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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Live: Jazz take on Knicks Wednesday night at MSG

  20-03-2019 23:57 via sportspyder.com
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• Lyft makes moves to attract Utah drivers who don’t even own cars or want more help with environmentally friendly vehicles.

  20-03-2019 23:49
  The ride-sharing firm Lyft announced two moves Wednesday to help it attract more Salt Lake City area drivers — including people who don’t own cars and those who need help to drive more environmentally friendly vehicles.The San Francisco-based company opened a new local headquarters in what was once an old gas station owned by Rocky Mountain Power for company vehicles in its campus around a power plant on North Temple at 1300 West — and announced a partnership with that company
  
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• Trump attacks McCain again, saying he didn’t get ‘thank-you’ for approving funeral

  20-03-2019 23:45
  Washington • President Donald Trump continued Wednesday to attack the late Sen. John McCain, even as a growing number of Republican senators rose to McCain’s defense, calling him a war hero and a patriot — although most were careful not to criticize the president directly.During a White House event at a manufacturing facility in Lima, Ohio, on Wednesday, Trump lashed out at McCain, saying, "I endorsed him at his request, and I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as pre
  
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• Live: Jazz take on Knicks Wednesday night at MSG

  20-03-2019 23:30
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• [ESPN] - Jazz's Mitchell: Challenges caught me off guard

  20-03-2019 23:27 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell says he was initially caught off guard to begin his second season and credited his turnaround to teammates and the sage advice of several of the NBA's best players.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Safeguarding the Public Trust

  20-03-2019 23:21
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, March 21, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/19/bagley-cartoon-strong/" target=_blank><u>A Strong Leader</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/18/bagley-cartoon-trumps/"><u>Trump’s Following</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/13/bagle
  
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• Utah city tables vote on plastic bag ban for 6 months

  20-03-2019 22:57
  Logan • The vote on a plastic bag ban in a northern Utah city has been tabled for six months to allow officials to develop a plastic waste reduction program for the entire county.The Herald Journal reports Logan Municipal Council members on Tuesday voted on the motion 4 to 1, with the original sponsor of the ban, Herm Olsen, voting against tabling it.Although Olsen did not support the motion, he says he prefers the option of tabling it to having the ban be defeated.Cache County Executive Cr
  
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• Pierce: TV team of Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas think there may be NCAA upsets in SLC. And they think USU will win.

  20-03-2019 22:21
  For the second time in three years, Andrew Catalon and Steve Lappas are in Salt Lake City to call first- and second-round NCAA tournament games on . And the sportscasters think things might be different this time.In 2017, there were no upsets here.“I'm not saying there's going to be upsets this time,” Lappas said, “but there certainly is potential.”• New Mexico State (12) vs. Auburn (5) — “They’ve been in the tournament now three years in a row,&rdq
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Therapists unite in a quest for common ground on divisive LGBTQ issues from conversion therapy to mixed-orientation marriages

  20-03-2019 21:57
  The recently completed session of the Utah Legislature appeared poised to ban so-called conversion therapy, barring therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation of minors.The bill had not one but two Republicans championing it and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — seen as a potential stumbling block — had taken a neutral stance on the measure.But conservatives hijacked the bill and watered it down beyond recognition.The clash highlighted once again the divi
  
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• Lyft makes moves to help hire Utah drivers who don’t even own cars, or want more help with environmentally friendly vehicles.

  20-03-2019 21:54
  The ride-sharing firm Lyft announced two moves Wednesday to help it hire more Salt Lake area drivers — including people who don’t own cars and those who need help to drive more environmentally friendly vehicles.The San Francisco-based company opened a new local headquarters in what was once an old gas station owned by Rocky Mountain Power for company vehicles in its campus around a power plant on North Temple at 1300 West — and announced a partnership with that company to conve
  
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• Northeastern has the makings of a Cinderella story at Vivint Smart Home Arena. Will the slipper fit?

  20-03-2019 21:53
  March exists for the absolute stunners, the underdogs, the most clutch of clutch shots, that uncanny momentum that some team, playing somewhere around the country, can immediately cultivate in a matter of 40 minutes. Salt Lake City has welcomed March Madness back to its streets and with it eight random teams from around college basketball who all believe their march to Saturday, next weekend and beyond starts here beneath the shadow of the snowcapped mountains.Each spring SLC plays host, the sam
  
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• Monson: Looking for a team to root for as Salt Lake City hosts the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament? Meet the New Mexico State Aggies.

  20-03-2019 21:46
  If you’re bored with Gonzaga and don’t really care about Kansas or Syracuse, if you think Auburn should stick to football and you have no clue what or where Fairleigh Dickinson is, and you’re just plain looking for a team for which to root during the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament here in Salt Lake City, we’ve got the one. A team for you to dial in on, to watch, to adopt. Your team.The New Mexico State Aggies.Not only are these guys lovable underdogs, a 12-seed f
  
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• ‘It’s finally over’: Latter-day Saint missionaries deported from Russia are returning to the United States

  20-03-2019 21:46
  Washington • Two missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been detained for nearly three weeks in Russia have been released and are returning to the United States, the church announced Wednesday morning.Kole Brodowski, 20, and David Gaag, 19, had spent about 19 days in detention after Russian authorities arrested them on suspicion of teaching English without a license, a charge the faith had denied. Missionaries for the church are not allowed to proselytize i
  
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• ‘I don’t think I can unify the party effectively’: Rob Anderson will not seek a second term as Utah GOP chairman

  20-03-2019 21:45
  Rob Anderson, the embattled chairman of a divided Utah Republican Party, will not seek re-election to a second term after two years dominated by an ongoing and costly intraparty battle over the state’s election laws.Anderson told The Tribune on Wednesday that he made the decision to step down last week, based in part on the “solid resistance” to his calls for unity after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the party’s lawsuit against the state, challenging a 2014 l
  
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• The flu has killed four Utah children. And the latest wave of illnesses might not subside soon.

  20-03-2019 21:41
  Four children have died from the flu in Utah since October — nearly double the average annual number of pediatric flu deaths for the past decade, health officials confirmed Wednesday.And with a new wave of the illness, the threat may not subside for weeks."We would still encourage people to get a flu shot," said Jenny Johnson, spokeswoman for the Utah Department of Health. "We still have a couple of months left in the flu season ... and the strain can change again. Even if you do get sick
  
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• Devonta’e Henry-Cole wants a bigger piece of Utah’s offensive pie this season. He may get it, especially if Armand Shyne departs.

  20-03-2019 21:23
  The Hallandale Trio will be restored this season, wearing Nos. 1, 2 and 3 for Utah's offense. That's because No. 7 is coming back, and the potential departure of No. 6 will give him more opportunity to play.The numbers game remains a challenge for Devonta’e Henry-Cole, at his position. He missed the 2018 season with a wrist injury and easily could be overlooked in the analysis of Utah’s running backs, with Zack Moss deferring his NFL ambitions to play as a senior and several promisin
  
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• Former Downtown Community Council leader Christian Harrison enters crowded race for Salt Lake City mayor

  20-03-2019 21:14
  After wrapping up 13 years as chair of the Downtown Community Council in early January, Christian Harrison announced Wednesday that he’s ready to take on a larger role in the community at his campaign launch Wednesday for Salt Lake City mayor.Harrison, 46, made his announcement in front of City Hall on the first day of spring for a reason, he said — to reflect his “bold, constructive optimism” for a better city.“We’re all going to talk about the inland port,&r
  
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• Trump escalates feud with spouse of Kellyanne Conway

  20-03-2019 21:00
  (Adriana Usero | The Washington Post)George Conway, conservative lawyer and husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, is a frequent critic of President Donald Trump. Washington • President Donald Trump on Wednesday escalated his feud with the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, calling him a “wack job” and “husband from hell” who is hurting his wife and family.Trump's broadside against George Conway, a conservative lawyer and frequent critic o
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz go for five straight wins as they visit New York Knicks

  20-03-2019 20:54 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz enter MSG needing to extend their win streak to keep up in the standings
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: Before getting injured again, Jazz’s Dante Exum spoke about the need to keep his head up through the struggles

  20-03-2019 20:53 via sportspyder.com
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on all things Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.
  
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• Free-fare experiment attracted tens of thousands of new riders, agency says

  20-03-2019 20:40
  The Utah Transit Authority found a quick way to increase ridership: offer free fares throughout its bus and train system.UTA and partners offered free fare days on Feb. 28 and March 1, a Thursday and Friday. Interim Executive Director Steve Meyer told the UTA Board on Wednesday that free rides attracted an extra 20,000 passengers the first day, and 29,000 on the second.“That's about a 16 percent total overall ridership increase,” Meyer said. “Buses saw about a 10 percent increa
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Before getting injured again, Jazz’s Dante Exum spoke about the need to keep his head up through the struggles

  20-03-2019 20:27
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on all things Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.It was last Thursday against Minnesota that Jazz point guard Dante Exum’s latest comeback from injury was cut short by another injury — this time, a partially torn patellar tendon in his right knee.He was cleared on March 8 to return to practice, and then on March 11, hours before facing Oklahoma City, he met with a select few members of the media to discuss his rehab of and retu
  
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• Rylan Jones of Olympus High named Gatorade Utah Player of the Year for boys basketball

  20-03-2019 20:26
  Olympus High point guard Rylan Jones has enjoyed plenty of accolades over his time as a Titan. Now he can add one more to the trophy case.Jones was named the Gatorade Utah Player of the Year in boys basketball for the second straight year last week after leading his team in virtually every statistical category in his senior year. He averaged 21.2 points, 8.3 assists, 8.3 assists, eight rebounds and three steals.Jones won the Gatorade award last year after leading his team to a Class 5A state tit
  
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• Huston, Zeuner, Schaar head 1st U.S. skateboarding team

  20-03-2019 20:23
  Vista, Calif. • There’s always been a rebelliousness and a bit of an attitude to skateboarding, and now there’s credibility.That's what being added to the Olympics will do for a sport, and that was the vibe when USA Skateboarding announced its first-ever national team of eight men and eight women, including stars Nyjah Huston, Brighton Zeuner and Tom Schaar."I think that skateboarding is fully legitimate," Josh Friedberg, CEO of USA Skateboarding said Tuesday, when the national
  
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• Trump could be left off some states’ ballots in 2020 if these bills become law

  20-03-2019 20:02
  Washington • In refusing to release his tax returns, President Donald Trump bucked decades of tradition and set off a Democrat hunt to obtain them. Now several statehouses are looking at making their release a condition of the 2020 presidential election: Show us your tax returns, or you can’t be on the ballot.Eighteen states have considered legislation this year that would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to post their tax returns to appear on the ballot during a
  
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• Trial date expected in Utah’s massive Brian Head wildfire

  20-03-2019 20:00
  St. George • A lawyer for a Utah man charged with accidentally starting a massive wildfire says he will likely get a trial date this year.Robert Lyman’s attorney tells KUTV that the defense has been in discussion with prosecutors about setting a trial date on misdemeanor charges of reckless burning and burning without a permit.A judge decided last September that the trial would happen in Provo, saying Lyman wouldn’t be able to get a fair trial in southern Utah.Andrew Deiss says
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Knicks take on the Jazz for cross-conference contest

  20-03-2019 19:35 via sportspyder.com
  New York and Utah meet in non-conference action
  
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• Federal judge casts doubt on Trump’s drilling plans because they ignore climate change

  20-03-2019 19:06
  (Jenny Starrs | The Washington Post) Scientists say global warming nears an irreversible level, President Trump has been promoting business growth instead of climate change.Washington • A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West.The decision by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras of Washington marks the first time the Trump administration has been held to acc
  
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• Come NCAA tourney time, teams face a litany of challenges: For eight seed USU, it’s Washington’s vaunted 2-3 zone

  20-03-2019 19:01
  Craig Smith is quick to remind folks that Friday night will be game No. 35 for his group. And when you get this deep into your season, there’s a reason you’re now starring on the national stage, on national TV, with just a shot to make a run at the whole thing.“There’s not much we haven’t seen,” he said.He’s right, too. The Utah State Aggies are motoring along at 28-6, as Mountain West Conference regular-season champs and tournament champs, winners of 17
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell thinks Utah’s rare kind of chemistry will be a future recruiting tool

  20-03-2019 17:38 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA has become a league where teams with multiple superstars usually end up winning the title. That being said, the ability of a franchise to recruit a marquee free agent has gone beyond the scope of the front office. In order to make a big...
  
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• Latter-day Saint missionaries in Russia deported, returning to the United States

  20-03-2019 17:30
  Washington • Two missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been detained in Russia have been released and are returning to the United States, the church announced Wednesday morning.Kole Brodowski, 20, and David Gaag, 19, had spent nearly three weeks in detention after Russian authorities arrested them on suspicion of teaching English without a license, a charge the faith had denied. Missionaries for the church are not allowed to legally proselytize in Russia a
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Don’t be surprised when the road goes from intolerance to butchery

  20-03-2019 17:12
  People always seem surprised in moments like this. Always shocked.But they have no right to be. After all, the road goes where the road goes. If you travel southbound U.S. 1 long enough, you are not surprised to end up in Key West. If you stay on northbound Interstate 5 long enough, you are not surprised to end up in Canada.And if you denigrate, demonize and dehumanize long enough, you ought not be surprised to end up in bloodshed.That is arguably the signature lesson of human history, but someh
  
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• U.S. official declares drought plan done for Colorado River

  20-03-2019 17:07
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Seven states that rely on a major waterway in the U.S. West have finished a yearslong effort to create a plan to protect the Colorado River amid a prolonged drought, the federal government declared Tuesday.U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman commended Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming for reaching a consensus on the Colorado River drought contingency plan. Now the states are seeking approval from Congress to implement it."It is ti
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell plans to join dunk contest again, but unsure as to when

  20-03-2019 17:05 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell won the 2018 Slam Dunk contest last year, but did not defend his title this season to focus on the team’s playoff push. The sophomore forward has undoubtedly become the heart and soul of the franchise, and will look...
  
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• Dana Milbank: Devin Nunes is having a cow, man

  20-03-2019 16:52
  Washington • It is rare that a leader takes the bull by the horns and corrals support for a cause in which all Americans have a steak.I'm not referring to Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang's cutting-edge decision to oppose circumcision, though voters may reward his foresight in defense of foreskin.No, today I celebrate Rep. Devin Nunes of California, top Republican on the Intelligence Committee and close Trump ally, who has just shown the world that he has the chops to sue a cow
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Beto, Biden and Bernie: The B-Boys and the media’s dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy

  20-03-2019 16:46
  As amorous embraces go, few could be more ardent than the one Beto O'Rourke got this month from Vanity Fair magazine.The perfectly timed cover treatment was the full monty: Rugged-glam photo by the legendary Annie Leibovitz, the former Texas congressman's earnest Kennedy-esque gaze, and the ripe-for-parody headline including this immortal quote: "I'm just born to be in it."Most Americans wouldn’t see the magazine itself, of course, but the rest of the news media — including network e
  
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• [Fansided: Sir Charles In Charge] - NBA: Adam Silver and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

  20-03-2019 16:40 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA has had an interesting past seven days, but what role does Adam Silver play in what has happened in the last week? The NBA has had a very interesti...
  
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• Commentary: More Utahns, no thanks to politicians, now have access to health care

  20-03-2019 16:40
  As we near April 1, we wait for word on whether the federal government will approve the first in series of waivers and allow Utah to implements its Medicaid “bridge” program before potentially moving to the partial expansion approved in Senate Bill 96, the Utah Legislature’s bill to replace the Proposition 3 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid.If we had simply stuck with Prop 3, we would know what was about to happen, and a lot more people would be getting covered. But whateve
  
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• San Francisco pays $13.1 million to man framed for murder

  20-03-2019 16:35
  San Francisco • A man who spent more than six years in prison after police framed him for murder received a $13.1 million settlement from the city of San Francisco on Tuesday.The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by Jamal Trulove. The settlement was part of the board's consent calendar and was approved without comment.San Francisco's city attorney and Trulove's lawyers negotiated terms of the settlement before it was presented to the board for app
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Childhood injury steered Donovan Mitchell’s career toward basketball instead of baseball

  20-03-2019 16:34 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell has blossomed into one of the NBA’s young stars over his first two seasons in the league. But what if he had pursued a different sport entirely? When asked by Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype whether he believed he’d been...
  
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• Letter: A question about Utah’s new beer law

  20-03-2019 16:28
  In this now-past session of the Utah Legislature, our masters knew what was best for us on several voter initiatives, and overruled them to fit their ideas instead of voters. And a couple of laws were passed to appease the LDS Corp.One of those laws was to allow real beer to be sold in Utah in grocery stores and convenience stores. Nationally 3.2 percent alcohol beer is being discontinued, the maximum Utah would allow, outside of the overpriced state liquor stores.Legislators, about 90 percent o
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Donovan Mitchell Q&A: 'I hold myself to a high standard so I was upset with my first three months'

  20-03-2019 15:54 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell on his recent success, future in the Dunk Contest, film study, how close he came to pursuing a pro baseball career and more.
  
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• Federal judge casts doubt on Trump’s drilling plans across the U.S. because they ignore climate change

  20-03-2019 15:41
  Washington • A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing out west.The decision by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Rudolph Contreras marks the first time the Trump administration has been held to account for the climate impact of its energy dominance agenda, and it could have sweeping implications for the president’s plan to boost fossil fuel pro
  
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• Donovan Mitchell Q&A: 'I hold myself to a high standard so I was upset with my first three months'

  20-03-2019 15:37
  After an early-season slump, Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell completely turned around his play when the calendar flipped to 2019. “Lately, he’s been one of the best two-guards in the league,” teammate Rudy Gobert recently told HoopsHype, Over the last 29 games, the sophomore is averaging 27.5 points, 5.0 assists, 4.6 rebounds, 2.7 threes and 1.1 steals while shooting 44.4 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from deep.
  HoopsHype caught up with Mitchell to disc
  
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• FOX 13 has new owners. The station is sold to Scripps.

  20-03-2019 15:21
  As expected, FOX 13 has been sold — twice. After its parent company was acquired by the Nexstar Media Group, KSTU-Channel 13 and seven other stations were sold to the E.W. Scripps Co. for a total of $580 million to comply with FCC regulations.KSTU vice president and general manager Tim Ermish said his station “is excited to join one of the most prestigious broadcasters with a long history of excellence in independent journalism.”After a failed attempt by Sinclair Broadcasting (
  
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• Real Salt Lake tries to take positives from ugly loss against D.C. United

  20-03-2019 15:12
  Herriman • Tuesday morning before training, Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke showed his team the tape of the first 30 minutes against D.C. United. It was the only period of the game that felt good for RSL after a string of unfortunate events led to an ugly 5-0 loss.In the days after a game that personified Murphy’s law, RSL’s players were more focused on looking ahead to this Saturday at Los Angeles Football Club rather than looking back. But for some, it seemed the sting of expe
  
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• God, country and chickenpox: How an outbreak entangled one school in a vaccine showdown

  20-03-2019 15:07
  Bill Kunkel used to vaccinate his kids, before he read where some vaccines come from.He is skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry's motives and came across anti-vaxxer theories online, though they aren't supported by science. But his main objection is about abortion. Decades ago, cells were taken from legally aborted fetuses to create some vaccines. Kunkel is Catholic. Vaccines derived from an abortion are, in his mind but not the church's, immoral.So he and his wife chose not to vaccinate the
  
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