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• ‘Madam Secretary’ will be president of the United States when the show returns in October

  01-08-2019 23:49
  When “Madame Secretary” returns to CBS for its final season in the fall, the show should probably have a new title — “Madame President.”In May, Season 6 ended with Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) declaring her candidacy for president. When Season 7 begins on Sunday, Oct. 6, she will be in the Oval Office, the newly elected chief executive.“We have not announced anything, but we are doing about a two-year time jump,” Amy Reisenbach, CBS' executive vice presi
  
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• Zach Wilson is the starting QB at BYU, but coaches are scheming to get his backups on the field, somehow

  01-08-2019 23:46
  Provo • When he became an offensive consultant at BYU in 2017 and then the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2018, Aaron Roderick started to develop a blueprint for what he wanted in a Cougar quarterback.Athleticism was at the top of the list, followed by decent size, above-average arm strength, running ability and poise in the pocket.“We’re getting there,” Roderick said Wednesday night after the Cougars wrapped up their first practice of preseason trainin
  
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• A 12-year-old Utah girl reported missing has been found safe

  01-08-2019 23:39
  A 12-year-old girl reported missing early Thursday morning has been found safe, South Salt Lake police said.Officers located the girl Thursday just before noon. She had last been seen at her grandmother’s house at 4 p.m. Wednesday before she left to meet some friends.By 10 p.m., her brother had messaged her on social media, and the girl said she was on her way home — but she never arrived.According to police, the girl went to an apartment complex near her home and met a 12-year-old f
  
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• Cherie Wood: South Salt Lake is committed to a safe and effective men’s shelter at 1000 West

  01-08-2019 23:00
  There have been several recent news stories on the soon-to-be-opened 1000 West Men’s Homeless Resource Center and the conditional use permit that is required by South Salt Lake to operate the facility in our city. This is a complicated issue and I’d like to set the record straight regarding our city’s position.First of all, South Salt Lake is committed to working in good faith with Shelter the Homeless to ensure the 1000 West Men’s Homeless Resource Center is a safe facil
  
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• Nikki Stamp: Female surgeon feels uncomfortable telling girls they can be one, too

  01-08-2019 22:05
  Every time a little girl or a young female student has asked me if she can be a surgeon, I wonder if I'm about to sell her a lie. The answer, of course, is yes, she can - I'm living proof. After all, I finished my specialty training to become one of the minuscule 5 percent of heart and lung surgeons who are female.But while I think women can do anything, the problem is that the people who think otherwise are often the ones in power with the ability to make or break you. This information is never
  
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• ‘Basketball or Nothing’ covers hoop dreams on Navajo Nation

  01-08-2019 22:02
  Albuquerque, N.M. • High school basketball fans in Arizona and New Mexico likely know all about “rez ball” — a run-and-gun, pass-cut-and-shoot style of play popular in Native American communities. The style excites fans and allows teams without big centers to wear down opponents by running them off the court with speed and strong shooting.The best practitioners of rez ball help build community in some of the most isolated towns in the American Southwest. Fans travel for ho
  
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• Nearly 11,000 Utahns entered state’s first rare-liquor drawing; four Japanese whiskeys are now on the block

  01-08-2019 21:30
  Nearly 11,000 Utahns entered the state’s first rare liquor drawing.The initial popularity of the Rare High-Demand Product drawing was a surprise to officials with the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, said spokesman Terry Wood.“We weren’t sure how many people might enter,” he said, “but that was more than we expected.”For the first drawing, which launched at the end of June, 12,031 people registered and 10,947 entered for a chance to buy one of th
  
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• Tara Isabella Burton: The self-centered religion shared by Marianne Williamson and President Trump

  01-08-2019 21:22
  On the surface, dark horse Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson and President Donald Trump could not be more different. The president tweets insults, stokes crowds into a rage and rattles the sword. He uses the often-jingoistic language of muscular Christianity (“In America we worship God, not government”) to evoke the vision of a middle America made “great again.” Meanwhile, Williamson, a self-help spiritualist (and onetime adviser to Oprah Winfrey), pre
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Utah’s plans for medical marijuana might leave counties breaking federal law

  01-08-2019 21:21
  Two counties warn that Utah’s plan for distributing medical marijuana might run afoul of federal law. Environmental groups raise an alarm over mislabeled nuclear waste shipments through the state. And remembering former Utah first lady Norma Matheson, who died this week at the age of 89.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce, government and politics editor Dan Harrie, and reporter Courtney Tanner join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s
  
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• we don’t know what’s happening but we’re pro library twitter

  01-08-2019 21:05 via twitter.com
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• Utah wants more people to hunt cougars, but some say losing big cats will pose big problems

  01-08-2019 20:43
  Utah is poised to add 34 more cougar hunting permits across the state, alarming wildlife advocates who fear trophy seekers will wipe out the older and bolder cats, destabilizing the mountain lion population and boosting the threat to cattle.“Getting rid of the big cats, from a livestock-protection perspective, is very foolish,” said Kim Crumbo, senior carnivore advocate for Wildlands Network. “They live a long time because they learn to get along.”The Utah Division of Wil
  
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• Spy Hop to get a new headquarters after fleeing Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande over crime worries

  01-08-2019 20:16
  An arts group for young people that fled its old building because of Salt Lake City’s homeless crisis in 2016 over safety concerns is getting a new permanent home.Officials expect to break ground Friday on a sleek and fully equipped education center for Spy Hop in the city’s Central 9th neighborhood.Organizers with the youth digital media arts group and the city’s Redevelopment Agency (RDA) will eventually fill a parking lot on the northwest corner of 200 West and 900 South wit
  
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  01-08-2019 19:48 via twitter.com
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• Red All Over: Ute playmaker Britain Covey is back on the field, doing more than expected on Day 1

  01-08-2019 19:33
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering University of Utah athletics. Subscribe here. Utah receiver Britain Covey met his short-term goal of participating Wednesday in the team’s first practice of preseason camp, giving himself a chance of playing in the Utes’ season opener Aug. 29 at BYU.The only reports of a Utah player's availability come from the coaching staff. Coach Kyle Whittingham said Covey is “on a pitch count,” limiting his participation in camp. Offensive
  
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• Eye on the Y: This time, BYU coach Kalani Sitake doesn’t duck questions about a troubled football player

  01-08-2019 19:33
  Eye On The Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Provo • A rather refreshing development occurred at BYU’s first practice of 2019 preseason football training camp on Wednesday. Head coach Kalani Sitake took a question about the status of troubled wide receiver Neil Pau’u, answered it directly, and moved on.It was a far cry from the way Sitake handled questions the first day of camp in 2016 when defender Sione Takitaki was among the
  
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• Gordon Monson: Why are so many players leaving Utah’s men’s basketball program?

  01-08-2019 19:32
  Anybody else out there have questions about Larry Krystkowiak and what’s going on with Utah’s basketball program?You do. I do. Most everybody does. The empty seats at the Huntsman Center want to know.Players are jumping out of the school’s practice facility as though the place were burning to the ground, as though there were an outbreak of some awful communicable disease, and there’s been no real comprehensive explanation thus far from Krystkowiak for the exodus. I reache
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ Podcast: Top 10 beer, wine and spirits and record alcohol sales

  01-08-2019 19:24
  Cheap vodka, boxed wine and pricey Champagne — these are the top sellers in Utah’s state-run liquor stores.Barton Vodka led all items with sales topping $3.1 million, Terry Wood, spokesman for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, explains on this edition of the ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast.Also on the show, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kathy Stephenson and Fox 13′s Ben Winslow discuss alcohol sales. It could be another record year for Utah, as preliminary f
  
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• Dana Milbank: Joe Biden was brilliantly and gloriously adequate

  01-08-2019 19:18
  Video: Democratic presidential candidates took the stage at the second primary debate in Detroit on July 31. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)
  Washington • Joe Biden was good enough. And that, in itself, was a victory.His fellow Democrats began attacking him in the very first minute of Wednesday night's debate, and they didn't stop. They attacked him on health care. They attacked him on immigration. They attacked him on crime. They attacked him on inequality, race, climate change, trade,
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Booker broke through. Biden struck back. Harris got put in the hot seat.

  01-08-2019 19:14
  Washington • Wednesday night’s debate was New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s breakthrough, former vice president Joe Biden’s comeback and California Sen. Kamala Harris’s turn in the hot seat.If Tuesday’s Democratic debate was overwhelmingly ideological, Wednesday’s debate was intensely personal. The attacks flew across the stage, with Harris and Biden facing especially heavy fire. Sometimes, the volleys were rooted in philosophical differences — once aga
  
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• Utes are No. 15 in the Coaches Poll, the highest preseason ranking in the football program’s history

  01-08-2019 19:11
  Utah is No. 15 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll, the highest ranking in August in either of the two major polls in the program's history.Thursday's announcement of the Coaches Poll comes about three weeks ahead of the preseason AP Top 25's release. The Utes haven't been ranked in that poll in August in their Pac-12 era, but are expected to land in the same range as in the Coaches Poll.The Utes were No. 25 in the preseason Coaches Poll in 2017, when they finished 7-6. The program's highest pre
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: The curious case of premarital exams, religious mocking in Scotland

  01-08-2019 19:10
  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.Before exchanging vows
  (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) One of the sealing rooms in the Jordan River Temple. (Welden C. Andersen/)KUER’s Lee Hale kicked off his “Latter-day&rdqu
  
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• Local distillers say DABC’s retail system needs some ‘human intervention’

  01-08-2019 18:54
  A Utah company released two different distilled spirits May 2.Five Husbands — a limited-edition vodka celebrating Utah’s 2019 Pride Festival— was placed in liquor stores throughout Utah and, as of this week, has sold more than 800 cases, said Steve Conlin, CEO of Ogden’s Own Distillery.Porter’s Rye 95, a small-batch whiskey, has a different story. It sat in the state warehouse for nearly 11 weeks before it finally reached liquor store shelves July 16. It was stocked
  
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• Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney vote against raising America’s debt ceiling

  01-08-2019 18:53
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney on Wednesday voted against a compromise budget deal that only passed with Democratic support in the GOP-led Senate as many Republicans denounced the package that raises funding levels and hikes the nation’s credit card to stave off a default.The measure passed 67-28 and now heads to President Donald Trump who had urged Republicans to get behind the bill. The House previously approved the legislation.Budget Deal is phenomenal for our Great Mil
  
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• Former KSL radio personality Jay McFarland to run for Congress against Ben McAdams

  01-08-2019 18:38
  Jay McFarland, a former KSL NewsRadio pundit who hosted the “JayMac News Show,” plans to challenge Ben McAdams next year in Utah’s 4th Congressional District.In a news release Thursday, McFarland’s team described the candidate as someone who “passionately fought for compassion, understanding, and respect in a world of ever-increasing political polarization" during his nine years at the Salt Lake City-based radio station, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ
  
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• #NBA2K20pic.twitter.com/9f8VjpBzU9

  01-08-2019 17:44 via twitter.com
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• Summit and Wasatch counties mayors discuss bipartisanship at climate townhall

  01-08-2019 17:43
  Park City • Climate change is often framed as a partisan issue, but it doesn’t have to be that way. That was the message agreed upon by a group of Summit and Wasatch County leaders, local academics and students who discussed climate change at a panel at the Park City Library on Wednesday.“Climate change is way too important of an issue to be debated for the next 20 years,” said Mia Vinding, a high school student and environmental advocate from Park City who spoke on the pa
  
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• [Deseret News] - Morning links: Donovan Mitchell's appetite on and off the court was apparent at Louisville

  01-08-2019 17:04 via sportspyder.com
  What was Donovan Mitchell like during his college days at Louisville? The Athletic’s Jeff Greer gives a detailed insight into that time of the Utah Jazz star guard’s life in an oral history...
  
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• A Utah fire chief and sheriff’s sergeant covered up for his son’s sex assaults, charges say

  01-08-2019 16:58
  In the spring of 2018, a Kanosh firefighter had something to tell Scott Corry, then the town’s fire chief and a sergeant at the Millard County Sheriff’s Office.Corry’s son, Austin Corry, had been raping the firefighter, alleges the woman and law enforcement in various court records. The firefighter told the elder Corry during a return trip from Beaver and recorded the conversation, according to the records.Scott Corry didn’t do any of the things peace officers should do w
  
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• Morning links: Donovan Mitchell's appetite on and off the court was apparent at Louisville

  01-08-2019 16:55
  Louisville Cardinals guard Donovan Mitchell (45) reacts as he leaves the court after defeating Georgia Tech 75-71 in an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)APSALT LAKE CITY — What was Donovan Mitchell like during his college days at Louisville?The Athletic's Jeff Greer gives a detailed insight into that time of the Utah Jazz star guard's life in an oral history told through teammates and team personnel.David Padgett, Louisville's direct
  
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• A 12-year-old Utah girl is missing. Police are asking for help to find her.

  01-08-2019 16:51
  A 12-year-old girl is missing, and South Salt Lake Police are asking for the public’s help to find her.Asiah Mister was last seen at her grandmother’s home in the River Run Condos near 3800 South and 965 West at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The girl said she was going to meet a friend at a nearby Maverik. About 10 p.m., Mister’s 11-year-old brother contacted her on social media, and the girl said she was on her way home — but she never arrived.Her grandmother called police around 12
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Ranking the Top 10 Starting Backcourts for the 2019-2020 NBA Season

  01-08-2019 16:39 via sportspyder.com
  Since having the greatest point guard of all time, the Utah Jazz have gone through a lot of replacements. John Stockton suited up for an amazing 19 seasons for the Jazz, 15 of which were as the...
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell is playing a lot of basketball this summer, and that’s a great sign

  01-08-2019 16:39 via sportspyder.com
  Another day, another soul taken by the Spida
  
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• Letter: The problem isn’t Trump, but his base

  01-08-2019 16:00
  When our president tweets and says racist things, it is probably because he is a racist. But this is difficult to explain to most Donald Trump supporters.When you have six bankruptcies under your belt and your wealth was inherited from your father, you are not a good businessman. This is even harder to explain to the base.When Trump prefers the company of Putin, Un and MBS over our democratic allies and leaders, this is a dangerous approach foreign policy. But the fans at the rallies could care
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Joe Biden had a good night — but not a great night.

  01-08-2019 15:27
  Happy Thursday! Former vice president and now-presidential contender Joe Biden had a good night at the second round of Democratic debates. But it wasn’t a stellar night. While much of the focus by the other nine candidates on the stage was on Biden, he wasn’t able to capitalize on the moment as he defended his long political career from several newcomers. [Politico]Topping the news: Utah lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate Spencer Cox is polling far ahead of his potential
  
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• Monson: Why are so many players leaving Utah’s men’s basketball program?

  01-08-2019 15:25
  Anybody else out there have questions about Larry Krystkowiak and what’s going on with Utah’s basketball program?You do. I do. Most everybody does. The empty seats at the Huntsman Center want to know.Players are jumping out of the school’s practice facility as though the place were burning to the ground, as though there were an outbreak of some awful communicable disease, and there’s been no real comprehensive explanation thus far from Krystkowiak for the exodus. I reache
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - Sit down with Ed Davis and other podcasts of the day

  01-08-2019 15:18 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! Analytics and the NBA with Seth Partnow from Game Theory Podcast July 31 08:00 PM Listen to …
  
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• Mayors discuss bipartisanship at climate townhall

  01-08-2019 15:12
  Park City • Climate change is often framed as a partisan issue, but it doesn’t have to be that way. That was the message agreed upon by a group of Summit and Wasatch County leaders, local academics and students who discussed climate change at a panel at the Park City Library on Wednesday.“Climate change is way too important of an issue to be debated for the next 20 years,” said Mia Vinding, a high school student and environmental advocate from Park City who spoke on the pa
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Rural Utah could lose access to medical marijuana if the state doesn’t make these changes

  01-08-2019 15:11
  For all the abuse — much of it deserved — that legislators took for tinkering with Utah’s medical marijuana initiative, there was one idea they came up with that made a lot of sense: Tapping into the network of county health departments to act as a dispensary network.It solved a major problem hanging over the entire program, which was how to make sure that rural Utah has access to the product in the first place?Left to the market, it’s easy to see that the seven licensed
  
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• Feds say Utah can dispense medical cannabis without losing grant money. But worries over legal consequences persist.

  01-08-2019 15:11
  Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assured Gov. Gary Herbert that Utah is not at risk of losing federal health grants because of its unique plan for state distribution of medical cannabis."Utah's Medical Marijuana law will not affect the State's eligibility to apply for HHS grants nor will it affect the outcome of the State's application," stated the letter signed by Jennifer Moughalian, acting assistant secretary for financial resources at HHS.The correspondenc
  
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• Utah plans to increase the cougar hunt, but advocates warn that losing more big cats could pose big problems

  01-08-2019 15:10
  Utah is poised to add 34 more cougar hunting permits across the state, alarming wildlife advocates who fear trophy seekers will wipe out the older and bolder cats, destabilizing the mountain lion population and boosting the threat to cattle.“Getting rid of the big cats, from a livestock-protection perspective, is very foolish,” said Kim Crumbo, senior carnivore advocate for Wildlands Network. “They live a long time because they learn to get along.”The Utah Division of Wil
  
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• Sales system at state liquor stores favors national over Utah brands, distillers complain

  01-08-2019 15:10
  A Utah company released two different distilled spirits May 2.Five Husbands — a limited-edition vodka celebrating Utah’s 2019 Pride Festival— was placed in liquor stores throughout Utah and, as of this week, has sold more than 800 cases, said Steve Conlin, CEO of Ogden’s Own Distillery.Porter’s Rye 95, a small-batch whiskey, has a different story. It sat in the state warehouse for nearly 11 weeks before it finally reached liquor store shelves July 16. It was stocked
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I’m sick of seeing couples snuggle in church

  01-08-2019 15:10
  Dear Ann Cannon • Over the last 50 years I have observed something that continues to bother me. I have never talked to my bishop or anyone else about this, but I am finally getting this off my chest. I am so tired of observing a couple sitting in front of me, probably a husband and wife, who throughout a church meeting are rubbing each other‘s head and neck and it is so distracting. I would think they could save the foreplay until after church. Other than not going to church or sittin
  
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• Letter: Michigan State story not about sports

  01-08-2019 15:00
  Why did The Tribune bury the July 31 story “Ex-Michigan State president gets $2.5M retirement payout” on the sports page? It is not even remotely a sports story. It is another story about very profitable day for a CEO who ignored sexual abuse — again.And I suppose that the story about Donald Trump attacking Baltimore on Twitter is actually a story about pest control?Tom Horton, Park CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Atletico Madrid blanks MLS All-Stars 3-0 in Orlando

  01-08-2019 14:59
  Orlando, Fla. • Major League Soccer’s elite had no answers for Atletico Madrid.The 10-time Spanish League champions beat the MLS All-Stars 3-0 Wednesday night, with Marcos Llorente, Joao Felix, Diego Costa scoring goals to pace the rout before a sellout crowd of 25,527.The loss was the fourth straight for MLS in its annual All-Star game, which matches the league's top players against international competition.Atletico coach Diego Simeone felt the game was much closer than the final sc
  
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• Letter: Romney should stand up for Cummings

  01-08-2019 14:00
  Recently, while I was traveling on business in Northern California, some of my associates there commented how much they appreciated Sen. Mitt Romney’s words condemning President Trump's behavior as documented in the Mueller Report.I agreed that his words are encouraging, although Romney lacks the courage to truly lead the Republican Party in holding the president accountable for his "sickening" behavior and "character" that "falls short" to quote his own words.I hope that Romney will come
  
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• Oklahoma City Dodgers beat Salt Lake Bees 5-3

  01-08-2019 07:16
  The Oklahoma City Dodgers beat the Salt Lake Bees 5-3 on Wednesday night in a Pacific Coast League game at Smith’s Ballpark.The Dodgers led 3-0 when Salt Lake’s Jarrett Parker hit a two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning.Oklahoma City scored two runs in the top of the ninth to take a 5-2 lead, before Salt Lake’s Taylor Ward hit a solo home run in the bottom half of the inning.Edwin Rios, Kyle Garlick and Connor Joe each had two hits and an RBI for Oklahoma City.The D
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - 6 NBA Players Who Have Twin Sisters

  01-08-2019 06:51 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA is a curious world; you can find plenty of interesting stuff there besides the common topics of players, stats and
  
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• Utah man charged in death of girlfriend’s baby

  01-08-2019 06:27
  A Logan man was charged Tuesday with purposely smothering his girlfriend’s baby in December when the child wouldn’t stop crying.Investigators spent months trying to understand what happened to Kynlee Jo Corbridge after she was found dead on Dec. 15, her face and head covered in bruises and abrasions, and tightly swaddled in a blanket in her bed, according to charging documents.Forensic and circumstantial evidence point to 30-year-old Kyle Taylor Gooch, the boyfriend of the baby&rsquo
  
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• Opening of new South Salt Lake homeless shelter could be delayed again — this time it’s money

  01-08-2019 06:20
  South Salt Lake • The new homeless resource center scheduled to open this fall in South Salt Lake is facing additional delays — this time as a result of a $13 million past-due bill on construction and a failure to pay subcontractors.Shelter the Homeless, the nonprofit that owns the center, requested a short-term bridge loan from Salt Lake County in May to complete construction on time, but it has several “outstanding items” to finish before that funding can be approved.&ld
  
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• Ute linebackers are regrouping after Penn State transfer Manny Bowen gives up football

  01-08-2019 05:03
  In the light rain and cool temperatures of a July afternoon, Utah's linebackers were the last players to jog off the practice field Wednesday.Extra work on their own is necessary for a group that lost a potential star, right before the start of preseason camp. The first detour in Utah’s preparation for the Aug. 29 season opener at BYU came Tuesday, when Penn State transfer Manny Bowen told coach Kyle Whittingham he was giving up football to pursue business opportunities.“It surprised
  
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