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• A Utah man is charged with murdering a friend in a fight over a woman

  30-01-2020 23:54
  
  A Utah man has been charged with stabbing his former best friend to death after accusing the friend of having an affair with his girlfriend.Spencer Greenway, 27, of West Jordan, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with murder, a first-degree felony, in the death of Adam Cross, 27.According to a charging document, Cross’ girlfriend told police that on the night of Sept. 21, he began “arguing with someone on the phone while driving back to his house.” Later that night, Gre
  
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• 3-year-old Utah boy shoots himself in the head; police are investigating

  30-01-2020 23:49
  
  A 3-year-old Utah boy is expected to live after he was shot at his home early Thursday morning.According to Murray police, the shooting happened about 6:30 a.m. at a home near 5200 South and 800 East. Police believe the child woke up before other members of his family, climbed up on a counter and retrieved the gun; and accidentally shot himself in the head.The child was taken to Intermountain Medical in Murray by a family member, then flown by helicopter to Primary Children’s Hospital in S
  
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• Park City police shut down Wiz Khalifa concert

  30-01-2020 23:28
  
  Park City police shut down rapper Wiz Khalifa’s concert this weekend after an officer patrolling the event found “multiple code violations” and was injured while trying to address them.The crowded event at Park City Live got rowdy after midnight Saturday, said police Capt. Phil Kirk. Several officers were there to conduct compliance checks at the Main Street venue and warned staff there to fix the issues.Kirk wouldn’t detail what the problems were, but said that nothing w
  
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• BYU announces new football TV deal and bowl tie-ins with ESPN

  30-01-2020 23:24
  
  Provo • Nearly two months after the news was first announced, the T’s have been crossed and the I’s dotted on BYU’s new seven-year broadcasting deal with ESPN.What took so long in between? The details, of course.BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe said Thursday during a media roundtable that most of the delay centered around BYU’s future bowl tie-ins with the sports network — and the desire to sign both the TV rights and bowl deals simultaneously.“We didn&rs
  
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• Bret Stephens: Every time the Palestinians say no, they lose

  30-01-2020 23:00
  
  Regarding President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the instant conventional wisdom is that it’s a geopolitical nonstarter, a gift to Benjamin Netanyahu and an electoral ploy by the president to win Jewish votes in Florida rather than Palestinian hearts in Ramallah.It may be all of those things. But nobody will benefit less from a curt dismissal of the plan than the Palestinians themselves, whose leaders are again letting history pass them by.The recor
  
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• Testimony coming? Abrupt acquittal? Trump trial edges on

  30-01-2020 22:43
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump's impeachment trial lurched into a final day of questions and answers Thursday before a crucial vote on calling witnesses — even as attention focused on a Trump attorney's controversial defense and a Republican senator's effort to expose the whistleblower who started the impeachment probe.The vote on witnesses, expected Friday, could lead to an abrupt end of the trial with the expected acquittal. Or, less likely, it could bring weeks more of argumen
  
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• UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China

  30-01-2020 22:40
  
  Geneva • The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has spread to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a week.The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response.China first informed WHO about cases of the new virus in late December.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz’s Mike Conley out vs. Nuggets due to injury management for knee

  30-01-2020 22:35 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz will be without point guard Mike Conley on Thursday when they take on the Denver Nuggets. Conley is out as part of the injury management of his right knee: Mike Conley is OUT tonight vs. the Nuggets as part of the injury management of...
  
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• Utah health department ‘reorganizes’ communications team following condom controversy

  30-01-2020 22:31
  
  The Utah Department of Health has replaced its top spokesman, but it won’t say whether the change is related to a controversial HIV awareness campaign this month featuring Utah-themed condoms.Charla Haley has been named director of communications for the department; Tom Hudachko, the former director, is now listed under “Communications for Medicaid,” according to a news release issued Wednesday."Due to some staffing changes and reassignments, the Office of Public Information an
  
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• YWCA Utah selects Provo native as its new CEO

  30-01-2020 22:28
  
  YWCA Utah announced Liz Owens, “a longtime social justice advocate,” as the nonprofit’s new chief executive officer Thursday.Owens, from Provo, is currently the executive director of the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault, where’s she been since March. She will begin her new role with the YWCA April 6.“I am honored to become part of the YWCA and look forward to leading this wonderful organization in its next chapter,” Owens said in a news release. “I
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - Quiz: How well do you know this year's Utah Jazz players?

  30-01-2020 22:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  Do you know all of this year's Utah Jazz players? See if you can name each of these players currently on the roster.
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Tune in to hear Tribune reporters discuss impeachment and more

  30-01-2020 22:06
  
  After a final day of questions, a vote to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is expected Friday. A lawsuit alleges violent and illegal actions during a law enforcement raid on the home of a Utah family. And Salt Lake City’s school superintendent announces her retirement, but a board member says she was forced out.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune senior managing editor Matt Canham, Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr and reporter Taylor Stevens join KCP
  
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• Except for devout Latter-day Saints, Utahns want to require churches to disclose their finances, poll shows

  30-01-2020 22:02
  
  It turns out that the very Latter-day Saints who may have the biggest stake in how their tithing contributions are spent have the least interest in forcing churches to disclose those finances.While a new poll for The Salt Lake Tribune shows that 54% of Utahns support the idea of having tax-exempt religious organizations publicly report their finances, barely a third of self-identified “very active” Latter-day Saints favor such a requirement.The results come in the aftermath of a whis
  
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• BYU AD Tom Holmoe lays out Cougars’ new football TV deal and bowl tie-ins with ESPN

  30-01-2020 22:01
  
  Provo • Nearly two months after the news was first announced, the T’s have been crossed and the I’s dotted on BYU’s new seven-year broadcasting deal with ESPN.What took so long in between? The details, of course.BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe said Thursday during a media roundtable that most of the delay centered around BYU’s future bowl tie-ins with the sports network — and the desire to sign both the TV rights and bowl deals simultaneously.“We didn&rs
  
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• Donna M. Christensen: Utah hospitals should put patients over profits

  30-01-2020 22:00
  
  High costs across the health care system are hurting Americans – from increasing insurance premiums to rising out-of-pocket costs. In fact, health care continues to rank highest on a list of perennial concerns over retirement, housing, higher education and child care, regardless of party affiliation.Nowhere is this truer than with hospital care, which is the single largest component of national health care spending. While patients in Utah and across the country are struggling to afford the
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Game thread: Utah Jazz play critical game in the mile high city

  30-01-2020 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz get their first look at the Denver Nuggets, which may determine who gets a higher seed in the 2020 playoffs Last night was a tough pill to sw...
  
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• Debate on replacing state planes has cost millions, UDOT says

  30-01-2020 21:22
  
  It is said that time is money, and talk is cheap. Lawmakers lamented Thursday that they debated so long about whether to replace the two airplanes used to shuttle state officials around Utah that it has added millions to the cost — proving that too much talk can be expensive.As they debated for more than a year about whether it would be wiser to use charter services or lease or buy new planes, the state’s two aging aircraft — ages 21 and 22 years old — kept deteriorating
  
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• Real Salt Lake focuses on preseason as MLS and players association extend deadline for collective bargaining agreement

  30-01-2020 21:20
  
  The clock is officially ticking.The collective bargaining agreement between Major League Soccer and the league’s players association was set to end Friday. Both sides announced Thursday that they extended the current deal an extra week, until Feb. 7, citing positive momentum in their talks.“The two groups have engaged in productive discussions and will continue to negotiate a new CBA,” both sides said in a joint statement.The extension seems par for the course of past CBA negat
  
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• [The Daily Herald] - How well do you know this year's Utah Jazz players?

  30-01-2020 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Do you know all of this year's Utah Jazz players? See if you can name each of these players currently on the roster.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert could be named NBA All-Star reserves. Here’s how to watch the selection show

  30-01-2020 21:14 via sportspyder.com
  
  The 14 players who will be reserves in the Feb. 16 NBA All-Star Game will be announced on Thursday evening. The Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell are both widely seen as players who...
  
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• Drawn-out debate on replacing state planes has cost millions, UDOT says

  30-01-2020 21:11
  
  It is said that time is money, and talk is cheap. Lawmakers lamented Thursday that they debated so long about whether to replace the two airplanes used to shuttle state officials around Utah that it has added millions to the cost — proving that too much talk can be expensive.As they debated for more than a year about whether it would be wiser to use charter services or lease or buy new planes, the state’s two aging aircraft — ages 21 and 22 years old — kept deteriorating
  
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• RSL players focus on preseason as MLS, players association extend collective bargaining agreement deadline by a week

  30-01-2020 21:10
  
  The clock is officially ticking.The collective bargaining agreement between Major League Soccer and the league’s players association was set to end Friday. Both sides announced Thursday that they extended the current deal an extra week, until Feb. 7, citing positive momentum in their talks.“The two groups have engaged in productive discussions and will continue to negotiate a new CBA,” both sides said in a joint statement.The extension seems par for the course of past CBA negat
  
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• Game thread: Utah Jazz play critical game in the mile high city

  30-01-2020 21:02
  
  The Utah Jazz get their first look at the Denver Nuggets, which may determine who gets a higher seed in the 2020 playoffs Last night was a tough pill to swallow for Utah Jazz fans. They dropped their second straight game, once again facing a team without its best player. They allowed DeMar DeRozan – […]
  Game thread: Utah Jazz play critical game in the mile high city - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• Kara Swisher: Christensen’s bracing ideas about management are just what tech needs now

  30-01-2020 21:00
  
  It’s nothing but noise, all the time. We get hammered every second from an incessant sousaphone of tweets and from the righteous rage machine that screams at us in this digitized 24/7/365 communications world that we have built.What you might not know is that we have long had a name for what started this all: “disruptive innovation.” The concept was pioneered by Clay Christensen, a high-profile and well-regarded Harvard professor of management who died of cancer last week at 67
  
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• University of Utah football player arrested for allegedly raping 17-year-old girl

  30-01-2020 20:49
  
  A University of Utah football player has been arrested after police say he kidnapped and raped a 17-year-old girl.Terrell Perriman, a 20-year-old wide receiver for the team, was booked in jail Thursday morning.A probable cause statement alleges that he met the girl on Instagram and then the two connected on Snapchat. The teenager told police, according to court documents, that Perriman pressured her to send him nude photos and that he sent her several sexually graphic videos.The girl met Perrima
  
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• [The Score] - NBA Thursday player props: Sell high on Sexton

  30-01-2020 20:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  Find line reports, best bets, and subscribe to push notifications in the Betting News section.After starting the week off on a high note, Wednesday's player props were a split at 2-2. Thursday features a six-pack of games.Here are the best player...
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Lookin' Live: Episode 17—Joe does the podcast circuit

  30-01-2020 20:27 via sportspyder.com
  
  Joe Ingles joined Zach Lowe on the Lowe Post and JJ Reddick on his podcast during the team's last road trip.
  
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• Uintah County becomes a ‘sanctuary county’ — for guns

  30-01-2020 20:20
  
  The Uintah County Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to become Utah’s first “sanctuary county” for the Second Amendment — meaning that the government won’t recognize or enforce some federal or state regulations that restrict a person’s right to keep and bear firearms.The ordinance spells out a number of provisions the northeastern Utah community would consider as an “unlawful act,” including any tax, levy, fee or stamp imposed on a gun or gun a
  
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• A Salt Lake City physician disaffected by Trump is running against Chris Stewart

  30-01-2020 20:18
  
  Joe Jarvis, a former physician and health-care reformer who founded the Utah Health Policy Project, has declared his candidacy on the United Utah Party ticket for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District seat currently occupied by Rep. Chris Stewart, a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump.Jarvis was a lifelong Republican who twice ran unsuccessfully for the Utah Legislature. But in 2016, he gave up his party membership.“On the day our current president was nominated by the Republica
  
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• Salt Lake City physician who left GOP because of Trump is running against Congressman Chris Stewart

  30-01-2020 20:05
  
  Joe Jarvis, a former physician and health-care reformer who founded the Utah Health Policy Project, has declared his candidacy on the United Utah Party ticket for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District seat currently occupied by Rep. Chris Stewart, a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump.Jarvis was a lifelong Republican who twice ran unsuccessfully for the Utah Legislature. But in 2016, he gave up his party membership.“On the day our current president was nominated by the Republica
  
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• Raymond A. Hult: Biden’s actions justified by concern for corruption. Trump’s weren’t.

  30-01-2020 20:01
  
  Republican defenders of President Trump’s impeachment justify his allegedly legitimate concern in insisting the Ukrainian president announce on CNN a criminal investigation against former Vice President Joe Biden for corruptly orchestrating the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.They claim Shokin had been actively investigating Biden’s son, Hunter, and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he sat on the board of directors, for fraud. The argument follows that, based on a
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Watch Nuggets vs. Jazz: TV channel, live stream info, start time - CBSSports.com

  30-01-2020 19:56 via sportspyder.com
  
  How to watch Nuggets vs. Jazz basketball game
  
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• A Utah lawmaker wants state judges to be elected, not appointed

  30-01-2020 19:44
  
  A Utah senator wants to dramatically change how state judges are appointed to the bench.Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, introduced a proposed amendment to the Utah Constitution this week that would create judicial elections in the Beehive State.Currently, when there is an opening, Gov. Gary Herbert receives a list of five nominees from an independent commission and picks his favorite, and that nominee is then subject to confirmation by the Senate. Voters then decide through retention elections wheth
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Northwest Notes: Mitchell, Nuggets, Grant, Wolves

  30-01-2020 19:38 via sportspyder.com
  
  Team USA fell short of a medal at last year's World Cup, but a handful of players who represented USA …
  
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• David Leonhardt: Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Invisible

  30-01-2020 19:31
  
  President Donald Trump lost Colorado by 5 percentage points in 2016, and he’s on pace to lose it by more this year. His most recent approval rating there was 39%, according to Morning Consult.His unpopularity creates a problem for Cory Gardner, a first-term Republican senator from Colorado, who will be running for reelection this year — which makes Gardner’s behavior during the impeachment trial especially striking. Rather than act as the senator he is, with his own power to sh
  
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• As trial opens, both sides admit a Utah polygamist started a biofuel fraud that feds say topped $1 billion

  30-01-2020 19:14
  
  Years after suspicions about Washakie Renewable Energy were first raised, the only criminal trial resulting from a fraud that, by one count, topped $1 billion had its opening arguments Thursday. Defendant Lev Dermen did not put his name or his companies’ names on any of the fraudulent biofuel applications to the U.S. government, federal prosecutor Leslie Goemaat told the jury in Salt Lake City’s federal court. But when he met Washakie CEO Jacob Kingston, Goemaat said, the scheme acce
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Today's Top Picks: Three best bets for Thursday's NBA action, including one underdog to back - CBSSports.com

  30-01-2020 19:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  Also, watch SportsLine on CBS Sports HQ at 6 p.m. ET on weekdays for all the day's best bets
  
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• UTA Board is exploring expanding TRAX, streetcar

  30-01-2020 19:09
  
  The Utah Transit Authority Board is taking a big step toward planning how, when and where to expand its TRAX and streetcar systems — even though it had promised in recent years to focus most expansion efforts instead on buses after amassing $2 billion in debt for train systems.The board approved a $399,673 contract Wednesday with LTK Engineering for what documents call a comprehensive analysis of the future of UTA’s light rail network “to determine which improvements UTA should
  
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• An early-week storm replaces spring-like weekend in Utah

  30-01-2020 19:04
  
  Utahns can expect unseasonable warm followed by what could be a major winter storm over the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.Temperatures will reach the upper 40s on Friday, and stay at least that warm — and possibly reach into the 50s — on Saturday and Sunday. But a storm system is expected to move in late Sunday, bringing snow and much colder weather early next week. It will be about 25 degrees colder on Monday than on Sunday along the Wasatch Front.The fore
  
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• Poll: Most Utahns want to require churches to disclose finances

  30-01-2020 19:01
  
  It turns out that the very Latter-day Saints who may have the biggest stake in how their tithing contributions are spent have the least interest in forcing churches to disclose those finances.While a new poll for The Salt Lake Tribune shows that 54% of Utahns support the idea of having tax-exempt religious organizations publicly report their finances, barely a third of self-identified “very active” Latter-day Saints favor such a requirement.The results come in the aftermath of a whis
  
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• Dershowitz says his Trump impeachment defense distorted

  30-01-2020 18:37
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz now says his headline-dominating argument against impeaching the president has been distorted.Meanwhile, Trump's Senate trial headed into a final day of questions and answers before a vote on whether or not to call witnesses — a decision that could send the proceedings to weeks of further action or a relatively abrupt acquittal.In a day-after tweet, Dershowitz complained Thursday about the portrayal of his test
  
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• Most Utahns want to require churches to disclose their finances, poll shows, but devout Latter-day Saints disagree

  30-01-2020 18:07
  
  It turns out that the very Latter-day Saints who may have the biggest stake in how their tithing contributions are spent have the least interest in forcing churches to disclose those finances.While a new poll for The Salt Lake Tribune shows that 54% of Utahns support the idea of having tax-exempt religious organizations publicly report their finances, barely a third of self-identified “very active” Latter-day Saints favor such a requirement.The results come in the aftermath of a whis
  
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• Red All Over: Kyle Whittingham is not recruiting like a guy getting ready to walk away soon

  30-01-2020 18:02
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.I am currently sitting in The Salt Lake Tribune’s Sugar House Bureau, aka my living room.I am waist-deep in football recruiting, combing through 247sports, looking at Utah’s 2020 class, the vast majority of which is already signed, sealed and delivered with the regular signing period set to begin on Wednesday.I look at 2020, and I see Kyle Whittingham’s latest class is ranked 28th nationally, fifth in t
  
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• Utah will be spring-like this weekend, but winter returns with a vengeance late Sunday

  30-01-2020 17:52
  
  Utahns can expect unseasonable warm followed by what could be a major winter storm over the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.Temperatures will reach the upper 40s on Friday, and stay at least that warm — and possibly reach into the 50s — on Saturday and Sunday. But a storm system is expected to move in late Sunday, bringing snow and much colder weather early next week. It will be about 25 degrees colder on Monday than on Sunday along the Wasatch Front.The fore
  
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• Undocumented ‘Dreamers’ can now become attorneys in Utah

  30-01-2020 17:31
  
  Utah “Dreamers” — undocumented people brought to the United States as children — will now be able to take the bar exam, and if they pass, become licensed attorneys.The Utah Supreme Court announced Thursday that it has approved a rule that explicitly creates a path for those who have qualified for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to becoming Utah attorneys.In October, two women — one who graduated from the University of Utah’s law schoo
  
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• 3-year-old Utah boy shot; police are investigating

  30-01-2020 16:59
  
  A 3-year-old Utah boy was not seriously wounded when he was shot at his home early Thursday morning.According to Murray police, the shooting happened about 6:30 a.m. at a home near 5200 South and 800 East. The child was taken to Intermountain Medical in Murray by a family member, then flown by helicopter to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City.“We've been told that his wound is not life threatening,” said Murray Police spokesman Kenny Bass. “We don't know where the wou
  
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• Health officials: No coronavirus cases in Utah so far, but multiple patients tested

  30-01-2020 16:54
  
  Multiple patients have been tested for novel coronavirus in Utah, but no cases have been confirmed, health officials said Wednesday.“The [Utah Department Of Health] is providing information to local health departments and healthcare providers across the state on how to safely and effectively evaluate ill people who have been to China," state epidemiologist Angela Dunn said Wednesday in a news statement. "UDOH will continue to monitor the situation, provide guidance and investigation suppor
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: How missions mold entrepreneurs, history-making general authority gets a new assignment

  30-01-2020 16:50
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Sister and Elder EntrepreneurHaving all those doors slammed in their faces on their missions may help open doors for these young Latter-day Saints later in life.So says Guy Raz of the hit NPR podcast “How I Built
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Today’s the day the Utah Jazz (should) get their All-Stars

  30-01-2020 16:40 via sportspyder.com
  
  All-Star reserves announced tonight at 5:00 PM MST
  
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• China counts 170 virus deaths, new countries find infections

  30-01-2020 16:28
  
  Beijing • China on Thursday raised the death toll to 170 and more countries reported infections from a new virus, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China’s worst-hit region returned home to medical tests and even isolation.India and the Philippines reported their first cases, a traveler and a student who had both been in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the first illnesses appeared in December. South Korea confirmed a case that was locally spread, a man who
  
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