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• Molly Roberts: The distraction of 30 to 50 feral hogs can take us only so far

  06-08-2019 23:57
  Thirty to 50 feral hogs. Three to five minutes."If you're on here arguing the definition of 'assault weapon' today, you're part of the problem," the musician Jason Isbell wrote on Twitter on Sunday in the aftermath of multiple mass shootings this weekend. "You know what an assault weapon is, and you know you don't need one.""Legit question for rural Americans," one William McNabb replied. "How do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 mins while my small kids play?"The twee
  
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• Rebekah Ashley: Support protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  06-08-2019 23:48
  President Trump’s assault on climate and public lands has been called a kind of administrative vandalism. Under his leadership, crucial environmental regulations have been rolled back, the United States pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and millions of acres of public lands have been opened to the energy industry. Included in the list of areas under threat is Bears Ears National Monument. In December 2017, Trump announced plans to shrink the monument by 85%. A year later, with the
  
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• Eugene Scott: What Toni Morrison said about Trump supporters and fears of the ‘collapse of white privilege’

  06-08-2019 23:47
  Nobel laureate Toni Morrison won global acclaim for her ability to tell the story of the black American experience — and specifically the damaging effects of racism — when few authors with national platforms were addressing the issue.Her death on Monday at 88 coincided with national conversations about the role President Donald Trump has played in stoking white nationalism. Many fans of Morrison are reflecting on her words criticizing the consuming nature of dismantling racism.Shortl
  
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• Nuclear waste shipments to Nevada never passed through Utah, Gov. Herbert says

  06-08-2019 23:29
  Worrisome shipments of mislabeled radioactive waste never passed through Utah before they arrived in Nevada, Gov. Gary Herbert assured concerned environmental groups through a letter on Tuesday.He added that he and key state agencies are notified any time that “dangerous and highly sensitive radioactive wastes travels through Utah.” Another state official says that occurs once or twice a month, and emergency, transportation and public safety officials are also notified.Environmental
  
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• Pawnshop boss directed thieves to steal new tools, vacuums, gift cards, Utah prosecutors say

  06-08-2019 23:18
  In the fall of 2017, security personnel for online and brick-and-mortar retailers along the Wasatch Front held a meeting with Utah law enforcement. The merchants were worried about pawnshops.The retailers complained that a lot of brand-new, still-in-the-box merchandise was being sold at Wasatch Front pawnshops, according to documents describing the meeting. Representatives from eBay, documents say, warned especially about one pawnshop — Xtreme Pawn in West Jordan. Officials with eBay said
  
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• Referees Association, Equality Utah condemns RSL coach Mike Petke’s use of homophobic slurs toward officials after Leagues Cup match

  06-08-2019 23:11
  The Professional Soccer Referees Association and the state’s largest LGBTQ support group on Tuesday both condemned Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke for his use of homophobic slurs directed at Leagues Cup officials after last week’s match between RSL and Tigres UANL at Rio Tinto Stadium.After the game, video showed Petke yelling at a group of referees while being restrained by two of his assistant coaches. The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed that he repeatedly used a term that is considere
  
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• Manson prosecutor: Keep them all locked up forever

  06-08-2019 23:00
  Los Angeles • Stephen Kay was a fresh-faced prosecutor just 27 years old and three years out of law school when circumstances handed him the Charles Manson “family” murder case.Over the next half-century, it would come to define his career and lead to death threats that to this day he worries a Manson sycophant might try to carry out."I don't dwell on it, but I'm careful. I always look around to see if I'm being followed or anything," the retired prosecutor said recently as he p
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz release 5-game preseason schedule: 3 at home, 2 on road

  06-08-2019 22:58 via sportspyder.com
  It’s a preseason schedule that should feel relatively familiar to Jazz fans.
  
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• BYU has upgraded its depth at running back; now assistant coach AJ Steward must decide who gets the football

  06-08-2019 22:55
  Provo • Fifth-year graduate transfer running backs Emmanuel Esukpa and Ty’Son Williams made difficult decisions a few months ago, choosing to play their final seasons of college football for BYU.Their moves not only created an embarrassment of riches at running back for BYU, it also created an interesting decision for the Cougars’ offensive coaches, most notably second-year running backs coach AJ Steward.Who gets the rock the most?“I will always want to go with a workhorse
  
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• Bob Sawatzki: Utah, take our Growlers, please

  06-08-2019 22:50
  The state of Washington is suing the U.S. Navy in an effort to prevent the escalation of touch-and-go practice landings by EA-18G Growler jets on Whidbey Island.The Navy wants to quadruple its current practice, from 6,000 to 24,100 annual takeoffs and landings.The 677-acre practice field in question is adjacent to 17,000-acre Ebey’s Landing National Historical Reserve, established in 1978. Ironically, it was President Jimmy Carter, a Navy veteran, who signed the bill establishing the Reser
  
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• part of the elite 22%!

  06-08-2019 22:32 via twitter.com
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• Jazz release 5-game preseason schedule: 3 at home, 2 on road

  06-08-2019 22:21
  It’s a preseason schedule that should feel relatively familiar to Jazz fans.Once again, the Jazz will play a 5-game preseason schedule, with three of those games at Vivint Smart Home Arena and two on the road. Yes, one of those games played in Salt Lake City will be against an Australian opponent; this time, the Adelaide 36ers on Oct. 5 — who the Jazz also played in 2018.Just like in 2018, the Jazz’s preseason schedule will wrap up with games against the Sacramento Kings &mdash
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - USA coach Gregg Popovich says Donovan Mitchell ‘has a lot of offensive abilities that we like’

  06-08-2019 22:13 via sportspyder.com
  Team USA head coach Gregg Popovich is a big fan of Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell’s game. Popovich, one of the brightest basketball minds on the planet, spoke highly of Mitchell after Team USA completed its first day of training camp on...
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell says being at Team USA training camp ‘is a blessing’

  06-08-2019 22:13 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz shooting guard Donovan Mitchell says being at Team USA training camp in Las Vegas “is a blessing.” Mitchell has been overlooked his entire life. The high-flyer didn’t play in the McDonald’s All-American Game and wasn’t invited to the high-pr
  
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• Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

  06-08-2019 22:04
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades.The number of naloxone prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies doubled from 2017 to last year, rising from 271,000 to 557,000, health officials reported Tuesday.The United States is in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in its history. About 68,000 people died of over
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Pelicans emerge from gloomy end to Anthony Davis era with Zion Williamson, bright future

  06-08-2019 20:37 via sportspyder.com
  Grading the New Orleans Pelicans’ offseason
  
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• Jon Huntsman resigns as U.S. ambassador to Russia to return to Utah for possible run for governor

  06-08-2019 20:33
  Washington • U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman is returning home to Utah, where he is reportedly weighing another run for governor.Huntsman sent President Donald Trump a resignation letter Tuesday morning and plans to move back to the Beehive State in October.“American citizenship is a privilege and I believe the most basic responsibility in return is service to country,” Huntsman begins his letter to the president. “To that end, I am honored by the trust you have pla
  
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• Utah spends more on football recruiting than any public school in the Pac-12. What does $1 million get the Utes?

  06-08-2019 20:16
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham continually speaks about the importance of recruiting, and the Utes' commitment is more than just talk.Utah spends more than $1 million per year to recruit football players. That’s roughly $40,000 for each scholarship athlete who joins the program and is the biggest investment of any of the 10 public schools in the Pac-12, according to public records studied by WatchStadium.com for the 2017-18 fiscal year.“I'm happy to hear that, because that's th
  
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• We had a tie for first place ... and they were both WRONG! John Stockton: 15,806 assists Karl Malone: 5,085 assists Rickey Green: 4,159 Deron Williams: 4,003 The correct answer was: D!

  06-08-2019 20:03 via twitter.com
  We had a tie for first place ... and they were both WRONG!John Stockton: 15,806 assists
  Karl Malone: 5,085 assists
  Rickey Green: 4,159
  Deron Williams: 4,003The correct answer was: D!
  
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• Attorneys seek plea agreement for the Utah man accused of killing his wife on a cruise ship

  06-08-2019 19:46
  Juneau, Alaska • Attorneys for a Utah man accused of killing his wife on a cruise to Alaska in 2017 have filed a notice of intent to change his plea.Kenneth Manzanares was charged with murder in the death of his wife. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.His attorneys, in a filing with a federal court, said the parties involved in the case are working to finalize the details of a plea agreement. They asked for a court date in November.Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Schmidt said Tuesday he coul
  
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• Utah cops are moving to hybrids with big batteries and the ability to reach 137 mph

  06-08-2019 19:36
  Trying to be more environmentally conscious, several police departments in Salt Lake County have traded some of their gas patrol cars for hybrids, and other departments see a switch in their futures.Salt Lake City, the first in the state and among the first few departments in the country to make the shift, passed a $4 million budget in June to replace 110 aging patrol gas cars with new hybrid vehicles. The change is part of the city’s initiative to reduce community greenhouse gas emissions
  
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• Jon Huntsman, U.S. ambassador to Russia, resigns to return to Utah for possible run for governor

  06-08-2019 19:34
  Washington • U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman is returning home to Utah, where he is reportedly weighing another run for governor.Huntsman sent President Donald Trump a resignation letter Tuesday morning and plans to move back to the Beehive State in October.“American citizenship is a privilege and I believe the most basic responsibility in return is service to country,” Huntsman begins his letter to the president. “To that end, I am honored by the trust you have pla
  
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• Letter: The outrage at Trump’s racism is very real

  06-08-2019 19:32
  It’s rich that Ron Rice called for “a dose of intellectual honesty” before distorting all the facts in his recent letter to The Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Rice asserts that Donald Trump is “far from racist,” while conveniently ignoring Trump’s history of housing discrimination, his “s---hole countries” remark, his “go back” tweets, his recent attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings, etc.Contrary to what Mr. Rice wrote, Trump did not tell the &ldquo
  
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• .@BRuss3 out here at @jazzyouth camps handing out that pic.twitter.com/xGvv7ajcCE

  06-08-2019 19:31 via twitter.com
  .@BRuss3 out here at @jazzyouth camps handing out that pic.twitter.com/xGvv7ajcCE
  
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• Letter: Long live the Affordable Care Act

  06-08-2019 19:29
  Applause and a hearty thank you to Salt Lake Tribune staff writers Benjamin Wood, Paighten Harkens, and secondarily to Yasmeen Abutaleb of The Washington Post, for writing so clearly to explain to the lay public about the latest wrinkle, and perhaps death knell, of our Legislature’s attempts to derail and kill the voters’ approval of full Medicaid expansion in Proposition 3 last November.And to Editorial Page Editor George Pyle for his cutting description of the Legislature’s l
  
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• [KSL] - Don't be surprised if Donovan Mitchell plays a major role for the US at the World Cup | KSL.com

  06-08-2019 19:16 via sportspyder.com
  USA Basketball training camp began on Monday. After a number of stars pulled out, Donovan Mitchell might have next.
  
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• NCAA places Utah men’s basketball on probation; Tommy Connor no longer is the Utes’ ‘coach in waiting’

  06-08-2019 19:15
  The University of Utah men's basketball program received two years of probation for recruiting violations stemming from the coaching staff's visiting a prospect during a quiet period in the spring of 2018, the NCAA announced Tuesday.The school self-imposed a suspension of associate head coach Tommy Connor for one week in November 2018 and “rescinded its coach in waiting agreement” with Connor as part of the sanctions, according to the NCAA's report.Connor, an assistant to coach Larry
  
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• Salt Lake City’s first economic development director heads to Virginia

  06-08-2019 19:05
  As Salt Lake City’s first economic development director packed for a move to Virginia last week and bade farewell to co-workers, she said she loved the job here.Lara Fritts spent the past three years promoting Utah’s capital as an attractive place for commerce — and departs for a similar but more influential position in Richmond with several accomplishments in the rearview mirror.When Mayor Jackie Biskupski hired her in 2016, Salt Lake City was already riding a wave of economic
  
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• Utah Reps. Chris Stewart and John Curtis voice support for a federal ‘red flag’ law after weekend shootings

  06-08-2019 19:04
  Rep. Chris Stewart says he always has been and always will be a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and a person’s “fundamental constitutional” right to legally own a firearm.But, in a video posted Monday to the Utah Republican’s Facebook Page, Stewart said he felt heartbroken and angry over the evil displayed last weekend in the form of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left more than 30 people dead and dozens injured.“For two years, I have supported legis
  
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• Dana Milbank: Republicans’ thoughts and prayers have become a cruel joke

  06-08-2019 18:55
  Back-to-back massacres in El Paso and Dayton kill 31. Cue the thoughts and prayers!"Melania and I send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers," tweeted President Trump, who vows to veto gun control."Elaine's and my prayers go out to the victims," tweeted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who blocks votes on gun control.Do they not realize that "thoughts and prayers" has become a meme, a cynical punchline conveying inaction on guns? It's what people say when they plan to do nothing.Thoughts and
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Republicans make us fear things they refuse to fix

  06-08-2019 18:49
  Video: Video games did not invent hateful ideologies. The rush to blame them for mass shootings is a pathetic evasion of the truth, argues Alyssa Rosenberg. (Kate Woodsome, Joy Sharon Yi, Danielle Kunitz/The Washington Post)It’s almost funny, in a twisted sort of way. Election after election, Republicans have based their core political appeal on fear.And yet — as dual gun massacres this weekend starkly illustrate — they refuse to offer solutions to any of the mortal threats Ame
  
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• Gordon Monson: What the hell’s wrong with Mike Petke? Something. Something that must change.

  06-08-2019 18:41
  “I don’t always get it right.”Those were the words of Mike Petke two months ago, as he described his bursts of anger, bursts of passion, bursts of profanity, bursts of ugliness, bursts that stir somewhere inside him, from a place not even Petke himself understands. And then, they spill out, like raging water over and through a damaged and disintegrating dam.And sometimes they hurt people.On one occasion, after a disappointing Real Salt Lake loss on a bad call by an official las
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: Vince Carter signs with Hawks for record-breaking 22nd season

  06-08-2019 18:16 via sportspyder.com
  He’ll break a tie with Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Willis and Robert Parish.
  
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• "At times, we all have something to prove during the NBA season. This isn’t anything different for guys like myself. We have to be ready to come out there and be ready to compete and play.” (: @usabasketball)pic.twitter.com/KczVlNbSl0

  06-08-2019 18:07 via twitter.com
  "At times, we all have something to prove during the NBA season. This isn’t anything different for guys like myself. We have to be ready to come out there and be ready to compete and play.”(: @usabasketball)pic.twitter.com/KczVlNbSl0
  
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• we know

  06-08-2019 17:57 via twitter.com
  we know
  
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• Provo man sentenced to prison for wife’s strangulation murder

  06-08-2019 16:13
  Provo • A Utah man who pleaded guilty to the strangulation death of his wife has been sentenced to serve up to 45 years in prison, a report said.Curtis Nichols, 37, was sentenced Monday for killing Robin Nichols in the couple's home in August 2017, KUTV reported Monday.Police determined Nichols strangled his wife in a fit of rage while the couple’s three children were in the home 9 miles south of Provo.Nichols told police he was shopping and returned to find his 35-year-old wife dead
  
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• Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

  06-08-2019 16:10
  New York • Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88.Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Morrison's family issued a statement through Knopf saying she died after a brief illness."Toni Morrison
  
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• Grief, calls for action increase as death toll grows in U.S. shootings

  06-08-2019 15:59
  El Paso, Texas • Anguished families planned funerals in two U.S. cities, politicians pointed fingers and a nation numbed by gun violence wondered what might come next Monday as the death toll from two weekend mass shootings rose to 31.The attacks 1,300 miles apart — at a packed shopping center in El Paso, Texas , and a popular nightlife stretch in Dayton, Ohio — also injured dozens more. They became the newest entries on an ever-growing list of mass shooting sites and spurred di
  
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• Stocks plunge in worst loss of 2019 as trade war escalates

  06-08-2019 15:52
  New York • U.S. stocks plunged to their worst loss of the year Monday, and investors around the world scrambled to sell on worries about how much President Donald Trump’s worsening trade war will damage the global economy.China let its currency, the yuan, drop to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a decade, a move that Trump railed against as “currency manipulation.” It also halted purchases of U.S. farm products. The moves follow Trump’s tweets from la
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump’s descriptions of an ‘invasion’ at the southern border come under scrutiny following mass shooting in Texas

  06-08-2019 15:38
  Since January, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has posted more than 2,000 ads on social media that include inflammatory claims about an “invasion” along the southern border with Mexico. That language is now under intense scrutiny following the shooting this weekend in El Paso, where the suspect appeared to be the author of a manifesto declaring the attack a “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” [NYTimes]Happy Tuesday.Topping the news: As Gov. G
  
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• Letter: Support protective orders and background checks

  06-08-2019 15:12
  Time has been running out for hundreds of people across the country. For those involved in the shootings in Dayton and El Paso, time has run out. Now the time is nearing when every American has experienced, whether themselves or from a family member or close friend, the horror of gun violence.I don’t have all the answers about guns. I don’t know how to stop the radicalization of our young people on the internet. I do know that it is situations like these that illustrate the dire need
  
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• Letter: Stewart owes his career and paycheck to socialism

  06-08-2019 15:11
  Rep. Chris Stewart was educated at a publicly funded college (socialism). He didn’t go $80,000 in debt learning to be a pilot. The Air Force trained him, fed and housed him, provided no-cost health care to him and his family. He still collects a taxpayer-funded paycheck as a member of congress. The work skills and education he garnered came from socialist, government-funded programs.What Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want is a fairer capitalist system where money flows more evenly. C
  
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• Letter: A dollar for your conscience

  06-08-2019 15:10
  Now that I have finished crying over yet another mass shooting in this country, I have a message for all of the current and former elected officials who represent our state and nation:There have been three mass shootings in the last week, add that to the last 20 years, and the hate filled violence has to stop! I’ll give you all $1 to buy yourselves a conscience, since you obviously don’t have one.This is on you, and you have the nerve to call yourselves Christians? Shameful.Suzanne O
  
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• Letter: More success for the NRA

  06-08-2019 15:07
  What a successful year for the NRA. More than 250 mass shootings, culminating in three in one week.They must be so happy to see so many young men exercising their Second Amendment rights — rights so much more important than that tired old dodge about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”Peggy Fujimura, M.D., West JordanSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• [USA Today: Hoops Hype] - CJ McCollum interview and other NBA podcasts of the day

  06-08-2019 14:40 via sportspyder.com
  All the top NBA podcasts compiled here on a daily basis so you don’t have to look for them. Enjoy! Blazers Guard CJ McCollum August 06 05:32 AM Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum joins …
  
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• Utah is the first to create a statewide electronic system for rape kits

  06-08-2019 14:00
  For sexual assault victims, it means the crime lab may be able to test their kits faster. For investigators, it means faster and easier access to secure files. And all for $50,000.On July 1, Utah became the first state to implement an electronic forensic medical record system that spans all 29 counties, said Susan Chasson, a sexual assault nurse examiner with the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault.A similar system has been in use since 2017 in Salt Lake and Utah counties, accessible by the Wa
  
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• Robert Kirby: Saying you need an AK-47 to guard against government tyranny is an assault on logic

  06-08-2019 14:00
  Deep breath. OK, get ready to yell at me, unfriend me on Facebook, and otherwise be mean. Go ahead. I don’t mind.I used to own guns. Lots of them — so many that there was a time when I really wasn’t sure how many. Today, I think the number of guns I have is ... two. Wait, four if you’re counting .22s.Back then, I used to hunt, shoot competitively, and just plink in the desert with my brothers and friends. Good times.But my interest in firearms waned during the time I was
  
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• By 3-1 margin, Salt Lake City residents favor converting to a free bus system

  06-08-2019 14:00
  Park City offers a free-fare transit system. So does Cache County. Now, a new poll shows that Salt Lake City residents want free-fare buses, too — by nearly a 3-1 margin.Such support comes as some of the city’s eight candidates for mayor have pushed various forms of the idea, including having the city fund free passes or seeking a state subsidy to make the entire Utah Transit Authority system fare-free.“If we do that, we’re talking about tremendous decline in air pollutio
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell primed for major role with USA at FIBA World Cup

  06-08-2019 07:05 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell isn't just the Utah Jazz's top dog, he looks to be on the verge of achieving greatness in international competition, too. USA Basketball's...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell primed for major role with USA at FIBA World Cup

  06-08-2019 06:53
  Donovan Mitchell isn’t just the Utah Jazz’s top dog, he looks to be on the verge of achieving greatness in international competition, too. USA Basketball’s mini-camp in preparation for the 2019 FIBA World Cup is officially underway in Las Vegas. And despite the litany of NBA stars that officially withdrew from national team activity earlier this […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell primed for major role with USA at FIBA World Cup - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz
  
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