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• Woods Cross police chief resigns during City Council meeting

  07-09-2018 23:14
  The top cop in Woods Cross City resigned this week during a City Council meeting.Two council members confirmed Friday that Chief Greg Butler resigned Tuesday at the meeting.City Administrator Gary Uresk said the chief’s last day was Wednesday.“There was just some matters we couldn’t see eye-to-eye on and agree on,” Uresk said. “After some discussion, we mutually agreed it would be better if we went our separate ways.”Tuesday’s City Council agenda include
  
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• [NBA] - Social Sidelines: Boris Diaw says goodbye

  07-09-2018 22:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... pm PST A post shared by (@diawboris) on May 31, 2017 at 11:04am PDT With the Jazz, Diaw was able to team up with his friend and countryman Rudy Gobert. From a ...
  
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• Tesla’s shares drop after execs resign, video of Musk smoking marijuana circulates

  07-09-2018 22:44
  Tesla shares plummeted Friday after two executives announced their departures from the company and a video of Elon Musk smoking weed and drinking whiskey on a popular podcast began to circulate on social media.Musk smoked marijuana with comedian Joe Rogan at the end of a two-and-half-hour interview on the “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which featured a wide-ranging discussion on topics including artificial intelligence, the Musk’s technological ambitions and personal hardship.Afte
  
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• An angry Chick-fil-A customer sucker-punched an employee. It did not end well.

  07-09-2018 22:36
  The Washington Chick-fil-A customer was enraged, shouting at other customers, striding behind the counter, yelling at employees and responding to a manager’s demand to leave by throwing a punch.The violence that followed has become the subject of a video that has raced around the Internet, a viral fight with enduring consequences for the employee and customer who became combatants.The video shows the 27-year-old manager of the Chick-fil-A in the Washington neighborhood or Tenleytown stradd
  
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• Don’t miss out on the next #Ekpesbookclub 📚 twitter.com/EkpeUdoh/statu…

  07-09-2018 22:34 via twitter.com
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• We have ranked the Top 10 Hall of Fame classes of all time

  07-09-2018 22:11
  The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is littered with the greatest players, coaches and contributors in the history of the sport, not just from the NBA, but from around the world.
  With the outstanding 2018 class set to be inducted into the Hall this weekend, we decided to vote for the 10 greatest Hall-of-Fame classes of all time. For our purposes, we’re solely focusing on the player inductees for their NBA contributions.
  Without further ado, let’s get into it.
  10. 1971: BOB COUS
  
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• [Deadspin] - Goodbye, Boris Diaw

  07-09-2018 22:03 via sportspyder.com
  ... to: boris diaw boris diaw nba basketball san antonio spurs phoenix suns utah jazz boris diaw nba basketball san antonio spurs phoenix suns utah jazz The fact...
  
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• BYU’s home-field advantage got shredded last season. The Cougars will try to take it back on Saturday vs. Cal

  07-09-2018 21:50
  Provo • Questions about last year’s disappointing 4-9 football season have generally been brushed aside by the new-look BYU Cougars the past six weeks as they’ve gone about trying to rebuild a once-proud program. They are about as welcome as red-clad Ute fans on campus.“I don’t really care about last season,” head coach Kalani Sitake said Monday. “We care about this week, right now, the work we are going to get done.”There’s one query in parti
  
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• In honor of the retirement of the Most Interesting Man in Basketball™️ 🥂 >> on.nba.com/2CsKeKB

  07-09-2018 21:49 via twitter.com
  In honor of the retirement of the Most Interesting Man in Basketball™️ 🥂>> on.nba.com/2CsKeKB
  
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• As electric scooter use increases, so do trips to the ER

  07-09-2018 21:49
  They have been pouring into emergency rooms around the nation all summer, their bodies bearing a blend of injuries that doctors normally associate with victims of car wrecks — broken noses, wrists and shoulders, facial lacerations and fractures, as well as the kind of blunt head trauma that can leave brains permanently damaged.When doctors began asking patients to explain their injuries, many were surprised to learn that the surge of broken body parts stemmed from the latest urban transpor
  
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• Goodbye, Boris Diaw

  07-09-2018 21:43 via deadspin.com
  The fact that Boris Diaw was still out there somewhere in this large world playing basketball in public, even if I wasn’t around to look at it, lit a happy little flame in my brain. If I was in a good mood at any given time, it could be attributed in some barely measurable way to that fact. Yesterday it was…Read more...
  
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• Trump says Justice Department should investigate anonymous op-ed author

  07-09-2018 21:08
  Aboard Air Force One • President Donald Trump called Friday for the Justice Department to investigate the anonymous author of an op-ed depicting a “resistance” inside the government and said he is considering taking legal action against the New York Times for publishing it.The column, published online Wednesday, was written by someone the Times identified only as a senior official in the Trump administration. It depicts a "two-track presidency" in which some top staffers make up
  
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• Police: Dallas officer mistakes apartment for own, kills man

  07-09-2018 20:13
  Dallas • A Dallas police officer returning home from work shot and killed a neighbor after she said she mistook his apartment for her own, authorities said Friday.The officer called dispatch to report that she had shot the man Thursday night, police said. She told responding officers that she believed the victim's apartment was her own when she entered it.The responding officers administered first aid to the victim, whom the Dallas County medical examiner's office identified as 26-year-old
  
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• Man who used a paver stone to kill another homeless man in downtown Salt Lake City gets 18-years-to-life sentence

  07-09-2018 20:04
  As she stood at the podium inside a Salt Lake City courtroom, Joanna White turned to face the man who brutally killed her son’s father.She looked him in the eyes, began to cry and told Kepedro Kegler: “I forgive you.”“You’re going to be in your own personal hell, I feel,” White told the man. “And I’m sorry for that. I don’t believe you have evil in your heart.”Kegler, a 43-year-old homeless man, admitted earlier this year that he attack
  
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• The Utah Royals are about to complete their first season, and they’re heartbroken about missing out on the playoffs

  07-09-2018 19:53
  Sandy • Laura Harvey was watching playoff basketball.Becky Sauerbrunn, Amy Rodriguez and Kelley O’Hara were in their trademark Stars & Stripes, warming up before the U.S. women’s national team’s friendly against Chile at Avaya Stadium in San Jose, Calif. All the while, back in suburban Chicago on Tuesday night, whatever sliver of postseason hopes Utah Royals FC had in its inaugural season, swiftly faded away.The Royals needed help, and needed it from the worst team in
  
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• The Utes have been known for their size and toughness, and now they have speed. Northern Illinois is impressed.

  07-09-2018 19:49
  Kyle Whittingham probably would be insulted if an opposing coach failed to use “physical” in describing his Utah football team.Sure enough, Northern Illinois' Rod Carey chose that word this week, but only after starting his analysis with a compliment that Whittingham really craves: “They're fast.”That's the element the Utes have sought in this decade, ever since Pac-12 membership required an upgrade in talent. Utah moved to the Power Five level of college football with in
  
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• A teacher accused of sharing his sexual dreams with a female student has forced Utah’s board of education to reevaluate how it disciplines educators

  07-09-2018 18:18
  The Utah Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to review the state panel that investigates teacher misconduct amid accusations that it has handed out uneven and unfair punishments.The audit comes as part of a settlement from two lawsuits, one filed by a teacher who had his license permanently revoked and the other by a teacher who had his temporarily suspended. They accused the Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission, or UPPAC, of recommending harsher-than-necessary and often inc
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Projecting 2018-19 Utah Jazz Player Stats with FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO

  07-09-2018 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... ment projection it produces tell us anything about how productive individual Jazz players will be in 2018-19? Because the system doesn’t spit out predictions...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - A Wishlist for Donovan Mitchell’s Sophomore Season

  07-09-2018 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... m like the Jazz. What’s the next step for Donovan’s TV game? Ellen? MTV? Nickelodean? Triple ...
  
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• Alterra Mountain to acquire ski resort in Washington state

  07-09-2018 17:26
  Seattle • A fast-growing ski resort company is planning to purchase Washington state’s largest ski resort.The Seattle Times reports Denver-based Alterra Mountain Company announced plans Thursday to acquire Crystal Mountain Resort, a 2,600-acre property about 80 miles southeast of Seattle.The company says the sale is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year. The company currently owns 13 resorts in the U.S. and Canada. It recently acquired Solitude Mountain Resort in Big Co
  
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  07-09-2018 17:19 via twitter.com
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• Kanosh assistant fire chief charged with raping fellow firefighter

  07-09-2018 17:18
  Kanosh’s assistant fire chief has been charged with raping a fellow firefighter who he supervised.Austin James Corry, 26, of Kanab, has been charged with two counts of rape, two counts of object rape, five counts of forcible sexual abuse and five counts of sexual battery in 4th District Court.According to the probably cause statement, in 2015 Corry asked a fellow firefighter to help him with equipment maintenance. According to the woman, Corry “grabbed her, forced her to lay down&rdq
  
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• ‘The audience loves and hates him’: Meet the guy who keeps FanX’s big show moving

  07-09-2018 17:16
  Chris Provost asks the audience in the Salt Palace Convention Center’s Grand Ballroom if anyone is attending the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention for the first time, and a fair number of people raise their hands.Those people don’t know that the muffler joke is coming. But Provost always tells it at the start of the convention.Provost explains that he’s supposed to show a lot of energy as emcee — but the night before, he had a weird dream. “I dreamt I was a muffler in
  
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• 2 men charged with stabbing 16-year-old Salt Lake boy to death

  07-09-2018 17:13
  Two men have been charged in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old Salt Lake boy who, according to court documents, came to the defense of two girls.Enrique Deloza and Nicolas Espana, both 28, face charges of murder, obstructing justice and possession of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person.
  (Photo courtesy Salt Lake County Jail) Enrique DelozaAccording to the charging documents, 16-year-old Marcelino Johnson, a 15-year-old boy and two 13-year-old girls were walking near 1300 S. State Street
  
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• Morning links: Porter Gustin, superhero; Utah Jazz's home-court advantage analyzed

  07-09-2018 16:53
  Porter Gustin, a Salem Hills High alumnus, has been compared to a superhero by his coach — and there's no wonder."There's a reason he looks like a Marvel superhero," USC coach Clay Helton told Sports Illustrated. "He looks like a cross between Captain America and the Incredible Hulk."An interesting S.I. article delved into how the former Utah prep star sustains his superheroic-like stature. The 6-foot-5, 265-pound edge-rushing team captain hasn't eaten a candy bar nor ingested a carbonated
  
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• Kirby: Hey, Colin Kaepernick, two can play this game — check out my gunpowder endorsement gig

  07-09-2018 16:52
  The makers of Uh-Oh Gunpowder have approached me with a large endorsement contract offer. For half a million dollars annually, they want to put my face on every can of Uh-Oh Gunpowder.I also would be required to do a television commercial, wherein I stand beside large barrels of the product and say, “Hi, folks. Robert Kirby here to tell you that I have never been blown to bits by Uh-Oh Gunpowder. It’s good stuff!”This doesn’t count the newspaper and magazine ads, along wi
  
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• Join us in wishing our very own @spidadmitchell the happiest of birthdays 🎂🎉🎈 https://t.co/iERbp5kQ1X

  07-09-2018 16:36 via twitter.com
  
  Join us in wishing our very own @spidadmitchell the happiest of birthdays 🎂🎉🎈 https://t.co/iERbp5kQ1X
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Supreme Court hearings become a stage for Democrats contemplating presidential bids in 2020

  07-09-2018 16:32
  On day three of the Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, threatened to release secret emails, even if it meant being expelled from the Senate. Later mocked by Republicans as grandstanding, Booker may be looking beyond the confirmation process. He is one of three Senate Democrats on the committee, including California’s Kamala Harris and Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar, said to be contemplating a
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ranking the 2018-2019 Utah Jazz roster

  07-09-2018 15:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... this year’s #JazzRank. Poll Who is the 17th most valuable player on the Utah Jazz roster? This poll is closed. 0% Alec Burks (0 votes) 0% Dante Exum (0 votes) ...
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Tax Bezos. Help workers. But not like this.

  07-09-2018 15:27
  By all means, let's raise the living standards of workers at Amazon, Walmart, McDonald's and other employers of low-wage Americans.And, by all means, let's raise Jeffrey P. Bezos's taxes, too. The founder of Amazon (and owner of The Washington Post) is the wealthiest man in the world. He didn't need the tax cut that Republicans just gave people like him.But the sloppily designed Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act (aka, ahem, the "Stop BEZOS Act") is a terrible way to do either of th
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell featured in latest NBA 2K trailer

  07-09-2018 15:12 via sportspyder.com
  ... e as that big of a surprise to many. But when considering how frequently the Jazz organization tends to be overlooked in these kinds of productions, it’s actu ...
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: An atheist is bringing God back to network TV — sort of

  07-09-2018 15:00
  An atheist is bringing God back to prime-time TV.In the tradition of “Touched by an Angel,” “Joan of Arcadia,” “Highway to Heaven” and “Kevin Probably Saves the World,” the new CBS series “God Friended Me” raises the issue of whether God exists when avowed atheist Miles (Brandon Michael Hall) gets a friend request on Facebook from him. Or maybe somebody claiming to be him.Ensuing events intertwine Miles with people he helps.According to
  
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• Ramesh Ponnuru: An insider’s lament about Trump serves no public good

  07-09-2018 15:00
  People write op-eds for all kinds of reasons. Some do it for recognition, some to draw attention to an issue they think has been overlooked. We can rule out both motives for a splashy New York Times op-ed, written by an anonymous someone whom the Times assures us is a senior Trump administration official, and who calls himself part of a "quiet resistance within the administration."So what was the point of it?Was it to inform the public that President Donald Trump often makes "half-baked, ill-inf
  
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• Letter: Improved football helmets don’t do enough to prevent brain injury

  07-09-2018 15:00
  In the recent years, concussion diagnoses have doubled in high school student-athletes by 16 percent. The main sport causing such a steep increase in concussions is football. Football includes many head-to-head collisions causing these injuries; it’s part of the game that will not change.The way the NFL is playing off these injuries is saying that football is becoming safer, because of the top-of-the-line helmets and gear. The helmets can only help with exterior injuries to the head; the h
  
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• Letter: Get the facts before you condemn the proposed grizzly hunt

  07-09-2018 15:00
  I was sent a link to a letter to the editor appearing in The Salt Lake Tribune about how the grizzly bear hunt was “sick and wrong.”Regardless of subjective opinion, there were three serious errors the writer made in terms of facts and reality. I would like to take a minute to address them.First, she claims that the quota consisted of 13 females in Wyoming and one male in Idaho. This is grossly wrong. The actual quota is 12 males and one female in Wyoming and one male in Idaho. If a
  
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• Letter: Do the Ten Commandments no longer matter to Trump’s base?

  07-09-2018 15:00
  "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of lies and numbers, particularly the use of statistics, to bolster weak arguments. The phrase was popularized in America by Mark Twain.It's a practice used increasingly enthusiastically by President Donald Trump, who, according to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, has upped his daily average of lies from just over five a day in his first quarter in office to over 15 in the latest quarter. Whether it's attend
  
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• Letter: Ben McAdams is our ‘Clinton’ in sheep’s clothing

  07-09-2018 15:00
  Twenty years ago today, Ben McAdams sat in an office working as an intern for President Bill Clinton. This was just the beginning of a long relationship between McAdams and the Clintons.Since then, McAdams has worked with the Clintons in various and significant capacities. As the Democratic candidate for Utah’s 4th District, McAdams might just be another “Clinton” packed with all the same policies and practices as the political duo.There are far too many people who are unaware
  
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• Letter: An ‘unelected redistricting commission’ would be much better than our present gerrymandering

  07-09-2018 15:00
  I picked up the Sept. 2 Tribune and was eager to read the ballot proposition presentation. I was, however, disappointed with the thumbnail characterization that Prop 4 "would form an independent, unelected redistricting commission," the implication being that "unelected" is a bad thing. The fact is, past redistricting by the Legislature is the very thing that has led to gerrymandering and less accountable politicians in Utah. This is what Prop 4 seeks to address. Your reporting fails to make thi
  
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• Albert R. Hunt: Trump wants one thing from a new attorney general

  07-09-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump, who brags about creating jobs, has put up his own Help Wanted poster. The opening is for a loyalist to head the U.S. Justice Department and undermine investigations that could threaten him and his family. It might even work.Under prodding from congressional Republicans, Trump apparently agreed to hold off firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions until after the November election to avoid political fallout. He constantly lashes out at Sessions over the threat he feels from th
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell featured in latest NBA 2K trailer

  07-09-2018 14:00
  Donovan Mitchell’s fame continues to grow as the Utah Jazz star was featured in the latest trailer for the upcoming NBA 2K19 video game. As hard as it might be to believe, I’d almost go as far as to say that Donovan Mitchell‘s popularity has grown even more during the offseason than during the regular […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell featured in latest NBA 2K trailer - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - 2018-2019 Utah Jazz Most Valuable Rankings

  07-09-2018 07:48 via sportspyder.com
  ... ommunity ✕ StoryStream 2018-2019 Utah Jazz Most Valuable Rankings Ranking the 2018-2019 Utah Jazz roster from least to...
  
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• DJ Snoopadelic performs at Salt Lake City’s Twilight Concert Series

  07-09-2018 07:05
  DJ Snoopadelic’s set left concertgoers in a haze Thursday night, as he closed out the second-to-last show in the Twilight Concert Series.The crowd was dancing into the evening with sets from a number of Salt Lake City locals, including DJ Matty Mo, DJ Bangarang and House of Lewis, a hip-hop group that appeared on Season 11 of America’s Got Talent. Duo DJ Erockalypze spun a record so hard a turntable broke during their set.Twilight continues Sept. 13 with King Princess and Flora Cash.
  
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• Eagles stop Ryan to Jones again, beat Falcons 18-12

  07-09-2018 07:03
  Philadelphia • Matt Ryan to Julio Jones failed again.Jay Ajayi had a pair of touchdown runs, Nick Foles caught another pass to jump-start a sputtering offense and the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles needed another defensive stand to open the season with an 18-12 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night.A sloppy, mistake-filled game that featured 26 penalties came down to Ryan throwing an incomplete pass to Jones in the left corner of the end zone on the final play from Phil
  
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• Feds ban target shooting on 2,000 acres west of Utah Lake

  07-09-2018 05:36
  With the blessing of local officials, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has banned target shooting on more than 2,000 acres on Utah Lake’s western shore, where unregulated gunfire has damaged rock art, sparked fires, threatened public safety and left a spiderweb of tracks and bullet scars on boulders, trees and other natural features.Public lands along State Road 68 have long been a favorite spot for practicing marksmanship, but now about 50,000 people a year visit this area to shoot, oft
  
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• Target shooting banned in parts of Weber County to prevent wildfires

  07-09-2018 05:19
  A week after target shooting ignited a wildfire that shuttered a Weber County reservoir and forced evacuations at Powder Mountain Resort, officials in the county have temporarily banned recreational shooting to prevent future fires.County officials on Thursday enacted fire restrictions aimed solely at target shooting. The ban affects all unincorporated private land in addition to all state lands in Weber County east of Avon Pass Road, west of Powder Mountain Road and north of 5400 North in Liber
  
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• Roy police searching for missing endangered woman

  07-09-2018 05:03
  Roy police are asking for help to find a 28-year-old woman with a severe mental disability who went missing last week.Jerika Nicole Albee was last heard from Aug. 30, according to a Weber County 911 dispatcher. Her bank card was last used Tuesday in Ogden.Albee has a severe mental disability and has the mental capacity of an 8-year-old. She is without her medications, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Public Safety. Albee is described as 6-foot and weighing 160 pounds. She
  
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• Net gain: Serena Williams reaches her ninth U.S. Open final

  07-09-2018 03:31
  New York • Serena Williams was a bit shaky at the start of her U.S. Open semifinal.For all of six minutes.That’s how long it took her to drop the opening two games. Williams spent the next hour playing flawlessly, particularly up at the net, grabbing 12 of 13 games to beat No. 19 seed Anastasija Sevastova of Latvia 6-3, 6-0 and reach her ninth final at Flushing Meadows and 36th at all Grand Slam tournaments.“I’ve been working hard on my volleys. I have won a few doubles ch
  
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• Pigs, high dives, acrobatics: Opening day of the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City

  07-09-2018 03:20
  The 2018 Utah State Fair opened Thursday at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, and some of the day’s entertainment included Swifty Swine pig races, the Flying Fools High Dive Show, song and dance from Divas through the Decades and acrobatics at the Big Top Circus Spectacular.
  
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• Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy off to torrid start at Aronimink

  07-09-2018 03:17
  Newtown Square, Pa. • With the glare of a scorching sun in his eyes, Tiger Woods couldn’t believe what he saw.He finally missed a green on his 14th hole.“Is that long?” he said to his caddie. “I thought it was perfect.”Everything else felt that way Thursday in the BMW Championship, where Woods had his lowest score in an opening round in nearly 20 years and his best score on the PGA Tour since his last victory more than five years ago. With a bogey on his penult
  
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