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• Happy Aviation Day! Salt Lake City International Airport releases time-lapse of ongoing construction

  19-08-2019 23:48
  Ever heard of National Aviation Day? It’s real. And the Salt Lake City International Airport celebrated it Monday by releasing a time-lapse video of some of the ongoing construction of its new $3.6 billion replacement facility.“It’s to help educate the public and passengers about different aspects of the construction,” says airport spokeswoman Nancy Volmer.The airport hired Avalanche Productions to produce vignettes of the construction over time, which Volmer says eventua
  
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• Did inhaling marijuana oil or vaping make 5 Utahns seriously ill? Health officials are investigating.

  19-08-2019 23:43
  Five Utahns, including some teenagers, have experienced “serious breathing problems” that may be related to vaping or other inhaled drugs — including marijuana oil — and the state health department is investigating.Dixie Harris, a pulmonology and critical care specialist at Intermountain Healthcare, alerted the health department after she saw a second patient who was having difficulty breathing after vaping. “The first several cases we had, the patients were inhalin
  
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• Hiker recalls harrowing week in Montana-Idaho wilderness

  19-08-2019 23:36
  Florence, Mont. • A Utah man said he ate berries and bugs to survive for nearly a week while lost in wilderness along the Idaho-Montana border.Kaden Laga, 25, is about to become a father and told himself he had to survive and make it home to his pregnant wife no matter what, he told Salt Lake City station KUTV in an interview Sunday.The Orem man was on a horseback outing in Bitterroot-Selway Wilderness on Aug. 11 when one of the horses in the group went lame. He said he volunteered to hike
  
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• Mitt Romney slaps ‘socialist’ agenda of Democratic presidential candidates — and Donald Trump’s character

  19-08-2019 23:22
  Sen. Mitt Romney may not be running for president now, but the former GOP nominee on Monday tore into what he calls the “socialist” agenda of the Democrats who are — and threw some lesser jabs at fellow Republican President Donald Trump.“I guess I should consider myself a renegade Republican,” he said after criticizing stands of virtually all of the major presidential candidates, including Trump, during a speech at the conservative Sutherland Institute think tank in
  
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  19-08-2019 23:05 via twitter.com
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• Photos: Utah students come back to school — with paparazzi and a red carpet

  19-08-2019 22:25
  Students across the state went back to school on Monday — and a few walked a red carpet for the occasion.At Copperview Elementary in Midvale, staffers got to the school at 7 a.m. to start preparations. Principal Jeri Rigby grabbed a roll of tape and a bundle of red fabric and covered the sidewalk leading to the front doors.“The kids are like celebrities,” she said. "It’s awesome.”Parents lined up along the sides, snapping pictures and cheering on the students as the
  
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• Utah’s Planned Parenthood says it will remain open despite loss of federal family planning funds

  19-08-2019 22:23
  The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah on Monday said its clinic doors will remain open, despite its decision to decline federal Title X funding that would come attached to new restrictions on abortion referrals.“I am heartbroken that we have to withdraw today from Title X, but we refuse to let the Trump administration bully us into withholding abortion information from our patients in Utah," Karrie Galloway, president and CEO for the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, said in a p
  
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• Woman charged in South Jordan real estate agent’s death

  19-08-2019 22:11
  A woman arrested in connection with the shooting death of a Utah real estate agent has been charged.KUTV in Salt Lake City reports that an indictment filed Monday shows Jessica Miller is facing charges of obstruction of justice, identity fraud, forgery and abuse or desecration of a human body.Authorities say 40-year-old David Stokoe, of South Jordan, was fatally shot in January while attempting to evict tenants, including Miller, from an apartment.Investigators later found his body in a crawl sp
  
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• Potentially deadly form of West Nile Virus infects a Salt Lake County resident

  19-08-2019 22:10
  A Salt Lake County resident has been hospitalized with a potentially deadly form of West Nile Virus — the first known case in the county this year, according to the county health department.The unidentified adult has a neuroinvasive form of the virus — a more serious case seen in less than 1% of patients — which can result in long-term complications or death.While it’s the first time West Nile is known to have infected a human in the county in 2019, the Salt Lake County H
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Is Team USA an injury risk to NBA players?

  19-08-2019 21:27 via sportspyder.com
  With De’Aaron Fox leaving Team USA so last minute, should Jazz fans be worried about Donovan Mitchell’s health?
  
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• No. 14 Utes are ranked in the AP’s preseason Top 25 for the first time in the school’s Pac-12 era

  19-08-2019 21:22
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham says his players haven’t become softened by the nice things people are saying about them. That’s good, because the praise keeps coming and the Utes are making history without even playing a game.Utah is No. 14 in the preseason AP Top 25, the program’s all-time highest ranking in August. The Utes rank behind the Pac-12 North’s Oregon (No. 11) and Washington (No. 13) and ahead of Washington State (No. 23) and Stanford (No. 25) in the med
  
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• Elizabeth Warren apologizes at Native American forum: ‘I have listened and I have learned’

  19-08-2019 20:55
  Sioux City, Iowa • Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaking at a presidential forum on Native American issues Monday, offered a direct, public apology for the “harm” that she caused and pledged to uplift Native people as president.Warren was met with a standing ovation when she took the stage and she began by addressing the controversy over her past claims of Native American ancestry.“Like anyone who’s being honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes,&r
  
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• NYPD fires officer 5 years after Eric Garner’s chokehold death

  19-08-2019 20:33
  New York • After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of the black man whose dying cries of “I can’t breathe” fueled a national debate over race and police use of force.Police Commissioner James O'Neill said he fired Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge. He said it was clear Pantaleo "can no longer effective
  
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• New Ute linebackers coach Colton Swan has made a good impression. Now comes the real evaluation.

  19-08-2019 20:13
  Gary Andersen left the Utah football program in December to become Utah State’s head coach, taking Justin Ena with him. The Utes found two replacements, with dramatically different job descriptions in 2019.Sione Po’uha coaches the defensive tackles, with returning starters Leki Fotu and John Penisini and a lot of dependable reserves, led by Hauati Pututau and Viane Moala.Colton Swan coaches the linebackers, the position group that formerly showcased Cody Barton and Chase Hansen and t
  
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• Did vaping make 5 Utahns seriously ill? Health officials are investigating.

  19-08-2019 20:05
  Five Utahns have experienced “serious breathing problems” that may be related to vaping or “other inhalational drugs,” and the state health department is investigating.The patients suffered shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain and coughing — symptoms that worsened for several days or weeks, according to the Utah Department of Health. All five were hospitalized, and some needed assistance to breathe.While their conditions have improved, the long-term effects on t
  
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• Paul Krugman: From Trump boom to Trump gloom

  19-08-2019 20:00
  Last year, after an earlier stock market swoon brought on by headlines about the U.S.-China trade conflict, I laid out three rules for thinking about such events. First, the stock market is not the economy. Second, the stock market is not the economy. Third, the stock market is not the economy.But maybe I should add a fourth rule: The bond market sorta kinda is the economy.An old economists’ joke says that the stock market predicted nine of the last five recessions. Well, an “inverte
  
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• 74% of economists in survey see U.S. recession by end of 2021

  19-08-2019 19:35
  Washington • A strong majority, 74%, of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021.The economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics, in a report released Monday, mostly didn't share Trump's optimistic outlook for the economy, though they generally saw recession coming later than they did in a survey taken in February. T
  
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• Man accused in $1.5 million Ponzi scheme has hearing delayed

  19-08-2019 19:33
  A court appearance for a 72-year-old Utah man charged in what prosecutors call a $1.5 million Ponzi scheme has been delayed so he can recover from surgery after a heart attack.The Standard-Examiner reports that Robert Glen Mouritsen is a former stake president in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who is accused of cheating fellow church members over a 12-year period.Mouritsen had been scheduled to appear in federal court Tuesday to respond to allegations that he'd violated his pret
  
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  19-08-2019 19:29 via twitter.com
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• Greek Orthodox bishop convicted of hate speech resigns

  19-08-2019 18:58
  Athens, Greece • The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” or “non-Greek” way, including gays, migrants and politicians, resigned Sunday.Amvrosios, 81, announced his resignation Sunday at Mass. He has served in the diocese of Kalavryta, in southern Greece, since 1978.The Metropolitan achieved notoriety for his support of the fa
  
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• McKenna Denson given more time in her lawsuit against LDS Church over sexual misconduct by mission president

  19-08-2019 18:51
  A federal judge gave McKenna Denson more time Monday to find attorneys to represent her in her lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints alleging that then-president of the Missionary Training Center raped her.At a hearing in Salt Lake City, U.S. Magistrate Judge Dustin Pead said he would schedule another hearing in the suit to take place in about six more weeks. Denson is supposed to use that time to get lawyers.Denson told Pead three firms were interested in the case. The
  
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• No. 14 Utes are in the AP’s preseason Top 25 for the first time in the school’s Pac-12 era

  19-08-2019 18:12
  Utah is No. 14 in the preseason AP Top 25, the program’s all-time highest ranking in August in a major poll. And the Utes are one of five Pac-12 schools represented.The Utes rank behind the Pac-12 North’s Oregon (No. 11) and Washington (No. 13) and ahead of Washington State (No. 23) and Stanford (No. 25) in the poll released Monday. The Utes will host WSU on Sept. 28 and visit Washington on Nov. 2; they’ll miss Oregon and Stanford this season in the Pac-12′s scheduling ro
  
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• Larry Cox: Gun restrictions punish law-abiding people

  19-08-2019 16:07
  When I was in elementary school, I really hated it when teachers punished the class for the bad behavior of an individual. I wondered what the class was supposed to do to encourage bad actors to change their behavior.Rowdies didn’t want kindness or emotional support from classmates. They just wanted to be disruptive. Some in the class could threaten them, or actually beat them up, but that would attract the truancy authorities to “the good guys,” and make the thug a victim, lik
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: With Trump as president, the world is spiraling into chaos

  19-08-2019 15:51
  Earlier this week, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, visited The New York Times editorial board, and I asked him about the threat of armed conflict between his country and India over Kashmir. India and Pakistan have already fought two wars over the Himalayan territory, which both countries claim, and which is mostly divided between them. India recently revoked the constitutionally guaranteed autonomy of the part of Kashmir it controls and put nearly seven millio
  
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• High-Performance Mindfulness: Incorporating The Mental Health Resource Into The NBA

  19-08-2019 15:30 via basketballinsiders.com
  Jake Rauchbach outlines best practices and working parameters for integrating a mental health/Mental Performance resource into the coaching staff. 
  
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• McKenna Denson has a hearing Monday in her lawsuit against LDS Church over sexual misconduct by mission president

  19-08-2019 14:40
  A hearing is scheduled for Monday in the lawsuit McKenna Denson has filed over sexual misconduct by the man then overseeing the training of missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but it’s unclear who will be in the courtroom.Denson lives in Pueblo, Colo. Magistrate Judge Dustin Pead is allowing her to attend Monday’s hearing in Salt Lake City by telephone.Denson has no attorneys listed on the court docket. The two she had quit at the end of May.In her lawsu
  
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• Yelling at Siri or Alexa doesn’t make you a jerk, BYU study finds

  19-08-2019 14:00
  “Hey, Siri, do you think I’m a jerk?”For most people with a smartphone, it has become easy — even routine — to demand answers, bark commands, boss around and even call your personal device names when asking for help.In a rush? “Tell me the quickest way to get to work.”Need to talk to someone? “Call Mom now.”Not sure what to wear? “Give me the weather forecast.”But, it turns out, even if you’re prone to yelling at your digita
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Salt Lake City’s Wild West campaign finance rules need a major overhaul and more enforcement

  19-08-2019 14:00
  After the results in the Salt Lake City mayoral primary flipped against him Thursday, Jim Dabakis stood in front of TV cameras — his natural habitat — to concede a defeat that came as a surprise to many.He also used it as an opportunity to blast the “big swamp in Salt Lake City.” He was referring to outside, unreported money sloshing around in the city elections.“I simply said ‘No,’ and I did it loudly to all the sleazy ones who came up and said, ‘
  
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• Letter: Zombie capitalism still terrorizes the country

  19-08-2019 14:00
  The 2017 tax legislation has demonstrated yet again that policymakers are suffering from a bewildering case of historical amnesia by clinging to more of the same old “supply side” mumbo jumbo foisted on us by Ronald Reagan and his advisers over three decades ago.Never mind that the most important of those budget advisers, David Stockman, dismissed such measures as nonsense after concluding that they were unsupported by empirical evidence.Clearly, Stockman recovered from his own suppl
  
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• Letter: Wondering about Epstein? Follow the money.

  19-08-2019 14:00
  This is admittedly a rush to judgment. However, it is supported by the tried and true “FTM Rule.”Recently released court documents show Jeffrey Epstein was the holder of many incriminating secrets very embarrassing to many people of prominent standing in society and higher echelons of government.If you want to know how he really died, think who stands to benefit most from his death and silence.The rule? Follow the money.Jon Sebba, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: We all see what needs to be done, except our politicians

  19-08-2019 14:00
  The public’s angst, sorrow, outrage and anger about the ongoing mass shootings is palpable. Everywhere you look — newspapers, TV, social media, protests and conversations with friends and colleagues — the same comments and conclusions are made. Enough is enough. We need common-sense gun laws and gun control. Ban assault weapons. Do something!As communities and as a nation, we all agree that action is required now, except for one lonely group of outliers who can only spew platit
  
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• Letter: In the Trump era, Emma Lazarus’ verses no longer fit

  19-08-2019 14:00
  For the past 116 years the Statue of Liberty has been graced by these eloquent words from Emma Lazarus:“Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” President Trump’s newly proposed immigration policy, unfortunately, will block such people. Therefore, unless his GOP enablers in the Senate finally stand up to him, I think
  
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• Letter: How is being gay newsworthy?

  19-08-2019 14:00
  How is anyone revealing they are gay newsworthy?To me this is about as interesting as someone announcing they suddenly realize they like liver and onions.I don’t care, it is none of my business and I wish the media would just let people be when it comes to this issue.That includes me. Let me be. I don’t want to know personal private details of people’s lives.Chuck McCown, ErdaSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: An economic storm warning has sounded

  19-08-2019 14:00
  The other day the stock market dropped 800 points as investors fled stocks for the safety of bonds. The high demand for long term bonds resulted in an inverted yield curve for short and long term bonds.Every recession since 1955 was preceded by an inverted yield curve on bonds. Donald. Trump is still touting his strong economy, even though growth has slowed to 2.1% in the second quarter.Despite the corporate tax cut, real wages are only slightly higher than 10 years ago. Instead of stimulating s
  
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• First came the fire that nearly devoured two Utah towns. Now comes the threat of dangerous, deadly slides.

  19-08-2019 14:00
  Kirk Richards, a Utah artist known for his religious paintings, moved to a new hillside subdivision to draw inspiration from the mountains and forests out his back door.After eight years in the Woodland Hills home, he and his family still find solace in those steep surroundings, but in the past year they have become a menace, threatening to release forces of nature that could obliterate neighborhoods in minutes.First, the threat was fire; now, it’s earth mixed with water. The steep canyons
  
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• A landfill on the tip of the Promontory cape on the Great Salt Lake is on the verge of opening for business

  19-08-2019 14:00
  A controversial landfill located at the rocky southern tip of the Promontory Point cape jutting into the Great Salt Lake has secured the final permit needed to open for business. Now all it needs is its first customer.Weber County might just fill that bill, with all three county commissioners expressing interest in a deal they say could mean savings for taxpayers.“It looks to me like a wonderful place,” says Commissioner Scott Jenkins. “It’s all developed, the streets are
  
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• BYU’s Kelton Hirsch rallies, but loses the Utah Open in a playoff in Provo

  19-08-2019 03:03
  Provo • Samuel Saunders’ name already was written on the $20,000 check as he stood over a birdie putt that he needed to make, just to extend Sunday’s playoff with BYU golfer Kelton Hirsch in the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open.Saunders could have missed the putt, tossed the cardboard check into the back seat and started driving, content with the low-pro honor and the money that went with it. But he desperately wanted to keep playing. “That's why I play,” he said lat
  
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• E.J. Dionne: Real change depends on the Senate

  19-08-2019 02:00
  There are two quite different paths toward change in the 2020 elections. One would involve getting rid of President Trump but leaving Washington gridlocked. The other would see a Democratic president elected with a Democratic Congress. For the first time in a decade, progressives, with some help from moderates, would have a chance to govern and begin to push back against the conservative takeover of the federal judiciary.It will all come down to the fight to control the Senate.And the Democrats'
  
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• Tony Finau must hope Tiger Woods picks him for the Presidents Cup

  19-08-2019 01:38
  Salt Lake City native Tony Finau will have to make the U.S. team for the Presidents Cup the same way he made last year's team for the Ryder Cup, via a captain's pick.With his fourth-place showing in the BMW Championship near Chicago, Finau finished ninth in the Presidents Cup qualification period that ended Sunday. The top eight American players automatically qualified; Finau ended up just behind Bryson DeChambeau, who remained in the top eight with his tie for 48th place in the FedEx Cup Playof
  
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• Far-right and antifa groups both claim victory at Portland

  19-08-2019 01:37
  Portland, Ore. • With both the left and the right declaring victory following a long-hyped rally that had Portland, Ore., on edge it seems the liberal city will continue to be a flashpoint in an increasingly divided country.City officials were mostly relieved that a downtown gathering Saturday of more than 1,000 far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators wasn’t as violent as feared."I'm grateful this was largely a peaceful event," Mayor Ted Wheeler said. "We were prep
  
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• Belgium’s Ben Hermans triumphs in Tour of Utah; Delaware’s Joe Dombrowski wins final stage

  19-08-2019 01:14
  The 2019 Tour of Utah bicycle race culminated in Park City on Sunday, with Belgium's Ben Hermans winning the seven-day event. Hermans started the day with a 46-second cushion over James Piccoli from Canada and the yellow jersey-clad rider from the Israel Cycling Academy team kept tabs on Piccoli and the other closest contenders through the mountain climbs near the end.Joe Dombrowski of Christiana, Delaware, was the winner of the sixth and last stage, which started and finished in Park City, and
  
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• Funeral for lost ice: Iceland bids farewell to glacier

  19-08-2019 01:03
  Okjokull Glacier, Iceland • It was a funeral for ice.With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier.Icelandic geologist Oddur Sigurðsson pronounced the Okjokull glacier extinct about a decade ago. But on Sunday he brought a death certificate to the made-for-media memorial.After about 100 people made a two-hour hike up a volcano, children installed a me
  
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