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• Suicide prevention is a personal issue for many at Salt Lake City conference — including the mayor

  08-09-2018 21:56
  For Jamie Lopez, Saturday’s youth suicide prevention conference was a very personal event. She was there with her 13-year-old daughter, who has “made recent attempts” to take her own life.“She had a lot to say because she disagrees with some of what they had to say,” Lopez said. “But she said she really appreciates everything they’re doing here.“And there are a lot of other kids we should be concerned about. My 13-year-old had an 11-year-old friend
  
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• This year’s Utah’s teacher of the year spends her time trying to convince her colleagues to stay in the profession

  08-09-2018 18:07
  Kellie May was named Utah’s Teacher of the Year on Thursday night. The funny thing is: She’s not a teacher anymore.Well, at least not for this school year.May is instead teaching other teachers how to teach, trying to convince her colleagues to stay in the profession and trying to get more teachers in front of students. It’s a new assignment that started in July for the educator of 23 years.“Going into this profession, you think about it as you’re going to be the gi
  
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• Former Jazz assistant Igor Kokoskov has been given a tall task as the NBA’s first European head coach: Help rebuild a once-proud Suns franchise back into a contender.

  08-09-2018 17:15
  The days are now longer for Igor Kokoskov.He’s an NBA head coach now — the first non-American head coach in league history. No longer is he a trusted assistant, as he was for the Utah Jazz and several franchises previously. He’s now running the show.Even with the start of the regular season a little over a month away, That’s an adjustment for Kokoskov, who was hired by the Phoenix Suns in May. He’s now the flag-bearer for every international coach who wants to make
  
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• Why is Emigration Creek — a historic Utah waterway — dry? Blame runs from climate change to drought to development to water-sucking wells.

  08-09-2018 17:05
  The creek winding down Emigration Canyon once sustained Mormon pioneers’ inaugural crops planted in the summer of 1847 and helped water the Intermountain West’s first major settlement for decades.In some sense, Salt Lake City owes its existence to Emigration Creek, but early this summer, as persistent drought gripped northern Utah, the stream went dry for most of its run through the historic canyon.The disappearance of flows has alarmed creekside residents, who say the problem cannot
  
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• New German-inspired beer garden in Salt Lake City struggling to get a permanent liquor license that fits its business model

  08-09-2018 17:05
  When designing Mountain West Hard Cider’s new patio, owners Jeff and Jennifer Carleton wanted to re-create an outdoor venue reminiscent of an Old World German beer garden.They brought in long, communal tables and bought a large tentlike awning to create shade. They landscaped with gravel walkways, wood planter boxes and hanging flower baskets. They also invited a rotating list of food trucks to park on-site and serve everything from pizza to curry, depending on the day.The only thing this
  
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• Utah Supreme Court agrees to settle Holladay’s election dispute over developing the former Cottonwood Mall site

  08-09-2018 17:04
  Holladay residents were left in limbo Friday over whether they will get to vote on a controversial high-density development proposed for the former Cottonwood Mall site.After a day of legal wrangling in several venues, though, the Utah Supreme Court has agreed to decide the issue, with the justices setting a fast-track schedule in hopes of meeting key ballot deadlines as Election Day this November looms.Earlier Friday, a 3rd District Court judge partly rejected attempts by the city and Ivory Hom
  
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• A sign that election campaigns are breaking the law? Look around next time you’re driving on Utah highways.

  08-09-2018 17:04
  There are signs that some political campaigns are breaking the law — even a few for candidates seeking Salt Lake County’s top law enforcement positions of sheriff and district attorney.They are the campaign placards sprouting up on overpasses, pedestrian bridges and highway boundary fences.“Technically, they are breaking the law. It is illegal to post those types of signs in our rights of way if they haven’t been approved.... And we never approve them,” says John Gl
  
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• The state panel that investigates teacher misconduct cases is accused of pushing for unfair punishments. Now it faces an audit.

  08-09-2018 17:02
  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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• Rich Lowry: Setting a new standard for stupid

  08-09-2018 15:00
  It's not easy to set a new standard for stupid in 2018, but a few left-wingers on Twitter managed it during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.They claimed to have seen one of Judge Kavanaugh's former law clerks, Zina Bash, making a white-power symbol while sitting behind him at the opening session of the hearings.Less discerning viewers wouldn't have noticed the alleged signal at all, or if they had, would have easily mistaken it for Bash's hand at rest in something like a gesture of OK.It
  
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• Nikki Haley: When I challenge the president, I do it directly

  08-09-2018 15:00
  We have enough issues to deal with in the world, so it’s unfortunate to have to take time to write this, but I feel compelled to address the claims in the anonymous “resistance” op-ed published this week in the New York Times. The author might think he or she is doing a service to the country. I strongly disagree. What this “senior official in the Trump administration” has done, and is apparently intent on continuing to do, is a serious disservice — not just t
  
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• Letter: Love’s manipulative campaign ad shows she’s a Republican puppet

  08-09-2018 15:00
  I consider Rep. Mia Love’s campaign ad about her compassion for Josh Holt’s mother during that family’s crisis the same kind of manipulation for which President Donald Trump is known. It establishes her as a puppet of the Republican Party. The reason the Republicans produced it is to persuade the public that she is a caring person and to remind voters how she is a woman running against a man.Republicans would have citizens forget about the crisis generated by the administration
  
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• Letter: Listen to your spidey sense — a lot of people are lying to you

  08-09-2018 15:00
  Ages ago as a college senior, my freshman roommate told me he’d written a popular song. He called it “Green Eyes,” but The Partridge Family sang it as “Brown Eyes.” I did some mental math: He would have been 12 when he wrote “Green Eyes.” My spidey sense whispered “implausible,” but lacking evidence and knowing no reason Roomie would lie to me, I filed it away as “huh.”Later, I kid you not, he claimed he wrote a Beatles classic, e
  
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• Letter: Future Golden Spike celebrations must honor Chinese workers who made it happen

  08-09-2018 15:00
  As The Salt Lake Tribune reported, May 10, 2019, is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railway, at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory. According to The Tribune, Union Pacific Railroad and the Utah Legislature are each kicking in $1 million or more to, as Gov. Gary Herbert put it, “help us have a party and celebrate like it’s 1869.” Plans include a re-enactment, a children’s choir, visiting steam engines, concerts and photo exhibits.But
  
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• Letter: Don’t normalize priests’ sexual abuse

  08-09-2018 15:00
  The spokesperson for the Salt Lake City Roman Catholic Diocese asserted her hope that, in the wake of the grand jury report in Pennsylvania regarding criminal behavior perpetrated and covered up by members of the clergy and hierarchy, as well as allegations of such crimes closer to home, people would remember that the “church is made up of flawed human beings, just like every other institution.”Such a statement attempts to normalize criminal offenses against children and youth, and p
  
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• Letter: Don’t leave flag design to amateurs

  08-09-2018 15:00
  I like the city flag with the eagle on it. It’s clean and simple, and we have had golden eagles nesting in City Creek Canyon. The state flag is another matter. It’s a 19th-century mess. (And it questionably affirms a state religion by showing the date of statehood as well as the date of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers.) It’s a perfect example of design trying to do too much. Want to see a great state flag? Look at Arizona’s. And please, don’t let amateurs compete
  
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• Holly Richardson: ‘Saints’: Tackling a new book on the early years of the LDS Church

  08-09-2018 15:00
  Tuesday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a hefty but easy-to-ready volume on early church history as the first in a four-part series. Coming in at almost 600 pages of text, “Saints: The Standard of Truth,” covers the time period of 1815-1846 and shares stories of early church history in a compelling way, with a focus on storytelling narratives.Incredibly, this is the first history published by the church in almost 90 years, back when church membership had not
  
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• Don Gale: Do not demean news by calling it hoax

  08-09-2018 15:00
  There is no such thing as “fake news.” There’s “news,” and there’s “hoax.” Do not demean news by calling it fake, and do not dignify hoax by calling it news. The challenge for all of us in these days of cybermania is to distinguish between news and hoax.The challenge becomes more difficult when we have a fake president, a fake Congress, and a fake Cabinet. (And we’re working on a fake Supreme Court, a court that leans more toward emotion and
  
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• Commentary: Call me Mormon. It’s what I am

  08-09-2018 15:00
  I’m a Mormon. My family is Mormon. I grew up with Mormon kids. My neighbors, teachers, coaches, the grocery store clerk – mostly Mormon.Each week we go to church. We bless our babies and take the sacrament together. We value family, community and traditions. We believe in gold plates and angels and miracles.Our ancestors were Mormons, too – pioneers who wandered across the country fleeing persecution. Eventually they made the trek west to the Salt Lake Valley. More than 150 yea
  
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• Commentary: An open letter to LDS President Nelson

  08-09-2018 15:00
  Dear President Nelson,I admire your good heart, your good works and your strident efforts to make the world a better place.However, as you are probably aware, opposing votes have been made against you by members of the church. In some cases local officers have interpreted those votes as an act of apostasy, and have punished the voters by canceling their temple recommends.I'm one of those opposing voters. Although I think highly of you within most contexts, I don't feel impressed to give you my v
  
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• BYU’s late goal is good for a 3-2 victory over Utah in a wild women’s soccer game

  08-09-2018 06:09
  Utah women’s soccer coach Rich Manning has lived through the rivalry with BYU long enough to know what everyone should expect when these teams meet.Manning’s pregame forecast Friday night included “a touch of crazy and loads of fun.”That’s exactly how everything played out in the last 20 minutes at Ute Field, where the Cougars ended up having the most enjoyment in the end. BYU’s 3-2 victory came after the Utes rallied to tie the game with consecutive goals. Th
  
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• Passing Grade: Point guards go to head of Hoops Hall class

  08-09-2018 05:56
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Lefty Driesell had the crowd laughing. Dino Radja fought back tears. Blue Devils and Tar Heels brought their rivalry to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and Ray Allen made a peace offering to his spurned Celtics teammates.And they did it with an assist from three of the greatest point guards in NBA history.The Springfield shrine inducted its 13-member Class of 2018 on Friday night, recognizing the players, coaches and contributors who broke records and barriers in equ
  
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• Parents of Park City teen who died of drug overdose sue companies that got the synthetic opioids to Utah

  08-09-2018 04:20
  The parents of a Park City teenager who died in 2016 from overdosing on a synthetic opioid are suing the companies that helped bring the drugs from China into Utah.The lawsuit, filed Friday in Utah’s U.S. District Court, argues the now-defunct online darknet (a restricted access and covert Internet network) market AlphaBay and the estate of its deceased founder, Alexandre Cazes, in addition to The Onion Router (or TOR) darknet web browser and China Postal Express & Logistics, a postal
  
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• Knee ends Nadal’s Open defense; Djokovic vs. del Potro final

  08-09-2018 04:08
  New York • Rafael Nadal felt the pain sear into his right knee early in his U.S. Open semifinal, on what he called “a bad movement.” It was a familiar pain, one that he’s dealt with off-and-on for years.The defending champion looked up at his guest box and indicated something was wrong. He tried to continue. Eventually, he could not.Nadal stopped playing after dropping the opening two sets Friday night, putting Juan Martin del Potro back in a Grand Slam final for the first
  
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• Two men charged with stabbing 16-year-old Salt Lake boy to death

  08-09-2018 03:45
  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 St. sho
  
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• Utah’s teacher of the year isn’t a teacher this year ... Wait, what?

  08-09-2018 03:37
  Kellie May was named Utah’s Teacher of the Year on Thursday night. The funny thing is: She’s not a teacher anymore.Well, at least not for this school year.May is instead teaching other teachers how to teach, trying to convince her colleagues to stay in the profession and trying to get more teachers in front of students. It’s a new assignment that started in July for the educator of 23 years.“Going into this profession, you think about it as you’re going to be the gi
  
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• Xander Schauffele in front at BMW by 2 shots while Tiger Woods falls back

  08-09-2018 02:14
  Newton Square, Pa. • Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk had an easy time deciding on three of his four picks for the Ryder Cup.Xander Schauffele is making the last one a little more difficult.Schauffele nearly holed a wedge on his second hole, rolled in a 40-foot birdie putt in the middle of his round Friday and wound up with a 6-under 64 in the BMW Championship for the lowest 36-hole score of his career and a two-shot lead over Justin Rose.“I’m sort of in a position where I feel like
  
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• How do you live your life to inspire others? #5ForTheFight 💙 https://t.co/KP45ksmycP

  08-09-2018 02:11 via twitter.com
  
  How do you live your life to inspire others?#5ForTheFight 💙 https://t.co/KP45ksmycP
  
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• America’s leading atheist, who is accused of sexual misconduct and once led a march around Mormon Temple Square, speaks out

  08-09-2018 02:06
  It has been almost five months since David Silverman, one of the nation’s most visible and outspoken public atheists, was suddenly terminated as president of American Atheists amid allegations of financial and sexual misconduct.Since then, he has lost his job, longtime friends, sleep and weight.“I certainly behaved sometimes in a manner that was unworthy of the office of president of American Atheists,” Silverman, 52, said in a phone interview this week, the first time he has s
  
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• Letter confirms Vatican received sexual misconduct complaint about former cardinal in 2000

  08-09-2018 01:59
  Vatican City • A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. cardinal, lending credibility to bombshell accusations of a cover-up at the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church.Catholic News Service, the news agency of the U.S. bishops’ conference, published the letter Friday from then-Archbishop Leonardo Sandri to the Rev. Boniface Ramsay, a New York priest who made the initial
  
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• Roy police call off search after missing woman found

  08-09-2018 01:29
  A 28-year-old woman with a severe mental disability who went missing last week was found safe Friday morning by Roy police.Roy police didn’t release where they found Jerika Nicole Albee, who was last heard from Aug. 30. They only said she was safe.“We appreciate all of the phone calls we received that helped us find her,” the department posted to their Facebook page.
  
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• Democrat Ben McAdams gains ground on Republican Rep. Mia Love in new poll

  08-09-2018 01:28
  Democrat Ben McAdams is in his strongest position yet against Republican Rep. Mia Love, according to a new poll by UtahPolicy.com.The results, released Friday, show Love, the incumbent, ahead by only 3 percentage points, with the support of 49 percent of likely voters compared to 46 percent for McAdams.The poll, conducted by Dan Jones and Associates between Aug. 22 and Sept. 6, included responses from 400 likely voters in the state’s 4th Congressional District, according to UtahPolicy.com.
  
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• Rookie Fred Warner thrown right into middle of 49ers defense

  08-09-2018 01:17
  Santa Clara, Calif. • Fred Warner isn’t being given time to ease into his NFL career.The rookie for the San Francisco 49ers is slated to start in his debut on Sunday in Minnesota at a relatively new position of middle linebacker with all the responsibilities that come with calling the defensive signals.“I’m very excited, being this will be my first start,” Warner said. “I’m just trying to make sure I’m as prepared as possible heading into that game
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The White House Rat

  08-09-2018 01:11
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/06/bagley-cartoon-friends" target=_blank>Friends</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/05/bagley-cartoon-art/">The Art of the Protest</a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/05/bagley-cartoon-back-back/">Back to the Back Alley</a
  
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• Pray for those with suicidal thoughts and then reach out to help, say Utah religious leaders

  08-09-2018 01:03
  Utah religious leaders are being urged to lead their congregations in prayer this weekend, specifically asking God to help those struggling with suicidal behavior or whose lives have been touched by suicide.The nondenominational effort is part of the National Weekend of Prayer for Faith, Hope and Life. It also is a call for residents to reach out, listen and be kind to others, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said at a new conference Friday.Cox was joined by a diverse group of religious leaders — incl
  
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• Sheriff says Millcreek woman’s beating death is a ‘horrific’ domestic-violence case. Now her husband could face the death penalty.

  08-09-2018 00:45
  A Millcreek woman was beaten to death, struck at least 28 times with a crowbar, and her teen daughter beaten and severely injured, according to charges filed in what Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera called “one of the most horrific domestic-violence cases I’ve seen.”Walter Eugene Brantzeg, 54, has been charged with one count of aggravated murder (domestic violence), one count of attempted aggravated murder, one count of aggravated burglary (domestic violence), and one coun
  
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