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• Hawaii gets home run on first pitch, defeats South Korea 3-0 to win Little League title

  26-08-2018 23:42
  South Williamsport, Pa. • It only took one pitch for Mana Lau Kong to deliver Hawaii its first Little League World Series title in a decade.Kong homered to center field on the first pitch his team saw Sunday, and Ka’olu Holt pitched a complete game to lead Hawaii to a 3-0 victory over South Korea in the Little League World Series championship.It’s the first Little League World Series title for Hawaii since 2008. Hawaii is now one of seven U.S. states with at least three LLWS cha
  
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• Police: Suicidal man causes lockdown at Albuquerque airport

  26-08-2018 23:30
  Albuquerque, N.M. • A man described as suicidal after cutting himself with a broken mug caused an hours-long lockdown at Albuquerque’s airport before he was arrested inside the main terminal, police said Sunday.The man, whose name wasn't immediately released, boarded a flight around 8 a.m. Sunday at Albuquerque International Sunport and then was asked to disembark the plane after becoming disruptive, police spokesman Simon Drobik said.While in the process of getting on another flight,
  
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• Former Vatican ambassador says Pope Francis, Pope Benedict knew of sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. cardinal for years

  26-08-2018 22:22
  Dublin • A former Vatican ambassador to the United States has alleged in an 11-page letter that Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis — among other top Catholic Church officials — had been aware of sexual misconduct allegations against former Washington, D.C., archbishop Cardinal Theodore McCarrick years before he resigned this summer. The letter from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was recalled from his D.C. post in 2016 amid allegations that he’d become embroiled
  
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• 8 people, 6 of them kids, killed in Chicago apartment fire

  26-08-2018 22:05
  Chicago • Eight people, including six children, were killed when a fire broke out before dawn Sunday at a Chicago apartment in one of the deadliest fires in the nation’s third-largest city in years, officials say.Two other people were hospitalized in very critical condition, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt said. One of the children who died was an infant, according to Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago."We have not had this in many, many, many years — this amount of
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The improbable hype train of the Utah Jazz

  26-08-2018 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... t and transforming into a starter caliber power forward. That 2008-2009 Utah Jazz team with all of his firepower was overlooked. Contrast that 2008-2009 team...
  
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• Multiple dead after mall shooting in Florida

  26-08-2018 21:28
  Jacksonville, Fla. • Florida authorities are reporting multiple people dead and “many transported” to hospitals after a mass shooting at a riverfront mall in Jacksonville that was hosting a video game tournament.The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is reporting that one suspect is dead at the scene after the shooting at Jacksonville Landing, but it was unknown if there were other suspects involved.The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office used Twitter and Facebook to warn people to s
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alums: Jeremy Evans will be balling in Turkey next season

  26-08-2018 21:12 via sportspyder.com
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• Revamped offensive line will determine whether BYU starting quarterback Tanner Mangum thrives or nosedives in 2018

  26-08-2018 21:08
  Provo • Lost in last Friday’s release of BYU’s 2018 depth chart that showed senior Tanner Mangum will start at quarterback in the Cougars’ season opener Saturday against Arizona was the naming of the team’s starting offensive line.It was almost as much of a mystery as the starting quarterback situation.But it is quite likely just as important, because the offensive line’s performance will go a long way in determining if Mangum is as effective as he was in 2015
  
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• Utah Jazz alums: Jeremy Evans will be balling in Turkey next season

  26-08-2018 20:59
  Former Utah Jazz forward and Slam Dunk champion Jeremy Evans has signed on the dotted line to play in the Turkish Basketball Super League. When last we saw Jeremy Evans, the former Utah Jazz forward and 2012 Slam Dunk Contest Champion was helping Eberlein Drive advance to The Basketball Tournament’s championship game, where the squad […]
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Three things Dante Exum needs to show next season

  26-08-2018 18:46 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz need Victor Oladipo-esque breakout from Dante Exum by Jared Woodcox ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Three things Dante Exum needs to show next season

  26-08-2018 18:29
  After re-signing Dante Exum this offseason, the Utah Jazz will want to see a few key improvements from the former fifth overall pick this season. The start to the career of Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum has not quite gone as expected. As a top five pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, he was supposed to […]
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• Neil Simon, Broadway’s long-reigning king of comedy, dies at 91

  26-08-2018 18:13
  Neil Simon, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning author of plays such as "The Odd Couple," "Barefoot in the Park" and "Lost in Yonkers," who died Aug. 26 at 91, was often called the world's most popular playwright after Shakespeare.Time magazine proclaimed him the "patron saint of laughter." His shows, with an arsenal of sarcastic wit, became highly entertaining staples of high school and community theaters, and they popped up on stages as far away as Beijing and Moscow. But mostly, he dominated Broad
  
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• Just Weber? Utes’ season-opening opponent is more than respectable, at the Wildcats’ level of college football

  26-08-2018 17:44
  Ogden • Pac-12 football teams will launch the season this week, facing the likes of Auburn and Ohio State. Utah’s opponent? Just Weber State.Make that #JustWeber, a formerly self-mocking phrase that has become a campus rallying point. The Wildcats, ranked No. 8 in FCS preseason polls, might be the best Big Sky Conference team the Utes have faced in this decade.You've waited for this all year.@Utah_Football game week is here!#goutes pic.twitter.com/HU9qwDw8Tu— Utah Athletics (@ut
  
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• Pac-12 preview: Colorado is trying to shake the label of a one-year wonder

  26-08-2018 17:41
  Colorado's rise and regression in Pac-12 football is not quite comparable to the sudden climb of Utah's baseball program in 2016, considering the Buffaloes won only a Pac-12 South championship that year, not the league title.Yet a similar phenomenon is in play, with the question becoming whether Colorado ever can return to those one-year heights, or permanently has returned to the bottom of the division. The Buffs finished last in 2017, losing 34-13 to Utah in the regular-season finale with bowl
  
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• Commentary: Utah schools are doing wrong by LGBTQ+ youth

  26-08-2018 16:59
  Utah has the 5th highest suicide rate in the nation. Youth are particularly vulnerable to this. In 2014, suicide was the leading cause of death for Utah youth ages 10-17. Young adults who identify as LGBTQ+ are particularly susceptible to suicide but, as of right now, the Utah Department of Health does not gather any statistical data on these individuals. The state of Utah has a history of making it difficult for LGBTQ+ youth to feel supported and recognized, and this message is made even cleare
  
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• Commentary: Oil and gas leases threaten national parks

  26-08-2018 16:56
  As a former superintendent of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, I am honored to have served as an ambassador for the spectacular cultural and natural resources that are found in this iconic place. It was my duty to protect the natural and cultural resources of this special landscape for the benefit of current and future generations.I was pleased to learn that recently the Department of Justice supported a federal court ruling maintaining the authority of the executive branch to issue the ban on
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Catholics are now regularly asked: “How can you stay?"

  26-08-2018 16:53
  Washington • The major disgrace of America’s Catholic bishops was to foster a culture in which priests sexually assaulted children and were then sent on to new duties as their ungodly behavior was covered up.There is also a second failure. Thanks to the bishops, who are supposed to strengthen the faith, Catholics are now regularly asked: "How can you be a Catholic?" And, even more pointedly, "How can you stay?"This summer, these questions became much harder to answer.This is about the
  
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• Commentary: The Return of the Man Who Would Be King

  26-08-2018 16:50
  Should 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney be elected senator from Utah this November, he’ll be the first major-party presidential nominee to be subsequently elected to a lower office since former Vice President/1968 Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn., returned to the Senate in 1970.Romney’s prophetic foreign policy predictions during his presidential run give him the ability to have an impact far greater than your typical freshman senator on vital international
  
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• Sean Reyes: The PURE Act would let Utahns govern Utah

  26-08-2018 16:47
  Few issues stir stronger passions among Utahns than the care and management of our public lands. That is why it is so important that all sides be as truthful as possible when debating this issue publicly. Unfortunately, many have resorted to misinformation and scare tactics in response to Sen. Mike Lee’s new Protect Utah’s Rural Economy Act.To read some op-eds in local papers, you’d think Lee had proposed selling Zion National Park or Wasatch National Forest to oil companies. N
  
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• George Pyle: In Utah, how you tell the truth about guns matters.

  26-08-2018 16:45
  “Never frighten a little man. He’ll kill you.”— Robert A. Heinlein, “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”Just telling the truth doesn’t always help. You have to learn how to tell it.This was the lesson that should be drawn from the fuss surrounding a University of Utah graduate assistant who was pulled from a teaching assignment when the syllabus for her course was ruled inartful and offensive to the powers that be. Even though it was true and accurate.Apparen
  
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• Commentary: Gerrymandering takes away the voice of Utah progressives

  26-08-2018 16:43
  We hear a lot about gerrymandering in today’s political climate. Politicians choose their voters rather than voters choosing their representation. It fits nicely into a tweet if you’re particularly passionate about it and, in all honesty, it’s one of the few areas that people across the political spectrum mostly agree needs fixing.It is a big reason that, despite the fact that in four of the past five presidential election years, the majority of Americans voted for Democrats on
  
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• [The Sports Quotient] - It's Time To Stop Undervaluing Ricky Rubio

  26-08-2018 16:42 via sportspyder.com
  ...with the return of Gobert and the rise of rookie star Donovan Mitchell, the Jazz were suddenly a force to be reckoned with. They finished the regular season...
  
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• Commentary: Utah is a textbook example of gerrymandering

  26-08-2018 16:42
  The definition of gerrymandering is when one political party creates voting districts in a way that hinders democracy. Utah is a textbook example of gerrymandering.At the federal level, Salt Lake City is split up among three of the state’s four U.S. congressional districts. At the state level, many municipalities are split up among multiple (sometimes up to four) state legislative districts. This splitting up of neighborhoods, cities and counties is to maintain political control. An electe
  
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• Commentary: Vote for candidates who support net neutrality

  26-08-2018 16:40
  Most Americans don’t want companies like Verizon and AT&T to return to censoring what we read, watch and post online, forcing us to wait forever for our favorite websites to load (if at all) or to start charging us more to connect with our family or friends. But our representatives in the House either are not listening or do not care, perhaps both.Net neutrality mandated that all internet data be treated equally, or “neutrally.” Internet service providers were not allowed t
  
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• Rich Lowry: Time for Trump to come clean

  26-08-2018 16:39
  If it wasn't obvious before, it should be now: President Donald Trump is in an impeachment fight.It hasn’t fully ripened yet. That won’t happen unless Democrats take the House and do so with a healthy margin in the fall. But Michael Cohen’s statement that he committed campaign finance violations at the behest of Trump makes it that much more likely Democrats will impeach him once they have the power and the votes to do it.This means Trump is in a political fight more than a leg
  
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• Commentary: Utah’s medical marijuana vote is no threat to religious liberty

  26-08-2018 16:34
  In a lawsuit filed Aug. 15 in Utah’s state court system, lawyers for the anti-marijuana activist Walter J. Plumb argued that a limited medical marijuana ballot initiative set to go before Utah’s voters Nov. 6 should be thrown out. The complaint states that the measure, if enacted, would require Mormon landlords to rent to individuals who would use marijuana in their homes. This, according to the lawsuit, makes the ballot initiative unconstitutional because it would supposedly violate
  
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• Commentary: If you don’t like your health plan, change Congress

  26-08-2018 16:33
  For more than a decade, we have witnessed bipartisan failure by Congress to pass meaningful health system reform. Obamacare was neither affordable nor protective for patients; the uninsured who have been “covered” by Obamacare have illusory benefits at an enormous price. The junk insurance now being offered as Trumpcare is just a meaner version of bronze plans. This bipartisan failure is killing Americans, their family budgets and our federal government. Preventable injury to hospita
  
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• Commentary: Life is hard enough without religion adding pointless burdens

  26-08-2018 16:31
  Peggy Fletcher Stack’s piece on Eric Huntsman’s Brigham Young University devotional (“Make campus and Mormonism safe spaces …”, Aug. 8,) is both encouraging and challenging.Huntsman is clearly attuned to the isolation and struggles faced by LGBTQ members of the LDS Church. He urged his listeners to create “places where our sisters and brothers can safely question, seek understanding and share their pain. … The choice to love can literally make the diff
  
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• The LDS Church’s opposition to Proposition 2 pits it against a tough foe: faithful members who already use medical marijuana

  26-08-2018 16:26
  A Latter-day Saint in Utah County left work anxious on Wednesday, having just learned that his church was preparing to issue a statement on its position regarding a ballot initiative that would allow people like him to legally use marijuana to treat their illnesses.If the initiative known as Proposition 2 passes, it would no longer be a crime for him to buy, possess and use the cannabis droplets he’s been having shipped from California to calm his debilitating tremors caused by medications
  
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• Kirby: My Kind of Mormon — me, myself and I

  26-08-2018 16:24
  Years ago, I went through a faith crisis. I won’t bore you with the details. I only mention it now because when I popped out the other side, I was still Mormon, albeit of a markedly different stripe. I was me. I was my kind of Mormon.I can’t take all the credit. There are a number of people I should probably thank for the comfort I now feel in being my authentic Mormon self.First are those who seized my crisis as an opportunity to convert me to another faith, or a more disparaging wa
  
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• Tribune editorial: Utah does poorly by its women

  26-08-2018 16:23
  It is painful, though not difficult, to connect the dots of a handful of articles that appeared recently in The Salt Lake Tribune.It all adds up to Utah being a place where it is not so good to be female.In just the last week, we learned that Utah is the second-worst state in terms of sexism in its culture. It is the only state outside the Southeast “Bible Belt” that ranked in the bottom tier of states with such a bad attitude toward the equality of women, coming in behind only Arkan
  
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• In Utah, people still love ‘alternative’ music. But what is that, exactly?

  26-08-2018 16:21
  The ’90s are long gone, and alternative rock — and every other form of rock, for that matter — is dead. Take your JNCOs to the DI, put away your Sony CD-Walkman, and back up your floppy disks, because it’s all over.Except that it isn’t. “Alternative” music, a term coined in the ’80s referring to zero-budget college radio that went on to become a mainstream ’90s boom (and eventual bust), is still here, in nostalgic and contemporary flavors.Tho
  
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• SLC commissions 15 artists to add 11 murals to the Granary District

  26-08-2018 16:20
  Salt Lake City’s Redevelopment Agency has commissioned 15 artists to create 11 large-scale murals in the city’s Granary District.The outdoor works of art will be painted on privately owned building in the area between Interstate 15 and 300 West, and 600 South and 1000 South. The RDA is spending $147,000 to fund the murals, which are slated to be completed by mid-September.The artists (some working in teams) who were chosen through the city’s competitive call for artists process
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Channel 4’s owner might buy FOX 13, whose owner is suing Channel 2’s owner for $1 billion

  26-08-2018 16:18
  The parent company of KUTV-Channel 2 won’t be buying FOX 13, but the parent company of KTVX-Channel 4 might.Oh, and the parent company of FOX 13 is suing the parent company of KUTV for a billion dollars. That’s not a typo — it’s “billion” with a “b.”Sometimes the most entertaining thing about television isn’t what’s on the air, it’s what’s going on behind the scenes.In the wake of the collapse of the Sinclair Broadcast Group
  
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• Letter: UTA puts profits ahead of riders’ needs

  26-08-2018 15:00
  I wrote a letter to the two people who represent me in the state Legislature, Sen. Lincoln Fillmore and Rep. Susan Pulsipher, to complain about what UTA has done to the South Jordan parking lot for FrontRunner. One half of what was a very large and always full parking lot has been turned into a very small lot with an overflow lot across a very busy highway, and instead of being filled with commuters’ cars, it is filled with a hotel and private business. That went so well that now UTA is bu
  
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• Letter: Thanks, Trib, for illuminating medical marijuana issue

  26-08-2018 15:00
  Thank God for Pat Bagley, Maximilian Werner and Robert Gehrke. Their brilliant contributions on the subject of medical marijuana in The Tribune go to the heart of the issue. The most laughable thing I have ever read is Walter Plumb III’s lawsuit attacking Prop 2. I have PPMS (primary progressive multiple sclerosis) and must use opioids for pain management. I would like to have Plumb or any of his ilk to live a day in my body.Tom Barberi, HerrimanSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Pyle’s column about the press proves Trump’s point about it

  26-08-2018 15:00
  In George Pyle’s Aug. 19 column, “How we joined the parade in defense of free press,” he wrote that newspapers are “chasing the big story in a pack.” He criticizes The Toledo Blade for arguing the “press is guilty, too, because it is biased against” the president and “should change its ways.” The pack is overwhelmingly liberal and continually tries to shape stories rather than report the news. Many stories omit information or go unreported.Th
  
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• Letter: Halting land sales was a good start; now let’s restore our monuments

  26-08-2018 15:00
  Re: Tribune editorial: Plans for former monument lands show whyprotection was needed:My company, which is based in Colorado, holds a permit in the Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and brings clients regularly from all over the world to Utah’s spectacular public lands. I am constantly amazed by the landscapes every time I visit Utah and equally amazed by the schizophrenic attitude of Utah’s elected officials and the Department of Interior. It now seems that after intense backlash fro
  
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• Letter: GOP official’s comments about LGBTQ are shocking and sad

  26-08-2018 15:00
  GOP official’s comments about LGBTQ are shocking and sadIn a recent interview, Salt Lake County GOP communications director Dave Robinson took the opportunity to sit down with The Salt Lake Tribune and detail his insights on the LGBTQ+ community, or “the gays” as he puts it (Aug. 21). During his interview, Robinson, who is gay, proclaimed that the shocking suicide rates among LGBTQ+ Utahns are caused by "self-hatred" stemming from having “grundles of sex partners.”
  
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• Letter: Exorbitant medical costs will cost our community, too

  26-08-2018 15:00
  Thanks, Luke Dalton, for your Tribune commentary about the outrageous cost of insulin. I have been a Type I diabetic since I turned 18 almost 30 years ago. Back then, a bottle of insulin was less than $30. Now it’s almost $300, and a bottle only lasts me 10 days if I take the dose I should to keep my eyesight, legs and kidneys. I should be taking five or six bottles a month (slow and fast-acting), which would cost me at least $1,600 a month. But who can afford that?So, diabetics skimp eith
  
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• Letter: Comedian David Cross propagates hate speech

  26-08-2018 15:00
  David Cross’ ridicule of sacred things is more than free speech. It is hate speech. I feel absolutely hated.Brent Harker, OremSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: America’s only hope lies with the GOP — what a chilling thought

  26-08-2018 15:00
  As E.J. Dionne notes, Steven Levetsky’s and Daniel Ziblatt’s “How Democracies Die” offers a very disturbing take on the current state of Western democracy. The public library has copies. I recommend that everyone read it. One of the book’s most chilling insights: The “people” have never turned back a nation’s drift toward authoritarianism. Only political parties have done so — and they have done so only when a conservative party, recognizing
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What former Utah Jazz teams tell us about this current Jazz squad

  26-08-2018 09:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... ormer Utah Jazz teams tell us about this current Jazz squad Does the pairing of Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert compare to John S ...
  
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• Real Salt Lake routs the Rapids, claims Rocky Mountain Cup

  26-08-2018 06:22
  Commerce City, Colo. • Jefferson Savarino had two goals and an assist to help Real Salt Lake beat the Colorado Rapids 6-0 on Saturday night.Corey Baird added a goal and two assists for Real Salt Lake (12-10-5), which claims possession of the Rocky Mountain Cup for the third year in a row and the 10th time in the past 12 seasons.Colorado’s Niki Jackson and Bismark Boateng were each shown a red card in the ninth and 45th minute, respectively, although by the time Boateng was sent marchi
  
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• ‘A lifetime of selfless service’: Utahns mourn the loss of Sen. John McCain

  26-08-2018 05:53
  A day after his family announced Sen. John McCain would discontinue treatment for brain cancer, the longtime Arizona senator and former Republican presidential nominee died Saturday. Moments after news of his death, social media flooded with sympathies and remembrances of the 81-year-old.Here is how prominent Utahns reacted to McCain’s death:Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, tweeted a statement saying, “No one is more worthy of the words “hero” than John McCain.”HATCH on th
  
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• Former BYU quarterback Taysom Hill gives Saints a spark in 36-7 preseason rout of Chargers

  26-08-2018 05:45
  Carson, Calif. • Alvin Kamara ran for a 2-yard touchdown, and the New Orleans Saints capped a productive week in Southern California with a 36-7 preseason win over the Los Angeles Chargers.Saints quarterback Drew Brees was 7 of 9 for 59 yards with an interception in three series, while Philip Rivers was 5 of 7 for 29 yards in a brief tuneup appearance for the Chargers.New Orleans did not get its initial first down until late in the first quarter when third-string quarterback and special tea
  
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• Man tries to roll under moving train in Salt Lake City, dies

  26-08-2018 05:28
  A man was killed Saturday when he tried to traverse a railroad crossing by rolling under a moving train, according to Salt Lake City police.At about 4:30 p.m., the man approached the tracks near 900 South and 650 West and apparently got impatient, Lt. Russ Amott said.The pedestrian apparently surveyed the moving train for a few moments before trying to roll underneath it and come out on the other side.He didn’t make it. Amott said the freight train dragged the man’s body, and he died
  
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• ICE raid has chilling effect on Moab workers, police chief says

  26-08-2018 05:22
  Federal agents detained undocumented immigrants in a Moab raid Friday, leaving some residents too afraid to go to work Saturday.Moab Police Chief Jim Winder said he heard of the impending operation Thursday in a call from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, which didn’t tell Moab police details about the operation, other than the fact that it would occur.Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, didn’t respond to The Salt Lake Tribune’s request for comment Saturday afte
  
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• Ohio State opener nears, but the talk is not about football

  26-08-2018 05:03
  Columbus, Ohio • A week before Ohio State’s season opener, few in Columbus have been able to focus on football. Not many are talking about the new starting quarterback or how to best use the two elite running backs.Instead, the discussion has been about domestic violence, misplaced loyalty, lying and how much a football coach at a major university is expected to know about the personal lives of his assistants.It has been a preseason unlike any other in Columbus.On Aug. 1, two days bef
  
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• Sen. Jeff Flake: I am grateful for John McCain

  26-08-2018 04:26
  I couldn’t bring myself to write this piece until today. It’s not that I didn’t try. But something in my mind convinced my hands that if I put it off, somehow John McCain might be with us a little longer. I needed that. The country needed that.But a call from Cindy late this week told me it was time.I’ve never known Washington without John McCain. I started on Capitol Hill more than 30 years ago interning for Dennis DeConcini, “the other senator from Arizona,”
  
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