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• 28 year prison sentence caps long downfall for ‘Suge’ Knight

  04-10-2018 23:23
  Los Angeles • Marion “Suge” Knight was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for mowing down and killing a Compton businessman in a case that completed the former rap music mogul’s downfall from his heyday as one of the biggest — and most feared names in the music industry.Knight will now likely live out most, if not the rest, of his life in a California prison. He showed no emotion in court Thursday as relatives of Terry Carter, the man he killed, described their
  
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• Win a pair of 🎟🎟 to the game against @Adelaide36ers & two all-you-can-eat passes to the #FordFanZone‼️ All you hav… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-10-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
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• One year later, the Jazz’s gamble to bring Ricky Rubio to Utah looks like it’s paying off nicely. The Spaniard has embraced Quin Snyder’s system, and it’s embracing him back.

  04-10-2018 23:20
  You can learn a lot about a player by the music chosen for their YouTube highlight videos.For many NBA players, the song choice is confrontational, emphasizing just how physically dominant a player can be on the court. For others, a song is chosen for its lyrics: LeBron James is famous, so Post Malone’s “Rockstar” is chosen.Ricky Rubio’s highlight mix songs tend not to have words. There are some that feel cinematic, trailers showing just brief glimpses of the $9.25 ticket
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert unbothered by NBA GM survey snub as one of league’s top centers

  04-10-2018 23:01 via sportspyder.com
  ... nver, were the only others receiving votes. “I haven’t reviewed that stuff,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said of the survey, where general managers couldn’t vote f ...
  
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  04-10-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
  
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• Can Utah State keep the Old Wagon Wheel in consecutive years for first time since the ’70s? Aggies look ready to do so against BYU Friday.

  04-10-2018 22:51
  Provo • The scene is still etched into the minds of every BYU football player who was there that balmy autumn night in Logan.As the Cougars waited near midfield after committing seven turnovers and finishing up with a third-string quarterback to congratulate Utah State players on their 40-24 win last year at Maverik Stadium, a bunch of Aggies ran to the north end zone to get the Old Wagon Wheel, the trophy that has gone to the winner of the rivalry game the last 70 years.“You know, if
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Jazz’s Rudy Gobert unbothered by NBA GM survey snub as one of league’s top centers

  04-10-2018 22:49 via sportspyder.com
  ... nver, were the only others receiving votes. “I haven’t reviewed that stuff,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said of the survey, where general managers couldn’t vote f ...
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert unbothered by NBA GM survey snub as one of league’s top centers

  04-10-2018 22:38
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert says he's ready to prove himself on the court.The league's reigning Defensive Player of the Year isn't concerned with what others think of him.That's why it doesn't bother him that his name wasn't listed among the best centers on the 17th annual NBA.com GM Survey, released Wednesday morning."It was great, it was a great survey," Gobert smirked, while addressing the latest GM poll. "They've got to pick one. They can't pick all of them, so we'll
  
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• Utah’s five female university presidents share their goals, differences and experiences with sexism

  04-10-2018 22:36
  When the moderator looked to her right, where Utah’s five female university presidents sat on a stage, she said: “This feels different than it would if it were five male college presidents. So there’s something we’ve got to dissect here.”“What is it?” Salt Lake Community College President Deneece Huftalin asked with a hint of sarcasm and a bit of a laugh.“Well, we have better jewelry,” joked Astrid Tuminez, president of Utah Valley University
  
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• Utah governor to call special session after November to enact medical marijuana agreement, no matter how Prop 2 vote turns out

  04-10-2018 22:36
  News conference on medical marijuana in UtahGovernor Herbert, legislative leadership and community advocates will discuss their shared vision for medical marijuana in Utah.Posted by Fox 13 News on Thursday, October 4, 2018Utah Gov. Gary Herbert plans to call a special legislative session in November on the subject of medical marijuana, as both sides of the Proposition 2 debate agreed Thursday to de-escalate their campaigns in favor of a “shared vision" on cannabis policy.The deal, announc
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Opponents and supporters of medical marijuana initiative reach a ‘shared vision’ and powerful Utahns write big checks for ballot initiatives

  04-10-2018 22:36
  Opponents and advocates of the Proposition 2 ballot initiative reach a “shared vision” on medical marijuana legislation. Utah power brokers, including Utah Jazz owner Gail Miller, spend big money on ballot initiatives in the state. And Salt Lake City moves to rein in the environmental impacts of the inland port.At 9 a.m. Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Taylor Stevens and Benjamin Wood as well as editorial page editor George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the
  
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• ‘You crunch the numbers.' Here’s how the NCAA’s new kickoff and redshirt rules have affected the Utes so far.

  04-10-2018 22:28
  The most dramatic, productive kickoff-return sequence of Utah’s season came last Saturday, when Demari Simpkins shrewdly watched the football sail out of bounds. The Utes took over the ball at their 35-yard line, their best field position of the year after receiving a kickoff.The NCAA’s new rule allowing teams that fair-catch a kickoff to take possession at their 25 basically has done what Ute coach Kyle Whittingham said last summer would happen: “The normal kickoff with the no
  
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• Utah’s senators say FBI report doesn’t support sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh, and key senators agree

  04-10-2018 21:58
  Washington • It’s now likely that next week, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh will don a black robe and fill the vacant seat on the right end of the bench on the U.S. Supreme Court.The FBI has finished its quick, follow-up review of Kavanaugh, and senators spent Thursday morning perusing the document in a secure room at the Capitol, with two of the swing voters on the confirmation signaling that they’d back the nominee.Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said the report “appears
  
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• 📹 | “I feel like everyone is here to help each other … we want to see each other succeed. It’s great and it’s reall… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-10-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Season Preview: Is continuity the key for a contender?

  04-10-2018 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  ... an Mitchell. Utah lacks a defined no. 2 scorer. That no. 2 scorer can be any Jazz player on any given night: , , Rudy Gobert, , , etc., but that slot behind D ...
  
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• .@BucketsONeale00 chats with @Lockedonsports in today's Culture Code interview. » on.nba.com/2PblaK0

  04-10-2018 21:38 via twitter.com
  .@BucketsONeale00 chats with @Lockedonsports in today's Culture Code interview.» on.nba.com/2PblaK0
  
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• Ballet West veteran is its new music director

  04-10-2018 21:22
  Jared Oaks, who started out as a rehearsal pianist for Ballet West almost 11 years ago, has been named the troupe’s new music director.“Jared is one of the youngest conductors of a major American ballet company, and — at any age — he is one of the most skilled,” said artistic director Adam Sklute. “He has a depth of knowledge that is only equal to his energy and commitment to this company.”Oaks, 36, will lead the 60-member Ballet West Orchestra. Tara Sim
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Dishing up lies while proclaiming the love of facts, Trump and Sarah Sanders gaslight America

  04-10-2018 21:11
  President Donald Trump's assault on truth - and would-be truthtellers - has hit a new low.It may not seem possible, considering that this is a president who has misled or lied to the public thousands of times.But consider what happened in a White House news briefing Wednesday afternoon. Then consider this week's rushed and restricted FBI investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. And, finally, consider the administration's response to the New York Times' groundbreaking investigat
  
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• This is the place for Mormon references in city names, but did you know Brigham City first was called Youngsville, and Goshen was Sodom?

  04-10-2018 21:10
  American Indians, trappers, explorers, government surveyors, railroad builders and ranchers named hundreds of places in Utah. But members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints named more.“The Mormons named more places than any other individual or group” in the state, wrote John W. Van Cott in his encyclopedic 1990 book, “Utah Place Names.”Latter-day Saints honored places from the Bible. They celebrated ancient prophets and cities from their signature scriptur
  
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• Commentary: Our faith in the Supreme Court is threatened

  04-10-2018 21:10
  What keeps our society civil? Food, employment, opportunity and safety? Perhaps also a faith in our system that it works as it should, minimizes corruption and treats citizens fairly?A critical mass of us have agreed to abide by the same rules to bring order to chaos and anarchy. Of course, it is very easy to poke holes in this utopian view. Generally, however, we have faith in our ingenious three-branched system of government that is capable of addressing these failures and, just in case one of
  
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• 🎙 | The latest episode of our new podcast 🎵 The Note 🎵 following Rudy around his hometown is available now. Subsc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-10-2018 20:28 via twitter.com
  🎙 |The latest episode of our new podcast 🎵 The Note 🎵 following Rudy around his hometown is available now.Subsc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Drunk birds are causing havoc in a Minnesota town. Police say they’ll sober up soon.

  04-10-2018 20:21
  Police in Gilbert, Minnesota, are warning residents about a group of youthful residents unable to handle their alcohol. They've been drifting around town looking disoriented, narrowly avoiding getting hit by cars.But these aren't teenagers getting drunk. Instead, it's the local bird population."The Gilbert Police Department has received several reports of birds that appear to be 'under the influence' flying into windows, cars and acting confused," Police Chief Ty Techar wrote in a statement Tues
  
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• Beyond ‘no means no’: Talking to teenage boys about sexual consent

  04-10-2018 20:19
  Washington • A mile east from the U.S. Capitol, on the eve of the hearing that would transfix a nation, 17-year-old Hollis Howe sliced his steak as he listened to his mother talk about sexual assault.Holly Howe, 45, told him about a young patient who recently came into the emergency room where she works as a nurse. The woman had been found outside her apartment door, wearing a dress but no underwear, recalling nothing from the night. Hours later, after sobering up, "she looks at me and she
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz vs. Adelaide 36ers: Jazz aim to stay perfect in preseason

  04-10-2018 19:59 via sportspyder.com
  ... ! Buy Now! Principal among those were the turnovers. Against Toronto, the Jazz coughed it up a whopping 22 times, with several of the giveaways coming on c ...
  
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• Pope Francis opens youth meeting as sex abuse survivors stage sit-in

  04-10-2018 19:47
  Vatican City • Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past as he opened a global church leadership meeting Wednesday amid renewed outrage over the priestly sex abuse and cover-up scandal.Yet down the block from the Vatican’s synod hall, about two dozen abuse survivors staged a sit-in, demanding their cause be taken up at the meeting and voicing outrage that some of the delegates had covered up for abusive priests.“Make ‘Zero To
  
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• Dana Milbank: Radiation? Chemicals? No big deal, says the Trump administration.

  04-10-2018 19:44
  Washington - This news makes me feel warm all over. Indeed, I am positively glowing.New regulations floated by the Environmental Protection Agency are set to increase Americans' exposure to radiation — because, according to scientific theory now in favor with the Trump administration, radiation is not bad for us. It may even be healthy!The Associated Press reports this week: "The EPA is pursuing rule changes that experts say would weaken the way radiation exposure is regulated, turning to
  
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• Eye On The Y: Cougars need Matt Bushman to regain 2017 form in wake of Moroni Laulu-Pututau’s season-ending injury

  04-10-2018 19:19
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on all things BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • What happened to Matt Bushman?That question has been asked of me a lot the past few weeks, as BYU’s freshman All-American tight end from 2017 has gotten off to a slow start in 2018.Bushman caught two passes for 47 yards, including a 39-yarder, in last week’s 35-7 loss at Washington.But before that the sophomore had caught just four passes for 62 yards through four
  
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• Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski gets her first campaign challenger — former Councilman Stan Penfold

  04-10-2018 19:09
  Former Salt Lake City Councilman Stan Penfold announced his bid for mayor Thursday in front of Publik Coffee in the city’s 9th and 9th neighborhood, with his bright yellow signs standing in stark contrast to a dark and rainy October sky.The location was no accident, looking to serve as a reminder of Penfold’s work on the council to change 900 South to Harvey Milk Boulevard in commemoration of the gay-rights activist and community leader and his support for local entities.“I kno
  
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• Eye on the Y: Cougars need Bushman to regain 2017 form in wake of Laulu-Pututau’s season-ending injury

  04-10-2018 19:08
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on all things BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • What happened to Matt Bushman?That question has been asked of me a lot the past few weeks, as BYU’s freshman All-American tight end from 2017 has gotten off to a slow start in 2018.Bushman caught two passes for 47 yards, including a 39-yarder, in last week’s 35-7 loss at Washington.But before that the sophomore had caught just four passes for 62 yards through four
  
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• Customer shoots man who attacked Starbucks employee in Millcreek

  04-10-2018 19:07
  A man who reportedly attacked a clerk at a Millcreek Starbucks was shot and wounded by a customer at the coffee shop, according to police.At 6:10 a.m., police received a panic alarm from the 7-Eleven at 904 E. 3900 South, said Unified Police Detective Ken Hansen. They arrived to find a man acting aggressively toward customers and employees.“They confronted him, and he ran across the street to the Starbucks” at 3898 S. 900 East, Hansen said. “He went behind the counter and start
  
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• Improved Now Playing Utah website will offer a statewide look at arts events, festivals and more

  04-10-2018 18:56
  Now Playing Utah is under new management — and the Utah Cultural Alliance has plans to make the website more comprehensive, more statewide, more appealing to millennials and easier to navigate.The site, at NowPlayingUtah.com, provides listings of concerts, plays, dance performances, art exhibits, arts fundraisers, family-friendly events, festivals, films, museums, sports, classes and more from 6,000 organizations — searchable by date, location and category.Since the site launched a d
  
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• Red All Over: How far below expectations is the Ute football team right now? Not as much as you might think.

  04-10-2018 18:50
  Red All Over is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter about all things Utah athletics. Click here to subscribe.Britain Covey knows that rationalizing losses works only to a certain point. Now that Utah is 0-2 in Pac-12 play, the sophomore receiver acknowledged, “There’s only so much longer you can keep saying it.”Here’s what he’s saying, though: The outside world — including me, in my game-by-game projections last spring — figured the Utes woul
  
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• Utah’s governor, lawmakers, LDS Church and medical marijuana advocates to announce ‘shared vision’

  04-10-2018 18:42
  Supporters and opponents of Utah’s medical marijuana initiative will join with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and legislative leaders Thursday to announce a “shared vision” for cannabis policy, according to an announcement from the governor’s office.The event, to be held at noon in the ornate Gold Room of the state Capitol, will include Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, House Speaker Greg Hughes, R-Draper, former Sen. Mark Madsen, Utah Medical Association CEO Michelle
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Church’s growing Mesa development, travelin' man Uchtdorf, sacrament-passing girls and banished books

  04-10-2018 18:42
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want Mormon Land in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: All about ‘correlation’
  (Leah Hogsten|The Salt Lake Tribune)The Church Office Building, located at 50 E. North Temple, Salt Lake City, is home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Chr
  
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• With the church’s blessing, Mormon girls are passing the sacrament — and not just to the members sitting next to them

  04-10-2018 18:40
  It was practicality, not activism, that gave Mormon girls a chance to carry a sacrament tray, a task universally handed to the church’s all-male priesthood.In July, Liesl Shurtliff told her husband, Scott Shurtliff, a lay bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that she was missing the sacrament — the weekly Communion ritual with bread and water representing the body and blood of Christ — to nurse her baby in the mother’s lounge, typically inside a wom
  
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• Returned Mormon missionaries recall the most stomach-turning, barf-inducing meals they ate in the quest for converts

  04-10-2018 18:38
  There are few experiences that will make missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints drop to their knees.Prayer is surely one. The sight or smell of roasted squirrel or boiled sheepskin is often another. And plop a pig heart or cow stomach on their plates and watch these proselytizers not only fall on all fours but also keel over on their sides, reeling, retching and puking their guts out — though, hopefully, not in front of their hosts.These foods — considered d
  
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• The countdown continues ... https://t.co/ZbjxcH49nU

  04-10-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah’s Governor, lawmakers, LDS Church and medical marijuana advocates to announce ‘shared vision’

  04-10-2018 18:17 via sportspyder.com
  ...does not object to medical pot with proper safeguards Prominent Utahns like Jazz owner Gail Miller choose sides — and cut big checks — in fights over medical ...
  
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• Utah Jazz vs. Adelaide 36ers: Jazz aim to stay perfect in preseason

  04-10-2018 18:06
  The Utah Jazz will aim to raise their preseason record to 3-0 on Friday night as they host the Adelaide 36ers of Australia’s NBL. In preseason game number one, the Utah Jazz stuck it to the Perth Wildcats of Australia’s NBL. A shorthanded and undersized lineup was overwhelmed by Utah as the clearly more talented […]
  Utah Jazz vs. Adelaide 36ers: Jazz aim to stay perfect in preseason - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum inspired by trip to Treyarch Studios

  04-10-2018 17:40 via sportspyder.com
  ... or what they do. “It kind of correlates for me with basketball just with the Jazz and it’s something that a lot of people don’t know is how many people behind ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Thabo Sefolosha returns as the 10th most valuable

  04-10-2018 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  ...Lindsey and wanted back on the Jazz for next season. I think he’s really respected in the locker room and I love ...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz well-represented in 2018 NBA GM Survey

  04-10-2018 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  ... pretty awesome tweets in the year-plus that he has been a member of the Utah Jazz. But a simple tweet posted yesterday afternoon might have been my favorite o ...
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Ghost will be back on ‘Game of Thrones’ — until he (probably) dies

  04-10-2018 17:34
  Good news, “Game of Thrones” fans/dog lovers! (Well, wolf lovers.) After being missing in action for most of Season 6 and all of season 7, Ghost will play a significant role in the eighth and final season of the series.When it airs. Eventually. Sometime in 2019. We're still waiting for HBO to tell us exactly when.Ghost is, of course, Jon Snow’s direwolf. A direwolf is, of course, a giant wolf. And Ghost was adopted as an orphaned pup by Jon Snow (Kit Harington) in the series' p
  
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• Utah Valley University shows the biggest gain as the state’s public colleges enroll nearly 4K additional students

  04-10-2018 17:11
  Enrollment at Utah’s public colleges and universities continues to climb — up 2.17 percent overall, an increase of 3,915 students.According to the Utah System of High Education, a “snapshot” of enrollment three weeks into the fall semester shows Southern Utah University with the largest percentage gain, up 7.69 percent or 728 students. Utah Valley University had the largest increase in total numbers, up 2,649 students (7.11 percent) to remain the state’s largest pub
  
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• Medical marijuana negotiations continue, and a deal could be announced as soon as today

  04-10-2018 16:48
  The Utah Patients Coalition continues to advocate for passage of Proposition 2 in November, while the Drug Safe Utah coalition maintains its opposition to the ballot initiative that would legalize medical marijuana in the state.That status quo remains in effect heading into the final weeks of the election season — despite ongoing negotiations between the various parties on potential legislative adjustments that could be made to Proposition 2 after the balloting.“Nothing, as of yester
  
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• GOP senator: Secret FBI report shows no Kavanaugh misconduct

  04-10-2018 16:46
  Washington • A top Senate Republican said Thursday the confidential FBI report on charges that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago “found no hint of misconduct” by the Supreme Court nominee.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made his remarks — and urged his colleagues to confirm the conservative judge — in a written statement hours after the post-midnight delivery of the FBI document to Congress. With Kavanaugh's uncertain
  
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• TRAX service won’t be back to normal until Friday, UTA says

  04-10-2018 16:18
  TRAX service will remain disrupted throughout the day on Thursday after an overhead electrical line that powers the trains fell on one Tuesday night, causing sparks, an explosion and a fire.According to a UTA spokesman, repairs are expected to be completed by Friday morning, and bus bridges on all three lines — Blue, Red and Green — will continue in Salt Lake City until then. As will “significant delays,” according to UTA.Correction: The bus bridge will not service Trolle
  
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• Tribune editorial: Hatch attack on alleged witness is despicable

  04-10-2018 15:20
  The despicable attack launched by Sen. Orrin Hatch and the Senate Judiciary Committee — more precisely, the Republicans on that committee — on one of the women who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is a textbook example of why more victims do not come forward.Worse, it betrays a positively medieval attitude toward all women as sex objects who cannot be believed or taken seriously.The fact that no one involved in the Twitter attack on Julie Swetnick s
  
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• Utah’s ‘Mr. Liquor,’ who helped modernize alcohol laws while also keeping the Mormon population happy, dies at 82

  04-10-2018 15:18
  Every day, during his 30 years as executive director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kenneth Wynn walked a fine line — always working to provide alcohol for legal adults, while appeasing the state’s predominantly Mormon population, which is taught to abstain from liquor.With a no-nonsense attitude, a sharp sense of humor and an uncanny ability to mediate both sides of a hot-button issue, Wynn — who died Saturday at 82 — was often referred to as Utah&
  
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