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• Hispanic heritage parade in Salt Lake City celebrates pride, raises awareness about those without health insurance

  22-09-2018 22:13
  The third annual Hispanic heritage parade and street festival celebrated Hispanic culture in Utah and raised awareness about the high number of uninsured Hispanic children in the state.The parade featured displays of pride from people who trace their lineage to 17 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico. The parade wound its way through the Gateway entertainment district and mall in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday.
  
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• Kavanaugh accuser wants to talk to Senate; terms up in air

  22-09-2018 22:02
  Washington • The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of a decades-old sexual assault has accepted a Senate committee’s request to tell her side next week but Christine Blasey Ford wants to resume negotiations over the exact terms of her appearance, her lawyers said Saturday.It was not immediately clear whether the Republican-run Senate Judiciary Committee would agree to more talks with Ford's team. Also unclear was when she might come to Capitol Hill and whether she w
  
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• Pope Francis, battered by abuse scandal, gets warm welcome in Baltics

  22-09-2018 20:54
  Vilnius, Lithuania • Tens of thousands of Lithuanians lined the narrow streets of the Old Town of Vilnius and cheered Saturday as Pope Francis’ popemobile passed by, an exuberant greeting that must have been welcome to a pontiff battered by new revelations in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse scandal.The church’s mounting credibility crisis was nowhere to be seen or heard on Vilnius’ streets, which were filled with Lithuanians and Poles who arrived by the
  
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• 2️⃣5️⃣ days until game 1 of 82. https://t.co/TnNG4MJ4iG

  22-09-2018 19:59 via twitter.com
  
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• Vatican, China make breakthrough deal on bishop appointments

  22-09-2018 19:50
  Vatican City • The Vatican and China said Saturday they had signed a “provisional agreement” over the appointment of bishops, a breakthrough on an issue that stymied diplomatic relations for decades and aggravated a split among Chinese Catholics.The deal resolved one of the major sticking points in recent years, with the Vatican agreeing to accept seven bishops who were previously named by Beijing without the pope’s consent.The development comes nearly seven decades after
  
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• Pope Francis quips ‘I am the devil’ next to John Paul

  22-09-2018 19:46
  Vilnius, Lithuania • Pope Francis has acknowledged that his reputation pales a bit compared to St. John Paul II — at least as far as Poles are concerned.Greeting journalists Saturday en route to Lithuania, Francis was given a book about the former pope by Polish photographer Grzegorz Galazka. Receiving the large book with a beaming John Paul on the cover, Francis quipped: “[Pope John Paul II] was a saint, I am the devil.”Laughing, Galazka immediately corrected him: “
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Kincade Upstill: Why the Utah Jazz should extend Ricky Rubio’s contract

  22-09-2018 19:06 via sportspyder.com
  ...talented players isn’t overly challenging. Signing Rubio now would cost the Jazz valuable cap space next summer (the Jazz could have somewhere in the ballpar ...
  
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• Kincade Upstill: Why the Utah Jazz should extend Ricky Rubio’s contract

  22-09-2018 19:00
  For Dennis Lindsey and the rest of the Utah Jazz front office, July was a busy month, as they re-signed all of their own free agents, Derrick Favors, Dante Exum and Raul Neto. By the beginning of August, the roster was maxed out with 15 contracts and both two-way players had been signed (Tyler Cavanaugh and Naz Mitrou-Long).Lindsey still has a couple of training camp invites to hand out, but the Jazz's 2018-19 roster looks complete. Someone deserves a relaxing vacation on the beach after assembl
  
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• Commentary: Three reasons to support Utah’s Prop 3

  22-09-2018 18:54
  In 2012, the 19-year-old Major League Baseball phenom Bryce Harper was asked an ignorant question after playing a game in Toronto. As the minimum age for drinking alcohol in Toronto was 19 (as opposed to 21 in the United States), a reporter asked Bryce if he would celebrate his home run by buying a beer. Harper instantly became an icon for his answer, sparking many tee-shirt and internet memes: “That’s a clown question, bro.” Harper had previously made it clear the he wouldn&rs
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Eric Woodyard: Media Training Camp gives press a backstage pass to Utah Jazz land

  22-09-2018 18:09 via sportspyder.com
  ... d from the three stations the most were the method to the madness behind the Jazz’s “goofy finishes,” as well as defensive principles and three-man weave tech ...
  
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• Eric Woodyard: Media Training Camp gives press a backstage pass to Utah Jazz land

  22-09-2018 18:05
  SALT LAKE CITY — As members of the media — myself included — strolled into the Zions Bank Basketball Center on Friday afternoon, the newcomers didn't know what to expect.Sure, I had an idea of what the Utah Jazz Media Training Camp would look like, through studying old Jody Genessy reports, but I didn't truly know what would happen."What would my jersey look like? Would the drills be hard? Will I look silly?" my mind wandered.But then all that nervous energy was erased once I g
  
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• After would-be touchdowns got away from them, the Utes’ Pita Tonga and Connor Haller are moving on

  22-09-2018 18:05
  Hannah Haller so eagerly hugged her husband after the game that he wondered if she missed his most dramatic play.“Hannah,” Utah tight end Connor Haller asked, “do you realize what happened? I dropped the ball for a touchdown.”She knew. Everybody knew. Haller was involved in one of the Utes' two Touchdowns That Never Happened in last weekend's 21-7 loss to No. 10 Washington, a pair of disasters within a five-play sequence that Haller and defensive lineman Pita Tonga wish t
  
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• Gunmen attack Iran military parade, killing at least 25

  22-09-2018 17:40
  Tehran, Iran • Gunmen disguised as soldiers attacked an annual Iranian military parade Saturday in the country’s oil-rich southwest, killing at least 25 people and wounding 60 in the bloodiest assault to strike the country in recent years.The attack in Ahvaz saw gunfire sprayed into a crowd of marching Revolutionary Guardsmen, bystanders and government officials watching from a nearby riser. Suspicion immediately fell on the region's Arab separatists, who previously only attacked ungu
  
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• Standoff has Kavanaugh accuser’s Senate appearance in limbo

  22-09-2018 17:37
  Washington • The high-stakes confrontation over whether Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee grinded into Saturday as Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley gave Christine Blasey Ford more time to decide whether to tell her story to his panel and a riveted nation.Grassley had set a Friday night deadline for the 51-year-old California psychology professor to agree to the latest offer setting terms for her appearance. He'd said if she missed that dead
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - What does the Jimmy Butler drama mean for the Utah Jazz?

  22-09-2018 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... that being the case, there’s a certain Clipper that has been on the radar of Jazz fans, and I presume Jazz brass as well, for quite some time, that could very ...
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio is fortunate to no longer be in Minnesota

  22-09-2018 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  ... an only consider it a blessing. There are so many positives for him with the Jazz right now. After overcoming last season’s rocky start, it’s clear that he’s...
  
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• After Aggie Ice Cream and Aggie Cheese, Utah State University’s chocolate factory could be the start of a new food tradition

  22-09-2018 17:02
  Logan • Utah State University has completed a culinary triple threat.For more than a century, the school has been producing ice cream and cheese, using the milk from its own herd of cows.Next week, it will open the Aggie Chocolate Factory — the only artisan chocolate-making facility at a university in the West.“Maybe this will be the beginning of another 100-year-old tradition,” said USU Professor Silvana Martini, who teaches the school’s chocolate course, which this
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio is fortunate to no longer be in Minnesota

  22-09-2018 16:51
  Though being traded was undoubtedly hard at the time, in hindsight Ricky Rubio is exceedingly fortunate to be out of Minnesota and playing for the Utah Jazz. Being traded is never an easy experience for an NBA player. It’s easy to forget that despite these guys’ skills and athletic prowess, they’re still human beneath it […]
  Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio is fortunate to no longer be in Minnesota - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• What does the Jimmy Butler drama mean for the Utah Jazz?

  22-09-2018 16:14
  The recent Jimmy Butler drama has sent shockwaves throughout the NBA, and it could very well impact the Utah Jazz as well. Although the NBA offseason can seem long, it’s anything but boring. Between exciting trades, players throwing shade at one another and seemingly endless drama, there’s rarely a dull moment in the NBA even […]
  What does the Jimmy Butler drama mean for the Utah Jazz? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Rich Lowry: Accuser should be heard, not automatically believed

  22-09-2018 15:00
  Christine Blasey Ford deserves a hearing, although at the moment it's not clear if she really wants one. What she doesn't deserve is to be believed automatically just because she's a woman making an accusation.At its best, our system of justice judges each individual — the accuser and the accused — on the basis of the evidence and with an adversarial process that has proved over the centuries to be the best way to ascertain the truth.The problem is that Ford's accusation doesn't seem
  
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• Patti Davis: Why I don’t recall all the details of my sexual assault

  22-09-2018 15:00
  Roughly 40 years ago, I showed up at a prominent music executive's office for an appointment that had been scheduled suspiciously late in the workday. But I wasn't suspicious. I was instead eager to try to place some of my original songs with artists he represented. One of my songs had appeared on the Eagles album "One of These Nights," and I was hoping to turn songwriting into a career.I brought along a cassette tape of my material, but I don't remember what the executive said about the songs.
  
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• Holly Richardson: Biggest bullies in the office? Turns out it’s Queen Bees

  22-09-2018 15:00
  “Details of your incompetence do not interest me.” Miranda Priestly says to her assistant Andy in “The Devil Wears Prada.” Later, Andy tells her boyfriend that Miranda “is not happy unless everyone around her is panicked, nauseous or suicidal.”Miranda is a Queen Bee and, like Sauron from the Lord of the Rings, she does not share power.While Miranda is a fictional character, Queen Bees are very real. They exist in the workplace, in politics, in neighborhood HOA
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Dynamic Warriors big man Jordan Bell ready for second season

  22-09-2018 12:13 via sportspyder.com
  ... ll watches during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz in Oakland, Calif. Bell had pushed his body to the brink, to exhaustion one...
  
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• Jazz players back in town as training camp begins next week

  22-09-2018 07:37
  The boys are back in town.After a season in which the Jazz surprised the league over the second half of the year, going 29-6, the front office decided to run it back with largely the same roster. All in all, 20 players have arrived in Salt Lake City for Media Day on Monday and training camp Tuesday. And of the 17 players likely to make the team’s final roster, 15 were on the team at the end of last season.Most of the roster has been in Salt Lake City for weeks, playing with teammates in &l
  
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• BYU is dealing with dwindling attendance, but Cougars still draw the third largest crowds in the West

  22-09-2018 07:37
  Provo • An energizing season-opening win over Arizona had revitalized a fan base still sagging from last year’s disappointing season, so BYU football officials were anticipating a larger-than-normal crowd for their home opener against the Pac-12’s California on a beautiful late-summer evening in early September.It didn’t happen.Announced attendance was just 52,602 for a game the Bears won, 21-18. The attendance count was fewer than in all but two games last season. The lat
  
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• USU Aggies say they are ready for everything Air Force will throw at them in their Mountain West opener

  22-09-2018 07:36
  Everyone knows Air Force is a run-oriented team, but stopping the Falcons' offense is not that simple.The complication comes from AFA's variety of running plays, mixed with occasional passes, as Utah State coach Matt Wells outlined this week. The Falcons' scheme includes “mid-line, belly, belly-G, trap, trap option, long toss, all of the play actions, post-wheels, dig-post combinations, getting unbalanced tackles over, tight end ineligible down the back side, twins over, you name it,&rdquo
  
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• RSL seeks to secure a playoff spot in its last five games, beginning with a tough one against Atlanta United

  22-09-2018 07:36
  Herriman • Throughout the week, members of Real Salt Lake expressed a tinge of disappointment after their 1-1 draw against Minnesota United. Disappointment that they couldn’t capitalize at home against an inferior team. Disappointment that they left two points on the table as they fight to maintain their position in the Western Conference playoff race. Disappointment that they had lost some of the bite in the attack that scored 12 goals in the previous two games.But there was also a s
  
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• Utah offers an online preschool that boosts literacy. But some Latino families, wary of sharing information with the government, are reluctant to enroll their kids.

  22-09-2018 06:43
  Adrian Zavala Santana was practically nonverbal when he turned three and aged out of state services that offer help when a child is developing slowly.He could say just 20 words in Spanish, his mother says, and he didn’t know any English. Doctors wondered if he was on the autism spectrum. After ushering Adrian’s two older sisters into gifted classes, his parents weren’t sure their son would even be able to go to a mainstream public school as another year passed with little progr
  
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• Tiger Woods shares lead going into weekend at the Tour Championship

  22-09-2018 04:29
  Atlanta • For thousands of fans crammed into every corner of East Lake, it looked as though Tiger Woods was closer than ever to capping off this remarkable comeback season by winning the final PGA Tour event.Four straight one-putts on the back nine Friday in the Tour Championship — three for birdie, one for par — offset a double bogey and gave Woods a 2-under 68 and a share of the 36-hole lead for the first time in three years. Not since Doral in 2013 has he been atop the leader
  
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• ‘We have a duty to transform education for the 21st century’: University of Utah inaugurates Ruth Watkins, its first female president

  22-09-2018 03:52
  Every time someone mentioned it, the crowd cheered and clapped.When David P. Gardner, a former president at the University of Utah, noted how Ruth Watkins would be the first female president in the school’s 168-year history. When H. David Burton, chair of the board of trustees, called it a “historic occasion.” When Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox said five of the colleges in Utah are now being led by women, a first for the state.When Watkins walked onto the stage.“I am confident tha
  
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• A Utah couple left behind wedding decorations and food for 300 when they evacuated a massive fire. The community came through with a venue, pasta and fairy lights.

  22-09-2018 03:08
  It looked like Sarah and Sterling Peterson's wedding was off.Just two days before the big event, the city of Woodland Hills was ordered to evacuate due to a looming 20,000-acre wildfire at the edge of town. The Woodland Hills Community Center, which the couple had booked for the celebration, was behind a barricade. Sterling’s family fled his childhood home, leaving behind the couple’s carefully-chosen wedding decorations and food for 300 guests.Relatives had booked flights and some a
  
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• Texas Rangers fire manager Jeff Banister after consecutive losing seasons

  22-09-2018 02:41
  Arlington, Texas • The Texas Rangers fired manager Jeff Banister on Friday after the team stumbled to its first consecutive losing records in 10 years following AL West titles in each of his first two seasons.Texas announced the move with 10 games left in Banister’s fourth season, and general manager Jon Daniels said the decision wasn’t based on the record.“There are times when you’re looking for a new voice, and the new voice for the leadership,” Daniels said.
  
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• Meet Georgetta the giraffe, the newest 5-foot-tall baby at Utah’s Hogle Zoo

  22-09-2018 02:36
  Georgetta, a baby giraffe born Monday at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, made her first public appearance Friday.Georgetta was born Monday, Sept. 17, at 3:33 a.m., to Pogo, a 16-year-old giraffe. She was 150 pounds at birth, and over 5 feet tall, zoo officials said.Pogo had Georgetta cleaned up, and the baby was standing up and nursing within an hour. By Thursday, three days later, she was 5′9″ and 163 pounds.This is the third time Pogo has given birth, and it was a relatively easy birth, ac
  
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• No Scouting doesn’t mean an end to church-sponsored camping for Mormon youths

  22-09-2018 02:19
  When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced in May it would be quitting its centurylong partnership with the Boy Scouts of America and would develop its own youth programs, many members worried that might mean the end of church-sponsored camping.After all, the new Latter-day Saint program for boys and girls was described as a way to help them “discover their eternal identity, build character and resilience, develop life skills and fulfill their divine roles as daughters
  
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• With ‘Waitress’ set to open in Utah, we asked veteran food servers for their tips for diners

  22-09-2018 02:02
  If you can remember the 1989 film “When Harry Met Sally …," you know that Sally is “high maintenance,” especially when ordering at a restaurant.Meg Ryan’s character wants everything “on the side,” from the oil and vinegar for her salad to the ice cream for the pie à la mode.Nearly two decades later, the takeaway from that scene is this: When dining, don’t be Sally. Don’t be high maintenance.And if you are, "you should be tipping extra
  
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• A West Valley City police officer won’t face criminal charges for shooting and killing a man in a garage

  22-09-2018 01:46
  A West Valley City police officer who shot and killed a man hiding in a garage will not face criminal charges, the Salt Lake County district attorney announced Friday.Officer Nicholaus Green fired three shots at Elijah James Smith on April 8, one of the bullets striking the 20-year-old in the neck.Smith had come to the West Valley City house while running from police, who were searching the area for someone suspected of stealing from a cellphone store on Redwood Road.Body camera footage, shown F
  
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• Meetings to discuss plans for downsized Grand Staircase monument will be held in southern Utah

  22-09-2018 01:42
  Kanab • The management of the downsized Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and will be the subject of two public meetings next month.The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday the open-house meetings will be held Oct. 15 and 16 in two cities near the southern Utah monument: Escalante and Kanab.The agency issued four options for draft management proposals in August, saying its preference is for the one “least restrictive to energy and mining development.”The plan has be
  
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• A Utah high school student was happy working at KFC. But with this program’s help, he’s a pre-med senior in college.

  22-09-2018 01:07
  When Franco Jin was a student at Hillcrest High School four years ago, all of his friends were applying for college and he wasn’t sure if he should be, too.Jin, who moved to America with his family from Argentina when he was 12, would have been the first generation of his family to attend college. Besides, he already had a job.“I was pretty happy working at KFC,” Jin said. “They would let me eat all the chicken I wanted, no complaints.”Jin is now a senior pre-med st
  
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• [NBA] - Social Sideline: Going old school

  22-09-2018 00:54 via sportspyder.com
  ... ill always have a special place in my heart. Win or lose, I will always be a Jazz fan.— Kohlton Miller (@kohltonjmiller) I was born in in Utah in '79. Proudly ...
  
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• Mormon church takes another step in its anti-Prop 2 push, invites female bloggers to meeting about medical marijuana

  22-09-2018 00:50
  Each year since 2014, the LDS Church’s public affairs arm has assembled female Mormon bloggers to discuss church issues that concern them — priesthood, equality, service, family, refugees.This year, though, the meeting is taking a turn toward the starkly political: medical marijuana.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints already has declared its opposition to Utah’s Proposition 2, which would legalize medical cannabis, arguing it lacks the necessary safeguards.The Salt
  
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• Throwing it back, and you guys love it. >> on.nba.com/2QPXgoo

  22-09-2018 00:34 via twitter.com
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• Shame, fear: Survivors explain not reporting sexual assaults

  22-09-2018 00:32
  New York • Shame. Guilt. Embarrassment. Denial. Disgust.And fear — of losing a job, friends, colleagues, privacy, safety, even one's life.There are a myriad of reasons why survivors of sexual assault wait years to come forward — if at all. Indeed, about 7 out of 10 people who experience sexual assault never report it, according to Justice Department statistics.So survivors responded with fury Friday to President Donald Trump’s remarks challenging the veracity of Christine
  
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• THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING, TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! twitter.com/Tjonesonthenba…

  22-09-2018 00:20 via twitter.com
  THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING, TONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! twitter.com/Tjonesonthenba…
  
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