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• Herbert unveils massive Utah renewable energy project, draws praise from Trump official, protests from climate activists

  30-05-2019 23:54
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday announced the formation of a partnership that is expected to result in the world’s largest “clean energy storage” project, to be developed in underground salt domes in Millard County.This rural Utah investment, known as Advanced Clean Energy Storage, “demonstrates the power of the forward-looking energy policy” he has advanced, said Herbert during his annual Energy Summit in Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel, where climate
  
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• Ute basketball staff adds veteran assistant Donny Daniels and a Costa Rican coach, whose son is a big-time player

  30-05-2019 23:44
  Utah basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak will field likely the youngest team in the program’s history in 2019-20, explaining why he would add a “great skill-development coach” to his staff.The latest evidence of Henry Martinez's impact includes his sons, one who plays for Cal State Northridge and another who's among the West's top recruits in the class of 2020.High-scoring guard Ian Martinez’s reported commitment to Utah this week is probably not coincidental, in that cont
  
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• Outside investigation into Sandy City water crisis determines the city should have warned residents sooner

  30-05-2019 23:43
  An investigation into Sandy City’s response to contamination of part of its water supply earlier this year found the city violated technical notice rules and should have warned residents sooner.Many Sandy residents had expressed frustration that they were allowed to drink possibly tainted water for a week before they heard about the problems, which began because of a power outage at one of the city’s wells in February.While experts say fluoride is beneficial in small doses, unsafe le
  
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• Police identify body found in Logan as Lizzy Shelley; grandfather says her uncle, who has been charged for her murder, didn’t show ‘violent tendencies’

  30-05-2019 23:38
  Update: Logan police have identified the body found Wednesday as the remains of 5-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley, according to a tweet from the department.Logan City Poice Department can now affirmatively state, the human remains discovered yesterday are that of Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelly.
  Again, our heart goes out to the Whipple family.— Logan City Police (@Logancitypolice) May 30, 2019---Police said they believe they found the body of 5-year-old Elizabeth &ldquo
  
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• Letter: It is wrong to treat BYU golfers differently

  30-05-2019 23:33
  Religious freedom strikes again.The NCAA made a terrible decision to let Brigham Young University’s golf team play a round of the finals tournament on Thursday instead of Sunday due to the Mormons refusal to join the rest of the world.Weather is a huge factor in golf. It’s not indoors. It may be windy, cold, rainy, a large number of factors that affect the golfers’ game on a given day. Allowing this religious group to play under different rules is an affront to the entire compe
  
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• Letter: Chater schools can fill a need in education

  30-05-2019 23:32
  I am writing in response to The Salt Lake Tribune editorial of May 12, “Utah’s charter school system needs to stop encouraging longshots.”Four of my grandchildren have been attending American International School of Utah. Granted it has problems, but it also had great potential.There they have learned time-management, self-direction, out-of-the-box thinking, respect and camaraderie for those different from them, taking responsibility for themselves, etc. Some of these may be la
  
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• Letter: Romney missed a chance to be a leader

  30-05-2019 23:31
  Sen. Mitt Romney missed the opportunity to be a leader that Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., took.Unfortunately, Romney, like many others, is so zeroed in on obstruction of justice by Donald Trump (for which the Mueller Report has ample evidence) that they are forgetting all the other potential high crimes and misdemeanors.For one thing, look at the wholesale corruption throughout Trump's administration. There are not only his own actions, such as, but not limited to, using his properties and busines
  
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• Letter: An excellent Opinion section

  30-05-2019 23:31
  Congratulations. The entire Sunday, May 26, Opinion section was excellent. Well thought out, and fact-based pieces.Also, a shout out to Marina Gomberg.Joanne Saltas, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump has been doing cover-ups his whole life

  30-05-2019 23:30
  What? Donald Trump says he never does “cover-ups”?What has he been doing all of his adult life, and maybe earlier, if not covering up? Add that lie to the documented more than 7,000 lies he has told since becoming president.What do you call his cover-up paying off Stormy Daniels and perhaps others we do not know about. That was a one big cover-up.I read recently that the bigger the lie, the more it will be believed. And Trump has told some mighty big lies.And why is he afraid to have
  
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• Letter: Let’s see, where have we heard assertions of innocence like Trump’s before?

  30-05-2019 23:30
  Deja vu.“I am not a crook.” Richard Nixon, 1973“I don’t do cover-ups.” Donald Trump, 2019John Walker, MillcreekSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: It is difficult to criticize police in shooting situations

  30-05-2019 23:28
  I read the recent Salt Lake Tribune story about the officers not being charged in the fatal shooting of the Glendale rapper, Cody Belgard.Like anyone, I wondered initially how the police could have done this. Then I read the second paragraph, noting that Cody was probably holding a cell phone when he was shot.I remembered the opportunity that I had some years back to take a nine-week Citizens Academy with Unified Police Department. One of the last classes was at the gun range where we got to exp
  
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• Silicon Valley couple identified as victims in Wayne County plane crash

  30-05-2019 23:18
  A California couple has been identified as the victims who were killed in a small-plane crash last week in southern Utah.Christian C. Simonsen was the pilot of the Cirrus SR22 small plane that crashed sometime before 11:20 a.m. Friday, May 24. His wife, Lyn Ann Anderson-Simonsen, was the passenger. Both are from Morgan Hill, Calif., a residential community at the southern tip of Silicon Valley.After calls from witnesses who heard an explosion, crews from the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office f
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: J. Howard, Jazz, Nuggets, Noel

  30-05-2019 23:10 via sportspyder.com
  Before he reached a deal to become the new head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Juwan Howard reportedly drew interest …
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Bring a Gun to a Gun Fight

  30-05-2019 22:43
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, May 31, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/29/bagley-cartoon-sick/" target=_blank><u>Sick and Twisted</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/28/bagley-cartoon-american/"><u>American Tragic</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/05/24/bagley-cartoon-m
  
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• Leon Redbone, acclaimed 1970s musician, dies

  30-05-2019 22:38
  New York • Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died Thursday, according to a statement released by his family.No details about his death were provided.Redbone's career got a boost in the early 1970s when Bob Dylan met him at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario, Canada, and praised his performance. Dylan said that if he ever started a label, he would have signed Redbone."Leon interests me," Dylan said in an interview w
  
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• [NBA] - Georges Niang says this was the closest team he's been a part of: 'These guys actually care'

  30-05-2019 22:12 via sportspyder.com
  Georges Niang isn’t known as a defensive stopper, but it was a defensive highlight that might best illustrate the forward’s season.Back in January, Niang ran the length of the court, chased down
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Body of 5-year-old Elizabeth Shelley has been found and her uncle charged with her murder

  30-05-2019 22:03
  A tragedy unfolds in Logan after the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl. With needle exchanges legal, some local health advocates think it’s time for safe-injection sites for people with addictions. And an ax-throwing venue finds a workaround to get a recreational license to serve beer.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, and reporters Bethany Rodgers and Kathy Stephenson join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Eve
  
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• Red All Over: Donnie Tillman’s return is a big boost to Ute basketball, and so is this prep guard’s commitment

  30-05-2019 22:02
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Standing in the locker room after Utah’s quarterfinal loss to Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament in March, Ute forward Donnie Tillman promised to become “more of a leader” in 2019-20.Tillman’s veteran presence will be needed this season, when the Utes have only one other junior — guard Alfonso Plummer, a junior college transfer — on a roster with no seniors. That’s amo
  
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• Logan first responders left with emotional toll and trauma after finding body of Elizabeth Shelley

  30-05-2019 22:00
  The search for Elizabeth Shelley and the discovery of her body hit the Logan community hard, leaving her family and loved ones to mourn. But now that the suspect has been charged, what about the first responders and police who now must deal with the trauma of finding the body of the five-year-old girl?According to FOX 13, several officers who took part in locating Lizzy’s remains on Wednesday needed to walk away and take a moment to themselves. Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen told FOX 13 no
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Georges Niang: 'I don't think people will ever understand how close we really were'

  30-05-2019 21:54 via sportspyder.com
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• Yoeli Childs explains why he’s returning for his senior year: ‘I just want to go all out, and make something special happen for BYU’

  30-05-2019 21:32
  Provo • Yoeli Childs won the news conference.Dressed to the nines in a suit and blue tie, the face of BYU basketball explained why, for the second straight offseason, he chose to stay as No. 23 in Provo. Childs isn’t going pro. Not yet. Instead, in a room filled with teammates, coaches and family members, the senior-to-be explained why he isn’t pursuing the money and what he wants out of his last season as a Cougar.“I just want to go all out,” Childs said, “and
  
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• Herriman High claims another 6A softball championship

  30-05-2019 21:17
  Taylorsville • The Herriman High softball team won the 6A softball championship Thursday with a resounding 9-3 win over Layton at Norma Carr Field on Salt Lake City Community College’s Taylorsville campus.Herriman used a six-run third inning to beak the game open after trailing 1-0. A run in the fourth and two in the sixth gave Herriman a 9-1 advantage. Herriman pitcher Libby Parkinson hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the third that starting the scoring and gave her team a lead it
  
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• 7 dead, 21 missing after South Korean tour boat sinks in Hungary

  30-05-2019 20:48
  Budapest, Hungary • Rescue crews in Hungary’s capital were preparing to raise a sightseeing boat from the bottom of the Danube River Thursday as search teams scoured the waters for 21 people missing after the vessel, packed with South Korean tourists, collided with a larger cruise ship and sank.Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, all of them South Koreans, Hungarian officials said. Hungary's state TV reported that all those rescued have been released from the hospi
  
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• With a 56% raise, Ute defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley joins Andy Ludwig among Pac-12’s highest-paid assistant coaches

  30-05-2019 20:46
  In the process of landing Andy Ludwig as the football program’s offensive coordinator, the University of Utah has awarded defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley a matching salary.Scalley received a 56% raise to $820,000 annually in the two-year contract he signed Feb. 1, three weeks after Ludwig’s arrival on campus, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.Utah typically doesn’t make any announcement about contract agreements for assistant coaches in any sport. In response to The Tribun
  
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• Utah-BYU kickoff: 8:15 p.m. Aug. 29 in Provo, televised by ESPN

  30-05-2019 20:46
  The Aug. 29 football season opener between Utah and BYU will kick off at 8:15 p.m. in Provo to accommodate an ESPN telecast, the schools announced Thursday.The rivalry game, being played in August for the first time, is part of a Thursday night doubleheader on ESPN. Utah hopes to match the longest winning streak for either school in the rivalry with a ninth straight victory, after rallying for a 35-27 win last November.The Utes will play at the other end of the TV window in their second game, ho
  
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• I-80 ramp from Salt Lake City International Airport is closing for two months

  30-05-2019 20:46
  Getting from the airport to downtown Salt Lake City, other parts of the eastern Salt Lake Valley and major freeways is going to be trickier during the next two months.Beginning as early as Friday night and continuing through the end of July, the Utah Department of Transportation is closing the ramp from The Salt Lake City International Airport to I-80 eastbound.Motorists heading east from the airport can go south on Bangerter Highway, then east on SR-201. Alternatively, UDOT suggests traveling w
  
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• Lizzy Shelley’s grandfather says her uncle, who has been charged for her murder, didn’t show ‘violent tendencies’

  30-05-2019 18:50
  Police said they believe they found the body of 5-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzy” Shelley on Wednesday afternoon, after negotiations with her uncle, who has been charged with her murder.Lizzy had been missing for five days when prosecutors charged 21-year-old Alex Whipple on Wednesday with aggravated murder, child kidnapping, obstructing justice and abuse or desecration of a human body in the disappearance of his niece. Investigators had not found Lizzy’s body when charges were file
  
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• Trump lashes special counsel after he says no exoneration

  30-05-2019 18:02
  Washington • President Donald Trump blasted special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday, calling him a “never Trumper” who led a biased investigation on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and failed to investigate his opponents who didn’t want Trump to be president.Trump’s eruption came a day after Mueller pointedly rejected his repeated claims that he was cleared of obstruction of justice allegations and that the two-year inquiry was merely a “wit
  
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• Utah Royals’ Lo’eau LaBonta suspended two games by NWSL

  30-05-2019 17:58
  Sandy • Utah Royals FC Lo’eau LaBonta has received a two-game suspension from the National Women’s Soccer League’s disciplinary committee.LaBonta, who has started every game for the Royals this season, was found to have kicked the shin of an opposing Orlando Pride player in last Saturday’s 2-0 win. In the 53th minute, after Orlando’s Carson Pickett and LaBonta chased after a loose ball, LaBonta appears to kick Pickett on purpose. Pickett was attended to by a tr
  
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• West Valley Police offer reward for information about the 2017 shooting death of a 16-year-old boy

  30-05-2019 17:44
  West Valley Police say they are “very close” to making arrests in the unsolved shooting death of a 16-year-old boy two years ago, but they’ve offered a $5,000 reward for information that will help them close the case.At about 9:30 p.m. on May 30, 2017, Fernando Aranda was walking near his home when he was approached by several young men at 4700 West and Thayn Drive (3935 South). Neighbors reported the sounds of an argument and fighting, followed by gunshots.When police arrived,
  
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• Dana Milbank: An invitation to impeach, in Mueller-speak

  30-05-2019 17:42
  Washington - Robert Mueller is that rare public figure who, in this age of bombast and baloney, still uses language with discipline and economy.For two years as special counsel, he said not a word in public, and his office sprung nary a leak. Even when his purported friend Attorney General William Barr seriously mischaracterized his findings before releasing the report, Mueller kept quiet.Finally, Mueller emerged in front of the cameras at the Justice Department on Wednesday morning to say that
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Relief Society video aims for diversity, Nelson unveils next big trip, website drops nickname — sort of

  30-05-2019 17:11
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.This week’s podcasts: Politics and Mama Dragons
  (Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple and the Utah Capitol are seen together, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (Scott Sommerdorf/)Yes, there are two ne
  
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• Alexandra Petri: It is increasingly clear that none of you read my report

  30-05-2019 16:30
  My fellow Americans, it is not Mueller Time. It will never be Mueller Time. I wish you would remove my likeness from your T-shirts and steins. I, Robert Mueller, will not be fired. I quit.First off, it is obvious that none of you has actually read the report, or you would all sound like Justin Amash. Pete Buttigieg read “Ulysses,” but you will notice how quiet he is on the subject of my report findings.I guess I should not be surprised that people hate to read so much that they will
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - What are the odds the Utah Jazz land their “third star” this offseason?

  30-05-2019 16:28 via sportspyder.com
  So you’re saying there’s a chance.
  
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• Commentary: Partnerships key to protecting our best wild places

  30-05-2019 15:51
  It is already cooling off, as the late afternoon sun starts its descent into the western horizon. Hiking into the Book Cliffs to my tree stand, I notice my tracks from coming out in the dark the night before. I feel a prickling at the back of my neck as I stoop down and trace with my fingers the big bear tracks right on top of mine. The heft of my bow feels good as my grip tightens and I continue walking down the trail.Arriving at the ancient, gnarly ponderosa pine, I carefully climb into the tr
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: Want millennials to get married and have babies? Change policies that stop us.

  30-05-2019 15:42
  When I interviewed for my first job with The Washington Post at age 25, I wore an oversize jacket in hopes of concealing the fact that I was pregnant. (The ruse failed to fool any of the seasoned journalists who interviewed me.) I knew that it is technically illegal to discriminate against pregnant women in hiring, and I knew that it happens anyway. A trove of pregnancy-obscuring wardrobe advice posts scattered across mom forums suggests that plenty of women find themselves facing the same dilem
  
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• Louisiana passed an abortion ban. Its Democratic governor plans to defy his party and sign it.

  30-05-2019 15:31
  Baton Rouge, La. • The Louisiana state legislature on Wednesday passed one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, advancing the bill to the Democratic governor John Bel Edwards, who, like a coterie of conservative executives before him, has said repeatedly he would sign it.Louisiana's measure is the first of the drumbeat of bans this year to receive the imprimatur of prominent local Democrats, whose support for the controversial legislation has provoked anger from party members nat
  
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• Political Cornflakes: White House asked Navy to hide warship named for John McCain

  30-05-2019 15:13
  The U.S. Navy reportedly tried to hide a warship named after John McCain from President Donald Trump’s view ahead of his visit to Japan last week — putting a spotlight on an old feud between the president and the late Arizona Senator. Trump, who once disparaged McCain’s service because he had been held as a war prisoner in Vietnam, denied having any involvement. [NYTimes]Happy Thursday!Topping the news: As more congressional Democrats call for Trump’s impeachment in light
  
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• Gehrke: Wait a minute, why is Utah’s attorney general helping a private company sell body scanners?

  30-05-2019 15:12
  Attorney General Sean Reyes’ campaign manager told me recently that Reyes is “strongly leaning toward running for governor.”Maybe if that doesn’t work out, we’ll see him searching people heading into the next Utah Jazz game or Toby Keith concert.At least that seems to be the direction his office is headed, after Reyes last week signed a memorandum of understanding with an outfit called Liberty Defense Technologies Inc. — a company seemingly named by Sen. Mike
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Turns out the guy I’ve been dating already has a wife

  30-05-2019 15:08
  Dear Ann Cannon • I just found out that a guy I’ve been dating is married, a fact HE NEGLECTED TO MENTION. I’m so angry I could explode. I feel played and ripped off and betrayed and very, very stupid. Tell me, Ann Cannon, what should I do?!— FuriousDear Furious • Um, stop dating him? That might be a good first step…I’m truly sorry you’ve had to go through this experience. The same thing happened to a college roommate of mine. While I don’t ne
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Whistleblower’ unveils Utahns who want to bring down the Kingstons — and implicates the state in protecting polygamists

  30-05-2019 15:05
  On Friday, “Whistleblower” raises the curtain on the two Utahns who, yes, blew the whistle on the polygamous Kingston clan — and allegesthat there are elements within the state government and/or law enforcement who are protecting what one accuser compares to “an organized crime family.”The hourlong CBS News show (7 p.m. Friday, CBS-Channel 2) introduces viewers to Mary and Bryan Nelson. In 2013, Mary, born a member of the Kingston clan, escaped her family — an
  
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• Jennifer Rubin: If Mueller surprised you, you haven’t read his report

  30-05-2019 15:00
  From The Washington Post:"Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III announced Wednesday he was closing his office and offered his first public comments on the results of his work, asserting that Justice Department legal guidance prevented him from accusing President Trump of a crime and noting cryptically that the Constitution 'requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse the president of wrongdoing.' ..."He noted that his team found 'insufficient evidence' to accuse
  
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• Commentary: I was 3 When I came here from Mexico. I’m 16 now and want a summer job. Tell Congress to pass the Dream and Promise Act.

  30-05-2019 15:00
  When my older sister and brother turned 15, they got the chance of a lifetime: As undocumented immigrants who came to Utah from Mexico as young children, they were allowed to apply for work permits and protection from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Today my 22-year-old brother works as a mechanic, and my 21-year-old sister helps run the after-care program for the Park City School District in Utah.By the time my turn came around a year and a half ag
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Potential fire sale in Houston: What could it mean for the Utah Jazz?

  30-05-2019 14:10 via sportspyder.com
  The Houston Rockets are reportedly willing to trade anybody on the team in an attempt to upgrade the roster. What would this potential fire sale mean for t...
  
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• Where in Utah have opioid overdose rates been highest? In Carbon and Emery counties where treatment services are scarcer.

  30-05-2019 14:00
  Between 2014 and 2016, the state’s opioid crisis hit hardest in two rural counties — Carbon and Emery, where adults died of drug overdoses at nearly three times the statewide rate.The vast majority of the fatalities were from prescription drugs. And adults from ages 45 and 54 were the most at risk, a state opioid fatality review committee has found.It was the worst of the overdose “hot spots" identified by the committee, which determined that the opioid problem was also particu
  
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• Utah has unfilled tech jobs. These new apprenticeships will train candidates to fill them.

  30-05-2019 14:00
  The nonprofit Silicon Slopes is teaming up with a labor-training company to create an apprenticeship program to fill a hole in Utah’s tech-industry talent pool.The Utah tech organization is partnering with Apprenti, which aims to create a training program for employees with computer skills and to pair those workers with companies in need of talent.Jennifer Carlson, executive director of the Redmond, Wash.-based Apprenti, pitched the program to a room full of tech executives Wednesday at Si
  
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• Potential fire sale in Houston: What could it mean for the Utah Jazz?

  30-05-2019 14:00
  The Houston Rockets are reportedly willing to trade anybody on the team in an attempt to upgrade the roster. What would this potential fire sale mean for the Utah Jazz? During the prolonged lull between the Conference Finals and the NBA Finals, it can be easy for NBA fans to get a little restless. The […]
  Potential fire sale in Houston: What could it mean for the Utah Jazz? - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Astronauts may be landing in Utah’s West Desert later this year as U.S. prepares to resume spaceflights

  30-05-2019 14:00
  Forget Pacific Ocean splashdowns. Think instead Utah desert dustdowns.Yes, the barren landscape of Dugway Proving Ground — with its fenced, vast, empty, remote, secure and utterly flat terrain — makes it an ideal landing spot for future astronauts to return to Earth when spaceflights resume as soon as this year after an eight-year hiatus following the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle program.Up to twice a year, these missions’ return voyages could end at Dugway, accordi
  
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• Utah dump truck driver could spend up to 45 years in prison for killing 6 in DUI crash

  30-05-2019 06:30
  Heber • She said Efrain Cardenas was the perfect father.He was kind and caring and could be tough when he needed to be. Most of all, he was always there for her and his children and grandchildren, his daughter Viridiana said Wednesday in front of a judge at the Wasatch County Courthouse.That is, until he wasn’t.And it didn’t have to be that way, Viridiana Cardenas told those gathered in the courtroom. That’s why she said she hates Jamie McKenzie.McKenzie didn’t have
  
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