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• Jennifer Rubin: If the administration defied a court order, all bets are off

  02-06-2019 23:56
  Criminal prosecution exacts punishment; impeachment upholds the Constitution and prevents further assaults on it. Many Americans, but far from a majority, think President Donald Trump has committed impeachable acts but are wary of impeaching without hope of removal. However, if there is an indication that severe damage to the Constitution will occur unless Trump is removed, the House must act, and then engage public opinion to pressure the Senate.On Friday, we might have reached that breaking po
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Ricky Rubio says Jazz have told him he is ‘not a priority’

  02-06-2019 23:22 via sportspyder.com
  Ricky Rubio's time with the Utah Jazz appears to be coming to a close. The veteran point guard told Spanish journalist Ernest Macia that he has been informed by the team that he is "not a priority for them" as he prepares to hit free agency. "Utah...
  
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• How BYU shortstop Jackson Cluff went from a church mission to MLB draft prospect in less than a year

  02-06-2019 23:15
  Provo • Few professional baseball scouts were familiar with Jackson Cluff at this time last year because the Boise, Idaho, native was on a two-year church mission in Georgia.They certainly know him now.Having returned on June 28, 2018, Cluff put together a brilliant sophomore season as BYU’s primary shortstop and made himself a Major League Baseball draft prospect, Cougars coach Mike Littlewood said recently.Cluff, 22, expects to be selected between rounds five and 15 of the MLB draft
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Ricky Rubio claims Jazz told him he’s not a priority this summer

  02-06-2019 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  Unrestricted free agent Ricky Rubio has revealed that the Utah Jazz have told him they will likely not offer him a new contract: Ricky Rubio says he's not a priority for Utah https://t.co/rNs8X9IZq6 — Rotoworld Basketball (@Rotoworld_BK) June 2,...
  
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• Tribune editorial: Energy summit stops short of the peak

  02-06-2019 23:02
  So what exactly is this new “Advanced Clean Energy Storage” project that was announced at the Governor’s Energy Summit last week?It sounds promising, but it’s hard to tell from the hyped rollout it received.It seems simple enough: store energy by pressurizing salt caverns in Utah’s west desert, and then use that pressurized air to drive generators when electric power is needed. In other words, it’s a giant battery, and batteries have never been more important.
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Take a big, deep whiff of those molecules of freedom

  02-06-2019 23:00
  Washington • Do you smell that? That aroma, like many spoiled eggs congregating in a hot locker room? That is the wonderful, pleasing scent of American freedom!A statement from the Energy Department, which I am not making up because satire has been overfished and is now extinct, described natural gas as “molecules of freedom.” In the statement, Undersecretary of Energy Mark Menezes noted that “increasing export capacity ... is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout t
  
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• Cedar Breaks and road through monument set to open Tuesday

  02-06-2019 22:48
  Cedar Breaks National Monument • Cedar Breaks National Monument and the main road through it are scheduled to open Tuesday after being closed due to late spring snow accumulation.While the monument and Scenic Road 148 will open Tuesday, monument officials said visitor facilities, restrooms and ranger programs are not scheduled to be available until Friday.Officials said snow still covers all park trails and overlooks have patches of ice and snow so visitors are advised to use caution and to
  
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• Utah Highway Patrol IDs woman killed in a fiery truck crash

  02-06-2019 22:41
  Springville • Authorities in Utah have released the name of a woman who died in a fiery crash in Springville.The Utah Highway Patrol identified the victim as 33-year-old Tayva Steele.They say Steele was driving a pickup truck that went off the Interstate 15 off-ramp and struck a utility pole about 2 a.m. Saturday.The truck then went into a construction area and traveled several hundred feet before hitting the side of a semi-truck and catching fire.Highway Patrol officials say excessive spee
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - USA Basketball is interested in Donovan Mitchell for FIBA World Cup

  02-06-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell, future Olympian?
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ricky Rubio: ‘Utah has let me know that I am not a priority for them’

  02-06-2019 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  Utah has apparently been forthright about their upcoming offseason plans with Ricky Rubio.
  
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• [Bleacher Report] - Ricky Rubio Says Jazz Have Told Him He's Not a Priority in 2019 NBA Free Agency

  02-06-2019 21:39 via sportspyder.com
  Free-agent-to-be Ricky Rubio provided a peek into the Utah Jazz 's offseason plans this summer, and he's apparently not in them...
  
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• Did a ‘silencer’ make a difference in the Virginia Beach carnage?

  02-06-2019 19:52
  The shooter who killed 12 people in a government office building in Virginia Beach used a firearm equipped with a suppressor that muffles the sound of gunfire. It’s the nightmare scenario that gun-control advocates have warned about amid efforts in recent years to ease restrictions on the devices, which they say can help shooters escape detection and inflict more carnage.But gun-rights advocates and most law enforcement experts say DeWayne Craddock’s use of a suppressor likely had no
  
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• Virginia Beach gunman had resigned hours before attack

  02-06-2019 19:34
  Virginia Beach, Va. • The gunman who opened fire inside a Virginia Beach government building, killing 12 people, resigned by email hours before the shooting, a city official said Sunday.There was no immediate indication why the man, a civil engineer, had notified a superior of his intention to leave his job in two weeks.The assailant was an employee “in good standing” in his department, said City Manager Dave Hansen, who described the man’s performance as “satisfacto
  
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• Commentary: Utah symbolizes the bond between Britain and America

  02-06-2019 18:54
  On the northern coast of France, there is a beach called Utah. When Britain and America joined forces with our Allies to begin the liberation of Europe during World War Two, one of the beaches where US troops landed was codenamed after the Beehive State.This windswept expanse of sand and shingle, nearly 5,000 miles from Salt Lake City, has been universally known as Utah ever since, in tribute to the American soldiers who stormed ashore on 6th June 1944.President Trump will pay a state visit to B
  
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• BYU Hall of Famer Larry Carr neared a tipping point in life. Then, he discovered a treatment that could help save those with potential CTE.

  02-06-2019 18:00
  South Jordan • “I’d probably be dead.”Larry Carr doesn’t want to think about the what-ifs, but he does in this moment, wondering what the alternate timeline might’ve looked like if he didn’t find an answer for himself. That’s where he was as recently as a couple of years ago, this former BYU great, a school legend, a Hall of Famer, a man once known for being a tackling machine with a blonde mop and a mustache. That was just so long ago, though.Befor
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio’s recent comments were somewhat groan-worthy

  02-06-2019 17:52 via sportspyder.com
  The latest comments by point guard Ricky Rubio will likely be a bit frustrating for Utah Jazz fans to hear as he seems to be forgetting the opportunities t...
  
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• After developing into an MLB draft prospect, Ute star Oliver Dunn will be missed in multiple ways

  02-06-2019 17:41
  Nothing about Oliver Dunn’s steady improvement in three seasons as Utah’s second baseman is surprising to Chris Shelton, who witnessed Dunn’s growth in Cottonwood High School’s program.That’s why Shelton confidently predicts Dunn’s pro baseball career will unfold the same way, as he adjusts to the next phase. “It’ll be just like his time at the U.,” said Shelton, a Cottonwood assistant coach who spent parts of five seasons in the major league
  
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• Utah Jazz: Ricky Rubio’s recent comments were somewhat groan-worthy

  02-06-2019 17:37
  The latest comments by point guard Ricky Rubio will likely be a bit frustrating for Utah Jazz fans to hear as he seems to be forgetting the opportunities the Jazz extended him. There’s no mistaking it, despite having run back a near-identical roster a season ago, the Utah Jazz are bound to undergo some major […]
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• Leonard Pitts: The growing stillness of home, but then Maya came along

  02-06-2019 17:17
  I had been looking forward to the quiet.The house in which we raised six children was finally empty, save for a stray Millennial or two. The SpongeBob SquarePants toys had gone to charity, the Barbie Dream House was gathering dust in the attic and there was no longer a car seat permanently strapped into my backseat.As the Mrs. and I pushed toward 60, the growing stillness felt like a reward for the decades we spent chasing toddlers and scolding teenagers.And then came Maya.At least, I think that
  
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• Roy Jeffs, son of polygamist who told the world about his father’s abuses, dies at 26

  02-06-2019 16:58
  Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24-hour support at 1-800-273-8255.Roy Jeffs, a son of Warren Jeffs who was among the first to say the polygamous sect prophet sexually abused his own children, too, was found dead Friday in Utah. He was 26.One of Roy Jeffs’ half-sisters, Rachel Jeffs, said he killed himself at his home in Salt Lake City. She placed blame on her imprisoned
  
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• Commentary: 2019 Pride: With persistence, hope can replace hurt

  02-06-2019 16:48
  The modern gay rights movement was launched at the Stonewall uprising only weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Fifty years later, the theme of this year’s Utah Pride Festival -- Exist, Resist, Persist -- captures the moment and encapsulates the challenges ahead for LGBT Utahns. Their journey of progress has seen both small steps and giant leaps.The Utah Pride Festival celebrates a group of Utahns whose very existence was at first ignored and even now remains devalued by powerful for
  
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• Commentary: LDS Church has put Jesus on the wrong side of many issues

  02-06-2019 16:29
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has the right, the power, and, I believe even the obligation to use its influence and resources to maintain and improve the moral and ethical structure of our community. It even has the unconventional ability to strongly influence our state Legislature.The calling of the leadership of the Church of Jesus Chris is to be a “Special Witness of Jesus Christ.” The problem is that they are not doing their job. They are putting Jesus on the wr
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: CNN episode focuses on LDS and LGBTQ in Utah. And, no, it’s not a hit piece.

  02-06-2019 16:17
  There is a segment of Utah’s population that will see the upcoming episode of “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” as a hit piece on the LDS Church.It’s not. And the people who think it is are the ones who should definitely watch.Titled “Out and Proud Salt Lake” — and, coincidentally, airing the same weekend as Utah Pride (Sunday, 8 p.m., CNN) — it’s an informative, touching, funny and heartfelt look at what it’s like to be LGB
  
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• Kirby: If it came to pass that the Book of Mormon got a new name, what would it be?

  02-06-2019 16:11
  It’s old news that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been trying to scrub the M-word (Mormon) from public use.The idea being that if it’s pushed long enough, eventually the rest of the world will grow accustomed to us being recognized as something other than Mormons.Fat chance. The public has its own idea about how things like that work. No matter how much lipstick you put on a moose, it’s still a moose. My guess is we’ll still be Mormons a hundred years
  
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• History of crooked or kooky commissioners helps fuel effort to change Utah County’s form of government

  02-06-2019 16:10
  Utah’s second-largest and fastest-growing county appears likely to let voters decide whether it has outgrown its traditional commission form of government, where three elected leaders function as both the executive and legislative branches.Among the things motivating supporters of the proposed switch to a mayor-council form of government is a desire for greater transparency, more accountability and Utah County’s history of commissioners with serious character flaws.David Gardner, who
  
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• At least 40 students say Brigham Young University discriminates against those with disabilities. But the school says some of those accounts ‘are inaccurate.’

  02-06-2019 16:09
  When Kendra Muller called the accessibility center at Brigham Young University last year, she said, she was told the school didn’t have enough van accessible parking stalls for her to be assigned one.The Provo campus has only a handful of reserved spots for those in wheelchairs, she recalled the staffer saying. And, the woman added, “whoever is the most disabled gets one.”Muller, who has been paralyzed since she broke her neck at 14, had finally saved enough money to buy a spec
  
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• Is Utah — and Utah County in particular — ready for an openly gay Republican officeholder?

  02-06-2019 16:07
  Benjamin • Utah County Commissioner Nathan Ivie gets choked up as he talks about growing up around horses.High school was “awkward," he says, navigating traditional social pressures despite being attracted to men. But his time feeding and riding the animals was something akin to therapy, he says, since horses are good listeners and never talk back.“These guys have always been my salvation,” Ivie says.It’s been less than two weeks since Ivie publicly disclosed that he
  
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• Commentary: It is time for the LDS Church to recognize all of God’s children

  02-06-2019 15:43
  I am a seventh-generation member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, descended from early pioneers. For 60 years, I followed the counsel of the brethren: priesthood, mission, temple marriage and commitment to raising eight children. One of my daughters was born with a birth defect which required four major back surgeries prior to age 12. While I love all my children dearly, a special bond was created through this adversity. Since the last surgery she suffers from near daily migra
  
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• Commentary: Utah symbolises the bond between Britain and America

  02-06-2019 15:30
  On the northern coast of France, there is a beach called Utah. When Britain and America joined forces with our Allies to begin the liberation of Europe during World War Two, one of the beaches where US troops landed was codenamed after the Beehive State.This windswept expanse of sand and shingle, nearly 5,000 miles from Salt Lake City, has been universally known as Utah ever since, in tribute to the American soldiers who stormed ashore on 6th June 1944.President Trump will pay a state visit to B
  
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• Commentary: Utah software purchasing problems are nothing new

  02-06-2019 15:22
  The Sunday Tribune article titled “Software hiccups plague student testing” brought on a bout of déjà vu.As a former IT director for the Utah State Board of Education, I observed or was a member of selection committees that reviewed bids made in response to requests for proposals. These bids ranged from software used to collect data for state and federal reporting to systems for statewide testing programs. It is not surprising to me that the USBE is having difficulties
  
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• Commentary: Herbert’s roadless rule petition is fiscally irresponsible

  02-06-2019 15:20
  As I watched the Gov. Gary Herbert unveil his petition for a Utah-specific Roadless Rule earlier this year, it became obvious that not only does the state’s proposal fail to consider the effects on wildlife, watersheds and recreational opportunities, but fails to address the cost as well.For 30 years, I worked as a U.S. Forest Service economist in the Intermountain Region, developing management plans for 16 national forests, as well as helping the Washington. D.C.. office develop better po
  
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• Commentary: Utahns should lead the fight against infectious diseases

  02-06-2019 15:17
  We need a hero.Throughout all recorded time, diseases caused by microbial adversaries have always killed more humans than all of our swords, guns, cannons and bombs. While the 36 armed conflicts in our world last year resulted in 135,000 fatalities, there were over 2.9 million lives lost just to the top three infectious diseases: tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. These three diseases killed more than 20 times as many as our wars.This is despite the fact that we have the science and the medicines t
  
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• Don Gale: Bucket lists, dreams and the future of journalism

  02-06-2019 14:14
  I don’t have a bucket list. I’ve already done most of the things that end up on bucket lists. I traveled to places you’ve heard about and exotic places you didn’t know existed. I enjoyed champagne on the Concord at a 1,000 miles per hour up near the edge of space, and I sailed near an Atlantic hurricane aboard the Q.E. II while enjoying dinner in a tuxedo. I was quizzed by the KGB in Dushanbe, shot at in Beirut and arrested in Managua. I ate green liver in Manila, goat st
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: CNN’s Bell focuses on LDS and LGBTQ in Utah. And, no, it’s not a hit piece.

  02-06-2019 14:00
  There is a segment of Utah’s population that will see the upcoming episode of “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” as a hit piece on the LDS Church.It’s not. And the people who think it is are the ones who should definitely watch.Titled “Out and Proud Salt Lake” — and, coincidentally, airing the same weekend as Utah Pride (Sunday, 8 p.m., CNN) — it’s an informative, touching, funny and heartfelt look at what it’s like to be LGB
  
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• Letter: Trump is a ‘draft dodger’

  02-06-2019 14:00
  I visited my family graves on Memorial Day, including that of my stepdad who raised me and spent three years as a sailor in the South Pacific during World War II. As I watched the commemorative services on television, and as a veteran myself, I just kept thinking how Donald J. Trump used trumped up excuses to get five draft deferments and avoided any military service during the Vietnam War and any military service at all. Someone went in his stead, and someone may have died in his stead.I urge m
  
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• Letter: There is room for two flags

  02-06-2019 14:00
  I applaud Chuck Sharp in his May 29 letter to the editor showing support for our country and our servicemen and women by flying the American flag on Memorial Day.Like Mr. Sharp, I fly my American flag on Memorial Day and other days that celebrate our country. I also fly my rainbow flag during Pride Week to show love, acceptance and support for Salt Lake City’s wonderful LGBTQ individuals and community (Thank you, Project Rainbow Utah.)When those events coincide, I proudly fly both flags be
  
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• Letter: The founders did not think ‘impeachment’ was a dirty word

  02-06-2019 14:00
  Contrary to the words of one infamous person, the words “impeach” and “impeachment” are hardly “dirty, filthy, disgusting” words. They were penned by the framers of the federal Constitution as the last fail-safe measure against personal tyranny.Note that they were not all that enthusiastic about, and were even suspicious, of a single executive in the first place. Thus, their safety measure in Article II, Section 4, “The President, Vice President and all
  
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• Letter: Our national reality show is wearing thin

  02-06-2019 14:00
  Some people must be energized by chaos in their lives, I am not one of them. Give me tranquility, please. As events unfold in our nation’s capital, questions abound.As my tax dollars helped fund the Mueller report, I would like to hear from Robert Mueller or his team what their findings were, not a quick synopsis given by a recent Trump appointee.The president said he would make his tax form available to the public, and his refusal is causing more chaos. He called on Russia to release his
  
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• Letter: Hold our president to a higher standard

  02-06-2019 14:00
  We would never let our children say unkind things about other people and call them crude names. Why is it OK for the president of the United States to do it daily?I hope this nation will hold our president to a higher standard.Gordie Harmston, Holladay Submit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A problem we cannot solve

  02-06-2019 14:00
  Eric Ewert is 100% correct in pointing out that Utah’s true religion is growth. He suggests we stop incentivising it, and stop having so many kids.To make a difference, both growth and child-bearing would need to be mostly prohibited. This is not politically possible. It can’t happen.John Burton, MagnaSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Ann’s advice on books for little ones

  02-06-2019 14:00
  Dear reader • NOT THAT YOU ASKED.But since I am an advice columnist — an advice columnist, in fact, who has another grandchild on the way — I asked a group of booksellers and children’s writers to identify classic picture books every child should have on his or her shelves. A few of our combined suggestions follow.“Where the Wild Things Are” written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and anothe
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz big man Ekpe Udoh mulling over return to Europe

  02-06-2019 07:43 via sportspyder.com
  Ekpe Udoh is reportedly considering a return to Europe after two seasons with the Utah Jazz. According to Niko Varlas of EuroHoops.net, Udoh has multiple multi-year offers from different European powerhouse teams. To recall, Udoh played for Turkish...
  
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• Andy Ruiz Jr. stuns Anthony Joshua in heavyweight title fight

  02-06-2019 07:27
  New York • Andy Ruiz Jr. had six weeks to prepare for the fight of his life.He’ll have a lifetime to celebrate one of boxing’s biggest heavyweight stunners.A massive underdog just like Buster Douglas, Ruiz knocked down British champion Anthony Joshua four times — four! — and the final two in the seventh round proved the decisive blows.Ruiz, the first heavyweight of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight title, capped one of boxing’s epic upsets to win Joshua&rsqu
  
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• Bruins rout Blues 7-2, take 2-1 lead in Stanley Cup Final

  02-06-2019 07:07
  St. Louis • David Pastrnak flashed a wry smile, brimming with confidence.No even-strength points through the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final for the first line put plenty of pressure on Boston’s best players to produce. Pastrnak shrugged it off, saying on scale of 1 to 10 they felt the pressure level was something around a 2.Then they got on the ice and delivered.The stars led Boston to a 7-2 rout of the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seve
  
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• Andy Ruiz stuns Anthony Joshua in heavyweight title fight

  02-06-2019 07:02
  New York • Andy Ruiz Jr. had six weeks to prepare for the fight of his life.He’ll have a lifetime to celebrate one of boxing’s biggest heavyweight stunners.A massive underdog just like Buster Douglas, Ruiz knocked down British champion Anthony Joshua four times — four! — and the final two in the seventh round proved the decisive blows.Ruiz, the first heavyweight of Mexican descent to win a heavyweight title, capped one of boxing’s epic upsets to win Joshua&rsqu
  
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• Utah sex suspect missing after chase, car plunge into river

  02-06-2019 05:46
  A Utah man sought in an alleged sex crime involving a juvenile was missing Saturday after his car plunged into a river in a northwestern Arizona gorge a day earlier, authorities said.Police in Hurricane said in a statement that the man’s car was spotted upside down in the Virgin River along Interstate 15 after the car entered Arizona as Utah officers broke off a pursuit Friday.The man's identity was not made public.A search of the car and the river didn't locate the man and his fate wasn'
  
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• Man trampled by bison at Antelope Island State Park expected to recover

  02-06-2019 05:11
  A 30-year-old man was taken by medical helicopter from Antelope Island State Park on Saturday after he was trampled by a bison, and officials say he should be OK.The animal struck the man just after 4 p.m. as he was trail running on the Frary Peak trail in the park, said Lt. Eric Stucki with Utah State Parks. The man has two lacerations but no broken bones, Stucki said.The park’s free-roaming bison commonly strike ranchers and others working with them on the peninsula, which is bordered by
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell gaining serious consideration for Team USA spot

  02-06-2019 05:08 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star guard Donovan Mitchell is reportedly gaining significant interest from the Team USA for a roster spot in their FIBA World Cup team. The basketball world championship is slated to take place in China from August 31 to September 15....
  
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• Utah man found dead after jumping off waterfall at Gunlock State Park

  02-06-2019 04:32
  A search crew on Saturday found the body of a man who went missing Friday after he jumped off a waterfall into the water at Gunlock State Park and never resurfaced.Brandon Gary Johnson, 36, of Logan, jumped off the cliff Friday afternoon. His body was found in the water Saturday morning, according to a news release.Johnson, who’d been working as a foreman in Washington County, likely died from the impact, the release states. Authorities are still investigating to confirm his cause of death
  
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• Trial delayed for Utah man accused in opioid drug ring

  02-06-2019 04:24
  A federal judge is delaying the trial of a Utah man accused of running a multimillion operation selling powerful opioids disguised as prescription drugs.U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball decided Friday that the trial of Aaron Michael Shamo will begin Aug. 12 to give defense attorneys more time to sort through additional evidence in the voluminous case.Shamo is charged with making the pills in his suburban basement and selling them on the internet's dark web to people all over the country, at one
  
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