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• Sheriff: U.S. border patrol agent suspected of killing 4 women

  15-09-2018 22:08
  Laredo, Texas • A U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested early Saturday on the suspicion that he killed four prostitutes and abducted a fifth, who escaped.The agent, Juan David Ortiz, was captured after a woman whom he tried to abduct escaped, Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said at a news conference. Sheriff Martin Cuellar said Ortiz fled from state troopers and was found hiding in the parking lot of a hotel in Laredo, a border city about 145 miles (235 kilometers) southwest of
  
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• Utah is putting more cougars in the crosshairs — and not even all hunters like the idea

  15-09-2018 22:02
  Over the objections of wildlife advocates and some hunters, Utah wildlife officials are upping the state’s cougar harvest for at least the third straight year.Citing a healthy and stable mountain lion population, the Wildlife Board has increased cougar permits from 581 to 642 for the 2018-19 season, which runs Nov. 7 to May 31.The decision has drawn a rebuke from those opposed to trophy hunting, arguing the quota represents a quarter of the state’s adult cougar population and should
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Naz Mitrou-Long scores No. 17 spot

  15-09-2018 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... get Mitchell, O’Neale out to Aggie game Utah Jazz alums: Gordon Hayward is ‘basically 100 percent’ Utah Jazz notes: Snyder a t ...
  
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• More than half of transgender male adolescents attempt suicide, study says

  15-09-2018 19:30
  She picked up the phone and repeated these words, which had grown familiar, like a refrain in a song she never wanted to sing: "We're listening. We hear you. We've gone through similar things."The person on the other end of the line, she said, "had typically just come out to themselves and really wanted to talk to someone." Isolation in that moment, said Greta Gustava Martela, can be dire.She would know. Martela, a transgender woman, has been hospitalized five times for "suicidality," a term tha
  
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• Utah Jazz rank 2018-19: Naz Mitrou-Long scores No. 17 spot

  15-09-2018 19:07
  Following a year spent in the Utah Jazz system, Naz Mitrou-Long looks to take his game to the next level and solidify his spot in the NBA. Naz Mitrou-Long‘s two-way deal with the Utah Jazz last season didn’t result in a lot of floor time in the Association. When all was said and done, he […]
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• ‘This is the closest one has come to burning down the whole community’: Residents watch, wait as Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires top 80,000 acres

  15-09-2018 18:55
  Woodland Hills • Living here for 27 years, Ken Ebert said he’s seen some wildfires. His family has been evacuated before. But this one’s different:“This is the closest one has come to burning down the whole community.”On Friday, Ebert sat on a foldable lawn chair on the side of the road as close as he could get to his home, just outside the Woodland Hills blockade. He wasn’t the only one. About a dozen sat or stood near him, waiting for news and watching the wi
  
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• Salt Lake City has new hopes for failed housing project on downtown State Street

  15-09-2018 18:48
  Salt Lake City is taking another crack at developing much-needed housing at 255 S. State St., where a rusting shell of faulty steel girders and graffiti-clad walls stands today.The city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA) has chosen Chicago-area developer Brinshore from a list of nine companies that applied to help resurrect the project, which has sat dormant for years after a previous developer pulled out amid a host of engineering and financial problems.RDA Chief Operating Officer Danny Walz sa
  
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• Tribune columnist Robert Kirby suspended after investigation into inappropriate behavior

  15-09-2018 18:45
  The Salt Lake Tribune has suspended columnist Robert Kirby for three months without pay following an internal investigation after a Provo-based blogger detailed his inappropriate behavior toward her at a Mormon conference in July.Courtney Kendrick posted Wednesday on social media of feeling “belittled and embarrassed” after Kirby, 65, made sexually tinged comments and persuaded her to eat an edible dose of marijuana, then mocked her before a Sunstone Symposium audience by declaring K
  
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• Florence pours on the rain in the Carolinas, swelling rivers

  15-09-2018 17:52
  New Bern, N.C. • Emergency workers went door to door urging people to flee Florence’s rising floodwaters Saturday and rescuers used inflatable boats to pluck others from homes already submerged as the storm’s epic deluge swelled rivers and creeks across the Carolinas.More than 2 feet of rain already had fallen in places, and the drenching went on and on as Florence, a hurricane-turned-tropical storm, practically parked itself over the two states. Forecasters said the torrents co
  
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• Meet Gabby, the very good girl that fetches Ogden golf balls

  15-09-2018 17:02
  Ogden • It’s 8 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in August as the 29th Street trailhead’s parking lot in Ogden starts to fill up.A blue pickup truck with a camper on the back turns into the parking lot and finds a spot. Arnie Smith walks out and opens the back of his truck, revealing a kennel and an anxious yellow Labrador retriever.He's barely opened the kennel door and Gabby jets out like a blur, excited for her walk.Gabby is a hunting dog coming on 7 years old. Smith frequently goes
  
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• Utah Jazz: Who will take the loaded Northwest Division?

  15-09-2018 16:49
  The Utah Jazz face stiff competition in the Northwest Division. Can they come out atop the pack come season’s end in 2018-19? We all know that the Western Conference is deep and dangerous. However, when it comes to the division that is the staunchest from top to bottom, really none of them can hold a […]
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• Rich Lowry: An economic boom is a terrible thing to waste

  15-09-2018 15:00
  President Donald Trump is showing that it's possible to preside over a period of peace and prosperity and still be notably unpopular.Over the past several months, Trump has opened even more of a wedge between the largely benign material conditions in the country and his own political standing, which is precarious and appears to be sliding backward. This isn't how it's supposed to work.Republican politicos believed, reasonably enough, that last year's tax cuts would stoke growth and create a good
  
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• Letter: We live in a desert. It’s time our lawns started to reflect that fact.

  15-09-2018 15:00
  How to Maintain a Green Lawn in Utah for Dummies:1. Come to the realization that maintaining a luscious green lawn in the second driest state in the United States is depleting our limited supply of water and wasting your precious time mowing your lawn, fixing sprinklers and worrying about every inevitable brown spot. Once you’ve moved on from your green lawn fantasy, recognize that you live in a desert and can still have a cool yard landscape.2. Purchase your favorite grass alternative; fo
  
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• Letter: Utah’s 4th District candidates’ ads show them both to be lacking

  15-09-2018 15:00
  Very sad seeing the poor quality of TV political ads in the 4th Congressional District ads.Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams taking a shower with his clothes on trying to clean off all the political corruption and saying “I’m not for Nancy [Pelosi] to be speaker”? The guy worked for the Clintons, so a shower is not going to convince us.The next TV spot is a sad commentary showing Rep. Mia Love taking major credit for Josh Holt being rescued from Venezuela. She was not the majo
  
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• Letter: Sorry, Rep. Love, but trust is a two-way street

  15-09-2018 15:00
  Rep. Mia Love, your distrust of your constituents is glaring.I went to your office during one of your infrequent “open office hours.” My purse was confiscated by your staff and held while I and five others attempted to have meaningful dialogue with you.You defend gun control but assure there are none in your office. I had to trust your staff with my personal belongings. Were you afraid I would hurt you with a lipstick? You do not trust your constituents but you expect me to trust you
  
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• Letter: Kavanaugh’s confirmation will inflict long-ranging harm on our rights

  15-09-2018 15:00
  Upon the inevitable confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, conservatives will have achieved ultimate victory in the cultural-political war of our lifetime. It’s all over but the shouting.Decades of progressive social changes never possible through legislation, starting with school desegregation in the mid-1950s through a woman’s right to choose and up to marriage equality today, will all come to a full stop with the most solidly conservative court in over 80 ye
  
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• Letter: Hypocritical McAdams parties with the interest groups he disparages

  15-09-2018 15:00
  Last week, Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams put out a hypocritical commercial showing himself showering off the “special interest group corruption of Washington, D.C.”One day later, McAdams boarded a flight to Washington to engage in a high-dollar fundraiser with the same special interest groups he talks about “showering off.”I don’t know whether to laugh or be angry at the hypocrisy.But wait, it gets better. McAdams flew to this D.C. fundraiser in the middle of t
  
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• Letter: Enough of Mia Love’s grandstanding over the Josh Holt rescue

  15-09-2018 15:00
  I’m with Fran Crookston (Public Forum, Sept. 8).Rep. Mia-Love’s long-running ad implies she is solely responsible for Josh Holt’s release from incarceration in Venezuela. To the contrary, a simple web search of “release of Josh Holt from Venezuela” shows that she did little other than call Sen. Orrin Hatch, then hold Josh’s mother’s hands. Others took the laboring oar, in particular Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
  
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• Letter: American greatness is something to strive for, not something to return to

  15-09-2018 15:00
  A dozen years after its founding, “in order to form a more perfect Union,” our nation adopted its Constitution. The union was not perfect in 1776; adopting the Constitution in 1788 did not make it so; it is not perfect now, and it never will achieve perfection. America instead is an ideal always to be sought and striven for in the future, not the past.Martin Luther King had a dream, “deeply rooted in the American dream, … that one day this nation will rise up and live ou
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: What we learn when Trump says crazy stuff

  15-09-2018 15:00
  On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump showed once again that he lacks even a tangential relationship with reality:“3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000...” he wrote on Thursday on Twitter.He continued:“...This was done by the Democrats
  
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• Holly Richardson: They are called ‘disasters’ for a reason

  15-09-2018 15:00
  After multiple seasons of naturals disasters — fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanoes — it can become easy to become somewhat numb and even start to shrug them off as “normal.”But they are not normal.They are called “disasters” for a reason and they come with a hefty cost. Some of it is financial, of course — to individuals, communities and even nations. There are also costs in physical, mental and emotional health. There are tim
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Once again, Putin gives us a lesson on the usefulness of the blatant lie

  15-09-2018 15:00
  They were, they declared, just tourists. Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - identified by British authorities as the Russian intelligence agents who poisoned four people in the English town of Salisbury — were simply on vacation: “Our friends had been suggesting for some time that we visit this wonderful town.”Sweating, nervous, thuggishly coiffed and wearing similar sweaters, this is what Petrov and Boshirov (not their real names, the British say) told Margarita Simonyan,
  
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• Has BYU improved much since last year’s big loss to Wisconsin? Saturday’s rematch in Madison will tell the tale on Kalani Sitake’s reconstruction efforts

  15-09-2018 07:47
  Madison, Wis. • For Kalani Sitake, last season’s 40-6 loss to Wisconsin in front of more than 61,000 fans — a thousand or so decked out in red — and a national television audience in Provo represented one of the lowest points of his second year as BYU’s football coach.Not only did the Cougars lose by 34 points, they were dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball by the rugged Big Ten team, and winning those matchups was one of the former fullback’s st
  
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• Through the legs: Coric’s ‘tweener’ draws bows at Davis Cup

  15-09-2018 07:46
  Zadar, Croatia • Borna Coric pulled off a through-the-legs lob shot winner that had the crowd bowing in admiration during the Davis Cup semifinals on Friday.Early in the third set of a 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over Steve Johnson, Coric ran down a lob and replied with a shot known as a “tweener” that flew over the head of his 6-foot-2 (1.88-meter) opponent and landed within inches of the baseline.Later, sixth-ranked Marin Cilic gave Croatia a 2-0 lead over the United States with
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah State Football aiming to get Mitchell, O’Neale out to Aggie game

  15-09-2018 07:24 via sportspyder.com
  ... s for selfish reasons, sure, but that aside, it’d also be great for the avid Jazz fans in the northern part of the state to be rewarded in this matter. Utah S ...
  
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• Utah State Football aiming to get Mitchell, O’Neale out to Aggie game

  15-09-2018 06:23
  Utah State Football is doing their due diligence to get Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell and teammate Royce O’Neale out to an Aggie game. One year ago, no one could have guessed just how much rising Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell would take over the state of Utah. He went from a low lottery pick […]
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• Erik Jones claims pole in Las Vegas for first NASCAR playoff race

  15-09-2018 06:11
  Las Vegas • Erik Jones surprised the field by winning the pole Friday for the opening race of the NASCAR Cup series playoffs, turning a lap in 28.705 seconds and narrowly edging Joey Logano.Jones opened the first weekend of NASCAR’s 10-race postseason by earning his second career pole in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. The 22-year-old is the youngest driver ever to win the pole at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.“You can’t start them off any better than that,” Jones said. &ldq
  
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• The Salt Lake Tribune’s statement on columnist Robert Kirby

  15-09-2018 05:24
  The Salt Lake Tribune has suspended columnist Robert Kirby without pay for three months effective immediately.After researching multiple complaints, we found that Kirby’s conduct has not been in compliance with Tribune policy. However, we’re implementing steps to prevent this behavior in the future. We believe that Kirby’s agreement to suspend employment, undergo coaching and attend training reflects his sincere commitment to change. He has been an important contributor to The
  
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• A year later, Golovkin, Alvarez meet with bad intentions

  15-09-2018 04:11
  Las Vegas • Canelo Alvarez has gone to bed the last few months thinking about how he’s going to knock out Gennady Golovkin in their middleweight title rematch.To wake up Sunday morning as the 160-pound champion, though, he’ll have to take some chances he didn’t in his first fight with Golovkin a year ago. And that could be a real problem against a fearsome puncher who has knocked out 34 fighters in his 39 professional fights.“I know it’s going to be a tough fig
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz alums: Gordon Hayward is ‘basically 100 percent’

  15-09-2018 04:05 via sportspyder.com
  ... ssembled media (via Celtics.com). Whether or not he’ll be available when the Jazz host the Celtics on November 9 may be a dicier situation. The game falls on...
  
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• Can the Board of Education be partisan? Utah Supreme Court justices call state’s argument ‘thin' and ‘almost nonsensical’, but acknowledge ambiguity in the law

  15-09-2018 03:17
  A lawyer for the state of Utah argued Friday that the Utah Board of Education is above and apart from the state’s education system, and not subject to constitutional protections against religious and partisan job requirements.Arguing before the Utah Supreme Court, Utah Solicitor General Tyler Green said neither school board members nor their executive and office staff are education employees. And no candidate is blocked from running for school board office as a result of their party affili
  
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• Sen. Hatch condemns Democrats for raising last-minute allegation against Supreme Court nominee

  15-09-2018 03:13
  Washington • Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Friday lambasted an allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh committed potential sexual misconduct when he was a teenager, arguing Democrats are recklessly throwing out the unsubstantiated claim at the last minute to halt his confirmation.Kavanaugh has “categorically” denied the allegation, which surfaced in a letter to a California congresswoman that was later sent to the authorities by Sen. Diane Feinstein of California, t
  
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• Utah Catholics honor lawyers, judges, first responders and the military during annual Red Mass

  15-09-2018 03:02
  The Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City recognized lawyers, judges, first responders and the military Friday during its annal Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.During the service, which dates to the Middle Ages, the clergy wear red vestments and ask the Holy Spirit to guide all those who seek justice.While the Red Mass is a tradition in Catholic parishes across the U.S., it didn’t start in Salt Lake City until 2007, initiated by Ronald Yengich, a Utah Catholic and well-known crimin
  
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• Utah Jazz alums: Gordon Hayward is ‘basically 100 percent’

  15-09-2018 03:01
  Former Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward is just about ready to play in the Boston Celtics’ season opener on October 16. It’s been 11 months since former Utah Jazz star Gordon Hayward‘s ill-fated debut with the Boston Celtics. Mere moments into Boston’s 2017-18 season opener, Hayward fractured his tibia and ankle on an alley-oop attempt […]
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• Ex-Mormon bishop has a letter letting him know if he has been excommunicated, but he’s not opening it until Sunday, across from the temple in Salt Lake City

  15-09-2018 02:07
  Sam Young has decided to let the world find out at the same time he does whether he is being excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.The former bishop — who has been campaigning to get the Utah-based faith to end all one-on-one interviews between Mormon clergy and youths, sessions that sometimes include sexually explicit questions — has scheduled a news conference for noon Sunday, across from the church’s iconic Salt Lake Temple, to reveal his member
  
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• New U.S. survey shows some progress against opioid crisis

  15-09-2018 00:57
  Figures from a U.S. government survey released Friday show some progress in the fight against the ongoing opioid addiction crisis with fewer people in 2017 using heroin for the first time compared to the previous year.The number of new users of heroin decreased from 170,000 in 2016 to 81,000 in 2017, a one-year drop that would need to be sustained for years to reduce the number of fatal overdoses, experts said.Fewer Americans are misusing or addicted to prescription opioid painkillers. And more
  
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• 🚨 IMPORTANT POLL 🚨 Who had the best summer vacay? Presented by: @Qualtrics

  15-09-2018 00:52 via twitter.com
  🚨 IMPORTANT POLL 🚨Who had the best summer vacay?Presented by: @Qualtrics
  
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• Paul Waldman: Paul Manafort has flipped. So what happens now?

  15-09-2018 00:37
  Once again, Robert Mueller's "witch hunt" has caught itself a witch. And this is a big one, as The Washington Post reports:"President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is pleading guilty Friday to two criminal charges under terms of a plea deal that includes his cooperation as a potential witness for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III."The decision by Manafort to provide evidence in exchange for leniency on sentencing is a stunning development in the long-running probe into wheth
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz notes: Snyder a tough nut to crack, Gobert ready to crack skulls

  15-09-2018 00:34 via sportspyder.com
  ... rsey while Rubio teases another Utah Jazz: Top three things to be excited about for preseason Utah Jazz to hold ‘Meet...
  
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• "Each of us must do something to fight for a greater cause. We can lead, we can support, we can contribute, we can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-09-2018 00:11 via twitter.com
  "Each of us must do something to fight for a greater cause. We can lead, we can support, we can contribute, we can… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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