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• County bans unvaccinated minors in public as measles spreads

  26-03-2019 23:50
  Albany, N.Y. • A county in New York City’s northern suburbs declared a state of emergency Tuesday over a measles outbreak that has infected more than 150 people since last fall, hoping a ban against unvaccinated children in public places wakes their parents to the seriousness of the problem."It's an attention grab, there's no question about it," Rockland County Executive Ed Day said at a news conference, noting that he didn't believe such a drastic step has ever been tried in the U.S.
  
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• Is karaoke recreation? The answer could determine whether a Salt Lake City business gets a beer license.

  26-03-2019 23:45
  A new Salt Lake City business that rents private karaoke rooms to families and groups will have to wait until April to find out if it will be allowed to serve beer.On Tuesday, the state liquor commission said it needed more time to determine if Heart & Seoul Karaoke, 67 W. 100 South, should be granted a recreational beer license.Bowling alleys, golf courses and tennis clubs are the typical businesses that request a recreational beer license from the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Cont
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell claims Jazz will be playing in the NBA Finals

  26-03-2019 23:38 via sportspyder.com
  Although the Utah Jazz have yet to clinch a spot in the playoffs, they are in a solid position to maintain their favorable seeding down the final stretch of the 2018-19 NBA season. It appears guard Donovan Mitchell has high expectations for this...
  
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• Family says linebacker at Dixie State died from low sodium

  26-03-2019 22:59
  Honolulu • Family members say a Dixie State University linebacker’s death was linked to hyponatremia, a condition of abnormally low sodium levels.Honolulu's KHON-TV reported Monday that Abraham Reinhardt's mother Malani told them her 23-year-old son's sodium levels suddenly dropped before he died Friday.She says it is unclear what caused her son's sodium levels to plummet.Dixie State athletic department spokesman Steve Johnson says Reinhardt, a native of Wailuku, Hawaii, left practice
  
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• George Pyle: In a single veto, Herbert gives some hope of making Utah politics rational

  26-03-2019 22:45
  Gary Herbert’s carpal tunnel syndrome is probably not exacerbated by vetoing bills any more than it is by signing them. So it’s too bad he doesn’t veto more often.In a flurry of post-legislative penmanship, the governor of Utah Monday signed off on 119 bills. Among them, sadly, was House Bill 136, the Legislature’s unconstitutional, anti-woman, anti-science and just plan mean measure that will ban abortions when fetal development has gone beyond 18 weeks.Some women aren&r
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Report: Jazz players weren’t happy Suns’ Devin Booker checked back in to try for 60 points

  26-03-2019 22:06 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz players reportedly weren’t happy Phoenix Suns star shooting guard Devin Booker checked back in to try for 60 points against them Monday in the final moments of the fourth quarter, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic. The Jazz...
  
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• Spain says the FBI was offered stolen data from North Korea embassy raid

  26-03-2019 22:00
  Madrid • A Spanish court on Tuesday accused an American, Mexican and South Korean of being part of a 10-member group that led a mysterious attack on the North Korean Embassy in February, saying the assailants then offered the FBI stolen data from the raid.National Court judge Jose de la Mata on Tuesday lifted a secrecy order in the case, announcing it had found evidence of various crimes, including trespassing, injuries, threats and burglary committed by "a criminal organization" at the emb
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Our National Dinosaurs

  26-03-2019 21:50
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/25/bagley-cartoon-no/" target=_blank><u>No Collusion</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/22/bagley-cartoon-mueller/"><u>The Mueller Report</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/03/21/bagley-cartoon/
  
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• Police officers in Salt Lake City schools will be trained to arrest students less often

  26-03-2019 21:45
  When the sergeant walked into a school, he would hear students whisper.“Who’s in trouble?” they’d ask each other. “Who’s being arrested?”And for awhile, Salt Lake City police Sgt. Phil Eslinger acknowledged, they were right. Most of the times he went into a classroom, it was to pull kids out, question them, investigate them and, usually, handcuff them. That’s what he saw as his job to keep the schools safe. Even when he was looking into minor offen
  
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• BYU men’s basketball coach Dave Rose is retiring after 14-year career. His program leveled off in recent seasons, but he leaves as the school’s winningest coach.

  26-03-2019 21:45
  Provo • Dave Rose announced on Tuesday that he was retiring after a 14-year career in which he became BYU’s all-time winningest men’s basketball coach.Rose, 61, met several times last week with BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe and other BYU administrators to discuss buying out the two years remaining on his contract, though he said at his afternoon press conference that the decision to go was ultimately his.“It is my coaching soul that put me here today, and my coaching so
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - In-seat delivery now available from the Jazz Team Store during games

  26-03-2019 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  Download the Utah Jazz app today: https://www.nba.com/jazz/app
  
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• University of Utah warns students of an overnight sexual assault near library

  26-03-2019 21:28
  Police at the University of Utah say a woman reported being sexually assaulted late Monday near the Marriott Library but are disclosing few other details.Campus police notified students and staff early Tuesday through the U.'s alert system. The alert said the assault happened “in the area west of the Marriott Library" about 10:30 p.m. The episode, it added, was reported to police “just after midnight."At a morning news conference attended by FOX 13, a police spokesman said the woman
  
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• 'Salt Lake City needs a champion’: Sen. Luz Escamilla launches campaign for mayor

  26-03-2019 21:27
  As Salt Lake City mayor, Sen. Luz Escamilla would be a “champion for all,” her supporters said Tuesday at the candidate’s official campaign launch.From the steps of Salt Lake City Hall, they highlighted her track record during 11 years of service as a state senator, her ability to work across the aisle to achieve data-driven results and her work with overlooked and underserved communities. These, they said, are the primary characteristics that set her apart in the crowded 2019
  
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• Woman, missing a week, found with a car stuck in the mud of northern Utah

  26-03-2019 21:17
  A Brigham City woman who went missing last week was found Tuesday beside her stuck car.A Box Elder County road crew found Michelle Norton Richan on Immigrant Trail Road in the Park Valley, according to FOX 13. The road is in a rural area that is not plowed during the winter.FOX 13 reported Richan had plenty of food and water and stayed with her vehicle after it got stuck. She had last been seen March 19 when she was supposed to drive from Brigham City to Eureka, Nev.This story will be updated. &
  
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• [NBA] - Rebooted Jazz Gaming squad looking to bounce back in the NBA 2K League's second season

  26-03-2019 21:15 via sportspyder.com
  Shaka Browne’s eyes lit up. The Jazz Gaming leader known as Yeah I Compete quickly surveyed his team’s new practice space at Vivint Smart Home Arena and smiled.“I’m sitting right here. I already
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee criticizes the Green New Deal with poster of Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur and firing a machine gun

  26-03-2019 21:14
  Washington • To poke fun at a liberal plan to tackle climate change, Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday took to the Senate floor with a poster of President Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur while firing a machine gun.No joke.The Utah Republican, a serious conservative not generally known for prop-supported political stunts, said his point was that the Democrats’ Green New Deal was as absurd as the poster he was showing.“I rise today to consider the green new deal with the seriousness it des
  
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• Commentary: The other Russian collusion story involves the U.S. Christian right and the Russian Orthodox Church

  26-03-2019 20:57
  As we wait to learn exactly what’s in the Mueller report, there’s another Russia story that deserves our attention. It’s about collusion between the Christian right in America and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), and it will be on display this coming weekend in Verona, Italy, at the World Congress of Families.The WCF, in case you haven’t heard of it, is an annual event sponsored by the International Organization for the Family (IOF), a Washington-based nongovernmental o
  
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• Here’s a look at the candidates who could replace Dave Rose as BYU’s basketball coach

  26-03-2019 20:53
  Provo • For the first time since he hired longtime assistant Dave Rose to succeed Steve Cleveland prior to the 2005-06 season, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe has a basketball coaching search on his hands.Rose, 61, is expected to announce his retirement on Tuesday at a 1 p.m. news conference in the Marriott Center.Holmoe’s search will be narrow, considering head coaches at BYU — which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — must be membe
  
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• The 10 most interesting lines from Rep. Phil Lyman’s court filing objecting to higher monthly restitution payments

  26-03-2019 20:47
  Blanding Republican state Rep. Phil Lyman, convicted of a misdemeanor when he was a San Juan County commissioner, lashed out at the news media, the courts, and federal prosecutors in court documents objecting to a recommendation that his monthly restitution payments be increased five-fold.Prosectors are seeking to increase his monthly payment to $500, up from $100, toward the nearly $96,000 in restitution ordered upon his conviction for leading an illegal ATV protest ride.In the court filing, Ly
  
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• Dana Milbank: Barr has made Mueller report into a win for Russia

  26-03-2019 20:47
  Washington • Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary of the Mueller report is scandalous — for reasons that have little to do with “collusion.”Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert S. Mueller III nearly two years ago “to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election,” as he put it then. Mueller’s report, submitted to the Justic
  
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• Todd Helton cited on DUI charge, enters treatment center

  26-03-2019 20:46
  Knoxville, Tenn. • Former All-Star first baseman Todd Helton has received a misdemeanor citation on a charge of driving under the influence after getting involved in a one-car accident.Helton's lawyer says the former Colorado Rockies star has entered a residential treatment program."He realizes there are parts of his behavior that need to change, and he is focused on doing just that," Stephen Ross Johnson said in a statement.According to a Knox County sheriff's report, Helton's car struck a
  
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• He turned Trolley Square into a mall and restored three classic Salt Lake City high rises. Wally Wright, a pioneering developer, dies at 84.

  26-03-2019 20:37
  Wally Wright, the Salt Lake City developer who transformed the city’s antique transit barns into the Trolley Square shopping center, died Sunday, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family said. He was 84.When Wright first contemplated the old bus barns at 500 South and 600 East in the late 1960s, they were an eyesore, operating essentially as a garage for the National City Line and later Utah Transit Authority buses and Utah Power maintenance vehicles. The block was fi
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Happy 57th Birthday to Legendary Utah Jazz Point Guard John Stockton!

  26-03-2019 20:30 via sportspyder.com
  As John Stockton turns 57 years young, let’s reflect on one of the greatest careers in NBA history.
  
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• Century-old silver mines are long gone. But tainted tailings are still polluting Park City. Now the feds are suing to clean up the Superfund site.

  26-03-2019 20:04
  What are now world-class ski runs used to be profitable mountainsides where 19th-century miners dug silver out of the dirt and mud.The materials left over from that mining and processing are called tailings, and a lot of them were dumped into Silver Creek — the stream that runs from the south side of Park City northeast to Wanship. The federal government has had plans to clean up the tailings and the poisonous chemicals that come with them.The plan has stalled, partly because the United Pa
  
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• Scientists once thought tropical cyclones were impossible in the South Atlantic. Another one just formed.

  26-03-2019 20:00
  Did you know there’s a tropical storm right now in the Atlantic? It’s true. But it’s a bit farther south than you’re probably accustomed to.A rare tropical depression formed off the South American coast Saturday, according to the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center. On Sunday, the system became a tropical storm. It was named "Iba," marking the first time the agency has drawn upon its list of tropical cyclone names.It's also the first full-fledged tropical storm to spin up
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah assistant coach Alex Jensen rumored for vacant BYU head coaching job

  26-03-2019 19:48 via sportspyder.com
  Jensen is part of a shortlist including UVU’s Mark Pope and Portland State’s Barret Peera.
  
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• Utah ranked No. 2 for growth in personal income last year

  26-03-2019 19:43
  Utah ranked No. 2 among the states last year for growth in personal income, but it still has a long way to go to catch up with the national average for per person income.Personal income for Utahns was up 6.3 percent between 2017 and 2018, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.Still, the Beehive State ranked 41st out of 50 for per person income — $45,340, or 16 percent below the national average of $53,712. Utah often ranks low in per capita income in pa
  
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• Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson, in her first State of the County address, says it’s time to address rapid growth

  26-03-2019 19:41
  While Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson gave the county a clean bill of financial health and praised its momentum on a number of milestones Tuesday, she also promised to address booming growth as a priority.The remarks during her first State of the County speech come less than two months after she was sworn into the mayor’s office, filling the seat left vacant by Rep. Ben McAdams after his election to Congress.“Standing here on day 49, I can assure you Salt Lake County has excellen
  
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• ‘He’s a tough kid.’ Britain Covey earns the ultimate Kyle Whittingham compliment as he rehabs from knee injury and previously undisclosed broken wrist.

  26-03-2019 19:41
  Britain Covey has not seen the final play of his sophomore season, the second-half kickoff of the Pac-12 championship game vs. Washington.“And I never will,” he said last week, standing on the Utah practice field, where he will resume catching passes in preseason camp in August.The Utes are staging spring practice without Covey, who was named one of the team’s five spring captains, stemming from his offseason leadership. He won’t watch the film of the tackle that injured
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Stephen Moore could inflict more long-term damage than any of Trump’s other nominations

  26-03-2019 19:33
  President Trump has made a lot of ill-advised nominations. But perhaps no single choice could inflict more long-term damage than the one he announced Friday: Stephen Moore, Trump's pick to join the Federal Reserve Board.Moore's many economic claims over the years have revealed him to be, shall we say, easily confused.A decade ago, as the Fed was battling deflation (that is, price declines) during the financial crisis, Moore preposterously fearmongered that hyperinflation (that is, out-of-control
  
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• [NBA] - Utah Jazz rookie Grayson Allen embraces chance to develop his game in NBA G League

  26-03-2019 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  The back hallway of the gymnasium was quiet when Grayson Allen walked in alone, a touch jetlagged, carrying a plate of food. A year ago at this time, Allen was preparing to play in front of tens of
  
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• [NBA] - Postseason Stars: Salt Lake squad overcomes injuries, adversity to make G League playoffs

  26-03-2019 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  Martin Schiller started shootaround with a quick scouting report.“No middle, no paint,” the Salt Lake City Stars head coach instructed, as game film projected onto a naked wall inside the gym.Then
  
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• [NBA] - Learn the ins and outs of the NBA G League with this glossary of key terms

  26-03-2019 19:32 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA G League is the NBA’s official minor league, preparing players, coaches, officials, trainers, and front-office staff for the NBA while acting as the league’s research and development
  
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• House fails to override Trump veto on border

  26-03-2019 19:22
  Washington • An effort by House Democrats to override President Donald Trump’s first veto has failed. That hands him a victory because his declaration of a national emergency at the Southwest border will remain in effect.The Democratic-controlled chamber has voted 248-181 in favor of overriding Trump's veto. That fell 38 votes short of the 286 needed for Democrats and their handful of Republican allies to prevail, because a two-thirds majority was needed.The emergency declaration woul
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Jazz rookie Grayson Allen embraces opportunity to develop with the Salt Lake City Stars

  26-03-2019 19:12 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz rookie Grayson Allen is putting in work in the G League. “As a basketball player, you want to play," he said. "There’s only so much stuff I can go over ...
  
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• [Deadspin] - Complete Farce Of A Basketball Team Ends Blowout Loss In Completely Farcical Way

  26-03-2019 19:02 via sportspyder.com
  There’s no reason to watch the Phoenix Suns lose on purpose this season except to see how number-one pick DeAndre Ayton is doing (fine, mostly) or watch Devin Booker go all-out for another impressive yet futile solo scoring display. Booker went off...
  
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• Nevada lifting horse quarantines ordered for herpes virus

  26-03-2019 19:00
  Reno, Nev. • Nevada agriculture officials say they will lift by the end of the week all quarantines ordered after three horses tested positive for an equine herpes virus.The Nevada Department of Agriculture officials say they lifted the first quarantine at a Clark County facility Monday where a horse was treated after it may have contracted EHV-1 at the state high school rodeo in Pahrump.They said Tuesday no other cases have been confirmed so they intend to end two other quarantines later t
  
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• Complete Farce Of A Basketball Team Ends Blowout Loss In Completely Farcical Way

  26-03-2019 18:48 via deadspin.com
  There’s no reason to watch the Phoenix Suns lose on purpose this season except to see how number-one pick DeAndre Ayton is doing (fine, mostly) or watch Devin Booker go all-out for another impressive yet futile solo scoring display. Booker went off again Monday night in Utah, although his own teammate Jimmer Fredette…Read more...
  
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• Salt Lake City’s newest project, the Paper Box Lofts, will include 195 apartments and an ‘automobile vending machine’

  26-03-2019 18:05
  Developers began Tuesday to convert an old mid-block industrial site in downtown Salt Lake City into a project known as Paper Box Lofts, which will have three residential high rises, retail spaces, a visually striking open plaza and a unique automated parking system.Officials with Utah-based ClearWater Homes and PEG Development broke ground on the 1.99-acre property at about 340 West 200 South, just south of the Utah Jazz’s Vivint Smart Home Arena. When done, the project will include 195 a
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Jimmer isn’t an NBA-quality player, but is still an all-timer

  26-03-2019 18:04 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz fans caught the best and worst of the Jimmer Fredette era in Salt Lake City, and it was all worthwhile.
  
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• California utility fined for its handling of nuke canisters

  26-03-2019 18:00
  San Onofre, Calif. • The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is fining the Southern California Edison utility $116,000 for violations in its handling of nuclear canisters at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.The decision announced Monday in an online town hall meeting involves the transfer of radioactive nuclear waste containers from cooling pools to safer bunkers.The violations were a failure to have a backup system in case a fuel canister was dropped and failure to notify the
  
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• Who are the candidates to replace Dave Rose as BYU’s basketball coach? It is a shallow pool, led by Utah Valley coach Mark Pope, a former BYU assistant

  26-03-2019 17:55
  Provo • For the first time since he hired longtime assistant Dave Rose to succeed Steve Cleveland prior to the 2005-06 season, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe has a basketball coaching search on his hands. Rose, 61, is expected to announce his retirement on Tuesday at a 1 p.m. news conference in the Marriott Center.Holmoe’s search will be narrow, considering head coaches at BYU — which is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — must be memb
  
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• Money Madness: AP analysis shows growing gap in NCAA payouts

  26-03-2019 17:45
  Hartford, Conn. • Powered by Ja Morant’s no-look passes and Dylan Windler’s step-back 3s, March Madness has been a bonanza for the Ohio Valley Conference.The league placed two teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament for the first time in 32 years. Then Morant's Murray State Racers and Windler's Belmont Bruins both won games during the first week of play, making them darlings for underdog-loving fans everywhere.That's over now — both teams lost their second tournament
  
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• Review: New ‘Dumbo’ is a feast for the eyes, but the human-focused story is harder to swallow

  26-03-2019 17:33
  Watching Disney’s live-action adaptation of its animated classic “Dumbo,” one can truly believe an elephant can fly.The harder trick, the one moviegoers always hope will happen and rarely does, is that director Tim Burton (“Beetlejuice,” “Sweeney Todd” and others) can stick the landing on one of his visually wondrous but narratively spotty movies.This time, backed by a script by blockbuster maven Ehren Kruger (who has worked on three “Transformers&
  
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• Monson: Dave Rose is gone. Good luck to BYU finding a willing, difference-making replacement.

  26-03-2019 17:21
  Dave Rose is gone, having left a vapor trail that will soon dissipate in a deep bluer-than-blue sky of anticipation. And we get it. The Cougars want to do better, but …The pain is in the but.The BYU basketball coach, who’s been sent packing — after a series of recent meetings centering on a proper buyout — by administrators, had his ups and had his downs over his 14 seasons, but spent most of his tenure in Provo somewhere in between. The Jimmer years were terrific, spent
  
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• Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson says it’s time to address rapid growth in her first State of the County speech

  26-03-2019 17:19
  While Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson gave the county a clean bill of financial health and praised its momentum on a number of milestones Tuesday, she also promised to address booming growth as a priority.The remarks during her first State of the County speech come less than two months after she was sworn into the mayor’s office, filling the seat left vacant by Rep. Ben McAdams after his election to Congress.“Standing here on day 49, I can assure you Salt Lake County has excellen
  
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• Jussie Smollett’s attorneys say all criminal charges dropped

  26-03-2019 16:47
  Chicago • Attorneys for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett said Tuesday that charges alleging he lied to police about a racist and homophobic attack have been dropped.Smollett attorneys Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes said in a statement that Smollett’s record “has been wiped clean.” Smollett was indicted on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men.A spokeswoman for Cook County prosecutors didn't immediately respond
  
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• BYU basketball coach Dave Rose is retiring. BYU calls 1 p.m. news conference Tuesday to announce he is stepping down.

  26-03-2019 16:29
  Provo • BYU basketball coach Dave Rose will hold a 1 p.m. news conference at the Marriott Center on Tuesday afternoon to announce his retirement after a 14-year career leading the Cougars and becoming the school’s all-time winningest men’s basketball coach.Rose, 61, met several times last week with BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe and other BYU administrators to discuss buying out the two years remaining on his contract.Rose has compiled a record of 348 wins (pending the school&
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz pummel Phoenix Suns by 33 as Rudy Gobert sets NBA dunk record

  26-03-2019 16:28 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert sets the record for most dunks in a season while Devin Booker Ricky Davises his way to 59 points.
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: How former Ute Delon Wright helped out the Utah Jazz Monday night; Kyle Kuzma reacts to Jimmer mania

  26-03-2019 15:51 via sportspyder.com
  The former Utah guard had a career-high 13 assists while helping the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Oklahoma City Thunder. Kuzma, meanwhile, shared his thoughts on Twitter of Fredette's return to Utah.
  
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