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• [Clutchpoints] - Dante Exum to ‘require additional recovery time’ from ankle injury

  22-02-2019 23:54 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum has been out since early January with an ankle injury, and it doesn’t look like he will be back any time soon. According to the team, Exum will need additional time to recover from his ankle issue due to a bone bruise that...
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum out at least 2 more weeks with severe left ankle sprain

  22-02-2019 23:40 via sportspyder.com
  Exum continues to make progress but will require additional recovery time due to an accompanying bone bruise.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Dante Exum expected to miss at least two more weeks due to bone bruise

  22-02-2019 23:37 via sportspyder.com
  *flips table*
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum out at least two weeks with severe left ankle sprain

  22-02-2019 23:25 via sportspyder.com
  Exum continues to make progress but will require additional recovery time due to an accompanying bone bruise.
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum out at least two weeks with severe left ankle sprain

  22-02-2019 23:23
  OKLAHOMA CITY — For the Utah Jazz organization, there's good news and there's bad news.The good news is that guard Dante Exum returned to practice as a partial participant this week and is in Oklahoma City with the team as the Jazz prepare to face the Thunder on Friday.The bad news is he will miss another two weeks with a severe left ankle sprain.Exum was re-evaluated Thursday, and the team's medical staff determined he needed more time to recover as a bone was also bruised on his ankle.Ex
  
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• Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum out at least 2 more weeks with severe left ankle sprain

  22-02-2019 23:23
  OKLAHOMA CITY — For the Utah Jazz organization, there's good news and there's bad news.The good news is that Dante Exum returned to practice as a partial participant this week and currently in Oklahoma City with the team as they prepare to face the Thunder on Friday.The bad news is that he will miss another two weeks with his severe left ankle sprain.Exum was re-evaluated on Thursday where the team's medical staff determined that he needed more time to recover as a bone was also bruised on
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: State Flag Redesign

  22-02-2019 23:23
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/21/bagley-cartoon-partners/" target=_blank><u>Partners in Crime</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/20/bagley-cartoon-purity/"><u>Purity Voters</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/02/19/bagley-cartoon
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz injury update—2.22.2019

  22-02-2019 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz guard Danté Exum was re-examined by the Utah Jazz medical staff on Thursday and the following was determined:Exum continues to make progress towards a return with a left ankle sprain but will
  
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• Utah County still home to many large families with 6 kids

  22-02-2019 22:39
  Provo • Though rare, the percentage of families in Utah County with six-plus kids is holding steady, the Daily-Herald reports.Even in a county known for children — and lots of them — Erica Goulding is used to her family being seen as unusual."People see us as a large family," Goulding said. "When I told people I was having my sixth, they looked at me like I was having my 20th baby."Goulding was raised in a family of five kids, and often felt as if she had nine siblings due to a
  
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• This Florida man seen hitting a gay man in Salt Lake City in a video gone viral has been charged

  22-02-2019 22:37
  He asked the man if he was gay and when he responded “I am,” he hit him. Now, that alleged attacker faces assault charges — but those will not be enhanced as a hate crime.Carlo Alazo, 22 from Florida, was charged Friday by the Salt Lake County district attorney with three misdemeanors for threatening to use a weapon in a fight and two for assault.Alazo was captured on video appearing to hit Sal Trejo outside a Salt Lake City bar last weekend. The eight-second clip opens near 32
  
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• Virginia Republicans plan hearings into allegations against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax

  22-02-2019 22:22
  Richmond, Va. • Republicans will invite two women who have accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D, of sexual assault to publicly testify before lawmakers, despite Democrats’ objections that it would turn into a “political, partisan show.”The move came one day after House Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, criticized Democrats for resisting his efforts to launch a bipartisan investigation into the accusations against Fairfax.Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, rose on the House floo
  
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• ‘The Rock’ picked a Utahn to compete in ‘The Titan Games.’ And he almost made it to the finals.

  22-02-2019 22:18
  Utahn Cole Wadsworth is a titan. Not just because he’s athletic and ripped — he was actually a “Titan” on NBC’s competition series “The Titan Games.”He made it through the first round of the grueling competition, and he came this close to making it to the finals. In the episode that aired Thursday, Wadsworth pushed his opponent to the brink of elimination on the Lunar Challenge — sort of a reverse tug-of-war in which both men pushed against opposit
  
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• Man pleads guilty to killing a West Valley City code-enforcement officer and lighting her body on fire

  22-02-2019 22:18
  A Utah man on Friday admitted to shooting and killing a West Valley City worker in his driveway before lighting her body and truck on fire.Kevin Wayne Billings pleaded guilty to first-degree felony aggravated murder, along with charges of aggravated arson, arson and aggravated cruelty to an animal. Several other charges, such as abuse of a dead body and possessing explosive parts, were dismissed as part of a plea deal.He faces a maximum penalty of up to life in prison when he is sentenced May 6.
  
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• A tiny tyrannosaur dubbed the ‘harbinger of doom’ has been discovered in Utah

  22-02-2019 21:55
  A new tyrannosaur fossil has been discovered in Utah — and it’s tiny compared to its more famous relative T. Rex.Meet Moros Intrepidus, a small tyrannosaur that lived in Utah’s Emery County during the Cretaceous period. At 96 million years old, it is the oldest Cretaceous tyrannosaur species yet discovered in North America. The find narrowed a 70-million-year gap in the tyrant dinosaur record.And by small, think the size of a mule deer. Moros was only three or four feet tall at
  
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• Trump to ban abortion referrals by family planning clinics

  22-02-2019 21:42
  Washington • The Trump administration said Friday that it would bar taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions, a move certain to be challenged in court by abortion rights supporters.The final rule released Friday by the Health and Human Services Department pleased religious conservatives, a key building block of President Donald Trump's political base.The administration plan also would prohibit federally funded family planning clinics from being housed in th
  
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• Utah’s $1 billion surplus survives latest revenue estimates

  22-02-2019 21:40
  Days after warning of drooping tax collections and a slump in state revenues, legislative leaders announced Friday that Utah maintains a $1 billion surplus going into the final weeks of the 2019 session.The pool of money available for state spending decreased by roughly $120 million compared to December estimates, which Rep. Brad Last, R-Hurricane, described as a “hiccup” related to recent federal tax changes as the state’s economy continues to perform.“The revenue is act
  
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• YouTube purges tens of millions of comments in crackdown on child sexual exploitation

  22-02-2019 21:38
  YouTube on Thursday cracked down on pedophilic content on the video site by purging tens of millions of comments, which serve as a kind of powerful but overlooked social network.A video blogger this week published a report on YouTube documenting how comments and recommendations on the platform direct users to potentially sexual videos of children, allowing them to participate in a “soft-core pedophile ring,” according to the report. YouTube also terminated more than 400 channels on T
  
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• ‘There’s no cow tipping in Oklahoma City’: One mayor’s T-shirt takedown

  22-02-2019 21:34
  In the 10 months since Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt took office, he has overseen an $800 million street repair project, unveiled a new streetcar route and read stories to Kindergarten students most Fridays.But this week, he announced on social media that he had accomplished a “personal mission” — ending the city airport’s sales of T-shirts that linked Oklahoma to cow tipping.
  For the last decade or so, our redesigned OKC airport has made a beautiful first impression on
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Former Duke star Grayson Allen reacts to Zion Williamson’s shoe exploding

  22-02-2019 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  On Wednesday night, Duke Blue Devils phenom Zion Williamson suffered a bizarre knee injury after his Nike sneaker essentially gave out on him, causing his foot to rip through the shoe and resulting in Williamson slipping. Fortunately, Williamson...
  
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• R. Kelly charged with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse

  22-02-2019 21:09
  Chicago • R. Kelly was charged Friday with 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse, after decades of lurid rumors and allegations that the R&B star was sexually abusing women and underage girls.Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, confirmed to The Associated Press the charges had been filed against the 52-year-old Grammy winner but declined to say the specific number. Media reports said there were 10 counts, all involving underage victims.Over the yea
  
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• What’s No. 2 Gonzaga’s secret? Former Zag Jesse Wade, who transferred to BYU, can sum it up in one word: Togetherness

  22-02-2019 21:03
  Provo • Weird, awkward, strange and surreal.That’s how Jesse Wade describes what it was like back on Jan. 31 when his former college basketball team, Gonzaga, rolled into the Marriott Center and demolished his current team 93-63, the worst home loss in BYU coach Dave Rose’s 14-year tenure.“A year ago, I was on the other side of the court, playing against BYU,” said the 6-foot-1, 175-pound guard. “It was a weird thing. I am not going to lie. It is hard to descri
  
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• [KSL] - The Jazz's best basketball of the season comes after the All-Star break

  22-02-2019 20:47 via sportspyder.com
  Over the last few seasons, Ricky Rubio has found his shot after the All-Star break, but playing your best basketball in the final two months of the season is nothing new for Quin Snyder's Jazz.
  
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• Medical waste company Stericycle is leaving Utah; ‘Hallelujah,’ says eco-activist

  22-02-2019 20:34
  The medical waste disposal company Stericycle has decided to move out of Utah rather than build a new incinerator in Tooele County.Representatives of the Illinois-based company met with officials from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality on Wednesday and informed the state that it would not be moving its dilapidated North Salt Lake incinerator to Tooele County, ending a fight that has raged among the company, the government and environmental activists for six years.“It became evide
  
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• Interstate 15 southbound is shut down after a diesel tanker burst into flames

  22-02-2019 20:20
  Friday’s early-morning commute into Salt Lake City was a mess after a diesel tanker crashed and burst into flames at 1300 South about 1 a.m. on Interstate 15.According to a spokesman for the Salt Lake City Fire Department, the tanker truck — which was carrying 8,000 gallons of fuel — collided with a Honda Civic. The accident caused the truck to roll over onto its side and burst into flames, a fire that took about two hours to extinguish.According to the Utah Highway Patrol, nei
  
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• Tim Tebow makes the Christian movie he’s always wanted to see

  22-02-2019 20:14
  Los Angeles • Tim Tebow, the Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback now readying for his fourth season as a minor-league baseball player, knows that being a good Christian doesn’t solve everything.Even watching Christian movies growing up, Tebow had his doubts when the main character started praying and suddenly everything “was just perfect.”“That’s not real life,” he said. “Life’s not easy.”As executive producers of the new fi
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz visit OKC Thunder as they aim to gain ground in standings

  22-02-2019 20:11 via sportspyder.com
  Can Utah put it’s defensive stamp on tonight’s game and slow down Oklahoma City’s two All Stars?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is on the path to being an influential basketball voice

  22-02-2019 20:11 via sportspyder.com
  Along with on-court highlights, the second-year guard is making off-the-court splashes as well
  
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• Full Utah House to vote on bill requiring that children have the option of a public defender at all court proceedings

  22-02-2019 20:09
  A bill expanding the option of a public defender to children at effectively any and all juvenile court proceedings is headed to the Utah House after a unanimous vote of support by the House Judiciary Committee on Friday.Sponsor Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, said current law has allowed inconsistency throughout the state, leaving children as young as 8 years old to argue on their own behalf in criminal matters.“This bill would assume that a child is indigent and would offer a public defe
  
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• Will the nation’s third-largest church split up over LGBTQ debate? Methodist leaders try to reach an answer.

  22-02-2019 20:00
  In recent years, the deep division over sexuality in the United Methodist Church has led many in the church to use a word they hadn’t heard since their European history classes: schism.A schism, the splitting of a church over irreconcilable differences, has sometimes seemed imminent. Yet in an extraordinary meeting of church leaders in St. Louis that begins Saturday, the 12 million-member denomination will try to reach a plan to hold their church together while also deciding the church&rsq
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Former Duke star Grayson Allen weighs in on Zion Williamson’s sneaker explosion: ‘I’ve never seen anything like that’

  22-02-2019 19:56 via sportspyder.com
  “To bust through your shoe like that, that’s a lot of power to do that,” Allen said. “I’ve never had any issues like that so I was surprised to see that. I wasn’t sure that could...
  
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• Former Duke star Grayson Allen weighs in on Zion Williamson’s sneaker explosion: ‘I’ve never seen anything like that’

  22-02-2019 19:55
  OKLAHOMA CITY — Grayson Allen was glued to the television screen at Donovan Mitchell's home in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night as his alma mater Duke University was matched up against rival North Carolina.There was a bunch of trash talk happening between the former college rivals-turned-Utah Jazz teammates, but just 36 seconds into the game that verbal warfare immediately turned into concern as freshman phenom Zion Williamson collapsed to the ground."Oh, my gosh," Allen said, as he sat u
  
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• One of Utah’s biggest police forces is thinking about dropping body cameras because they cost too much

  22-02-2019 19:54
  The Unified Police Department may discontinue use of body cameras, with administrators pointing to high costs for digital video storage and relatively few officer encounters where footage has been used by investigators.“I’m torn,” said Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera on Thursday, after the department’s governing board tabled the issue for future budget discussions. “If the public’s willing to pay to help keep those, I’m supportive of that. But ...
  
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• Vatican sex abuse summit seeks new culture of accountability

  22-02-2019 19:44
  Vatican City • Cardinals attending Pope Francis’ summit on preventing clergy sex abuse called Friday for a new culture of accountability in the Catholic Church to punish bishops and religious superiors when they fail to protect their flocks from predator priests.On the second day of Francis’ extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders, the debate shifted to how church leaders must acknowledge that decades of their own cover-ups, secrecy and fear of scandal had only worsened the
  
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• Plot lines abound in Saturday’s Utah-UCLA gymnastics showdown at the Huntsman Center

  22-02-2019 19:25
  A defending national championship team, individual champions, Olympians, a seasoned rivalry and a goodbye to a long-time coaching foe. Saturday’s showdown between the fourth-ranked Utah gymnastics team and No. 2 UCLA at 1:30 p.m. in the Huntsman Center has everything a gymnastics fan could want in a meet. The Utah coaches, who often try to stick with the mantra that the Utes are more focused on themselves than the competition, acknowledged that this showdown is special. Coach Tom Farden re
  
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• Utah law now requires seat belts in cars and trucks — but not school buses. Lawmakers advance bill to change that.

  22-02-2019 19:22
  Concern about safety barely outweighed worry about cost as a House committee on Friday advanced a bill to require seat belts on new school buses in Utah. Older buses would not be required to add them.The House Transportation Committee voted 7-4 to send HB168 to the full House. A similar bill was defeated there in 2017 on a 30-40 vote, when members argued school districts could not afford it without cutting other important programs.The new bill’s sponsor, Rep. Craig Hall, R-West Valley City
  
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• 105 earthquakes hit the Bluffdale area in 8 days

  22-02-2019 19:18
  There’s been a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in Bluffdale — literally. According to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the area experienced 105 earthquakes from Feb. 13 through Thursday.(The UUSS updated that number from an earlier report of 102.)The largest earthquake in the area — the “mainshock” — occurred at 5:09 a.m. on Feb 15, registering a 3.7. According to the stations, 13 quakes occurred before that; the largest was a 3.2 foreshoc
  
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• Idaho Falls police officer shot dead when he confronted ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Layton police investigating.

  22-02-2019 19:15
  Layton police say the man who was shot to death Thursday when he allegedly forced his way into a home to confront his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend was an Idaho Falls police officer.Blaine Reed, 35, went to a home near 300 W. Park Avenue at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday “to confront the homeowner about a relationship he believed the homeowner was having with his ex-girlfriend," according to Layton Lt. James Petre. Reed “entered the home uninvited, a physical altercation ensued between
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Donovan Mitchell Reveals His Reaction to Receiving Signature Adidas Sneaker

  22-02-2019 18:34 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star and 2018 NBA slam dunk champion Donovan Mitchell reveals his first signature shoe, for more Crossover TV, subscribe to SI TV.
  
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• [NBA] - The Note: NBA All-Star Weekend with the Utah Jazz social media team

  22-02-2019 18:32 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell scratched his chin and thought for just a second.With press from around the world converging on All-Star Weekend, the players involved get asked all sorts of questions. Mitchell had
  
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• Utes hoping to salvage their Northwest road trip at Washington State, but it won’t be easy. The Cougars are much-improved.

  22-02-2019 18:31
  In January, Washington State’s visit to the Huntsman Center was just what Utah needed after struggling offensively in a loss to Washington.Six weeks later, another meeting with WSU logically is well-timed for the Utes, except for one problem: These are not last month's Cougars.WSU forward Robert Franks is healthy and the Cougars have played some of the Pac-12's best basketball lately, going into Saturday's game at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Wash. They swept the Arizona schools on the roa
  
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• Police: Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited prostitute

  22-02-2019 18:30
  Jupiter, Fla. • Police in Florida have charged New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft with misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution, saying they have videotape of him paying for a sex act inside an illicit massage parlor.Jupiter police told reporters Friday that the 77-year-old Kraft hasn't been arrested. A warrant will be issued and his attorneys will be notified.The charge comes amid a widespread crackdown on sex trafficking in the area surrounding Palm Beach County. About 200 arrest war
  
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• An Arizona officer threatened to arrest a 12-year-old journalist. She wasn’t backing down.

  22-02-2019 18:06
  When a small-town Arizona officer stopped a 12-year-old reporter who was chasing down a story tip on Monday, he probably had no idea what he was getting himself into.Hilde Lysiak, the preteen journalist whose exploits have inspired a Scholastic book series and an upcoming TV show, made a name for herself in 2016 by being the first to report on a grisly murder in her hometown, then firing back at critics who suggested that a 9-year-old girl shouldn't be hanging around crime scenes. Since then, sh
  
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• Who will win Oscars? The Salt Lake Tribune’s movie critic predicts who will take home the gold.

  22-02-2019 18:04
  It’s a wild card year at the Academy Awards, with no one to host the ceremony and no single movie a clear favorite to win Best Picture. The guilds that govern the different disciplines that make movies couldn’t agree on one film. The Producers Guild of America picked the watered-down racial drama “Green Book.” The Screen Actors Guild gave its version of Best Picture to the pan-African glory of “Black Panther,” while the Directors Guild of America presented its
  
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• A teen was told her MAGA hat violates school code. She’s fighting back.

  22-02-2019 17:40
  A California high schooler is challenging her school district, alleging that its decision to ban her from wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat on campus impinges on her First Amendment rights.Clovis North High School senior Maddie Mueller is a member of Valley Patriots. The conservative activist group asked its affiliates to wear the well-known hat bearing President Donald Trump’s campaign motto on Wednesday. Mueller said that officials at the Fresno school told her the school dress co
  
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