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• Sen.-elect Mitt Romney says a divided Congress may force people to work together

  15-11-2018 23:55
  Washington • Control of Congress may be divided between Republicans and Democrats but Sen.-elect Mitt Romney says that might actually be a good thing.The newly elected Utah Republican says with Democrats leading the House and Republicans holding the Senate, the only way Washington doesn’t get mired in pure gridlock is if the two sides come together and compromise.“I think it’s maybe the silver lining in that cloud,” Romney said Thursday. “It’s always nice
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - No. 16 Virginia Tech, Northeastern win at Charleston Classic

  15-11-2018 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  Virginia Tech's Nickeil Alexander-Walker, center, shoots the ball against the defense of Ball State in the first half during an NCAA college basketball game at the Charleston Classic at TD
  
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• Utah vote count drags on in excruciatingly close races, but it could be worse. Really.

  15-11-2018 23:26
  If you think vote counting in the close 4th Congressional District race between Ben McAdams and Mia Love and that of Proposition 4 on redistricting has been excruciatingly slow, you’re right.But it’s actually better than it was just three years ago.In 2015, the Salt Lake City race between Jackie Biskupski and two-term incumbent Mayor Ralph Becker, the spread was 4 percentage points, with Biskupski on top. That wasn’t nearly as close as the current squeaker in Utah’s 4th D
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: KSL apologizes for airing shockingly racist behavior by Odyssey dancers

  15-11-2018 23:23
  When traveling to other parts of the country or other parts of the world, I regularly try to tell people that Utah is not so different from anyplace else. That we’re not living in the 1950s.Then something happens like what we saw on KSL-TV early Thursday morning.At 6:42 a.m. on KSL’s local newscast, a group of Odyssey Dance Theatre dancers promoting the troupe’s upcoming performance of its version of “The Nutcracker” — “ReduxNut-Cracker” — ap
  
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• A Utah landowner in Emigration Canyon envisions a zip-line, sledding hill and gun ranges on his property. His neighbors hate the idea.

  15-11-2018 23:16
  A small mountainside community in Emigration Canyon is fighting a commercial development proposal from one of their own neighbors that they worry would exacerbate traffic, environmental damage and fire danger near their homes.John Walsh, an attorney who owns more than 58 acres of land at the top of Pinecrest Canyon Road, wants to create a gazebo for weddings and parties, two single-lane shooting ranges, a zip-line and a winter sledding hill on about 12 acres of his property.But during an emotion
  
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• While waiting for her trial on allegations she infecting patients with hepatitis C, this former Utah nurse faced the wrath, and leniency, of a federal judge

  15-11-2018 23:10
  A former Utah nurse who is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing hospital painkillers and exposing patients to hepatitis C narrowly avoided being sent to jail Thursday for violating her pretrial release conditions.Elet Neilson was allowed to remain free after she was charged in July 2017 with more than a dozen crimes in federal court because she had agreed to a number of conditions set by U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Warner.But she admitted Thursday she violated the conditions when she was
  
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• Utah County senator backs down from plan to repeal Medicaid expansion proposition approved by voters

  15-11-2018 22:58
  Prior to last week’s election, state Sen. Jacob Anderegg said he planned to sponsor legislation repealing Proposition 3 if voters approved the initiative fully expanding Medicaid in the state.The public vote is not “sacrosanct,” said Anderegg, R-Lehi, and Prop 3 would place the state on “the fast road to bankruptcy.”But voters did approve Prop 3 — by a margin of more than 6 percentage points according to unofficial results — and Anderegg said Thursday th
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU seems to be facing a talent deficit at running back, but coaches like who they’ve got to replace seniors Canada, Hadley

  15-11-2018 22:56 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • BYU’s leading ballcarrier the past four games has been Matt Hadley, a senior who only started playing running back a few weeks before that and spent the majority of his injury-riddled career playing safety, linebacker and returning kickoffs.
  
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• Fire death toll at 56 and counting in Northern California

  15-11-2018 22:51
  Magalia, Calif. • Cool weather helped fire crews gain ground Thursday against the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, as the search went on for more bodies. At least 56 people were killed and 130 were unaccounted for a week after the flames swept through.The nearly 220-square-mile blaze in Northern California was 40 percent contained, the state fire agency said, and firefighters succeeded in slowing the flames' advance toward populated areas.More than 450 searchers were assigned
  
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• BYU seems to be facing a talent deficit at running back, but coaches like who they’ve got to replace seniors Canada, Hadley

  15-11-2018 22:43
  Provo • BYU’s leading ballcarrier the past four games has been Matt Hadley, a senior who only started playing running back a few weeks before that and spent the majority of his injury-riddled career playing safety, linebacker and returning kickoffs.No offense to the versatile and ever-willing Hadley, but his 44 carries for 264 yards and two touchdowns in the wins over Hawaii and UMass and losses to Boise State and Northern Illinois is an indication that BYU’s recruiting to that
  
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• Monson: If it wasn’t clear before, it should be now: Troy Taylor has the right stuff as Utah’s offensive coordinator

  15-11-2018 22:40
  Troy Taylor was asked the other night whether he is the answer to a question that has haunted and hovered over Utah football for the better part of a decade now: Are you the lasting solution, the effective longterm offensive coordinator Kyle Whittingham has needed and lacked?His answer: “I hope so.”The response was perfect. Not too sure of itself, not too unsure. One that is building.There were times last season, Taylor’s first at Utah, and this season, too, when that hope was
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Editorial: Let’s not kid ourselves, this continuity plan isn’t working

  15-11-2018 22:39 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz were supposed to pick up where they left off last year with a continuity that was second to none. Instead, thus far they've looked more like ...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘Mormon Land’: What is Middle Way Mormonism? Why is it getting so much attention? Are all members essentially middle wayers?

  15-11-2018 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  So-called Middle Way Mormonism is generating a lot of chatter online, in homes, at churches and elsewhere. While a clear definition of the term remains elusive — even among self-proclaimed middle wayers — this approach is gaining traction, especially...
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Andrew Wiggins simultaneously dunks on, kicks nuts of Nikola Mirotic

  15-11-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Timberwolves beat Pelicans
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Scott D. Pierce: KSL apologizes for airing shockingly racist behavior by Odyssey dancers

  15-11-2018 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  When traveling to other parts of the country or other parts of the world, I regularly try to tell people that Utah is not so different from anyplace else. That we're not living in the 1950s.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: If it wasn’t clear before, it should be now: Troy Taylor has the right stuff as Utah’s offensive coordinator

  15-11-2018 22:24 via sportspyder.com
  Troy Taylor was asked the other night whether he is the answer to a question that has haunted and hovered over Utah football for the better part of a decade now: Are you the lasting solution, the effective longterm offensive coordinator Kyle Whittingham..
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: What is Middle Way Mormonism? Why is it getting so much attention? Are all members essentially middle wayers?

  15-11-2018 22:24
  So-called Middle Way Mormonism is generating a lot of chatter online, in homes, at churches and elsewhere. While a clear definition of the term remains elusive — even among self-proclaimed middle wayers — this approach is gaining traction, especially among millennial members, more and more of whom are seeing themselves as neither all-in nor all-out of the faith. By Common Consent blogger Sam Brunson argues all members, at some level, are middle wayers.To hear his thoughts on the topi
  
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• Utah Jazz Editorial: Let’s not kid ourselves, this continuity plan isn’t working

  15-11-2018 22:23
  The Utah Jazz were supposed to pick up where they left off last year with a continuity that was second to none. Instead, thus far they’ve looked more like a jumbled mess. Go back in time with me to April 27, 2018. The Utah Jazz had just defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 6 […]
  Utah Jazz Editorial: Let’s not kid ourselves, this continuity plan isn’t working - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Max Boot: America will need years to clean up the toxins Trump has released

  15-11-2018 22:00
  Donald Trump won't be president for life. In a little more than two or (heaven help us) six years, he will be gone. But his baleful legacy will live on. He is turning U.S. politics into a Superfund site and the Republican Party into the leading intellectual polluter in America. It could take a generation to clean up the toxins he has released. Trump is a racist, xenophobe and conspiracy-monger, and his party increasingly reflects all of those mental deformities.Trump suggests that Florida’
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - While waiting for her trial on allegations she infecting patients with hepatitis C, this former Utah nurse faced the wrath, and leniency, of a federal judge

  15-11-2018 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  A former Utah nurse who is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing hospital painkillers and exposing patients to hepatitis C narrowly avoided being sent to jail Thursday for violating her pretrial release conditions.
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Report: Jazz confident they could have signed Kyle Lowry last year, but waited for Gordon Hayward instead

  15-11-2018 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  Hayward, of course, signed with Celtics
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s nutty, but what’s everyone else’s excuse for voting fraud delusions?

  15-11-2018 21:00
  President Donald Trump provided the country with a great service on Wednesday: He showed how utterly inane are the voting fraud hysterics. Asked about voting fraud he said two things: You need an ID to buy cereal (if it has alcohol in it?), a statement so dumb that George H.W. Bush should get another round of apologies for his supermarket scanner observation (which was incorrectly reported).That wasn't nearly as revealing as Trump's other claim: "When people get in line that have absolutely no r
  
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• Alexandra Petri: All quiet on the western Trump

  15-11-2018 21:00
  When asked about his favorite books, Donald Trump frequently cites Erich Maria Remarque’s classic World War I novel “All Quiet on the Western Front.” He told Michael Wolff he was rereading it. He told Megyn Kelly it was his favorite. Given his apparently boundless passion for this book, it may be surprising he could not muster the fortitude to show up at a rainy event commemorating the end of World War I. However, anyone who has read “All Quiet on the Western Front”
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - An 11-year-old girl had her hijab pulled off at school. This Utah group is now asking districts to update their bullying policies.

  15-11-2018 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  Maram Al-Shammari was playing outside during recess when she felt a tug on the back of her head.
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert says Utahns should be concerned about the Legislature calling itself into special session

  15-11-2018 20:47
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert opposed Constitutional Amendment C, but he said Thursday he doesn’t have a “big burning problem” with Utah voters approving the change that allows lawmakers to convene themselves in special session.Herbert said he trusts lawmakers to exercise restraint, but added that he is concerned about the amendment’s lack of definition for what constitutes an “emergency” that would require legislative action.“They can define ‘emergency'
  
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• An 11-year-old girl had her hijab pulled off at school. This Utah group is now asking districts to update their bullying policies.

  15-11-2018 20:47
  Maram Al-Shammari was playing outside during recess when she felt a tug on the back of her head.She turned around to see a boy from her fourth grade class standing behind her and laughing. In his hand, he held the white cotton hijab she had wrapped around her head.“That was fun,” he shouted.Al-Shammari quickly pulled the hood of her coat over her head to cover her hair. Then she ripped the scarf away from the boy and ran to the bathroom. Once inside in the school, she told the princi
  
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• Salt Lake City liquor lawyer turns those maligned ‘This Is a Restaurant, Not a Bar’ signs into art

  15-11-2018 20:45
  Confusion, anger and plenty of social media jabs bubbled up in May 2017, when the state required restaurants to post “This Is a Restaurant, Not a Bar” signs.Today, those 8.5-by-11-inch sheets of paper are obsolete and have been turned into an artistic conversation piece.“This Is Art, Not a Sign” is a collage of more than two dozen signs removed from the front windows of Utah businesses some six months ago, when the state changed the sign requirement for restaurants and tw
  
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• Frozen rope. Leap & lean. You gotta love it, baby! Learn the most important Hot Rod-isms in today's @AFCU #TBT 🎙 https://t.co/Rli4SS8c1n

  15-11-2018 20:44 via twitter.com
  
  Frozen rope. Leap & lean. You gotta love it, baby!Learn the most important Hot Rod-isms in today's @AFCU #TBT 🎙 https://t.co/Rli4SS8c1n
  
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• Ben McAdams joins 16 fellow Democrats opposing Nancy Pelosi for speaker

  15-11-2018 20:44
  Washington • Ben McAdams has joined a chorus of Democrats who vow they won’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House speaker, amping up a fight for one of the most powerful positions in Washington.McAdams, whose race against Rep. Mia Love remains too close to call, signed a letter with 16 fellow Democrats saying the party needs new leadership in the House. Democrats will control the chamber come January.Pelosi, currently the minority leader, is the only announced candidate for speaker but
  
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• Red Cross pleads for blood donations and drives in Utah and nationally

  15-11-2018 20:43
  The American Red Cross has put out a desperate plea for blood donors — and the need is even greater than usual in Utah at this time of year.“It’s being used much faster in the hospitals than it’s coming in,” said Sheri Van Bibber, a spokeswoman for the Red Cross chapter in Utah. “We’re just not seeing the donors coming in.”December is always a tough time for blood donations as people get busy with the holidays, she said. But they've already come up
  
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• [Deadspin] - How The Hell Did The Jazz Lose By 50 To The Mavericks?

  15-11-2018 20:34 via sportspyder.com
  Before the season started, the Utah Jazz were considered a lock to finish top four in the Western Conference, and many prognosticators even thought they could surpass the Rockets and finish second. Theoretically, Utah seemed likely to rip out of the...
  
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• How The Hell Did The Jazz Lose By 50 To The Mavericks?

  15-11-2018 20:31 via deadspin.com
  Before the season started, the Utah Jazz were considered a lock to finish top four in the Western Conference, and many prognosticators even thought they could surpass the Rockets and finish second. Theoretically, Utah seemed likely to rip out of the gates because of continuity, some internal improvement from their…Read more...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Leaving Dallas behind: 'Take this one to the chin and keep moving'

  15-11-2018 20:29 via sportspyder.com
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Draymond Green addresses argument with Kevin Durant: ‘I’m not going to change who I am’

  15-11-2018 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  Green says Warriors stars have talked
  
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• Red All Over: The Utes’ Hallandale Trio is reduced to Demari Simpkins, who wants to make his classmates proud

  15-11-2018 20:23
  No matter how this Utah football season ends, it will be remembered for how the Utes responded to losing two of their best players in a four-day period in early November.The injuries to quarterback Tyler Huntley and running back Zack Moss struck the team on many levels, as vital players and popular teammates. They were part of the Hallandale Trio with receiver Demari Simpkins, as Florida high school teammates who wanted to do things that Utah never had done. That still can happen, after Huntley
  
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• Utah student inventor rolls out a new ‘skate utility vehicle’

  15-11-2018 20:07
  Coming down the path, Brantley Topham looks tall enough to be a new shooting guard for the Utah Jazz — until it becomes clear he’s standing on something.That something, which looks like the skateboard version of a platform shoe, is Topham’s invention, the Gigboarder, which the 22-year-old Utahn hopes will create “a new culture of bringing music and skating together.”The Gigboarder is a skateboard with a hidden compartment within the deck — big enough to carry
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Draymond Green address argument with Kevin Durant: ‘I’m not going to change who I am’

  15-11-2018 20:01 via sportspyder.com
  Green says Warriors stars have talked
  
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• Arizona man convicted in first-degree murder of girlfriend

  15-11-2018 20:00
  Phoenix • A federal jury has convicted an Arizona man for the first-degree murder of his girlfriend, and of other violent crimes including using a machete to assault two Navajo Nation police officers who arrived to investigate the killing.Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Arizona, says in a Wednesday statement that 39-year-old Giordano Jackson was convicted Tuesday and will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa in February.Both Jackson and hi
  
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• Eye on the Y: Classy BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum deserves playing time in his last home game

  15-11-2018 19:51
  BYU’s priority Saturday night against New Mexico State will be to win the 8:15 p.m. home game and get bowl eligible. That’s a no-brainer.The second item on the check list should be to get senior Tanner Mangum some playing time on Senior Night. The player who has given so much to the program the past four years, and experienced all kinds of ups and downs, simply deserves it.“I would love for him to play, yeah, I hope so,” quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator Aar
  
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• [NBC Sports: Pro Basketball Talk] - Blake Griffin calls out Raptors president Masai Ujiri while praising Dwane Casey

  15-11-2018 19:40 via sportspyder.com
  Toronto fired Casey, now Pistons’ coach, earlier this year
  
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• >… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="viewarticle">From a blank wall to a massive work of art full of Jazz history 🎨 "Fans will instantly get it.” >>… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Timelapse: Zion's Bank mural highlights team history

  15-11-2018 19:28 via sportspyder.com
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ben McAdams joins 16 fellow Democrats opposing Nancy Pelosi for speaker

  15-11-2018 19:27 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Ben McAdams has joined a chorus of Democrats who vow they won’t support Rep. Nancy Pelosi for House speaker, amping up a fight for one of the most powerful positions in Washington.
  
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• Roy Clark, country guitar virtuoso, ‘Hee Haw’ star, has died

  15-11-2018 19:27
  Country star Roy Clark, the guitar virtuoso and singer who headlined the cornpone TV show “Hee Haw” for nearly a quarter-century and was known for such hits as “Yesterday When I Was Young and “Honeymoon Feeling,” has died. He was 85.Publicist Jeremy Westby said Clark died Thursday due to complications from pneumonia at home in Tulsa, Okla.Clark was “Hee Haw” host or co-host for its entire 24-year run, with Buck Owens his best-known co-host. The country m
  
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• Weber State QB Jake Constantine powers through pain of fear and of loss as a special season moves closer to the playoffs

  15-11-2018 19:09
  Ogden • Jake Constantine grabbed his phone when his alarm went off at 6 a.m. He went to sleep last Wednesday night thinking about coverages, about how to beat them, about his classes that next day, about the upcoming in-state rivalry game now two days away. Constantine had a team meeting to be at in an hour. As soon as he woke, that’s when it all stopped. He saw text after text from his mom, Micki, who’d been filling Jake in through the wee hours of the night as he slept.“
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Red Cross pleads for blood donations and drives in Utah and nationally

  15-11-2018 19:04 via sportspyder.com
  The American Red Cross has put out a desperate plea for blood donors — and the need is even greater than usual in Utah at this time of year.
  
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• FDA unveils sweeping anti-tobacco effort to reduce underage vaping and smoking

  15-11-2018 18:52
  Washington • The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday launched a multipronged attack on the rising underage use of tobacco products, imposing sharp sales restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes and announcing plans to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.The FDA says it will limit sales of many flavored e-cigarettes to bricks-and-mortar outlets that have either age-restricted entry or areas inside stores that are not accessible to people under 18. Such restrictions are tantamount to
  
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• Man with weed whacker found after report prompts lockdowns

  15-11-2018 18:47
  Cedar City • Three schools in Cedar City were put on lockdown after a driver reported seeing a man carrying an assault rifle in the area, but responding police quickly found a man fitting the description but carrying a weed whacker.The Spectrum reports that the man was doing yard work at townhomes when the incident occurred Wednesday and that the lockdowns at Canyon View High, Canyon View Middle and Fiddler's Canyon Elementary lasted about 30 minutes.The intersection where the driver report
  
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• Three Utah high schools will claim state football titles this Friday. Here’s the rundown on the big games.

  15-11-2018 18:43
  Six Utah high schools are set to determine which three will come away with state football championships in classes 4A, 5A and 6A on Friday at Rice-Eccles Stadium.Last week, all six advanced in various ways, from defeating a previously undefeated team, to securing a wire-to-wire victory in the first half, to eking out a victory in overtime.No matter how each school did it, all proved they deserve to be in the championship game. Below is a breakdown of each matchup.Class 4A: Dixie vs. Orem, 11 a.m
  
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• [NBA] - From Hot Rod to Gobzilla, new Main Street mural layered with Utah Jazz history

  15-11-2018 18:15 via sportspyder.com
  Trent Call expects you to stop and squint and think for a second the next time you walk past the corner of 100 South and Main Street. The wall next to the Zions Bank there is 109 feet wide by 32 feet tall. And after two weeks of work by Call, it now...
  
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