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• Bees manager Keith Johnson promoted to Angels’ coaching staff; Eric Chavez will replace him in Salt Lake

  05-08-2018 23:59
  Keith Johnson's favorite task as manager of the Salt Lake Bees was informing players they were being promoted to the Los Angeles Angels. And now it has happened to him. The Bees have lost their manager with a month remaining in the Pacific Coast League season, the Triple-A team announced Sunday. Johnson, 47, is joining the Angels' coaching staff in his specialty, working with infielders. Eric Chavez, a 13-year major leaguer with Oakland who has worked as a special assistant to Angels general man
  
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• Here’s what Utah’s members of Congress say about Trump’s call to create Space Force, a new military branch

  05-08-2018 23:34
  Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart spent 14 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, claiming three world speed records.So one might think that the Utah Republican would be steadfast in defending the Air Force’s leading role in space missions as President Donald Trump eyes efforts to create a Space Force to handle military operations outside Earth’s atmosphere.“Some people kind of expected me to protect the Air Force entities, [because it could] weaken the Air Force if we sepa
  
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• ‘60 Minutes’ exec delays return to show amid sexual misconduct allegations

  05-08-2018 22:24
  New York • The executive producer of the CBS news show “60 Minutes” is delaying his return from vacation until an investigation into sexual misconduct claims at the network wraps up.Meanwhile, CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl told reporters on Sunday that CBS isn’t saying it’s perfect and that there’s room for improvement in any large company.The executives are dealing with fallout from a scandal after allegations against the executive producer, Jeff Fage
  
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• ‘Bigger and better’ than the Utes? Samson Nacua explains his support of his USC-bound brother

  05-08-2018 22:07
  Samson Nacua's endorsement of his favorite high school football player included his tweeted analysis that the Orem star was on his way to “bigger and better things than Utah schools.”The evaluation proved accurate this summer, when receiver Puka Nacua committed to USC. The only flaw of Samson Nacua’s commentary is he’s a scholarship athlete for the University of Utah — one of those schools he judged as smaller and worse than USC, applying that logic.Oh, brother.I wa
  
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• 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Lombok island leaves 39 dead

  05-08-2018 21:57
  Mataram, Indonesia • A powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than a dozen.The latest quake, which triggered a brief tsunami warning, damaged buildings as far away as Denpasar on Bali, including a department store and the airport terminal, where ceiling panels were shaken loose, authorities said.Video showed screaming people running in panic from
  
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• Old-time plane crashes in Swiss Alps, killing all 20 on board

  05-08-2018 21:36
  Berlin • A vintage propeller plane plunged near-vertically into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board as they returned from a two-day trip to southern Switzerland, investigators said Sunday.The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by small Swiss company Ju-Air, went down Saturday on the Piz Segnas mountain above the Alpine resort of Flims in the country's southeast, at an altitude of about 2,540 meters (8,330 feet) above sea level.There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, a
  
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• Trump concedes meeting with Russian lawyer was to collect intel on Clinton, but claims it was ‘totally legal and done all the time in politics’

  05-08-2018 21:24
  Bridgewater, N.J. • President Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged that the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Kremlin-connected lawyer and his son was to collect information about his political opponent, casting new light on a moment central to the special counsel’s Russia probe.Trump, amid a series of searing tweets sent from his New Jersey golf club, tore into two of his favorite targets, the news media and Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into possible links between the
  
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• BYU tight end Moroni Laulu-Pututau, back from Lisfranc foot injury that cost him last season, is ready to pick up where he left off in 2016

  05-08-2018 20:02
  Provo • On successive plays Friday night at BYU’s preseason training camp, freshman quarterback Zach Wilson lofted passes to tight ends Matt Bushman and Moroni Laulu-Pututau, the latter reaching high to snare the football over the outstretched arms of an overmatched defender.The Cougars could have used that kind of one-two punch at one of their marquee positions last year, but the 6-foot-5 Laulu-Pututau — known as MLP to teammates, coaches and media members who have trouble pron
  
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• Utah MMA fighter takes on ‘Ultimate Ninja Challenge’ — and, no, it doesn’t involve teenage mutant turtles or obstacle courses

  05-08-2018 19:08
  Utah MMA fighter Josh Tyler took on TV’s “Ultimate Ninja Challenge” — and it’s not what you might think. It definitely does not involve any teenagers, any mutants or any turtles.“Our modern-day culture has painted ninjitsu as in this weird light of turtles and pizza — kind of this really hokey silliness, right?” Tyler said. “And the reality is it was a very serious occupation. These guys were very much like our modern-day special forces.&rdqu
  
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• BMC’s Brent Bookwalter has a sentimental connection with the Tour of Utah, but that’s only part of the reason the race contender keeps coming back almost every year

  05-08-2018 19:07
  It has been nearly two weeks since Brent Bookwalter returned to train and ride around Park City, a place he’s now so familiar with he knows the names of the streets, and all the twists and turns around town by heart. BMC Racing Team teammate Joey Rosskopf recently joked to Bookwalter that he’s made the annual summertime stop in Utah basically every year since he graduated from high school.Since 2008, it has become engrained to Bookwalter’s schedule, too. The 34-year-old, who ha
  
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• One of Utah’s last movie rental stores is thriving as the industry fades. 'We have customers that threaten us — ‘If you ever close, I’ll kill you.’”

  05-08-2018 18:42
  Bountiful • Lona Earl has never watched a movie on Netflix. Or Amazon Prime. Or Hulu.“I’m one of those who has never streamed. Ever,” she said.“But she has 30,000 movies here, so she's OK,” her husband, Lee Earl, added with a laugh.The Earls own Top Hat Video in Bountiful — which is sort of a blast from the past. It’s a traditional video store stuffed full of DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K and video games.Nothing rents for more than $4. Memberships are free. An
  
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• Old-time plane crashes in Swiss Alps, killing 20 on board

  05-08-2018 17:58
  Berlin • A vintage propeller plane plunged near-vertically into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board as they returned from a two-day trip to southern Switzerland, investigators said Sunday.The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by small Swiss company Ju-Air, went down Saturday on the Piz Segnas mountain above the Alpine resort of Flims in the country's southeast, at an altitude of about 2,540 meters (8,330 feet) above sea level.There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash, a
  
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• Tribune editorial: Hypocritical Hatch can’t be gone soon enough

  05-08-2018 16:05
  If Orrin Hatch wants to go out with a reputation as a wise elder statesman, he doesn’t have much time left.The lame-duck senior senator from the state of Utah reared his hypocritical head the other day, restating his claim to be the poster politician for a lot of what is wrong with out hyper-partisan, gridlocked Congress. And he managed to draw all the more opprobrium for the fact that, only a few days before, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary with Hatch’s byline arguing
  
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• Trump wants a Space Force military branch. Congress may not be ready for star wars

  05-08-2018 16:04
  Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart spent 14 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, claiming three world speed records.So one might think that the Utah Republican would be steadfast in defending the Air Force’s leading role in space missions as President Donald Trump eyes efforts to create a Space Force to handle military operations outside Earth’s atmosphere.“Some people kind of expected me to protect the Air Force entities, [because it could] weaken the Air Force if we sepa
  
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• Bountiful’s Top Hat Video store isn’t just surviving, it’s thriving

  05-08-2018 16:04
  Bountiful • Lona Earl has never watched a movie on Netflix. Or Amazon Prime. Or Hulu.“I’m one of those who has never streamed. Ever,” she said.“But she has 30,000 movies here, so she's OK,” her husband, Lee Earl, added with a laugh.The Earls own Top Hat Video in Bountiful — which is sort of a blast from the past. It’s a traditional video store stuffed full of DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K and video games.Nothing rents for more than $4. Memberships are free. An
  
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• Kirby: I hope I call me on a mission

  05-08-2018 16:03
  Although I nearly went insane a few times, I don’t regret serving a two-year Mormon mission. It did me a lot of good, although not necessarily in ways many might think.First, it kept me alive. Of all the things I still have faith in, one is knowing that I would have been dead within those two years if I hadn’t gone.Second, it gave me valuable insight into the kind of Mormon I could never be even if I wanted to — and that some deep believers should be avoided at all costs.Third,
  
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• Gomberg: The helicopter parent in me is really having a hard time watching my kid constantly bonk his head

  05-08-2018 16:03
  You know what’s mind-boggling to me? The idea that preventing my kidlet from harm isn’t always the best parenting choice. That sometimes anticipating a negative outcome and allowing it to come to fruition at little Harvey’s expense is the right thing to do.Doesn’t that sound nuts?OK, phrasing it that way makes it sound particularly negligent, but I’m actually just talking about my recent efforts to quiet the whooshing thumps of my inner helicopter parent. (I hope yo
  
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• Letter: We should be concerned about where police get their war gear

  05-08-2018 16:00
  The Jim Winder article got me thinking. Where would police departments get most of their equipment? Would they use the budget from Unified Police Department? Would the government give them money? Or would they use the 1033 program? If they choose to do the latter, it will be more terrifying to the people in the community because it provides weapons that were made for war. The 1033 program allows police departments to get surplus military equipment, from microwaves and radios to rifles and drones
  
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• Letter: Rep. Chris Stewart can help eradicate tuberculosis

  05-08-2018 16:00
  As demonstrated in the fair-minded piece by Lee Davidson titled “Trump is really tough on Putin, despite their recent meeting, says Utah Rep. Chris Stewart,” the congressman has a mind for foreign affairs. Whether constituents agree with his stance on President Donald Trump’s relations with Vladimir Putin or not, his commitment to improving the international community is clear.Recently, Stewart supported in the House an increase for USAID’s tuberculosis account. His count
  
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• Letter: Let employers shoulder responsibility for immigrant workers

  05-08-2018 16:00
  I am an immigrant citizen with a long and successful history in international business. I abhor President Donald Trump yet agree that our immigration system is broken — but not his solution!Trump’s policy is built on racism and receives widespread support from areas where unemployment is high and immigrants congregate.That’s not dissimilar to the U.K. and France. For many years in the U.K., citizens from Commonwealth countries could immigrate freely — with the result that
  
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• Letter: Hunt grizzlies with cameras, not guns

  05-08-2018 16:00
  Yeah for the two people who received grizzly bear hunting permits and aren’t going to use them for hunting, but for photographing the grizzly bears in Wyoming. Shame on Wyoming for giving out more grizzly bear hunting permits.Annette Davis, Murray
  
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• Her Mormon college upheld her sex-assault complaint — but kicked her out anyway. The case shows a ‘loophole’ in BYU’s Honor Code amnesty, experts and victims say.

  05-08-2018 15:51
  When a student at Brigham Young University-Idaho reported being sexually assaulted in July, she thought she could not be punished under the Mormon school’s Honor Code.BYU-Idaho and other colleges owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints promise amnesty from school discipline to students who report sexual misconduct. The 2017 change was part of sweeping reforms that began at BYU in Provo after the university came under scrutiny for punishing victims of sex crimes — exp
  
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• Salt Lake Tribune photos of the month for July 2018

  05-08-2018 15:00
  Salt Lake Tribune photographers documented some of Utah’s biggest news in July.Fires broke out across the state, destroying homes and causing evacuations.Staff members participated in the weekly 999 Ride after the death of a cyclist the week before.July also brought big events, including the Utah Championship, the Utah Miss Rodeo pageant and the LoveLoud Festival.Keep up with our photographers by following The Salt Lake Tribune on Instagram.
  (Trent Nelson|The Salt Lake Tribune)Left: A plan
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Bigots now face the consequences in real time

  05-08-2018 15:00
  Jeffrey Whitman feels like he got a raw deal.It's true that Whitman, a contractor in central Ohio, has had a rough last few days. His life, he says, has been "completely and thoroughly ruined." He doubts he'll ever work in Columbus again.That may be an accurate prediction, given the scalding scorn his name engenders online. He is reviled on Twitter, loathed on YouTube and his Yelp reviews have become simply brutal, including images of the Nazi swastika and the battle flag of the Confederacy. "Se
  
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• George Pyle: Anything that isn’t welfare for the rich is now ‘socialism’

  05-08-2018 15:00
  A young Latina from the Bronx and an old white dude from New England are taking what may be a premature victory lap around the country, making the point that a philosophy of government that has come to be called “socialism" — or, to make it sound less menacing, “democratic socialism” — is an idea whose time has come.The previously unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a lock to be elected in the bright blue 14th Congressional District of New York, having out-hustled a
  
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• Commentary: Wild horses and taxpayers pay the price for BLM’s business as usual

  05-08-2018 15:00
  At the time of writing this, five wild horses from the Cedar Mountain Herd Management Area in Utah have been killed as a result of a Bureau of Land Management roundup currently underway that is being sold as an effort to “save” these animals from drought.While there are some areas in the West that are experiencing drought, the BLM is using drought as an excuse to remove hundreds of wild horses from the range as an “emergency,” thereby bypassing legal requirements for anal
  
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• Commentary: Hatch’s phony wilderness bill is a Trojan Horse

  05-08-2018 15:00
  Sen. Orrin Hatch, alongside the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands and oil industry executives, is currently pushing for the creation of wilderness in Southern Utah. And it’s all a front to insure oil drilling and mining in the area for years to come.Confused yet? Let me explain. It all started with the formation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah that’s beauty can only be rivaled by its size. The creation of this monument blocked off
  
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• Commentary: Fed up with politics? Try having a conversation

  05-08-2018 15:00
  There is every reason to hate our current state of politics. The people who shout the loudest, the people who name-call, the people who refuse to consider other views, they are the people who often get the most attention.These political tactics are not unique to the left or the right. Too often it seems that everyone has reverted back to a form of tribalism that halts the progress of society. Nothing gets done with this, “You are with us or you are against us,” mentality.I spent a fe
  
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• Christian unity is on display in Utah, along with relics from Jesus' family, in sacred space shared by Catholics, Greek Orthodox

  05-08-2018 15:00
  Cottonwood Heights • Imagine glimpsing the arm of Jesus’ grandmother or a robe from his father — well, stepfather.Now 2,000 years later, you can — right here in Utah — as long as you have a believing heart.A Greek Orthodox congregation in Cottonwood Heights recently acquired a bone fragment from Anna, the Virgin Mary’s mother, and, for good measure, picked up a swatch from Joseph’s robe as well.The tiny relics — as they are known — rest side b
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Why the Utah Jazz will finish 2nd in the west and Donovan Mitchell’s incredible response to Trump

  05-08-2018 09:07 via sportspyder.com
  ... for more than just basketball By Aug 5, 2018, 12:43am MDT Share Why the Utah Jazz will finish 2nd in the west and Donovan Mitchell’s incredible response to Tr ...
  
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• Cejudo upsets Johnson, Dillashaw stops Garbrandt at UFC 227

  05-08-2018 07:31
  Los Angeles • Henry Cejudo pulled off one of the most impressive upsets in mixed martial arts history at UFC 227.T.J. Dillashaw simply repeated himself, only quicker.Cejudo ended Demetrious Johnson’s nearly six-year reign as the UFC flyweight champion Saturday night at Staples Center, earning a split-decision victory over the most dominant active champion in the sport.In the main event moments later, Dillashaw defended his bantamweight title with a vicious first-round stoppage of form
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Video: Donovan Mitchell’s highlight dunk last season is reminiscent of Kobe Bryant

  05-08-2018 07:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... s occasional highlight plays, Mitchell had a stellar rookie campaign for the Jazz. After being drafted 13th overall by the who immediately, and regrettably, s ...
  
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• Utahn Tan France and ‘Queer Eye’ win a Television Critics Association award

  05-08-2018 06:45
  Beverly Hills, Calif. • For the first time in the 34-year history of the Television Critics Association Awards, a Utahn has been honored.Well, the trophy for Best Reality Show went to Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” and Salt Laker Tan France is one of the stars of that show. France — the son of Pakistani immigrants who grew up in London — immigrated to the United States. And he’s lived in Utah’s capital city for nearly a decade.(France and the other members
  
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• Real Salt Lake beats Chicago Fire 2-1 on Damir Kreilach’s two goals

  05-08-2018 06:41
  Sandy • Real Salt Lake’s front office has drawn a fair share of ire from the fan base recently.Some of it warranted, some of it typical gripes.But RSL’s braintrust got one very crucial signing right this offseason. He’s No. 6 in your game-day booklet. The 6-foot-1 Croatian box-to-box midfielder who continually has proved that he’s not only part of RSL’s long-term project, but he’s here to help expedite the process. Sure, there might be a center forward is
  
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• Ray Lewis urges togetherness and love in Hall of Fame speech

  05-08-2018 06:40
  Canton, Ohio • One of the great leaders football has seen, Ray Lewis used his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech to call for more enlightened leadership in our country.The last of the seven members of the class of 2018 on hand to be enshrined, Lewis eschewed notes and the lectern, instead strolling along the stage and passionately urging his listeners to come together.“Are you living every day to make this world better?” Lewis asked Saturday night at the end of his 33-mi
  
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• Report: Angels manager Mike Scioscia expected to step down at end of season

  05-08-2018 06:25
  Cleveland• Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia is expected to step down at the end of this season, according to a report by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.Scioscia has managed the Angels since 2000 and is the longest-tenured manager in the majors. Only four managers in baseball history have managed one team for more consecutive seasons than these 19 by Scioscia.The 59-year-old Scioscia led the Angels to a World Series title in 2002.The Athletic’s report was pinned on unidentified
  
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• From the gym to the Garden: Pro dodgeball grows to big stage

  05-08-2018 04:28
  New York • Professional dodgeball is chaos, but it’s organized chaos.At the 2018 Dodgeball World Cup, people were dodging, dipping, diving, ducking and, well, dodging some more all over the two-court theater at Madison Square Garden. And while that part of the matches may have look scrambled, the rest did not.Each attack Saturday was thought out, strategically planned around players’ strengths and weaknesses. Balls didn’t just fly amuck. They were thrown with purpose.&ldqu
  
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• Taste of the Wasatch — scheduled for Sunday — loses more support after an anti-hunger group says it was stiffed by the sponsor

  05-08-2018 03:45
  At least three participating restaurants in the annual Taste of the Wasatch food and wine event scheduled for Sunday at Solitude have pulled out over concern that tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds are going to the host organization and its leader instead of being donated to Utahns Against Hunger.“We had always expected this money was going to feed hungry children,” Ryan Lowder, owner and chef of Copper Onion and Copper Kitchen, told The Salt Lake Tribune on Saturday.Lowder sai
  
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• Food trucks and breweries take over The Gateway

  05-08-2018 03:11
  What’s better than rows and rows of food trucks lining up for a downtown block party?Add beer.The Salt Lake Tribune’s Food Truck and Brewery Battle brought local brewers and food trucks to The Gateway for a free event in its backyard. Above are some photos from the event.
  
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• Dana Milbank: Journalists are playing into Trump’s hand

  05-08-2018 02:00
  Washington • A question to my colleagues in the media: Why do we play President Trump’s foil?The scene in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, last Thursday night was familiar: journalists on an elevated platform in the middle of the arena, penned in, filming the proceedings and typing on their laptops while the president of the United States points at them and provokes thousands of people to boo them, jeer them, taunt them and chant ("CNN sucks!").By my count, the president attacked the press
  
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• At least three restaurants pull out of Sunday’s Taste of the Wasatch event after anti-hunger group says it was stiffed by the sponsor

  05-08-2018 00:36
  At least three participating restaurants in the annual Taste of the Wasatch food and wine event scheduled for Sunday at Solitude have pulled out over concern that tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds are going to the host organization and its leader instead of being donated to Utahns Against Hunger as billed.“We had always expected this money was going to feed hungry children," Ryan Lowder, owner and chef of the Copper Onion and Copper Kitchen, told The Salt Lake Tribune.Lowder said he
  
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• Runnin’ Utes have spent the summer beefing up, getting a stellar freshman class up to speed and preparing for big-time nonconference dates

  05-08-2018 00:32
  Larry Krystkowiak’s summer has been anything but a break.Not that it ever was before, but when change hovers over a program, as it has under Krystkowiak in recent seasons, you have to get your batch of newcomers up to speed. This summer his Runnin’ Utes welcomed five members of a lauded freshman class who will be leaned upon to not only contribute, but be integral parts of a program in its eighth season under the watch of the 53-year-old head coach.During the start of the few weeks o
  
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• Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus are found in Logan

  05-08-2018 00:32
  A sample of mosquitoes caught in a commercial area in Logan have tested positive for West Nile virus, the city announced Saturday.The mosquitoes were taken from an area near 1200 west and 1700 north and were analyzed by the state’s Public Health Laboratory, according to a post on the city’s Facebook page.
  West Nile virus is most commonly spread to humans from mosquito bites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are no known cures for the virus, nor preve
  
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