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• A man who allegedly attacked a Latino father and son saying he wanted to ‘kill a Mexican’ has been charged with federal hate crimes

  20-02-2019 23:52
  A man who allegedly attacked a Latino father and son outside their Salt Lake City tire shop in November, saying he was looking to “kill a Mexican,” was charged Wednesday with three federal hate crimes.The grand jury indictment alleges Alan D. Covington, 50, attempted to kill 18-year-old Luis Gustavo Lopez — apparently because Covington believed Lopez was from Mexico — when he struck him in the head with a metal pole on Nov. 27. Covington also is charged with hitting Lopez
  
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• Small earthquakes don’t mean the big one is about to hit Utah, U. seismologist says. But they won’t delay it either.

  20-02-2019 23:40
  Utah’s mini-wave of minor earthquakes doesn’t portend that the big one is coming our way anytime soon — but it doesn’t lessen the chances either, according to James C. Pechmann at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations.“I don’t think they’re related,” he said of quakes centered near Bluffdale in southern Salt Lake County and near Kanosh in Millard County. “They’re too far away from each other. And they’re not big enough to ca
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - ‘Trib Talk’: Sandy City looks for answers after a water contamination crisis

  20-02-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  Sandy residents are asking for answers after a malfunction flooded the city’s water system with fluoride, eroding pipes and pushing unsafe levels of minerals and contamination into people’s homes.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Fare is free on UTA trains and buses two days next week

  20-02-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Transit Authority buses and trains will be free for all on Feb. 28 and March 1 — Thursday and Friday next week — in an experiment to help reduce air pollution and attract new riders.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Commentary: Proposed Utah beer law doesn’t help local brewers

  20-02-2019 23:39 via sportspyder.com
  Wait a minute. Did you hear that right? The Utah Brewers Guild is against the proposed legislation to change state beer laws? It’s true — and we realize our stance is eliciting a fair amount of double takes when people read the headlines. But there’s
  
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• Real Salt Lake falls 2-1 to FC Dallas in penultimate preseason match

  20-02-2019 23:30
  After three games against competition it would never see in a Major League Soccer season, Real Salt Lake failed its first real test Wednesday with a 2-1 oss to FC Dallas in Tucson, Ariz.RSL gave up two goals in the first 20 minute of the second half after holding a one-goal lead for much of the first 45 minutes.Sebastian Saucedo opened the scoring for both teams in the 22nd minute after Kyle Coffee’s pass found him inside the 18-yard box. Saucedo’s strike found the top-left corner of
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Senate advances bill to accept depleted uranium in Utah

  20-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Senate took another step Wednesday toward allowing EnergySolutions to accept shipments of depleted uranium at its radioactive waste landfill near Grantsville in Tooele County.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Third-party online sales would be taxed under bill moving to full Utah Senate

  20-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  Utah consumers would start to see a sales tax on items purchased online from small out-of-state sellers that use the platforms of retail giants such as Amazon, eBay and Overstock under a bill that cleared the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Real Salt Lake falls 2-1 to FC Dallas in penultimate preseason match

  20-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  After three games against competition it would never see in a Major League Soccer season, Real Salt Lake failed its first real test Wednesday with a 2-1 oss to FC Dallas in Tucson, Ariz.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - House Dems readying bill to block Trump’s border emergency

  20-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • House Democrats plan to file a resolution as soon as Friday that’s aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the Southwest border.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A man who attacked a Latino father and son saying he wanted to ‘kill a Mexican’ has been charged with federal hate crimes

  20-02-2019 23:24 via sportspyder.com
  A man who allegedly attacked a Latino father and son outside their Salt Lake City tire shop in November, saying he was looking to “kill a Mexican,” was charged Wednesday with three federal hate crimes.
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: Sandy City looks for answers after a water contamination crisis

  20-02-2019 23:17
  Sandy residents are asking for answers after a malfunction flooded the city’s water system with fluoride, eroding pipes and pushing unsafe levels of minerals and contamination into people’s homes.The incident has raised accusations of negligence and mismanagement, and reignited a debate over the value of mandatory fluoridation.On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Sandy City Deputy Mayor Evelyn Everton and Tribune government reporter Taylor Stevens join Benjamin Wo
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz one of NBA's elite teams — in TV ratings

  20-02-2019 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  NBA ratings have taken a dip overall, but Jazz ratings are through the roof.
  
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• Salt Lake City’s understated restaurant scene is recognized as one of the best for launching a food business

  20-02-2019 23:11
  Salt Lake City is one of the top 50 places in the country to open a restaurant, according to new rankings released this week.Utah’s capital ranked 40th in the city-by-city list compiled by Bid On Equipment, an online clearinghouse for used restaurant equipment.For its comparison, the company looked at 236 cities — including the 150 most populous — in the U.S. using four key business factors: annual restaurant sales, competition, workforce and disposable income.Salt Lake City pe
  
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• Utah Senate advances bill to accept depleted uranium in Utah

  20-02-2019 23:03
  The Utah Senate took another step Wednesday toward allowing EnergySolutions to accept shipments of depleted uranium at its radioactive waste landfill near Grantsville in Tooele County.Senators voted 23-6 to advance HB220, which signals state support for the company to take large amounts of a kind of low-level radioactive material that grows more hazardous over time.EnergySolutions, based in Salt Lake City, is vying with competitors to take shipments of depleted uranium from government facilities
  
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• Third-party online sales would be taxed under bill moving to full Utah Senate

  20-02-2019 23:03
  Utah consumers would start to see a sales tax on items purchased online from small out-of-state sellers that use the platforms of retail giants such as Amazon, eBay and Overstock under a bill that cleared the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee with a unanimous vote on Wednesday.Though state law already imposes sales tax for online purchases, the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, says a loophole may be allowing a “large percent of all sales” from small third-party re
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: What the All-Star weekend was like for Donovan Mitchell

  20-02-2019 23:02 via sportspyder.com
  We’re back during the All-Star break with another Weekly Run podcast!
  
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• Utah Jazz one of NBA's elite teams — in TV ratings

  20-02-2019 22:53
  SALT LAKE CITY — If it feels like you're watching more Utah Jazz games on TV this year, you're not alone.Despite a dip in overall NBA ratings, with the average rating of regional sports networks from 28 U.S.-based teams falling 10 percent from last season, Utah's AT&T SportsNet broadcasts have flourished.Viewership for Jazz games on the network are up 58 percent, according to Sports Business Daily."Thank you for loving this team!" Jazz president Steve Starks tweeted. "Despite the leagu
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: What the All-Star weekend was like for Donovan Mitchell

  20-02-2019 22:49
  We’re back during the All-Star break with another Weekly Run podcast!This time, Eric Walden and Andy Larsen talk about the All-Star Weekend experience (for both Andy and Donovan Mitchell), Joe Ingles’ personal announcement last week, whether or not the referees really deserve some slack, and Mark Eaton’s place in the Hall of Fame.The full rundown:At 2:00 • What covering all-Star weekend is likeAt 5:25 • All-Star Weekend for Donovan Mitchell... a short oneAt 14:40 &bul
  
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• House Dems readying bill to block Trump’s border emergency

  20-02-2019 22:28
  Washington • House Democrats plan to file a resolution as soon as Friday that’s aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the Southwest border.That could set up a vote by the full House by mid-March. The clash is over a declaration that Trump is using to try spending billions of dollars beyond what Congress has authorized to start building border barriers.Passage by the Democratic-run House seems likely. The measure would then move to the Republic
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah County officers arrested a former vice squad lieutenant as part of a Valentine’s Day prostitution sting

  20-02-2019 22:25 via sportspyder.com
  He used to bust others for trying to pick up prostitutes as a lieutenant in St. George’s vice squad. But investigators now say David Moss was looking for prostitutes to “manage” when he was caught in a Valentine’s Day police sting.
  
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• Utah Jazz have chance to make statement in first game back from break

  20-02-2019 22:13
  The Utah Jazz start out the post-All-Star break slate with an important road game against the red hot Oklahoma City Thunder. At last season’s All-Star break, it was still very much in question whether or not the Utah Jazz had what it would take to bust their way into the postseason. They’d played well leading […]
  Utah Jazz have chance to make statement in first game back from break - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Utah County officers arrested a former vice squad lieutenant as part of a Valentine’s Day prostitution sting

  20-02-2019 22:10
  He used to bust others for trying to pick up prostitutes as a lieutenant in St. George’s vice squad. But investigators now say David Moss was looking for prostitutes to “manage” when he was caught in a Valentine’s Day police sting.Moss, 51, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of exploiting and patronizing a prostitute, lewdness and sexual battery.Utah County investigators wrote in jail documents that Moss last week responded to two undercover detectives who posted on social
  
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• Like Mexican food? Asian? Italian or American? Rebuilt Salt Lake City Airport will offer them all.

  20-02-2019 21:59
  Let the salivating begin: Salt Lake City International Airport announced Wednesday that it chose a mix of 23 local and national food concessionaires for its new terminal and concourses when its first phase of reconstruction opens late next year.The best part: they all agreed by contract not to hike up prices at the airport, but to charge the same as they do at other locations.So if a menu item costs $5 in downtown Salt Lake City, “at the airport it will be $5,” said John Bruckner, th
  
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• Utah man, on a mission for the LDS Church in Dominican Republic, dies in fall from roof

  20-02-2019 21:58
  A young man from Cache County has died while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, church officials announced Wednesday.Brennan Conrad, 18, from Hyde Park, fell Wednesday from the roof of his apartment building and died in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, a church spokesman said.Conrad had been serving in the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission since August.Conrad was a “very bright, very happy, optimistic young man,” said Mario Dur
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - More than 1,000 private entities have access to terror watch list, government says

  20-02-2019 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  Muslims who have been put on the government’s secretive terrorism watch list are demanding to know more about the 1,441 private entities that have access.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Bill to legalize self-driving cars motors through Utah House

  20-02-2019 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  A bill to fully legalize driverless, autonomous vehicles anywhere on Utah roads easily motored its way through the Utah House on Wednesday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - A new bill would require Utahns to renew driver licenses every 8 years, instead of every 5

  20-02-2019 21:52 via sportspyder.com
  Utahns could be required to only renew their driver licenses every eight years, instead of the currently mandated five years — but it would cost them more when they do it: $52 instead of $32.
  
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• More than 1,000 private entities have access to terror watch list, government says

  20-02-2019 21:22
  Muslims who have been put on the government’s secretive terrorism watch list are demanding to know more about the 1,441 private entities that have access.The number was revealed recently through litigation in federal court in Alexandia, Virginia. It's one of a half-dozen lawsuits related to the watch list filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. On Friday, CAIR will ask a federal judge to force the government to release the names of the private entities and explain how they acce
  
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• Bill to legalize self-driving cars motors through Utah House

  20-02-2019 21:20
  A bill to fully legalize driverless, autonomous vehicles anywhere on Utah roads easily motored its way through the Utah House on Wednesday.House members approved HB101 on a 70-0 vote, and sent it to the Senate for consideration.Bill sponsor, Rep. Robert Spendlove, R-Sandy, said it aims mostly to allow developers of self-driving cars to move testing away from closed tracks and onto public roads — and said several companies are interested in doing that here as soon as the legislation is enac
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA Power Rankings: Utah Jazz looking good at the break

  20-02-2019 21:19 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s 32-25 record at the break has the Jazz in the top third of the league
  
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• A new bill would require Utahns to renew driver licenses every 8 years, instead of every 5

  20-02-2019 21:15
  Utahns could be required to only renew their driver licenses every eight years, instead of the currently mandated five years — but it would cost them more when they do it: $52 instead of $32.The House Transportation Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to endorse HB294 to make those changes, and sent it to the full House for consideration.Its sponsor, Rep. Adam Robertson, R-Provo, said the change would allow the Utah Driver License Division to handle Utah’s quickly growing populatio
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah man, on a mission for the LDS Church in Dominican Republic, dies in fall from roof

  20-02-2019 20:59 via sportspyder.com
  A young man from Cache County has died while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, church officials announced Wednesday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah lawmakers want $128M more in per-student funding. Would that knock Utah out of last place nationally?

  20-02-2019 20:44 via sportspyder.com
  Utah lawmakers have proposed increasing education spending per student by a total of $128 million this year — which matches what the governor requested when he listed it as his top funding priority.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Like Mexican food? Asian? Italian or American? Rebuilt Salt Lake City Airport will offer them all.

  20-02-2019 20:44 via sportspyder.com
  Let the salivating begin: Salt Lake City International Airport announced Wednesday that it chose a mix of 23 local and national food concessionaires for its new terminal and concourses when its first phase of reconstruction opens late next year.
  
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• The Grand cancels its production of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Salt Lake Community College over a legal battle with a Broadway mogul

  20-02-2019 20:37
  A Salt Lake City community theater company has canceled its production of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” scheduled for next month, over a legal dispute even Atticus Finch couldn’t argue his way around.Seth Miller, artistic/executive director of The Grand Theatre at Salt Lake Community College, announced Tuesday that the theater’s cancellation of its production of the Harper Lee classic — set to be performed from March 21 to April 6 — was “due to cir
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - They reported being raped, but prosecutors wouldn’t take their cases. These women now want another option.

  20-02-2019 20:24 via sportspyder.com
  She had been told it would be fruitless to report to police that she had been raped by a friend in Salt Lake City, that the officers would be insensitive and her story would be quickly dismissed.
  
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• Utah lawmakers want $128M more in per-student funding. Would that knock Utah out of last place nationally?

  20-02-2019 20:11
  Utah lawmakers have proposed increasing education spending per student by a total of $128 million this year — which matches what the governor requested when he listed it as his top funding priority.It’s still a small enough bump, at about 4 percent, that it likely will not take the state out of last place in the nation for per-pupil funding, a spot it has secured every year for at least the last decade. But it’s a significantly larger increase than either of the last two years,
  
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• They reported being raped, but prosecutors wouldn’t take their cases. These women now want another option.

  20-02-2019 20:05
  She had been told it would be fruitless to report to police that she had been raped by a friend in Salt Lake City, that the officers would be insensitive and her story would be quickly dismissed.But she reported the 2014 assault anyway and began working with two Salt Lake City detectives to build a case, which included secretly recording a phone call to the man she says assault her.“My detectives lead me to believe I had a very good shot,” she said Wednesday, “And the [prosecut
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Want to open a restaurant? Salt Lake City is one of the best places in the country to launch it.

  20-02-2019 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  Salt Lake City is one of the top 50 places in the country to open a restaurant, according to new rankings released this week.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - House committee OKs 18-week abortion ban opposed by some as ‘arbitrary’, ‘paternalistic’ and likely unconstitutional

  20-02-2019 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  A proposed 18-week cap on legal, elective abortions earned a muted victory in committee Wednesday, with two Republicans joining three Democrats in a 7-5 vote to send the bill to the full Utah House for debate.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - House committee holds ‘Lauren’s Law’ — named for slain University of Utah student — after pushback from gun groups

  20-02-2019 19:47 via sportspyder.com
  A bill named in memory of slain University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey is stuck in a House committee, held up by lawmakers wary of increasing civil liability for people who loan out their guns.
  
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• The school is one of the most diverse in Utah. Now, it could face closure.

  20-02-2019 19:45
  Nearly every parent and teacher who went up to the podium Tuesday night offered a different statistic about the students at Bennion Elementary School in downtown Salt Lake City.More than a quarter are homeless. At least 30 children live at the nearby women’s shelter for domestic violence victims a few blocks away. Nearly 65 percent are minorities.Their point: The recent recommendation to close the school feels targeted.“I don’t think that’s right or fair,” Margaret
  
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• Grand Canyon looking into possible radiation exposure

  20-02-2019 19:43
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Grand Canyon National Park officials say they are investigating whether anyone was exposed to radiation at unsafe levels while samples of uranium ore sat in plastic buckets in a park research building.Three 5-gallon buckets have been removed from a building about a half mile from the South Rim that houses the park’s archives and artifacts. About 550 people tour the collections each year, mostly by appointment.The National Park Service is working with Arizona health
  
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• U.S. mining sites dump 50M gallons of fouled wastewater daily

  20-02-2019 19:42
  Rimini, Mont. • Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surrounding streams and ponds without being treated, The Associated Press has found.That torrent is poisoning aquatic life and tainting drinking water sources in Montana, California, Colorado, Oklahoma and at least five other states.The pollution is a legacy of how the mining industry was allowed to operate in
  
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• House committee OKs 18-week abortion ban opposed by some as ‘arbitrary’, ‘paternalistic’ and likely unconstitutional

  20-02-2019 19:42
  A proposed 18-week cap on legal, elective abortions earned a muted victory in committee Wednesday, with two Republicans joining three Democrats in a 7-5 vote to send the bill to the full Utah House for debate.Freshman Rep. Steve Waldrip, R-Eden, said he philosophically objects to message bills that invite litigation, adding that HB136 would not survive a legal challenge unless and until the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its precedents on abortion rights. And it’s troubling, Waldrip said, fo
  
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• House committee holds ‘Lauren’s Law’ — named for slain University of Utah student — after pushback from gun groups

  20-02-2019 19:42
  A bill named in memory of slain University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey is stuck in a House committee, held up by lawmakers wary of increasing civil liability for people who loan out their guns.The “Lauren’s Law” legislation sponsored by Rep. Andrew Stoddard would open the way for lawsuits against individuals whose borrowed firearms that are used in a felony. He introduced the proposal after McCluskey was killed in October by a convicted felon who shot her using a borrowed
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow denies causing Utah ski crash

  20-02-2019 19:41
  Actress Gwyneth Paltrow denied Wednesday that she skied into a man who accused her in a lawsuit of seriously injuring him at a Utah ski resort, alleging in a counter claim that the man actually plowed into her from behind and delivered a full “body blow.”Paltrow was skiing on a family vacation on a beginner run at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, on Feb. 26, 2016, when Terry Sanderson smashed into her, the actress' attorney alleged in a counter claim filed in court. Paltrow sai
  
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• The Grand Theatre cancels stage production of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ at Salt Lake Community College over a legal battle with a Broadway mogul

  20-02-2019 19:38
  A Salt Lake City community theater company has canceled its production of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” scheduled for next month, over a legal dispute even Atticus Finch couldn’t argue his way around.Seth Miller, artistic/executive director of The Grand Theatre at Salt Lake Community College, announced Tuesday that the theater’s cancellation of its production of the Harper Lee classic — set to be performed from March 21 to April 6 — was “due to cir
  
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