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• Salt Lake City’s fire department is 91 percent white. A job fair aimed to attract minorities and refugees to city jobs.

  23-03-2019 23:56
  Musa Abdullah has fought fires and would like to make a career of it.“To be a firefighter is to help people,” said Abdullah, a 24-year-old immigrant from Sudan who has lived in Salt Lake City for the last five years.The process to be a Salt Lake City firefighter can take years, so in the meantime, Abdullah was one of dozens of people who showed up to a job fair Saturday at the Horizonte Instruction and Training Center.The event, organized by Salt Lake City, allowed job seekers to fin
  
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• Utah’s Rep. Stewart says he’s ‘relieved’ by Mueller finishing probe and doesn’t expect any bombshells

  23-03-2019 23:52
  Washington • Rep. Chris Stewart, a Utah Republican who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said Saturday that the special counsel's report should be made public to help clear the names of President Donald Trump and those in his orbit who have been accused of treasonous behavior without proof.Stewart, appearing on CNN, said he hasn’t seen the report by special counsel Robert Mueller, who submitted a written document to the attorney general on Friday. But Stewart said he doesn&rsq
  
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• Utah Jazz face ‘must-win’ in Chi-Town: Preview, comment stream

  23-03-2019 23:46
  The Utah Jazz can’t afford to get complacent against Lauri Markkanen and the lottery-bound Chicago Bulls, winners of back-to-back games. In NBA circles — and as a general rule in all sports — the term “must-win” gets thrown around entirely too often. If you rewind back to December when the Utah Jazz were struggling to […]
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• BYU defeats Auburn 73-64 in first round of NCAA women’s basketball tournament

  23-03-2019 23:22
  Stanford, Calif. • Brenna Chase scored 19 points and Shaylee Gonzales scored 17 to lead BYU to a 73-64 win over Auburn in a first round game of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament on Saturday.The Cougars (26-6) advance to play the winner of the UC Davis-Stanford game on Monday.BYU built a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter, then saw the Tigers (22-10) rally to make it close.Auburn cut the lead to four before the Cougars held on for the win.Caitlyn Alldredge scored 14 for BYU.Jania
  
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• Review: DC’s ‘Shazam!’ finds the fun side of a superhero origin story

  23-03-2019 23:05
  Maybe Warner Bros. Pictures, keeper of the DC Comics movie legacy, is finally figuring out that comic-book movies are supposed to be fun, and the delightfully loopy, happily exuberant “Shazam!” is the beneficiary.The story takes the wish-fulfillment story every adolescent comic-book reader asks — wouldn’t it be cool to be a superhero? — and takes it to its mostabsurd conclusion. After all, how complicated would life get for a 14-year-old who suddenly became a superh
  
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• Arizona State out in front after first session of Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships

  23-03-2019 22:51
  Arizona State finished its rotation with a big vaulting effort to hold the lead in the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championships Saturday after the first session in the Maverik Center in West Valley City.Second-ranked UCLA, sixth-ranked Utah, No. 14 Oregon State and No. 16 California compete in the evening session that starts at 6 p.m.The Bruins are the defending champions. The meet is televised on the Pac-12 Networks.ASU was the sixth seed, but scored a 49.125 to finish the afternoon in first.The winner
  
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• Tribune editorial: The Utah Compact remains timely, unfortunately

  23-03-2019 22:00
  FEDERAL SOLUTIONS Immigration is a federal policy issue between the U.S. government and other countries — not Utah and other countries. We urge Utah’s congressional delegation, and others, to lead efforts to strengthen federal laws and protect our national borders. We urge state leaders to adopt reasonable policies addressing immigrants in Utah. LAW ENFORCEMENT We respect the rule of law and support law enforcement’s professional judgment and discretion. Local law enforcement r
  
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• Police: Knife-wielding man shot in encounter with officers

  23-03-2019 21:36
  Harrisville, Utah • Harrisville police say a man was hospitalized in critical condition after being shot multiple times during an encounter with officers responding to a report of domestic disturbance.The Harrisville Police Department says the man was wielding a knife in each hand when confronted Saturday by officers from several local police agencies and that he was shot after he advanced on officers and use of a stun gun failed to stop him.No identities were released.The incident will be
  
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• Jake Lindsey is home with his Baylor team during the NCAA Tournament, so what lies ahead now that his playing days are done? More basketball, he hopes.

  23-03-2019 20:24
  When the security guard stepped aside, allowing members of the media to invade the Baylor locker room inside Vivint Smart Home Arena, the first player seen seated in front of their locker was Jake Lindsey. Like all his teammates, he was scrolling through his phone, sneakers laced up, his practice gear on, ready to get out onto the court and prepare for No. 1 seed Gonzaga. Life and basketball are symbiotic for Lindsey, the former Olympus High star who went on to play at his father’s alma ma
  
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• Commentary: U. takes careful steps toward medical cannabis use

  23-03-2019 20:22
  There is more that science doesn’t know about cannabis than what it does know. This includes CBD and THC, compounds in cannabis that may offer medical benefits.There have been few high-quality scientific studies on cannabis. Most of what is offered as evidence for the medical benefits of cannabis is really a collection of subjective patient reports. These reports haven’t received scientific scrutiny — the kind of scrutiny that is standard in bringing prescription drugs to the U
  
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• Barbra Streisand under fire for Michael Jackson remarks

  23-03-2019 20:11
  New York • Barbra Streisand is coming under intense criticism on social media for telling a British newspaper that two men who say they were molested as children by Michael Jackson were “thrilled to be there” and that the alleged abuse “didn’t kill them.”In a wide-ranging interview with the Times of London, Streisand was quoted as saying she "absolutely" believed the accusers, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who make their allegations in the recent HBO documen
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Timid Herbert washes his hands of EnergySolutions bill

  23-03-2019 19:48
  “When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.”— Matthew 27:24 (King James Version)The process that Gov. Gary Herbert used to allow House Bill 220 — the measure opening the door to the eternal storage of ever-more-dangerous substances at the EnergySolutions facility in Tooele County — to become law withou
  
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• Attorney general preparing a set of conclusions from Mueller report but isn’t expected to finish that work Saturday

  23-03-2019 19:37
  Attorney General William Barr spent Saturday reviewing special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his investigation into President Donald Trump and Russian election interference, but does not plan to release the conclusions on Saturday, a senior Justice Department official said.Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were at the Justice Department Saturday morning, where they were reviewing Mueller's report and working on a summary of conclusions to provide to lawmakers.A Justice D
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz look to get back on track against the Chicago Bulls

  23-03-2019 19:05 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz have to avoid another spoiler loss
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 186: NBA Western Conference March Madness; Captain Marvel

  23-03-2019 17:23 via sportspyder.com
  This week in NBA Western Conference Madness - Seeds 5-8 are in a dead heat. College Basketball's March Madness is under way. Captain Marvel reviews.
  
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• ‘If you took it all in in one day, it would kill you’: What Mueller’s investigation has already revealed

  23-03-2019 17:04
  Washington • He pulled back the curtain on a sophisticated Kremlin hacking operation — identifying by name the 12 Russian military officers who he said sought to sway a U.S. election.He exposed a Russian online influence campaign — bringing criminal charges against the 13 members of a Russian troll farm now accused of trying to manipulate U.S. voters and sow division through fake social media personae.And he revealed how those closest to President Donald Trump defrauded banks, c
  
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• Utahn Nathan Chen produces spectacular free skate to win gold at worlds

  23-03-2019 16:52
  Saitama, Japan • Defending champion Nathan Chen produced a spectacular free skate on Saturday to win the gold medal at the figure skating world championships.First after the short program, the 19-year-old Chen made no mistakes and landed four quadruple jumps to set a record score in the free skate with 216.02 points for a total of 323.42.Chen opened with a quad lutz and followed with a quad flip. The U.S. national champion then added two quad toeloops, one in combination, to solidify his le
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Walden: Sorry, but the unpredictability of the NBA stretch run just can’t make me forget about the inevitability of another Warriors title

  23-03-2019 16:47 via sportspyder.com
  Did you ever watch the TV series “Bones”? I never did when it was on the air, but I had enough people subsequently recommend it to me — on account of my known affinity for mind-numbingly predictable cop dramedies — that I’ve binge-watched a bit on...
  
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• Lawyer’s office shot at after cop’s acquittal in teen death

  23-03-2019 16:44
  Pittsburg • Gunshots were fired overnight through the window of the attorney who defended a white police officer acquitted Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager.But police around Pittsburgh said there were otherwise no reports of arrests or property damage following the verdict that left Antwon Rose II's family distraught but not surprised at the jury's decision, they said.Patrick Thomassey told WTAE-TV he was called after midnight about the shots fired into the Monroevi
  
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• Walden: Sorry, but the unpredictability of the NBA stretch run just can’t make me forget about the inevitability of another Warriors title

  23-03-2019 16:30
  Did you ever watch the TV series “Bones”? I never did when it was on the air, but I had enough people subsequently recommend it to me — on account of my known affinity for mind-numbingly predictable cop dramedies — that I’ve binge-watched a bit on Hulu over the last few months.My assessment? Well … it’s a mind-numbingly predictable cop dramedy, with an over-reliance upon impossibly kitschy personality quirks to differentiate between all the one-note cha
  
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• TV’s newest vampires are freaky — and freakin’ hilarious

  23-03-2019 16:14
  TV’s latest set of vampires kill a lot of people in gruesome fashion. They’re frightening to look at. They threaten the existence of humanity.But mostly, they’re hilarious.“What We Do in the Shadows,” which premieres Wednesday on FX, is one of the strangest things to hit TV this season. Based on the 2014 movie of the same title, it’s about four vampires who share a home on Staten Island. Housemates for centuries, they’re clearly on each others’ ner
  
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• Demolition clears way for ‘striking’ new buildings and more affordable housing on Salt Lake City’s 400 South

  23-03-2019 16:13
  Demolition is underway at the high-profile corner of Salt Lake City's 400 South and 300 East to make way for a major addition of housing and retail outlets.To be known as The Exchange, the $110 million project will include two new multistory, mixed-use buildings with a combined 412 dwellings between them, about 80 of which will be kept affordable to residents making half the city’s median income.The development, set to occupy nearly half that block when completed, replaces the former Barne
  
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• Letter: Why all the gun shows in God’s Utah?

  23-03-2019 14:00
  Why does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which they proclaim is the only true church of God on Earth, and the LDS Legislature, not favor any gun control? Why do they allow “gun shows” in our state and advertise this event again right now with billboards along I-15?The next gun show will be on April 6-7 at the same time as the LDS Church’s worldwide conference. All the conference visitors from all over the world can see what this “God”-controlled sta
  
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• Letter: Utah Legislature is the greatest collection of clowns since Barnum and Bailey

  23-03-2019 14:00
  Once again, since the demise of the Barnum and Bailey and Ringling Bros. Circus, the Utah Legislature has shown it’s the greatest collection of clowns in the United States.Greg Fraser, TaylorsvilleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: There’s no way to ban guns in the U.S.

  23-03-2019 14:00
  After every mass shooting, the bleeding hearts come out of the woodwork demanding to ban guns.Really? And how do you propose to do it?With well over 350 million guns in the United States, there is no way to recall all of the weapons. Even if 50 percent were able to be successfully turned in, I would bet the other 50 percent would have “mysteriously” been lost or claimed to be stolen, but in reality hidden by their owners.Mass shootings are tragic, but loss of guns is not the answer.
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City mayor’s chief of staff, Patrick Leary, should consider running

  23-03-2019 14:00
  My wife and I were disappointed to learn of Jackie Biskupski’s decision not to run again for Salt Lake City mayor. Even though we live in Ogden, we have heard her speak at various events and have followed her as she has done a wonderful job as mayor.We have also heard her chief of staff, Patrick Leary, speak at various events. To us, Leary’s background as chief of staff to Biskupski, and jobs prior to working for the mayor, speak volumes for the job he would do as Salt Lake City mayo
  
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• Letter: President shows he has no class

  23-03-2019 14:00
  I’m extremely disappointed that our president continues to disrespect 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, who risked his life for his country and honorably served as a U.S. Navy pilot and U.S. senator from Arizona.President Donald Trump seems to take joy at the expense of others, which serves no good for our country. It clearly shows his propensity for pettiness and calamity. He can only hope to be honored and respected as well as McCain.Whether he agreed or disagreed with McCain
  
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• Letter: One-party power corrupts the Utah Legislature

  23-03-2019 14:00
  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Creighton in 1887.We in Utah see it every year when the Legislature meets for its 45-day romp assaulting the basic tenets of democracy. Also in special sessions and often behind closed doors throughout the year.The oft-repeated and most current references to their abuse of power are, of course, the way they gave the (symbolic hand gesture inserted here) to Propositions 2 and 3. (They haven&rs
  
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• Letter: It’s President Trump who would copy Venezuela

  23-03-2019 14:00
  President Donald Trump is raising the canard that the U.S. will turn into a failed communist state like Venezuela if Democrats win the next presidential election.I find it ironic then that while Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is unleashing motorcycle gangs, the “colectivos,” to harass and terrify his opposition, Trump is claiming on Breitbart that his supporters, including “Bikers for Trump,” have not been playing as tough as the left, “until they go to
  
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• Rich Lowry: Why Elizabeth Warren is wrong about the Electoral College

  23-03-2019 13:45
  Elizabeth Warren, the pointy end of the spear of Democratic radicalism, has called for the end of the Electoral College."My view," she said at a CNN town hall, "is that every vote matters. And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting and that means get rid of the Electoral College."Her statement elicited the support of other 2020 candidates. The same people who complain daily about Donald Trump violating norms are now openly advocating eliminating the Electoral College
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Don’t pity Theresa May. She’s the worst prime minister in living memory.

  23-03-2019 13:30
  "She was dealt a bad hand." "She took a poisoned chalice." From a great distance, it is possible to feel sorry for British Prime Minister Theresa May. She seems so dignified. She seems to be trying so hard. The circles beneath her eyes have grown so much deeper since she became prime minister back in 2016, following the surprise result of the Brexit referendum, the resignation of her hapless predecessor, David Cameron, and an ugly leadership squabble, during which several of her male colleagues
  
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• Bar fight breaks out as a dozen businesses boycott Red Rock over fight for stronger beer in Utah

  23-03-2019 13:00
  For more than two weeks, owners of at least a dozen Utah bars have been staging a beer boycott — refusing to sell products made by Salt Lake City’s Red Rock Brewing Co.This craft beer brawl stems from comments made during a March 6 legislative hearing on SB132 — the proposal that would allow higher-alcohol beer in grocery and convenience stores.Red Rock founder Bob Jensen — who was one of several brewery owners opposing the measure — told a Utah House committee that
  
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• Ishaan Tharoor: The history that fuels right-wing terrorism

  23-03-2019 12:30
  Video: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on March 21 announced plans to ban military-style semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles following the Christchurch attacks. (Drea Cornejo/The Washington Post)
  Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist suspected of killing at least 50 people last week in two New Zealand mosques, saw his murderous rampage as part of a morbid historical fantasy.On his drive into the city of Christchurch, he listened to a nationalist Serb song that glorified Radovan K
  
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• NBA Daily: Finding Julius Randle A Permanent Home

  23-03-2019 10:07 via basketballinsiders.com
  Julius Randle will be highly sought-after this offseason following his career-year in New Orleans -- but where might the talented power forward end up?
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Bulls host the Jazz in cross-conference matchup

  23-03-2019 08:19 via sportspyder.com
  Chicago and Utah meet in non-conference action
  
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• ‘The watchword is transparency’: Democrats ready to fight for Mueller’s complete findings

  23-03-2019 05:30
  Washington • House Democrats, concerned that President Donald Trump’s attorney general may withhold evidence of wrongdoing uncovered by special counsel Robert Mueller, are preparing for potential battle over access to the full contents of Mueller’s newly completed report, vowing to pursue it and any underlying investigative materials in court if necessary."We will fight" for the full report, said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, emphasizin
  
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• BYU files appeal, plans to fight to keep its police department as state seeks unprecedented decertification

  23-03-2019 02:46
  Brigham Young University is calling the state’s efforts to eliminate its police department an “extreme and unprecedented action” — and requested that officials withdraw their plans to decertify, and if not, vowed to fight.The private university’s assertions came Friday afternoon in its formal appeal filed with the Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS), which announced last month that it wants to sanction BYU’s police department for several violations.The unpr
  
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• Washington knocks Utah State out of NCAA Tournament in first round, 78-61

  23-03-2019 02:16
  Columbus, Ohio • Utah State rattled off 10 consecutive victories to close out the regular season and Mountain West Tournament, but fell short in the first round of the NCAA Tournament 78-61 to Washington.The Aggies wrap up the season with an impressive 26-9 record but are still searching for their first NCAA tourney victory since defeating Ohio State 18 years ago. Washington improves to 27-8 and advances to the second round of the tournament against either No. 1 North Carolina or No. 16 Ion
  
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• Monson: Salt Lake City is the place Cinderella comes to die

  23-03-2019 01:27
  And so, the Cinderella stories end in Salt Lake City.There are none.Not this year, not at Vivint Arena, and mostly not in these first couple of rounds of the NCAA Tournament, though No. 13 seed UC Irvine laid claim to a piece of the action Friday with a win over fourth-seeded Kansas State.Here, though, the ugly stepsisters win and the would-be sweethearts of the ball go back home to clean the house.Here the bullies survive, if that’s the word, facing off on Saturday in the second round &md
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert signs bill that aims to end Down syndrome-based abortions in Utah

  23-03-2019 01:26
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has signed off on a measure that could ultimately ban abortions performed solely because of a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis.The prohibition is on hold because of the probability that it would be challenged on constitutional grounds and will only kick in if courts uphold similar restrictions in another state.Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, has said she sponsored the measure as a safeguard against social engineering, and the Legislature approved it over the objections
  
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• Stallions take to the road once again, this time visiting San Antonio to take on the Commanders

  23-03-2019 01:11
  Fresh off a big home win over Memphis last weekend, the Salt Lake Stallions take to the road again Saturday to face the Western Conference-leading San Antonio Commanders (4-2) in the Alamo city.After fits and starts, Salt Lake (2-4) finally played something resembling a complete game in last week’s 22-9 win over the Express at Rice-Eccles Stadium.On offense, Stallions quarterback Josh Woodrum threw a pair of touchdown passes to tight ends Nick Truesdell and Anthony Denham. Woodrum has now
  
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• Wife from ‘Three Wives, One Husband’ recovering after crash; her baby was stillborn

  23-03-2019 01:04
  Lydia Compton Foster, one of the plural wives on a Utah-based reality show, is recovering after a car accident Thursday near Moab, though the child she was carrying did not survive.Foster is one of the stars of the series “Three Wives, One Husband.” A text from her husband, Enoch Foster, on Friday said her daughter had to be delivered at 23 weeks and was stillborn as a result of injuries Lydia Foster suffered. The couple named her Lily Rose.Enoch Foster wrote that Lydia underwent a s
  
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• George F. Will: The court should steer away from the politics of gerrymandering

  23-03-2019 01:00
  Washington • If an adjective creates a redundancy, does preceding it with two other adjectives give the Supreme Court a reason to venture where it has never gone before? Come Tuesday, the court will hear oral arguments urging it to referee gerrymandering in the drawing of congressional districts. The justices should, like Ulysses, listen to this siren song but bind themselves from obeying it.The arguments will concern two cases: one from Maryland, where Republicans are aggrieved, another fr
  
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• Mueller concludes Russia-Trump probe; no new indictments

  23-03-2019 00:47
  Washington • Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump’s presidency, entangled Trump’s family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president’s closest associates.The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller's probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come. The next steps are up to Trump's attorney g
  
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• The intensity is dialed up during March Madness. So what happens when coaches lose their voice during the most important time of year?

  23-03-2019 00:33
  There is a system that follows the many screams. For some, who have zero trepidation of wearing out their own vocal chords, it involves asking players to read lips in real time or even turn to an assistant coach to finish a sentence. The madness of March has infinite layers, but it’s also near the end of the road for college basketball’s best. And that means head coaches have yelled. A lot. In practice, in games, at home, or over the piercing noise of an road crowd, coaches have to g
  
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• Bruce Pearl, who almost became USU’s coach, has found a sweet spot at Auburn after his Tennessee misadventures

  23-03-2019 00:32
  Vacationing in Florida, Bruce Pearl fielded the phone call that almost changed his life. Utah State needed a basketball coach, and the school’s athletic director wanted to know if Pearl would be interested in moving from Division II Southern Indiana to Logan.“Man, I was excited about that possibility,” Pearl said this week, with his Auburn team playing in the NCAA Tournament at Vivint Smart Home Arena. “I did not get very far in the process, because they hired a guy named
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: The Mueller Report

  23-03-2019 00:04
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, March 24, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/21/bagley-cartoon/" target=_blank><u>Legislative Wrap Up</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/20/bagley-cartoon/"><u>Safeguarding the Public Trust</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/19/bagley-cart
  
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