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• Utah Sen. Mitt Romney condemns Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria

  17-10-2019 23:48
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Thursday offered a strong rebuke of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull American troops from northern Syria, allowing Turkish forces to attack the U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters.“The decision to abandon the Kurds violates one of our most sacred duties,” Romney, a Utah Republican, said on the Senate floor. “It strikes at American honor. What we have done to the Kurds will stand as a bloodstain in the annals of American history.&rdq
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - How Will the Utah Jazz Struggle against the West?

  17-10-2019 23:48 via sportspyder.com
  Let's take a look at each Western Conference team and potential problems they could pose for the Utah Jazz this upcoming season After a long five month bre...
  
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• Utah bishop arrested on child porn charges; investigators say he may have sexually abused children

  17-10-2019 23:39
  A bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been arrested, accused of owning and distributing thousands of images of child pornography — and investigators say they believe he may have sexually abused children on church-related camping trips.Timothy James Hallows, 61, of Kaysville, was booked into the Davis County jail Wednesday evening and is being held without bail. He was arrested on suspicion of eight counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony,
  
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• U.S. envoy says Giuliani was given role on Ukraine policy

  17-10-2019 23:30
  Washington • The U.S. ambassador to the European Union said Thursday that President Donald Trump instructed him and other envoys to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, on Ukraine policy and that he was “disappointed” by the directive and disagreed with it.Gordon Sondland's closed-door testimony to House impeachment investigators was aimed at distancing himself from Trump and Giuliani's efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Democratic rival Joe Biden and his so
  
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• How Will the Utah Jazz Struggle against the West?

  17-10-2019 23:28
  Let’s take a look at each Western Conference team and potential problems they could pose for the Utah Jazz this upcoming season After a long five month break, Utah Jazz basketball is almost back! The past couple of weeks have given basketball fans more to digest, especially with preseason games going on. Every team in […]
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• If you come to Saturday’s Purple Mountain Party, you get a bunch of cool photo ops, including with 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒: game-worn finals unis details »

  17-10-2019 23:25 via twitter.com
  If you come to Saturday’s Purple Mountain Party, you get a bunch of cool photo ops, including with 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐒: game-worn finals unis
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• Judge blocks Trump from easing energy rules in US West

  17-10-2019 23:19
  Billings, Mont. • A U.S. judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from easing rules on mining, drilling and grazing across millions of acres in seven Western states, saying such activities left unchecked were likely to harm a struggling bird species.The ground-dwelling greater sage grouse is at the center of a bitter conflict between the administration and conservationists involving how much of the West's expansive public lands should be opened to development.The temporary restrai
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Jazz Sign Isaac Haas, Mike Scott

  17-10-2019 23:15 via sportspyder.com
  Both players are expected to eventually land with the Salt Lake City Stars, Utah's G League affiliate.
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz Sign Isaac Haas and Mike Scott

  17-10-2019 23:13 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed center Isaac Haas and guard Mike Scott. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released.Haas (7-2, 290, Purdue) played for the Jazz’s G
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Five observations from the Utah Jazz preseason

  17-10-2019 23:07 via sportspyder.com
  Final thoughts at the close of a 1-4 preseason stretch
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Women’s shelters fill up before the cold weather

  17-10-2019 23:06
  Just weeks after opening in Salt Lake City, a homeless women’s resource center is already filled to capacity. The LDS Church opposes a proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’ in Utah. And environmental organizations request a halt to construction at the Utah Inland Port.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, reporter Taylor Stevens, and editorial page editor George Pyle join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories
  
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• Ballet West chose to perform a classic 1925 ballet, then faced another decision: Do racist elements stay or go?

  17-10-2019 22:52
  Millicent Hobson has spent decades researching influential ballets, gathering notes, reviews and memories to envision choreography from performances that seemed lost to history.Her reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine’s 1925 “Le Chant du Rossignol,” the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the song of a nightingale.Ballet West chose “Le Chant,” along with two other early works Balanchine created for the Ballet R
  
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• We have signed Isaac Haas & Mike Scott »https://on.nba.com/2MmUmaH 

  17-10-2019 22:40 via twitter.com
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Learning from Mike: The guys talk about their new point guard

  17-10-2019 22:34 via sportspyder.com
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• Jim Dabakis says he can’t back Mendenhall in anti-endorsement for Salt Lake City mayoral race

  17-10-2019 21:45
  Twice-Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Jim Dabakis said Thursday that he can’t support City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall in her bid to lead the capital city, though he doesn’t go so far as to endorse her rival, state Sen. Luz Escamilla.In a Facebook post, the former state senator said that decision is based largely on what he sees as the councilwoman’s role in setting the groundwork for the inland port, a massive and largely unpopular international distribution hub planned for
  
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• Eye on the Y: Cougars help 9-year-old cancer victim and his family make the most of the time he has left

  17-10-2019 21:42
  Eye on the Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on BYU athletics. Subscribe here.At the end of Wednesday’s football practice, the entire team rushed over to 12-year-old Wyatt Page to shower the seventh grader from Eagle Mountain with gifts, including BYU shirts, headwear, tie and tickets to Saturday’s homecoming game against Boise State.Offensive lineman Ethan Atagi told Wyatt that the team loves him, he’s part of their family and they’ll do anything he ev
  
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• Utah QB Tyler Huntley is flourishing, and his ‘unselfish’ receivers are helping him.

  17-10-2019 21:30
  Utah’s football program expects to celebrate a significant record Saturday, with Zack Moss needing only 55 yards against No. 17 Arizona State to become the school’s career rushing leader.Eddie Johnson’s record of 3,219 yards has stood since 1988. Utah’s receivers are moving toward another distinction from that century, in a way that coaches are framing as a compliment to them. The staff is proactively praising the group, hoping to prevent the players from feeling devalued
  
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• [Forbes] - R.J. Barrett, Knicks Preparing For Invasion of ‘Monster’ Zion Williamson

  17-10-2019 21:30 via sportspyder.com
  The Knicks spent most of last season “Not Tryin’ for Zion” in an effort to tank for the 6-foot-7, 285-pound phenom out of Duke.
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Kyle Collinsworth, Juwan Morgan Waived By Jazz

  17-10-2019 21:09 via sportspyder.com
  The Jazz have waived Kyle Collinsworth and Juwan Morgan, according to a tweet from the team. Collinsworth spent last year with …
  
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• [NBA] - Rudy Gobert voted NBA's best interior defender in annual GM survey

  17-10-2019 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert has two Defensive Player of the Year awards in his trophy case—but most NBA general managers still don’t think the Utah Jazz center is the league’s top overall defender.In NBA.com’s
  
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• [NBA] - Jazz waive Kyle Collinsworth and Juwan Morgan

  17-10-2019 21:01 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has waived guard/forward Kyle Collinsworth and forward Juwan Morgan.Collinsworth (6-6, 210, BYU) spent last season with Raptors 905 of the NBA G League,
  
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• Dana Milbank: The world is staring at Trump, mouth agape

  17-10-2019 20:59
  Video: President Trump on Oct. 16 defended the U.S. withdraw from Syria, saying the Kurds are “no angels” and the U.S. is not a “policing agent.” (The Washington Post)Washington • President Trump stood in a crowded East Room on Wednesday afternoon with the Italian president at his side, scores of aides and reporters at his feet, and a bank of cameras relaying his words to millions.Yet he seemed alone against the world.The House on Wednesday condemned his sudden Syria
  
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• | The GM survey is out, A⃣   N⃣   D⃣ … »https://on.nba.com/31onYbZ 

  17-10-2019 20:58 via twitter.com
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• We have waived Kyle Collinsworth & Juwan Morgan »https://on.nba.com/2VPQ7aJ 

  17-10-2019 20:40 via twitter.com
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• ‘Mormon Land’: The life of Jane Manning James — from her quest to be sealed to Joseph Smith to her patriarchal blessing by Hyrum Smith and her legacy for black Latter-day Saints

  17-10-2019 20:40
  When historian Quincy Newell was researching 19th-century African American Mormons, one name kept popping up: Jane Manning James.This African American convert, who worked in church founder Joseph Smith’s household and eventually was “sealed” to him as a “servant,” probably still ranks as the most famous black female member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this side of Gladys Knight.So Newell wrote a full-fledged biography of this pioneering black w
  
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• Pence announces Turkey has agreed to cease-fire in Syria

  17-10-2019 20:21
  Ankara, Turkey • Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Turkey has agreed to a cease-fire to allow the Kurdish forces it was battling to safely withdraw from an area in northern Syria.Pence spoke after he and other U.S. officials met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. He said that President Donald Trump made it clear that had Turkey not agreed, the U.S. would impose more economic sanctions. However, the agreement essentially gives the Turks what they had sough
  
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• Red All Over: How far will Zack Moss take Utah’s rushing record? How about 4,000 yards?

  17-10-2019 20:12
  Red All Over is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.If not for missing the equivalent of 2½ games, due to a combination of his shoulder injury and Utah’s being way ahead at halftime of two contests, Zack Moss already would have broken the school’s career rushing record.That milestone should come Saturday vs. Arizona State, with Moss needing 55 yards to top Eddie Johnson's mark of 3,219 yards in 1984-88. The accompanying quest
  
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• It’s been 122 days without rain in St. George, but Utah, BYU, USU and RSL fans are going to get wet

  17-10-2019 20:06
  St. George has broken a record it wishes it hadn't. The city has gone 122 days without any measurable precipitation, the longest such stretch since the National Weather Service starting keeping records for the southern Utah city in 1893.The previous record of 121 days was set 90 years ago, in 1929.“This isn’t a good record to break,” said Ron Thompson, general manager of the Washington County Water Conservancy District.According to his organization, southern Utah has had 12 yea
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles appears set as the Jazz’s sixth man

  17-10-2019 20:05 via sportspyder.com
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on the Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Joe Ingles appears set as the Jazz’s sixth man

  17-10-2019 19:53
  The Weekly Run is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter on the Utah Jazz. Subscribe here.With the preseason slate now over, the Jazz have myriad issues to resolve over the next week before kicking off the regular season schedule on Oct. 23 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.At least one thing seems pretty apparent from that tumultuous five-game microcosm, though — Joe Ingles, a starting forward the past two seasons, looks primed to be the team’s first man off the bench in 20
  
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• Chelsea Clinton says she’s asked constantly about running for office, encourages people to also ask kids not named ‘Clinton or Huntsman’

  17-10-2019 19:51
  Chelsea Clinton won’t be following in her parents’ political footsteps just yet.Clinton, the daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, said on Wednesday that she was not running for Congress next year, ending brief but intense speculation that she would seek to extend her family’s political dynasty.In an interview on “The View,” Chelsea Clinton said she was “not considering” a bid to replace Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, a fellow Democrat who said last week t
  
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• China detains Utahn who ran teaching program

  17-10-2019 19:27
  Beijing • China said Thursday it detained two U.S. citizens on suspicion of organizing others to illegally cross the border, amid sharpening tensions between the sides over trade, technology and other sensitive issues.Police in the eastern province of Jiangsu arrested Alyssa Petersen and Jacob Harlan on Sept. 27 and Sept. 29, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said."The department handling the case has informed the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai in a timely manner, arranged
  
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• A blockade against impeachment is crumbling as witnesses agree to talk, Utah’s Stewart says he doesn’t understand why

  17-10-2019 19:25
  Washington • The White House’s trenchant declaration to House impeachment investigators last week was unequivocal: No more witnesses or documents for a “totally compromised kangaroo court.”But just a week later, it has become clear that President Donald Trump’s attempts to stonewall the Democrat-led inquiry that has imperiled his presidency and ensnared much of his inner circle are crumbling.One by one, a parade of Trump administration career diplomats and senior off
  
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• Butch Cassidy’s boyhood home misses the cut for Utah’s first state monuments; Danger Cave, Old Iron Town top list

  17-10-2019 19:20
  Legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy, born with the name Robert Leroy Parker, grew up in the southern Utah town of Circleville, where the tiny cabin the Parkers called home in the 1870s has become a popular spot for travelers to visit while cruising along U.S. Highway 89.To the dismay of leaders in Piute and Garfield counties, however, the historic home will not be among the first sites designated as state monuments under enabling legislation Gov. Gary Herbert signed this year.Herbert, who happens to
  
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• ‘I’ll miss him.’ Former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz mourns the death of Democratic leader Elijah Cummings

  17-10-2019 19:15
  Washington • Rep. Elijah Cummings introduced Rep. Jason Chaffetz to Baltimore’s food deserts, areas where fresh groceries are lacking.Chaffetz introduced Cummings to Dutch-oven cooking, a Utah favorite.The two congressmen visited each other’s district, seeing first hand their sometimes polar opposite worlds: politically, racially, economically. But they forged a friendship as the top members of a powerful House committee.They often disagreed, though as Cummings put it, they were
  
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• Former Utah Valley University wrestler arrested in a second alleged rape

  17-10-2019 18:48
  A former Utah Valley University wrestler who was suspended from the team when he was charged with rape in 2018 has been arrested for another reported sexual assault.Dayton Lee Racer, 23, of Orem is under investigation for rape, a first-degree felony. He has been booked into the Utah County jail, where he’s being held without bail.According to the probable cause statement, a woman went to the Orem police station on Oct. 7 and reported she “was just sexually assaulted” by Racer.
  
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• Colorado appeals ruling on presidential electors

  17-10-2019 18:46
  Denver • Colorado officials said Wednesday they want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that presidential electors can vote for the candidate of their choice and aren’t bound by the popular vote in their states.The August decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver puts "our country at risk," Secretary of State Jena Griswold said at a news conference attended by Attorney General Phil Weiser.Griswold has decried the ruling as a violation of the
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Why, when we see black people, do we so often see what isn’t there?

  17-10-2019 17:56
  The beam from his flashlight reflects off the glass, so we can't see what he saw.But in a sense, we don't need to see what Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean saw to know what he saw, peering through that window. He saw something fearsome, a threat to life and limb. All this in the person of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, who was actually doing nothing more sinister than playing video games in her bedroom with her 8-year-old nephew.It was 2:25 Saturday morning. Police had been c
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - NBA GMs vote Utah Jazz’s signings of Bogdanovic, Conley as most underrated

  17-10-2019 17:03 via sportspyder.com
  NBA GMs see Utah as a Top 4 team in the West while snubbing Gobert for best center in NBA.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Bring the Salt — Sign Up to be an SLC Dunk Fan Pulse Participant

  17-10-2019 16:27 via sportspyder.com
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• [Sports Illustrated] - Rudy Gobert is ready to take offensive leap for Jazz - Sports Illustrated

  17-10-2019 16:19 via sportspyder.com
  Rudy Gobert made a true offensive leap last season. Can he step it up another notch this year?
  
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• At White House meeting, insults fly and tempers flare

  17-10-2019 16:03
  Washington • You know a White House meeting has gone off the rails when the president of the United States and the speaker of the House cannot agree over the precise insult one called the other.According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Donald Trump called her a “third-grade” politician during a combative meeting with congressional leaders of both parties on Wednesday about the worsening situation in northern Syria. White House officials and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., t
  
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• 17 days of deals during Salt Lake City’s annual Dine O’Round

  17-10-2019 15:10
  Salt Lake City restaurants will kick off 17 days of deals Friday, Oct. 18, for the annual Downtown Dine O’Round.During the promotion, diners can visit participating restaurants and get three-course dinners or two-item lunches at special prices. The deals continue through Sunday, Nov. 3.Lunch specials will cost $10, $15 or $20, depending on the restaurant. While dinner specials are $20, $30 or $40. No need to sign up, carry a card or clip coupons, but you will have to ask for the Dine O&rsq
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Adam Schiff is the congressman Trump wants you to hate

  17-10-2019 15:09
  The paradox of Adam Schiff is this: He is depicted by some Republicans as a fanatical partisan, with President Donald Trump suggesting that he is a “radical left” “lowlife” who should be arrested for treason, yet in real life Schiff is a cerebral and mild-mannered moderate.But perhaps there’s a logic to Trump’s venom: Schiff’s mild persona conceals a relentless determination. That’s why he’s a marathoner and a triathlon athlete. It’s al
  
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• Meet the critters living around us, in Natural History Museum of Utah’s new exhibit

  17-10-2019 15:09
  From snails in the backyard to trout in a nearby stream, from snakes on a hiking trail to rats lurking downtown, there are more animals around us than people realize — and, for the next seven months, they all have a home at the Natural History Museum of Utah.The museum’s new exhibit, “Nature All Around Us,” aims to show visitors that wild animals and plants are as close as your backyard, neighborhood park and city street.“It’s really getting at the heart of th
  
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• Could UTA’s $2.1 billion debt now belong to the state? Most say no.

  17-10-2019 15:09
  Legislators are wondering if reforms they passed inadvertently converted the scandal-tainted Utah Transit Authority into a state entity — instead of an independent local district.State Auditor John Dougall raised that question, which made some lawmakers worry it might mean that the state would need to assume UTA’s huge $2.1 billion debt — amassed as it fast-tracked construction of its TRAX and FrontRunner train systems.A wide array of officials, including representatives from t
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I can’t stand my brother-in-law’s politics, but now he’s ailing

  17-10-2019 15:08
  Dear Ann Cannon • I have a close family, though we are spread out geographically and I cannot visit with my sisters more often than every few years. One of my brothers-in-law verbally and cruelly attacked President Obama and I have not been able to get over it. I stopped communicating with him altogether. Recently I saw a picture of my sister and her husband and was shocked to see how frail he has become. How should I respond? Should I stand on my principles? Or should I cave and visit them
  
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• 5 Utah events to shake up your Halloween routine

  17-10-2019 15:08
  You’ve decorated the house with ghosts and goblins, stocked up on enough fun-size candy to sink a barge, and if you go to one more haunted house, you’re going to punch the chainsaw guy right in his hockey mask. You need a different kind of Halloween experience.We’re here to help. Here are five events — some for kids, some just for the grown-ups — that can take your October spookiness in new directions. (Find more events at NowPlayingUtah.com.)Pumpkin Festival
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