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• Gee Whiz! Utah’s Fat Boy Phillies loads its cheesesteak sandwiches with East Coast passion.

  02-08-2018 23:56
  Murray • Eating a Philly cheesesteak is a rite of passage on the East Coast.Pilgrimages are made to favorite shops, with grandparents and parents introducing the sandwich to younger generations.In most of the shops in Philadelphia, where the sandwich was invented, there are certain rules to ordering, and loyal followings of one location over another have been known to cause family strife and physical confrontations.Yes, a sandwich can inspire that kind of passion.
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• Bingham High’s Tess Blair wins the Women’s State Amateur in convincing style

  02-08-2018 23:46
  Bingham High School senior Tess Blair dominated her opponents in the 112th Women's State Amateur mainly by making a lot of routine pars.One spectacular par turned the final match permanently in her favor Thursday at Bonneville Golf Course. Blair's chip-in after a taking penalty stroke on the par-3 No. 9 started her run of winning the last five holes, giving her a 6-and-5 victory over Jessica Sloot.The victory followed the 2014 triumph of Blair's sister, Sirene, then a San Diego State golfer and
  
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• Speaking of Pistol Pete... #NBAHandlesWeek | #tbt https://t.co/gq53OgLkZU

  02-08-2018 23:27 via twitter.com
  
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• University of Utah is the latest to sever ties with Papa John’s Pizza after the company’s founder used a racial slur

  02-08-2018 23:24
  The University of Utah has cut ties with Papa John’s Pizza after the company’s founder came under fire last month for using the n-word in a conference call.“The actions of this individual, from the top ranks of the company, clearly do not align with our beliefs, and we hope to find an alternative that is a better fit with us,” said Jerry Basford, the school’s associate vice president for student affairs, in a statement.The university closed the Papa John’s loc
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jimmer vs. Jerome: A guard showdown awaits Team Fredette in TBT semifinals (+how to watch the game)

  02-08-2018 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... nds and 1.5 blocks in two TBT games. Big man Taylor Braun also signed to the Jazz training camp roster last year and played the 2017-18 season with Utah’s G L ...
  
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• Respect, @stephencurry30! twitter.com/BleacherReport…

  02-08-2018 22:59 via twitter.com
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• Jimmer vs. Jerome: A guard showdown awaits Team Fredette in TBT semifinals (+how to watch the game)

  02-08-2018 22:55
  Jimmer Fredette has been showing off his scoring prowess in The Basketball Tournament this summer.So has Jerome Randle.TBT's top two scorers will face off when Team Fredette meets Eberlein Drive in Thursday's semifinal nightcap.How to watchTeam Fredette vs. Eberlein DriveThe Basketball Tournament semifinals
  When: Thursday, 7 p.m. MDT
  Where: Morgan State's Hill Field House, Baltimore
  TV/Live stream: ESPN/ESPN3
  Twitter: @thetournament, @teamfredettetbt, @EberleinDrive
  Note: The other semifinal, be
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Enemy of the People

  02-08-2018 22:36
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/08/01/bagley-cartoon-bringing/" target=_blank>Bringing Copiers to a Gun Fight</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/31/bagley-cartoon-smoke-gets/">Smoke Gets in Your Eyes</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/07/31/bagley-cartoon-wilderness
  
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• [KSL] - Jazz PG David Stockton reportedly moving to Germany

  02-08-2018 22:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... legendary Jazz point guard John Stockton with a move to Medi Bayreitch in Germany’s BBL. Eu ...
  
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• Sanders won’t dispute claim that media is ‘enemy’ of people

  02-08-2018 22:20
  Washington • White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday refused to distance herself from President Donald Trump’s assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people.Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump "has made his position known."In a heated exchange with reporters, she recited a litany of complaints against the press and blamed the media for inflaming tensions in the country."As far as I know, I'm the fi
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: LDS leader shares her journey from deadly quake to painful divorce and joyful conversion; Utahn picks marriage over marijuana; more on breastfeeding

  02-08-2018 22:01
  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.This week’s podcast: Breastfeeding mom speaks outThe northern Utah mother at the heart of a controversy about public breastfeeding has reached a “compromise” with her bishop: She’ll now wear two tops to h
  
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• Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell rides to the rescue, pays to help a fan fix his phone at the Apple store

  02-08-2018 22:01
  For the Utah Jazz last season, Donovan Mitchell stepped in at the most important times to get his team to the second round of the NBA playoffs.Turns out he’s now doing that off the court, too.The brother of Jazz fan Andrew Simeona (who declined to be named for this story) visited the City Creek Apple Store in Salt Lake City to get his iPhone repaired. While he waited as the technician looked at the device, he unknowingly struck up a conversation with someone else waiting at the store: Mitc
  
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• Noah Feldman: The First Amendment protects plans for 3D guns

  02-08-2018 21:58
  The prospect of ordinary people making guns at home on their 3D printers seems scary. Even President Donald Trump, a strong Second Amendment supporter, has tweeted that it "doesn't seem to make much sense." Attorneys general in eight states and the District of Columbia agreed, and sued to stop the website of Defense Distributed from publishing instructions for printing out plastic firearms. A federal judge recognized the harm Tuesday night and issued a temporary restraining order.But the attack
  
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• Dana Milbank: The deep cynicism of Bernie Sanders’ chief strategist

  02-08-2018 21:58
  Washington • Tad Devine, during his run as chief strategist for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, railed against the corrupting influence of money in politics.He repeatedly echoed the Sanders message that "our economy is rigged," that "special interests" buy politicians, that "all of the new wealth is going to the top of America," that there is a "corrupt system of campaign finance" of which Hillary Clinton offered an "egregious" example. Sanders, by contrast, "supported the little
  
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• If Urban Meyer’s fate is determined by Ohio State’s past, the former Utah coach is in big trouble

  02-08-2018 21:52
  The allegation levied against Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer by the ex-wife of one of his former assistants is bad enough, with Courtney Smith questioning Meyer’s claim that he was unaware of a 2015 domestic-abuse allegation she levied against her ex-husband, recently fired Buckeyes wide receivers coach Zach Smith. Ohio State’s job now, as it conducts an investigation into what Meyer knew and when, is to determine if that allegation is bad enough to result in Meyer’s dis
  
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• For the third time in a year, Utah firefighters are headed to California to battle massive wildfires

  02-08-2018 21:37
  About 40 Utah firefighters left for California early Thursday to help battle the monster wildfires ravaging the West Coast.The Utah crews come from seven agencies and they are bringing 15 vehicles, including engines and water-bearing trucks. They join more than 12,000 firefighters from across the country, including deployments from Florida and Maine, traveling to California as reinforcements.“We are proud to join the brave individuals who already have been working tirelessly in California
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard David Stockton signs with team in Germany

  02-08-2018 21:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ny. Comment on this story The 5-foot-11, 165-pound David Stockton joined the Jazz in March on a 10-day contract and wound up remaining with the team for the r ...
  
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• Trump is really tough on Putin, despite their recent meeting, says Utah Rep. Chris Stewart

  02-08-2018 21:31
  President Donald Trump is firmly standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though his tweets and fawning performance at a joint news conference create the opposite impression, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said Thursday.“When you look at this administration’s actions, they have been clearly willing to confront Vladimir Putin,” Stewart, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a speech to the Sutherland Institute, and during follow-up questions.That’
  
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• Utah Jazz guard David Stockton signs with team in Germany

  02-08-2018 21:30
  Starting next week, Utah Jazz point guard David Stockton will join teammate Royce O'Neale on a two-week, 29-city tour of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming as part of the Junior Jazz program, but then he'll be heading off to a much farther destination to continue his basketball career.Multiple reports surfaced Thursday that Stockton will join Medi Bayreuth in Germany. His brother Michael, who played at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, also plays in Germany.The 5-foot-11, 165-pound David Stockton join
  
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• Police arrest man who allegedly robbed an Uber driver, then barricaded himself in a South Salt Lake hotel

  02-08-2018 20:57
  South Salt Lake police arrested a man Thursday after, they say, he robbed an Uber driver and barricaded himself in a hotel room.Officers took the man into custody shortly after noon, according to FOX 13, ending a three-hour standoff at the Ramada Inn at 2455 S. State.The man offered the Uber driver an extra tip if he helped carry luggage up to his room, said Gary Keller, a spokesman for South Salt Lake Police. When both were out of the car, the man allegedly demanded cash from the driver and thr
  
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• Sen. Orrin Hatch decries ‘dumbass’ partisanship over Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court

  02-08-2018 20:48
  Washington • Days after making a plea for more civility in public discourse, Sen. Orrin Hatch said Thursday he was tired of the “dumbass” partisanship surrounding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.“We can’t keep going down this partisan, picky, stupid, dumbass road that has happened around here for so long,” Hatch said at a news conference where Republican senators berated their Democratic counterparts for demanding tens of thousands o
  
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• New Mexico city bordering Navajo Nation sees tourism jump

  02-08-2018 20:36
  Gallup, N.M. • A western New Mexico city that bills itself as the gateway to Native American culture is experiencing a tourism boom.Officials in Gallup, New Mexico, say the city has seen a 7 to 10 percent increase in visitation over last year, mostly thanks to foreign tourists, the Gallup Independent reports.Helping drive the interest is a favorable exchange rate that makes it economical for foreign tourists to visit in the summer, and promotions that tout outdoor recreation, and Native Ame
  
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• Rafters help rescue pilot after crash into Colorado River

  02-08-2018 20:33
  Grand Junction, Colo. • Authorities say rafters on the Colorado River helped rescue the pilot of a small plane that crashed into the water near the Colorado-Utah border.The Mesa County Sheriff's Office in Colorado says the river rafters came upon the crash and took the 59-year-old pilot to safety Tuesday afternoon.Authorities say the man is injured but is conscious and breathing. His name has not been released. He was transported to a hospital by helicopter.The plane crashed into the river
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell pays for fan’s iPhone repair.

  02-08-2018 20:31 via sportspyder.com
  ...fan friendly as Donovan. Mitchell, instantly warmed Jazz fans hearts, just weeks after being drafted by tweeting out pics of himself...
  
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• Great Lakes Aviation sues over unpaid fees in Four Corners

  02-08-2018 20:31
  Farmington, N.M. •The city of Farmington says Great Lakes Aviation failed to pay landing fees and terminal fees before the company ceased Four Corners Regional Airport service.The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico, reports Farmington filed a complaint in state district court last week asking for the court to order Great Lakes to pay the alleged unpaid fees.The city alleges Great Lakes owes $693.88 for landing fees and $2,584.49 for terminal rent in September. It also alleges the airline
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell steps up to help customer who couldn't afford to repair iPhone

  02-08-2018 20:30 via sportspyder.com
  ...    SALT LAKE CITY — As if he needed another reason for Utah to love him, Jazz star Donovan Mitchell spontaneously paid the iPhone repair costs for a custo ...
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Sen. Mike Lee opposes legislative move to ban 3D-printed guns and the Inland Port Authority has its first meeting

  02-08-2018 20:23
  The Inland Port Authority has its first real meeting, where one board member asks for fewer comments about environmental concerns. Utah's request for a Medicaid waiver likely won't be addressed until after voters weigh in on adopting full Medicaid expansion. And Sen. Mike Lee says plans for 3D-printed guns shouldn't be kept from the public. At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Benjamin Wood, senior managing editor Matt Canham and columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough
  
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• Zion National Park calls out visitors after 2 more rescues

  02-08-2018 20:16
  Salt Lake City • Zion National Park officials are calling out two groups of visitors who didn’t heed instructions for a demanding canyoneering route and had to be rescued.Officials with the southern Utah park said in a news release this week that the leader of one group mocked a ranger's advice to take rope and harnesses for the difficult route to a popular spot known as "the Subway." A member of the group injured a knee Monday making a nearly 7-foot jump and had to be hauled out by h
  
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• Charges filed against Utah man in fiery crash that killed 3 family members

  02-08-2018 20:14
  Salt Lake City • Prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against a Utah driver after a fiery car crash that killed three members of a vacationing North Carolina family.Charges were filed Wednesday against 42-year-old Jennifer Diamond, who is accused of hitting the family's car head-on after moving into the opposite lane to pass a truck on a central Utah highway June 19.Killed in the crash were 47-year-old Tyrone Bova of Archdale, North Carolina, his wife, 43-year-old Holly Jo Bova, and
  
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• BYU’s linebacking corps in 2018: Familiar faces in new places

  02-08-2018 20:09
  Provo • Although BYU’s linebacking corps in 2017 featured one of the best defenders in program history in San Francisco 49ers’ rookie Fred Warner, it never became the dominant unit it was projected to be.New linebackers coach Ed Lamb hopes to change that, but acknowledges is it going to take a lot of work.Lamb said at BYU Football Media Day in June that the three starting linebackers will be converted safety Zayne Anderson at flash linebacker (Warner’s old spot), converted
  
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• Pope Francis seeks to abolish death penalty, changes church teaching

  02-08-2018 19:58
  Vatican City • Pope Francis has decreed that the death penalty is “inadmissible” under all circumstances and that the Catholic Church must work to abolish it, changing official church teaching to reflect his view that all life is sacred and there is no justification for state-sponsored executions.The Vatican said Francis had approved a change to the Catechism of the Catholic Church — the compilation of official Catholic teaching — to say that capital punishment const
  
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• Ex-jail guard gets 30 days behind bars inmate-stalking case

  02-08-2018 19:57
  Logan • A former northern Utah jail guard who pleaded guilty to a stalking charge after tracking down female inmates online has been sentenced to 30 days behind bars.The Herald Journal newspaper in Logan reports one woman said Tuesday that messages from 36-year-old James Joshua Woytko were particularly disturbing because he'd apparently gotten accessed jail systems to get her information, including intimate knowledge of her appearance.Defense attorney Ryan Holdaway says the onetime guard di
  
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• ‘I have to think about all the time’: Utah dad recalls finding girl with fingers severed by escalator

  02-08-2018 19:50
  Sandy • A 4-year-old Utah girl whose fingers were severed in the steps of a grocery store escalator last year is learning to color pictures again, but she could face more surgeries as her small hands grow, her father said Wednesday.For Ramon Moreno, it's hard to forget the terrifying day he held his daughter Adalene in one arm and two of her fingers in a bucket in the other."It's a sick feeling. Scary," he said in an interview.The family filed a lawsuit last week claiming Adalene lost her f
  
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• Teen accused in attempted backpack bomb pleads not guilty

  02-08-2018 19:42
  St. George • A teenager accused of trying to blow up a homemade backpack bomb at a St. George high school after looking at Islamic State propaganda has pleaded not guilty.The Spectrum newspaper in St. George reports the 16-year-old boy entered his plea Wednesday and is due back in court Aug. 22.The teen is charged with felony attempted murder and using a weapon of mass destruction, as well as misdemeanor graffiti and abuse of a flag.The charges were filed after the smoking backpack was foun
  
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• Day 86 without Jazz Basketball: Everything looks like a hoop.

  02-08-2018 19:36 via twitter.com
  Day 86 without Jazz Basketball: Everything looks like a hoop.
  
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• St. George police chief retiring after nearly 2 decades

  02-08-2018 19:34
  St. George • The police chief of the southern Utah city of St. George is retiring after an 18-year tenure where he saw the city’s population nearly double.The Spectrum newspaper reports Chief Marlon Stratton says he is looking forward to spending more time with family after a total of 34 years with the department.He joined as a patrol officer in 1984 and climbed up the ranks.His tenure will end Sept. 27. St. George Mayor Jon Pike has proposed Deputy Chief Richard Farnsworth as his rep
  
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• How QAnon, the conspiracy theory spawned by a Trump quip, got so big

  02-08-2018 19:31
  The internet has made it easier than ever before to evangelize on behalf of a conspiracy theory. But this week, the missionaries for QAnon used their physical bodies to spread the word, with T-shirts and a paper sign, “We are Q,” aimed at the cameras covering President Donald Trump’s campaign rally.People noticed, including journalists. The signs became mainstream news, and the news of QAnon spread. On Reddit's "Great Awakening" discussion board, devoted to QAnon and its suppor
  
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• New radar technology that triggers traffic lights for bicyclists looks to end frustrations for Salt Lake City bikers

  02-08-2018 19:21
  Bikers may find it easier, safer and quicker to pass through some traffic lights now that Salt Lake City has installed a number of new signals sensitive enough to be triggered by cyclists.Before, when a bicyclist would come up to some intersections “the challenge they face is, do they go over and try to push the signal for the pedestrian, which maybe they’re crossing over a right-hand train lane and then trying to work their way back into traffic? Or do they just run a red light?&rdq
  
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• At last: Nearly 18 months after committing, Utah wide receiver Derrick Vickers is finally on the field and ready to make the most of his shot

  02-08-2018 19:21
  “When do you get here?”“What’s going on?”“Are you still a Ute?”Derrick Vickers faced those kinds of inquiries weekly for a year and a half. And for 18 months, he never had an answer. That hurt. Because as he learned, there’s no worse place than in limbo. That’s where he wound up after first committing to sign with Utah in February of 2017.The senior wide receiver, from Bakersfield, Calif., was first looked at as a versatile weapon in Troy Tay
  
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• Utah County votes to oppose any needle-exchange program

  02-08-2018 19:15
  Provo • Utah County commissioners are declaring their opposition to the establishment of any needle exchange program, citing fears of discarded needles and possible legal liability.The Daily Herald newspaper reports the county's addiction-prevention director Richard Nance said Tuesday many such fears are unfounded, but the resolution opposing a program passed with a 2-1 vote.It was introduced by Utah County Commissioner Bill Lee after the idea was informally proposed at town halls called to
  
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• ‘We are Q’: Conspiracy cult leaps from the internet to the crowd at Trump’s ‘MAGA’ tour

  02-08-2018 19:10
  From somewhere in the vast and mysterious deep state, a dissident agent rises up to give the people cryptic clues about how their heroic president will push back the forces of evil and make America great again. The renegade informant is known only as "Q," and if he actually exists, it's not in a movie, but somewhere in the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy.Energized by Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread
  
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Jazz's Donovan Mitchell pays for stranger's iPhone repair | SI.com

  02-08-2018 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... ip with the community. Now Utahns have even more of a reason to love him.  A Jazz fan shared a story Thursday morning about his brother, who needed to have hi ...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell randomly pays for someone’s phone repair

  02-08-2018 18:58 via sportspyder.com
  ...become a fan favorite in Utah — for good reason. In 79 appearances with the Jazz last season, the former Louisville Cardinal racked up averages of 20.5 point ...
  
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• Road work will complicate weekend travel on I-15 in North Salt Lake, Lehi, Sandy

  02-08-2018 18:48
  The ramp from southbound I-15 to I-215 in North Salt Lake is scheduled to close from Friday at 9 p.m. until Monday at 5 a.m. When it reopens, it will be restricted to one lane for most of the next week.Drivers — especially those heading to the Salt Lake City International Airport — should plan to use Interstate 80 as an alternate route. The closure is part of a project to repave I-215 between I-15 and 2100 North.In Lehi, northbound lanes on I-15 will split between 2100 North and S.R.
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Breastfeeding Utah mom says she’s reached a ‘compromise’ with her LDS bishop in exclusive audio interview

  02-08-2018 18:41
  The northern Utah mother at the heart of a spat about public breastfeeding has reached a “compromise” with her LDS bishop: She’ll now wear two tops to help hide her breast from above and below while nursing her 19-month-old daughter at her Mormon meetinghouse.But the dispute isn’t dead. The woman is “not quite ready,” she said in her first audio interview on the matter, to meet with the LDS leader who denied her a “temple recommend" unless she covered up
  
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  02-08-2018 18:08 via twitter.com
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• 40 Utah firefighters head to California to battle massive wildfires that have destroyed more than 1,000 homes

  02-08-2018 17:30
  Early Thursday morning, about 40 Utah firefighters left for California to help battle the monster wildfires ravaging the West Coast.The Utah crews come from seven agencies and they are bringing 15 vehicles, including engines and water-bearing trucks. They join more than 12,000 firefighters from across the country, including deployments from Florida and Maine, traveling to California as reinforcements.“We are proud to join the brave individuals who already have been working tirelessly in Ca
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Helps Fan Who Couldn't Afford iPhone Repair

  02-08-2018 16:50 via sportspyder.com
  ...2, 2018 Comments Comment Bubble Icon Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is a rising star on the court, but he is making a dif ...
  
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• .@spidadmitchell said his mother was pivotal in helping his camp happen. “You can see that now what she’s been doi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-08-2018 16:41 via twitter.com
  .@spidadmitchell said his mother was pivotal in helping his camp happen.“You can see that now what she’s been doi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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