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• Biden’s communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict

  29-10-2019 23:50
  Columbia, S.C. • A Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates.The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on S
  
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• Colonel testifies he raised concerns about Ukraine, Trump

  29-10-2019 23:49
  Washington • Defying White House orders, an Army officer serving with President Donald Trump's National Security Council testified to impeachment investigators Tuesday that he twice raised concerns over the administration's push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden.Alexander Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat, is the first official to testify who actually heard Trump’s July 25 call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. H
  
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• Arizona official pleads not guilty in adoption fraud case

  29-10-2019 23:47
  Fayetteville, Ark. • An elected official in Arizona accused of running a human smuggling scheme that brought pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in Arkansas.Authorities say Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen illegally paid the Pacific island women to have their babies in the United States and give them up for adoption.After entering his plea in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Tuesday, Petersen was released on $100,000 bond and ordere
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Trump Digs Coal

  29-10-2019 23:44
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/10/28/bagley-cartoon-growing/" target=_blank><u>Growing Fire Risk</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/10/25/bagley-cartoon-facebook/"><u>Facebook Freeway</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2019/10/24/bagley-
  
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• George Pyle: No more endorsement editorials in The Tribune. Sigh.

  29-10-2019 23:30
  All of you highly observant, media-savvy readers out there — that is, everyone reading this column — may be aware that something has been missing from this page in the last week or so.The Salt Lake Tribune is giving up the tradition of endorsing candidates in local, state and national elections. We won’t be giving our editorial support to either of the candidates for the open Salt Lake City mayor’s seat or in any of the other municipal elections that come to a close Nov.
  
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• Twenty One Pilots postponed Monday’s show at The Viv because of snow in Colorado

  29-10-2019 23:21
  Snow in the Rockies has prompted the rap-rock duo Twenty One Pilots to postpone tonight’s concert at Vivint Smart Home Arena in downtown Salt Lake City.In a statement, the band wrote that “snowfall has made it impossible for us to make it to Salt Lake City in time for our show. As tough as this decision was, we could not justify endangering our crew on the slick roads through the mountains.”The band performed Sunday night at the Pepsi Center in Denver. A winter storm across Col
  
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• [USA Today: For The Win] - A nonsensical NBA rule stopped the officials from fixing a late-game clock malfunction

  29-10-2019 23:17 via sportspyder.com
  That rule needs to change.
  
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• Meet Dave — he is in treatment for melanoma. "I am grateful to my wife and caregiver, family, doctors, and all the caregivers out there that surround me with support." Learn how you can join the fight by visiting http://utahjazz.com/give5 

  29-10-2019 23:09 via twitter.com
  Meet Dave — he is in treatment for melanoma.
  "I am grateful to my wife and caregiver, family, doctors, and all the caregivers out there that surround me with support."Learn how you can join the fight by visiting http://utahjazz.com/give5 #5ForTheFight | @5ForTheFight_pic.twitter.com/sShF9eIyf1
  
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• Nicole Dicou: Utah brewers are ready for a new era in beer

  29-10-2019 23:00
  We’re coming up on a big moment in Utah history, especially if you’re a lover of lagers or enjoy nursing your favorite ale while watching the Jazz play. A statute that has been etched in stone since Prohibition has been rewritten and, on Nov. 1, the new versioin will take effect: ABV (alcohol by volume) in Utah beer is rising from 4% to 5%. Or, in terms of ABW (alcohol by weight), 3.2% to 4%.So yes, both of your friends were correct when one told you the percent of alcohol allowable
  
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• NBA Daily: Biggest Surprises – Northwest Division

  29-10-2019 23:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  Matt John begins Basketball Insiders' "Biggest Surprises" series by taking a look at the toughest division in the league: The Northwest.
  
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• [ESPN] - Malone: It's about time Utah hosts ASG again

  29-10-2019 22:39 via sportspyder.com
  Former Jazz great Karl Malone says it's about time that Salt Lake City hosts another All-Star Game.
  
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• Christopher Koopman and Michael Melendez: Let’s make Utah the ‘Sandbox State’

  29-10-2019 22:19
  The Federal Communication Commission recently announced that Salt Lake City would join New York City as the only two 5G innovation zones nationwide. The goal is to create “city-scale testbeds for advanced wireless communications and network research, including 5G networks.”This places the Wasatch Front at the cutting edge of digital innovation in the United States and is just the latest example of Utah embracing technology. From drones to fintech to legal services, Utah is now full o
  
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• Democrats have the most racially diverse field ever. The top tier is all white.

  29-10-2019 22:13
  When the Democratic primary contest began last winter, it featured the most racially diverse field in history, with two black senators, a Latino former Cabinet secretary, an Asian-American businessman and the first American Samoan elected to Congress. But 10 months later, the Democratic field has a top tier of four white candidates, three of them men.Candidates of color are languishing in the low single digits in polls, well behind the four leaders — former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens.
  
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• NCAA board approves athlete compensation for image, likeness

  29-10-2019 20:49
  The United States' largest governing body for college athletics took the first step Tuesday toward allowing amateur athletes to cash in on their fame, voting unanimously to permit them to "benefit from the use of their name, image and likeness."The NCAA and its member schools now must figure out how to allow athletes to profit while still maintaining rules regarding amateurism. The body's Board of Governors, meeting at Emory University in Atlanta, directed each of the NCAA's three divisions to c
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Trump’s deregulation has been a bust

  29-10-2019 20:31
  Last week, amid damning new testimony in the impeachment inquiry, the White House tried to change the subject by touting one of its supposed wins: President Trump's "historic deregulation.""We are now reducing the size, scope, and cost of Federal regulations for the first time in decades, and we are already seeing the incredible results," Trump said. In a Cabinet meeting, senior officials likewise offered inflated economic numbers about Trump's "gangbusters" deregulatory achievements.In reality,
  
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• Summit County says bullying and anti-Democratic bias may spur it to withdraw from county association

  29-10-2019 20:29
  The Summit County Council is threatening to withdraw its membership — and dues — from the Utah Association of Counties after a council member said she was bullied for her Democratic politics at a recent meeting.In an Oct. 23 letter to the Utah Association of Counties, or UAC, the Summit County Council said that a county commissioner was inappropriately allowed to disrupt a September meeting on public lands to promote President Donald Trump and lobby attendees to sign an op-ed opposin
  
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• Back in the pic.twitter.com/65vsOGUKuY – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center

  29-10-2019 20:23 via twitter.com
  Back in the pic.twitter.com/65vsOGUKuY – bei Zions Bank Basketball Center
  
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• Consistency has been elusive for BYU this season, but Cougars hope they’re on to something after beating Boise State

  29-10-2019 20:13
  Provo • Of BYU’s three wins this season, two were against ranked teams. Two of the three opponents were also Power Five teams.Two of the Cougars’ losses were, somewhat understandably, against ranked, Power Five teams. But even if it was against bigger and tougher opponents, BYU was sloppy in all three phases of the ball in both those games. Then, the other two losses were against teams the Cougars were expected to beat, but instead wasn’t able to finish and allowed Toledo
  
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• | Adam Silver on @spidadmitchell: “He’s wise beyond his years … he’s a commissioner’s dream." » https://on.nba.com/2MWZG4P pic.twitter.com/efvrkj9AY0

  29-10-2019 18:42 via twitter.com
  | Adam Silver on @spidadmitchell:“He’s wise beyond his years … he’s a commissioner’s dream."» https://on.nba.com/2MWZG4P pic.twitter.com/efvrkj9AY0
  
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• Nacua Bowl III: Pass-catching brothers for Utah and Washington will meet in Seattle.

  29-10-2019 18:41
  Utah receiver Samson Nacua would create quite a scene Saturday in Seattle if he caught a touchdown pass, sprinted to the “W” in the middle of Husky Stadium and screamed at his brother Puka on the Washington sideline.That’s how Nacua celebrated the touchdown pass he threw as a substitute quarterback for Timpview High School four years ago, when his brother was an Orem freshman. The demonstration drew a mild rebuke from the referee, by Nacua’a account, in his team’s 3
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Bojan Bogdanovic showing he was worth the money for Jazz as Mike Conley flops to start

  29-10-2019 17:34 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah Jazz were one of the biggest winners of the summer with the team’s front office receiving a ton of praise for their offseason dealings. While the Jazz were unable to form a new dynamic duo for their team — something that turned out to be a...
  
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• Anger rises as California utility imposes more blackouts

  29-10-2019 16:54
  Santa Rosa, Calif. • Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California as the state’s biggest utility began another round of fire-prevention blackouts Tuesday that could leave millions of people without electricity, some for five days or longer.The shut-offs, aimed at keeping windblown electrical equipment from sparking wildfires, came as fire crews raced to contain two major blazes in Northern and Southern California before the winds picked up again. The fires have destroyed d
  
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• Army officer says he raised concerns about Trump and Ukraine

  29-10-2019 16:53
  Washington • An Army officer at the National Security Council who twice raised concerns over the Trump administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden, arrived in military uniform Tuesday on Capitol Hill and is testifying behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry.Alexander Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat, was prepared to tell House investigators that he listened to President Donald Trump's July 25 call with new Uk
  
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• A video of a Utah man being sprayed in the face with a fire extinguisher went viral. Now he’s suing.

  29-10-2019 16:45
  A Utah man is suing a former restaurant owner whom he alleges “became enraged” and charged at him with a fire extinguisher to put out the cigarette he was smoking in a public plaza — an exchange caught on video that has since gone viral.The lawsuit filed Monday in Salt Lake district court was largely expected, though it spells out for the first time some of what led up to the controversy and the issues that have continued since. And it requests damages be awarded to cover the m
  
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• Winter weather blasts Utah

  29-10-2019 16:06
  Snow was filling up the canyons along the Wasatch on Tuesday morning as a wintery Halloween week continued in Utah.A winter weather advisory was in place until Tuesday night, with 3 to 7 inches of snow expected in the Wasatch Mountains south of Interstate 80 including central Utah; 2 to 5 inches in the mountains north of I-80; and 1 to 4 inches along the Wasatch Front, as well as the Cache Valley and Tooele Valley, according to the National Weather Service.The Cottonwood Canyons could see except
  
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• Don Gale: Don’t move too fast. You’ll kill the pig.

  29-10-2019 15:30
  When my father was 6 years old, his family moved from the Old Road (now Combe Road) in Uintah, Utah, up the steep hill to Uintah flat, about where Ogden’s Harrison Boulevard would lead if it continued south. Dad’s job was to herd the family’s brood sow up the hill to the family’s new farm. (For you city folk, a brood sow is a fertile female pig.)It was July 9, 1909, and the weather was July hot. Being young and in a hurry, Dad urged the hog to move faster than the beast w
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Exclusive First Look: NEW Vivint Smart Home commercial with Conley, Bogdanovic

  29-10-2019 15:21 via sportspyder.com
  There’s a lot you don’t know about Bojan Bodanovic.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Video: Suns get hosed after refs don’t check clock in last seconds of game vs. Jazz

  29-10-2019 14:23 via sportspyder.com
  The Phoenix Suns were in the thick of a closely contested game against the Utah Jazz, but they were not given a fair chance to win by the officials. A late Jevon Carter 3-pointer tied the game at 95, and while Donovan Mitchell did draw enough...
  
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• Paul Krugman: Our selective deficit hysteria has done significant harm

  29-10-2019 14:22
  So the federal budget deficit just hit $1 trillion (actually $984 billion, but close enough). That’s about $300 billion more than the Congressional Budget Office was projecting in the summer of 2017, before the Trump tax cut was enacted. And basically everybody yawned.Were there fiery speeches in Congress, denouncing fiscal irresponsibility? No. Was there intense media coverage? No — the story was tucked deep inside major newspapers. Was there severe market reaction? No — inter
  
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• Letter: Republicans have hitched their wagon to the wrong star

  29-10-2019 14:19
  Six years ago, comedian John Oliver, then on “The Daily Show,” showed a perfect example of a major problem in U.S. politics.In response to a question he asked of an assistant to then-Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, as to what makes a good politician, the assistant responded that it was their ability to get re-elected. Nothing to do with good policy or working for the public, just getting re-elected.Fast forward to Oct. 23, 2019, when 157 Republican congressman stormed a closed-door hearin
  
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• Letter: ‘Trunk or treat’ has ruined Halloween

  29-10-2019 14:17
  Halloween is here and, if this year is like the last few years, there won’t be a lot of trick or treating. Those bright young faces, many venturing out for the first time to meet neighbors and get some candy. A pleasure as much for the giver as the receiver. It teaches the young and renews an unwritten bound that is neighborhood.However a new tradition has taken its place, trunk or treat. It has taken all the trick or treaters from the neighborhood and left me holding the bag.It is also im
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Utah Jazz Rank: Georges Niang voted 9th

  29-10-2019 14:15 via sportspyder.com
  Another contributor on a minimum contract
  
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• Nobel Laureates: Economic incentives don’t always do what we want them to

  29-10-2019 14:15
  At least since Adam Smith and his famous B’s (“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.”), a fundamental premise of economics has been that financial incentives are the primary driver of human behavior. Over the last few decades, this faith in the power of economic incentives led policymakers in the United States and elsewhere to focus, often with the best of intentions,
  
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• Letter: The clown show in the White House

  29-10-2019 14:13
  Every day we are witness to a clown show from the White House, where President Trump holds forth at center stage, spewing out wild exaggerations, prevarications and dubious statistics and assigning disparaging names to anyone who contradicts him.Most recently, he has claimed that the Kurds never helped us at Normandy, that Italian-U.S. relations go way back to the days of Ancient Rome, that President George Washington ran his business out of the White House, and that he (Trump) and he alone defe
  
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• David Leonhardt: Climate is more important than health care

  29-10-2019 14:12
  When Bill Clinton became president, his top legislative priority was health care. When Barack Obama became president, he first had to prevent a depression, but then he too turned to health care.The next Democratic president should choose a different priority.It’s still true that too many Americans suffer from inadequate or expensive insurance coverage, and the next president should certainly look to make progress on health care. But presidents must make choices. Realistically, they have to
  
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• Letter: Of course it’s a circus

  29-10-2019 14:11
  Gov. Gary Herbert bemoans the impeachment inquiry as a “circus.”What would one expect when a clown is chosen to run the country?Gus Wheeler, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Show a loss and retool

  29-10-2019 14:10
  The president’s attorneys say that the president is immune from prosecution or investigation.Lies are not lies? Crimes are not crimes? To error is human. The president is not human, elected by a minority in a democracy.Who programmed this robot? Can we amortize it? Show a loss and retool?William Littig, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Wild horses get sick at BLM corral in Utah, thwarting a major adoption event

  29-10-2019 13:52
  The Bureau of Land Management has been forced to postpone putting up a few hundred wild horses, most of them recently removed from northern Utah’s Onaqui Mountains, after mustangs at the BLM’s Delta corral tested positive for a highly contagious form of equine distemper.Known for their colorful markings and tolerance of people, the Onaqui horses are among the most visible and well-known free-roaming equines in the West. As a result, they are frequently photographed and were formerly
  
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• Survey: Number of kids watching online videos soars

  29-10-2019 13:41
  The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released Tuesday. They’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago.And often, the survey found, they're seeing the videos on services such as YouTube that are supposedly off limits to children younger than age 13.“It really is the air they breathe,” said Michael Robb, senior director of research for Common Sense Media, the n
  
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• Political Cornflakes: Trump food stamp changes could cut automatic access to free school lunch for 1 million kids

  29-10-2019 13:28
  Happy Tuesday!Nearly 1 million low-income students would lose automatic access to free school lunches under a proposal from the Trump administration to limit people receiving federal food stamps. The administration says it seek to trim the cost of food assistance programs and close what it views as loopholes in who qualifies for them. Advocates say even more youth could lose free meals as the implications of the cuts ripple across low-income schools [USAToday]Topping the news: The biggest chunk,
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Will the Utah Jazz start off slow again this season?

  29-10-2019 13:10 via sportspyder.com
  How can they buck this trend earlier rather than later.
  
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• Robert Kirby: Trick-or-treat guidelines for the inner kid

  29-10-2019 13:00
  At what age did you stop going out trick-or-treating for Halloween? Assuming, of course, that you ever went.And just to be clear, we’re talking the orthodox Halloween practice. It comes in three parts — children dressing in costume, going door to door, and saying “trick or treat” when the door is opened.It’s not trick-or-treating if you’re 20-something, hungry and wearing only an athletic supporter. If this sounds impossible, I thought so, too, until my patrol
  
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• Property taxes went up in these Utah cities and towns

  29-10-2019 13:00
  Want to see something really scary for Halloween? If you live in South Weber, Charleston, Joseph or Hideout, check out your mailbox.Property tax notices, which must be mailed by Nov. 1, will show those cities and towns each are doubling their property taxes, or more.Lesser frights await plenty of other Utahns because tax hikes were ordered this year by 83 local governments — about one of every seven counties, cities, school districts or special service districts. [Residents pay taxes to se
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Gobert, Bogdanovic Bring Utah Back Against the Suns

  29-10-2019 10:13 via sportspyder.com
  Not anymore. Utah secured its eighth straight victory over the Suns on Monday night, but this one felt very different from the seven wins that precededed it. SCH T-Shirts!
  
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• [KSL] - Donovan Mitchell's late drive pushes Utah Jazz past Phoenix Suns | KSL.com

  29-10-2019 07:55 via sportspyder.com
  Bojan Bogdanovic had 29 points and Donovan Mitchell hit a game-winning free throw to lead the Jazz over the Suns on Monday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Triple Team: In sloppy game, Jazz win thanks to defense and brilliant Bojan Bogdanovic

  29-10-2019 07:47 via sportspyder.com
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 96-95 win over the Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.
  
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• The Triple Team: In sloppy game, Jazz win thanks to defense and brilliant Bojan Bogdanovic

  29-10-2019 07:24
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 96-95 win over the Phoenix Suns from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. I can’t emphasize enough that you’re supposed to lose sloppy games like thisHere’s an imaginary conversation between a statsheet robot with info on tonight’s game and an indefatigable Jazz optimist, one who believes the Jazz can win in any circumstance.Statsheet Robot: The Jazz had 23 turnovers tonight.Jazz Optimist: Yeah, but turnovers aren&rsquo
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - WATCH: Donovan Mitchell draws foul on drive to the paint, hits FT to win

  29-10-2019 07:23 via sportspyder.com
  Just your friendly Neighborhood Spida-Man saving the day.
  
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• Utah man sprayed in the face with a fire extinguisher sues former restaurant owner, calling the attack ‘outrageous and intolerable’

  29-10-2019 07:13
  A Utah man is suing a former restaurant owner whom he alleges “became enraged” and charged at him with a fire extinguisher to put out the cigarette he was smoking in a public plaza — an exchange caught on video that has since gone viral.The lawsuit filed Monday in Salt Lake district court was largely expected, though it spells out for the first time some of what led up to the controversy and the issues that have continued since. And it requests damages be awarded to cover the m
  
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