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• She thought her adoptive father would be in a Utah prison for life for sexually abusing her. Then he got out.

  31-08-2019 23:50
  Springville • The man who sexually abused her over and over again for years was supposed to die in prison.When the Utah parole board ruled that Lon Kennard would never be released for inappropriately touching his four adopted daughters, Shumba Bila felt relieved. She could move on with her life without having to worry that he may harm others.That was five years ago.Then she received a letter in July. It was a page and a half form letter that quoted heavily from administrative rules.But the
  
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• Texas man dies trying to save dog in Lake Powell

  31-08-2019 23:40
  A 62-year-old man, already tired from trying to save his drifting rental house boat, died Thursday after his dog jumped off the boat and he went went to save it.David John, from Greenville, Texas, “appeared to be fatigued" after attempting to retrieve his houseboat that had detached from its anchor and was drifting in the Wahweap District of Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, near Page, Arizona, according to a news release.Then, John’s dog jumped off the boat. J
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah’s biggest pollution threat? You’re living in it

  31-08-2019 23:00
  Are we ready to blame the chimney instead of the tailpipe?In the next five years or so, the No. 1 source of air pollution along the Wasatch Front is going to switch from vehicles to buildings.That is good news of a sort. It means that cars, trucks and buses — currently producing more than half the pollution — are getting cleaner.Buildings? Not so much. And as the population continues to boom, so does the number of houses and businesses. Without some changes, we’ll still be swim
  
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• Katharine Biele: Salt Lake City mayor primary would have been a great time to use ranked choice voting

  31-08-2019 23:00
  Nothing will change unless someone has the courage and foresight to move forward. That is the problem facing voters who are tired of contentious campaigns and enormously expensive elections, often funded by big donors and corporations.The prospect of something easier and more reflective of the electorate has been dashed by fear and recalcitrance on the part of most city councils in Utah. Salt Lake City had the opportunity to run its mayoral election with an innovative tool called ranked choice v
  
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• Evacuation orders lifted for hundreds of homes in Utah

  31-08-2019 22:32
  Authorities in northern Utah are lifting evacuation orders for residents of hundreds of homes in a Salt Lake City suburb after a wildfire burned three homes and damaged eight others.Officials on Saturday announced the lifting of evacuation orders effective 11 a.m. for 240 homes in Bountiful. Evacuation orders for 160 homes in adjacent Centerville were lifted earlier.The fire burned 0.7 sq. mile (148 hectares) and remained at 10 percent containment Saturday.Officials said a campfire started the f
  
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• Expect new temples, other news to be announced at October’s LDS General Conference, President Russell Nelson says

  31-08-2019 20:04
  General Conference is more than a month away, but LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson already is teasing the semiannual event, revealing that more temples and other news will be announced at the October gathering.“There are exciting things ahead,” the 94-year-old leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Friday in Brazil, according to a news release. “This work is moving forward at an accelerated pace. I can hardly wait to bounce out of bed each morning
  
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• Ethan Aumack: Trump turns his back on deal that saved the Escalante River

  31-08-2019 20:00
  In 2017, when President Trump rode into town to slash Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument nearly in half, he left intact a hard-wrought, two-decade-old bargain to end cattle grazing in a tiny but cherished part of the monument.Now the administration is back, taking aim at that historic deal by announcing plans to once again pasture cows in a beautiful maze of red rock canyons along the Escalante River. This decision would shunt livestock into the most popular destination in the monument
  
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• Utah’s defense keeps scoring touchdowns vs. BYU

  31-08-2019 19:50
  Andy Ludwig’s arrival as Utah’s offensive coordinator in January was a financial gift to defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley, who received a 56-percent raise to a comparable salary of $820,000.Scalley returned the favor Thursday night in Utah's 30-12 victory at BYU. His defensive players returned two interceptions for touchdowns, and a fumble recovery at the BYU 22-yard line led to one of the Utah offense's two TDs.The NCAA doesn’t distinguish how points are produced, so anyth
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: One thing each key role player needs to improve in 2019-20

  31-08-2019 18:47 via sportspyder.com
  In order for the Utah Jazz second unit to reach its greatest potential, there is one specific aspect of each player's game that will need to improve in 201...
  
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• Hurricane Dorian updates: Path of storm shifts as Florida sees signs of hope

  31-08-2019 18:36
  Hurricane Dorian intensified to a Category 4 storm late on Friday as it swirled toward the United States, and forecasters on Saturday were projecting a sharp swerve north along Florida’s eastern coast before it comes ashore. Dorian could now make landfall in Georgia or the Carolinas later next week after losing some of its strength.It was good news for Floridians, who could now be spared a direct hit. But the powerful storm is still dangerous, and much of the state remains in the area that
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Team USA opens World Cup, undaunted by doubters

  31-08-2019 18:35 via sportspyder.com
  Shanghai • Kemba Walker sees an irony in the notion that USA Basketball is vulnerable going into the World Cup.
  
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• Utah Jazz: One thing each key role player needs to improve in 2019-20

  31-08-2019 18:34
  In order for the Utah Jazz second unit to reach its greatest potential, there is one specific aspect of each player’s game that will need to improve in 2019-20. Exactly one month ago, I detailed out the one precise aspect that each Utah Jazz starter needs to improve in 2019-20 in order for the team […]
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• Idaho soldier killed in Afghanistan

  31-08-2019 18:34
  An American soldier was killed in combat in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Sgt. 1st Class Dustin B. Ard, 31, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, died Aug. 29, 2019 after sustaining wounds in the Zabul Province, Afghanistan.The New York Times reported Ard died after disembarking a helicopter at the start of a joint mission with Afghan commandos, though the exact circumstances of his death remain unclear.Ard’s father, former mayor of Ammon, Idaho Bruce Ard, confirmed the death
  
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• Team USA opens World Cup, undaunted by doubters

  31-08-2019 18:33
  Shanghai • Kemba Walker sees an irony in the notion that USA Basketball is vulnerable going into the World Cup.It might be new for the U.S. program.It isn't that new for these U.S. players.The 12-man squad that makes its World Cup debut Sunday (6:30 a.m. MDT) isn’t overpowering on paper. There’s a couple second-round picks in Joe Harris and Khris Middleton, a guard in Derrick White who had zero scholarship offers out of high school, and many who made the team weren’t promi
  
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• [ESPN] - This is Donovan Mitchell's moment

  31-08-2019 16:16 via sportspyder.com
  Gregg Popovich has entrusted Donovan Mitchell with a leadership role on Team USA, and the 22-year-old Utah Jazz star has embraced the challenge.
  
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• John Fredell: Check the River Council’s pipeline math

  31-08-2019 15:39
  Project costs for the Lake Powell Pipeline (LPP) have been vastly exaggerated because of inaccurate cost comparisons between LPP and the Southern Delivery System (SDS) water project completed in Colorado Springs, Colo. in 2016. This information has recently been included in local news stories. As the program director for both projects, I need to point out some flaws and inaccuracies of the comparison created by the Utah Rivers Council to ensure the public has the facts.Utah Rivers Council grossl
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Donovan Mitchell: 3 early goals for the Jazz star in the 2019-20 NBA season

  31-08-2019 15:13 via sportspyder.com
  Every season in the NBA, there are a few guys who make the leap from being a very good player to an elite player in the league, and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz has a chance to be one of those elite few this upcoming season. In order to reach...
  
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• Salt Lake County will redo bidding for Salt Palace concessions contract after losing company cries foul

  31-08-2019 15:00
  Salt Lake County plans a do-over on its selection of a catering and concessions provider for the Salt Palace Convention Center and Mountain America Exposition Center after its last bidding process came under fire by a runner-up.The county issued a request for proposals, or RFP, for a 6-year, multimillion dollar catering contract in April and received applications from three companies, including the current food service provider, Utah Food Services. But that RFP was canceled earlier this month, f
  
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• Rod Decker says Utah politics is usually a fight between Mormons and non-Mormons — and we know who wins

  31-08-2019 15:00
  If only non-Mormons voted in Utah in 2016, Hillary Clinton would have picked up her fifth-highest margin of victory of any state. If ballots from non-LDS voters were the only ones counted in previous elections, Utah would have handed Al Gore his largest win and Barack Obama would have bested adopted son Mitt Romney here.Those are big ifs. And they really don’t have much connection to reality as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints make up two-thirds or more of Utahns
  
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• Reed Galen: Democrats are playing chess while Trump is eating the pieces

  31-08-2019 15:00
  As the 2020 presidential campaign enters its post-Labor Day cycle, Democratic aspirants are scrambling to boost their poll numbers and fundraising to qualify for September’s debates.President Donald Trump, in the meantime, making sure he stays central to the latest political cyclone; ready, willing and able to do or say whatever it takes to remain there.As they recover from a summer filled with deep-fried Oreos and pork chops, Democrats are missing how the race for the White House is actua
  
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• Feds’ top land manager remains the attorney for two Utah counties in the Grand-Staircase monument lawsuit

  31-08-2019 15:00
  The Bureau of Land Management’s recently named acting director, William Perry Pendley, remains the attorney of record for two Utah counties seeking to intervene in opposition to lawsuits aimed at restoring the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, one of the two expansive monuments President Donald Trump reduced.Pendley, a Colorado attorney, is the former head of the nonprofit Mountain States Legal Foundation, which has a long history of challenging federal oversight of the West&rsq
  
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• As FanX revs up, Utah geeks warn against toxic fandom

  31-08-2019 15:00
  More than 100,000 people will enter the Salt Palace Convention Center this week, each of them fans of something.Name a title in popular culture — movie, TV show, comic book, video game, book series — and somebody visiting the fall 2019 edition of the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention will know far more about it than you do. Many of them are so into a particular creature or person or alien that they will cosplay as that character.It’s fun. It’s exciting. And, “in gener
  
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• Ninth-ranked BYU volleyball team sweeps two in Nike Invitational

  31-08-2019 07:49
  Provo • The ninth-ranked BYU women’s volleyball team opened its season with a pair of sweeps Friday in the BYU Nike Invitational, defeating Boise State 25-13, 25-21, 25-17 and Utah Valley 25-21, 25-21, 25-20.In the win over the Broncos, freshman setter Whitney Bower made her debut as a Cougar with 31 assists, five aces, five digs, a kill and a block. Bower’s five aces set a BYU freshman rally era record.Senior McKenna Miller had a match-high 13 kills and junior Kennedy Eschenber
  
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• Utes’ volleyball team sweeps No. 7 Kentucky in the Utah Classic

  31-08-2019 06:16
  Utah volleyball player Berkeley Oblad spent nearly 12 months rehabilitating from an elbow injury, and then worried for the past two weeks after how her right arm would respond when the season started.Her anxiety was compounded Friday night when Utes were wobbling against No. 7 Kentucky, after having dominated the Wildcats. Oblad’s elbow remained strong, and so did her teammates. Utah completed the upset in a sweep: 25-19, 25-16, 25-23.“I’ve never been part of a team that has fo
  
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• Utah State drops 38-35 decision to Wake Forest in season opener

  31-08-2019 06:06
  Heading into halftime of Friday night’s season opener, Utah State football coach Gary Andersen told ACC Network reporters that the back-and-forth offensive outburst between his team and host Wake Forest reminded him of a heavyweight title fight.Not a bad analogy, considering it seemed to embody the idea of two sluggers trading haymakers, scoring knockdowns, then having to pick themselves up on the canvas, only to do it all over again.Unfortunately for USU, the Demon Deacons picked up a lat
  
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• No charges filed against an officer who shot two suspects in a car that hit and killed Officer David Romrell

  31-08-2019 04:15
  Prosecutors will not file charges against the South Salt Lake officer who fired at two men inside a car used to run over and kill a fellow officer in November.Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill wrote in a letter to Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera and South Salt Lake Police Chief Jack Carruth that his office wouldn’t be filing charges against the officer.Gill said the shooting was legally justified because evidence indicates Officer Carson Aprato used deadly force because he
  
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• Gary Leimback: Freedom, homelessness and an antidote to suicide

  31-08-2019 03:00
  When looking at the reasons why a homeless person would rather camp out on the street rather than go to a shelter, a key reason is to be free.There are many different ways of understanding freedom. I want to describe four. (I am purposely not going to name my sources. I will leave that a mystery. It is the ideas that are important.) Great thinkers though the ages have seen freedom as a key human motivation.An 18th century German thinker saw freedom as being centered in the human decision-making
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Stop me if you’ve heard this before — Exum is the X-factor

  31-08-2019 02:48 via sportspyder.com
  Former lottery pick Dante Exum's career has been a perpetual false start thus far. His ability to stay healthy and productive on the court could change eve...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Stop me if you’ve heard this before — Exum is the X-factor

  31-08-2019 02:19
  Former lottery pick Dante Exum’s career has been a perpetual false start thus far. His ability to stay healthy and productive on the court could change everything for the Utah Jazz next season. With the 2019 FIBA World Cup set to tip-off this weekend, things have arguably never been better for the Australian national team. […]
  Utah Jazz: Stop me if you’ve heard this before — Exum is the X-factor - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion an
  
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• Utah man at center of multimillion-dollar opioid ring found guilty of charges that will keep him in prison for life

  31-08-2019 02:18
  A federal jury found Friday that Aaron Shamo was the kingpin of a multimillion-dollar pill-pressing operation, sealing the fate for the 29-year-old Cottonwood Heights man.He’ll spend the rest of his life in prison.The jury deliberated for nine hours over two days before finding Shamo guilty of 12 charges connected to an opioid ring he ran out his basement that pumped more than half a million fentanyl-laced pills across the country.That included a guilty verdict on the heftiest charge &mdas
  
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• Dior pulls Johnny Depp’s filmed-in-Utah ‘Sauvage’ ad after complaints of Native American appropriation

  31-08-2019 02:16
  A commercial for Christian Dior’s men’s fragrance, for which actor Johnny Depp shot scenes in southeastern Utah, has been pulled from YouTube after people objected on Twitter that it appropriated images of Native American culture.Commenters criticized the ad for Dior’s brand Sauvage, which showed Depp walking in Utah’s striking redrock country, intercut with images of a Native American dancer and a Native American woman. Those critics note that the fragrance name is Frenc
  
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• Valerie Harper, TV’s Rhoda, has died at 80

  31-08-2019 01:27
  Los Angeles • Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died.Longtime family friend Dan Watt confirmed Harper died Friday, adding the family wasn't immediately releasing any further details. She had been battling cancer for years, and her husband said recently he had been advised to put her in hospice care.Harper was a breakout star on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," then
  
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• Fire that destroyed three homes in Bountiful and forced evacuations was likely human-caused

  31-08-2019 00:59
  Marty Christensen didn’t have much time to react when police started pounding on his door around 1:30 a.m. Friday.“They gave us five minutes to grab what we could and go,” said the Centerville man, who awoke to discover the Gun Range Fire was within a few hundred feet of his home.Christensen grabbed his two Bichon Frise dogs, Madison and Sam, and his laptop computer. “I forgot one thing — my insulin. But I was good until they escorted me to my house and I got it,&rd
  
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• Andrei Kirilenko became one of the few players to garner at least 5 points, 5 assists, 5 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 blocks in one game on December 3, 2003. He is one of two players in NBA history to achieve a 5x5 more than once. #StealoftheWeek | @LittleGi

  31-08-2019 00:02 via twitter.com
  Andrei Kirilenko became one of the few players to garner at least 5 points, 5 assists, 5 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 blocks in one game on December 3, 2003. He is one of two players in NBA history to achieve a 5x5 more than once.#StealoftheWeek | @LittleGiantpic.twitter.com/PRo6c9LJxk
  
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