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• Lawsuit: Wyoming boss required employee to enroll in Scientology courses

  23-12-2018 23:57
  Casper, Wyo. • A former employee of a Wyoming occupational therapy office alleges the owner of the business made her take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.Julie A. Rohrbacher filed suit in federal court Dec. 17 against Teton Therapy, a group of physical and occupational therapy offices in four Wyoming locations.The Casper Star-Tribune reports Rohrbacher worked at an office in Lander.Rohrbacher claims in court documents that owner Jeff McMenamy declined to promote her and
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: It’ll be a bumpy path to greatness for Donovan Mitchell

  23-12-2018 23:56 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz lost a heart-breaker to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, and Donovan Mitchell came up short in some big moments. That's OK, thoug...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tribune editorial: No right to automatic weapons

  23-12-2018 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.”
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz’s strong play of late has coincided not just with better defense, but also with big assist totals

  23-12-2018 23:44 via sportspyder.com
  Saturday’s result clearly didn’t go the way the Jazz hoped, as the Thunder escaped with a 107-106 victory to snap Utah’s budding two-game winning streak.
  
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• Jazz’s strong play of late has coincided not just with better defense, but also with big assist totals

  23-12-2018 23:21
  Saturday’s result clearly didn’t go the way the Jazz hoped, as the Thunder escaped with a 107-106 victory to snap Utah’s budding two-game winning streak.Then again, even with the loss, you’d be hard-pressed to argue with the way the team is playing right now. This recent run of games has arguably been the Jazz’s best stretch of the season, something Ricky Rubio sought to remind people of in the aftermath of the loss to Oklahoma City.“I think we have to be enco
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utility broke laws in 12 Northern California wildfires, Cal Fire found. Prosecutors may not file charges.

  23-12-2018 23:11 via sportspyder.com
  Sacramento • PG&E has already been convicted in criminal court for a recent deadly tragedy. Could the utility soon find itself as the defendant in a dozen more cases, charged with breaking state laws?
  
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• Utah Jazz: It’ll be a bumpy path to greatness for Donovan Mitchell

  23-12-2018 23:10
  The Utah Jazz lost a heart-breaker to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, and Donovan Mitchell came up short in some big moments. That’s OK, though, as it isn’t supposed to be a straight line drive to greatness. Donovan Mitchell was absolutely special in the closing moments of the Utah Jazz’s loss to the […]
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• Utility broke laws in 12 Northern California wildfires, Cal Fire found. Prosecutors may not file charges.

  23-12-2018 22:30
  Sacramento • PG&E has already been convicted in criminal court for a recent deadly tragedy. Could the utility soon find itself as the defendant in a dozen more cases, charged with breaking state laws?In the wake of massive utility-caused Northern California wildfires, a handful of district attorneys in flame-scarred counties are pondering whether to charge the utility company in criminal court for misconduct.Cal Fire, the state’s fire protection agency, sent investigative reports
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Snowmobiler dies in western Wyoming avalanche

  23-12-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Jackson, Wyo • A 31-year-old Wyoming man is the first person to die in an avalanche in the United States during the winter of 2018-19.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Lawsuit: Wyoming boss required Scientology for employee

  23-12-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Casper, Wyo. • A former employee of a Wyoming occupational therapy office alleges the owner of the business made her take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Criticized public-defender system could get $5 million boost

  23-12-2018 22:27 via sportspyder.com
  Ogden • Gov. Gary Herbert has proposed adding $5 million per year to fund public defenders in Utah, a move that advocates say would be a step toward fixing a system that can fall short for people who are accused of crimes but can’t afford their own...
  
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• Snowmobiler dies in western Wyoming avalanche

  23-12-2018 22:07
  Jackson, Wyo • A 31-year-old Wyoming man is the first person to die in an avalanche in the United States during the winter of 2018-19.Officials with the Sublette County Sheriff's Office tell the Casper Star-Tribune that Dustin LaPlant of Rock Springs was trapped under his snowmobile Saturday morning after the slide in the Wyoming Range in west-central Wyoming. He had been snowmobiling with another personSublette County officials say the man who called 911 said the victim had been buried for
  
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• Lawsuit: Wyoming boss required Scientology for employee

  23-12-2018 22:06
  Casper, Wyo. • A former employee of a Wyoming occupational therapy office alleges the owner of the business made her take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.Julie A. Rohrbacher filed suit in federal court Dec. 17 against Teton Therapy, a group of physical and occupational therapy offices in four Wyoming locations.The Casper Star-Tribune reports Rohrbacher worked at an office in Lander.Rohrbacher claims in court documents that owner Jeff McMenamy declined to promote her and
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Man hit by a truck in Salt Lake City then left on side of the road dies from injuries

  23-12-2018 22:05 via sportspyder.com
  A 73-year-old man who police say was hit by a truck Friday in Salt Lake City and left on the side of the road has died from his injuries, a family member told FOX 13.
  
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• Criticized public-defender system could get $5 million boost

  23-12-2018 21:46
  Ogden • Gov. Gary Herbert has proposed adding $5 million per year to fund public defenders in Utah, a move that advocates say would be a step toward fixing a system that can fall short for people who are accused of crimes but can’t afford their own lawyer.The request comes after the state was sharply criticized in a 2015 report by the Sixth Amendment Center, which found it was one of just two states that left public-defender funding entirely up to local governments, leaving rural and
  
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• Man hit by a truck in Salt Lake City then left on side of the road dies from injuries

  23-12-2018 21:31
  A 73-year-old man who police say was hit by a truck Friday in Salt Lake City and left on the side of the road has died from his injuries, a family member told FOX 13.According to Lt. Russ Amott with the Salt Lake City Police Department, the man — identified as Joseph Buford, the owner of Cowboy Joe’s Dog Boarding — was walking a dog in the evening on Beck Street when he was struck.Amott said the truck pulled over, then the driver got out and pulled the man out of the road befor
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alexandra Petri: No, not the Trump Foundation!

  23-12-2018 20:42 via sportspyder.com
  The loss of the Trump Foundation is a blow to us all.
  
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• Alexandra Petri: No, not the Trump Foundation!

  23-12-2018 20:27
  The loss of the Trump Foundation is a blow to us all.Too few people accept the premise that the best way to help those in need is by giving rich people more money to spend. And by too few people I mean, sadly, only a slight majority of the current Congress; that is still not everyone.Alas for the one foundation that took this giving philosophy and applied it in the realm of philanthropy. Why should giving more to those with much be the exclusive province of the distributor of tax breaks? The Tru
  
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• Johnny Townsend: Our Nazi who art in Mormon Heaven

  23-12-2018 19:57
  Fans of “Seinfeld” fondly remember the Soup Nazi, a belligerent cook who made such great food that customers battled long lines during short lunch breaks to grab a bowl. If someone made it all the way to the counter and then took too long deliberating which soup to buy, the Soup Nazi shouted, “No soup for you!” and kicked the person out of the line.The character is funny because he’s obnoxious, over-the-top and clearly not as terrible as a real Nazi. But would we wa
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Furiously fast Utah receiver Jaylen Dixon burst onto the scene in 2018 by learning to harness his own speed

  23-12-2018 19:52 via sportspyder.com
  Fast doesn’t mean open.
  
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• How a mother and her two girls are celebrating Christmas inside a Utah church while avoiding deportation

  23-12-2018 19:34
  A red betta swims around its tank on the countertop, circling past a microwave on the left and a half-eaten package of Oreos to the right. From across the room, Yaretzi, 7, declares: “His name is Bruce.”Her mom repeats the name, rolling the “r” with her Honduran accent. “Brrrrrruce,” Vicky Chavez says. Yaretzi tries to mimic her. “Baaar,” she sputters.Chavez was explaining why her holiday gift to Yaretzi can’t be a panda: “You already h
  
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• Furiously fast Utah receiver Jaylen Dixon burst onto the scene in 2018 by learning to harness his own speed

  23-12-2018 19:06
  Fast doesn’t mean open.Speed doesn’t even equal targets.And just because you might possess a skill that allows you to run beyond an opponent at a normal clip doesn’t mean that you’re going to become a focal point of any offense. Jaylen Dixon learned that from a young age, and even now, as a redshirt freshman at the University of Utah, he still is. In high school, he tried playing basketball in the offseason. But it wasn’t for him. Looking back, the wide receiver sai
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Why does the government need a bigger cut of our economy?

  23-12-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  In response to Gov. Herbert’s desire to raise sales taxes (“Sales tax hike looms large,” Nov. 30), help me with the math here.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Name courthouse for Sutherland, not Hatch

  23-12-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah congressional delegation intends to vote to name the new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City after Sen. Orrin Hatch. By this act, the delegation ignores the will of the Utah Legislature.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Utah Dreamers prompt a lesson in American federalism

  23-12-2018 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  State supreme courts seldom have cause to strike down a federal law, but a pair of applications to the Utah State Bar has set the stage for the Utah Supreme Court to protect our state’s independent judiciary from federal encroachment. By declining...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz suffer close loss at home to Oklahoma City Thunder

  23-12-2018 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz almost beat a dominant OKC Thunder team on the second end of a back to back.
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert is on pace for a career-best season

  23-12-2018 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  After a 2017-18 season filled with injuries, Utah Jazz big man Rudy Gobert is back to being healthy and is on pace for a career-best year. The young five-y...
  
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• Letter: Name courthouse for Sutherland, not Hatch

  23-12-2018 18:44
  The Utah congressional delegation intends to vote to name the new federal courthouse in Salt Lake City after Sen. Orrin Hatch. By this act, the delegation ignores the will of the Utah Legislature.In 2013, the Legislature passed House Joint Resolution 9, which urged the congressional delegation to name the courthouse after George Sutherland, the only Utahn to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.The resolution detailed Justice Sutherland’s public service to the people of Utah, including as a tri
  
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• Commentary: Utah Dreamers prompt a lesson in American federalism

  23-12-2018 18:43
  State supreme courts seldom have cause to strike down a federal law, but a pair of applications to the Utah State Bar has set the stage for the Utah Supreme Court to protect our state’s independent judiciary from federal encroachment. By declining to apply an overreaching federal law, the Utah Supreme Court can vindicate important principles of federalism and affirm the separation of powers among Utah’s branches of government.The applications for membership in the Utah State Bar come
  
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• Letter: Why does the government need a bigger cut of our economy?

  23-12-2018 18:42
  In response to Gov. Herbert’s desire to raise sales taxes (“Sales tax hike looms large,” Nov. 30), help me with the math here.If inflation makes what the government does cost more, it also makes everything consumers buy cost more, which raises sales tax revenue by the level of inflation. If economic growth means the state has to spend more, the definition of economic growth is that consumers are spending more, which raises sales tax revenue by the level of economic growth.If th
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump replaces Defense chief Mattis two months early with deputy Patrick Shanahan

  23-12-2018 18:27 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • President Donald Trump says Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave his post on Jan. 1. Trump announced Mattis' new departure date in a tweet, and said he's naming deputy defense chief Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - This teacher’s post about a gift from a student with ‘nothing to give’ but Lucky Charms marshmallows went viral

  23-12-2018 18:27 via sportspyder.com
  Rachel Uretsky-Pratt is an elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, so this time of year she gets a lot of gifts from students: chocolates, notes, jewelry.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Indonesia tsunami kills at least 222 after striking without warning

  23-12-2018 18:27 via sportspyder.com
  Jakarta, Indonesia • Disaster teams in Indonesia reported at least 222 deaths Sunday after a tsunami slammed ashore near an erupting volcano, sweeping over fishing ports and hundreds of people at a holiday beach concert without warning.
  
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• Trump forces Mattis out two months early, names Patrick Shanahan acting defense secretary

  23-12-2018 18:23
  Washington • President Donald Trump, who aides said has been frustrated by news coverage of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis's scathing resignation letter, abruptly announced Sunday that he was removing Mattis two months before his planned departure and installing Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary.Shanahan, a former Boeing executive who has been Mattis' deputy at the Pentagon, will assume the top job on an acting capacity beginning Jan. 1, Trump said.Mattis resigned in protest last w
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Efforts to help the homeless are too piecemeal to succeed

  23-12-2018 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  The Salt Lake Tribune has run a series of articles and editorials focusing on the homeless situation in our state. The latest consensus: Recent efforts to address homelessness have been less than life-altering and, by most accounts, cannot be...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Johnny Townsend: Our Nazi who art in Heaven

  23-12-2018 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  Fans of “Seinfeld” fondly remember the Soup Nazi, a belligerent cook who made such great food that customers battled long lines during short lunch breaks to grab a bowl. If someone made it all the way to the counter and then took too long...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Rules get in the way of life-saving opioid treatments

  23-12-2018 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  I recently saw “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Freddie Mercury/Queen bio now in theaters. It was part interesting, part sad and part “inevitable.”
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - This new Salt Lake City bakery satisfies that late-night craving for brownies — and our desire to do good

  23-12-2018 18:10 via sportspyder.com
  When Molly Kohrman left her job at a nonprofit to start a food business, she was determined to find some way to continue to help charity organizations.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Boris Diaw, still The Most Interesting Man in the World in retirement

  23-12-2018 18:07 via sportspyder.com
  The former Jazz forward, in Utah for a month, will be spending time sailing, among other interesting things, now that his playing days are done.
  
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• Boris Diaw, still The Most Interesting Man in the World in retirement

  23-12-2018 18:00
  SALT LAKE CITY — Though he wasn't a spokesman for Dos Equis, Boris Diaw was occasionally called "The Most Interesting Man in the World" during his NBA career.Diaw was, after all, a guy who took a cross-country joyride and visited multiple national parks in Utah after being traded to the Jazz from the San Antonio Spurs a few years ago. He was famous for loving his particular type of coffee so much that he bought the team cappuccino machines for locker rooms at home and on the road. A Grantl
  
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• This teacher’s post about a gift from a student with ‘nothing to give’ but Lucky Charms marshmallows went viral

  23-12-2018 17:59
  Rachel Uretsky-Pratt is an elementary school teacher in Kennewick, Washington, so this time of year she gets a lot of gifts from students: chocolates, notes, jewelry.But one stood out to her so much that she took a picture and put it up on social media. The gifts are especially meaningful to her, she said, because many of her students' families struggle financially.She explained: "With it being the day before break and Christmas right around the corner, most teachers bring their kiddos something
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Paul George had last season’s playoff failure on mind when he destroyed Jazz Saturday

  23-12-2018 17:48 via sportspyder.com
  Paul George never forgets. The Oklahoma City Thunder superstar forward entered Vivint Smart Home Arena with one thing on his mind: revenge. According to Brett Dawson of The Athletic, the ghosts of last season’s playoff failure was all he thought...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Billy Donovan says Paul George played ‘remarkable’ against the Jazz

  23-12-2018 17:48 via sportspyder.com
  Oklahoma City Thunder Paul George absolutely torched the Utah Jazz on Saturday, as he led his team to a razor-thin victory against their Northwest rivals. Following the 107-106 victory, Thunder head coach Billy Donovan was all praises for his 28-year-
  
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• Indonesia tsunami kills at least 222 after striking without warning

  23-12-2018 17:42
  Jakarta, Indonesia • Disaster teams in Indonesia reported at least 222 deaths Sunday after a tsunami slammed ashore near an erupting volcano, sweeping over fishing ports and hundreds of people at a holiday beach concert without warning.Authorities warned the death toll could rise as they widened searches and treated nearly 850 people injured by the three-foot surge of water from the Sunda Strait, off the western tip of Java island about 60 miles from Jakarta.The strait is the shadow of the
  
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• This new Salt Lake City bakery satisfies that late-night craving for brownies — and our desire to do good

  23-12-2018 17:28
  When Molly Kohrman left her job at a nonprofit to start a food business, she was determined to find some way to continue to help charity organizations.Enter Brownies! Brownies! Brownies!, a new Salt Lake City bakery where the majority of the menu is — you guessed it — brownies, and 1 percent of sales are donated to a local nonprofit.The Spice Kitchen Incubator, an organization that helps refugees build their own food businesses, will be the nonprofit recipient for the final months of
  
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• Johnny Townsend: Our Nazi who art in Heaven

  23-12-2018 17:27
  Fans of “Seinfeld” fondly remember the Soup Nazi, a belligerent cook who made such great food that customers battled long lines during short lunch breaks to grab a bowl. If someone made it all the way to the counter and then took too long deliberating which soup to buy, the Soup Nazi shouted, “No soup for you!” and kicked the person out of the line.The character is funny because he’s obnoxious, over-the-top and clearly not as terrible as a real Nazi. But would we wa
  
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