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• West Valley City man charged in abduction, rape of 15-year-old

  31-01-2020 23:56
  
  Prosecutors on Friday charged a West Valley City man with multiple felonies in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old girl.Court documents show Creed Cole Lujan, 43, is facing single first-degree felony counts of aggravated kidnapping, rape, forcible sodomy and aggravated robbery, in addition to three second-degree counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and three counts of obstructing justice, also second-degree felonies.The documents, filed in 3rd District Court, say that wh
  
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• [Deseret News] - Earning the opportunity: Even though Jordan Clarkson missed two big shots down the stretch against the Nuggets, his 37 points gave the Jazz a chance at the end

  31-01-2020 23:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Twice in the last 65 seconds of Thursday night’s game against the Denver Nuggets Jordan Clarkson missed shots that would have made it a one-possession affair. To judge Clarkson or...
  
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• Utah faith leaders and public officials look for solutions to end child homelessness

  31-01-2020 23:39
  
  Religious leaders, elected officials, and housing authority directors are trying to raise awareness of child homelessness and pressing legislators to support a bill designed to make Utah housing more affordable.“The reason we focus on child homelessness is because that is a part of the story that people don’t always pay attention to,” said Bill Tibbitts with Crossroads Urban Center. He said the first year of life is the time when a person in the United States is most likely to
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jordan Clarkson has been everything the Utah Jazz hoped for, and then some

  31-01-2020 23:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Portland, Ore. • As much as Thursday night was supposed to be a coronation of Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, given their selections as reserves for the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, it was newbie sixth man Jordan Clarkson who stole the show for the...
  
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• Utah legislative panel chokes on compromise about filling congressional vacancies

  31-01-2020 23:16
  
  After years of squabbling — including a veto last year — legislators and Gov. Gary Herbert thought they reached a compromise on how to fill congressional vacancies, like the one created when then Rep. Jason Chaffetz resigned midterm in 2017.But a committee choked on the deal Friday.The House Government and Operations Committee voted unanimously to “move to the next item on the agenda,” and not pass the compromise, HB17. But it is expected to come back to the issue, perhap
  
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• Jordan Clarkson has been everything the Utah Jazz hoped for, and then some

  31-01-2020 23:13
  
  Portland, Ore. • As much as Thursday night was supposed to be a coronation of Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, given their selections as reserves for the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, it was newbie sixth man Jordan Clarkson who stole the show for the Jazz in what would wind up a six-point loss to the Nuggets.His 13-point first half pushed Utah out front, even as Mitchell struggled to get the ball to meet the net. And after Denver seized control with a 27-1 run, it was Clarkson’s 24-point o
  
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• Timothy Egan: Bernie Sanders can’t win

  31-01-2020 23:00
  
  Watching “Succession,” the HBO show about the most despicable plutocrats to seize the public imagination since the Trumps were forced on us, made me want to tax the ultrarich into a homeless shelter. And it almost made a Bernie Bro of me.That’s the thing about class loathing: It feels good, a moral high with its own endorphins, but is ultimately self-defeating. A Bernie Sanders rally is a hit from the same pipe: Screw those greedy billionaire bastards!Sanders has passion going
  
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• Don Gale: Friendship overrides political differences

  31-01-2020 23:00
  
  A friend strongly supports Mr. Trump. My friend is a good person, a thoughtful person. For a while, I argued with my friend, but our differences began to interfere with our friendship. Friendship is more important than political differences, and so I decided to avoid the subject.Still, it troubled me. I wondered why our conclusions about Mr. Trump are so opposite? I discovered that the primary reason for our differences is that my friend gets his information — his “reality” &md
  
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• Utah House advances Medicaid expansion for soon-to-be released inmates

  31-01-2020 22:44
  
  The Utah House on Friday endorsed a different kind of Medicaid expansion — for inmates who are about to be released from prison or jail.The House passed HB38 on a 43-27 vote, and sent it to the Senate for consideration.It would instruct the state to seek a waiver from the federal government to allow inmates to become eligible for Medicaid coverage 30 days before their release date — aiming especially to allow them to continue mental health treatment they may be receiving in prison.&l
  
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• USU Aggies have turned the corner on their season ahead of facing No. 4 SDSU

  31-01-2020 22:44
  
  The Utah State basketball team really took that difficult three-game losing streak to heart.What was once a troubled and frustrated Aggies team transformed into something more familiar: a defensive-minded bunch that plays hard and can get hot offensively in the blink of an eye.It just took a wake-up call find themselves again.“I think we just forgot for a minute what it takes to win at a high level,” senior guard Sam Merrill said after last Saturday’s win over Colorado State. &
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Midseason Report Card for Emmanuel Mudiay

  31-01-2020 22:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  After signing with the Utah Jazz with a goal to develop his game, Emmanuel Mudiay has proven his word halfway through the regular season. When the Utah Jaz...
  
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• Man tied to the death of a South Salt Lake police officer pleads guilty to manslaughter

  31-01-2020 22:21
  
  He wasn’t the one who drove the car that hit and killed a police officer in November 2018 — Jeffrey Black was in the passenger seat.But on Friday, the 44-year-old admitted that he played in role in South Salt Lake Police Officer David Romrell’s Nov. 24, 2018 death.Black pleaded guilty to manslaughter and burglary, second-degree felonies. He admitted in plea documents that “as a party to the offense," he “recklessly caused” Romrell’s death.As the man twic
  
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• Utah’s major Republican governor candidates all back Trump for reelection

  31-01-2020 22:20
  
  All six major Republican candidates to become Utah’s next governor indicated support for President Donald Trump’s reelection during a debate Friday, even as the embattled president stands trial for impeachment in Washington, D.C.Former Gov. Jon Huntsman and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox both said they've had their disagreements with Trump but would stand behind him as their party's nominee.During the hourlong debate at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit, Huntsman praised Trump for creating an &ld
  
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• Trump curbs immigration for 6 nations; not a full travel ban

  31-01-2020 22:16
  
  Washington • The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration.Officials said immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the United States. But it is not a total travel ban, unlike President Donald Trump's earlier effort
  
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• Navajo Code Talker dies at 96; less than a handful remain

  31-01-2020 22:16
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • One of the few remaining Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to confound the Japanese in World War II has died.Joe Vandever Sr. died of health complications Friday in Haystack, New Mexico, according to his family. He was 96.Tribal leaders called Vandever a "great warrior" and a "compassionate family man" and asked Navajos to keep his spirit and his family in their prayers.Vandever was among hundreds of Navajos who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, transmit
  
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• Mark Pope wants a beastly performance from his BYU basketball team when Saint Mary’s visits Saturday

  31-01-2020 22:08
  
  Provo • It’s time for the BYU Cougars to get angry.At least that’s what their coach says.Now that BYU has completed the first half of West Coast Conference play and is entering February, Mark Pope said the moment has arrived for the Cougs to start bringing out their inner beast. And there’s no better time than right now, with Saint Mary’s arriving in Provo Saturday to try to sweep the season series, having previously beaten the Cougars in overtime in Moraga three wee
  
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• Utah Jazz: Midseason Report Card for Emmanuel Mudiay

  31-01-2020 21:54
  
  After signing with the Utah Jazz with a goal to develop his game, Emmanuel Mudiay has proven his word halfway through the regular season. When the Utah Jazz signed Emmanuel Mudiay to a one year minimum contract last summer, my expectations were low. In 2015 Mudiay was highly touted as a lottery pick, coming straight […]
  Utah Jazz: Midseason Report Card for Emmanuel Mudiay - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• This Utah district will let high schoolers start class at 9 a.m.

  31-01-2020 21:51
  
  This fall, Jordan School District will launch a first-of-its-kind program giving some high school students the choice to sleep in.Bethany Alston, a teacher at Riverton High who helped push for the initiative, joked that it can’t come soon enough. When she’s teaching first period biology, she’ll notice a student using a textbook as a pillow or a kid nodding off while she’s trying to explain osmosis.“They’re just too tired to learn in the morning,” Alston
  
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• Jana Riess: Latter-day Saints — and everyone else — will soon have access to the LDS Church’s Handbook

  31-01-2020 21:50
  
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday that it will be combining both of its Handbooks into a single volume, which will be made digitally available to the public and updated regularly online.Scheduled for release on Feb. 19, the new “General Handbook: Serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” promises to streamline the content of Handbook 1 (for stake, or regional, presidents and bishops) and Handbook 2 (for “all other leaders,&rdqu
  
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• [KSL] - Jordan Clarkson's heroic effort comes up just short in Jazz loss | KSL.com

  31-01-2020 21:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  On Thursday, Utah's Jordan Clarkson put on a performance that would have made his fallen friend Kobe Bryant proud, even in a loss to the Denver Nuggets.
  
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• [NBA] - Roundball Roundup: TNT's Spero Dedes on Rudy, Donovan, and Quin Snyder

  31-01-2020 21:42 via sportspyder.com
  
  2 All-Stars! Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are going to Chicago. Hear reaction from the two. Plus, TNT’s Spero Dedes offers his thoughts on Utah after calling two Jazz games for Turner.A rundown
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 1.31.20

  31-01-2020 21:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Dunks of the Week presented by Wasatch Front Ford Dealers
  
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• Eye on the Y: BYU’s football recruiting class is mostly set as National Signing Day approaches

  31-01-2020 21:16
  
  BYU is about done with National Signing Day less than a week away. The Cougars snagged most of their recruits during the early signing period, and another group has verbally committed as Wednesday approaches.By next week, we’ll know for sure who’s making their way to Provo for sure (maybe not right away, seeing as some athletes are choosing to go on their church mission before starting school).So, let’s recap real quick who has already signed:Kody Epps, 3-star WR from Mater Dei
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump’s team flunks microbe economics

  31-01-2020 21:00
  
  How frightened should you be about the coronavirus? I’m no epidemiologist, but what I’ve seen looks pretty scary. It doesn’t help that the Trump administration, as part of its general war against science and expertise, has seriously reduced America’s capacity to respond if we do face a dangerous pandemic.It also looks quite possible that the virus will inflict a lot of economic damage — even if it doesn’t kill you, it might kill your job. And one special sourc
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Clarkson’s Late Surge Not Enough as Jazz Fall in Battle of All-Stars

  31-01-2020 20:58 via sportspyder.com
  
  Both players were named NBA All-Stars for the first time in their respective careers. This game will most likely have an important effect on each teams future for playoff seeding.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Kobe Bryant perished just as he was hitting his stride as a man

  31-01-2020 20:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — At the end of the day, Kobe Bryant was a basketball player, at least for the vast majority of people, yet somehow his premature death has sent the country — even the world — into...
  
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• Utah House advances different type of Medicaid expansion — for soon-to-be released inmates

  31-01-2020 20:39
  
  The Utah House on Friday endorsed a different kind of Medicaid expansion — for inmates who are about to be released from prison or jail.The House passed HB38 on a 43-27 vote, and sent it to the Senate for consideration.It would instruct the state to seek a waiver from the federal government to allow inmates to become eligible for Medicaid coverage 30 days before their release date — aiming especially to allow them to continue mental health treatment they may be receiving in prison.&l
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Mike Conley returning to starting lineup soon

  31-01-2020 20:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz are gearing up for Mike Conley’s return to the starting lineup, according to a report from Shams Charania of The Athletic. Conley was out of commission earlier this season due to a hamstring strain. He’s back in action now, but he’s...
  
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• David Brooks: Our future depends on our learning to work together

  31-01-2020 20:15
  
  Men and women are primarily motivated by self-interest. No other partial truth has done as much damage as this one.If you base your political and social systems on the idea that the autonomous self-interested individual is the basic unit of society, then you will wind up with an individualistic culture that widens the maneuvering room between people but shreds the relationships and community between people.You will wind up with a capitalism in which superstar performers get concentrated in super
  
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• The USU Aggies have put their struggles behind them and turned their basketball season around

  31-01-2020 20:08
  
  The Utah State basketball team really took that difficult three-game losing streak to heart.What was once a troubled and frustrated Aggies team transformed into something more familiar: a defensive-minded bunch that plays hard and can get hot offensively in the blink of an eye.It just took a wake-up call find themselves again.“I think we just forgot for a minute what it takes to win at a high level,” senior guard Sam Merrill said after last Saturday’s win over Colorado State. &
  
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• Ute gymnasts take on Arizona in Tucson Saturday, their first real road test of the season

  31-01-2020 19:50
  
  The prevailing thought in collegiate gymnastics is road teams start out about .5 behind the home teams because there is a tendency for judges to favor the home teams slightly.Whether or not that is more myth than fact is something gymnastics fans can debate amongst themselves. Regardless, Utah coach Tom Farden hopes his team has negated whatever disadvantage there might be with a vault lineup that continues to get better.Alexia Burch is the latest to start throwing a yurchenko one and a half vau
  
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• Senate to vote on Trump trial witnesses with end in sight

  31-01-2020 19:18
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump appeared headed for all-but-certain impeachment acquittal as senators prepared on Friday to reject efforts to call more witnesses and moved to start bringing a close to only the third impeachment trial in American history.The timing of a final vote on Trump was still uncertain. But the outcome was increasingly clear after a key Republican, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, announced he didn't need to see or hear more testimony. He said the Democrats had
  
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• Delta suspends all flights to China where virus deaths top 200

  31-01-2020 19:17
  
  Beijing • The U.S. advised against all travel to China as the number of cases of a worrying new virus spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday.The virus has infected almost 10,000 people globally in just two months, a troublesome sign of its spread that prompted the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a global emergency.The State Department's level 4 “Do Not Travel" advisory, the highest grade of warning, to
  
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• Mitt Romney, a man alone

  31-01-2020 19:07
  
  Washington — It’s been one of those spectacle weeks on Capitol Hill, the likes of which history might just stop to recognize, even if Trump-era Washington pauses for nothing.There were big crowds, special rules in place, Alan Dershowitz mugging for photographs and Triumph, the canine puppet known for his ambush mockery of celebrities, trying to score an interview with Sen. Mitt Romney, to no avail.You could always recognize Romney, R-Utah, racing around the Capitol. He drew big press
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - NBA 2019-20: Top 5 individual performances from last night (30th January 2020)

  31-01-2020 19:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  We look at yesterday's five most captivating performances from around the association.
  
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• Gwendolyn Taylor Soper: Clayton Christensen was a keystone species

  31-01-2020 19:00
  
  As I think of keystone species — any species who has a disproportionately large impact on its community — I think of Clayton Christensen. He is a keystone species in New England, religion at large and the international business world.Just as important, if not more so, Clay has been a keystone species in the lives of many individuals across the globe. He has been their utterly sincere and Christlike friend.Usually we think of keystone species as they pertain to the natural world. You
  
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• Letter: Interview the witnesses

  31-01-2020 18:28
  
  Aviation experts are busily combing the wreckage of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash site trying to determine the cause. Pilot error, equipment failure, maintenance logs, and weather conditions will be among the many factors they consider.Imagine the public outcry if a witness came forth who saw that final descent, and investigators chose not to interview that individual.Seems as though that would be similar to what is occurring on the Republican side of the impeachment trial.Mike Ptaschinski, H
  
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• [USA Today] - The 10 biggest NBA All-Star snubs of all-time

  31-01-2020 18:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal isn't the first puzzling snub in NBA All-Star Game voting. Dirk Nowitzki, Reggie Miller and Rudy Gobert anyone?
  
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• Salt Lake Tribune readers share their personal challenges

  31-01-2020 18:12
  
  Adopting an older child. Training for a triathlon. Making a midlife career change. Hiking a long-distance trail.Humans have the ability to take on hard tasks that seem insurmountable. Sometimes we rise to the occasion, other times we fall, get back up and emerge better for at least trying.In the spirit of the new year, The Salt Lake Tribune asked readers to share a difficult challenge they willingly undertook. Here are some of those responses, edited for space and clarity.A tough adoptionAdopted
  
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• The principal of West High School fired after driving drunk students home

  31-01-2020 18:10
  
  Ford White says his life unraveled in 90 minutes.The principal had just parked at West High School on Nov. 14 when the first crisis started: His phone buzzed with an alert that a student was experiencing suicidal thoughts. As he walked in the doors to find the girl, he was handed a note that a teacher found threatening a school shooting — his second emergency.White ran down the hallway while reading it, trying to first find the student at risk of self harm. He sat her down with a counselor
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: KUTV’s owners pay ABC 4’s owners $60 million to settle lawsuit

  31-01-2020 18:10
  
  The owners of Channel 2 paid the owners of Channel 4 $60 million and will transfer a TV station to them to settle a lawsuit filed by the former owners of Channel 13. Really.You may recall that in 2017, the Sinclair Broadcast group (which owns KUTV and KJZZ and operates KMYU) announced it would buy Tribune Media (which, at the time, owned KSTU/FOX 13) for $3.9 billion. The deal was considered a sure thing for right-wing, Donald Trump-loving Sinclair, what with Trump in the White House and a Trump
  
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• Gordon Monson: Andy Reid will finally get his Super Bowl win, then maybe send up a silent message to LaVell Edwards

  31-01-2020 18:04
  
  Andy Reid deserves to win a Super Bowl. The longtime coach, probably the best offensive mind in the NFL, who used to call LaVell Edwards on a regular basis to discuss matters of winning and living, who is respected by darn near everyone in and around the league, has had his share of success.But the biggest prize has eluded him.Until Sunday.This time, he’ll get it, as his Kansas City Chiefs will defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Miami. How do I know this? I don’t. Like everybody else
  
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• U.S. advises no travel to China, where virus deaths top 200

  31-01-2020 17:45
  
  Beijing • The U.S. advised against all travel to China as the number of cases of a worrying new virus spiked more than tenfold in a week, including the highest death toll in a 24-hour period reported Friday.The virus has infected almost 10,000 people globally in just two months, a worrying sign of its spread that prompted the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a global emergency.The State Department's travel advisory told Americans in China to consider departing using commerc
  
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• Trump trial end in sight as vote nears on more witnesses

  31-01-2020 17:34
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump seems headed for acquittal in his impeachment trial after Sen. Lamar Alexander’s decision to stick with fellow Republicans and oppose Democratic efforts to call more witnesses and keep the Senate trial going for weeks or even months.A vote on witnesses, expected Friday, could lead to an abrupt end and assured acquittal in only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history. Trump has been pressing for action in time for his State of th
  
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• Utah Rep. Ben McAdams endorses Mike Bloomberg for president

  31-01-2020 17:03
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, endorsed fellow moderate Democrat Mike Bloomberg for president on Friday, saying he is the candidate best able to bring together a divided government.“Mike is someone who will listen, do what’s right, and work across party lines to get things done,” McAdams said in a prepared statement.The endorsement is not a surprise. McAdams hosted Bloomberg for a fundraiser during the former New York City mayor’s visit to Utah earlier this month.“Washin
  
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• [CBS Sports] - 2020 NBA All-Star Game: Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, others react to being selected for first time - CBSSports.com

  31-01-2020 17:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA announced the reserves for their annual All-Star Game on Thursday
  
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• [ESPN] - Fantasy NBA Daily Notes: Glenn Robinson III among players who could benefit from deadline deals

  31-01-2020 16:48 via sportspyder.com
  
  Jim McCormick provides potential waiver-wire targets to consider in anticipation of deadline deals, recaps Thursday's biggest highlights and previews a busy Friday in the NBA.
  
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• Utah man allegedly used mouse droppings to scam hotels into free rooms

  31-01-2020 16:38
  
  A Utah man was arrested after he allegedly committed theft by mouse droppings — sort of.According to Salt Lake City Police, the 37-year-old man “used a scam” to defraud multiple local businesses. According to a probable cause statement, the suspect admitted “introducing mice and hamsters into hotel rooms.” He would then “point out the feces” to hotel staff and “get free rooms based on complaints about the rooms being infested” with rodents.Po
  
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• [Deseret News] - A few reactions to Utah Jazz stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert being named All-Stars

  31-01-2020 16:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert were named All-Stars Thursday night, as the NBA released the reserves for the upcoming exhibition game, which is set to be played Sunday, Feb. 16 at...
  
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• In a single day, two Utah children accidentally shot themselves in the head

  31-01-2020 16:13
  
  Hours after a 3-year-old Murray boy shot himself in the head with a gun he found on a counter in his home, a Brigham City child was hospitalized after police say he accidentally shot himself.The 9-year-old boy was taken to Brigham City Hospital and then to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City after he accidentally shot himself in the head at about 5 p.m. Thursday, Brigham City police told FOX 13.The investigation into the shooting was ongoing as of Thursday night, Brigham City pol
  
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