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• In the wake of another NCAA Gymnastics Championship collapse, Utes will re-evaluate what they’re doing

  20-04-2019 23:48
  Fort Worth, Texas • Following his team’s latest disappointing result in the NCAA Championships, Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden acknowledged he and co-coach Megan Marsden have yet to figure out how to get the best out of their team on the sport’s biggest stage.“We have to learn how to deal with that pressure,” he said.That thought is why Utah’s success going forward might be about coaching tactics as much as it is about talent. The Utes, who finished seventh o
  
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• Zookeeper hospitalized after tiger attack at Topeka Zoo

  20-04-2019 23:00
  Topeka, Kansas • City officials say a tiger mauled a zookeeper at the Topeka Zoo in northeastern Kansas.The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the incident happened around 9:30 a.m. Saturday, when a Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv tackled the worker in an enclosed outdoor space.Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the zookeeper suffered lacerations and puncture wounds to her head, neck and back. Wiley says she was awake and alert when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital and was in stable con
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah can’t go cheap on mental health services

  20-04-2019 23:00
  Utah’s elected leaders have held self-congratulatory press conferences in ornate rooms, appointed serious-minded task forces, rolled out a genuinely inventive smartphone app, furrowed their collective brows and felt our pain.Good for them. Really.The one thing they refuse to do in dealing with the state’s very real, and growing, mental health crisis is put up the necessary amounts of money to really help people in great need.Sound familiar?A recent report from the Office of the Legis
  
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• George Chapman: SLC plan for low-income housing has some problems

  20-04-2019 22:45
  Tuesday there will be a public hearing on a proposal by Salt Lake City to encourage Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residences throughout the city. Although the proposed ordinance does not allow them in single family zoned areas, almost all other areas, including adjacent areas, will be allowed to have SROs.SROs are small living units that function like dorms with shared bathrooms with one “water closet” (toilet) for 10 residents and one shower or bath for eight residents. SRO rooms can
  
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• Margaret Sullivan: Trump and Fox News are the conjoined twins of misinformation

  20-04-2019 22:28
  It's no secret that Fox News and the Trump administration are deeply entwined with each other: They are the conjoined twins of misinformation.So it hardly raised an eyebrow when the president took to Twitter on Thursday to urge everyone to tune in to Fox for Attorney General William Barr's (misleading) prelude to the release of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.The results were predictable: Fox's early news coverage was somewhat straight - kept so largely by the presence of Fox's desi
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run podcast: A special guest helps break down the Jazz’s 2-0 deficit

  20-04-2019 22:20 via sportspyder.com
  After the Jazz lost their first two 2019 postseason games by a combined 52 points, The Tribune’s Jazz coverage team of Eric Walden and Andy Larsen had plenty of questions.
  
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• Weekly Run podcast: A special guest helps break down the Jazz’s 2-0 deficit

  20-04-2019 22:06
  After the Jazz lost their first two 2019 postseason games by a combined 52 points, The Tribune’s Jazz coverage team of Eric Walden and Andy Larsen had plenty of questions.So they turned to a third person to for some of the answers: Aaron Falk — former Jazz beat writer for The Tribune and now feature writer for utahjazz.com.We collectively break down the series’ first two games, look ahead to what adjustments might be made for Game 3, and relive a few past glories — all in
  
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• Ricky Rubio says Rockets have a championship mentality that the Jazz need to learn and match

  20-04-2019 22:00
  There’s been so much talk in the days following the Jazz’s second straight blowout defeat at the hands of the Rockets about the team’s mentality.The need to come out with an attitude of toughness, of aggressiveness, of physicality, of urgency, et cetera, et cetera.At Saturday morning’s shootaround at Zions Bank Basketball Campus, Ricky Rubio had a different mentality in mind. Almost exactly 10 hours before the start of Game 3, the point guard said one of the big differenc
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Ricky Rubio says Rockets have a championship mentality that the Jazz need to learn and match

  20-04-2019 21:37 via sportspyder.com
  There’s been so much talk in the days following the Jazz’s second straight blowout defeat at the hands of the Rockets about the team’s mentality.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ricky Rubio discusses the changes Jazz must make on offense entering Game 3 vs. Rockets

  20-04-2019 21:07 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have not exactly looked their best thus far in their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Houston Rockets, dropping Game 1 by 22 points and losing Game 2 by 20. Jazz point guard Ricky Rubio understands that his...
  
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• Commentary: How a reasonable person became a pro-gun zealot

  20-04-2019 20:27
  Many people have written letters wanting to know the answer to Ron Molen’s recent op-ed piece, “How do reasonable people become gun zealots?”I was a 29-year-old stay-at-home mom with a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University when I became a gun zealot.I didn’t propose a Green New Deal, but I did help propose new pro-gun laws to the Utah Legislature and in Washington, D.C.Although I was raised in small town Idaho, guns were considered mostly a “guy&rdqu
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Ricky Rubio feels Houston Rockets ‘have a mentality to win a championship’ that Utah Jazz can learn from

  20-04-2019 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  Rubio averaged 16.0 points, 7.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds on 42 percent shooting in the first two games of the Rockets series, but more importantly has been the primary defender on Harden.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz among bad company after dropping 1st two playoff games by 20+ points

  20-04-2019 20:22 via sportspyder.com
  Has an NBA team come back to win 1st round series after losing two games by 20+ points?
  
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• The Columbine High School shooting’s 20th anniversary is commemorated with memorials and vigils

  20-04-2019 20:21
  Twenty years ago Saturday, two gunmen claimed the lives of 13 victims and marked the beginning of an era in which America has repeatedly been forced to reckon with the threat of school shootings. Since the Columbine High School massacre, more than 226,000 students at 233 schools have been impacted by school shootings, according to a Washington Post analysis.On April 20, 1999, two Columbine seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out a planned attack at their high school using a combinati
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz guard Ricky Rubio says Rockets looks like a championship team

  20-04-2019 20:21 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets have jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Utah Jazz, thumping the Jazz by 22 points in Game 1 and following that up with a 20-point win in Game 2. Utah point guard...
  
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• A Utah man was convicted of several charges, including killing a police dog, in a case that helped change the law

  20-04-2019 20:06
  A Utah defendant could spend the rest of his life in prison for weapons charges, but it’s the conviction for killing a police dog that drew a special audience during the trial.Friday, a jury in Salt Lake City convicted Torey Chase Massey, 30, of five counts, including a charge for the killing a Unified Police Department dog named Dingo in 2017. The Belgian Malinois’ handler, Chad Reyes, sat through the four-day trial.“It was a very difficult week reliving all the experiences I
  
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• Ricky Rubio feels Houston Rockets ‘have a mentality to win a championship’ that Utah Jazz can learn from

  20-04-2019 20:05
  Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon passes the ball as he drives against Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) and guard Ricky Rubio (3) during the first half of Game 2 of a first-round NBA basketball playoff series in Houston, Wednesday, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)David J. PhillipSALT LAKE CITY — Ricky Rubio is often mild-mannered in the spotlight, but after the Utah Jazz's Game 2 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday, the Spanish floor general displayed a more combative disp
  
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• In the wake of another NCAA Championship collapse, Utes will re-evaluate what they’re doing

  20-04-2019 19:54
  Fort Worth, Texas • Following his team’s latest disappointing result in the NCAA Championships, Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden acknowledged he and co-coach Megan Marsden have yet to figure out how to get the best out of their team on the sport’s biggest stage.“We have to learn how to deal with that pressure,” he said.That thought is why Utah’s success going forward might be about coaching tactics as much as it is about talent. The Utes, who finished seventh o
  
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• Man convicted of using decorative sword to kill Utah woman

  20-04-2019 19:30
  St. George • A 29-year-old man faces up to life in prison after being convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of a St. George woman in her apartment.The Spectrum reports that jurors Friday convicted 29-year-old Kevin Ray Mcatlin of first-degree murder in the June 2018 killing of 33-year-old Elizabeth Carter.Mcatlin didn't dispute he killed Carter but defense attorney Edward Flint argued that special mitigation circumstances existed that would have resulted in Mcatlin being convicted of ma
  
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• They woke up to screams. Outside, a dingo had their toddler.

  20-04-2019 19:21
  A family’s camping trip to Fraser Island in northeastern Australia was interrupted early Friday by the cries of their 14-month-old child — a disturbance that is not uncommon in households with toddlers.But the boy's parents made an unimaginable discovery upon waking up to comfort their son: He was no longer in their camper van. Their panic was probably compounded by the fading volume of the boy's screams, which emerged from outside the trailer and were "becoming more distant."The Syd
  
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• In case that changed Utah law, man convicted of killing police dog, more serious crimes, too

  20-04-2019 19:19
  A Utah defendant could spend the rest of his life in prison for weapons charges, but it’s the conviction for killing a police dog that drew a special audience during the trial.A jury in Salt Lake City convicted Torey Chase Massey, 30, of five counts, including a charge for the killing a Unified Police Department dog named Dingo in 2017. The Belgian Malinois’ handler, Chad Reyes, sat through the four-day trial.“It was a very difficult week reliving all the experiences I went thr
  
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• Judge: Resumption of US coal sales by Trump needs review

  20-04-2019 19:00
  Billings, Mont. • A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration failed to consider potential damage to the environment from its decision to resume coal sales from U.S. lands, but the court stopped short of halting future sales.U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Montana said Interior Department officials had wrongly avoided an environmental review of their action by describing it "as a mere policy shift." In so doing, officials ignored the environmental effects of selling hu
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Potential 3-0 hole looms as Jazz host Rockets

  20-04-2019 18:11 via sportspyder.com
  A loss today won’t end the series, but it also will. So Utah will try to avoid that.
  
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• Taboo of interfaith marriage fades as more Utah couples celebrate Easter and Passover

  20-04-2019 18:03
  To say it’s been a busy week for Stephen Washburn would be like calling the Cathedral of the Madeleine that pretty church on the corner.Washburn arrived each day at 4 a.m. at Holladay’s Great Harvest Bread Co., which he owns, to help prepare the usual assortment of whole wheat loaves, baguettes, croissants and rolls (plus challah bread) on top of seasonal items, including hot cross buns, honey bunny centerpieces, and egg-shaped frosted sugar cookies for this weekend’s Easter ce
  
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• New BYU basketball coach Mark Pope’s challenge: Overcome various institutional barriers to lift a proud program that has stagnated, seen better days

  20-04-2019 18:00
  Provo • Ten or eleven days after he retired as BYU’s head men’s basketball coach, Dave Rose sat down for lunch with then-prospective Cougar coach Mark Pope in Minneapolis, site of the Final Four, and answered any and all questions about the program that his former assistant would inherit a few days later.Oh, to have been privy to what was discussed.Pope offered few details when he was asked about it at his introductory news conference on April 10, but whatever Rose said didn&rsq
  
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• Despite earlier vows that tax hike funds would go to improve buses and roads, $400K now going to a study that may advance a $1.2B TRAX expansion

  20-04-2019 17:37
  Utah Transit Authority officials insist they are not breaking a vow to voters not to use money from a recent sales tax hike to build additional expensive train routes, but instead spend it mostly to improve neighborhood bus service.Still, through a complicated shifting of funds with Salt Lake County and Draper, $400,000 from that tax increase will go to help fund a study needed to advance a proposed $1 billion-plus TRAX expansion in the area where the state prison is scheduled to close in 2022.&
  
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• Northern Ireland police arrest 2 in killing of journalist

  20-04-2019 17:25
  London • Police in Northern Ireland arrested two teenagers Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting of a young journalist during rioting in the city of Londonderry.The men, aged 18 and 19, were detained under anti-terrorism legislation and taken to Belfast for questioning, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.The men have not been identified or charged. Police had said earlier that one gunman had pulled the trigger during the rioting but was backed by an "organization," and sai
  
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• Law allowing salvage of roadkill proves popular

  20-04-2019 17:15
  Salem, Ore. • Three months in, Oregonians have embraced a new law that lets them claim for food deer and elk killed along the state’s highways.More than 200 permits were issued by March 31, and primarily where expected: rural areas with an abundant supply of both wildlife and motorists. Urban areas and far-flung, sparsely populated counties, not so much.The law allows people to take deer and elk killed by vehicles, whether their own or someone else's. Other animal species are not incl
  
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• Pilot who died in California plane crash identified as Utah man

  20-04-2019 17:02
  Fullerton, Calif. • A pilot killed in a fiery plane crash at a Southern California airport has been identified as a 48-year-old Utah man.The Orange County Sheriff's Department identified the pilot as Robert Kenner Ellis. Though it wasn't immediately clear where in Utah he's from, his flight plan had him landing just outside Salt Lake City in Heber City.
  In this aerial image taken from video provided by KABC-TV, a twin-engine plane crashed while departing from a runway and burned at Fullerto
  
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• It’s a-maze-ing what $5,000 can do. Modest grant may help Utah family save a century-old corn farm.

  20-04-2019 17:02
  Holladay • A $5,000 grant will go a long way in helping Kara Lewis and her family preserve their 100-year-old farm.The co-owner of Glen Ray’s Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch in Spanish Fork said the money — which she won this week in a statewide competition for women-owned businesses — will be used to create an outdoor classroom to teach children about agriculture and where food is grown and raised.In January, 115 female business owners submitted applications for the grant com
  
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• [ESPN] - Lowe: James Harden is breaking the blueprint that embarrassed him

  20-04-2019 16:56 via sportspyder.com
  Here's how Houston's superstar has transformed his game since the lowest moment of his career.
  
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• [Franchise Sports] - Karl-Anthony Towns vs Rudy Gobert: Who deserves third team All-NBA?

  20-04-2019 16:31 via sportspyder.com
  Karl Anthony-Towns is a candidate for an All-NBA spot at centre. Towns earns over $30 million more if he is selected ahead of Rudy Gobert and others.
  
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• Rich Lowry: Sorry, Democrats, but your stars are socialists

  20-04-2019 15:06
  There was Bernie Sanders at a Fox News Channel town hall, not giving an inch in a forum every Democratic presidential candidate has shunned.His reward was a cataract of good reviews, and monster ratings. Sanders had a solid hour to try to reach people not favorably inclined to his worldview, at the very least demonstrating that he's willing to show up outside his political silo.Why hadn't any of the other Democrats done it before? Because they lacked the verve and ideological self-confidence of
  
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• Letter: The party of Lincoln and Reagan has disappeared

  20-04-2019 15:00
  The Grand Old Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Warren and Reagan has disappeared.Abraham Lincoln and Earl Warren are the two great pillars of our civil rights history, but the party has replaced the ideal of civil rights with support for blatant racism.Teddy Roosevelt was the founder of the modern progressive movement, but the party has replaced progressivism and moderation with an adherence to the alt-right.Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the undue power and influence of the milita
  
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• Letter: Respect the results of the San Juan County election

  20-04-2019 15:00
  San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams has made a jaw-dropping, tone-deaf proposal.At the April 16 commission meeting, he insisted that the Navajo-majority San Juan County Commission not take any action related to the Bears Ears National Monument issue, as the monument is too “controversial" in the county. Adams thinks a 2020 ballot referendum on all issues related to the monument is required.The proposal is laughably ironic, given the history of Bears Ears issues in the county and Adams
  
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• Letter: I’m tuning into classical music until there’s real news from Mueller

  20-04-2019 15:00
  And KUER-FM wonders why it didn't reach its fundraising goal this month. It seems that every NPR program has to throw in its two cents of ongoing and repetitive babble about the Mueller probe without anything relevant being released. Enough already!My radio dial will remain on classical music coming from down the road in Provo until NPR can come up with something substantial to tell us. It's far more soothing.John Schneider, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Guantanamo is a microcosm of what the U.S. has become

  20-04-2019 15:00
  A few days ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out every pre-trial order issued over the past three-and-a-half years and every ruling on appeal of those orders in the case of Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Al-Nashiri, the accused USS Cole bomber who was being tried by a military commission at Guantanamo.It was discovered that the former trial judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, was concurrently applying for a position with the Justice Department as an immigration judge. Both
  
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• Letter: Congress, have the courage to stand up to Trump

  20-04-2019 15:00
  The Mueller report says, “The President’s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests.”Perhaps Utah’s congressional delegation, like those who disobeyed Trump, will find some courage.They can call out Trump’s daily lies, his incoherent tweets, his misplaced admiration of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, his relentless insult
  
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• Holly Richardson: Our own Fridays and the hope of Easter Sunday

  20-04-2019 15:00
  For the world’s 2.19 billion Christians, Easter Sunday, marks the holiest day in Christianity — the day that the tomb was empty. Jesus Christ had risen in triumph over physical death. Before that triumphant day came the Last Supper, Gethsemane, a cruel betrayal, a mock trial and death on a wooden cross. For Christians, the act of Jesus’s Atonement is one that we believe paid the price of our sins. We often say that we know that He atoned for the whole human family — but s
  
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• Anne Applebaum: Trump is not vindicated. I am.

  20-04-2019 14:30
  The Mueller report has been published - and I am vindicated.But not only me: Everyone who began writing about the weird connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government in the spring and summer of 2016, is vindicated. As it turns out, the Russian attempts to assist the Trump campaign were deep and broad, and those who described them, even if tentatively at first, were right to do so.For me, the turning point was Trump's decision to hire Paul Manafort, who I kne
  
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• [ESPN] - Living in Australia, Brett Brown once stole eggs from an emu's nest for an omelet

  20-04-2019 13:42 via sportspyder.com
  The rise of Brett Brown and the rise of basketball in Australia paralleled each other. Many of the Australians in the NBA -- past and present -- have ties to Brown, including Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons.
  
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• [Torn By Sports] - Episode 188: NBA Playoffs Round 1

  20-04-2019 09:41 via sportspyder.com
  We breakdown first round action of the NBA Playoffs. Also, we look back on our 2018-19 season predictions. John reviews The Mustang.
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Rubio Wants Jazz To “Man Up” On Defense

  20-04-2019 08:11 via sportspyder.com
  And unlike many of the shots taken by Jazz players that evening, these ones landed. If youre not 100%, you already lose the battle. Weve got to play, play by play. Thirty.
  
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• Arrests made after body found in the road

  20-04-2019 07:09
  West Valley City • Police arrested two people after a man was found dead on a West Valley City road earlier this week.Police said Hairon Freyre-Portuondo, 20, was apparently run over by a vehicle, according to FOX 13. His body was found at 9 p.m. Tuesday.Police announced Friday the arrests of Keirsten Tomasini, 22, and Anthony Borge, 19, in connection with Freyre-Portuondo’s death.Detectives identified the potential driver of the vehicle that struck Freyre-Portuondo as Tomasini and br
  
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• Southern Utah environmental group sues feds over public lands leased for oil and gas development in Alkali Ridge

  20-04-2019 07:07
  A southern Utah environmental group is suing the U.S. Department of Interior and Bureau of Land Management over its leasing public lands with plentiful remainders of ancient civilization for oil and gas development, and is asking the court to vacate the lease sales.The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, or SUWA, alleges the departments didn’t properly analyze how leasing the land for oil and gas development in an area of southern Utah, known as the Alkali Ridge, could affect the cultural r
  
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• Christians mark Good Friday with procession through streets of Salt Lake City

  20-04-2019 04:32
  Utahns united to mark the start of western Christianity’s holiest weekend of the year — made even more poignant after this week’s devastating fire at Paris’ Notre Dame — with a Good Friday procession through the heart of Salt Lake City.The event, highlighting Holy Week activities and culminating with Easter Sunday services, began on the steps of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple.The procession, symbolically retracing Jesus’ steps to the cross
  
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• Real Salt Lake earns first road win of season in 3-0 shutout over FC Cincinnati

  20-04-2019 04:17
  As Albert Rusnák executed a tackle, he made hip-to-hip contact with his defender and fell to the ground, bracing his fall with both hands. When he rose to his feet, he noticed something off about the ring finger on his left hand: It bent to one side in the most unnatural of ways. But trainers put his finger back in place, taped it up and he was no worse for the wear. Although the pain started to set in, Rusnák scored two goals soon afterward and led Real Salt Lake to a 3-0 win Frid
  
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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

  20-04-2019 03:41
  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] - Vivint Arena all dressed up in 'City' colors for Utah Jazz playoff opener

  20-04-2019 03:09 via sportspyder.com
  Honoring the time-honored tradition of the Utah Jazz postseason, more than 200 Jazz employees converged on Vivint Smart Home Arena to prepare the home court for Saturday’s Game 3 against the Houston Rockets.
  
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• Jazz forward Kyle Korver working his way back to full health

  20-04-2019 02:55
  Kyle Korver played just two minutes and 14 seconds in Game 2 on Wednesday night, and it was understandable: He was clearly off his game. While he did get two shots up in those two minutes, one was an airball.But Korver felt confident on Friday that he’d be able to turn it around in the series.“I did the most in practice I’ve done in a bunch of weeks, so that’s encouraging," said Korver, who has been slowed by a sore right knee in recent weeks. “I’ll be ready w
  
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