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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah has the third-lowest rate of labor union membership among states

  18-01-2019 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  Utah has the third-lowest rate of labor union membership among the states, according to a new federal report.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Student debt has kept home ownership out of reach for 400,000 young families, Fed reports

  18-01-2019 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  Skyrocketing student loan debt put homeownership out of reach for 400,000 Americans in their 20s and 30s from 2005 to 2014, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Drama about serial killer Ted Bundy is the ‘most anticipated’ movie debuting at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Internet Movie Database reports

  18-01-2019 23:36 via sportspyder.com
  A serial killer, an art critic, a prison inmate, a rodeo clown, zombies, snake handlers and a congressional investigation are central figures in some of the most buzzworthy movies debuting at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, according to data from...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Some Utah County chickens test positive for deadly virus

  18-01-2019 23:35 via sportspyder.com
  Some privately owned chickens in Utah County have tested positive for Newcastle disease, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food announced Friday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - On the road to make an affordable car, Tesla cuts jobs

  18-01-2019 23:35 via sportspyder.com
  Tesla will cut 7 percent of its workforce as it tries to lower prices and break out of the niche-car market to produce an electric vehicle that more people can afford.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Despite protests from angry fans, Sundance Film Festival will screen documentary about men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual assault

  18-01-2019 23:35 via sportspyder.com
  The wrath of Michael Jackson’s fans won’t keep the 2019 Sundance Film Festival from screening a documentary that features two men who accuse the late pop star of sexually assaulting them when they were children.
  
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• Florida school shooting suspect’s medical records an issue

  18-01-2019 23:30
  Fort Lauderdale, Fla. • Lawyers for Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz said Friday that his confidential medical records were improperly disclosed to a state investigative panel by someone in the Broward Sheriff’s Office.The attorneys asked Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to hold another hearing on whether the sheriff's office should be held in contempt of court for providing the records to the state commission investigating the shooting. They say access was limited by Scher
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell choosing team over NBA Slam Dunk Contest

  18-01-2019 23:13 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell would rather be rested up for the second half of the season than defend his Slam Dunk Contest title.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Sony’s RCA music label severs ties with R. Kelly after uproar

  18-01-2019 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  Sony Corp.'s RCA music label has scrubbed R. Kelly from its lineup after a documentary series renewed the furor surrounding allegations of criminal sexual misconduct.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Pelosi abandons Afghanistan trip, accuses Trump of imperiling lawmakers with disclosure

  18-01-2019 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abandoned her plans to travel commercially to Afghanistan after President Donald Trump canceled her military flight, while leveling the remarkable allegation that the commander in chief, with authority over...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Based on his son’s testimony, a Salt Lake City man is charged with murdering and cremating three men

  18-01-2019 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  A Salt Lake City man has been charged with murdering three men in 2014, and the case hinges on the confession of his son, who said he helped cover up his father’s crimes.
  
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• [NBA] - For new Cavaliers Alec Burks and Rodney Hood, the Utah Jazz is still 'family'

  18-01-2019 22:49 via sportspyder.com
  The memories came flooding back for Rodney Hood.On Thursday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers guard got a chance to meet up with Utah Jazz center Ekpe Udoh for dinner at one of his favorite restaurants
  
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• Planning Commission rejects proposed development in Emigration Canyon that would have included shooting range, zip lines and a wedding venue

  18-01-2019 22:46
  The Emigration Metro Planning Township Commission has denied an application for a controversial development that envisioned a wedding venue, two-lane shooting range, a zip line and a sledding hill on some 12 acres of the 58-acre property of John Walsh in the canyon community.Residents burst into applause after the unanimous vote on Thursday, mostly because of their opposition based on concerns of noise, traffic, fire hazard and access problems for emergency vehicles. Some have expressed fear tha
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dementia and religion: Do’s and don’ts

  18-01-2019 22:44 via sportspyder.com
  When a congregant has dementia, what can a house of worship do?
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - 3 years later, no one is in jail over Flint tainted water

  18-01-2019 22:44 via sportspyder.com
  Detroit • Michigan’s attorney general in 2016 promised to investigate “without fear or favor” the scandal over Flint’s lead-tainted drinking water and pledged that state regulators would be locked up for fudging data and misleading the public.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU gets an up-close look at San Francisco on Saturday. The Dons are the most improved team in the WCC this season.

  18-01-2019 22:43 via sportspyder.com
  San Francisco • BYU basketball coach Dave Rose called it.
  
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• Some Utah County chickens test positive for deadly virus

  18-01-2019 22:37
  Some privately owned chickens in Utah County have tested positive for Newcastle disease, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food announced Friday.It’s the first confirmed case in Utah of the highly contagious and fatal virus.The birds were brought to Utah from California, which is currently experiencing an active outbreak of the disease, which affects the respiratory, nervous and digestive systems of birds and poultry. The disease is so virulent that many birds and poultry die without
  
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• On the road to make an affordable car, Tesla cuts jobs

  18-01-2019 22:30
  Tesla will cut 7 percent of its workforce as it tries to lower prices and break out of the niche-car market to produce an electric vehicle that more people can afford.Tesla’s cheapest model right now is the $44,000 Model 3, and it needs to broaden its customer base to survive."Looking ahead at our mission of accelerating the advent of sustainable transport and energy, which is important for all life on Earth, we face an extremely difficult challenge: making our cars, batteries and solar pr
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Should the Utah Jazz acquire Carmelo Anthony?

  18-01-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  Carmelo Anthony in Utah? The answer may surprise you.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - GET YOUR AIR GUITAR ON!: Utah NAZ T-shirts now available!

  18-01-2019 22:28 via sportspyder.com
  You’ll instantly be the center of every highlight celebration with this amazing t-shirt from BreakingT!
  
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• Hear from Donovan and Rudy as Alec Burks and Rodney Hood return to SLC. AND AB & Hoodie chime in on what it's like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-01-2019 22:25 via twitter.com
  Hear from Donovan and Rudy as Alec Burks and Rodney Hood return to SLC.AND AB & Hoodie chime in on what it's like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert welcomes possibility of NBA games in France: ‘It would be big time’

  18-01-2019 22:23 via sportspyder.com
  NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has foreshadowed the idea of bringing a NBA game to France. “It is something we are looking very closely at, and that is playing a regular-season game in Paris for...
  
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• Despite protests from angry fans, Sundance Film Festival will screen documentary about men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual assault

  18-01-2019 22:15
  The wrath of Michael Jackson’s fans won’t keep the 2019 Sundance Film Festival from screening a documentary that features two men who accuse the late pop star of sexually assaulting them when they were children.Festival organizers sent a statement to Sundance’s corporate partners this week, according to the trade publication IndieWire, assuring them that the four-hour documentary “Leaving Neverland” would go on as planned.“Sundance Institute supports artists i
  
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• Utah has the third-lowest rate of labor union membership among states

  18-01-2019 22:13
  Utah has the third-lowest rate of labor union membership among the states, according to a new federal report.Just 4.1 percent of Utah workers belonged to a union in 2018 — less than half the national average of 10.5 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.The only states with lower rates than Utah are North Carolina and South Carolina, at 2.7 percent each. The states with the highest union membership rates are Hawaii at 23.1 percent and New York at 22.3 percent.“A l
  
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• Drama about serial killer Ted Bundy is the ‘most anticipated’ movie debuting at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Internet Movie Database reports

  18-01-2019 22:12
  A serial killer, an art critic, a prison inmate, a rodeo clown, zombies, snake handlers and a congressional investigation are central figures in some of the most buzzworthy movies debuting at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, according to data from the website IMDdPro.The industry arm of the Internet Movie Database, IMDb.com, released a list Friday of the top 10 most anticipated movies premiering at Sundance, based on page views to the site between Nov. 28 — when Sundance announced its slat
  
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• Mitchell vs. Sexton 🗝 #KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/FPd7OZCxii

  18-01-2019 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Mitchell vs. Sexton 🗝#KeyMatchup | @USFcorp https://t.co/FPd7OZCxii
  
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• Student debt has kept home ownership out of reach for 400,000 young families, Fed reports

  18-01-2019 21:54
  Skyrocketing student loan debt put homeownership out of reach for 400,000 Americans in their 20s and 30s from 2005 to 2014, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve.Starting from census data showing a drop of 8.8 percentage points in homeownership among that age cohort, the Fed's researchers estimate that rising student loan balances account for roughly 2 percentage points of that drop, or nearly a quarter of it."While investing in postsecondary education continues to yield, on average
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell won’t defend his Dunk Contest title at NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte

  18-01-2019 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  It was one of the signature moments of Donovan Mitchell’s rookie campaign: in front of the world, holding aloft the Dunk Contest trophy after throwing down four impressive dunks.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank — contemporaries with a common legacy

  18-01-2019 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 90 on Jan. 15. What would he think of what we’ve done with his message of love and hope?
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dementia and religion: Songs and stuffed animals instead of sermons

  18-01-2019 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  Richlandtown, Pa. • The seven women, most in wheelchairs, sat in a semicircle facing stained-glass windows and an altar topped with a cross and a statuette of Jesus holding a lamb. Underneath the draped table was an ark-shaped container brimming...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dementia and religion: Inside a church’s Alzheimer’s caregiver support group

  18-01-2019 21:50 via sportspyder.com
  Louisville, Ky. • They sat in a circle in a room usually used by high schoolers and talked about the people they loved who no longer recognized them or who had died forgetting the names of family caregivers in their last days.
  
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• Based on his son’s testimony, a Salt Lake City man is charged with murdering and cremating three men

  18-01-2019 21:46
  A Salt Lake City man has been charged with murdering three men in 2014, and the case hinges on the confession of his son, who said he helped cover up his father’s crimes.Richard Christopher, 53, is facing three first-degree felony counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of Danny Kiko Gallegos, 35; Braden Parker Emerson, 23; and Levi Joseph Collins, 34.The three men disappeared Nov. 1, 2014. A day later, a vehicle belonging to Gallegos was found with blood stains and a possible bullet hol
  
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• 3 more gang members arrested in Fashion Place Mall shooting investigation

  18-01-2019 21:40
  Three more men have been arrested in connection with the shooting at Fashion Place Mall on Sunday, but police say the suspected shooters have not been apprehended.Flaviano Aguilar, 20; Arian Huerta, 20; and Steven Perez-Hernandez, 18, have been booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of rioting and other charges.Aguilar, Huerta, Perez-Hernandez and “fellow Florencia 13 gang members” confronted members of a “rival gang” at the Murray mall Sunday afternoon,
  
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• Star Wars night = Star Wars wallpaper 📱🌌⚔️ https://t.co/DNbBf1fbnL

  18-01-2019 21:37 via twitter.com
  
  Star Wars night = Star Wars wallpaper 📱🌌⚔️ https://t.co/DNbBf1fbnL
  
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• Sony’s RCA music label severs ties with R. Kelly after uproar

  18-01-2019 21:31
  Sony Corp.'s RCA music label has scrubbed R. Kelly from its lineup after a documentary series renewed the furor surrounding allegations of criminal sexual misconduct.As of Friday morning, R. Kelly was no longer featured on RCA’s website. Billboard reported that the artist and Sony had agreed to part ways in the wake of the Lifetime series “Surviving R. Kelly,” which included accounts from his alleged victims.Representatives for Sony didn't respond to requests for comment from B
  
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• Pelosi abandons Afghanistan trip, accuses Trump of imperiling lawmakers with disclosure

  18-01-2019 21:30
  Washington • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abandoned her plans to travel commercially to Afghanistan after President Donald Trump canceled her military flight, while leveling the remarkable allegation that the commander in chief, with authority over security preparations, had imperiled the safety of lawmakers and troops when he disclosed the confidential plans."We had the prerogative to travel commercially, and we made plans to do that until the administration then leaked that we were travelin
  
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• Dementia and religion: Inside a church’s Alzheimer’s caregiver support group

  18-01-2019 21:27
  Louisville, Ky. • They sat in a circle in a room usually used by high schoolers and talked about the people they loved who no longer recognized them or who had died forgetting the names of family caregivers in their last days.The Alzheimer’s caregiver support group on a campus of Southeast Christian Church started with a devotional lesson referring to Charlie Brown pal Linus’ lack of fear as he told the story of the birth of Jesus.“It’s only through our relationship
  
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• Dementia and religion: Songs and stuffed animals instead of sermons

  18-01-2019 21:26
  Richlandtown, Pa. • The seven women, most in wheelchairs, sat in a semicircle facing stained-glass windows and an altar topped with a cross and a statuette of Jesus holding a lamb. Underneath the draped table was an ark-shaped container brimming with small stuffed animals.“Spirit Alive,” a weekly multisensory worship service for people with mid- to late-stage dementia, was about to begin at a United Church of Christ-affiliated skilled nursing center 50 miles north of Philadelphi
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert welcomes possibility of NBA games in France: ‘It would be big time’

  18-01-2019 21:02
  SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert's first introduction to NBA basketball was through the Michael Jordan's cult classic Space Jam movie in the 1990s.Rarely would he ever get to check out live NBA action, though."I was watching Space Jam when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA," Gobert admitted. "Once I got 13 or 14 years old, I started watching a lot of videos on YouTube and NBA.com and I started following the NBA ball."For the younger gener
  
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• 📓| "A lot of great times here that I had. A lot of people showed me a lot of support and love.” » on.nba.com/2U3JI9X

  18-01-2019 20:59 via twitter.com
  📓| "A lot of great times here that I had. A lot of people showed me a lot of support and love.”» on.nba.com/2U3JI9X
  
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• Alexandra Petri: What I meant when I said there was no collusion

  18-01-2019 20:54
  “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign! Or between the people in the campaign. ... I said the president of the United States — there is not a single bit of evidence the president of the United States committed the only crime you could commit here: conspired with the Russians to hack the DNC.”— Rudy Giuliani to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo“I represent only President Trump not the Trump campaign. There was no collusion by President Trump in any way, shape
  
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• BYU gets an up-close look at San Francisco on Saturday. The Dons are the most improved team in the WCC this season.

  18-01-2019 20:50
  San Francisco • BYU basketball coach Dave Rose called it.Back in 2016, when the San Francisco hired former San Diego, Air Force and Saint Mary’s assistant and Columbia head coach Kyle Smith to replace Rex Walters on The Hilltop, as USF’s campus is known, Rose predicted immediate success for his longtime friend.Rose said three years ago that Smith, whom Richmond coach Chris Mooney once called “the smartest man in college basketball,” would have the Dons challenging BY
  
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• Donovan Mitchell won’t defend his Dunk Contest title at NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte

  18-01-2019 20:41
  It was one of the signature moments of Donovan Mitchell’s rookie campaign: in front of the world, holding aloft the Dunk Contest trophy after throwing down four impressive dunks.The world won’t be seeing a repeat in 2019.Donovan Mitchell won’t be participating in the 2019 All-Star Dunk Contest in Charlotte, North Carolina, he confirmed to reporters at the Jazz’s shootaround on Friday morning.Mitchell said it was a tough decision.“It really stems from when I got hurt
  
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• 3 years later, no one is in jail over Flint tainted water

  18-01-2019 20:38
  Detroit • Michigan’s attorney general in 2016 promised to investigate “without fear or favor” the scandal over Flint’s lead-tainted drinking water and pledged that state regulators would be locked up for fudging data and misleading the public.Yet three years later, no one is behind bars. Instead, seven of 15 defendants have pleaded no contest to misdemeanors, some as minor as disrupting a public meeting. Their records eventually will be scrubbed clean.That has angere
  
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• Dementia and religion: Do’s and don’ts

  18-01-2019 20:37
  When a congregant has dementia, what can a house of worship do?Though each person is different and advice varies depending on an individual’s condition, here are some basic do’s and don’ts from experts on how congregations and individuals can help and not hurt.CONGREGATIONSDO’s • Visit people in homes, at care facilities, • Offer respite to caregivers. • Create support group; connect with local ones. • Hold a hymn sing; recite traditional prayers. &bul
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Donovan Mitchell Won't Defend Title at 2019 NBA Slam Dunk Contest

  18-01-2019 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  The field for the 2019 NBA dunk contest has yet to be announced, but it is known that there will be a new champion this year...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The 5 most memorable trades in Utah Jazz trade deadline history

  18-01-2019 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  Will this year crack the top 5?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Remembering Rodney Hood and Alec Burks

  18-01-2019 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  Two former Jazz shooting guards, both now on the Cavs, return to Utah for the first time
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Maybe the Utah Jazz should sit this trade deadline out

  18-01-2019 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  The case for the Utah Jazz to stand pat at the trade deadline
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Alec Burks and Rodney Hood return home as Utah Jazz hosts Cavaliers

  18-01-2019 20:10 via sportspyder.com
  the Utah Jazz take on the tanking Cavs.
  
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