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• Sen. Mitt Romney says he’s ‘sickened’ by Trump’s actions as described in the Mueller report

  19-04-2019 23:28
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney offered a harsh critique of President Donald Trump on Friday after reviewing the special counsel’s report, breaking from most Republicans who have claimed Robert Mueller’s finding that there was no collusion between Trump’s team and Russia in the 2016 presidential election have exonerated the president.“Reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders,” Romne
  
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• West Valley City comes up with extra money to rebuild 4100 South after bids come in 29% higher than expected

  19-04-2019 23:23
  West Valley City is coming up with an extra $5.4 million beyond available federal funds to rebuild 4100 South after bids came in 29 percent over estimates and threatened to delay or halt it.The Utah Transportation Commission — which had managed federal funds for the project for the city — on Friday accepted an offer from the city to make up the difference and allow it to proceed.“This is a very important project to the city,” Daniel Johnson, the city engineer, wrote to th
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Suicide Prevention

  19-04-2019 23:21
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, April 21, 2018. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/18/bagley-cartoon-very-not/" target=_blank><u>Not Very Explosive Mueller Report</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/04/18/bagley-cartoon-ruinous/"><u>The Ruinous Green New Deal </u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/
  
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• Sanders goes on offensive defending credibility after report

  19-04-2019 23:18
  Washington • White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to do damage control on her credibility Friday, insisting that she hadn’t intentionally misled the American public about FBI Director James Comey’s firing despite telling the special counsel that her claim that “countless” agents had lost confidence in him was not founded on anything.Sanders, who told special counsel Robert Mueller that her comment during a White House press briefing in May 2017 had been a
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell has been buried in these playoffs, but he will dig out, if history is any kind of guide

  19-04-2019 23:04 via sportspyder.com
  Even superstars sometimes find themselves lost in the fray.
  
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• Donovan Mitchell has been buried in these playoffs, but he will dig out, if history is any kind of guide

  19-04-2019 23:04
  Even superstars sometimes find themselves lost in the fray.That’s exactly where Donovan Mitchell is at the moment, somewhere between still flustered from his first two performances in this first-round playoff series and anxious to revert back to his usual unique mesmerizing self. The 22-year-old Jazz guard has let himself have it, too. He put his hand up after the Jazz lost Game 2 to the Houston Rockets by 20 Wednesday and said he didn’t show up and that it couldn’t happen agai
  
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• [ESPN] - Mitchell vows to be more aggressive vs. Rockets

  19-04-2019 23:03 via sportspyder.com
  Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell said his performance can only get better after losses in the first two games of Utah's series against the Rockets.
  
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• At Salt Lake City’s FanX, comic book artists promote their new creation: A superhero with autism

  19-04-2019 22:56
  Focus is a superhero, a muscular teen who can focus his mind to analyze data and predict the future.Focus also has autism.“His main power is autism,” said Douglas Hebert, one of the chief artists for the independent comic book “Focus,” which is being promoted at FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention this weekend at the Salt Palace Convention Center. It’s one of the many comic titles on display at the convention, vying for attention with artists, authors, celebrities, fan
  
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• Utes’ season-low score sinks them at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships

  19-04-2019 22:47
  Fort Worth, Texas • Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden stood near the balance beam following his team’s competition Friday and shook his head in disappointment at Utah’s fourth-place finish of Session 1 in the NCAA Gymnastics Championships.“We have to figure out how to be in the most pressure moments and compete well,” he said. “The other teams do it.”That thought sums up Utah’s recent frustrations in the NCAA Championships as once again on Friday, th
  
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• ‘A man just fired...at the City-County Building’: 911 calls, videos show Salt Lake City’s distress before a police chase ended in a shootout

  19-04-2019 22:22
  WARNING: Police will release footage from a fatal shooting. Viewer discretion advised.
  Live: Salt Lake City Police are releasing body cam footage from a chase and shootout that ended with the gunman's death at 3300 South State Street.Posted by Fox 13 News on Friday, April 19, 2019Police released body camera videos from an April 8 gunfight in the center of Salt Lake City on Friday, along with surveillance video from six crime scenes that were part of a 4-mile chase that ended with more gunfire a
  
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• [KSL] - A journey back to where John Stockton hit 'The Shot'

  19-04-2019 21:51 via sportspyder.com
  The arena that was home to the Jazz's proudest moments is now a church.
  
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• This 29-year-old Utah County actor, director, screenwriter and songwriter aims to be ‘a female version of Walt Disney’

  19-04-2019 21:48
  Looking at her purse, a large Dooney & Bourke handbag covered with an image from “Cinderella,” one could infer that Savannah Ostler is just a big Walt Disney fan.But this 29-year-old Utah County actor, director, screenwriter, songwriter, producer and one-woman marketing department has something bigger in mind.“I want to be a female version of Walt Disney,” Ostler said, “someone who has her hands in everything and oversees all aspects of her projects.”Ostle
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: The Jazz are lying to themselves because ... they have to

  19-04-2019 21:43 via sportspyder.com
  It seems a flighty, fickle thing, the psyche of playoff basketball.
  
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• Iconic Salt Lake Temple and surrounding square to close for four years for renovation. ‘You will love the results,’ says LDS leader Nelson

  19-04-2019 21:41
  Undertaking a huge overhaul at the heart of Utah, the LDS Church will close its landmark Salt Lake Temple for four years starting Dec. 29 to strengthen the 126-year-old structure against earthquakes, replace several adjoining buildings and give a face-lift to the adjoining plaza and Temple Square, the state’s most visited attraction.On Friday, top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled details about their previously announced plans to upgrade the faith’s
  
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• [Fox Sports] - Rockets take 2-0 lead into game 3 against the Jazz

  19-04-2019 21:40 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets visit the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference first round with a 2-0 lead in the series
  
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• With new location, Modern West gallery hopes to launch an arts district on the west side of Salt Lake City

  19-04-2019 21:36
  As an art collector and gallery owner, Diane Stewart wouldn’t dare attempt to distill the breadth of modern art in the American West into a single work — but if pressed, Jean Richardson’s “Tumbleweed” might do the trick.“This tumbleweed represents, in many ways, the new West, and what’s happening to the West, in good and bad ways,” Stewart said of the artwork, the first one a visitor sees when entering Modern West Fine Art’s new location on d
  
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• Monson: The Jazz are lying to themselves because ... they have to

  19-04-2019 21:31
  It seems a flighty, fickle thing, the psyche of playoff basketball.And don’t the Jazz feel it.But, in reality, the mental is tied to the physical, the psychology to the physiology.After consecutive blowout losses to the Rockets, the kind of ass-kickings, to use Rudy Gobert’s words, that make people wonder what the hell’s the matter with these guys, there’s been a lot of introspection, and ultimately blame, from and among the Jazz aimed squarely at themselves regarding mat
  
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• After not playing soccer for two years, Amanda Laddish ready for any role she can get with Utah Royals FC

  19-04-2019 21:21
  Amanda Laddish thought her soccer days were numbered.But after two full seasons of recovering from a serious hip injury that forced her to undergo two surgeries and contemplate retirement, the Utah Royals midfielder is healthy and ready to play.“It's obviously really, really exciting for me given the fact that this time last year I just wasn’t sure that I be able to play again,” Laddish told The Salt Lake Tribune. “So being able to be back with my team and playing whateve
  
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• California dispute threatens plan to protect Colorado River

  19-04-2019 20:29
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • A dispute between two major California water agencies is threatening to derail a hard-won agreement designed to protect a river that serves 40 million people in the U.S. West.The Imperial Irrigation District, the largest single recipient of Colorado River water, on Tuesday sued a Los Angeles water utility that agreed to contribute most of California’s share of water to a key reservoir under a multistate drought contingency plan.The action came the same day President
  
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• Wolf population declining in Yellowstone National Park

  19-04-2019 20:16
  Powell, Wyo. • Officials say Yellowstone National Park’s gray wolf population has dropped to about 80 wolves — less than half of the highest population mark in the park.The Powell Tribune reported on Thursday that while park officials won't have an accurate count until the fall after surviving pups are visible, the park's top biologist, Doug Smith, doesn't expect the numbers to rise dramatically after litters are included in population estimates.Smith says the survival rate of g
  
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• Traffic, TRAX headaches coming to downtown Salt Lake City as worn-out rails will soon be replaced

  19-04-2019 20:14
  The Utah Transit Authority is about to replace aging tracks and switches in downtown Salt Lake City that will create a month of delays for TRAX passengers — who will need to transfer to shuttles or walk around construction to other stations.It will also block or complicate some east-west traffic downtown, and sometimes impede access to Interstate 15 via 400 South.“This is probably our most significant repair project since TRAX first opened in December 1999,” said UTA Chief Oper
  
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• Idaho, Utah passengers had possible hepatitis A exposure

  19-04-2019 20:13
  Boise, Idaho • Health officials in Idaho say anyone who used an on-board restroom during a Greyhound bus trip from Salt Lake City to Boise on April 10 might have been exposed to hepatitis A.The Central District Health Department in Idaho is asking anyone who used the restroom to contact them to get information about potential exposure.The district says riders on the bus from Utah to Idaho who were exposed could receive a vaccine to protect them from the virus through April 23.Hepatitis A is
  
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• [NBA] - adidas partners with Utah Jazz for Youth Camps and Clinics program

  19-04-2019 19:58 via sportspyder.com
  For now, Donovan Mitchell is the only person who owns a pair of his signature shoes, the adidas D.O.N. Issue #1. But that’s about to change.“I’m excited for it to go on sale,” Mitchell said after
  
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• Salt Lake City police release video of chase through city that ended in shootout

  19-04-2019 19:54
  Police released body camera videos from an April 8 gunfight in the center of Salt Lake City on Friday, along with surveillance video from six different crime scenes that were part of a 4-mile chase that ended with more bullets and the death of the suspect.The suspect cannot be seen on the video, but multiple officers can be seen firing their guns. Near the end of the videos, gunfire can be heard for a 25-second stretch — like something out of a Hollywood movie.Salt Lake City police Capt. J
  
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• Utes get the start they need at the NCAA Gymnastics Championships, score an opening 49.315 on floor to lead after first rotation

  19-04-2019 19:50
  Fort Worth, Texas • Utah’s gymnastics team got the start it needed at the NCAA Championships, opening with a 49.315 on the floor exercise to leadafter the first rotation.Michigan had a 49.3 on the uneven bars, UCLA had a 49.2875 on the vault and LSU had a 49.1875 on the balance beam.Only the top two teams advance to Saturday’s finals.MyKayla Skinner led Utah’s floor efforts with a 9.9375 and MaKenna Merrell-Giles had a 9.875.Overall the scores seemed low for all teams, but
  
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• Iconic Salt Lake Temple to close for four years, as Utah’s most visited square undergoes renovation. See images of the plans.

  19-04-2019 19:41
  Undertaking a huge overhaul at the heart of Utah, the LDS Church will close its landmark Salt Lake Temple for four years starting Dec. 29 to strengthen the 126-year-old structure against earthquakes, replace several adjoining buildings and give a face-lift to the adjoining plaza and Temple Square, the state’s most visited attraction.On Friday, top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled greater details about their previously announced plans to upgrade the faith&
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The Utah Jazz are in the endgame now

  19-04-2019 19:21 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s mightiest heroes are being served a cold dose of reality by the hands of an NBA Celestial
  
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• Salt Lake City police lieutenant demoted after nurse’s arrest loses his appeal

  19-04-2019 19:00
  Salt Lake City’s Civil Service Commission agrees with the police chief’s decision to demote the watch commander who was on duty when a Salt Lake City police officer arrested a University of Utah Hospital nurse in 2017, an incident that drew international attention.Lt. James Tracy was demoted to the rank of officer in September 2017 after Police Chief Mike Brown determined Tracy made the “completely unreasonable” order that Detective Jeff Payne arrest nurse Alex Wubbels on
  
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• Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. closes its season with a goodbye from a famed Utah choreographer

  19-04-2019 18:55
  In a small studio in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, a slight man sitting in a chair watches six dancers shift together. Each dancer moves deliberately, relying on the others to catch him here or push her there. Every now and then, Stephen Koester puts on his glasses to write in his notebook. Then he takes them off to continue to watch the dancers.After the rehearsal is complete, Koester shares his notes. In a precise but compassionate tone, he explains what he wants the dancers to chang
  
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• A new Utah company plans to provide a steady supply of generic drugs that have seen price-gouging and shortages

  19-04-2019 18:53
  A pioneering nonprofit drug company has launched in Utah — and earned one of its founders recognition as one of the “World’s Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine.Intermountain Healthcare CEO Marc Harrison was ranked No. 26 on Fortune’s annual list of 50 of the “World’s Greatest Leaders,” where he is joined by the likes of Bill and Melinda Gates, Robert Mueller and Jordan Peele. Fortune credited Harrison for his work toward solving hospitals’
  
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• Iconic Salt Lake Temple to close for four years. See images of the planned renovation.

  19-04-2019 18:46
  Undertaking a huge overhaul at the heart of Utah, the LDS Church will close its landmark Salt Lake Temple for four years starting Dec. 29 to strengthen the 126-year-old structure against earthquakes, replace several adjoining buildings and give a face-lift to the adjoining plaza and Temple Square, the state’s most visited attraction.On Friday, top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled greater details about their previously announced plans to upgrade the faith&
  
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• Watch live: Salt Lake City police release video of chase through city that ended in shootout

  19-04-2019 18:29
  On April 8, gunfire in the center of Salt Lake City ignited a 4-mile chase that ended with more bullets and the death of the suspect.Friday morning, Salt Lake City police are scheduled to release body camera footage of the shooting. Chief Mike Brown will provide the video and speak to reporters at 10:30 a.m.
  (Courtesy Salt Lake County jail) Harold V. Robinson, Jr.The suspect was Harold Vincent Robinson, 37, of West Valley City. Police have yet to specify how he died, though the chase ended when
  
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• After UDOT finds an unexpected $451 million, big road projects will accelerate or be upgraded

  19-04-2019 18:26
  It’s sort of like digging through the couch cushions for change — except the Utah Department of Transportation just found $451 million doing it.The agency scoured accounts in recent highway projects for any unused money as construction closed out, or for savings on new work that is costing less than long-term budgets had set aside.It found, for example, that a new project to extend the Mountain View Corridor from 4100 South to State Road 201 is costing $140 million less, from unexpec
  
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• Commentary: Freedom is not a zero-sum game

  19-04-2019 17:57
  Democrats could win more votes by confronting the narrative that Republicans advocate for freedom and Democrats advocate for control. That false dichotomy hurts Democrats in rural areas on Election Day.The Republican Party has taken over freedom. Republicans put United States flags on their pickup trucks, barns, hats and pants. They advocate freedom from regulations, freedom from taxes and freedom from the United States government whose flag they wear. These Republicans conceive of freedom as a
  
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• Catherine Rampell: How long does outrage over a murder last? On Wall Street, six months.

  19-04-2019 17:36
  Washington • What’s the expiration date on moral outrage over a gruesome murder?On Wall Street, at least, the answer seems to be roughly six months.Six-and-a-half months ago, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was my colleague at The Washington Post, walked into the Saudi Consulate in Turkey to take care of some paperwork. Then he vanished. In the days and weeks that followed, the world learned that a 15-member hit team dispatched by the Saudi government had strangled the 59-year-o
  
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• Modern West art gallery moves west, launching a ‘destination’ district in the shadow of a Salt Lake City overpass

  19-04-2019 17:34
  As an art collector and gallery owner, Diane Stewart wouldn’t dare attempt to distill the breadth of modern art in the American West into a single work — but if pressed, Jean Richardson’s “Tumbleweed” might do the trick.“This tumbleweed represents, in many ways, the new West, and what’s happening to the West, in good and bad ways,” Stewart said of the artwork, the first one a visitor sees when entering Modern West Fine Art’s new location on d
  
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• George Pyle: When being open-minded becomes a weakness

  19-04-2019 17:31
  “If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. ... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”-- Hannah Arendt, interview in The New York Review of Books, October 26, 1978This is what we are approaching, an era in wh
  
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• Man killed when small plane destined for Utah crashes in California

  19-04-2019 17:19
  The pilot of a small airplane died Thursday night as he was taking off in Fullerton, Calif.He was the only person on board, news outlets in California reported. His destination was the airport in Heber City, Utah, according to the flight plan he filed. The pilot’s name has not been disclosed, though KABC-TV in Los Angeles cited firefighters in reporting the man was in his 50s.The plane was a twin-propeller Beechcraft Duke, the California outlets reported. Fullerton Fire Department Division
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Morning links: Rudy Gobert gets Stephen A. Smith's vote; Andy Phillips' idea for Utah's kicker

  19-04-2019 17:13 via sportspyder.com
  Also, Bryan Kehl reminisces about his boxing win and check out the calendar of sporting events for the weekend.
  
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• [Forbes] - For Donovan Mitchell, The Devil Is In The Details

  19-04-2019 17:11 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are losing to the Houston Rockets in very obvious ways. But if they hope to get back in the series, it's the details - particularly from star Donovan Mitchell - that need to improve.
  
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• Utah keeps creating new jobs — now ranking No. 2 nationally

  19-04-2019 17:09
  Utah’s economy continues to be a powerful job creator — ranking No. 2 nationally between March 2018 and March 2019, data released Friday show.Utah’s job growth rate was 3.0% in that time, ranking behind only behind the 3.4% in neighboring Nevada. Idaho was No. 3 at 2.7%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.Utah added 44,500 jobs over that yearlong period, data show.“Utah has led the nation in its rate of job growth during the nearly 10 years since the Great R
  
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• Morning links: Rudy Gobert gets Stephen A. Smith's vote; Andy Phillips' idea for Utah's kicker

  19-04-2019 16:52
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) talks with the media after practice at the Toyota Center on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 as they prepare for game 2 with the Rockets in Houston.SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz fans who love to hate ESPN's outspoken Stephen A. Smith will have more love than hate for his choice for NBA Defensive Player of the Year.After giving props to DPOY candidates Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and Draymond Green, Smith said the race boils down to two choices as far as he's concerned.
  
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• Political Cornflakes: George Conway: ‘excise that cancer’ and impeach Trump

  19-04-2019 16:32
  Happy Friday! Kellyanne Conway is a staunch defender of her boss, President Donald Trump, and frequently appears on TV to tout his presidency. Her husband is another story. In an op-ed published in The Washington Post, George Conway says it’s time to impeach Trump. He’s a conservative lawyer but says Congress needs to remove this “cancer” on the presidency. [WaPost]Topping the news: A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to stop Utah from enforcing a law that res
  
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• Provo man charged with beating his puppy

  19-04-2019 16:20
  A Provo man who reportedly beat his puppy is facing a felony charge.Eric John Taylor, 32, has been charged in Fourth District Court with torture of a companion animal, a third-degree felony.According to charging documents, Taylor “repeatedly beat” his 9-month-old Labrador between March 1 and April 10. In one instance, he “beat the dog's head against the concrete floor of a garage, causing the dog to have a golf-ball sized lump on his head the next day.”One of Taylor&rsquo
  
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• A ‘computer glitch’ may have started the Notre Dame fire

  19-04-2019 15:44
  Paris • A “computer glitch” may have been behind the fast-spreading fire that ravaged Notre Dame, the cathedral’s rector said Friday, as architects and construction workers tried to figure out how to stabilize the damaged structure and protect it from the elements.The fire burned through the lattice of enormous oak beams supporting the monument’s vaulted stone ceiling, dangerously weakening the building. The surrounding neighborhood has been blocked off, and stones h
  
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• Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against the president

  19-04-2019 15:36
  Washington • The report from special counsel Robert Mueller III lays out in alarming detail abundant evidence against President Donald Trump, finding 10 “episodes” of potential obstruction of justice but ultimately concluding it was not Mueller’s role to determine whether the commander in chief broke the law.Submitted to Congress on Thursday, the 448-page document alternates between jarring scenes of presidential scheming and dense legal analysis, and it marks the onset of
  
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• Man killed when mall plane destined for Utah crashes in California

  19-04-2019 15:20
  The pilot of a small airplane died Thursday night as he was taking off in Fullerton, Calif.He was the only person on board, news outlets in California reported. His destination was the airport in Heber City, Utah, according to the flight plan he filed. The pilot’s name has not been disclosed, though KABC-TV in Los Angeles cited firefighters in reporting the man was in his 50s.The plane was a twin-propeller Beechcraft Duke, the California outlets reported. Fullerton Fire Department Division
  
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• Modern West art gallery moves farther west, launching a ‘destination’ district in the shadow of a Salt Lake City overpass

  19-04-2019 15:14
  As an art collector and gallery owner, Diane Stewart wouldn’t dare attempt to distill the breadth of modern art in the American West into a single work — but if pressed, Jean Richardson’s “Tumbleweed” might do the trick.“This tumbleweed represents, in many ways, the new West, and what’s happening to the West, in good and bad ways,” Stewart said of the artwork, the first one a visitor sees entering Modern West Fine Art’s new location on downto
  
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• Kirby: Remembering when Utah tried to outlaw football, before lawmakers were told to take a hike.

  19-04-2019 15:07
  History — particularly Utah history — is a favorite pastime. I love reading old newspapers as a way of seeing what everyday life was like in earlier times.A lot of the news wasn’t pretty. Crime, racism, religious spats and other behaviors were alive and well in a society that, like today, was similarly incapable of getting over itself.Dire warnings issued by religious and social experts predicted all sorts of calamities if women were given the vote (or even allowed to become do
  
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• Letter: Utah should welcome migrants

  19-04-2019 15:00
  Gov. Herbert and members of the Utah Legislature,I dare you to raise your hands and welcome some of those homeless migrants as a caring Republican “safe city”! Don’t let the Democrats outshine you all with their acceptance, as the mayor of Oakland has done.John Schneider, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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