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• Utah Gov. Herbert suggests returning power to states would help ease shutdown pain

  17-01-2019 23:55
  Decrying the federal government shutdown as a failure of leadership, Gov. Gary Herbert says the most alarming thing about it is that shutdowns seem to be becoming a sort of business-as-usual tactic in Washington.His solution — at least in the long run — is shifting power from the federal government to states.“I don’t presume to suggest a way out of the current gridlock, but the increasing frequency of federal shutdowns — this is the third one in the past year &mdash
  
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• Jordan High School evacuated for bomb threat

  17-01-2019 23:48
  Jordan High School in Sandy was evacuated Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat was found written on a bathroom wall inside the building.The threat is the second found on a bathroom wall at the school this week — and was the more severe of the two, Canyons School District spokesman Jeff Haney said.Thursday’s threat was discovered just before 2 p.m., prompting school officials to evacuate the building of students, staff and teachers, Haney said. Students who drove themselves to schoo
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Friday's game with Cleveland will be homecoming for former Jazzmen Alec Burks and Rodney Hood

  17-01-2019 23:43 via sportspyder.com
  It may be a lackluster game on the schedule, but Friday night's Utah Jazz-Cleveland matchup will be a homecoming game for former Jazzmen Rodney Hood and Alec Burks.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Video: Jazz’s Derrick Favors jokes Rudy Gobert is stealing his rebounds

  17-01-2019 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert put up his most dominant game of the season, netting his first 20-20 game of the year with a 23-point, 22-rebound performance against the LA Clippers on the road. Yet it didn’t take long for his teammate Derrick Favors...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump says U.S. will develop space-based missile defense

  17-01-2019 23:29 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tech systems designed to more quickly detect and...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The scariest thing about Utah’s women’s basketball resurgence? These Utes are young.

  17-01-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  The Pac-12 gives a freshman of the week award in women's basketball, an honor conveyed via a news release with no trophy or certificate. That's just as well. Utah's Dre'Una Edwards probably would lose it.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘I’m worried that he’s dangerous:’ University of Utah releases audio of calls to campus police from Lauren McCluskey and her parents

  17-01-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  Jill McCluskey frantically called campus dispatchers. Her daughter, a student at the University of Utah, was going to pick up her Jeep from a man she had just broken up with — and the mother feared he might hurt her.
  
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• A way to ‘lighten the burden': Here’s what Utah companies are doing for furloughed employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown

  17-01-2019 23:27
  Jason Davis isn’t a federal worker, but he knows how challenging it is to be out of work — especially when you have a family to feed.That’s why Davis, the owner of a southern Cajun and Creole restaurant in Logan called MayMoes, is offering furloughed federal employees and their families a free buffet meal on Saturday mornings and $4 specials each day, which he said doesn’t even cover the cost of the food when it’s all said and done.“These people just need to f
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Jazz are down 1, two seconds left in a must-win game. Who do you want to shoot the ball? Who don’t you want to shoot it?

  17-01-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  This is one of those contrived beam-it-up-on-the-big-screen-in-you-brain deals, and once it’s there, ponder it a bit, and come up with your own answer. Yours might be different than somebody else’s.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Helaine Olen: The Resistance comes to Los Angeles

  17-01-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  Last year, teachers in red states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona took part in strikes, refusing to return to work until they were offered pay raises and better working conditions. They received a wave of resistance love. In West...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Furloughed federal workers are your neighbors

  17-01-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  We're your neighbors.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A Utah lawmaker is pushing to ban abortions after 15 weeks, and, yes, she expects it would draw a legal challenge

  17-01-2019 23:26 via sportspyder.com
  A Utah representative has introduced a bill that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, a law that would be among the most restrictive in the nation.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - This week in Mormon Land: A Roman milestone, California ministering, Watergate connections

  17-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  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 this newsletter in...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Sundance Film Festival juries include actor Tessa Thompson, ‘La La Land’ director Damien Chazelle and legendary musician Laurie Anderson

  17-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  A valkyrie, a couple of Oscar winners and a legendary avant-garde musician will be among the jurors picking the best films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pope Francis wants bishops to punish sex abusers, not cover up cases

  17-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Vatican City • Pope Francis is insisting that bishops attending his high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit will learn the laws to use against predators, how to care for victims and will make sure that no cleric abuse cases are covered up again.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jury begins deliberating in former USU football player Torrey Green’s rape trial

  17-01-2019 23:23 via sportspyder.com
  Brigham City • A jury is now deliberating whether former Utah State University football player Torrey Green is guilty of sexually assaulted six women.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rodney Hood and Alec Burks are back in town as Jazz host the Cavs. No hard feelings?

  17-01-2019 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  It was already an emotional experience for members of the Jazz when they faced former teammates Alec Burks and Rodney Hood two weeks ago in Cleveland for the first time since each had been traded to the Cavaliers in separate deals.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Here’s what Utah companies are doing for furloughed employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown

  17-01-2019 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  Jason Davis isn’t a federal worker, but he knows how challenging it is to be out of work — especially when you have a family to feed.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will develop space-based missile defense

  17-01-2019 23:21
  Washington • Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tech systems designed to more quickly detect and defeat attacks.Trump, in a speech at the Pentagon, declared that space is the new warfighting domain. And he vowed that the U.S. will develop an unrivaled missile defense system to protect against advanced hypersonic and cruise missile threats from
  
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• Commentary: Furloughed federal workers are your neighbors

  17-01-2019 23:00
  We're your neighbors.We coach basketball teams this time of year and baseball in summer, walk our dogs and families in our neighborhoods, and work like you, our neighbors, to raise our families as we see fit.We’re also furloughed federal employees, innocent victims in a long-running fight over the proper role of immigration in the United States. As federal employees we have, as they say, no dog in this fight as employees, but rather are beset by political dogs not under our control.I ackno
  
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• Friday's game with Cleveland will be homecoming for former Jazzmen Alec Burks and Rodney Hood

  17-01-2019 22:50
  SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are one of the hottest teams in the NBA right now with five straight victories and seven wins in their last eight games, which has moved them up to the No. 7 spot in the Western Conference standings. Friday night, they'll be facing the team with the worst record in the NBA when the Cleveland Cavaliers (9-35) pay a visit to Vivint Arena.It sounds like a pretty lackluster matchup, except for one thing. It will be homecoming night for two longtime Jazz players,
  
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• Helaine Olen: The Resistance comes to Los Angeles

  17-01-2019 22:30
  Last year, teachers in red states including West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona took part in strikes, refusing to return to work until they were offered pay raises and better working conditions. They received a wave of resistance love. In West Virginia, the typical teacher earned $45,000. In Oklahoma, a decade of tax cuts resulted in four-day school weeks and crumbling textbooks. Good on them for calling Republican state governments out on their all-but-starvation of resources for the next gener
  
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• ‘I’m worried that he’s dangerous:’ University of Utah releases audio of calls to campus police from Lauren McCluskey and her parents

  17-01-2019 22:29
  Jill McCluskey frantically called campus dispatchers. Her daughter, a student at the University of Utah, was going to pick up her Jeep from a man she had just broken up with — and the mother feared he might hurt her.“I’m worried that he’s dangerous,” Jill McCluskey said from Pullman, Wash. “I don’t want her to go there by herself and have something bad happen to her.”The three-minute phone call on Oct. 10 was the first time the University of Utah h
  
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• 🚨 ATTENTION 🚨 Win a poster signed by the entire team, two Star Wars night t-shirts and a pair of tickets to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-01-2019 22:20 via twitter.com
  🚨 ATTENTION 🚨Win a poster signed by the entire team, two Star Wars night t-shirts and a pair of tickets to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A Utah lawmaker is pushing to ban abortions after 15 weeks, and, yes, she expects it would draw a legal challenge

  17-01-2019 22:16
  A Utah representative has introduced a bill that would ban most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, a law that would be among the most restrictive in the nation.The state’s existing law allows abortions up until a fetus is viable outside the womb, or well into the second trimester. By that point, Rep. Cheryl Acton argues, an abortion can cause greater physical and emotional trauma to a woman. It can also involve a surgical procedure — called dilation and evacuation — that sh
  
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• Rodney Hood and Alec Burks are back in town as Jazz host the Cavs. No hard feelings?

  17-01-2019 22:15
  It was already an emotional experience for members of the Jazz when they faced former teammates Alec Burks and Rodney Hood two weeks ago in Cleveland for the first time since each had been traded to the Cavaliers in separate deals.Facing them Friday night at Vivint Smart Home Arena will present an altogether different dynamic — especially for the two returning players.Burks, who was dealt in late November in exchange for 3-point specialist Kyle Korver, acknowledged dealing with a wave of c
  
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• Jury begins deliberating in former USU football player Torrey Green’s rape trial

  17-01-2019 22:15
  Brigham City • A jury is now deliberating whether former Utah State University football player Torrey Green is guilty of sexually assaulted six women.After nearly two weeks of testimony, jurors began considering just after noon whether Green is guilty of 11 felonies in connection with reports from the women who say the athlete sexually abused them between 2013 and 2015 when he was a student in Logan.Each woman pointed out Green as her attacker during testimony last week. Green then took the
  
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• Here’s what Utah companies are doing for furloughed employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown

  17-01-2019 22:14
  Jason Davis isn’t a federal worker, but he knows how challenging it is to be out of work — especially when you have a family to feed.That’s why Davis, the owner of a southern Cajun and Creole restaurant in Logan called MayMoes, is offering furloughed federal employees and their families a free buffet meal on Saturday mornings and $4 specials each day, which he said doesn’t even cover the cost of the food when it’s all said and done.“These people just need to f
  
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• Monson: The Jazz are down 1, two seconds left in a must-win game. Who do you want to shoot the ball? Who don’t you want to shoot it?

  17-01-2019 22:09
  This is one of those contrived beam-it-up-on-the-big-screen-in-you-brain deals, and once it’s there, ponder it a bit, and come up with your own answer. Yours might be different than somebody else’s.Here’s the picture: The clock is winding down, Jazz trail by one point with possession in an important, must-win game. The pressure is on. The building is packed. The crowd is sucking air in and blowing it out with each breath, each bounce of the ball. Every exterior thing is equal &
  
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• Sundance Film Festival juries include actor Tessa Thompson, ‘La La Land’ director Damien Chazelle and legendary musician Laurie Anderson

  17-01-2019 22:02
  A valkyrie, a couple of Oscar winners and a legendary avant-garde musician will be among the jurors picking the best films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.Festival organizers at Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute announced the jury lineups Thursday — a list that includes actor Tessa Thompson (who played Valkyrie in “Thor: Ragnarok”), the genre-breaking musician Laurie Anderson, and filmmakers Damien Chazelle (“La La Land,” “First Man”) and Jane
  
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• The West’s avalanche forecasters keep doing their lifesaving jobs — even though some go without paychecks

  17-01-2019 21:55
  The federal government shutdown could not have come at a worse time when it comes to protecting backcountry recreationists from avalanches.The U.S. Forest Service employs 50 seasonal avalanche forecasters, including eight in Utah, who are required to report for duty as usual during the shutdown even though there is no guarantee they will get paid. Same goes for the Forest Service’s law enforcement officers.“They are out there working, ensuring the public is safe and the resources are
  
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• The scariest thing about Utah’s women’s basketball resurgence? These Utes are young.

  17-01-2019 21:45
  The Pac-12 gives a freshman of the week award in women's basketball, an honor conveyed via a news release with no trophy or certificate. That's just as well. Utah's Dre'Una Edwards probably would lose it.The Ute forward already has won four weekly awards, contributing to her team’s domination of the honor. Edwards, guard Dru Gylten and forward Andrea Torres have been recognize a combined seven times in 10 weeks, topping the six awards for Ute gymnast MyKayla Skinner in 2017 in a shorter se
  
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• NBA is looking 'very closely' at regular season game in Paris next year

  17-01-2019 21:25
  NBA commissioner Adam Silver told reporters that the league is highly considering the idea of hosting a game in Paris, France next season.
  Here is what NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum said about the possibility when asked on Wednesday (via Yahoo Sports):“There has been a lot of interest in teams wanting to go to Paris because France is a hotbed for basketball… It’s just a matter of building the right business case and having the right partners in those areas.
  
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• On Saturday, @KyleKorver drained a 3-pointer that moved him past Jason Terry for 4th place on the all-time 3-pointe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-01-2019 21:15 via twitter.com
  On Saturday, @KyleKorver drained a 3-pointer that moved him past Jason Terry for 4th place on the all-time 3-pointe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pope Francis wants bishops to punish sex abusers, not cover up cases

  17-01-2019 21:10
  Vatican City • Pope Francis is insisting that bishops attending his high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit will learn the laws to use against predators, how to care for victims and will make sure that no cleric abuse cases are covered up again.The Vatican provided details Wednesday about the Feb. 21-24 meeting, saying its main aim is to guarantee that bishops around the world “clearly understand what they need to do to prevent and combat the worldwide problem of the sexual abuse of m
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A Roman milestone, California ministering, Watergate connections

  17-01-2019 21:04
  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 this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcast: Why ‘Utah Mormons’ are differentLatter-day Saint culture is full of jokes, jabs and judgments about so-called “Utah Mormons” — how church members who live in the heart
  
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• Eli Lake: Romney fails his first test on Russia

  17-01-2019 21:00
  When Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, opened 2019 with a scathing commentary lamenting President Donald Trump’s lack of moral leadership, it seemed like he was claiming the mantle of the late Sen. John McCain.Like McCain, Romney — for the most part — did not partake in the ritual fealty that so many of Trump’s vanquished foes demonstrated. Sure, he met with Trump in November 2016 to audition for secretary of state. But Romney never fully bent the knee.So one might think Romney w
  
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• In 2018, Utah’s highway death rate dropped to its lowest level in perhaps decades

  17-01-2019 20:52
  Taylorsville • Utah roads were less deadly last year than they have been in decades, thanks to more people buckling up and fewer motorists drinking and driving — perhaps because they thought Utah’s new toughest-in-the-nation drunken driving law took effect earlier than it really did.Utah’s death rate per million miles traveled in 2018 was 0.80. The lowest ever measured previously was 0.81 in 2013 — when highways deaths had been the lowest in a half century, said Jaso
  
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• Trump puts off Pelosi travel, citing shutdown

  17-01-2019 20:50
  Washington • President Donald Trump is postponing what he's calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "seven-day excursion" to Egypt, Afghanistan and Brussels in apparent payback for asking him to reschedule his State of the Union speech because of the partial government shutdown.Trump wrote a letter to Pelosi on Thursday informing her that her trip had been postponed and would be rescheduled after the shutdown.He called Pelosi's trip a "public relations event."He says she should stay in Washing
  
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• Red All Over: Utes take pride in their academic work during the fall semester

  17-01-2019 20:44
  Red All Over is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.For a moment, the coaches' news conference the day before the Holiday Bowl became an academic competition. Utah’s Kyle Whittingham followed the presentation of Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald and promoted the Utes' own performance in the classroom.Whittingham would have even more evidence now. His football team (2.925) was among four Ute programs that posted record GPAs for a semeste
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Outside of Utah, ‘there are fewer litmus tests for what make a ‘real Mormon,’ scholar says

  17-01-2019 20:35
  Latter-day Saints are full of jokes, jabs and judgments about so-called “Utah Mormons” — how church members who live in the heart of the faith are somehow different than those who live elsewhere.New survey findings from writer-researcher Jana Riess show that’s true, especially when it comes to orthodoxy and some cultural influences.Latter-day Saint scholar Patrick Mason, who grew up in Utah but has lived in the Midwest, Eastern Europe and now Southern California, has noti
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alexandra Petri: There is nothing toxic about my masculinity

  17-01-2019 20:25 via sportspyder.com
  STOP CALLING MY MASCULINITY TOXIC!
  
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• ‘OC’ made good on his vow: After banking $1M following his last fight, the MMA fighter is retiring as a champ. Now he wants to donate his brain to science

  17-01-2019 20:07
  Once the last remnants of adrenaline had finally faded away and the shades of skin around his eyes began to darken a bit more, Sean O’Connell ordered a salted caramel shake. It was in the first few hours of 2019 somewhere in Manhattan, sometime after he wrapped up the biggest and best fight of his career with a third-round TKO, having a massive gold title belt placed on his right shoulder and handed an absurd-sized check that had a one, six zeroes and a couple of commas on it.He was draine
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU’s Dave Rose isn’t fond of Pepperdine’s Firestone Fieldhouse

  17-01-2019 20:07
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • Which arena in the West Coast Conference not named the Marriott Center is BYU basketball coach Dave Rose’s favorite?Hint: It’s not Fireside Fieldhouse, home of the Pepperdine Waves, or McKeon Pavilion, the place where Saint Mary’s rarely loses, especially to BYU.“Well, it is all based on one thing,” Rose said. “You can figure out my favorite gym.
  
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• Throwback Thursday — John Stockton records a career-high 28 assists against the San Antonio Spurs on January 15, 19… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  17-01-2019 20:05 via twitter.com
  Throwback Thursday — John Stockton records a career-high 28 assists against the San Antonio Spurs on January 15, 19… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A Provo musician was ‘a public face’ for Latter-day Saints. On her new album, she sings about leaving the faith.

  17-01-2019 19:35
  For all her adult life, singer-songwriter Mindy Gledhill has been deeply rooted in Provo culture — which is to say, the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.She licensed one of her songs to the church for its 2014 documentary, “Meet the Mormons.” She lives a few blocks away from Brigham Young University, “in a neighborhood where I don’t know a single family who doesn’t have an LDS background,” she said.But at 37, Gledhill is walking
  
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• Four Americans killed in suicide attack in Syria amid plans for withdrawal

  17-01-2019 19:22
  Beirut • Four Americans were killed in a suicide attack in Syria on Wednesday, the largest loss of life in the Pentagon’s war against Islamic State militants there and a sign of the potent threat that remains as the Trump administration begins to withdraw.Officials said a bomber detonated an explosive vest as a group of Americans, including two service members, a Pentagon civilian and a U.S. contractor slain in the attack, met with local military officials at a restaurant in the north
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU alumnus Andy Reid is one game away from his second Super Bowl

  17-01-2019 19:09 via sportspyder.com
  The Super Bowl was not even officially called the Super Bowl when the Kansas City Chiefs appeared in the first championship game between the AFL and the NFL, prior to the merger of the leagues. More than a half-century later, the Chiefs will take...
  
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• Salt Lake City Council to hold public hearing on renaming part of Hidden Hollow as ‘Ty’s Garden’ after noted conservationist

  17-01-2019 19:02
  Soon after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, retired Westminster College biology professor and urban natural-space champion Ty Harrison was asked what he considered his proudest accomplishments.Second to his family, he listed conservation projects that he’d worked on in Nebraska and Utah, including the Jordan River Migratory Bird Reserve, the Wasatch Hollow preserve and Hidden Hollow in the Sugar House area of Salt Lake City.Hidden Hollow, the 3-acre urban natural area and outdoor clas
  
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• Layton councilman named mayor a year after headline-making DUI

  17-01-2019 18:32
  Layton • A Layton city councilman has been named the city’s mayor a year after his drunken-driving arrest made headlines.The Standard-Examiner reports Scott Freitag was selected over four other candidates on Tuesday to replace Layton mayor Bob Stevenson, who stepped down to take a county commission seat.Freitag was fired as the director of Salt Lake City’s 911 dispatch center after the arrest in January 2018. Police say he was driving a city vehicle with an open mixed drink and
  
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