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• Man who shot himself in the head expected to survive, police say

  07-04-2019 23:44
  A man who police officers were attempting to detain early Sunday while responding to a domestic violence call is expected to survive after shooting himself in the head, the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.After the man pulled out a gun and began to raise it, one of the deputies — “concerned for his own safety and the safety of the other law enforcement officers,” the release says — fired two shots. The man brought his gun up to his head as th
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Repent to pass heavenly judgment, Oaks says

  07-04-2019 23:38
  The 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resumed Sunday for its two concluding sessions.3:05 p.m. — ‘Secondary’ to the homeApostle David A. Bednar focused his remarks on recent changes to the church’s Sunday School curriculum — intended to supplement home-based study and family gospel discussions — and the importance of members preparing at home to enter one of the faith’s temples and participate in the faith
  
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• Smoking pot vs. tobacco: What science says about lighting up

  07-04-2019 23:19
  New York • As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes : curbing cigarette smoking.Though there are notable differences in health research findings on tobacco and marijuana, the juxtaposition strikes some as jarring after generations of Americans have gotten the message that smoking endangers their health."We're trying to stop people from smoking a
  
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• Woman’s slaying puts focus on ride-hailing safety, fake drivers

  07-04-2019 21:57
  Chicago • Whenever Rachel Orden calls for an Uber, the 20-year-old Michigan State University sophomore immediately walks to the back of the vehicle to check the license plate number, then opens the door and waits for the driver to say her name before getting in.Even then, she devises a backup plan in case she feels uncomfortable.“How could I get out? Could I unlock the door? Who do I have on speed dial? Could I jump out safely if I needed to? All that goes through my mind,” said
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz visit Los Angeles Lakers looking for 50th win

  07-04-2019 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  It would be Utah’s second 50-win season since 2009
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Three summer trade targets to bulk up PG position

  07-04-2019 20:14 via sportspyder.com
  If the Utah Jazz want to take a leap this offseason, they should aim to bolster the point guard position. Doing so by way of trade may very well be their b...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Three summer trade targets to bulk up PG position

  07-04-2019 19:56
  If the Utah Jazz want to take a leap this offseason, they should aim to bolster the point guard position. Doing so by way of trade may very well be their best option. With the NBA Playoffs on the immediate horizon, it can be somewhat difficult to think too deeply about the upcoming offseason and […]
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Be wary of media, prepare for Second Coming, members told

  07-04-2019 19:44
  The 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints resumed Sunday for its two concluding sessions.11:25 a.m. — Mercy provides a parachuteDuring remarks on the atonement of Jesus Christ, outgoing Sunday School General President Tad R. Callister compared sin to a person making a rash decision to jump from an airplane.Callister said the man might flap his arms trying to fly, or promise to never jump out of a plane again, but the law of gravity knows no comp
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz target eighth straight win in LA: Preview and live comment stream

  07-04-2019 18:46 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz aim to continue their surge towards home court advantage in the playoffs by earning their eighth straight win in LA on Sunday. Just four days...
  
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• Madison River town worried over possible angling changes

  07-04-2019 18:44
  Ennis, Mont. • There’s no mistaking what this town is about.Turn left at the metal statue of an angler in a cowboy hat hooking a trout. Follow Main Street and pass three fly shops, and in between them the businesses that rely on their clientele. Once the storefronts end, cross the Madison as it passes under the highway, lined by thick snowbanks as March inches toward April.This town lives on that river, one of the most famous fly-fishing destinations in the world. It brings people to
  
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• Utah Sen. Mitt Romney says America has become an ‘asylum magnet’ for an overwhelming flow of immigrants

  07-04-2019 18:39
  Sen. Mitt Romney stopped well short Sunday of agreeing with President Donald Trump that “our country is full,” and there’s no room for more immigrants. But he described America as an “asylum magnet,” whose immigration system is being overwhelmed.“We’re seeing unaccompanied young people as well as families with kids pouring into the border, and they say the magic word, ‘I’m seeking asylum,’" Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Pre
  
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• Utah Jazz target eighth straight win in LA: Preview and live comment stream

  07-04-2019 18:29
  The Utah Jazz aim to continue their surge towards home court advantage in the playoffs by earning their eighth straight win in LA on Sunday. Just four days and, in the case of the Utah Jazz, three games remain in the 2018-19 NBA regular season. It’s been a wild ride with plenty of ups and […]
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• It took a lawsuit, but Utah legislators agree to pay millions to transition intellectually disabled adults into their own housing

  07-04-2019 17:11
  In coming years, scores of developmentally and intellectually disabled adults in Utah could move from institutional housing to community settings that offer them new freedom and independence.The state has agreed to transition 250 individuals out of care facilities over the next five years as part of settling a lawsuit that accused Utah of “unlawful institutionalization and segregation” of disabled adults.It’s a change that will be expensive for the state — with estimated
  
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• ‘We’re in it until the end’: Inland port opponents shift focus from reform to effort to ‘Stop the Polluting Port’

  07-04-2019 16:30
  In the months since state lawmakers took control of a massive swath of land in Salt Lake City’s northwest area, concerns about possible health impacts, environmental damage and degradation of quality of life have often overshadowed conversations focused on economic opportunity.But rather than dissipating with time, the main group opposed to the inland port development appears to be taking a harder line.“If you go back and you listen to how I was describing [the development] last spri
  
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• Commentary: Better use of Jordan River Parkway Trail, North Temple Corridor could strengthen west side economy

  07-04-2019 16:13
  Salt Lake City, like many major cities in the U.S., has an economic division within its boundaries, where residents have limited access to infrastructure, places or destinations that assist with basic needs, recreation or entertainment.In Salt Lake City, that’s the west side.When people think about the west side, they generally focus on ethnic diversity, lower incomes and the perception of crime. And when an area struggles with lower incomes, families devote a higher percentage of their in
  
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• Choir in Montana aims to soothe people nearing death

  07-04-2019 16:12
  Butte, Mont. • On a recent morning in the Big Sky Senior Living facility’s upstairs chapel, Easter Seals-Goodwill Highlands Hospice employee Ana Shaw asked the four women beside her to close their eyes."Take a deep breath and think about your intentions of being here," Shaw said. After a few moments of silence, the women broke into melancholy, meditative song, repeating just a few words over and over in different harmonies.And so the Butte Montana Threshold Choir practice began, follo
  
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• Kirby: It doesn’t take a revelation to see the need for church security

  07-04-2019 16:10
  As we head into Latter-day Saint General Conference weekend, there’s something we need to discuss. In a word, terror.I don’t mean the terror that afflicts people like me — crowds, boredom and policy minutiae examined ad nauseam — but rather the remote, thankfully, possibility of a terrorist attack like the ones at two New Zealand mosques, a Pittsburgh synagogue and a Texas church.The world Heavenly Father has his eye on is seriously messed up. It’s full of hatred, g
  
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• Plans for Salt Lake City’s new convention hotel: tall and curvaceous on the skyline, with three-story video displays on 200 South

  07-04-2019 16:09
  Salt Lake City’s new convention hotel will be a 28-story skyscraper of glass and textured aluminum bursting out on the city skyline, slim and rectangular with gently rounded edges, about 725 guest rooms and huge digital billboards on both sides of its grand entrance on 200 South.Scheduled to open in spring 2022, the hotel will be woven into the southeast corner of the Salt Lake Palace Convention Center on 200 S. West Temple, according to preliminary plans under review at City Hall.Its desi
  
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• Commentary: Democratic socialism is the answer to climate change

  07-04-2019 15:54
  Climate change threatens human civilization as we know it.That’s not hyperbole. It is the robust consensus of the international scientific community.In 2018, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an urgent report warning that we have roughly 12 years to drastically curb carbon emissions before global temperatures reach 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Additional warming past 2 degrees C could cause sea levels to rise several meters, inundating most of the worl
  
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• Commentary: Celebrate women’s history all year long

  07-04-2019 15:09
  Last week marked the end of Women’s History Month, the time each year when social media feeds are full of moving stories of women who beat the odds, marked “firsts” in their industries or inspire us today in their work today. At Better Days 2020, we didn’t let flipping the calendar distract us from a continued focus on excavating and amplifying the stories of women. For us, the time to delve into women’s history is all year long.Better Days 2020’s mission is t
  
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• Letter: If more children were the answer, Utah would be a paradise

  07-04-2019 15:04
  How is it that anyone, let alone a United States senator like our own Mike Lee, could possibly suggest that having “more children” is a solution to the current crisis of climate change?Do we really want to live in a world where we will be asking those same children one day soon to address the stark reality of the climate change that we ourselves have neglected? This is a crisis that threatens our very existence.If the religionists among us really believe that having large families is
  
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• Letter: Donald Trump is a master at changing the subject

  07-04-2019 14:49
  Donald Trump has started many ventures that became spectacular failures: his Atlantic City casino, airline, football team, university and his TV shows, “The Apprentice” and “The Celebrity Apprentice.”He has had spotty success with hotels, apartments and golf courses. Generally he licenses his name, and may manage the completed project, but usually uses other people’s money to build.As president, he creates the impression of doing a lot by almost daily proposing new
  
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• Commentary: World must unite to make nuclear power safe and available

  07-04-2019 14:45
  Science fiction is replete with stories about humanity uniting, putting aside the ubiquitous violence among nations and ideologies, upon the arrival of alien invaders. The entire concept of “us” and “them” is turned upside down.Aliens will not be visiting, but climate change will create an existential threat and cataclysmic hardship for humans and all other living things. I acknowledge that climate change is an inexact science, and the exact timing and sequence of disaste
  
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• Commentary: Real marijuana reform must focus on criminal justice reform

  07-04-2019 14:42
  Recent attention on reforming Utah’s marijuana laws has been focused on the substance’s medicinal value. But we must acknowledge that marijuana reform for many people in Utah is a criminal justice issue that can be rectified by reducing the criminal penalties for possession while contemporaneously expunging former low-level convictions. This rethinking of marijuana policy should be a top policy approach during Utah’s 2020 legislative session.Utah lawmakers demonstrated overwhel
  
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• Commentary: We need some new rules for Big Pharma

  07-04-2019 14:38
  It’s time to change, limit or ban the unfettered ability of Big Pharma to constantly (are you watching your TV?) advertise to the every man, woman and child on earth (including vulnerable seniors and confused and desperate sick people) tempting them to simply seek out these over-advertised, over-priced medications, offering “cures” aimed at myriads of feared diseases, including very obscure medical conditions.In the 1970s, this flakey practice of weird advertising was virtually
  
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• Commentary: Why punish people who try to clean up pollution? Here’s a better way forward.

  07-04-2019 14:05
  In 2015, the Animas River in Colorado turned orange as three million gallons of water containing high concentrations of heavy metals and other toxins gushed from a site where the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was attempting to clean up an abandoned mine.The agency’s immediate response was a near-complete failure: officials delayed disclosing the spill to the public for nearly 24 hours; they significantly underestimated the size of the spill; and they downplayed the potentia
  
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• Oquirrh is Salt Lake City’s newest fine-dining restaurant

  07-04-2019 14:00
  Oquirrh, a new fine dining restaurant in Salt Lake City, opened in February — but it was at least 10 years in the making.Chef and co-owner Andrew Fuller once worked in the kitchen at Copper Onion, where he met and proposed to his future wife, Angelena.Later he became the sous chef at Pago, and eventually worked his way up to chef de cuisine. He also spent time in the kitchen at Coi in San Francisco, studying under the restaurant’s well-known chef and owner, Daniel Patterson.In openin
  
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• ‘We’re in it until the end': Inland port opponents shift focus from reform to effort to ‘Stop the Polluting Port'

  07-04-2019 14:00
  In the months since state lawmakers took control of a massive swath of land in Salt Lake City’s northwest area, concerns about possible health impacts, environmental damage and degradation of quality of life have often overshadowed conversations focused on economic opportunity.But rather than dissipating with time, the main group opposed to the inland port development appears to be taking a harder line.“If you go back and you listen to how I was describing [the development] last spri
  
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• Love theater? Utah stages offer play readings that let you help shape the final product.

  07-04-2019 14:00
  The Salt Lake Acting Company and playwright Karen Cahill are trying something different. Their new production “Silent Dancer” mixes drama and dance — but not music, for the most part.“This is using dance as a means of expression. To express an intense emotion,” Cahill said. “Usually in plays when there’s dance, they have what’s called the dance break. There’s kind of a showbiz moment where they dance and there’s music. But this isn&rsqu
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Who gets to say who ‘we’ are?

  07-04-2019 14:00
  With pre-emptive apologies to grammarians everywhere, today we ponder the following question:Who is "we?"That syntactic atrocity is prompted by a recent colloquy between Laura Ingraham of Fox "News" and former GOP operative Patrick Buchanan. They were talking on Ingraham's podcast about what they see as the impossibility of America absorbing more newcomers from what Buchanan called "the second or the third world." Then he dropped this gem:"African Americans have been here since 1619. They've hel
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How do I navigate a family feud?

  07-04-2019 14:00
  Dear Ann Cannon • My husband and his sister are at a point where they’re not on speaking terms. How do I support my husband without having to take sides?— Hoping to Hear From YouDear Hoping • I’m sorry. Family feuds are difficult for everyone to navigate.There’s a lot of information I don’t have here. What caused the estrangement in the first place? How bitter are the siblings? Because I don’t know your husband personally I can’t predict how he
  
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• Ashton: I guilted my way into the P!nk concert and it was a magical family moment

  07-04-2019 14:00
  My youngest kid is on the autism spectrum, my oldest is a moody (and moonstruck) teenager. Neither can sit through a movie. They both hate bowling. They’re not big on museums. Needless to say, it’s hard to find family activities.But last night, I scored. Or, I should say, my ex-husband scored. He bought tickets to see P!nk in concert.When he told me he wanted to take the boys, I was all, “Sure! Too bad you don’t have a fourth ticket for me.”It was a line met with aw
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Utah plays Los Angeles on 7-game win streak

  07-04-2019 09:26 via sportspyder.com
  Utah will try to keep its 7-game win streak alive when the Jazz take on Los Angeles
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz have four players listed as out vs. Lakers

  07-04-2019 07:48 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz has a total of four players listed as out in their game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. Via Twitter, the Jazz reported that Ricky Rubio, Derrick Favors, Kyle Korver, and Raul Neto are listed as ‘out.’ Ricky Rubio, Derrick...
  
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• Utah’s March For Our Lives raises money, remembers victims and rallies for the cause at gun reform gala

  07-04-2019 06:56
  As she got texts that her friends and classmates were being shot, Lauren Hogg sat in a classroom. It was dark, and they were silent, afraid to make noise because then the shooter might notice and come for them.That Valentine’s Day, just more than a year ago, 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., were killed. Seventeen others were injured. It had a profound impact on Hogg and many others in the school.“Once I got out of there, I knew I didn&r
  
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• After fourth straight loss, 1-0 to Seattle, Real Salt Lake coach Petke says ‘we all have to grow up a little bit’

  07-04-2019 06:54
  Real Salt Lake head coach Mike Petke put a challenge onto his team, his coaching staff and himself after losing 1-0 to the Seattle Sounders on Saturday night at CenturyLink Field. “We all have to grow up a little bit,” Petke told KMYU after the game. “The days of saying we’re a young team — which we are — it has to be pushed a little bit in the past. We have get a bit more savvy in situations. We have to get a bit more clinical.”Petke’s remarks cam
  
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• Real Salt Lake drops fourth straight game in 1-0 loss to Seattle Sounders

  07-04-2019 06:14
  Real Salt Lake finished with 11 men on the field for the first time in four games, but the result was the same.RSL lost 1-0 to the Seattle Sounders on Saturday at CenturyLink Field. RSL has now lost four consecutive games, and extended its road winless streak to four games.Sounders midfielder Nicolás Lodeiro scored the game’s opening goal on a left-footed volley while falling away from the goal. Cristian Roldan delivered the high, floated cross that found Lodeiro and gave the Sounde
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Here’s why Sacramento’s Buddy Hield had a personal interest in the Salt Lake City Stars this season

  07-04-2019 05:49 via sportspyder.com
  Sacramento Kings guard Buddy Hield was college roommates with Isaiah Cousins of the Salt Lake City Stars at the University of Oklahoma. They caught up after last night's Jazz-Kings game in Utah....
  
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• Commentary: Utah’s new hate crimes law is a complicated victory

  07-04-2019 05:19
  Tuesday, Gov. Gary Herbert proudly signed Utah’s new hate crime bill into law. It was a legislative effort that stalled for a number of years, but grew wings after the infamous attack at Lopez Tires, where a man brutally beat an 18-year-old and his father with a metal pole, shouting “I’m here to kill a Mexican.”The new hate crime law allows for increased sentencing in horrific cases of racial violence like this one. At the same time, it muddies the meaning of a hate crime
  
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• Tune out the TV, tune in to your loved ones, Nelson urges Latter-day Saint men

  07-04-2019 05:07
  Put down the remote, get up off the couch, talk to the women in your life, and wake up from your “spiritual slumber.”That was President Russell M. Nelson’s emphatic call to repentance Saturday night at the all-male priesthood session of the 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Men can “do better and be better in how we honor the women in our lives, beginning with our wives and daughters, our mothers and sisters,” the 94-
  
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• Pope Francis blames Europe, U.S. weapons for children killed in wars

  07-04-2019 05:07
  Vatican City • Pope Francis blamed Europe and the United States for the deaths of children in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, saying Saturday that wealthy Western countries fuel conflicts by selling weapons in war zones.Speaking to students and teachers of Milan’s San Carlo Institute, Francis said the reason there are so many wars around the world is “the rich Europe and America sell weapons ... used to kill children and kill people.”Without such firepower, the pope added, t
  
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• Dave Rose elevated BYU basketball during his 14-year run, but the program stagnated toward the end. Is this still a good job?

  07-04-2019 05:03
  Provo • When he was asked about the difficulty of his job last summer in a relaxed and casual one-on-one setting, former BYU basketball coach Dave Rose brought up a conversation he had with a fellow Division I college basketball coach during an all-star camp for high school players in New York a couple of years before that.The other coach had heard that “if a guy goes to BYU, he can’t smoke, drink or have sex,” and wanted to know if that was true.“He said, ‘Tha
  
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• Former BYU football star now a Latter-day Saint official; African American joins general authority ranks

  07-04-2019 04:28
  Among the flurry of leadership appointments announced Saturday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a familiar name for football fans emerged.Vai Sikahema.After starring at church-owned Brigham Young University, Sikahema, who now will be an area Seventy for the Utah-based faith, became the first Tongan ever to play in the National Football League, where he racked up yards as a running back and kick returner from 1986 to 1993.He was drafted by the St. Louis (now Arizona) Cardinals,
  
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• Utes finish second in regional to advance to NCAA gymnastics championships

  07-04-2019 04:24
  One long streak came to an end and another continued Saturday for Utah’s sixth-ranked gymnastics team.Utah finished second in its regional in Baton Rouge, La., to advance to the NCAA Championships April 19-20, in Fort Worth, Texas.Host LSU won the regional with a 197.5 while the Utes were second with a 197.25. Failing to qualify were Minnesota (196.9) and Auburn (195.725).Utah is the only team in the country to qualify for all 44 national championships.The Utes made it to the NCAAs despite
  
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• Guy hits FTs on disputed foul, Virginia shocks Auburn 63-62

  07-04-2019 03:47
  Auburn guard J'Von McCormick, center, drives to the basket between Virginia's Kyle Guy, left, and Ty Jerome, right, during the second half in the semifinals of the Final Four NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) (Jeff Roberson/)Minneapolis • From one-and-done to NCAA Tournament miracle men, Virginia will play in the national championship game for the first time after pulling off another last-second stunner on a disputed foul
  
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• Scientists release most detailed map of Teton quake fault

  07-04-2019 03:45
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • Scientists have completed the most detailed map yet of one of North America’s most spectacular geologic faults with the hope of providing a better understanding of the earthquake risk at a popular vacation destination.Millions of tourists visit Jackson Hole, Wyo., every year to sightsee, hike or ski the Teton Range, which was formed by the Teton fault.Upward slippage of the fault’s western edge has pushed the mountains to their present height of some 7,000 feet
  
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• Gay Latter-day Saints can live a fulfilling life even in celibacy, apostle says

  07-04-2019 03:31
  A chaste gay man can have a fulfilling, even noble life, a Latter-day Saint apostle said Saturday, knowing that “God’s standards are different from those of the world.”There are some things “that are completely and absolutely true,” Neil L. Andersen said on the first day of the 189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “These eternal truths are the same for every son and daughter of God.”The Utah-based church con
  
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• George F. Will: Utah’s Lee stands against crony capitalism disguised as patriotism

  07-04-2019 02:00
  Washington • The president has received from one of his employees, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a report that probably tells Ross’ employer what he wants to hear: that imports of cars — “The Audis are coming! The Audis are coming!” — threaten “national security.” This report is required by our lackadaisical Congress so it can pretend to be involved in setting trade policy. After the president’s yes-man says “Yes” to the national
  
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• Dana Milbank: Trump is a knight errant just looking for his windmill

  07-04-2019 02:00
  Washington - President Trump really puts the “err” in knight errant.Cervantes tells us that Don Quixote attacked the windmill with his lance. This week, Trump also attacked the lowly turbine -- with misinformation."If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations: Your house just went down 75% in value," the president told Republican donors Tuesday. "And they say the noise causes cancer." He made a circling gesture and emitted the carcinogenic sound himself: "Whirrr!
  
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• Utah’s lacrosse team is making progress in its debut season, but a 16-15 loss to Mount St. Mary’s is a missed opportunity.

  07-04-2019 00:49
  Utah’s lacrosse players huddled in the north end zone of Judge Memorial’s McCarthey Stadium, waiting for their coach to finish a long talk with the Mount St. Mary’s coach and address them after a fifth straight defeat.Opposing coaches often have a lot of good things to tell Utah’s Brian Holman after facing his team, and they’re not just being nice. They’re impressed with everything the Utes are doing in the program’s inaugural Division I season, although
  
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