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• New polygamous sect-connected company that broke child labor laws is the old polygamous sect-connected company that broke child labor laws, judge rules

  10-09-2018 23:42
  (Trent Nelson|Tribune file photo)Southern Utah Pecan Ranch, near Hurricane, Wednesday September 24, 2014. (Trent Nelson/)In 2014, as his company Paragon Contractors Corp. was being investigated for breaking child labor laws, Brian Jessop was ramping up a new company.That company was called Par 2. According to court documents, Par 2 had at least 19 employees who worked for Paragon, still used some forms with Paragon letterhead and began sending construct job bids to general contractors who didn&
  
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• Utah Jazz set to slay the shoe universe in 2018-19

  10-09-2018 23:35
  Multiple Utah Jazz players have worked with shoe designer Kickstradomis, which leads me to believe the team will be dominating the shoe game this season. Kicks are a big part of today’s NBA, and with the league eliminating color restrictions on shoes, you can expect a heavy dose of Kickstradomis Customs across the league. We […]
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• FEC says Mia Love’s campaign may have raised more than $1 million illegally for a primary election she never faced

  10-09-2018 23:32
  The Federal Election Commission is questioning whether Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, raised more than $1 million illegally for a primary election that she never expected to face — while Love is contending what she did was legal based on past FEC decisions.Still, Love’s campaign says it will refund or redesignate more than $370,000 she raised after clinching the Republican nomination at the state GOP convention in April — but is fighting to keep more than $1 million accepted before tha
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Swamp, Utah Edition

  10-09-2018 23:28
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/07/bagley-cartoon-white/" target=_blank><u>The White House Rat</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/06/bagley-cartoon-friends" target=_blank><u>Friends</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2018/09/05/bagle
  
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• Monson: Is Serena a victim? Sexism in tennis? Here’s an idea: Look past the skirts and the shorts, and apply the rules equally.

  10-09-2018 23:06
  Serena Williams’ cries for equality — and all those who are joining the chorus on that note — are understandable, valid to a point even, but misplaced.The greatest women’s tennis player of all time let her emotions get away from her during the women’s U.S. Open final and, when the umpire enforced the rules to her disadvantage, she and her chances of winning were hurt by it.And now a whole lot of people, led by Williams, are protesting that penalization, calling it s
  
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• Utah Jazz: Rubio, Ingles and Favors flirting with Top 50 status

  10-09-2018 22:36
  The Utah Jazz are movin’ on up in the Association, and the placement of Ricky Rubio, Joe Ingles and Derrick Favors in SI’s Top 100 reflects the ascension. Three Utah Jazz players showed up in the back half of Sports Illustrated’s NBA Top 100, which dropped on Monday. Namely, point-man Ricky Rubio, forward Joe Ingles […]
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• Rock On: How to soften your football schedule, the dullest sport and Kanter's work ethic

  10-09-2018 22:04
  Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes says he's not interested in being Ohio State's tackling dummy. The former Utah State boss admits the $1.7 million Sept. 1 payday wasn't worth a 77-31 loss."We won't do it this way. This game was scheduled several years ago … it was a one-off payday against a perennial top-five team," Barnes told "The Bald Faced Radio Show.""That's not our philosophy. Our philosophy is that we'll play the middle of the Big Ten, the middle of the Big 12, we'll pla
  
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• Kyle Whittingham says he ‘overreacted’ Saturday, but he wants more from the Ute offensive line.

  10-09-2018 21:45
  Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said he “overreacted a little bit” in his postgame criticism of Utah’s offensive showing in Saturday’s 17-6 win at Northern Illinois, but he expects much more from his offensive linemen, who allowed six sacks.“The offensive line didn't perform well,” Whittingham said Monday, during his weekly news conference in advance of Saturday night's game vs. No. 10 Washington at Rice-Eccles Stadium. “They need to get better. We need to c
  
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• After BYU’s poor offensive performance vs. Cal, calls for freshman QB Zach Wilson have already begun

  10-09-2018 21:35
  Provo • When a starting quarterback competition goes into the final week of preseason camp, questions are naturally going to arise when the player who gets the nod struggles in the first few games of the season.Especially when one of those games is a loss.On the heels of last Saturday’s 21-18 loss to California in which BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum completed just 22 of 41 passes for 196 yards and was intercepted twice, head coach Kalani Sitake fielded a question in his Monday news co
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Three Jazzmen named thus far on SI’s Top 100 NBA Players list

  10-09-2018 21:33 via sportspyder.com
  ... des in shooting. If he has a consistent season from beyond the arc, the Utah Jazz are the second best team in the West with Rubio probably earning another con ...
  
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• Judge sets hearing in Bears Ears monument case as tribes, enviromentalists demand notification of potential mining

  10-09-2018 21:17
  Washington • A federal judge has scheduled a hearing Thursday to discuss arguments by tribes and environmentalists suing over the shrinking of the Bears Ears National Monument that the government should have to notify them of any planned oil, gas or mineral extraction within the boundaries of the redrawn monument.The groups say that they’ve “learned of some mining activity” within the original boundaries that would have been prohibited without President Donald Trump’
  
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• Billie Jean King: Serena is still treated differently than male athletes

  10-09-2018 21:16
  The ceiling that women of color face on their path to leadership never felt more impenetrable than it did at the women's U.S. Open final on Saturday. Ironic, perhaps, that the roof of Arthur Ashe Stadium was closed for the championship match. What was supposed to be a memorable moment for tennis, with Serena Williams, perhaps the greatest player of all time, facing off against Naomi Osaka, the future of our sport, turned into another example of people in positions of power abusing that power.Los
  
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• FEC says Mia Love’s campaign may have raised more than $1 million illegally for primary election she never faced

  10-09-2018 20:59
  The Federal Election Commission is questioning whether Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, raised more than $1 million illegally for a primary election that she never expected to face — while Love is contending what she did was legal based on past FEC decisions.Still, Love’s campaign says it will refund or redesignate more than $370,000 she raised after clinching the Republican nomination at the state GOP convention in April — but is fighting to keep more than $1 million accepted for a poss
  
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• As many as 650 people who dined at Salt Lake City’s New Yorker Restaurant may have been exposed to hepatitis A

  10-09-2018 20:56
  Customers who consumed food or beverages at downtown Salt Lake City’s New Yorker Restaurant between July 25 and Aug. 15 may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus.The Salt Lake County Health Department announced Monday that up to 650 people may be affected.During that time period, an employee worked while infectious and potentially handled certain food or beverage items, the department said in a news release. The agency believes this case is linked to the ongoing hepatitis A outbreak S
  
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• Tan France will tell all in upcoming autobiography — including details of his happy marriage to a ‘Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City’

  10-09-2018 20:55
  Utahn Tan France will let readers know what it's like being “happily married to the love of his life — a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City” when his autobiography is published in May 2019.According to Macmillan Publishers, “Tan France: Love, Family, Queer Eye, and What I Wore” will be a “heartfelt, funny, touching memoir.”The British-born son of Pakistani parents who makes his home in Salt Lake City, France is the fashion expert on the “Queer Eye&r
  
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• State prosecutors find ‘troubling’ behavior but pass on bringing criminal charges against former Unified Fire Authority chiefs

  10-09-2018 20:54
  The Utah attorney general’s office has declined to prosecute two former top Unified Fire Authority (UFA) officials — one of them a popular Republican Salt Lake County councilman — who faced allegations of nepotism and misusing public funds.After a more than yearlong investigation, the office said it decided there wasn’t a reasonable likelihood that former Chief Michael Jensen and former Deputy Chief Gaylord Scott could be criminally convicted.That’s because “t
  
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• Come be part of Jazz game night by attending the @vivintarena hiring event on September 12. Details ⤵️… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  Come be part of Jazz game night by attending the @vivintarena hiring event on September 12. Details ⤵️… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Carolinas brace for extremely dangerous Hurricane Florence

  10-09-2018 19:55
  Raleigh, N.C. • Florence rapidly strengthened into a potentially catastrophic Category 4 hurricane on Monday as it closed in on North and South Carolina, carrying winds and water that could wreak havoc over a wide stretch of the eastern United States later this week.The first effects were already being seen on barrier islands Monday as dangerous rip currents and seawater flowed over the state highway. People were told to prepare to evacuate communities up and down a stretch of coastline alr
  
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• A daughter used Facebook to help solve her mother’s cold case murder — resulting to an arrest in Utah

  10-09-2018 19:51
  Dallas • The brother-in-law of a Dallas woman raped and slain more than two decades ago while her infant daughter slept in a playpen nearby has pleaded guilty, bringing an end to a case that was re-opened when that daughter as an adult went to police to push for an investigation.Victor Serrano, 40, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the death of Manuela Dominguez after DNA from the body connected him to the crime scene, The Dallas Morning News reported . He has been sentenced to 30 years
  
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• U.S. Interior Department expands hunting at Utah bird refuge

  10-09-2018 19:48
  The U.S. Interior Department has expanded hunting at Utah’s Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.It’s one of 30 national wildlife refuges across the country where U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is expanding hunting and fishing.Interior officials say in a statement that 40 percent of the population aged 16 and older do wildlife activities like hunting, fishing and birding.Zinke says in a statement that hunters are an important source of revenue for conservation projects. Refuge
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Recurring Rivalries of Yesteryear Suggest Jazz, Thunder Just Getting Started

  10-09-2018 19:11 via sportspyder.com
  ... t the next two, but by that point MJ was back to terrorizing the league. The Jazz also earned their first ever conference finals trip by defeating the Sonics...
  
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• Whoa.... *@BigSean voice* twitter.com/Looklive/statu…

  10-09-2018 18:58 via twitter.com
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• #MondayMotivaton twitter.com/spidadmitchell…

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• Margaret Sullivan: The accusers of Les Moonves just kept coming. And reporter Ronan Farrow did, too.

  10-09-2018 17:51
  Charming. Accomplished. Visionary. And, if you believe the highly credible accusations, one more thing: abusive.The first three qualities of CBS chief executive Les Moonves seemed as though they would allow him to stay at the peak of Hollywood power - or at least exit gracefully, parachuting from the heights with more than $100 million in severance pay.But the women, 12 of them, who claim that he abused his power by harassing or even attacking them, would not be denied.They kept coming forward.
  
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• Mia Love’s campaign to refund, redesignate hundreds of thousands of dollars the FEC says it raised illegally

  10-09-2018 17:42
  The campaign of Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, says it will refund or redesignate some — but not all — of what the government says was more than $1 million that it raised improperly for a primary election that never occurred, CNN reported Monday.The Federal Election Commission sent Love a letter in August saying her campaign had violated guidelines for raising money for primaries. In Utah, it said, candidates are not allowed to raise such funds if they have no primary — and Love faced
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What do the Utah Jazz need to win the 2019 NBA Championship?

  10-09-2018 17:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... k, “What can we do differently?” But for a team that could be as good as the Jazz should be, they’d be wise to at least begin formulating an answer. If they c ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Tyler Cavanaugh voted last

  10-09-2018 17:40 via sportspyder.com
  ...3 on 4.6 attempts in the G-League. Expectations likely aren’t high for Utah Jazz fans considering he’s an end-of-the bench guy if he makes it onto the active ...
  
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• 2 arrested in vandalism of LDS Church building in Spanish Fork

  10-09-2018 16:33
  Two Spanish Fork men have been arrested for vandalizing an LDS Church meetinghouse in August.Kevin Hayes, 23, and Thomas Anderson, 20, were booked into the Utah County Jail for third-degree felony burglary and second-degree felony criminal mischief, according to Lt. Brandon Anderson of the Spanish Fork.On Aug. 27, police responded to an alarm at the building at 989 S. Spanish Fork Parkway (2550 East). They discovered that someone had broke into the building, ripped up hymn books, broke furniture
  
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• Political Cornflakes: GOP goes after former President Obama, but doesn’t defend President Trump

  10-09-2018 15:27
  GOP goes after former President Obama, but doesn’t defend President Trump. Poll shows McAdams gaining on Love. AG’s office not to being charges against former UFA officials.Happy Monday. Republicans are outraged -- about former President Barack Obama, that is. After Obama gave a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump’s tenure in the White House, Republicans criticized Obama for breaking a tradition of former presidents steering clear of attacking their successors. But the Re
  
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• Senate candidates Jenny Wilson and Mitt Romney are hundreds of thousands of acres apart on national monuments. Where do they stand on public lands generally?

  10-09-2018 15:15
  Standing next to the Jordan River Parkway she championed as a member of the Salt Lake County Council, Jenny Wilson said recently that the federal government could stand to learn from and listen to local community leaders on public lands.Wilson, who co-founded the Jordan River Commission, said the riverside trail system connecting Utah, Salt Lake and Davis counties is among her proudest accomplishments. It was the result of collaboration across partisan and municipal lines, she said, and millions
  
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• Tribune editorial: Prison owes defendants, and the public, the whole truth

  10-09-2018 15:13
  The people who run Utah’s prisons of course do not want any of their inmates leaving the facility without permission. The rule of law and the public’s safety are on the line.But the same does not apply to much of the information and official policies in the custody of the same prison managers. Those are supposed to be public, free to roam the landscape, so that justice can be done and the people of the state will have the information necessary to judge whether the facilities are bein
  
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• Letter: You have a responsibility to vote — and speak up about it

  10-09-2018 15:00
  Now probably almost everyone who reads letters to the editor votes, but last midterm election 7 out of 10 of Utahns didn’t meet their responsibility to vote. Seriously, that is a big problem. Maybe they don’t vote because politicians seem to not care about what’s important?Voters “hire” politicians, so campaigns only focus on issues that matter to voters. Judging by Utah’s well-earned anti-environment record, it’s obvious that most people who care about
  
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• Letter: Shireen Ghorbani cares about Utah problems; Chris Stewart is a corporate shill

  10-09-2018 15:00
  Rep. Chris Stewart and his Democratic challenger, Shireen Ghorbani, have vastly different motivations.Stewart invariably supports the greedy agenda of his campaign donors, the corporate and wealthy elite, at our expense. By contrast, Ghorbani supports the genuine needs of the majority of Utahns — families, working people, farmers, seniors and more.As a deeply concerned listener, Ghorbani has talked to thousands of Utahns districtwide to understand our problems and develop realistic solutio
  
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• Letter: Kavanaugh has failed the test

  10-09-2018 15:00
  Judge Brett Kavanaugh, nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has failed the test of integrity, neutrality and fairness expected of any judge in the country. Think of these confirmation hearings as a trial. The opposing parties are entitled by law to some form of discovery of relevant facts by which to evaluate the substance of the other side’s claim. The law requires the judge to fairly referee this process. Indisputably, vast documentation relevant to judge Kavanaugh’s nomination has n
  
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• Letter: Hatch shows a lack of character

  10-09-2018 15:00
  A few days ago the late Sen. John McCain was honored in our nation’s capital by many government officials, including a crying Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch caught on national TV news cameras.Great anger came over me because this is the same Hatch who, along with Rep. Chris Stewart, is among President Trump’s biggest supporters and defenders even as he mocked the late senator.Such behavior speaks volumes of the lack of character or decency of both men.Cyril Martinez, West JordanSubmit a lette
  
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• Letter: Gaudy resort threatens natural beauty in Southern Utah

  10-09-2018 15:00
  Ivins has sold its soul and the natural beauty of its surrounding desert landscapes to the devil in the form of lustful greed.A gaudy and clumsy resort, available to only the extremely wealthy, will soon be stuffed into the soft coral sands, winding canyons, spectacular cliffs and breathtakingly sacred desert landscapes adjoining Utah's lovely Snow Canyon. Wildlife under duress will be uprooted and shuttled away to fewer welcoming areas, and perhaps to their extinction, to make room for the priv
  
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• Letter: A Kirby column to remember

  10-09-2018 15:00
  I always enjoy Robert Kirby’s column, including his Sept. 5 one, “As the year winds down, it’s best to just grin and ‘ber’ it.” I loved how he used the play on words, noting that we are in the homestretch of 2018 with only September, October, November and December remaining — all ending in “-ber.” I particularly like December since I am a December baby, and October isn’t all that bad with the race toward the World Series. I do agree wit
  
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• Gehrke: How a Provo tech company appears to be gouging taxpayers, with help from the Utah Legislature

  10-09-2018 15:00
  Provo-based Qualtrics announced in July that Utah had become the first state to adopt its customer feedback software, a move it said would save money and guarantee that the government responds to what citizens want.Senate Majority Whip Stuart Adams hailed it as a “true team effort” between the Legislature, the governor’s office and the private sector.In reality, the governor’s office never asked for the software. It was an idea hatched by the company and sold to lawmakers
  
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• The strange and winding fraud case against two Kingston brothers turns up ties to polygamy, Turkey, even the Mueller investigation

  10-09-2018 14:48
  In September 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with a Utahn who had long sought to make a mark in the renewable-fuels industry — Jacob Ortell Kingston.Photos of the meeting show the Turkish president with Kingston and another businessman, Sezgin Baran Korkmaz. Less than a year later, Kingston was indicted for fraud and money laundering.Prosecutors likely questioned or sought to question Korkmaz in that case. There’s also a report Korkmaz has been subpoenaed in one
  
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• State prosecutors find ‘troubling' behavior but pass on bringing criminal charges against former Unified Fire Authority chiefs

  10-09-2018 14:06
  The Utah attorney general’s office has declined to prosecute two former top Unified Fire Authority (UFA) officials — one of them a popular Republican Salt Lake County councilman — who faced allegations of nepotism and misusing public funds.After a more than yearlong investigation, the office said it decided there wasn’t a reasonable likelihood that former Chief Michael Jensen and former Deputy Chief Gaylord Scott could be criminally convicted.That’s because “t
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alums: Rodney Hood finally signed for next season

  10-09-2018 07:22 via sportspyder.com
  ...go-to guy offensively. Meanwhile, the hoops intelligentsia wondered how the Jazz would ever manage to keep him in town once he entered the open market. Fast- ...
  
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• NFL roundup: Von Miller lifts Broncos over Seahawks

  10-09-2018 07:11
  Denver • Case Keenum won his Denver debut despite throwing three interceptions to go with his three touchdowns.He can thank Von Miller , who sacked Russell Wilson three times, forced two fumbles and recovered one as the Broncos held off the Seattle Seahawks 27-24 on Sunday to win for the 18th time in their past 19 home openers.Keenum, who signed a two-year, $36 million prove-it deal in Denver six months ago after leading the Minnesota Vikings to the NFC championship game, normally spends hi
  
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• After 90-minute hearing, former Mormon bishop Sam Young waits to hear his fate, but he’s ‘pretty sure’ he’ll be excommunicated

  10-09-2018 06:42
  Sam Young is waiting to find out whether he will be excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for advocating an end to youth worthiness interviews, typically one-on-one discussions between an adult male church leader and children that include questions of sexual activity.After a 90-minute disciplinary council in Houston on Sunday, Young said he was left without a final decision on his membership status but that he remains convinced that he will soon be removed from the
  
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• Rally Squirrel II: Critter shows up, Cards beat Tigers 5-2

  10-09-2018 06:26
  Detroit • The St. Louis Cardinals needed something to get them going on Sunday against the Detroit Tigers.Out of nowhere — again — a squirrel appeared.In an episode sure to revive St. Louis fans’ memories of the 2011 Rally Squirrel, this game at Comerica Park was scoreless going into the seventh inning. That’s when a squirrel took up residence between second and third base.There was a delay and, with some prompting from the Tigers infield, the critter moved into foul
  
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• Utah Jazz alums: Rodney Hood finally signed for next season

  10-09-2018 06:13
  After an uneventful free agency, former Utah Jazz guard Rodney Hood will finally put pen to paper on a contract for next season. If anything qualifies as certainty in the world of NBA basketball, it’s this: outside of the Golden State Warriors cruising to the Larry O’Brien Trophy, not much is certain at all. There […]
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• Justin Rose waits through a day of rain at BMW Championship

  10-09-2018 06:06
  Newtown Square, Pa. • Two putts began taking on more significance with each rain delay until there was no golf at all Sunday at the BMW Championship.Aronimink Golf Club already was saturated when a steady rain caused tiny streams and large puddles in the fairways, leaving the PGA Tour little choice but to wait until Monday to either play the final round or decide to cut short the third FedEx Cup playoff event to 54 holes.“We had a golf course we couldn’t play,” said Slugge
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Jazz, Towns, Westbrook

  10-09-2018 05:08 via sportspyder.com
  ... by Austin Kent The Jazz didn’t make any major headlines over the course of the summer, electing to s ...
  
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• Dallas officer arrested on manslaughter charge

  10-09-2018 04:17
  Dallas • A white Dallas police officer was arrested Sunday on a manslaughter charge in the off-duty shooting of a black man who was her neighbor, Texas authorities said.Officer Amber Guyger was booked into the Kaufman County Jail, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a news release. The department said the investigation is ongoing and that no additional information was available.A jail employee said Guyger was released on bond. Online records initially showed Guyger was in custody
  
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• E.J. Dionne: The Kavanaugh Hustle

  10-09-2018 04:13
  Washington • Senate Republicans and President Trump share the same inclinations when it comes to one of the worst habits in our politics: Placing ideology and partisanship above the health of our institutions.While Trump is destroying the honor and reputation of the presidency, Senate Republicans are doing all they can to destroy the legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court.When it comes to this last line of appeal in our legal system, the GOP has treated court appointments the same wa
  
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• Djokovic tops del Potro for 3rd title at U.S. Open, 14th Slam

  10-09-2018 03:56
  New York • The U.S. Open final suddenly appeared to be slipping away from Novak Djokovic. He dropped three consecutive games. He was angered by a crowd roaring for his popular opponent, Juan Martin del Potro. He was, in short, out of sorts.And then came Sunday’s pivotal game, a 20-minute, 22-point epic. Three times, del Potro was a point from breaking and earning the right to serve to make it a set apiece. Three times, Djokovic steeled himself. Eventually, he seized that game —
  
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