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• Bear attacks teenager camping near Moab

  09-08-2019 23:46
  A teenager is recovering after he was bitten by a bear while camping near Moab on Friday morning.The 13-year-old was sleeping about 5:45 a.m. when the bear bit his right cheek and ear. He first went to an emergency room in Moab and was later taken by ambulance to a hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. He’s been treated and released.After the attack near the Dewey Bridge campground, the bear — which was described as only a “smaller bear” — fled toward the Colorado River
  
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• Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen tells club boosters he may fire coach Mike Petke

  09-08-2019 23:19
  Just days before Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke is scheduled to return to the team after a three-game suspension, the club is exploring other options — including termination.Club owner Dell Loy Hansen says is considering firing Petke, who was suspended after screaming a homophobic slur in Spanish to a group of referees after a July 24 Leagues Cup game against Tigres UANL. Hansen detailed his thinking to a group of fans after Wednesday’s Utah Royals FC game at Rio Tinto Stadium, acco
  
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• Gregory A. Clark: Public schools are not the place to preach about trusting God

  09-08-2019 23:00
  “In God We Trust”? Hardly.Imagine, for example, that former Rep. Richard Siddoway, pious proponent of mandating “In God We Trust” displays in Utah public schools, were choking uncontrollably on a communion wafer. Riffing on a Lawrence Krauss meme, you give Siddoway the choice between trusting in the Almighty — or the Heimlich maneuver. Verily, even Siddoway would pick Heimlich over Jesus to avoid meeting his Maker.So too, claiming “In God We Trust” isn&r
  
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• New Salt Lake City International Airport road route to give public close-up view of rebuilt facilities

  09-08-2019 22:49
  Until now, most work on the $3.6 billion project to rebuild Salt Lake City International Airport has been out of easy public view. That is about to change.The airport will redirect its roadway beginning Aug. 16 so that it will take motorists between the new terminal and new parking garage — giving up-close views of exterior construction progress.The rerouting also will cut a third of a mile off of the current exit route, which has changed often during different phases of construction.The c
  
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• Jeremy Evans foreverhttps://twitter.com/slamrewind/status/1159924595115384839 …

  09-08-2019 22:40 via twitter.com
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• Real Salt Lake’s offense trending upward as it heads to Kansas City to play Sporting KC

  09-08-2019 22:17
  Herriman • Before Wednesday’s resounding win over New York City FC, Real Salt Lake suffered through two consecutive games without scoring a single goal. One of them was the Leagues Cup loss to Tigres UANL, the other a scoreless draw against FC Dallas. But against NYCFC, Real’s offense went somewhat crazy despite conceding a goal in the first four minutes. After they scored the first goal, two more came and turned a tight game at halftime into a rout. What RSL did against NYCFC h
  
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• Documents: Plant owners ‘willfully’ used ineligible workers

  09-08-2019 21:31
  Jackson, Miss. • Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were “willfully and unlawfully” employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration violations, according to unsealed court documents.Federal investigators behind the biggest immigration raid in a decade relied on confidential informants inside the plants in addition to data from the mo
  
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• Jana Riess: Every Latter-day Saint leader (and teacher, and parent) should read this book

  09-08-2019 20:15
  “They got offended.”“They wanted to sin.”“They were too lazy to keep the commandments.”Those are three of the most popular “reasons” that current members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tend to use to explain why an increasing number of people are leaving the church or losing their faith.As I’ve explained before, these explanations did not hold up in the nationally representative Next Mormons Survey, which showed that forme
  
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• Road crews work to clear debris in Little Cottonwood Canyon and Highway 6

  09-08-2019 20:14
  Residents of Utah County’s Loafer Canyon have been allowed to return to their homes after an evacuation order Thursday prompted by heavy rains that passed through the Wasatch Front, closing several canyon roads.Utah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the road through Loafer Canyon remains closed to non-residents, and property owners have been asked to park in driveways and off the road to allow room for ongoing maintenance.“They were working on it last night to ma
  
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• Is pot safe when pregnant? Study seeks answer, draws critics

  09-08-2019 20:13
  Chicago • Pregnancy started out rough for Leslie Siu. Morning sickness and migraines had her reeling and barely able to function at a demanding New York marketing job, so like rising numbers of U.S. mothers-to-be, she turned to marijuana."l was finally able to get out from under my work desk," said Siu, who later started her own pot company and says her daughter, now 4, is thriving.There's no proof that cannabis can relieve morning sickness, and mainstream medicine advises against use in pr
  
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• Family of Logan teen who survived shooting is promoting gun safety

  09-08-2019 20:10
  Logan • The family of a teenage Logan girl who survived a gunshot wound to the head will be handing out gun locks at the Cache County Fair.The Herald Journal reports that Deserae Turner’s mother, April Turner, says her daughter’s injuries had a profound impact on her life, and she’s hoping the effort will help prevent future tragedies.April Turner says guns have touched her life in other ways: Her grandfather died in a fatal domestic violence shooting, and a cousin died of
  
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• Catherine Rampell: For Trump and his cronies, draining the swamp means ousting experts

  09-08-2019 20:08
  Once upon a time, President Trump pledged to "drain the swamp."This resonated with lots of Americans, who resented the ecosystem of interest groups rigging government in their favor: corrupt officials, revolving-door lobbyists, palm-greasing executives and the network of pseudo-think tanks and analysts funded by industries trying to pass off propaganda as impartial research.In other words, those who use money and access to accumulate more money and access.It's been hard to square these promises
  
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• Ballot initiative protection law proposed by marijuana advocate and former Utah legislator

  09-08-2019 19:15
  After Utah lawmakers repealed and replaced two of the three successful ballot initiatives from the 2018 election, some notable advocates are proposing new legislation to protect laws enacted by voters.Steve Urquhart, a former Republican state senator, and Christine Stenquist, president of the marijuana advocacy group TRUCE, on Thursday announced their push for the Utah Initiative Protection Act, a law that would require public ratification of any legislative repeal or amendment to a law passed v
  
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• Devin Thorpe: Let’s help Central Americans where they live

  09-08-2019 19:00
  The border crisis may be partially one of President Trump’s own making. He’s constantly complaining about how easy it is to gain asylum and threatening to build a wall and close the border.That dual narrative is understood in Central America as, “Come now, before it’s too late,” increasing the flow of migrants to the United States in recent months. What is constant is the danger and misery of living in Central America.It is hard for Utahns to comprehend the level of
  
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• Trump says he wants background checks, also reassures NRA

  09-08-2019 18:56
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a response to last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.At the same time, Trump said he had assured the National Rifle Association that its gun-rights views would be "fully represented and respected." He said he was hopeful the NRA would not be an obstacle to strengthening the nation's gun laws.Tru
  
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• Summer travel tip: watch out for pickpockets. #StealoftheWeek | @LittleGiantpic.twitter.com/y35KXveVbn

  09-08-2019 18:49 via twitter.com
  Summer travel tip: watch out for pickpockets.
  #StealoftheWeek | @LittleGiantpic.twitter.com/y35KXveVbn
  
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• Utah couple killed when their small plane crashes in California

  09-08-2019 18:10
  A Salt Lake City couple were killed when their small plane crashed in California.John Wells, 60, and Tara Wells, 56, died when their single-engine plane crashed in a field about 1,000 feet short of the runway at Camarillo Airport — about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County — about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday. They were the only people on board.According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the couple were flying in a home-built, experimental Express Series 2000 pla
  
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• Carly A. Kocurek: Why we scapegoat video games for mass violence and why it’s a mistake

  09-08-2019 18:00
  In the wake of multiple mass shootings in a 24-hour period, President Donald Trump blamed a familiar culprit: violent video games. In doing so, Trump - and a chorus of increasingly strange bedfellows, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and presidential hopeful Joe Biden - joins a decades-long effort to pin acts of violence on interactive media, even as research shows only tenuous connections between virtual and real-life violence.Since their inception, video games have served as a so
  
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• George Pyle: Total freedom for one is total misery for others

  09-08-2019 17:58
  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to ins
  
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• Walmart tells store workers to take down video game ads, demo consoles after shootings

  09-08-2019 17:20
  Walmart, the world’s largest private sector employer, directed its workers to remove violent video game displays and signs following two deadly shootings inside of its stores. This comes the same week that Universal pulled ads in its marketing campaign for an upcoming violent thriller “The Hunt,” and after ESPN and ABC pulled the broadcast of the X Games “Apex Legends,” a newly minted esports tournament.Walmart stores were sent a memo, which circulated on Twitter, c
  
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• Utah County’s Loafer Canyon reopens to residents after evacuation; road crews work to clear debris on canyon roads

  09-08-2019 17:11
  Residents of Utah County’s Loafer Canyon have been allowed to return to their homes after an evacuation order Thursday prompted by heavy rains that passed through the Wasatch Front, closing several canyon roads.Utah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the road through Loafer Canyon remains closed to non-residents, and property owners have been asked to park in the driveways and off the road to allow room for ongoing maintenance.“They were working on it last night t
  
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• Steve Urquhart: Salt Lake City needs the vision of Dabakis for mayor

  09-08-2019 16:42
  My family and I support Jim Dabakis for Salt Lake City mayor, because he has the vision and ability to get things done. We have seen his vision and ability up close. And, Salt Lake City needs his vision and ability, to fix our air, housing, transportation and parks and to sustainably take our economy and quality of life to greater heights. Jim is the one to do it.When Jim joined the Utah Senate in 2012, I had been in the Utah Legislature for 12 years as a conservative Republican from the reddest
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Democratic presidential candidates make a big play for Iowa

  09-08-2019 15:38
  Presidential candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are making a big play in Iowa, significantly bulking up their field organizations and adding more frequent visits. The surge of attention and resources have helped scramble the existing pecking order, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren is months ahead of the rest of the field, leading in the number of paid staffers on the ground ahead of next year’s Democratic caucuses. [Politico]Happy Friday!Topping the news: Utah biggest voter fraud issues might
  
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• Pioneer benefactor’s ties to slavery raise questions for BYU, where a building bears his name

  09-08-2019 15:21
  Abraham O. Smoot was hailed in a 2015 Brigham Young University magazine article as being “undaunted, powerful, and immovable … [having] a dignity to his presence, a rugged grandeur.”The 19th-century pioneer and benefactor was lauded for being a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for financing the forerunner to the faith’s flagship school. The administration building on the Provo campus even bears his name.Nowhere in these accolades, however, do
  
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• Busy Salt Lake City International Airport eyes nudging out some small planes by raising hangar rents

  09-08-2019 15:13
  Salt Lake City International Airport officials figure they charge so little to rent general aviation hangars that it is attracting problematic amounts of small airplane traffic, taking away business and growth from nearby airports.So they are eying some big rent hikes.“We’ve kind of ruined the market for general aviation because we are charging rates that are so far below market,” Airport Director Bill Wyatt told the Airport Advisory Board this week as it discussed strategy to
  
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• Ria Agarwal: Imbalance of power keeps tampon tax intact

  09-08-2019 15:00
  Do you think Utah is a progressive state? Well, I hate to put a tamp on your enthusiasm, but I’m afraid that's not the case.Every year in Utah, menstruators have to pay an arbitrary tax on tampons and pads due to their status as “luxury” items. On top of the cramps, hormonal changes and bleeding, the tax allows our bodies to be used for profit. But how, specifically, does the tampon tax affect families in Utah?Families with a lower income cannot always afford tampons or pads; i
  
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• Jumbo jet turned desert nightclub returns to Burning Man

  09-08-2019 15:00
  Reno, Nev. • A jumbo jetliner that got stuck in the desert for nearly a month last year has returned for the upcoming Burning Man festival after organizers agreed to post a bond.The Reno Gazette Journal reports the Bureau of Land Management granted a special permit to the foundation that converted the former Boeing 747 cargo plane into a nightclub.Burning Man officials reviewed the Big Imagination Foundation’s plans before the group transported the aircraft last weekend to federal la
  
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• Felony charges filed in rural Nevada school abuse case

  09-08-2019 15:00
  Las Vegas • A defense lawyer on Wednesday challenged prosecutors to prove 45 felony child abuse or neglect charges filed against his clients, the owners of a shuttered private boarding school for at-risk teens in rural Nevada.“Good luck trying to prove your case,” said Thomas Gibson, attorney for Marcel Chappuis and Patricia Chappuis, a married couple accused of subjecting students at Northwest Academy to physical, mental and verbal abuse and forcing them to drink tainted tap wa
  
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• Tribune-Hinckley poll on Salt Lake City mayor’s race included at least 57 people who don’t live in the city

  09-08-2019 14:00
  A Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll conducted on Salt Lake City’s hot mayoral race and related policy questions included at least several dozen respondents who live outside of the capital, raising questions about the survey’s integrity.The poll relied on the Cicero Group to conduct the interviews that took place from July 29-31. The polling contractor and its call center questioned 444 people who were described as “likely voters” in Salt Lake City, thr
  
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• Three companies push ahead with complaints of errors, unfairness in Utah’s selection of cannabis growers

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Three companies that lost out on potentially lucrative cannabis growing licenses in Utah are pressing forward with appeals based on allegations of unfairness and inconsistency in the state’s selection process.After considering 81 applications from would-be marijuana farmers, the state last month chose eight companies to receive the cultivation licenses. Six of the companies that lost out — Pure UT, North Star Holdings, Total Health Sciences, Wild West Holding, JLPR and Tintic United
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: This time, TV critics don’t grill BYUtv about the LDS Church’s LGBTQ policies

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Beverly Hills, Calif. • Six months after an appearance before the Television Critics Association that was, um, difficult, BYUtv returned to the scene of the, um, difficulties.And things went considerably better.Back in February, BYUtv executives as well as the cast and producers of “Dwight in Shining Armor” were grilled by members of the TCA — and some of those critics used words like “homophobic,” “racist” and “sexist” to describe the t
  
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• Robert Kirby: Guns, booze, porn, migrants, drones — what’s in your craw?

  09-08-2019 14:00
  On Tuesday, I expressed my opinion about assault weapons and the government. I should have known better.The argument over assault weapons still rages on my Facebook page, a mindless dogfight in which emotion passes for logic. I tried to cool things off with this post:“Enough with the insults, guys. We all have different opinions. Doesn’t mean we have to get nasty about them. Calm down. Deep breaths, clear your minds. Now, imagine Donald Trump in a Speedo.”Disgusting, I know. Bu
  
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• Road to making offbeat ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ a hit runs through Utah, filmmakers say

  09-08-2019 14:00
  If the rest of the world reacts to “The Peanut Butter Falcon” the way Salt Lake City audiences have, filmmakers Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz will be delighted.“Oh, my gosh, the audiences in this town,” Schwartz said this week, during a publicity tour for the warm-hearted road-trip movie that opens in Salt Lake City and a few other markets Friday and nationwide on Aug. 23.Nilson and Schwartz marveled at the enthusiasm of the audience at an advance screening Tuesday night
  
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• Replica of ancient cross rises inside Salt Lake City’s Catholic Newman Center

  09-08-2019 14:00
  A massive replica of the centuries-old, icon-style Cross of the Stigmata was installed earlier this week inside the St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Newman Center near the University of Utah.St. Catherine of Siena, the center’s patron saint, is said to have mystically received the wounds — or stigmata — of Christ on her hands and feet in 1375.The cross was commissioned by Pastor Jacek Buda and the church’s parish council six months ago. It was painted by artist Nadiya Savk
  
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• Letter: We expect too much from Mitt Romney

  09-08-2019 14:00
  People seem to expect way too much from Mitt Romney. They somehow think he’s going to rescue us and stand up to Trump.Sorry, ain’t gonna happen.Romney lacks the courage, backbone and motivation for such things. He may meekly say some negative little thing about one of Trump’s latest tweets from the relative safety of some dark corner of the Senate basement, but that’s about it. Romney is there to help funnel more of our money up to the wealthy and corporations, and that&r
  
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• Letter: Utah Legislature should look to experts on medical cannabis

  09-08-2019 14:00
  I don’t understand why the Utah Legislature always feels the need to reinvent the wheel.All these good ol’ Mormon boys who think no one will use medical cannabis are trying to create a system of distribution that will have the state’s fingers in every aspect of it,and it is just going to mess everything up, like the DABC and our liquorlaws.What they need to do is look at other states that have had systems in place for years and have worked out the kinks and use them as a model.
  
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• Letter: Those with full houses shouldn’t complain about high-density housing

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Residents of Mapleton are complaining about high-density housing that is planned for their area.If these residents had more than one or two children, then they have no basis for complaint. Where did they think their children would live when they grew up — California?Sherri Park, West JordanSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: There’s no justification for allowing weapons of war on our streets

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Another horrific and senseless slaughter of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil is now looking like a white nationalist-motivated act of domestic terrorism. The weapon of choice to kill the most people as fast as possible is, of course, the AK-47 assault rifle.As numerous retired military, active and retired police officers and responsible gun owners have all agreed in letters to this newspaper, there is no damn justification for these weapons of war to be accessible to the public. They, along with other
  
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• Letter: Only one thing can cause all that ice to melt

  09-08-2019 14:00
  The Aug. 2 Salt Lake Tribune article “Greenland sees massive ice melt in heat wave” stated that “More than 10 billion tons (11 billion U.S. tons) of ice were lost to the oceans by surface melt on Wednesday alone, creating a net mass ice loss of some 197 billion tons (217 billion U. S. tons) from Greenland in July.”It has also been reported, here and elsewhere, that glaciers are disappearing globally. That Earth’s total sea ice is melting (especially in the Arctic) a
  
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• Letter: Facts mean nothing to most voters

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Dear Kirby,I loved the “boot system” in your recent column, but it won’t work.Half the people don’t know or care what their representative in government does or how he votes. You could never convince this kind of voter that their representative voted 25 times to eliminate health care or drop a bomb on Iran.Facts mean nothing to voters who never listen to or read normal news or use Factcheck. They hang onto a representative for dear life who says what they “want&rdqu
  
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• Great Salt Lake Fringe goes into second weekend with moving stories

  09-08-2019 14:00
  Gordon Siegel stands at the entrances of the various theater spaces of the Great Salt Lake Fringe, checking people in at the door and dispensing advice: “Just come and see it all. You get to see a lot of good plays and some bad ones, too.”Siegel came to Utah for the snow, but when he attended his first Fringe play, when the festival was based at Westminster College, he was hooked.“I came for the vibe of it,” said Siegel, who has been a volunteer for the festival since the
  
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• Strong storm wreaks havoc on Utah canyon roads

  09-08-2019 05:42
  Heavy rains from a strong storm passing through the Wasatch Front on Thursday evening prompted residents living in Loafer Canyon in Utah County to evacuate the area and closed some canyon roads.Utah County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Spencer Cannon announced the evacuation order just after 7:30 p.m. He did not say how many people were affected. So far, there are no reports of injuries.The flooding is near last summer’s Bald Mountain Fire burn scar. That fire started with a lightning strike
  
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• Salt Lake Bees fall to Omaha 8-6 despite Hermosillo’s power display

  09-08-2019 05:29
  Michael Hermosillo belted two home runs and drove in five runs, but it wasn’t enough as the host Omaha Storm Chasers defeated the Salt Lake Bees 8-6 in a PCL game Thursday.After Omaha jumped in front with five runs in the first and one more in the second, Hermosillo got Salt Lake on the board with a three-run homer in the in the third inning. His two-run shot in the eighth pulled the Bees to within three at 8-5.He has four home runs and nine RBIs in the first two games of the series.The Be
  
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• Donovan Mitchell’s Team USA experience is a chance to enjoy the camaraderie of his teammates — but also to learn from them

  09-08-2019 05:01
  As the two finished their shooting drills at the end of Team USA’s week-long training camp on Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, Donovan Mitchell and Kyle Kuzma walked from one side of the court to the other, joking about a missed dunk by the Jazzman that USA coach Gregg Popovich didn’t seem too pleased about.They sat down on chairs at the edge of the court together, getting ready for post-practice media interviews. One reporter got in the first question in for Mitchell, but Kuzma got
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell enjoying the opportunity to learn from Team USA teammates

  09-08-2019 04:06 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz star guard Donovan Mitchell is picking up new things from his Team USA teammates — and he’s enjoying every single minute of it. Mitchell shared that he’s learning different things such as playing efficiently, cutting off the ball, and...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Donovan Mitchell’s Team USA experience is a chance to enjoy the camaraderie of his teammates — but also to learn from them, too

  09-08-2019 02:32 via sportspyder.com
  As the two finished their shooting drills at the end of Team USA’s week-long training camp on Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, Donovan Mitchell and Kyle Kuzma walked from one side of the court to the other, joking about a missed dunk by the Jazzman...
  
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• [KSL] - 'You don’t want to ruffle feathers': Former Jazz president will remain involved with the Jazz after promotion to CEO | KSL.com

  09-08-2019 02:26 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz are looking for a new president. The old one didn’t go too far, though.
  
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• Salt Lake City teachers, who threatened to strike, will get raises under tentative deal

  09-08-2019 02:09
  Two months after salary negotiations stalled and hundreds of teachers threatened to strike if they didn’t get a raise, Salt Lake City School District struck a tentative agreement that would increase the annual pay for its starting educators to $46,845.That bump — at 4.1% — is lower than teachers had asked for, lower than the increases at surrounding districts in the county and lower than what the Salt Lake district had approved just two years ago when it was among the highest p
  
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• Eugene Robinson: Trump grotesquely made his visits to Dayton and El Paso all about him

  09-08-2019 02:00
  Washington • It is not just his stoking of white supremacist sentiment that makes Donald Trump such a dangerously unfit president. It’s also the corruption, the weakness, the ignorance, the incompetence and the stunning lack of empathy — all of which we saw this week on grotesque display.What kind of man visits two grieving communities, shattered by horrific mass shootings, and somehow makes it all about him? I covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and had trouble sleeping
  
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• Motorist throws 3 kittens out of car onto Utah highway

  09-08-2019 01:47
  Uintah County Animal Control officers are trying to find those responsible for throwing three kittens out of a speeding vehicle onto the highway near Ouray on Thursday morning.All the kittens apparently died on impact, animal control and shelter director Christina Williams said.A semi truck driver called 911 around 9 a.m. to report a that someone in older model passenger car was speeding and throwing objects out onto the roadway, northbound UT-88. Law enforcement later found the bodies of three
  
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