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• Fires ignite in Millcreek Canyon and along I-80; Tooele County fire nears 10,000 acres

  03-09-2018 23:50
  First pictures coming in from #TravejoFire. One lane of eastbound traffic remains closed. Please avoid the area if possible and drive with caution if necessary. pic.twitter.com/5ASuAnMr62— Summit County, Utah (@SummitCountyUT) September 3, 2018Small fires started Monday in Millcreek Canyon as well as in Summit County.FOX 13 reported that the Unified Fire Authority sent a hand crew to try to snuff two bonfire-sized blazes burning in Millcreek Canyon. Keith Garner, a UFA spokesman, said the
  
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• 17-year-old Macin Smith went missing in 2015. Now his family hopes to find his body.

  03-09-2018 23:11
  Tracey Bratt-Smith knows exactly how far away from home she needs to search — 2 1/2 miles.That, Bratt-Smith has learned, is usually the radius people travel before they commit suicide. She believes if searchers stay within that distance from her home in St. George, they will find her son, Macin Smith.“We’ve done many searches around the perimeter," Bratt-Smith said, "but there’s so much desert area and rock cliffs and terrain that we’ve never meticulously looked in.
  
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• BYU enjoys its big win over Arizona for 24 hours, quickly turns its attention to another Pac-12 foe, California

  03-09-2018 21:42
  Provo • Having had a day to celebrate their unexpected 28-23 victory over Arizona, the BYU Cougars returned to work on Labor Day by putting the big win behind them.“We just pat ourselves on the back,” coach Kalani Sitake said at his Monday news conference. “We’re done. Now let’s get going on to the next week.”Now the Cougars face another Pac-12 foe, this time at home. They will host the Cal Bears, who downed North Carolina 24-17 at home last Saturday. Bot
  
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• Utah’s defensive showing got even better over the weekend, thanks to a statistical update

  03-09-2018 21:19
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham was disappointed that his defense failed to record a takeaway, but he was impressed that the Utes missed only six tackles in Thursday’s 41-10, season-opening victory over Weber State.And the defense's performance got even better over the weekend. A statistical update slightly lowered the Wildcats' total yardage to 59, still the third-lowest total in Utah history. The Wildcats' only touchdown came after an interception return to the Utah 2-yard line.Utah
  
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• Flaming Gorge drowning victim identified as retired police officer

  03-09-2018 20:32
  The man who drowned Sunday in Flaming Gorge Reservoir was identified Monday as Mikal Wersland, 47.Wersland was a retired police officer with the Unified Police Department. A UPD news release said he also had worked for South Salt Lake police.“Our deepest condolences and prayers are with his family and friends,” said the news release from UPD and Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera.FOX 13 reported Wersland drowned in Cedar Springs Marina. Daggett County Sheriff Erik Bailey told the
  
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• This U.S. representative once lived in a shuttered country store, surviving with the help of local Mormons. Now she’s a rising Democratic star.

  03-09-2018 19:25
  Defuniak Springs, Fla. • The simple, cinder-block structure looks like it hasn’t been used in decades. A board covers one large window, and broken glass hangs in another. Rotten beams frame the roof. Out front, a tall, rusted light pole rises from an oval concrete pad, a ghostly reminder of the gas pumps that stood there long ago.This former gas station and country store on a rolling ribbon of rural highway in the Florida Panhandle, across the road from an endless vista of cotton fiel
  
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• U.S. service member killed, another wounded in Afghanistan

  03-09-2018 19:18
  Washington • A U.S. service member has been killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, according to a statement Monday from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission.Resolute Support and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Commanding General Scott Miller says "the sacrifice of our service member, who volunteered for a mission to Afghanistan to protect his country is a tragic loss for all who knew and all who will now never know him."He added, "Our duty now is to honor
  
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• A dying mother wrote her children letters, leaving a gift of love for years

  03-09-2018 18:11
  My friend Jacqueline Zinn was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a brain cancer, in 2013; she died 18 months later, at age 56, leaving behind a husband and four kids. Jacquie was a triathlete who knew a thing or two about endurance, and she managed her treatment — surgery, radiation and chemotherapy — with the same skill and organization she had brought to her work as a project manager for a drug company. Once she realized that she had only weeks to live, Jacquie began planning for the nex
  
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• Jon Heder, of ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ promotes BYU — and unicorns — in new commercial

  03-09-2018 17:59
  College football fans on Saturday night saw a new commercial promoting Brigham Young University, and it wasn’t your standard montage of classrooms and laboratories.Actor Jon Heder, of “Napoleon Dynamite,” stood in an animated video with unicorns and other creatures to promote BYU’s reputation as a place where innovative businesses are born. “Unicorn" can be a business term for a private business worth $1 billion, FOX 13 explained.FOX 13 also reported BYU fans, who s
  
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• Max Boot: The McCain funeral offered a promise of deliverance at a dark moment in American history

  03-09-2018 17:52
  When dictators took over countries such as Germany, Italy, Russia, Argentina and Venezuela, the body politic had usually already been weakened by war, depression or chronic misrule - and often all three. Today, the United States faces a threat from a would-be despot of its own: a president who incessantly undermines his own Justice Department, calls for his political opponents to be investigated and locked up, denounces the press as the "enemy of the people," and lies incessantly while telling h
  
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• Texas doctor who said gender pay gap is fair because ‘women don’t work as hard’ apologizes

  03-09-2018 17:51
  A doctor in Plano, Texas, apologized Sunday after sparking outrage for saying that female physicians make less than men because they "don't work as hard" and prioritize "something else … family, social, whatever."Medical professionals had taken Gary Tigges to task on social media for views they say are discriminatory and disproved by most research. Some have criticized the Dallas Medical Journal for highlighting the remarks; others have praised the monthly magazine for exposing them.The q
  
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• Trump names career official to lead National Park Service

  03-09-2018 17:49
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday named the superintendent of Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park to head the National Park Service, a job that has been filled on an acting basis for nearly 20 months.If confirmed by the Senate, David Vela would become the first Hispanic to lead the agency.Vela is a 28-year career veteran who has worked at parks across the country and was director of the Southeast region for four years.The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed director sinc
  
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• Family hopes billboard spurs word about missing Utah woman

  03-09-2018 17:41
  American Fork • A Utah family hopes a billboard on Interstate 15 will bring new information about the disappearance of a 24-year-old woman missing since she went running at Timpanogos Cave National Monument more than six months ago.The Utah County sheriff's office says Jerika Binks left most of her belongings Feb. 18 in her room at a residential treatment center in American Fork, but took her cellphone with her.National Park Service photos and cellphone data placed her running that day on t
  
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• Driven by climate change, fire reshapes U.S. West

  03-09-2018 17:37
  Billings, Mont. • Wildfires in the U.S. have charred more than 10,000 square miles so far this year, an area larger than the state of Maryland, with large fires still burning in every Western state including many that are not fully contained.Whether sparked by lightning or humans, fire has long been a force shaping the landscape of the U.S. West.Hot, dry winds can whip flames into firestorms that leave behind charred wastelands prone to erosion and mudslides. Other fires clear out underbrus
  
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• Officials study recovery of trout in river after dam spill

  03-09-2018 17:35
  Provo • Utah state wildlife officials are studying the brown trout population in the American Fork River to assess how the fish are recovering following a large sediment release from a nearby dam that nearly wiped out the fish population.The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources spent some of last week electrofishing select sections of the river in order to study the habitat and health of the fish living there, the Daily Herald reported .The goal was to safely capture the fish living in seg
  
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• Salt Lake Democratic Socialists see a bump in membership — spurred in part by a socialist candidate in New York City

  03-09-2018 17:13
  In June, a 28-year-old Latina from the Bronx running on a far-left platform of Medicare for everyone, strict gun control and abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) beat a 10-term incumbent in the race to become the Democratic candidate for New York City’s 14th Congressional District.In the process, she spurred a movement more than 2,000 miles away.The Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America saw a bump in membership after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016. But
  
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• At Labor Day launch of serious campaigning, Mia Love and Ben McAdams attack each other

  03-09-2018 17:12
  Labor Day is the traditional start for serious campaigning — and GOP Rep. Mia Love and Democratic challenger Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams are busy hammering each other in ads, social media, fundraising letters and verbal jabs.Love is trying to depict McAdams as a liberal, while a new McAdams ad insists he is so moderate he will even vote against House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House.McAdams is trying to portray Love as a captive of special interests who receive
  
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• Bodies are removed from Texas ranch that used to belong to FLDS polygamous sect, spurring second funeral for Warren Jeffs' second wife

  03-09-2018 17:11
  File photo of FLDS 'prophet' and convicted child-bride rapist Warren Jeffs, whose sentence was to be determined by a Texas jury hearing testimony Saturday. (The Salt Lake Tribune) (Tony Gutierrez/)A lot of people who couldn’t go to Barbara Jeffs’ first funeral back in 2004 attended her second one, 14 years later, on Thursday.Her daughter Rachel Jeffs said about 130 people turned out to a family plot in Centennial Park, Ariz. The crowd included some of Barbara Jeffs’ children,
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Want to revive the political center? Fight corruption

  03-09-2018 16:29
  Is the political center a lost cause? Look around the map of what we are accustomed to calling the "West," and that's how it seems. Right now, both the radical left and the radical right are on the rise. In Britain, the Labour Party is now led by an old-fashioned Marxist with an unapologetic anti-Semitic streak; in Germany, a proto-fascist political party that wants a reassessment of Germany's wartime role controls 13 percent of Parliament. In the upcoming Swedish elections next week, the far ri
  
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• Letter: Trump’s tariff threats are arbitrary and unconstitutional

  03-09-2018 15:00
  We all know that tariffs are a form of taxation. Historically, tariffs provided a significant portion of the revenue that financed the federal government, especially before the advent of income taxes early in the 20th century. Subsequent occurrences including wars and depressions seemed to affect public opinion and worldwide government practices by supposedly enlightened leadership resulting in increasingly free trade policies by most of the nations of the world. Imposition of tariffs historical
  
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• Letter: Reform aid agency to help save mothers and children

  03-09-2018 15:00
  As schools start this August, the streets fill with laughter of children running to and from school. Flying home from summer vacations would not be the same without at least one crying infant. It is easy to take our posterity for granted when they seem to surround us.However, childbirth and early childhood can be one of the most dangerous times for a person. Modern medicine has largely decreased the threat of diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea; that is not the case around the world. Each ye
  
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• Letter: LDS Church should learn from the mistakes of Coca-Cola

  03-09-2018 15:00
  Re: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' (phew) effort to rid itself of the Mormon moniker. Anybody remember New Coke? That went well.Dave Douglass, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Church name game strikes a confusing note

  03-09-2018 15:00
  What to call the choir? Just Tabernacle? LDS? Church of Jesus Christ? Non-Mormon?Chuck Wullstein, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Anti-parks legislators would let private companies exploit our public lands

  03-09-2018 15:00
  America’s federal lands are under attack by members of Congress who belong to the Anti Parks Caucus. Two members of Utah’s congressional delegation are a part of this group: Rep. Rob Bishop and Rep. Chris Stewart.In Utah, federal lands constitute 64.9 percent of the state. These lands help to generate the $12 billion that visitors spend on recreation in Utah each year and to support 122,000 Utah jobs.The Anti Parks Caucus seeks to end public ownership of federal lands and sell or lea
  
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• Gehrke: Born in the dark, the inland port process needs to come into the light

  03-09-2018 15:00
  Maybe you’ve seen “The Dark Knight Rises,” the Batman movie where our hero fights a villain named Bane.In one memorable scene, Bane tells Batman: “Ah, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”Turns out, the same could be said for the board governing the creation of the inland port, the international shipping center e
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz flashback: Adrian Dantley’s post-hoops crossing guard gig

  03-09-2018 06:43 via sportspyder.com
  ... es — stories about Jazz legend, Hall of Famer and bucket-getter extraordinaire Adrian Dantley’s unli ...
  
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• Utah Jazz flashback: Adrian Dantley’s post-hoops crossing guard gig

  03-09-2018 06:32
  A look back at Utah Jazz legend and Hall of Fame inductee Adrian Dantley’s unlikely post-basketball gig. Utah Jazz fans, rejoice! In six weeks, Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert and the gang will return to the court for their 2018-19 season opener against the Sacramento Kings. For me, that October 17 date couldn’t come soon enough. […]
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• Revelers and art lovers take to the desert for Burning Man

  03-09-2018 05:56
  The Burning Man went up in flames Saturday night during the Burning Man festival, a weeklong celebration of art and “radical self-expression.” More than 70,000 revelers traveled to the Black Rock Desert, two hours north of Reno, Nev., for the experience.
  
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• Revelers and art lovers take to the desert for Burning Man this weekend

  03-09-2018 05:51
  The Burning Man went up in flames Saturday night during the Burning Man festival, a weeklong celebration of art and radical self-expression. More than 70,000 revelers traveled to the Black Rock Desert, two hours north of Reno, Nev., for the experience.
  
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• Hamilton denies Ferrari a home win at Italian GP

  03-09-2018 05:06
  Monza, Italy • For Ferrari, the wait continues. For Lewis Hamilton, it was a dream of a race as he won the Italian Grand Prix after starting third on the grid to extend his championship lead over Sebastian Vettel following an opening-lap collision with the German driver that effectively ended his chances of victory on Sunday.Ferrari was hopeful of ending an eight-year wait for a win at its home track after taking the front two places on the grid at the Italian GP for the first time since 20
  
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• Harmful algal bloom found in Weber County’s Pineview Reservoir

  03-09-2018 04:04
  Recreationists planning to spend Labor Day weekend at Weber County’s Pineview Reservoir should be careful to avoid a harmful blue-green algal bloom, according to health department officials.Weber-Morgan Health Department officials said in a news release Saturday that while Pineview Reservoir wasn’t closed, people and pets should avoid touching the scum produced by the bloom or ingesting the water.The bloom is the latest issue at the lake, which only reopened to the public Friday afte
  
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• E.J. Dionne: What has happened to the working class?

  03-09-2018 03:49
  Boston • Two Labor Days into Trump’s presidency, what has happened to the working class?After Election Day 2016, we heard again and again about how Trump had thrilled those who labor and are heavily burdened, particularly those among them who are white. There was nonstop commentary on just how out of touch citizens in the big and prosperous metropolitan areas had become.At times, you might have imagined that Trump had been the Marxist candidate running against a creature of Wall Stree
  
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• Broncos cut ties QB Paxton Lynch, a 2016 first-round pick

  03-09-2018 03:14
  Englewood, Colo. • John Elway cut ties with his biggest draft bust Sunday when he waived quarterback Paxton Lynch less than 24 hours after including him on the Denver Broncos’ 53-man roster.In another move, the Broncos placed safety Su’a Cravens on IR with an injured left knee and re-signed Isaiah McKenzie, the speedy returner/receiver who was among the team’s cuts a day earlier.Lynch was jettisoned after the Broncos were awarded fellow third-year quarterback Kevin Hogan o
  
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• Mormon church president tells hurricane-impacted Caribbean members ‘better days are ahead’

  03-09-2018 03:05
  Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, traveled to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Saturday and to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Sunday, to visit with church members who had been affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria a year ago.Just days after Puerto Rico’s governor raised the official death toll from Hurricane Maria in the U.S. territory from 64 to 2,975, Nelson spoke at a devotional held at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot,
  
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• Utah’s Alex Smith and BYU’s Jamaal Williams top the list of NFL players with Utah ties to track this season

  03-09-2018 00:46
  Another fresh start for Alex Smith at age 34 and a promotion for Jamaal Williams in his second pro season will make them two of the most intriguing NFL players with Utah ties this season.Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner of Utah State is widely considered the best player from a Utah school, but the new job descriptions for Smith and Williams create another element for them this season. Their teams are expecting a lot from them and they’re closely followed by fans of their college teams, with
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Where does Donovan Mitchell rank among top young guards?

  03-09-2018 00:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... Utah Jazz: Grayson Allen to get rotation spot early? by Hayden Van de Maat ...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Dante Exum playing summer ball with Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul

  03-09-2018 00:30 via sportspyder.com
  ... ffs last season earned him a hefty three-year, $33 million contract from the Jazz this summer. pegged the 23-year old Australian as the Jazz X-factor this sea ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Where does Donovan Mitchell rank among top young guards?

  03-09-2018 00:18
  Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz has quickly established himself as a rising star in the NBA. So where does he rank among the other top young guards today? During this time of the year, all we really have as basketball fans is debating why our player or team is better than yours. Is Kevin […]
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