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• [Amico Hoops] - Jazz sign former Idaho point guard Scott

  18-09-2019 23:58 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz have signed free agent point guard Mike Scott to a one-year contract, according to Nicola Lupo of Sportando. Scott is 6-foot-1 and spent last season playing in Poland. He went undrafted out of the University of Idaho in 2016. Scott's...
  
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• Physician, ex-senator scares Utah lawmakers about dangers of cannabis use during pregnancy, adolescence

  18-09-2019 23:30
  State lawmakers will explore tightening the rules for medical marijuana use among children and pregnant or lactating mothers.The legislative Health and Human Services Interim Committee on Wednesday agreed to take on the issue, following a presentation about the dangers of cannabis for “vulnerable populations.”Brian Shiozawa, a former state senator and physician at University of Utah Health, referenced a study showing that maternal cannabis use led to a 50% increased likelihood of low
  
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• The Wave may see as many as five times more hikers

  18-09-2019 22:34
  Hiker access to The Wave and Coyote Buttes North, among the most coveted hiking destinations on the Colorado Plateau, could increase nearly fivefold, from only 20 visitors a day to as many as 96, under a draft plan the Bureau of Land Management has released.The plan would chart a new management direction for the designated wilderness that wraps around the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument straddling the Utah-Arizona state line between Kanab and Page, Ariz. Many thousands come hoping to explore
  
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• Utah lawmakers scrutinize law enforcement’s facial recognition scans of state driver licenses

  18-09-2019 22:33
  Utah lawmakers said Wednesday that it may be time to hit the pause button on state use of facial recognition technology that allows immigration and law enforcement officials to pore through all Utah driver license photos to identify criminals, witnesses or others of interest.That came as officials conceded that Utah’s system is out of date; prone to errors, especially with women and people of color; in need of more training for analysts and has no legal standards for operation. The Legisla
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Drug Lords

  18-09-2019 22:29
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/17/bagley-cartoon-bird-hand/" target=_blank><u>A Bird in the Hand</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/16/bagley-cartoon-real/"><u>A Real Talent</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/09/13/bagley-cart
  
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• Utah representative from Herriman to step down, citing his busy job and travel schedule

  18-09-2019 22:18
  Utah Rep. John Knotwell will resign from the state Legislature at the end of September, the second member of his chamber to step down in as many months.“A citizen Legislature comes with its challenges for many of its members — one of them being a necessary commitment to full-time employment,” the Herriman Republican said in a prepared statement issued Wednesday. “[M]y employment requires significant time and traveling and schedule that will not permit time to serve in thi
  
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• Fed cuts interest rates by another quarter point

  18-09-2019 22:05
  Washington • The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, its second cut since late July, and suggested it was prepared to move aggressively if the U.S. economy showed additional signs of weakening.A growing number of Fed officials expect one more cut this year, based on economic projections released following the meeting, in line with investor and economist expectations.But the Fed’s announcement Wednesday did little to appease President Donald
  
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• [Forbes] - Projecting Donovan Mitchell’s 2019-20 Numbers For The Utah Jazz

  18-09-2019 22:02 via sportspyder.com
  Donovan Mitchell obliterated expectations throughout his first two seasons in the NBA. What will he do in Year 3?
  
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• Paul Krugman: The roots of Republican regulation rage

  18-09-2019 21:59
  Modern conservatives hate regulation, and the Trump administration has channeled that hatred into policy. It has scrapped or emasculated rules designed to limit everything from predatory lending to exploitative for-profit education, and has moved on multiple fronts to undo environmental protection. Yesterday it took perhaps its most dramatic anti-regulation step so far, announcing that it would try to prevent California from setting strict rules on auto emissions.But what’s behind this hat
  
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• Khyiris Tonga had breakout performance against USC, eyeing rest of season

  18-09-2019 21:40
  It was pretty hard.It was actually really, really hard, but Khyiris Tonga knew he had to stop his McDonald’s runs.Tonga’s weight has been a recurring subject as coaches talked to him about his dreams of playing professional football — a goal Tonga has said he hopes to achieve after his junior season. But now that Tonga’s weight is just shy of the magical number he wanted to hit (he previously said he wanted to weigh in at 319 pounds before training camp started July 30 an
  
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• Inland port opponents call for health impact study on massive development

  18-09-2019 19:39
  Members of an inland port opposition group gathered at the Utah Capitol Wednesday to call on state lawmakers to fund a health impact assessment within the 16,000-acre area set to one day become a global distribution hub.Activists have long worried about how the port — which is expected to bring increased rail, truck and air traffic along with tailpipe emissions — would affect wildlife, air quality and the environment in the area near the Great Salt Lake. But some 18 months after lawm
  
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• Back when @princeoni13, @jstuntbrantley & @jaywright_3 first made it to SLC "I think it's truly a blessing." #NBARookieWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/Robh2SotxY

  18-09-2019 19:28 via twitter.com
  Back when @princeoni13, @jstuntbrantley & @jaywright_3 first made it to SLC
  "I think it's truly a blessing."#NBARookieWeek | #TakeNotepic.twitter.com/Robh2SotxY
  
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• Utah and BYU will tangle in the Huntsman Center in a meeting of Top 20 volleyball powers

  18-09-2019 19:26
  The Utah women’s volleyball team hopes to earn one of the 16 host berths in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, after last season’s experience of having to play BYU in Provo in the second round. The No. 18 Utes could help themselves by beating No. 12 BYU at the Huntsman Center.Utah (8-2) will conclude nonconference play Thursday night against the Cougars (7-2), after dropping slightly in the AVCA rankings with losses to No. 6 Pittsburgh and Cal Poly in Pepperdine’s tournament last weeken
  
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• The Utes’ vaunted secondary faces a big test from USC’s talented receivers

  18-09-2019 19:25
  The jerseys' color is more of an Arizona State maroon than a USC cardinal, but the gold numbers tell the story.Utah’s scout-team players are modeling USC receivers Michael Pittman Jr. (No. 6), Amon-Ra St. Brown (No. 8) and Tyler Vaughns (No. 21) in practice this week, preparing the Ute defense for Friday night’s game at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Ute coach Kyle Whittingham doesn’t bother reading news releases that would enable him to rattle off opposing players’ names. He
  
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• Dana Milbank: Lewandowski’s campaign theme will be unbridled nastiness

  18-09-2019 18:30
  Washington - Corey Lewandowski has been alternately vulgar, pugilistic and deceitful. Now he wants to run for Senate.He'll fit right in.The one-time Trump 2016 campaign manager volunteered to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, not to talk about presidential obstruction of justice -- he happily obeyed White House orders not to discuss such matters -- but to launch his bid for the Senate seat now held by the mild-mannered Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H..Lewandowski, now a TV commentato
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Social media fired, and harms, Hong Kong protests

  18-09-2019 18:09
  HONG KONG — Pay attention to Hong Kong. The three months of protests here speak volumes about the state of democracy today — how the human quest for freedom can’t be snuffed out, even by the most powerful autocratic systems, and how hard it is to turn that quest into lasting change in the age of Twitter when everyone is a leader, a follower, a broadcaster and a critic, and compromise becomes nearly impossible.Yes, Hong Kong reminds us that people — God bless them —
  
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• Data shows abortion rate is at lowest since 1973

  18-09-2019 17:30
  Abortion in the United States has decreased to record low levels, a decline that may be driven more by increased access to contraception and fewer women becoming pregnant than by the proliferation of laws restricting abortion in some states, according to new research.“Abortion rates decreased in almost every state, and there’s no clear pattern linking these declines to new restrictions,” said Elizabeth Nash, senior state policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, which issued
  
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• The Utes’ vaunted secondary face a big test from USC’s talented receivers

  18-09-2019 17:29
  The jerseys' color is more of an Arizona State maroon than a USC cardinal, but the gold numbers tell the story.Utah’s scout-team players are modeling USC receivers Michael Pittman Jr. (No. 6), Amon-Ra St. Brown (No. 8) and Tyler Vaughns (No. 21) in practice this week, preparing the Ute defense for Friday night’s game at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Ute coach Kyle Whittingham doesn’t bother reading news releases that would enable him to rattle off opposing players’ names. He
  
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• Bear causes lane closure, slows traffic in Orem

  18-09-2019 17:12
  There was a traffic tie-up in Orem on Wednesday morning that didn't have anything to do with accidents or construction. The problem was — a bear.After multiple reports of a bear in the area, police located the animal up a tree next to State Street near Center Street — in front of the Orem Police station — about 7:20 a.m. The right, northbound lane of State Street was closed while authorities tried to capture the bear.Shortly after 8 a.m., the 2-year-old bear was tranquilized by
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Sexual assault survivor behind ‘Debbie’s Law’ tells how her faith saw her through tough times

  18-09-2019 16:44
  Debbie Cole was sexually assaulted in 1989 at age 19.Thus began a 30-year emotional and spiritual odyssey for this Irish Latter-day Saint — days of agony, anger, reconciliation, recovery, resolve and reform — all which culminated earlier this year with the passage of “Debbie’s Law,” which allows for tougher penalties for repeat sex offenders.Cole discusses her journey and how her faith helped see her through it.Listen here.
  
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• EPA set to end California’s ability to regulate fuel economy

  18-09-2019 15:45
  Washington • The Trump administration is poised to revoke California’s authority to set auto mileage standards, asserting that only the federal government has the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy.Conservative and free-market groups have been asked to attend a formal announcement of the rollback set for Wednesday afternoon at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington.Gloria Bergquist, spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers,
  
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• Leonard Pitts: The truth of climate change has long been painfully clear

  18-09-2019 15:30
  With apologies to Stevie Wonder, for whom it was once an album title, nothing is “hotter than July.” July was the hottest month.Maybe you’re waiting for that sentence to be qualified: “hottest month of the last 20 years,” let’s say. But it turns out July of 2019 was the hottest month, period — hottest in the history of record keeping, hottest of all time. The previous record holder was another July, just three years ago.This, according to European scient
  
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• Review: ‘Downton Abbey’ movie satisfies this fan and charms the newbie

  18-09-2019 15:23
  Movie critic Sean P. Means has never seen more than five minutes of the iconic PBS series “Downton Abbey.” Television critic Scott D. Pierce is proper obsessed — he sang the show’s praises again and again and again for six seasons, but was skeptical of taking the soapy historical drama to the big screen. Here’s their joint review.Pierce, after resisting urges to lean over and fansplain things to Means • I was wrong. Despite my reservations, it transitioned to m
  
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• Letter: Don’t trash Karamo Brown for being a peacemaker

  18-09-2019 15:22
  If the ever-irascible Scott Pierce has been watching “Queer Eye” on Netflix, he surely knows that a running theme of the series, “If you can talk to someone and meet in the middle, you can learn about each other and help each other both grow.”Yet he trashes “Queer Eye” star Karamo Brown for stating this ideal in the context of his co-starring with Sean Spicer on the new season of “Dancing with the Stars.”Is this the world Pierce wants to live in, a
  
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• Iran tells U.S. retaliation looms if targeted for Saudi attack

  18-09-2019 15:21
  Tehran, Iran • Iran has warned the U.S. it will retaliate “immediately” if Tehran is targeted over a weekend attack on Saudi oil installations, its state-run news agency reported Wednesday, further raising Mideast tensions.Iran's president and foreign minister also may not be able to attend next week's high-level meetings at the United Nations as the U.S. has yet to issue them visas, IRNA reported.The U.N. meeting had been considered as an opportunity for direct talks between Ir
  
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• Letter: Utah law helps young people learn how to say no

  18-09-2019 15:20
  The passing of the “Reproductive Education Amendments” bill, or House Bill 286, by the Utah Legislature in March of 2018 was an important event that will improve the education and safety of all students in Utah.This bill expands the content of sex education classes and provides students with lessons specifically on refusal skills, consent, and the dangers of pornography. These necessary additions are much needed in our society today and will greatly benefit our students.I feel extrem
  
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• Letter: People of faith must challenge their leaders

  18-09-2019 15:20
  I was thrilled to read Michael Bard’s letter about healing the earth. He says that as a person of faith, he loves supporting the Climate Strikers.I, too, am a person of faith. My faith is the belief that the good draws to itself the good. I’m challenged every day to reaffirm it, especially by doing everything I can to reduce climate injustice, including fighting the inland port and supporting the amazing young people leading us out of darkness.What I wonder is why there aren’t
  
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• Letter: What happened to the three branches of government?

  18-09-2019 15:19
  I have to confess I am confused.Our forefathers created three branches of government. The legislative branch creates laws. The judicial branch interprets and enforces law. The executive branch tells the legislature what law to create?Is that right, Sen. McConnel?And is the attorney general part of the judiciary or part of the executive branch? It is really getting very difficult to understand.Bill Adams, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Yang’s Freedom Dividend could empower people

  18-09-2019 15:18
  Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend is more than a giveaway. It’s about paying people for work often undervalued. Most notably, women who stay home and sacrifice careers and traditional income for no recompense.One thousand dollars a month cannot sustain a single person, let alone a family, in the modern economy. But that small amount of money could empower a creative idea. It might plant the seed for an art project that adds cultural value to a family or a larger community. If a group of
  
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• Letter: Money in politics prevents real change

  18-09-2019 15:18
  I read with interest Brooke Jennings’ Sept. 14 letter to The Public Forum. The case being made was the GOP’s rolling over for the NRA. Brooke makes a valid point and ends the opinion with the statement of how to fix this tragic issue we have with, “It’s just that easy.”Unfortunately, it is not that easy.Certainly, some legal restrictions on firearm sales and usage would help. I would posit, however, this is only one of a vast number of citizen issues that are gettin
  
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• Political Cornflakes: National Parks Service says Trump’s border wall will damage archaeological sites

  18-09-2019 15:11
  A study conducted by the National Park Service found the construction of President Donald Trump’s wall along the southwestern border would significantly damage or destroy more than 20 archaeological sites at a natural park in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Scientists have found stone tools, rock shelters, artifacts and ancient engravings in the area. [NYTimes]Happy Wednesday!Topping the news: Record numbers of new apartments have gone up in Salt Lake City — but they’ve done li
  
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• Utah congressional candidate pleaded guilty to sexual battery in 2010, but says he’s the victim, ‘just like Brett Kavanaugh’

  18-09-2019 15:07
  Cory Green, who last week announced his candidacy for Utah’s 1st Congressional District, was charged with four felonies in 2010, court records show. Two of the charges, for alleged forcible sexual abuse, were dismissed, while Green pleaded guilty to the remaining two charges after they were amended down to class A misdemeanors for sexual battery.Court records also show that Green pleaded no contest in June of this year to two class B misdemeanor charges of attempted unlawful conduct relate
  
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• Utah’s attorney general gets behind proposed settlement with Purdue Pharma

  18-09-2019 15:06
  Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has issued a statement supporting a settlement framework with Purdue Pharma, which filed for bankruptcy this week after making billions from the sale of OxyContin."Purdue was morally bankrupt and now it is legally so," Reyes said in a prepared statement. "Although there is no dollar amount that will undo the pain and suffering that so many families have endured, I'm focused on getting resources to Utahns as quickly as possible."The company’s bankruptcy fili
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The Supreme Court was probably right about partisan school board races, but here’s why it’s bad for the rest of us

  18-09-2019 15:03
  Last week, the Utah Supreme Court had the last word on a power struggle that has unfolded over several years, with profound consequences for our children’s education.Should candidates for school board run on their own merits, without party brands? Or, as members of the Republican Legislature contend, are people too ill-informed to be trusted to make good decisions about the people who set statewide education policy without a little visual cue?It appears the Legislature has prevailed, as th
  
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• [Forbes] - Rudy Gobert’s Strong FIBA Summer Includes An Emphasis On A Few New Skills

  18-09-2019 15:00 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert was his usual dominant self in several areas for France during FIBA play, but also tinkered a bit with some lesser-used parts of his game.
  
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• [Last Word On Sports: Last Word On Pro Basketball] - Golden State Warriors To Be A “Big Threat” For Giannis Antetokounmpo

  18-09-2019 14:40 via sportspyder.com
  The Golden State Warriors are a "Big Threat" for Buck's Giannis Antetokounmpo. Will he leave Milwuakee? Can the Warriors afford him?
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Podcast: Reviewing Utah Jazz players in FIBA and predicting what’s ahead

  18-09-2019 14:24 via sportspyder.com
  With the FIBA World Cup wrapped up, the latest J-Notes Blast Podcast episode looks at the performance of each Utah Jazz player and how it will translate to...
  
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• Utah Jazz Podcast: Reviewing Utah Jazz players in FIBA and predicting what’s ahead

  18-09-2019 14:00
  With the FIBA World Cup wrapped up, the latest J-Notes Blast Podcast episode looks at the performance of each Utah Jazz player and how it will translate to the 2019-20 NBA season! We’ve officially reached the calm before the storm as we await the start of Utah Jazz training camp and the beginning of the […]
  Utah Jazz Podcast: Reviewing Utah Jazz players in FIBA and predicting what’s ahead - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell has put himself in 2020 Olympic mix

  18-09-2019 06:43 via sportspyder.com
  Fans may be down on the World Cup performance of Team USA, but Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell could end up an Olympian thanks to his individual efforts. I...
  
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• Former Logan High standout Luke Falk to start for Jets on Sunday at New England

  18-09-2019 06:40
  Trevor Siemian will be sidelined for the rest of the season with an ankle injury, and third-stringer Luke Falk, a former Logan High School standout, will start for New York at New England on Sunday — and beyond until Sam Darnold returns from illness.Coach Adam Gase announced Tuesday that Siemian has ligament damage, suffered in the 23-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns on Monday night.“We’re still going through the procedures as far as surgery options,” Gase said. “So,
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell has put himself in 2020 Olympic mix

  18-09-2019 03:54
  Fans may be down on the World Cup performance of Team USA, but Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell could end up an Olympian thanks to his individual efforts. In spite of his awesome talent and humble nature, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell often finds himself the target of a small, but vocal contingent of detractors […]
  Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell has put himself in 2020 Olympic mix - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz center Rudy Gobert thinks it’s impossible for all the best players to participate in the World Cup3

  18-09-2019 03:43 via sportspyder.com
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert and the French men’s national team finished third at the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China this month—tying France’s best finish at the the international tournament. Per Marc Stein in The New York Times: Utah’s Rudy Gobert...
  
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• Apartments continue to go up in Salt Lake City, but rents aren’t slowing

  18-09-2019 03:34
  Record numbers of new apartments are being built in Salt Lake City, but those new housing units have yet to slow rent increases.Analysts from the University of Utah’s Kem. C. Gardner Policy Institute on Tuesday told city officials that regional population growth, the state’s hot economy and other key trends in housing markets seem to have temporarily suspended traditional rules of supply and demand.One city leader called the combined effects “frightening” as officials con
  
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• Utah man who killed girlfriend and toddler won’t get reduced sentence, judge rules

  18-09-2019 03:33
  A Utah man who admitted to killing his girlfriend and her 3-year-old son will not be allowed to seek a lower sentence in exchange for helping police find their bodies, a judge ruled on Tuesday.Christopher Poulson has pleaded guilty to first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony manslaughter in the 2015 deaths of 23-year-old Emily Quijano and her 3-year-old son, Gabriel Almiron. But prosecutors agreed to support reduced charges if Poulson could help lead investigators to Quijano and Almir
  
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• Employee accused of stealing $23K donated for Salt Lake City schools — and spending it on perfume and prepaid credit cards

  18-09-2019 03:19
  The secretary for a nonprofit that raises money for Salt Lake City schools has been charged with stealing more than $23,000 in donations — and spending it on perfume, a hammock stand, prepaid credit cards and her own college tuition.Lavinia Hyde, 47, faces nine felony counts including misuse of public money, identity fraud and forgery. She is accused of siphoning funds from the Salt Lake Education Foundation for more than a year starting in February 2016.Salt Lake County prosecutors, thoug
  
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• Pervasive illegal dumping leads Salt Lake City to consider closing a portion of 2100 South near sensitive wetlands

  18-09-2019 02:30
  The Salt Lake City Council will decide in the next few weeks whether to temporarily close a portion of public road on 2100 South between 6500 West and 6900 West — a response to pervasive illegal dumping several government agencies say is creating unsafe conditions.Tires, trash and other debris are not a new problem in this area, which is in an “extremely isolated” location next to vacant property and sensitive wetlands, city staff told council members during a work session brie
  
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• Analysis: Royals FC might need to win all remaining games to stay in playoff picture

  18-09-2019 02:22
  The National Women’s Soccer League season is coming to a close. The race for a playoff spot couldn’t be hotter, and that’s especially true for the Utah Royals FC.The Royals sit in the fourth and final playoff spot with 31 points and four games to play, starting with Wednesday’s matchup against Reign FC. The Reign also have 31 points and sit in fifth place with four games left.There are 12 points up for grabs for Utah, which has not been shy all season about its laser-like
  
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• Ross Douthat: The abortion mysticism of Pete Buttigieg

  18-09-2019 02:00
  Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has made his Christian piety a minor theme of his presidential campaign — quoting Proverbs on the debate stage to critique Republican opposition to a minimum-wage increase, attacking conservative evangelicals over their “porn star presidency” and un-biblical approach to refugees, urging his party to court religious voters and take religion more seriously.Buttigiegian integralism does not include, so far as I can tell, support fo
  
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• Democrats push ahead with short-term bill to avoid shutdown

  18-09-2019 00:51
  Washington • Democrats controlling the House are steering clear of controversy in a short-term, government-wide spending measure that’s needed to prevent a government shutdown at the end of September.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has agreed to a White House request to replenish funds for bailout payments to farmers absorbing heavy losses as a result of President Donald Trump's trade battles with China. She has also rejected suggestions from House liberals to try to use the must-pass stop
  
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• George Pyle: Fossil fuel industry is one dinosaur Utah can do without

  18-09-2019 00:20
  The sometimes excessively cordial euphemism for it is that someone, or some thing, is a “legacy.”No, not like the young people who can expect to be admitted to the best schools — or worst fraternities — because their parents or older siblings went there, too.Like a term applied to businesses, sometimes whole industries, that once ranged from successful to bestriding the globe, and now are being eaten away like so many dinosaur eggs by packs of upstart proto-squirrels.Folk
  
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