• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz trying not to let complacency creep in with four more games vs. teams with losing records up next

    After blowing all of a 15-point third-quarter lead against the Wizards on Friday night before pulling the game out in the final minutes, Jazz coach Quin Snyder was asked if his team perhaps had gotten a little complacent.
  • Jazz trying not to let complacency creep in with four more games vs. teams with losing records up next

    After blowing all of a 15-point third-quarter lead against the Wizards on Friday night before pulling the game out in the final minutes, Jazz coach Quin Snyder was asked if his team perhaps had gotten a little complacent.“That could be said for sure,” he agreed, before going on to disagree. “I don’t think that’s something we want to point to — we weren’t complacent or [not] urgent when we got up [15].”That said, he did acknowledge that while he did
  • Driver arrested after striking a man with his truck on a St. George sidewalk, leaving the scene

    A man walking on a St. George sidewalk was injured after a driver suspected of driving under the influence struck him and left the scene Saturday, police say.The driver, 37-year-old Trevor Andreasen Royce, was later tracked down at a hotel by police and arrested, FOX 13 reports. He was charged with felony counts of DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.The man was struck after Royce drove his black Ford truck over the curb and onto the sidewalk, police say.For more information, visit FOX 13.E
  • Tribune Editorial: Utah police can be more effective if they are more careful

    Modern police work involves many tools. Cars. Guns. Computers. Tasers. Handcuffs. Batons. Body cams. GPS. Radios. Bullet-proof vests. All cost the taxpayers money and can literally weigh down the pockets, belts, holsters, shoulders, maybe even the morale, of every officer.But perhaps the most important asset in a law enforcement officer’s tool kit weighs nothing, costs nothing and provides more protection, to both the officers and to the community, than any of those items or gadgets.It is
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  • Alex Jones is being sued for his false Sandy Hook hoax claims. He blames ‘psychosis.’

    Two weeks ago, lawyers representing the Sandy Hook families suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recorded a three-hour interview with him, a court-ordered formality that, under normal circumstances, would have remained private until the defamation lawsuit eventually went to trial.But this case is not normal.Jones — who was censored by Twitter, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify for his inflammatory rhetoric — has used his Infowars web show to speak publicly about the case and the p
  • Thinking ahead: How to prepare next year’s tax filing now

    If you weren’t happy with your tax bill this year, or you’re worried about next year’s, this is the time to take action.Check your withholdings If you do only one thing, review the withholdings on your paycheck.The tax overhaul changed how much employers withhold from paychecks. If you withhold too much, you are due a refund. If you withhold too little, you owe. While the government urged people to review their withholdings to make sure they were up to date, few did. As a resul
  • College student who got into a car thinking it was her Uber is found dead in woods

    Columbia, S.C. • The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina say.Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook also said investigators found the victim's blood in Nathaniel David Rowland's vehicle. Rowland, 24, was arrested and charged in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson of Robbinsville, New Jersey.Investigators would not say w
  • No AI in humor: R2-D2 walks into a bar, doesn’t get the joke

    Washington • A robot walks into a bar. It goes CLANG.Alexa and Siri can tell jokes mined from a humor database, but they don't get them.Linguists and computer scientists say this is something to consider on April Fools' Day: Humor is what makes humans special. When people try to teach machines what's funny, the results are at times laughable but not in the way intended."Artificial intelligence will never get jokes like humans do," said Kiki Hempelmann, a computational linguist who studies h
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  • German train car arrives in New York for Auschwitz exhibit

    New York • On a Sunday morning, a crane lowered a rusty remnant of the Holocaust onto tracks outside Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage — a vintage German train car like those used to transport men, women and children to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.The windowless boxcar is among 700 Holocaust artifacts, most never before seen in the United States, which are being prepared for one of the largest exhibits ever on Auschwitz — a once ordinary Polish town called Osw
  • Joe Biden doesn’t believe he ever acted inappropriately toward women

    Washington • Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday he doesn’t believe he ever acted inappropriately toward women but will “listen respectfully” to suggestions he did.Biden, who is deciding whether to join the 2020 presidential race, released a new statement in response to allegations from a Nevada politician that he kissed her on the back of the head in 2014 and made her uncomfortable."In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countles
  • Utah music director composes concerto for his native Venezuela amid political chaos

    Ogden • A musical director at a Catholic school in northern Utah has composed a concerto that he says is inspired by the political chaos in his native Venezuela that has led many, including him, to flee the country.The Standard-Examiner reported last week that Alfonso Tenreiro’s concerto called “The Prayer” is scheduled to be performed at the Ogden Bach Festival next week.Tenreiro, who first came to the U.S. as a teen in 1981, says he hopes the music brings awareness to th
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Utah Jazz know where happiness begins and where selfishness ends but they do use numbers to motivate their players

    It was the great basketball philosopher John Wooden who said, “Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”
  • Monson: The Utah Jazz know where happiness begins and where selfishness ends but they do use numbers to motivate their players

    It was the great basketball philosopher John Wooden who said, “Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”Quin Snyder wholeheartedly agrees, having emphasized to anyone willing to listen, and some not willing, the importance of team-oriented play.Wooden also said, “Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.”Not just with making themselves better, but with making themselves look better.This
  • Commentary: We need to treat the world like it’s a house on fire

    A house is burning while the children play inside. The kids don’t want to stop their game. It’s an ancient story with a riddle: How to lure them out?We can take that story as a metaphor. The house is the whole earth, and we’re the grownups who will need to stop the game.Let’s think first about the recent California fires, in an extended drought, where houses literally burned.In 2015, after a tree hit a Pacific Gas & Electric power line, not far from Sacramento, 70,000
  • Commentary: History tells us that the inland port must be stopped

    I recently read “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey” by Kamala Harris in an effort to get acquainted with our various 2020 presidential candidates through reading their books.Harris spoke about her efforts to clean up the air in the highly polluted California town of Mira Loma. As California attorney general, she listened to various citizens who brought difficult health circumstances to her and then decided to join a lawsuit challenging Riverside County’s approval of an in
  • Kirby: Getting held back by church report cards

    Excommunication. That would do it. Years of intensive self-examination convinced me that being officially cut off is the only thing that would force me from being a member in fair standing with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.It’s different for other people. There are hosts of reasons for getting fed up with a particular faith or religion in general and announcing, “The hell with it. I’m done.”I’ve been close a time or two myself. Here are the top th
  • ‘I still to this day watch behind me’ — Utah has tightened its laws on secretly planting vehicle tracking devices. But there’s a loophole for private detectives.

    The call came from a blocked number, and the voice at the other end of the line wasn't one Mindi Wallenda recognized.“You need to watch what you’re doing,” the person said. “You need to pay attention when you go places. Your ex is taking pictures of you.”Wallenda was going through a messy divorce at the time and after the anonymous call, she started spotting her ex-husband in odd places — he’d drive by while she was at a McDonald’s or out running e
  • Commentary: Public Health Week is a call to action

    National Public Health Week is here. If the first thing that came to mind was, “So what?” or, maybe, “Why does that even matter?” you are not alone.We celebrate National Public Health Week, April 1-7, because “Everyone deserves to live a long and healthy life in a safe environment.” National Public Health Week is a time for all of us to focus on what we can do to make our own communities healthier places to live. The theme for the 2019 National Public Health W
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Will Joe Ingles’ No. 2 jersey hang in the rafters one day?

    In 2014, you'd do a lot more than call me crazy if I were to suggest Joe Ingles could have his jersey retired by the Utah Jazz one day. That statement woul...
  • Commentary: More forest roads won’t mean fewer forest fires

    Contrary to what Utah Gov. Gary Herbert claims, there is no direct cause-and-effect relationship between road access and fewer wildland fires.That was the conclusion in 2001 when a team of U.S. Forest Service employees were charged with analyzing whether a proposal called “the Roadless Rule” – which would ban new road building in remote national forest roadless areas — would make wildfires worse. As a 37-year veteran of the Forest Service, a fire management and fire ecolo
  • Commentary: We wanted a criminal mastermind. We got a swollen toady.

    This is a dark time. A hard time. A time of disillusionment and potential despair. Because Donald Trump has proven not to be guilty of all we wished him to be guilty.The Mueller Report. Liberal pundits on CNN and MSNBC immediately tried to put a Churchillian spin on it. (“This is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning.”)What they did not do is admit that the agitation most progressives feel is that the Mueller Report fails to be what we had hoped it to be: a clear
  • Commentary: Herbert’s petition would damage Utah’s public lands

    Considering the current pressures on the natural world, it is often harder and more confusing to talk about the natural world than one may believe. There are many questions that arise, yet the answers are different for everyone, which makes this discussion difficult but interesting. Within this discussion are the questions of who gets to do what with the land and the resources, who has access to it, and who is lacking access to it.Growing up in the West, I have been exposed to public lands that
  • Ikon, Epic ski passes may be working too well. They make already-bad traffic in Utah’s Cottonwood Canyons even worse.

    This storm-filled winter, the skiing in Utah’s Cottonwood canyons was spectacular.That’s if you could get there, and you forgot about the hours you spent inching out of the canyon behind a serpentine line of red tail lights after a truncated day on the slopes.Beyond the epic powder days that left near-record snow totals, the 2018-19 ski season at Alta and Snowbird may be remembered as well for its traffic. A drive in or out of Little Cottonwood Canyon, which normally takes 20 minutes
  • Commentary: A big step to eliminate the corrupting influence of money in politics

    Our democracy is broken. The average American’s voice is muffled – in many cases, silenced. The voices of ordinary Americans cannot be heard above the overpowering voices of the wealthy. Over the past few decades, our system turned into a plutocracy, or rule of the wealthy, and the American people are growing frustrated with a status quo that leaves them voiceless, powerless, and disadvantaged.Things weren’t always this bad. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Cit
  • Utah Jazz: Will Joe Ingles’ No. 2 jersey hang in the rafters one day?

    In 2014, you’d do a lot more than call me crazy if I were to suggest Joe Ingles could have his jersey retired by the Utah Jazz one day. That statement wouldn’t look too bad if said in the present. Manu Ginobili‘s jersey retirement in San Antonio on Thursday night was beautiful and a long […]
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  • Commentary: With National Popular Vote, every Utahn’s vote would finally matter

    Colorado’s gotten the upper hand on Utah. Again. Not concerning water rights or outdoor recreation, but common sense.On March 15, Colorado’s governor signed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) into law. In doing so, he kept Colorado from suffering Utah’s fate: Being snubbed by candidates every presidential election cycle, because why spend precious time and money in a state you’re sure to win or lose?Because Colorado’s voters can’t make up their
  • Letter: Three Stooges are running the show in Congress

    The long-awaited Mueller report has been submitted. Its basic findings are a relief to some and disappointment to others, but that's the nature of the political animal. However, inasmuch as the investigation process will undoubtedly continue, one simple request to those intending to pursue this issue. Don't use imagined Martian aliens, or the Seven Dwarfs of Snow White, or the munchkins from “The Wizard of Oz,” as possible involved parties or co-conspirators in whatever new accusatio
  • Letter: Students need more mental health support at school

    As a social work graduate student at the University of Utah, and a school counseling intern at an elementary school in Salt Lake City School District, I have become aware of the increased need for mental health services in schools.In my work with students, children as young as 7 years old are dealing with self-harming behaviors and suicidal thoughts. Children are bombarded with violent, degrading and harmful words and images on a daily basis through YouTube, social media and other media, as well
  • Letter: Sen. Lee’s routine had me in stitches

    Now we learn that our esteemed U.S. Sen. Mike Lee is not only a constitutional scholar (self-proclaimed) but is also a stand-up comedian.Such a brilliant performance he delivered on the Senate floor. Watch out, Stephen Colbert. Get out of the way, Jimmy Kimmel. You guys are amateurs. Lee’s “Let’s deal with climate change by having more babies” routine had me in stitches. I can’t wait for “Saturday Night Live” this week.What’s truly sad is that educ
  • Letter: Rep. Lyman should finance his own restitution

    State Rep. Phil Lyman is complaining about his payments toward $97,000 of court-ordered restitution being increased from $100 per month to $500 per month. At $100 per month he would never have paid it off in his lifetime.Adjusting payment based on what he claims his income is would be socialist and unfair to taxpayers.He should arrange financing to cover it himself. At the current rate for student loans of 5.05 percent, financed over 10 years, payments would be around $1,000 per month.Edward Mah
  • Letter: Beautiful library becomes a homeless camp

    A few years ago federal, state and local taxpayers paid around $100 million dollars for a state-of-the-art new Salt Lake City Library. It was designed by a prestigious international architect and included many innovative features inside and out.Within those short few years our bumbling, uninspired city politicians somehow managed to transform the library grounds into Utah's largest open-air homeless camp.Is this an exaggeration? Take a walk through the library park and decide for yourself.I am r
  • Letter: Are we back at the Scopes Monkey Trial?

    I am appalled that meetings are even being held to determine what should be taught in our science classes. Are we back in the 1920s with the Scopes Monkey Trial? What about the Flat Earth Society?I’m offended that someone thinks the Bible and creationism should be taught in school, let alone in a science class.If this is indicative of today’s school system, I’m not just worried, I’m horrified!Carl Dillingham, HurricaneSubmit a letter to the editor
  • Commentary: Legislative successes for Utah women that might surprise you

    After the regular Utah legislative session wraps up, I’m often asked how things went for women and the issues I work on for the YWCA. My generally positive review is sometimes met with confusion and disbelief. So let me explain.YWCA Utah advocates within three policy areas impacting Utah women and families: empowerment and economic advancement, racial justice and civil rights, and health and safety. This year our top priorities were to facilitate the balance between work and family, advoca
  • As the end approaches, ‘Gotham’ isn’t going to get any less gruesome

    As “Gotham” barrels toward its series finale, a lot of things are changing. And, we’re promised, we’ll actually see Batman in the last episode of this “Batman” prequel.One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is the level of violence in the Fox series, in which James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) is a cop; Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz) is a teenager; and the cast includes young versions of the Penguin, the Riddler, Catwoman and many more villains.Shootings, stabbing
  • Meet Sego, the indie-pop band that’s gone from Utah to L.A. to SXSW to the brink of national stardom

    Musician Spencer Petersen has lived in Los Angeles for the last few years, but he’s a Utah guy by heart — and by phone.Petersen’s cellphone number still includes an 801 area code. “I’m a creature of habit,” Petersen said in a recent phone interview. “I’ve had this number for so long. How’s my family going to reach me if I change my number?”Petersen, a singer-songwriter, and drummer Thomas Carroll created their band on a foundation of th
  • Commentary: Why do Utah legislators not want to help people in need of health care?

    What good is the vote of the people if politicians take it upon themselves to change the wording, scope and direction of the bill that was presented to their constituents?With Proposition 3, this very thing happened. Utahns voted yes on this proposal by 53.32 percent. This law would provide Medicaid health services for persons under the age of 65 who have an income equal to or lower than 138 percent of the federal poverty line.The pushback from politicians now is focused on the funding. On the f
  • Scott D. Pierce: Can you make a TV show about a truly awful blind person? No, not really.

    There's something weirdly refreshing about the premise of The CW's new series “In the Dark.” It's about a young, blind woman, but it avoids all the blind-person cliches.Murphy (Perry Mattfield) is obnoxious. She's combative. She smokes. She drinks. She's rude.“You're not even nice to your own dog,” she's told by a drug dealer in the premiere.The series opens with Murphy kicking a guy out of bed after they've just had sex. And she resents paying for condoms.“I wish I
  • Leonard Pitts: Media owe no apology to Trump or anyone else for covering Mueller investigation

    Apparently, I am supposed to be embarrassed now.That, at least, is my interpretation of a few strange tweets and emails that have come my way in the week since Attorney General William Barr issued his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Donald Trump. One individual wrote: “I noticed that you’ve released your bite on Trump’s ankle now that Mueller couldn’t recommend and (sic) indictment.” Another, apparently unable to rise to that level of ver
  • Gomberg: I’m giving up my front-row seat to an impressive series of LGBTQ advancements, and can’t wait for what’s yet to come

    After what has felt like both the shortest and longest six years of my life, I’m concluding my service as a member of Equality Utah’s board of directors, and the occasion has me feeling a sweet mix of nostalgia and pride.I had no idea the fun, angst, creativity, hope and collaboration I’d experience, let alone the fairly rapid pace of queer change in Utah.When I joined the board in 2013, we had been dealt powerful blows to legal equality (think California’s Prop 8 and Uta
  • Ask Ann Cannon: I’m looking for love in my 60s, but I keep dating losers

    Dear Ann Cannon • I am a widow in my 60s and I’ve been dating for maybe nine years now. My past three relationships have had bizarre endings. Let’s start with the person I dated for four-and-a-half years. He stayed with me over Valentine’s Day and brought flowers, candy, jewelry and took me to dinner. The next morning I fixed a nice breakfast and he left — never to be seen or heard from again.Let’s move on to the second Mr. Not Right. He called me every night a
  • [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Transition D doesn’t always match team’s paint dominance

    With Rudy Gobert manning the paint, the Utah Jazz boast one of the league's most stifling defenses. However, the team's transition D has been a mixed bag. ...
  • Salt Lake Stallions top San Diego Fleet 8-3 as offenses take the day off

    The most positive of characterizations might be to say that Saturday night’s AAF game between Salt Lake and San Diego was a defensive struggle.But you can bet that’s not how it’ll be viewed by either of the head coaches, both noted for their offensive schemes and talents, or likely by the 8,405 people in the stands at Rice-Eccles Stadium.The Salt Lake Stallions scored the game’s only touchdown near the end of the first half, converted the required two-point try, and that&
  • RSL finishes undermanned for third straight game in 4-2 loss to FC Dallas

    Herriman • Things did not go well in the early going of Real Salt Lake’s Saturday evening against FC Dallas.Not even a minute had passed before Real Salt Lake gave up a goal to FC Dallas. Minutes later, center back Erik Holt, who started the game after a solid performance last week against LAFC, left the game with an apparent ankle injury.Then Damir Kreilach, getting knocked down in the midfield, got up and appeared to headbutt an FC Dallas player, causing the referee to show him a re
  • Commentary: Latter-day Saints will soon drink coffee? Debunking a dubious General Conference rumor

    For weeks now I’ve been seeing a persistent rumor circulating in social media: that the prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M. Nelson, is about to lift the ban on members drinking coffee and tea.Now before I go on the record as saying that I think this rumor is, at best, wishful thinking on the part of people who would like to gulp down a guilt-free frappuccino, let me out myself as an utter failure at giving credence to other early rumors when those rumors
  • Team called in to deal with propane leak after train derailment in Juab County

    Juab County • A special response team was called in to deal with hazardous materials after a train derailment.A Union Pacific mixed-freight train derailed in the area known as Jericho — about 12 miles north and east of the town of Lynndyl in Millard County, according to FOX 13.One of the cars was leaking propane.Lt. Travis Kenison with the Juab County Sheriff’s Office said 23 of the 165 cars in the train came off the rails.One of the cars was on its side and leaking propane.For
  • Holi Festival is colorful celebration of spring

    Thousands of revelers gathered to celebrate the arrival of spring at the Holi Festival of Colors at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork on Saturday. In India, Holi announces the arrival of spring.The Holi Fest in Utah is a modern adaptation of the traditional Indian celebration, where colored powder is used instead of liquid color. The festival featured live music, yoga, dancing, food and the throwing of colors. The festival continues Sunday from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
  • Utah Jazz: Transition D doesn’t always match team’s paint dominance

    With Rudy Gobert manning the paint, the Utah Jazz boast one of the league’s most stifling defenses. However, the team’s transition D has been a mixed bag. A strange thing happened when the Utah Jazz played host to the Washington Wizards on Saturday night: they nearly lost the game. Despite the Wiz having just been […]
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  • Skier needs preparation, skill, luck during mountain rescue

    Reno, Nev. • Aaron Zanto describes ski lines in snow the way a painter describes brush strokes on canvas.When he's skiing the Lake Tahoe area backcountry, the 44-year-old firefighter from Kings Beach, California, strives to make every line meaningful.But not every line is beautiful, as Zanto learned when an avalanche on Jobs Peak turned his partner's ski line into an ugly smear across the snow.
    In this March 14, 2019 photo, skier Aaron Zanto, 44, a firefighter of Kings Beach, Calif., recall
  • Hundreds of Salt Lake City residents won’t have power until Sunday after spring snowstorm causes major outages

    (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune)Numerous signs of damage remain around the Salt Lake Valley on Saturday, March 30, 2019, following a storm that dumped heavy snow knocking down trees and power lines.(Francisco Kjolseth/)Some Salt Lake City residents will remain without power into a third day after an early spring snowstorm damaged power lines.Maintenance crews have been working to restore electricity since Friday morning after the city was coated in an unexpected inch of snow. The stor
  • [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ricky Rubio is ‘always on and always happy,’ which means he’s continuing to play a big role in the communities in Utah and worldwide

    Quin Snyder was perturbed by the reporter’s question.

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