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• Jordan Love and the Utah State offense are sputtering. Why? And what can be done about it?

  31-10-2019 23:59
  Logan • Entering the 2019 season, the Utah State Aggies weren’t expected to tinker much with their offense. Even with a new coaching staff, the Aggies were so good on that side of the field last year that there wasn’t any reason to fix what wasn’t broken.But through its first seven games, USU’s offense has looked more like a sputtering engine than a well-oiled machine — especially recently. The Aggies are averaging 29 points per game this season. That sounds OK
  
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• [ESPN] - Rudy Gobert among early-season fantasy trade targets

  31-10-2019 23:51 via sportspyder.com
  Drafting players who are off to slow starts can be disappointing to their fantasy managers -- but it can also provide you a great opportunity to acquire them at a discount. Here are some key options.
  
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• Ex-Trump aide confirms Biden probe sought, says not illegal

  31-10-2019 23:50
  Washington • A former top White House official confirmed Thursday that military aid to Ukraine was held up by President Donald Trump’s demand for the ally to investigate Democrats and Joe Biden, but he testified he saw nothing illegal about the quid pro quo at the center of the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry.Tim Morrison, who stepped down from the National Security Council the day before testifying, was the first White House political appointee to appear and spent more than eight ho
  
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• [KSL] - With Jazz's help, 5 For The Fight has grown from 'one crazy idea' to bringing in millions of dollars | KSL.com

  31-10-2019 23:49 via sportspyder.com
  What started as a bold one-season thing to help fund the fight for cancer has turned into a full-on movement.
  
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• ‘Utah Booze News’ podcast: The state gets hundreds of new beers in grocery stores but has zero bar licenses

  31-10-2019 23:31
  For Utah beer drinkers, Friday, Nov. 1, might feel like Christmas — with hundreds of new brews never before sold in Utah landing on the shelves of grocery and convenience stores.In the latest episode of the “Utah Booze News” podcast, Salt Lake Tribune reporter Kathy Stephenson and FOX 13′s Ben Winslow talk about what will happen when a new state law takes effect that allows higher-alcohol beer in retail stores; and why the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control mig
  
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• Usana Amphitheatre books its first concert for summer 2020, and switches its ticket service

  31-10-2019 23:11
  Usana Amphitheatre has booked its first concert of the summer 2020 season — and has switched to a national ticketing service to handle ticket sales.The ‘80s supergroup Journey announced Thursday that its four-month, 60-city, 2020 tour will include a stop at Usana in West Valley City on Thursday, May 21. Chrissie Hynde’s band, The Pretenders, will be the opening act on the tour.Usana will, starting with the Journey/Pretenders show, be selling its tickets through the national ser
  
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• BYU basketball hosts University of Texas at Tyler in exhibition play on Friday

  31-10-2019 23:02
  Provo • Friday’s exhibition game against Texas-Tyler might be Mark Pope’s inaugural game as the BYU men’s basketball head coach, but it definitely won’t be his introduction to Cougar fans. Pope, who spent the last four years with the neighboring Utah Valley program as the Wolverines head coach, served as an assistant coach on the BYU staff 2011-2015.However, it will serve as a glimpse of how the team is transitioning to the new leadership after the 14-year era of Dav
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Keep the Rio Grande shelter open this winter

  31-10-2019 23:00
  “Experiment with your own lives, damn it!”— Dr. Charles Dutton, in “The Andromeda Strain”In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez arrived on the shores of what is now Mexico in search of gold, territory and glory.According to legend, once ashore in Yucatan, Cortez gave the order to burn his ships as a way of ensuring that none in his party would seek to return to the relative security of Cuba, or even back to Spain, before they had fulfilled their mission.T
  
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• Jean Hill and Rob Wesemann: Resource centers are not turning away the homeless

  31-10-2019 22:30
  As news reports suggest, the new homeless resource centers for women are full on a regular basis. The strong response of women seeking access to the resource centers is a testament to the great success of the centers in providing women with a safe place to breathe, get their feet back under them and access the services they need to move, permanently, out of homelessness.What is not accurate are reports that providers turn women away when the resource centers are full. The Salt Lake Valley Coalit
  
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• Commentary: Biden case shows Communion should be personal, not political

  31-10-2019 22:24
  Joe Biden is a proud Catholic. He carries a rosary to remember his late son, Beau, and, as recent headlines show, he attends Mass even during a grueling campaign.But when the former vice president presented himself for Communion at St. Anthony Catholic Church in South Carolina on Sunday, a priest denied him the sacrament. The pastor then discussed the moment with a reporter. “Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of church teaching,” the Rev.
  
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• Washington’s Chris Petersen has succeeded against Utah’s Kyle Whittingham, like no other coach

  31-10-2019 22:00
  Kyle Whittingham's coaching tree will be showcased Saturday night, when BYU's Kalani Sitake visits Utah State's Gary Andersen in an in-state rivalry and Sacramento State's Troy Taylor hosts Weber State's Jay Hill in a meeting of top 10 teams in the FCS.“I love all those guys,” Whittingham said. “They did a great job for us while they were here.”As coordinators of Whittingham's Utah offense, defense or special teams at various times, the four coaches all played major roles
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Rep. Ben McAdams votes for the impeachment resolution and The Salt Lake Tribune will no longer have editorial candidate endorsements

  31-10-2019 21:51
  Rep. Ben McAdams votes in favor of an impeachment resolution, while his GOP colleagues oppose it. After an emergency meeting on homelessness, state and county leaders push for new housing, but say The Road Home shelter will close for good this fall. And a farewell (fond or otherwise) to candidate endorsements from The Salt Lake Tribune. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr, reporter Bethany Rodgers, and editorial page editor George Pyle join KCPW’s Rog
  
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• Boy Scouts to boost annual youth fees by more than 80%

  31-10-2019 21:47
  New York • Facing a potentially ruinous wave of new sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America is increasing its annual youth membership fee by more than 80%.The group says the move, which has dismayed many of the Scouts' adult volunteer leaders who warn the increase is prohibitively steep for some, is needed to meet rising operating costs, notably for the liability insurance that covers all official Scouting activities.For years, the BSA has been entangled in costly litigation with plai
  
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• Eye on the Y: Halloween week and in-state rivalry can make for a lively game

  31-10-2019 21:12
  Is it me or is this BYU-Utah State rivalry game getting crazy already?To be fair, I wasn’t here for the season opener against Utah. And while Boise State is considered a rival — the Broncos have become a fixture in the Cougars’ schedule — there just wasn’t the feel of a big rival coming to town when the team made the trip to LaVell Edwards Stadium from Idaho. So, I don’t know if this is the way it usually goes.But this in-state match-up has all the fixing for
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - What's the first movie that scared you?

  31-10-2019 20:48 via sportspyder.com
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• ISU World Cup will pit young USA team against world’s greatest short track speed skaters at the Olympic Oval this weekend

  31-10-2019 20:47
  Kearns • USA Speedskating coach Wilma Boomstra is sending lambs into the ISU Short Track World Cup event being held this weekend at the Utah Olympic Oval and hoping they come out lions.The oldest on Boomstra’s 12 skater roster is 24 years old. The youngest is 16. Almost half of them have no World Cup racing experience to speak of.“If you compare that to the rest of the world, we’re babies,” Boomstra said. “Obviously the rest of the world has more experience tha
  
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• Utes rout Westminster in women’s basketball exhibition, 88-58

  31-10-2019 20:32
  It requires some imagination, but Utah coach Lynne Roberts can picture an era when her women’s basketball program regularly draws 6,000 fans — not wearing costumes. In what's becoming an annual event, the Utes staged their “Future Scholars” event Thursday, creating a an energized atmosphere at the Huntsman Center with thousands of elementary school students. “Just crazy,” Ute freshman guard Bryanna Maxwell said after an 88-58 exhibition win over Westminster Co
  
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• Movies that scared the guys: "Us" "The Ring" "Finding Nemo" #HappyHalloweenpic.twitter.com/YRtphq9KbU

  31-10-2019 19:57 via twitter.com
  Movies that scared the guys:"Us""The Ring""Finding Nemo"
  #HappyHalloweenpic.twitter.com/YRtphq9KbU
  
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• Utahns hate Halloween, according to ‘twitter data’ analysis

  31-10-2019 19:54
  The only state that hates Halloween more than Utah is Oregon, if you believe an analysis of “geotagged twitter data” done by an online travel site.And, yes, if you drive through just about any neighborhood in Utah and check out the holiday decorations at this time of year, it is more than a bit hard to believe.
  (Courtesy of daringplanet.com) Utah is No. 2 on the list of states that most hate Halloween, according to a Twitter study.Nonetheless, that’s the conclusion that daringp
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Beasley, Collins, Jazz, Nuggets

  31-10-2019 19:34 via sportspyder.com
  The Nuggets made a "very aggressive" attempt to lock up Malik Beasley to a rookie scale extension before last week's …
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz ‘had a feeling’ that Mike Conley was going to shoot down the Clippers

  31-10-2019 19:28 via sportspyder.com
  At about 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, with his players in front of him shooting around on Vivint Smart Home Arena’s purple mountain court in preparation for the game to be played a few hours later, Clippers coach Doc Rivers was leaning against the scorer’
  
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• Jazz ‘had a feeling’ that Mike Conley was going to shoot down the Clippers

  31-10-2019 19:22
  At about 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, with his players in front of him shooting around on Vivint Smart Home Arena’s purple mountain court in preparation for the game to be played a few hours later, Clippers coach Doc Rivers was leaning against the scorer’s table when he was asked about one of that night’s opponents.A reporter jokingly prefaced his inquiry with the quip, “Mike Conley got a lot worse when he moved from Memphis to Utah,” and Rivers quickly interjected, &ld
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Jazz Fans Rally Behind Conley’s Breakout Performance

  31-10-2019 19:19 via sportspyder.com
  Mike Conley, the 13-year veteran point guard, had pushed the Utah Jazz to a seven-point lead by scoring seven straight points, and 10 of the Jazz points during a 14-2 run. Swish.
  
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• Science Says: How daylight saving time affects health

  31-10-2019 19:06
  Office workers bemoan driving home in the dark. Night owls relish the chance to sleep in. As clocks tick toward the end of daylight saving time, many sleep scientists and circadian biologists are pushing for a permanent ban because of potential ill effects on human health.Losing an hour of afternoon daylight sounds like a gloomy preview for the dark winter months, and at least one study found an increase in people seeking help for depression after turning the clocks back to standard time in Nove
  
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• Bull elk shot and ‘left to waste’ near Utah highway

  31-10-2019 19:05
  Investigators are trying to learn who shot a bull elk near Escalante, where it was “left to waste,” Utah wildlife officials said.The elk was killed between Oct. 19 and 22 about 9 miles west of Escalante on State Road 12, state wildlife officials wrote in a news statement.The poacher “most likely shot the animal from the highway and then made a U-turn to leave the area,” state wildlife officials wrote.There were no active bull elk hunts when the poaching occurred, state wi
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 10.31.19

  31-10-2019 18:52 via sportspyder.com
  "The shovel, the hammer... THE HAMMER by Green!" 🔥 #DunksoftheWeek | Sponsored by: Wasatch Front Ford
  
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• The state has housed 100 additional homeless people before The Road Home closes — but capacity issues remain

  31-10-2019 18:44
  South Salt Lake • Darwin Osborn had lost hope he’d ever have his own bed to sleep in again.After suffering two heart attacks in a row in 2017 and with no way to pay his rent during the next three weeks he spent in the hospital, he was evicted from his apartment. When he was discharged, Osborn, 64, moved in with his daughter but was displaced again soon afterward when she was evicted.Osborn eventually ended up homeless, spending his days on the streets and his nights in and out of shel
  
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• Stephen Curry breaks left hand in another embarrassing Warriors loss

  31-10-2019 18:04
  San Francisco • In what has already been a rough start to the season for the Warriors, now Stephen Curry is down. A two-time MVP, Golden State’s longest-tenured player and its oldest at age 31. The heart and soul of his team.Curry broke his left hand and became the latest injured Warriors player when he fell hard in the third quarter of another embarrassing defeat by Golden State, 121-110 to the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night. A CT scan will determine whether Curry needs surgery, the
  
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• Gail Collins: The worst Trump Cabinet Member? You picked a winner!

  31-10-2019 18:01
  The results are in, people, and it’s a landslide. Your choice for Worst Trump Cabinet Member is...Attorney General William Barr! Barr was cited for multiple non-achievements. There was his misrepresentation of the findings of the Mueller report. And the decision to respond to Robert Mueller’s warning about Russian intervention in American elections by — as one voter put it — “opening investigations into the investigators.”The bottom line was a quaint convictio
  
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• Red All Over: Playing the Utes has a lingering effect on football opponents

  31-10-2019 17:40
  Trying to overcome the psychological impact of losing a game, coaches often say they try to keep an opponent from “beating them twice." Physically, though, Utah’s football team may have that effect.It happened this month with Arizona State. The Sun Devils were 5-1 before losing at Utah, then falling at UCLA. The theory, as researched by Pac-12 expert Jon Wilner of The Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.), is the Utes take a physical toll on opponents that carries over. In the past four se
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert react to KAT and Embiid’s online beef

  31-10-2019 17:04 via sportspyder.com
  It’s fun to watch other people MAD ONLINE.
  
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• Jewel Allen: Tangled necklaces and growing communities

  31-10-2019 17:00
  As I got ready for a Planning Commission and City Council work meeting recently in my hometown of Grantsville, I wanted to wear a certain necklace. I took it off the hook, only to find it tangled with another chain. Impatiently, I tugged on the strands but instead of loosening them, I made the situation worse.I wore a different necklace, left the snarled ones on my bathroom counter, and went to my meeting.That work meeting was yet another link in the chain of steps leading up to a revised genera
  
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• Eric Bolling: Opioids are an equal-opportunity killer

  31-10-2019 17:00
  It’s become a depressing fact that American politics is so polarized. That’s also true about where we live and work. We rarely interact with people from the hated other party, except maybe an outcast relative at Thanksgiving.From immigration to impeachment, guns to graft, it seems we’re divided on every topic. But maybe there is an issue that can unite us — one admittedly born of a father’s deepest grief.One night in 2017, I received a call that every parent dreads.
  
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• House passes impeachment rules. Ben McAdams votes for it, Utah’s GOP members oppose it.

  31-10-2019 16:50
  Washington • Utah’s Republican House members on Thursday opposed a resolution setting guidelines for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — rules that would open up the process and allow the president due process rights — while Democrat Rep. Ben McAdams supported the measure that passed the chamber mainly along partisan lines.Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart aligned with all their GOP counterparts to vote against the resolution, meant to allev
  
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• Democrats push impeachment rules package through House

  31-10-2019 16:42
  Washington • Democrats rammed a package of ground rules for their impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump through a sharply divided House Thursday, the chamber’s first formal vote in a fight that could stretch into the 2020 election year.The vote was 232-196, with all Republicans against the resolution and two Democratic defectors joining them.The vote laid down the rules as lawmakers transition from weeks of closed-door interviews with witnesses to public hearings and ultimatel
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: Just how good can the Jazz become? Suspicions are growing.

  31-10-2019 16:28 via sportspyder.com
  After patting Clippers coach Doc Rivers on the chest, Jazz coach Quin Snyder left the floor on Wednesday night with steeled eyes, a set jaw and a gliding stride, looking as though he was headed somewhere — metaphorically, who knows where? —...
  
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• Gordon Monson: Just how good can the Jazz become? Suspicions are growing.

  31-10-2019 16:28
  After patting Clippers coach Doc Rivers on the chest, Jazz coach Quin Snyder left the floor on Wednesday night with steeled eyes, a set jaw and a gliding stride, looking as though he was headed somewhere — metaphorically, who knows where? — meaningful and purposeful, toward business that couldn’t, wouldn’t wait.And so, the Jazz’s new journey under their no-nonsense nabob and nurturer, toward whatever they will become, whatever they will achieve in this early season,
  
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• Gov. Gary Herbert appoints Salt Lake City lawyer to judgeship

  31-10-2019 16:27
  Gov. Gary Herbert has appointed Salt Lake City lawyer Kristine Johnson as a judge for the state district court that serves Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit counties.Johnson is a shareholder with the Parsons Behle & Latimer law firm and she has practiced law since 1995.Herbert’s appointment of Johnson to the Third Judicial District bench is subject to confirmation by the Utah Senate.
  
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• Body of missing hiker found in Utah desert

  31-10-2019 16:26
  The body of a New Jersey man was found this week near Boulder, about a month after he went for a day hike and did not return.Norman Everett Applegate Jr., 72, left Boulder on Sept. 26 to go hiking, Garfield County sheriff’s officials wrote in social media post. His body was found Tuesday, deputies wrote; crews recovered his body on Wednesday.Deputies did not say where exactly Applegate’s body was found or which trail he was believed to have taken when he died.“Preliminary inves
  
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• Utah man who livestreamed himself breaking into woman’s bathroom is charged with attempting to rape her

  31-10-2019 16:04
  A Utah man who livestreamed events leading up to his alleged attempt to rape a woman is facing multiple charges.According to a probable cause statement, on Sept. 28 the 30-year-old Millcreek man arrived at the home of a Sandy woman just as she was going to get in the shower.The woman told police that she went in her bathroom, shut and locked the door and began showering when she “suddenly noticed” the man “had entered the bathroom without her consent.”The woman told the m
  
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• ORV dust-up spurs a question: Can feds enforce an off-road vehicle ban in Utah’s national parks?

  31-10-2019 16:00
  So, now that plans to allow off-road vehicles onto roads in Utah’s national parks have hit a dead end, would drivers of “street legal” utility terrain vehicles be ticketed if they tried to ride, say, Canyonlands’ White Rim or Capitol Reef’s Burr Trail?According to federal prosecutors, the answer is an emphatic yes, but questions remain in the wake of the now-rescinded directive from the National Park Service that had ordered Utah parks to open their roads to ORVs.Pa
  
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• Letter: Trump is a Putin marionette

  31-10-2019 15:58
  Jay Blackett, in the Oct. 26 Public Forum, appears to embrace Donald Trump, a pathological liar, a criminal, a wannabe dictator beholden to Vladimir Putin, who plays him like a marionette.A skilled former KGB colonel, Putin tricked our citizens to elect Trump. Putin’s main goal is to destroy the US and NATO; then Russia will become the world leader. Putin is well on his way.Trump’s economy was inherited from Obama while in an upward trajectory. Obama inherited a collapsed economy fro
  
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• Letter: Make your voice heard on climate change

  31-10-2019 15:57
  Does your vote count? Mine did.I voted for Sen. Mitt Romney because he is concerned about our damaged climate and would act with integrity, representing the majority of Utah voters who agree that climate change is happening and want solutions.Thank you, Sen. Romney for listening to your Utah constituents by joining the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, rolled out by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Sen. Michael Braun, R-Ind. The stated goal of the new caucus is "to take the politics out o
  
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• Letter: Trump doesn’t deserve credit for economic growth

  31-10-2019 15:56
  In his Oct. 26 letter to The Public Fourm, Jay Blackett is squinting at his essentially correct data. His conclusion is at best misleading.I invite everyone to do a computer search on the same indicators Blackett used for the last 10 years. You will see the Dow Industrial Average bottomed in January, 2009, the year Barack Obama became president, and it has steadily increased since. The unemployment rates (all of the ones he used) peaked near the end of 2009 and have steadily decreased since. And
  
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• Weber County attorney wants judge removed from Ogden Trece gang case for calling him a ‘liar’

  31-10-2019 15:42
  The Weber County attorney is firing back after a federal judge recently questioned whether he told the truth in a lawsuit over a now-defunct gang injunction.Christopher Allred is asking that U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups be taken off the case, arguing in court papers that Waddoups' recent ruling was a personal attack and showed a bias against him.Waddoups was critical of Allred and the previous county attorney, Dee Smith, in a recent order where he ruled the county violated the rights of tw
  
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