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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tribune editorial: Legislature must keep its hands off Utah’s Prop 3

  12-01-2019 23:44 via sportspyder.com
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• [The Daily Herald] - Iowa hands No. 16 Ohio State its 3rd straight loss, 72-62

  12-01-2019 23:41 via sportspyder.com
  Iowa forward Luka Garza, center, rips down a rebound during the first half against Ohio State in an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in Iowa City Iowa.
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Reddish hits 3 that lifts Duke past Florida St. 80-78

  12-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, right, and Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton greet before an NCAA college basketball game in Tallahassee, Fla., Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Baylor F Clark will miss rest of season after knee surgery

  12-01-2019 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  Baylor forward Tristan Clark (25) scores over Iowa State forward Michael Jacobson (12) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Waco, Texas.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Wendy Nelson Maxfield, daughter of LDS Church President Russell Nelson, dies at 67

  12-01-2019 23:07 via sportspyder.com
  Wendy Nelson Maxfield, the daughter of Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Friday at age 67.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - California town launches ‘Goat Fund Me’ to prevent wildfires

  12-01-2019 23:07 via sportspyder.com
  Nevada City, Calif. • The threat of catastrophic wildfires has driven a California town to launch a “Goat Fund Me” campaign to bring herds of goats to city-owned land to help clear brush.
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Howard's 26 help No. 21 Marquette hold off Seton Hall 70-66

  12-01-2019 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  Seton Hall guard Quincy McKnight, right, drives to the basket against Marquette guard Markus Howard, left, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019,
  
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• Tribune editorial: Legislature must keep its hands off Utah’s Prop 3

  12-01-2019 23:00
  No.Absolutely not.Hell, no.The Utah Legislature should not — must not — touch one provision, clause or comma of Proposition 3.That’s the measure wisely and compassionately adopted by the people of Utah, with 53 percent of the vote, that not only directs, but pays for, the full and uncomplicated expansion of the federal/state Medicaid health insurance for low-income households. The allergy of Utah’s ruling Republicans to this key provision of the federal Affordable Care Ac
  
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• Wendy Nelson Maxfield, daughter of LDS Church President Russell Nelson, dies at 67

  12-01-2019 22:52
  Wendy Nelson Maxfield, the daughter of Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Friday at age 67.Maxfield died after what a church spokeswoman called “a courageous battle" with cancer.“We express our love to the entire Nelson and Maxfield family as they remember her life and mourn her passing,” spokeswoman Irene Caso said Saturday in a news release.Maxfield was married to Norman Maxfield. Together, they raised seven children and have
  
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• Mitchell vs. LaVine 🗝 Tipoff: 8PM MT #KeyMatchup https://t.co/nHMxkXtcJk

  12-01-2019 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  Mitchell vs. LaVine 🗝 Tipoff: 8PM MT #KeyMatchup https://t.co/nHMxkXtcJk
  
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• California town launches ‘Goat Fund Me’ to prevent wildfires

  12-01-2019 22:28
  Nevada City, Calif. • The threat of catastrophic wildfires has driven a California town to launch a “Goat Fund Me” campaign to bring herds of goats to city-owned land to help clear brush.Nevada City in the Sierra Nevada began the online crowdsourcing campaign last month with the goal of raising $30,000 for the project.The campaign's website explains that because it takes time to secure grant funding, the town needs money now to hire goat ranchers because they're only available t
  
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• 📓| Three months after her husband passed away, Vickie Bolton found 5 Donovan Mitchell jerseys her husband had bough… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  12-01-2019 22:01 via twitter.com
  📓| Three months after her husband passed away, Vickie Bolton found 5 Donovan Mitchell jerseys her husband had bough… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Police arrest a man in West Jordan for allegedly holding missionaries at gunpoint

  12-01-2019 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  A West Jordan man is in custody after attempting to rob two pairs of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Hinson leads Ole Miss over No. 14 Mississippi St 81-77

  12-01-2019 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  Mississippi State guard Quinndary Weatherspoon, left, knocks Mississippi guard Breein Tyree, right, off balance as he dribbles around him in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday,
  
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• Police arrest a man in West Jordan for allegedly holding missionaries at gunpoint

  12-01-2019 21:33
  A West Jordan man is in custody after attempting to rob two pairs of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.According to FOX 13, the man threatened the missionaries with a gun and asked for money on Friday evening outside of the Exxon gas station on 3731 West Jordan Landing Blvd. The missionaries went inside the gas station to get cash and later called the police.The suspect was found and police recovered the gun. He is facing charges of assault and intoxication.See mo
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Guy, No. 4 Virginia stay perfect with 63-43 win over Clemson

  12-01-2019 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  Virginia's Kyle Guy shoots a 3-pointer over Clemson's Shelton Mitchell during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in Clemson, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)
  
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• Provo police officer remembered as a hero, and a man who snuggled his toddler son to sleep

  12-01-2019 21:16
  The last thing Provo Police Officer Joseph Shinners did before heading off to work for the final time was snuggle with his 20-month-old son, Logan.Shinners’ widow, Kaylyn, recalled the man she met in junior high and later married at his funeral service Saturday, a week after he was killed while apprehending a fugitive in the parking lot of a Bed Bath & Beyond in Orem.“Joe was the man who went from being scared to have a baby to snuggling our son to sleep every night,” said
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Provo police officer remembered as a hero, and a man who snuggled his toddler son to sleep

  12-01-2019 21:15 via sportspyder.com
  The last thing Provo Police Officer Joseph Shinners did before heading off to work for the final time was snuggle with his 20-month-old son, Logan.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Like the early Latter-day Saints, the cause of asylum-seekers is just. What can we do for them?

  12-01-2019 21:15 via sportspyder.com
  In late 1839, Joseph Smith and Elias Higbee traveled to Washington, D.C., to plead the cause of the people of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints were seeking asylum in Illinois after having been driven from...
  
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• Grayson Allen is AVAILABLE to play tonight.

  12-01-2019 21:14 via twitter.com
  Grayson Allen is AVAILABLE to play tonight.
  
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• Judge denies Utah death row inmate’s appeal in 1988 killing

  12-01-2019 21:05
  Salt Lake City • A federal judge has denied an appeal by a man who has been on Utah’s death row for 30 years.The ruling Friday by U.S. District Judge Claire Egan denies a petition by Ralph Leroy Menzies, who was sentenced to die for the killing of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986.The victim was abducted from a Kearns convenience store where she worked and she was later found strangled and her throat cut in a Big Cottonwood Canyon picnic area.Menzies had Hunsaker's wallet and several other bel
  
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• The New Orleans Saints have a unique weapon as they open the NFL playoffs: Taysom Hill. The former BYU QB is the team’s everything man.

  12-01-2019 21:02
  This is how Mitch Mathews likes to explain it.Because he knows, but admits that he doesn’t know the whole story. But he kind of does. He’s already seen it himself.When the New Orleans Saints signed Taysom Hill, they had tape on the former BYU quarterback, who could do plenty with the ball in his hands. They had tape on him from his short stint with the Green Bay Packers, too. But they hadn’t felt the Taysom Hill Experience first-hand. Not yet. So when Hill got out there in that
  
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• Commentary: Like the early Latter-day Saints, the cause of asylum-seekers is just. What can we do for them?

  12-01-2019 21:00
  In late 1839, Joseph Smith and Elias Higbee traveled to Washington, D.C., to plead the cause of the people of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints were seeking asylum in Illinois after having been driven from Missouri. Approximately one year before Smith’s and Higbee’s trip, the Latter-day Saints had surrendered to Missouri troops after Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs issued orders that “Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or dri
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Hubbs' free throws allow Irish to hold off BC, 69-66

  12-01-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  Notre Dame's John Mooney (33) battles for a rebound with Boston College's Nik Popovic during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in South
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Louisville stuns No. 12 North Carolina 83-62 on the road

  12-01-2019 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  North Carolina's Cameron Johnson (13) drives to the basket as Louisville's Dwayne Sutton (24) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday,
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Barry Brown lifts Kansas State over No. 20 Iowa State 58-57

  12-01-2019 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  Iowa State guard Marial Shayok tries to block the pass of Kansas State guard Cartier Diarra during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019,
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Funderburk leads No. 15 NC State past Pitt 86-80

  12-01-2019 20:52 via sportspyder.com
  North Carolina State's Markell Johnson (11) is helped off the floor after suffering an injury during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Pittsburgh in Raleigh, N.C.,
  
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• [NBA] - A family of Utah Jazz fans got a surprise Christmas gift from their late father six months after his death

  12-01-2019 20:43 via sportspyder.com
  Vickie Bolton searched through the bedroom, looking for some of her husband’s old T-shirts. In the closet of her Cedar City home, tucked away in the back corner and hidden under some other items, she
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Walden: The NBA has tinkered with the All-Star Game already. Why not go all-in to arrive at its best possible version?

  12-01-2019 20:38 via sportspyder.com
  LeBron James’ move from the Eastern Conference — where he’d previously spent the entirety of his career — out west to the Lakers this past summer was the latest catalyst in many analysts' call for the NBA to revise its playoff format by abandoning...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Judge denies Utah death row inmate’s appeal in 1988 killing

  12-01-2019 20:38 via sportspyder.com
  Salt Lake City — A federal judge has denied an appeal by a man who has been on Utah’s death row for 30 years.
  
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• Walden: The NBA has tinkered with the All-Star Game already. Why not go all-in to arrive at its best possible version?

  12-01-2019 20:25
  LeBron James’ move from the Eastern Conference — where he’d previously spent the entirety of his career — out west to the Lakers this past summer was the latest catalyst in many analysts' call for the NBA to revise its playoff format by abandoning the traditional conference construct and simply seeding the best teams in the league 1 through 16.An egalitarian system, a pure meritocracy, unfettered by such random constraints as geography is appealing to be sure. Indeed, why
  
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• “He selflessly sacrificed his life to protect the lives of his fellow officers,” Slain Provo Police Officer Joseph Shinners memorialized at funeral service in Orem

  12-01-2019 20:14
  Provo Officer Joseph Shinners, who was killed a week ago in a shootout with a fugitive, was laid to rest Saturday, following a funeral service in Orem.The funeral began at 11 a.m. at the UCCU Center on the Utah Valley University campus. Provo Police Chief Richard Ferguson honored the life of Joseph, saying during the confrontation that took his life, Joseph “selflessly sacrificed his life to protect the life of his fellow officers.” Ferguson described Joseph as exemplifying everythin
  
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• ‘The city’s a bit darker without Joe’: Provo Police hold candlelight vigil honoring slain Officer Joseph Shinners, remembered as tough but empathetic

  12-01-2019 20:09
  Provo • Joseph Shinners, at 29 and with three years of experience, was senior enough at the Provo Police Department that he could have chosen any patrol shift he wanted.The way he saw it, he could work days and write tickets, said Don Swain, the bishop of Shinners’ Latter-day Saint ward. Or he could work the graveyard shift — what Shinners called the “fun shift” — and chase bad guys.“He went for the ‘chasing the bad guys,’ ” Swain said.I
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The New Orleans Saints are revolutionizing football. The reason is former BYU QB Taysom Hill, the team’s everything man.

  12-01-2019 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  This is how Mitch Mathews likes to explain it.
  
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• Watch Live: “He served his family, his friends and his community,” Slain Provo Police Officer Joseph Shinners to be memorialized at funeral service in Orem

  12-01-2019 19:20
  Provo Officer Joseph Shinners, who was killed a week ago in a shootout with a fugitive, will be laid to rest Saturday, following a funeral service in Orem.The funeral will begin at 11 a.m. at the UCCU Center on the Utah Valley University campus, 800 W. University Parkway.After the funeral, Shinners body will been taken in a procession to the Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, 1950 S. 400 East. The motorcade will take Interstate 15 south from Orem, making a detour onto West Center Street in Provo
  
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• The New Orleans Saints are revolutionizing football. The reason is former BYU QB Taysom Hill, the team’s everything man.

  12-01-2019 19:00
  This is how Mitch Mathews likes to explain it.Because he knows, but admits that he doesn’t know the whole story. But he kind of does. He’s already seen it himself.When the New Orleans Saints signed Taysom Hill, they had tape on the former BYU quarterback, who could do plenty with the ball in his hands. They had tape on him from his short stint with the Green Bay Packers, too. But they hadn’t felt the Taysom Hill Experience first-hand. Not yet. So when Hill got out there in that
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Team awards at midway point in 2018-19 season

  12-01-2019 18:35 via sportspyder.com
  With the 2018-19 NBA season currently at its midway point, let's take a look at the midseason team awards for the Utah Jazz. Believe it or not, the Utah Ja...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - U.S. starts withdrawing supplies, but not troops, from Syria

  12-01-2019 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The U.S. military says it has started pulling equipment, but not troops, out of Syria as a first step in meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for a complete military withdrawal.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Lawyer: R. Kelly denies all sexual misconduct allegations

  12-01-2019 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  Chicago • An attorney for R. Kelly said Friday that the R&B star denies all allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and underage girls, including those made in a recent documentary, although he says neither he nor Kelly has watched the...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Report: FBI probed whether Trump secretly worked for Russia

  12-01-2019 17:50 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Law enforcement officials became so concerned by President Donald Trump’s behavior in the days after he fired FBI Director James Comey that they began investigating whether he had been working for Russia against U.S. interests, The New...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Congress has the power of the purse

  12-01-2019 17:43 via sportspyder.com
  Our president says he won’t end the shutdown unless he gets money for his wall.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: We need a real border security plan

  12-01-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  The current impasse over border wall funding is hurting federal employees, their families and many others who depend on those employees for services and in many other ways.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: The wall is only a distraction

  12-01-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  For those of you who missed it, in one of those numerous video clips from her first week as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered an astute comment regarding the “wall” situation.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: Remembering the eloquence of Orrin Hatch

  12-01-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  Much has been recently written in these pages about what former Sen. Orrin Hatch's legacy will be. Oftentimes one's legacy is summed up in some eloquent or historically significant quote that survives the test of time. Many of these famous quotes...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: President has backed himself into a corner

  12-01-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  The president of the United States has backed himself into a corner. Shutting down the government and holding the federal workforce hostage is a mean-spirited political weapon. It shows a distinct lack of character.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Letter: How to solve our man-made crisis

  12-01-2019 17:42 via sportspyder.com
  I’m as frustrated as most Americans with the government shutdown over the man-made “wall crisis” on our southern border. So here’s what I think is a good compromise solution:
  
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• Lawyer: R. Kelly denies all sexual misconduct allegations

  12-01-2019 17:39
  Chicago • An attorney for R. Kelly said Friday that the R&B star denies all allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and underage girls, including those made in a recent documentary, although he says neither he nor Kelly has watched the entire movie.Attorney Steve Greenberg offered his most full-throated defense of the Grammy-winning recording artist since a prosecutor in Chicago this week urged potential victims to come forward after Lifetime aired the documentary "Surviving R.
  
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