Leonard, Raptors 2d - Former Utah Jazz big men Evans, Cooley join TBT Super 16 fray 2d - Utah Jazz TBT: The day I b ...
  
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• Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: Jae Crowder

  28-07-2018 17:19
  Since joining the Utah Jazz shortly prior to the All-Star break, Jae Crowder has proven beyond a doubt to be an instrumental part of this team’s future. Jae Crowder’s cup of coffee with the Cleveland Cavaliers got off to a rocky start, being forced into a role where his touches came few and far between. […]
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• Salt Lake City has a new bike registration system that could help riders recover their lost or stolen bikes

  28-07-2018 17:18
  Salt Lake City police officers handled 1,406 reports for stolen and abandoned bikes last year — but they were only able to return 83 of those to their owners.But officials hope recent changes to the city’s “cumbersome and antiquated” bike-registration process will encourage more residents to sign up and improve the city’s chances of returning lost property.“Because of the lack of registration, it was very difficult to match a bike back to its owner,” sai
  
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• Paul Waldman: Why as many Democrats as possible should run for president

  28-07-2018 16:47
  To give you a break from the scandal over a hostile foreign power’s attack on our democracy, let’s turn to something more diverting: the 2020 presidential campaign. We keep hearing that more and more Democrats are running; here are some reports from just the last week or two:• Mike Allen reports that Joe Biden is the Democrat Donald Trump most fears running against; learning this will cause Biden to immediately start looking for office space for his campaign. Actually, Allen rep
  
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• Holly Richardson: Here are some ways to mourn with those who mourn

  28-07-2018 16:47
  In spite of the old saying, there is really one thing that is certain in life, and that is that no one gets out alive.In the past month, two of my friends — both in their 40s — have lost their spouses. A friend is battling her third bout with cancer, this time with a tumor that grew close to her brain stem, and another online friend just lost her baby.If we live long enough, we will not only know loss ourselves, but we will know and love those who have experienced deep loss.Grief is
  
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• George Chapman: Salt Lake City bond could hurt Medicaid expansion

  28-07-2018 16:47
  Many of us have been fighting for health care expansion for years. The Legislature finally agreed to expand Medicaid for the homeless, including addiction treatment. But this leaves law-abiding citizens who are not homeless, but too poor to afford any health care, in limbo. Despite obeying the law, they are treated like second-class citizens when, in many cases, criminals are getting better government-provided health care.This November, Utahns will be able to correct this unfair situation and, i
  
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• Editor chosen to oversee Standard-Examiner and Daily Herald newspapers

  28-07-2018 16:47
  Ogden • The Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden has named a new executive editor to oversee its newsroom in addition to her current post directing the Daily Herald in Provo.The Standard-Examiner reported Jordan Carroll’s new role Friday, two months after it was sold to the Provo newspaper’s West Virginia-based parent company. Twenty-one people were laid off at the Standard-Examiner, including five in the newsroom.Carroll acknowledges the transition has been “bumpy,”
  
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• Rich Lowry: Trump rises on the power of low expectations

  28-07-2018 16:46
  It’s a symptom of our time that a tape of the future president of the United States discussing machinations related to an alleged affair with a former Playboy Playmate isn’t truly a blockbuster.The brief snippet of conversation between Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen about buying the story of former Playmate Karen McDougal, who says she had a 10-month affair with Trump beginning in 2006, is certainly of interest.How often do you hear a future president speaking so frankly,
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump seems barely in charge of his appointees

  28-07-2018 16:46
  Eleven conservatives in the U.S. House have filed a motion to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Critics say it’s an outrage. Maybe so. But let’s not lose sight of how deeply weird the whole situation is.The attempted impeachment of an executive-branch official is unusual, but there is constitutional provision and precedent for it. Some House Republicans tried to impeach John Koskinen, the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service under President Barack Obama. The cam
  
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• Jonathan Capehart: That moral arc doesn’t bend toward justice all by itself

  28-07-2018 16:46
  With President Donald Trump in the White House, everything seems under assault. Civil rights, the rule of law, our moral standing, the global liberal democratic order the United States spent decades, blood and treasure helping to form and maintain. It’s all so precarious, unsettled and unprecedented. But is it, really?During the pilgrimage with the Faith & Politics Institute last weekend to western New York state and the landmarks of the abolition and women’s suffrage movements t
  
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• Letter: We’ve made a terrible mistake putting the port by the prison

  28-07-2018 15:00
  Not too many years ago, we were told by our elected officials in the Utah Legislature that the state prison, occupying 1 square mile, was an obstacle to economic development and had to be relocated to facilitate growth in the Draper area.Now we are being told by some of the same people that the "inland port" will be the biggest economic development opportunity in the history of the state of Utah! But wait, there's a contradiction here: The inland port is right next to the new state prison under
  
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• Letter: Utah will be a lesser place without Rocky Mountain Raceways

  28-07-2018 15:00
  I spent a recent Saturday night, much as I have for many years, at Rocky Mountain Raceways. The cars sped around the track, the noise filled my ears, the smell of the tires filled my nose, and my son played with his toy cars. I’ve long yearned for this opportunity to show him this place. Only this night, it wasn’t quite the same as before, because this time is one of my last visits to the raceway. The announcement of the final season for RMR is a genuine loss for Utah and the passion
  
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• Letter: Resigning over Mormon donation to LGBTQ group didn’t help the cause

  28-07-2018 15:00
  LGBTQ group vice president Kimberly Anderson has reportedly quit over the LDS Church’s recent donation to help the at times socially beleaguered organization's desire to deal with the rising tide of suicides among many whose sexual proclivities and cultural attribution often create extreme stress in a society still too slow to accept their constitutional and humanistic right to be what they wish to be.When a hand is extended in assistance, give the gesture a moment to consider the intent o
  
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• Letter: No Russians meddled in my vote — can Utahns who voted for Clinton say the same?

  28-07-2018 15:00
  I read Robert Kirby's tongue-in-cheek column "Hey, Ambassador Huntsman, I'll take over your Russian gig."Putting all jokes aside, I thought Ambassador Jon Huntsman did a very dignified job, sitting on the first row beside first lady Melania Trump as they and a large pool of reporters listened to the recent joint news conference between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. Although the media and segments of the public went berserk, I saw very little justification.Pund
  
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• Letter: In Utah, everything can be sponsored

  28-07-2018 15:00
  Coming soon to a commute near you … even more advertising! Gone are views of mountains, replaced with a dazzling array of constantly changing billboards along the major beverage corporation interstate (formerly I-15). Watch out for congestion around the pharmaceutical-sponsored interchange! Drive to your job near the exit now sponsored by a multilevel marketing company. Struggle to see the flashing emergency lights amid the auto dealership ads adorning the UDOT Incident Response vehicles!
  
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• Accused prelate McCarrick resigns from College of Cardinals; Pope Francis orders him to ‘life of prayer and penance’

  28-07-2018 14:34
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick’s offer to resign from the College of Cardinals in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and ordered him to conduct a “life of prayer and penance” in a home to be designated by the pontiff until a church trial is held, the Vatican said Saturday.Francis acted swiftly after receiving McCarrick’s letter of resignation Friday evening, after recent weeks
  
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• Putin calls Christianity foundation of Russian state

  28-07-2018 14:21
  Moscow • Vladimir Putin says that the adoption of Christianity more than 1,000 years in territory that later became Russia marked the starting point for forming Russia itself.Putin’s comments came Saturday in a ceremony marking the 1,030th anniversary of the adoption by Christianity by Prince Vladimir, the leader of Kievan Rus, a loose federation of Slavic tribes that preceded the Russian state.Speaking to a crowd of thousands of clergy and believers at a huge statue of the prince out
  
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  28-07-2018 07:39 via twitter.com
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• Seahawks' changes leave linebackers Bobby Wagner, K.J. Wright as veteran voices

  28-07-2018 06:03
  Renton, Wash. • Bobby Wagner reacted as though he was hoping the question would come.With all the changes on the Seattle Seahawks defense — the leaders, the voices, the veterans no longer around — will there be a new focus on a group of linebackers that at times has seemed underappreciated?“It has always been about the guy in the middle,” Wagner said emphatically. “So for me, it’s not no different because that’s how I look at it, but from the outsid
  
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• Ex-Utah A.G. Mark Shurtleff says public corruption case was fabricated as political payback

  28-07-2018 05:37
  When Utah’s former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sued the Salt Lake County district attorney and nearly every public agency involved in a now-dismissed public corruption case against him for $60 million, he told reporters to “stay tuned" for more alleged scandal.Nearly two months later, he delivered.Attorneys for Shurtleff filed a 73-page amended complaint in his lawsuit against Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, the state, the FBI and individual agents and police officer
  
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• Crews battle difficult blaze in Tooele County

  28-07-2018 04:58
  After some evacuations were lifted, the Middle Canyon fire in Tooele County continued to burn Friday night, and crews anticipate a tough battle to get the blaze under control over the weekend.Air and ground crews gained on the fire Friday, though it was highly resistant as it burned through grass, oak brush, juniper and timber in the steep and rugged terrain. Crews will use dozers and air attacks Saturday to slow the fire until more ground crews arrive, according to a news release from fire offi
  
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• Rookie quarterback Sam Darnold a holdout as Jets open camp without him

  28-07-2018 04:57
  Florham Park, N.J. • There was no sign of Sam Darnold as the New York Jets opened training camp.The No. 3 overall draft pick officially became a contract holdout when the team began its first practice of the summer Friday without its prized rookie quarterback.“He’s not here,” coach Todd Bowles said, “so I’m coaching the other (89) guys.”Darnold joins Chicago linebacker Roquan Smith, the No. 8 choice, as the only unsigned picks from the entire draft.Under
  
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• Janitor charged with sex abuse at Utah elementary school

  28-07-2018 04:22
  Spanish Fork • A janitor has been charged with sexually abusing students at an elementary school south of Salt Lake City.The Daily Herald reports that Adrian Villar was charged Friday with aggravated sexual abuse of a child and lewdness involving a child.He is accused of following a student into a bathroom in February 2017 at Sierra Bonita Elementary School in Spanish Fork, and of exposing his genitals. Court documents also say Villar grabbed the student’s arm to touch his genitals.An
  
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• WNBA All-Stars, gathered in Minnesota, proud of bigger brand

  28-07-2018 04:15
  Minneapolis • Maya Moore, arms outstretched and her right hand gripping a basketball, has been on billboards this summer in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York. She’s in the same “wings” pose as the classic photo of Michael Jordan, whose Nike shoe line includes Moore, the Minnesota Lynx forward, as an endorser.WNBA games are attracting more viewers. The star power around the league has rarely, if ever, been this deep or this strong. There’s a long way to go to capt
  
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• Jimmer scores 41 as Team Fredette rolls into quarterfinals of $2 million winner-take-all basketball tournament

  28-07-2018 03:57
  Through three games of The Basketball Tournament, a $2 million winner-take-all event, Team Fredette’s strategy has stayed the same: Fall behind by double-digits early, then let former BYU star Jimmer Fredette take over.That happened again Friday night, as Fredette poured in all 41 of his points in the final three quarters and led Team Fredette to a 104-91 win over the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Champs in a Super 16 game at Georgia State University in Atlanta.Second-seeded Team Fredette will meet th
  
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• Surfer takes an epic ride into history

  28-07-2018 03:11
  To say Koa Smith was at the right place at the right time is perfectly accurate.To say he got lucky — that’s missing the point.Perched precariously on his surfboard, the 23-year-old from Hawaii rode a wave off the coast of Namibia, on the western shore of Africa, for 120 straight seconds. He stayed upright for nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) as he traveled through an unheard-of eight barrels — the hollow formed by the curve of the wave as it breaks over the rider’s head.Al
  
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• Mormon feminists urge LDS authorities to remind local leaders that breastfeeding isn’t sexual

  28-07-2018 02:33
  Mormon feminists have launched a churchwide letter-writing campaign, urging LDS officials to issue a “statement of support for nursing mothers.”“We need to remove the barriers and difficulties placed upon [Mormon] women for how they mother their children and we need to make it easier to be a woman in this church,” Carrie Stoddard Salisbury declared in an Exponent II blog. “Without such an official declaration, women will remain at risk for judgment and exclusion if
  
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• Governor declares ‘LoveLoud Day in Utah’ ahead of weekend festival celebrating LGBT youths

  28-07-2018 02:25
  The second LoveLoud Festival failed to earn an endorsement from LDS Church leaders, as it did for its inaugural event in Orem last year. But on Friday, festival organizers celebrated support and recognition from Utah state government.At a kickoff for the event — to be held Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City — Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox read from a formal proclamation denouncing bullying and intimidation, acknowledging the state’s high youth suicide rate, and namin
  
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• Tribune editorial: This is a desert. Utah’s sense of entitlement to water has to end.

  28-07-2018 01:12
  “This is a hell of a way to run a desert.”— Gov. Scott Matheson, 1983That was one of the best quips ever by a politician, from Utah or anywhere else. It was uttered as Salt Lake City and nearby communities were struggling with a massive flood, the likes of which have not been seen since. Matheson couldn’t resist commenting on the irony of a state that usually has to deal with too little water being forced to deal with too much.These days, Utah is back to normal. Dry as du
  
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• Clint Capela signs five-year, $90 million extension with Rockets

  28-07-2018 01:04
  Houston • Clint Capela has signed a five-year, $90 million extension with the Houston Rockets.Capela, who was a restricted free agent, started a career-high 74 games last season in helping Houston reach the Western Conference finals.The 6-foot-10 center averaged 13.9 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks — all career-highs — last season. The 24-year-old had 42 double-doubles last season and Houston was 25-2 when he scored 15 or more points.Capela, who the Rockets drafted with the
  
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• Geraint Thomas can taste Tour de France title with 1 big stage to go

  28-07-2018 00:48
  Laruns, France • Having worn the leader’s yellow jersey over the Alps and through the Pyrenees, only one more challenging stage stands in the way of Geraint Thomas winning his first Tour de France.Thomas takes an advantage of 2 minutes, 5 seconds over Dutch rival Tom Dumoulin into Saturday’s 31-kilometer (19-mile) individual time trial in the Basque Country.The pressure of leading has reminded Thomas of the time he helped Britain to the gold medal in team pursuit on the track at
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: What will Ekpe Udoh’s role be?

  28-07-2018 00:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... hat case, his best case scenario would be that he still finds himself in the Jazz 10-man rotation, logging at least a few minutes per game to help spell off G ...
  
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• Utah Jazz Best/Worst Case Series: What will Ekpe Udoh’s role be?

  28-07-2018 00:20
  Ekpe Udoh has proved his worth as a solid rim protector for the Utah Jazz, but can he do more in the upcoming 2018-19 season? One of the luxuries the Utah Jazz benefit from game in and game out is the fact that they can have a rim protector on the floor at all times, […]
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• Bagley Cartoon: Physics for Dummies

  28-07-2018 00:16
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 29, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/26/bagley-cartoon-toting/" target=_blank><u>2A Toting Tots</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/25/bagley-cartoon-monumental/"><u>Monumental Bull</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/23/bagley-cartoo
  
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