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• American soccer star Clint Dempsey retires suddenly from Seattle, MLS

  29-08-2018 23:26
  Seattle • Former U.S. national team captain and Seattle Sounders striker Clint Dempsey announced his retirement on Wednesday, effective immediately.In a statement issued by the Sounders, the 35-year-old Dempsey said he believes it’s the right time to call it quits after playing soccer professionally for 15 years.“After a lot of thought, my family and I have decided that this is the right time for me to step away from the game,” Dempsey said. “I’d like to thank
  
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  29-08-2018 22:44 via twitter.com
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Four playoff series the Utah Jazz really should’ve won

  29-08-2018 22:32 via sportspyder.com
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• Ogden police officer shoots dog during child welfare call

  29-08-2018 22:26
  Ogden • Ogden police say an officer shot and injured a dog that allegedly attacked him while he was on a child welfare call.According to a statement from the Ogden Police Department, the dog came out from behind a vehicle in a driveway and attacked the officer.Officials say the officer shot the dog in self-defense.The dog's owners, Freddy Gallegos and Lindsy Maestas, tell local media that their dog was on his leash. They say an officer asked them to put the dog inside.Maestas says the dog w
  
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• Four playoff series the Utah Jazz really should’ve won

  29-08-2018 22:17
  A look back at those postseason series that the Utah Jazz should’ve won, but bad luck intervened. The playoff losses that really stick in fans’ craw. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by saying that now is the best time to be a Utah Jazz fan since Karl Malone and John Stockton […]
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Why Dante Exum is the key to Utah’s championship hopes

  29-08-2018 22:04 via sportspyder.com
  ... ident play without restrictions. And if Exum can keep up play like this, the Jazz are going to be in great shape. The Jazz announced they signed guard . We’ve ...
  
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• Man drowns, others cut by boat propellers as high winds lead to chaos at Lake Powell

  29-08-2018 22:04
  A Russian man died, several others were nearly drowned and some were cut by boat propellers as high winds wreaked havoc on a group of pontoon boaters at Lake Powell.Some 29 young adults were in the group of international visitors who rented three pontoons Monday in Wahweap and traveled to the Castle Rock Cut in Wahweap Bay, according to a news statement from Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.Several of the boaters had hopped into the water to swim — without life jackets — when win
  
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• Happily ‘back in football again,’ Britain Covey and the Utes open the 2018 season against Weber State

  29-08-2018 22:04
  As tends to happen in the afternoon heat and drudgery of football practice in August, a press-coverage drill involving Utah's receivers and defensive backs became intense.“We all started fighting and it turned into this shoving match,” sophomore receiver Britain Covey said. “But at the end, the receivers and DBs were like, 'Let's go!' And it was just like, 'Whoa, I'm back in football again.' ”That’s a good feeling, an emotion that 46,000-plus fans will share Thursda
  
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• BYU’s defensive linemen are large and tall, but they will have to be stout against the run and get pressure on the passer for Cougars to succeed

  29-08-2018 22:03
  Provo • BYU might have the largest defensive linemen that the Arizona Wildcats will face all season, new coach Kevin Sumlin said Tuesday during the Pac-12 coaches teleconference.“I mean, really big guys — 330 and 340 pounds inside,” Sumlin said. “Then a 6-foot-9 defensive end, 280 pounds [Corbin Kaufusi]. There are not a lot of guys in a lot of leagues that are going to have that kind of size.”BYU’s other projected starters, besides Kaufusi, are 340-pound
  
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• Trump says U.S. did ‘fantastic job in Puerto Rico’ after Maria

  29-08-2018 21:58
  Washington • President Donald Trump says he thinks the federal government did a “fantastic job in Puerto Rico” despite the deaths of nearly 3,000 people after Hurricane Maria.Trump tells reporters at the White House Wednesday that, "We've put a lot of money and a lot of effort into Puerto Rico."He says he thinks "most of the people of Puerto Rico really appreciate what we've done."The U.S. territory's governor this week raised the official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64
  
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• Dana Milbank: Donald Trump, constitutional scholar

  29-08-2018 21:20
  Washington • There oughta be a law!The great lawgiver Donald Trump arose before the sun Tuesday pondering one of the finer points of jurisprudence and, at the tender hour of 5:24 a.m., composed his own mini law-review article on Twitter.His Honor had determined that Google searches for "Trump News" were "RIGGED" so that "almost all stories & news is BAD." He asserted that mainstream news articles ("fake news") got priority over material friendly to Trump. "Illegal?" he asked.Why, yes. Y
  
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• Kingston brothers, accused in $511 million biofuels fraud scheme, to stay in jail for now

  29-08-2018 21:11
  A federal judge said Wednesday that two brothers with ties to a polygamous sect and accused in a $511 million biofuels fraud scheme will remain in jail.However, Judge Brooke Wells set hearings to consider whether to release the men later.Brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston were indicted earlier this month on counts of fraud and money laundering related to the biofuel company they ran, Washakie Renewable Energy. A third man, Lev Aslan Dermen, also was indicted.Prosecutors argued Wednesday that the
  
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• Washington hopes former Ute Alex Smith and Adrian Peterson can lead it back to playoffs

  29-08-2018 20:41
  Ashburn, Va. • Alex Smith and Adrian Peterson sat a few feet away from each other as fresh-faced college players at the Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York in late 2005 and never imaged this would happen.Twelve NFL seasons later for Smith and 11 for Peterson and they’re now in the same backfield together with Washington.The 34-year-old quarterback acquired by trade in February and 33-year-old running back signed off the street during the preseason have each been around the block a few
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: They failed to reach the ballot, then failed in court. What’s next for Count My Vote?

  29-08-2018 20:39
  It’s been more than four years since Count My Vote launched its first direct primary election initiative, and Utahns haven’t stopped arguing about it since.SB54, the Count My Vote-inspired law that created Utah’s dual-track election method, has survived multiple repeal attempts and court challenges. But a new ballot initiative failed to reach the ballot this year, after petition signatures were peeled away by a targeted opposition campaign, and a last-ditch effort asking the Ut
  
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• Utah Film Center, organizer of film festivals, acquires working space for state’s independent moviemakers

  29-08-2018 20:08
  A nonprofit that brings independent movies to Utah audiences is getting more deeply involved in giving support to the production side of indie film.The Utah Film Center, which presents the annual Tumbleweeds and Damn These Heels film festivals in Salt Lake City, is acquiring the Avrec Art House, a production and coworking space for independent filmmakers.The filmmaking service is being renamed the Artist Foundry, and the Utah Film Center has hired its founder, Dallin Cerva, to be its manager.The
  
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• Group of hikers rescued after rockfall in Zion National Park

  29-08-2018 20:08
  St. George • Zion National Park officials say rescue crews had to retrieve a group of hikers who were temporarily trapped on the popular Hidden Canyon trail after a rockfall.The Spectrum reports it's the third time in a little more than a month that the park has had to close the trail due to rock falls.The statement says Zion's search and rescue team and a helicopter crew from the Grand Canyon National Park helped transport the nine visitors safely out of the canyon Tuesday.Park officials s
  
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  29-08-2018 19:53 via twitter.com
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• Utah newlyweds — on way to honeymoon — killed in Washington car crash

  29-08-2018 19:16
  A couple married in Utah a few weeks ago died in a car crash Saturday on their way to their honeymoon.FOX 13 reported Amy Moffat, 28, and Stephen Graham, 30, died in a crash near Yakima, Wash. They were on their way to Whistler, British Columbia.Graham’s Facebook page says he lived in Holladay and married Moffat on Aug. 11. Moffat’s Facebook page says she lived in Provo.
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• Salt Lake City drivers are improving, but are still worse than average, study says

  29-08-2018 19:09
  Cruising into Labor Day weekend — one of the deadliest times on the nation’s highways — new rankings say Salt Lake City drivers are improving, and those in West Valley City are getting worse.But motorists in both still crash more often than average.Salt Lake City now ranks No. 48 among the nation’s 200 largest cities, up ten spots from No. 58 last year, in the annual America’s Best Drivers Report by Allstate insurance that was released Wednesday.Adjacent West Valley
  
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• FBI director notes a growing trend of ‘homegrown’ terrorists — including a case from Utah

  29-08-2018 19:08
  The FBI calls them “homegrown violent extremists” — Americans who likely have never left the country, but have self-radicalized and aligned themselves with foreign terrorists groups. They can often plan violent attacks in hours or days, targeting people in their communities.This emerging group is now the government’s primary concern in combating terrorism, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a gathering of hundreds of Utah law enforcement officers at the state’s Nati
  
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  29-08-2018 19:07 via twitter.com
  
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• Ute offensive line has experience, but can the vets give Tyler Huntley better protection?

  29-08-2018 18:38
  The math makes sense. Going into the 2017 football season, Utah had to replace four starters on the offensive line. This year, the Utes had only one vacancy in the starting lineup.The outcome of that position duel between redshirt freshman Nick Ford and sophomore Orlando Umana officially remains undecided, with Thursday night’s season opener vs. Weber State approaching. Both of them are likely to play considerably, as the competition continues.The next question is whether the line can do a
  
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• Utah Film Center, organizer of film festivals, acquires working space for Utah’s independent filmmakers

  29-08-2018 18:34
  A nonprofit that brings independent movies to Utah audiences is getting more deeply involved in giving support to the production side of indie film.The Utah Film Center, which presents the annual Tumbleweeds and Damn These Heels film festivals in Salt Lake City, is acquiring the Avrec Art House, a production and coworking space for independent filmmakers.The filmmaking service is being renamed the Artist Foundry, and the Utah Film Center has hired its founder, Dallin Cerva, to be its manager.The
  
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  29-08-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
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• Salt Lake City police identify worker electrocuted at Utah State Archives

  29-08-2018 17:26
  The worker electrocuted Monday at a state office building has been identified as Travis Stoddard, 33.Salt Lake City police disclosed Stoddard’s name Wednesday morning. He was believed to have been electrocuted Monday on the first floor of the Utah State Archives and Records Service building, 346 S. Rio Grande St., where he was working for an electrical subcontractor.Salt Lake City police Sgt. Brandon Shearer said other workers were in the building at the time, but no one saw the accident.
  
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• Trump: White House counsel Don McGahn to depart in the fall

  29-08-2018 16:50
  Washington • President Donald Trump is tweeting that his White House counsel, Don McGahn, will be departing in the fall after the Senate confirmation vote for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.Trump praised his top White House lawyer on Wednesday, saying he has "worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service!"McGahn has played a major role in Trump’s overhaul of the federal judiciary with conservative judges. And he played a prominent role in Trump&
  
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• Political Cornflakes: President Trump says it was China that hacked Hillary Clinton’s email; tells FBI to get on it or lose all credibility.

  29-08-2018 16:46
  It turns out that federal investigators and the news media have it all wrong — it was China that hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, not Russia, according to President Donald Trump. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert joins call for Inland Port board to open its doors to the public. And no Republican politicians are returning campaign donations from a company newly indicted in a massive fraud.Happy Wednesday. President Trump cited no evidence in his tweeted blockbuster claim that China is the real cu
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - The 9th Best Player Performance of 2017-18

  29-08-2018 16:35 via sportspyder.com
  ... ffs. But Favors, finally healthy again, reminded the league his value to the Jazz can’t only be measured in how well he adapts to playing forward in a stretch ...
  
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• Campaign donations from polygamist-owned company accused in $511 million fraud remain in Utah attorney general’s escrow account

  29-08-2018 16:25
  A combined $50,985 in campaign contributions to Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes remains in escrow following last week’s indictments of a Utah biofuel company’s CEO and CFO, a spokesman for Reyes said Tuesday.The donations to Utah’s top law-enforcement official were set aside in 2016 after federal agents raided Washakie Renewable Energy, with Reyes' team citing a need for additional information before determining whether to spend or return the money.Alan Crooks, Reyes' campaign
  
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• Utah woman finds cleaning tablets in her Starbucks drink

  29-08-2018 16:05
  A Layton woman says she was sent to the emergency room after she found two cleaning tablets in her Starbucks drink.Deniece Lee told FOX 13 that she bought a Green Tea Frappuccino on Sunday and drank at least half of it before her kids noticed there were pills at the bottom of the cup. In a video Lee posted to Facebook, Lee dumps her drink onto a patch of grass to reveal two white tablets. Shortly after filming the video, Lee went to an emergency room and started vomiting, according to FOX 13.Sta
  
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• NBA Daily: The Utah Jazz Already Have Their Third Star

  29-08-2018 15:30 via basketballinsiders.com
  Utah doesn't need to go shopping next summer to add a third star to the Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell core. They already have one on the roster.
  
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• U.S. economy grew at a brisk 4.2 percent annual rate in second quarter

  29-08-2018 15:25
  Washington • The U.S. economy grew at a strong 4.2 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, the best showing in nearly four years, as growth stayed on track to produce its strongest gain in more than a decade. Strength in business investment offset slightly slower consumer spending.The Commerce Department on Wednesday revised up its estimate of growth for last quarter from an initial estimate of a 4.1 percent annual rate. The second quarter marked a sharp improvement from a 2.2 percen
  
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• Kirby: Thank heavens for this straight-shooting Utah cop

  29-08-2018 15:10
  A lot is going on currently in the upper stratosphere of U.S. politics, business, diplomacy and jurisprudence. Much of it is confusing, opinionated and about as useful to the average American as a cardboard sandwich.President Donald Trump blusters about this, Sarah Huckabee Sanders blabs that. Omarosa Manigault Newman claims this, Vladimir Putin says … hell, I don’t know. I don’t speak Russian. I wouldn’t pay attention to him even if I did.Forget all that right now, and
  
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• Utah governor says Inland Port’s board should consider opening its meetings after controversy over transparency

  29-08-2018 15:07
  After the Utah Inland Port Authority board faced public backlash earlier this month over its choice to shutter subcommittee meetings, and ahead of its conversation Wednesday about whether to open them to the public, Gov. Gary Herbert joined other local leaders in urging transparency.“I think they should consider having [subcommittee meetings] open only because of the need to be as open and transparent as possible," Herbert told The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday. “Because of the sensit
  
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• Tribune editorial: Reyes doesn’t help Utah with entry into Michigan transgender case

  29-08-2018 15:00
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has signed Utah on to join 14 other states to argue that job discrimination against transgender Americans is still legal.Reyes insists that he isn’t saying transgender people should face job discrimination. He’s just saying that Congress hasn’t said they shouldn’t face such discrimination, so the federal courts shouldn’t be stopping anyone from discriminating.Reyes is still arguing the last war.At issue is a Michigan case in which a
  
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• Letter: Tribune’s priorities on arts and culture are puzzling

  29-08-2018 15:00
  I find it interesting that, presumably due to reductions in staff and need to shrink the physical size of the newspaper, very seldom if ever are performances of artistic value by groups such as Hale Centre Theater, Utah Symphony and others reviewed. And yet you are able to find space to review the performance of comedian David Cross, who specializes in material that might reasonably be described as of somewhat, or considerably, lesser value. Why is that, exactly?John Oldham, West Valley CitySubm
  
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• Letter: Remember this hot, smoky summer when you vote in November

  29-08-2018 15:00
  To all Utah voters:We go to the polls in a couple of months. When we do, let us not forget this summer and the permanent emergency we are now under that goes by the mild name “climate change.” Do not forget the smoky skies that block out mountains, turn the sun into a red disc and bring soot into the lungs of children. Do not forget the burned forests and homes, and lost income of many who make their living by tourism. Do not forget the Utahn who lost his life fighting these heat- an
  
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• Letter: How has Trump fooled Romney and so many others?

  29-08-2018 15:00
  I find it appalling that our Utah representatives have all remained relatively quiet as of late regarding President Donald Trump and all of his escapades. Whatever happened to the Utah values they always seem to talk about? It must be that the current economy is doing well so it does not matter about morals, lying, cheating and destroying safeguards of our environment! Put an extra dollar or two in a few people’s pocket, but don't worry about the health of all people. A pretty sad commenta
  
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• Letter: Chaffetz telling others to do their jobs? That’s rich.

  29-08-2018 15:00
  I was watching Fox News recently and saw that former Rep. Jason Chaffetz was attacking Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions. He claimed they had not been doing their jobs. Am I the only one who finds this a little hypocritical coming from a man who was elected to Congress, took an oath to represent Utah and then quit midterm? Randall Truesdell, TaylorsvilleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Carbon Fee and Dividend is the responsible action against climate catastrophe

  29-08-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump’s plan to allow old polluting power plants to keep operating shows a lack of concern for our changing climate. When it comes to our national debt, the earlier we act, the more manageable it is. Today we can still make sane choices on taxes and spending that take place gradually. On the other hand, if we wait until the interest on our debt becomes a crisis, we will make painful, panicky decisions that harm decent Americans in their daily lives. It is the same for clim
  
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• Leonard Pitts: McCain’s political integrity was sure better than no integrity at all

  29-08-2018 15:00
  A few words about the political integrity of John McCain.Integrity was, of course, the byword of the Arizona senator, who died of brain cancer Saturday. The trait was most famously displayed in a POW camp in Hanoi when his captors, hoping for a propaganda bonanza from this son and grandson of four-star admirals, offered him his freedom. McCain refused, choosing instead to endure the same beatings, deprivation and brutality as other men whose fathers were not Navy royalty.Donald Trump, whose bone
  
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• Helaine Olen: The Trump administration’s scandalous handling of student loans

  29-08-2018 15:00
  Monday's resignation of Seth Frotman, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's student loan ombudsman, should be a scandal of the first order. In an incendiary letter, Frotman claims the bureau's political appointees are "undercutting enforcement of the law," ending effective oversight of the student loan industry. He alleges "current leadership" suppressed a staff report documenting "the nation's largest banks were ripping off students on campuses across the country by saddling them with lega
  
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• Francis Wilkinson: The political uses of murder to stir up Trump’s base

  29-08-2018 15:00
  More than 1,600 women were murdered by men in the U.S. in 2015. That's more than four each day. More than half died by gunshot. Almost every state with a high homicide rate for women has a stack of gun-lobby pamphlets in the place where its gun laws should be. But let's not talk about those 1,600 lives.Let's talk about one.Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student, was murdered last month in Iowa. If the police got it right, her killer is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. The reason we're enga
  
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• Liberal Gillum, Trump-backed DeSantis win Florida primaries; Arpaio loses in Arizona

  29-08-2018 07:00
  Tallahassee, Florida • A liberal Florida Democrat pulled off an upset victory Tuesday in the state’s primary for governor while President Donald Trump’s favored candidate cruised to victory for the GOP, setting up a fierce fall showdown in the nation’s largest political battleground. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who would be the state’s first black governor, and Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis, both defeated opponents aligned with their parties’ establishment.
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Top six matchups to look forward to in 2018-19

  29-08-2018 06:48 via sportspyder.com
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• Utah Jazz: Top six matchups to look forward to in 2018-19

  29-08-2018 06:36
  While the Utah Jazz will play against several worthy foes this upcoming season, these six teams are the ones I’m most excited to see them match up against in 2018-19. The NBA season is truly something special from beginning to end. On any given night, the amazing can happen, from a highlight dunk to a […]
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• Man arrested after teen is stabbed and killed in Salt Lake City

  29-08-2018 06:24
  Salt Lake City police have arrested a man after a teenager died from a stabbing early Monday morning.Enrique Deloza, 28, was arrested Tuesday night, police say, on suspicion of killing 16-year-old Marcelino Johnson.Two groups of people were involved in an argument that started near 1300 South and Main Street. The dispute ended with a physical fight on Kensington, where Johnson was stabbed in the torso. Police were called to the scene about 1:30 a.m., they say. Johnson was taken to a local hospit
  
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• BYU linebacker Sione Takitaki has made a remarkable turnaround, from being kicked off the team to being named a team captain

  29-08-2018 06:01
  Provo • At first, the slender and outgoing freshman BYU swimmer from a small town near Sacramento wanted nothing to do with the big, burly and annoyingly persistent freshman football player who wouldn’t stop trying to flirt with her at a bonfire in the mountains above campus.Too many tattoos. Too crude in his language and jokes. Too rough around the edges for her liking. So what if the sweet-talking guy with the unique sounding name — Sione Takitaki — was one of the prized
  
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• Commentary: Latter-day Saint leaders oppose a medical marijuana initiative. Will it turn the tide for voters in Utah?

  29-08-2018 05:52
  On Thursday, a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints expressed the church’s official position against Proposition 2, a medical marijuana initiative that’s scheduled to be on the ballot in Utah in November.I’ve been watching this issue for months, ever since the church’s May announcement that it had “grave concerns about this initiative and the serious adverse consequences that could follow if it were adopted.”At that time, the LD
  
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