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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Thousands who attended New Orleans Super Bowl protest raised $57,000

  08-02-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  New Orleans • Thousands of people attended the city of New Orleans’ protest parties on Super Bowl Sunday, and many of those who attended a special fundraiser contributed more than $57,000 for a foundation that works to improve the community.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ronan Farrow says he also received ‘blackmail’ threat after reporting on the National Enquirer and Trump

  08-02-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  Ronan Farrow said Thursday that he and "at least one other prominent journalist" who had reported on the National Enquirer and President Donald Trump received blackmail threats from the tabloid's parent company, American Media Inc., over their work.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Stone says he should be free to speak in Russia probe case

  08-02-2019 23:05 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A federal judge shouldn’t bar longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone from making public statements about his criminal case in the Russia investigation, his attorneys said Friday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Second woman accuses Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault

  08-02-2019 23:05 via sportspyder.com
  A woman said Friday she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D, in a "premeditated and aggressive" assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Superstar snowboarder Chloe Kim dominates at FIS World Championships, furthering her reign at the top of the sport

  08-02-2019 23:01 via sportspyder.com
  Park City • Another gold medal was already guaranteed, another dominant win, another day in which nobody could come close to Chloe Kim. So as the 18-year-old American snowboarding phenom prepped for her victory lap, she took a bit longer at the top...
  
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• Thousands who attended New Orleans Super Bowl protest raised $57,000

  08-02-2019 23:00
  New Orleans • Thousands of people attended the city of New Orleans’ protest parties on Super Bowl Sunday, and many of those who attended a special fundraiser contributed more than $57,000 for a foundation that works to improve the community.A blown referee call in the NFC championship that many believe cost the Saints a chance to play for the Super Bowl title, and angry Saints fans organized a number of protest parties around the city Feb. 4, the day the game was played in Atlanta.The
  
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• Ronan Farrow says he also received ‘blackmail’ threat after reporting on the National Enquirer and Trump

  08-02-2019 23:00
  Ronan Farrow said Thursday that he and "at least one other prominent journalist" who had reported on the National Enquirer and President Donald Trump received blackmail threats from the tabloid's parent company, American Media Inc., over their work.Farrow’s allegation came just hours after Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos published a remarkable public post accusing the National Enquirer of attempting to extort and blackmail him by threatening to publish intimate photos unless he stopped i
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Did the Utah Jazz just fail the NBA trade deadline?

  08-02-2019 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  It's not a statement, but a question we're asking after Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey elected not to make any moves at the NBA  trade deadline. As my main m...
  
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• Second woman accuses Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault

  08-02-2019 22:47
  A woman said Friday she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D, in a "premeditated and aggressive" assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University.Through her attorney, Meredith Watson said she shared her account of sexual assault immediately after it happened with several classmates, who have provided statements. Her lawyer also said she shared her account with friends in a string of emails and Facebook messages.Watson was friends with Fairfax at Duke b
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Jazz need to put the trade deadline as far behind them as possible

  08-02-2019 22:36 via sportspyder.com
  Thinking about it at this point will only end poorly
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Holly Richardson: The Alpine School District and a PR fail

  08-02-2019 22:32 via sportspyder.com
  This week, we got a whopper of a winter storm. At my home in northern Utah County, we got almost 18 inches of snow. It was beautiful! Alas, it was also dangerous to drive in. (The Utah Highway Patrol reported 400 accidents by the end of the day.)
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah man’s love of PEZ dispensers leads to podcast

  08-02-2019 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  Ogden • Justin D. Hansen ends each podcast with the same sage advice for his listeners: “Go out and dispense some good today.”
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alabama executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present

  08-02-2019 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  Atmore, Ala. • A Muslim inmate who filed a legal challenge because Alabama wouldn’t let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber was put to death Thursday after the nation’s highest court cleared the way.
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz feel a sense of relief and focus with trade deadline behind them

  08-02-2019 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  Everyone feels the stress of the NBA’s trade deadline, from the front office to the players to the fans. So with Thursday behind them, there was a sense of relief for the Utah Jazz at practice on
  
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• Stone says he should be free to speak in Russia probe case

  08-02-2019 22:30
  Washington • A federal judge shouldn’t bar longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone from making public statements about his criminal case in the Russia investigation, his attorneys said Friday.Lawyers for Stone, a political consultant who has made a career out of attention-seeking, bare-knuckles politics, say in a new court filing that any limits on their client's public comments would infringe on his First Amendment right to free speech.They made the argument as U.S. District Judg
  
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• Superstar snowboarder Chloe Kim dominates at FIS World Championships, furthering her reign at the top of the sport

  08-02-2019 22:22
  Park City • Another gold medal was already guaranteed, another dominant win, another day in which nobody could come close to Chloe Kim. So as the 18-year-old American snowboarding phenom prepped for her victory lap, she took a bit longer at the top of the massive, world-renowned Eagle Superpipe at the base of Park City Village. There, Kim skipped song after song, waiting for the perfect one to accompany her down to the bottom where an adoring crowd braving a chilly Friday afternoon was wait
  
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• Did the Utah Jazz just fail the NBA trade deadline?

  08-02-2019 22:18
  It’s not a statement, but a question we’re asking after Utah Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey elected not to make any moves at the NBA  trade deadline. As my main man Porky says, “That’s all, folks!” Trade season has officially come to a close in the NBA following the league’s February 7 deadline for deal-making. The […]
  Did the Utah Jazz just fail the NBA trade deadline? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Alabama executes Muslim inmate who wanted imam present

  08-02-2019 22:08
  Atmore, Ala. • A Muslim inmate who filed a legal challenge because Alabama wouldn’t let his Islamic spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber was put to death Thursday after the nation’s highest court cleared the way.Dominique Ray, 42, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m. of a lethal injection at the state prison in Atmore.Ray had argued Alabama's execution procedure favors Christian inmates because a Christian chaplain employed by the prison typically remains in the ex
  
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• Utah man’s love of PEZ dispensers leads to podcast

  08-02-2019 22:00
  Ogden • Justin D. Hansen ends each podcast with the same sage advice for his listeners: “Go out and dispense some good today.”It's a particularly fitting admonition given that the topic of the weekly show is PEZ dispensers, those handheld spring-loaded candy dispensers topped with the heads of cartoon characters and other cultural icons.The Ogden man, who co-hosts "The PEZ Collection Podcast" with fellow collector Andrea Gage of Dos Palos, California, collects all things PEZ-rel
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Don’t look now, but BYU is 7-3 in WCC play and all alone in second place. The Cougars host Pacific on Saturday night

  08-02-2019 22:00 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • After a 93-63 loss to No. 4 Gonzaga last week, BYU basketball historians searched the record books for the last time the Cougars had lost so badly at home. The answer: a 90-48 loss to No. 11 New Mexico on Feb. 27, 1997.
  
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• Holly Richardson: The Alpine School District and a PR fail

  08-02-2019 22:00
  This week, we got a whopper of a winter storm. At my home in northern Utah County, we got almost 18 inches of snow. It was beautiful! Alas, it was also dangerous to drive in. (The Utah Highway Patrol reported 400 accidents by the end of the day.)The garbage trucks in our area delayed trash pick up for a day because of hazardous road conditions, non-essential state employees had a four-hour delay and the public information officer for the Utah Department of Transportation, John Gleason, saidAlert
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ricky Rubio and his Jazz teammates are happy to be done with trade deadline season

  08-02-2019 21:53 via sportspyder.com
  As the Jazz’s front office met on the second floor of the Zions Bank Basketball Campus to decide which direction they were going to take their team through the final hours before the trade deadline, Ricky Rubio was sitting one floor down, eating...
  
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• Don’t look now, but BYU is 7-3 in WCC play and all alone in second place. The Cougars host Pacific on Saturday night

  08-02-2019 21:31
  Provo • After a 93-63 loss to No. 4 Gonzaga last week, BYU basketball historians searched the record books for the last time the Cougars had lost so badly at home. The answer: a 90-48 loss to No. 11 New Mexico on Feb. 27, 1997.They hit the archives again this week, looking for the last time the Cougars held consecutive opponents to fewer than 50 points after BYU drubbed Loyola Marymount 67-49 last Saturday and Portland 83-48 on Thursday at Chiles Center.Such is life in the West Coast Confer
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Paying a higher ticket price or fooled by fakes? A bill proposes new requirements for Utah ticket resellers.

  08-02-2019 21:28 via sportspyder.com
  When someone searches “Eccles Theater” online, maybe seeking tickets for the run of “Wicked” now underway, the official website for the Eccles Theater usually is not the first site a search engine displays.
  
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• Ricky Rubio and his Jazz teammates are happy to be done with trade deadline season

  08-02-2019 21:20
  As the Jazz’s front office met on the second floor of the Zions Bank Basketball Campus to decide which direction they were going to take their team through the final hours before the trade deadline, Ricky Rubio was sitting one floor down, eating lunch with teammates Joe Ingles and Kyle Korver.Oh, and he was sending out tweets, too, getting through one of the most nervy moments of his career with humor. “Joe Ingles had two coffees this a.m. league source tell Ricky”, said one tw
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Latter-day Saints to close a fourth Missionary Training Center, this one in Argentina

  08-02-2019 21:15 via sportspyder.com
  Latter-day Saint leaders are closing yet another of the faith’s Missionary Training Centers — this one in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Milan Clausi grew up watching the Utah gymnastics team — her mom is former Ute great Missy Marlowe — but she ended up at Cal. How did that happen?

  08-02-2019 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  As the daughter of Utah gymnastics great Missy Marlowe and former Utah football player Joe Clausi, Milan Clausi grew up a fan of Utah gymnastics and attended meets regularly.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Despite protests, Utah House secures two-thirds majority for replacement Medicaid plan that allows full expansion as a last resort

  08-02-2019 21:06 via sportspyder.com
  Under the eyes of a capacity crowd, and with protesters inside and outside their chamber, members of the Utah House voted Friday for a partial Medicaid expansion program that would revert to full expansion in the event federal administrators reject...
  
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• Paying a higher ticket price or fooled by fakes? A bill proposes new requirements for Utah ticket resellers.

  08-02-2019 21:01
  When someone searches “Eccles Theater” online, maybe seeking tickets for the run of “Wicked” now underway, the official website for the Eccles Theater usually is not the first site a search engine displays.“The first things that come up are ticket resellers,” said Sarah Pearce, division director for Salt Lake County Arts and Culture, the government agency that operates four downtown Salt Lake City venues: the Eccles, Abravanel Hall, the Capitol Theatre and the
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trib Caucus: During week two of the legislative session, lawmakers consider a Medicaid replacer bill, changes to the state constitution

  08-02-2019 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  Every week during Utah’s legislative session, The Salt Lake Tribune’s political reporters and columnists chat about the hottest topics of the week. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jennifer Rubin: The biggest losers in the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling

  08-02-2019 20:56 via sportspyder.com
  The Supreme Court on Thursday in a 5-4 decision blocked a Louisiana law that would have, in effect, barred most abortions. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. sided with the four Democratic-appointed justices; the other Republican-appointed justices,...
  
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• Despite protests, Utah House secures two-thirds majority for replacement Medicaid plan that allows full expansion as a last resort

  08-02-2019 20:56
  Under the eyes of a capacity crowd, and with protesters inside and outside their chamber, members of the Utah House voted Friday for a partial Medicaid expansion program that would revert to full expansion in the event federal administrators reject the state’s plans.Representatives voted 56-19 for SB96, securing the two-thirds majority required for immediate implementation, and which would prohibit supporters of Utah’s Proposition 3, a full expansion initiative approved by voters, fr
  
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• Milan Clausi grew up watching the Utah gymnastics team — her mom is former Ute great Missy Marlowe — but she ended up at Cal. How did that happen?

  08-02-2019 20:44
  As the daughter of Utah gymnastics great Missy Marlowe and former Utah football player Joe Clausi, Milan Clausi grew up a fan of Utah gymnastics and attended meets regularly.Now a freshman in college, Clausi will be at Utah’s meet against Cal in the Huntsman Center — just not in the role many had envisioned.Clausi is returning home to Salt Lake City as a Golden Bear. She has the team’s highest all-around score of 39.3 earned against Arizona State and is a winner of the Pac-12 F
  
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• Latter-day Saints to close a fourth Missionary Training Center, this one in Argentina

  08-02-2019 20:40
  Latter-day Saint leaders are closing yet another of the faith’s Missionary Training Centers — this one in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July.This closure, the fourth announced by The Church of Jesus Christ within a year, brings the total number of MTCs, as they are called, below a dozen. The others were in the Dominican Republic, Chile and Spain. MTCs, including the flagship facility in Provo, are boot camps, of sorts, where new missionaries undergo intensive language study and gospel
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - From ‘Tom Jones’ to ‘Skyfall’: star Albert Finney dies at 82

  08-02-2019 20:30 via sportspyder.com
  London • Albert Finney, one of the most respected and versatile actors of his generation and the star of films as diverse as “Tom Jones” and “Skyfall,” has died. He was 82.
  
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• Trib Caucus: During week two of the legislative session, lawmakers consider a Medicaid replacer bill, changes to the state constitution

  08-02-2019 20:21
  Every week during Utah’s legislative session, The Salt Lake Tribune’s political reporters and columnists chat about the hottest topics of the week. The following is a lightly edited transcript of their conversation.Taylor Stevens (government reporter): Welcome to this week’s Trib Caucus Slack chat, which will be convening weekly during the 2019 legislative session. We’re 10 days in (out of 45) and already the Senate has approved a rewrite of a Medicaid expansion plan and
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - UVU athletic director Vince Otoupal resigns

  08-02-2019 20:18 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Valley University Athletic Director Vince Otoupal has resigned to pursue other opportunities, the school announced Friday.
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: The biggest losers in the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling

  08-02-2019 20:15
  The Supreme Court on Thursday in a 5-4 decision blocked a Louisiana law that would have, in effect, barred most abortions. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. sided with the four Democratic-appointed justices; the other Republican-appointed justices, including Neil Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, voted to uphold the law.The Washington Post reports:“The justices may yet consider whether the 2014 law — requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals &m
  
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• Federal prosecutors probing whether National Enquirer’s handling of Bezos story violated cooperation deal

  08-02-2019 20:09
  New York • Federal prosecutors are looking into the National Enquirer's handling of a story about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' extramarital affair to see if the tabloid's publisher violated a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday.Bezos claims the Enquirer’s publisher, American Media Inc., tried to extort and blackmail him. In an extraordinary blog post published Thursday on Medium.com, Bezos said AMI threatened to pub
  
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• Snowmobiler found dead at southern Utah’s Circleville Mountain, buried by avalanche

  08-02-2019 20:00
  A snowmobiler has been found dead on Circleville Mountain, buried by an avalanche that hit Thursday afternoon.The body of Brad Stapeley, from Washington County, was recovered Friday morning by search and rescue crews, a Beaver County Sheriff’s dispatcher said.FOX 13 reported that three snowmobilers triggered an avalanche on the mountain. The avalanche was 200 feet long and a couple of hundred feed wide.One snowmobiler avoided the avalanche and helped dig out a second snowmobiler, who had b
  
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• From ‘Tom Jones’ to ‘Skyfall’: star Albert Finney dies at 82

  08-02-2019 19:57
  London • Albert Finney, one of the most respected and versatile actors of his generation and the star of films as diverse as “Tom Jones” and “Skyfall,” has died. He was 82.From his early days as a strikingly handsome and magnetic screen presence to his closing acts as a brilliant character actor, Finney was a British treasure known for charismatic work on both stage and screen.Finney's family said Friday that he "passed away peacefully after a short illness with thos
  
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• UVU athletic director Vince Otoupal resigns

  08-02-2019 19:55
  Utah Valley University Athletic Director Vince Otoupal has resigned to pursue other opportunities, the school announced Friday.Otoupal, who served as UVU’s AD for five years, led the Wolverines into the Western Athletic Conference as the school matured into a full-fledged university. He oversaw 16 UVU sports in NCAA Division I competition.“I have really enjoyed my time at UVU,” Otoupal said in a news release. “The student-athletes at UVU are amazing people. I am proud of
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Margaret Sullivan: Bezos rolls over a log and the National Enquirer’s sleaze crawls out

  08-02-2019 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  The tweet from Jeffrey P. Bezos, announcing his stunning blog post, came Thursday at 5:51 p.m.
  
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• [KSL] - Gail Miller joined Ekpe Udoh at one of NBA's most unique events

  08-02-2019 19:42 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz owner was Udoh's guest at his bookclub's Author's Talks where she talked about her book, her life and artificial intelligence.
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Utah Jazz: Grading their 2019 NBA Trade Deadline

  08-02-2019 19:12 via sportspyder.com
  With the 2019 NBA Trade Deadline officially come and gone, let's grade the Utah Jazz's activity, or lack thereof, while players were swapped around the NBA...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Two teenagers accused of assaulting Taylorsville High School teacher and trying to run him over

  08-02-2019 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  Two 19-year-olds are accused of beating up and trying to run over a Taylorsville High School teacher.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Federal prosecutors probing whether National Enquirer’s handling of Bezos story violated cooperation deal

  08-02-2019 19:08 via sportspyder.com
  New York • Federal prosecutors are deciding whether National Enquirer’s handling of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos story violated cooperation deal.
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Bezos rolls over a log and the National Enquirer’s sleaze crawls out

  08-02-2019 19:05
  The tweet from Jeffrey P. Bezos, announcing his stunning blog post, came Thursday at 5:51 p.m.And for a few long minutes, the chattering classes shut up. And read. And tried to make sense of what they were reading.At 6:04, journalist Yashar Ali was one of the first to synthesize it."HOLY COW," he tweeted. "In a medium post, @JeffBezos says that David Pecker and AMI threatened to release embarrassing photos unless Bezos agreed to stop investigating them and released a statement saying he didn't h
  
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• Two teenagers accused of assaulting Taylorsville High School teacher and trying to run him over

  08-02-2019 19:02
  Two 19-year-olds are accused of beating up and trying to run over a Taylorsville High School teacher.Arrest warrants were issued Thursday in 3rd District Court in West Jordan for Cristian Hernandez and Marquez Anthony Parker. Hernandez is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, a third-degree felony, and assault against a school employee, a Class A misdemeanor. Parker faces the misdemeanor charge of assault against a school employee.Sgt. Melody Gray, spokeswoman for Unified police, said F
  
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• ‘It seems like payback': Some San Juan County residents express a growing sense of being disenfranchised

  08-02-2019 18:57
  Just under a month after the new San Juan County Commission took the oath of office — shifting the body from a long-standing white Republican majority to a Democratic and Navajo one — its members considered a major reversal to the county’s stance on public lands.While the previous commission had opposed the designation of Bears Ears National Monument on 1.3 million acres spanning areas rich in Native American artifacts, sacred sites and geologic wonders, the new guard is lookin
  
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