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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Frances Battled honored at Jazz game

  06-02-2020 23:59 via sportspyder.com
  
  Frances Battle—an educator in Utah for 40 years—was honored at the Jazz game for all the work she's done in the community.
  
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• Tumbleweeds Film Festival features kids films from Europe, Australia and America

  06-02-2020 23:53
  
  The Utah Film Center will screen 10 feature films from Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States for its ninth annual Tumbleweeds Festival — spread over two weekends instead of just one for the first time.The March 6-8 and 13-15 festival at The City Library in Salt Lake City will also feature two shorts programs, six workshops and seven free activities.“This year's slate of films will take audiences on a thought-provoking, imaginative, and emp
  
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• Utah gymnastics freshman Maile O’Keefe has quickly evolved into an all-around talent

  06-02-2020 23:49
  
  Utah’s gymnastics team doesn’t have the usual amount of all-around competitors this year because the Utes have a large squad filled with gymnasts who are talented on a few events but are out of other lineups due to injury recovery or simply haven’t made the cut.Freshman Maile O’Keefe is the lone exception thus far, proving that even though she is inexperienced, she is too valuable to leave out of the lineups most of the time.O’Keefe has competed for the Utes in the
  
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• Former Utah football great Eric Weddle says he’s done after 13-year NFL career

  06-02-2020 23:34
  
  Los Angeles • Six-time Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle says he is done with his 13-year NFL career.Weddle, the former Utah football great, apparently made his long-expected retirement announcement on Twitter on Thursday, although the hard-hitting safety with the famously big beard didn’t use the specific word."I love y'all. We had a great run!" Weddle tweeted at his three NFL teams, adding the hashtag #BEARDOUT.Weddle played nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers and three more for the B
  
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• [Hoops Rumors] - Buyout Rumors: Ellington, Jackson, Jazz

  06-02-2020 23:09 via sportspyder.com
  
  Veterans on the trading block that teams were unable to move by Thursday's deadline could still wind up with other …
  
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• Sen. Rob Portman: Why I voted to acquit President Trump

  06-02-2020 23:00
  
  On Wednesday I joined a majority of my Senate colleagues in opposing the impeachment of President Trump brought by the House of Representatives.For four months, since the release of the memorandum of the call between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, I have consistently said that Mr. Trump’s request for an investigation of Joe Biden and any effort to tie the release of military aid to investigations were improper and shouldn’t have happened. However, I do n
  
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• Jazz stand pat as NBA trade deadline expires; but there are other big moves around the league

  06-02-2020 22:54
  
  The Jazz weren’t exactly armed with tradable pieces.With most of their players either too important, too unimportant, or contractually unable to be traded, the Jazz allowed Thursday’s 1 p.m. MT trade deadline to come and go without making a deal.In some ways, the Jazz made their trade early this season, when they moved Dante Exum and two second round picks for Jordan Clarkson. That move revitalized the bench, and also moved a year of Exum’s salary onto the Cavaliers. It also me
  
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• Eye on the Y: A look at some BYU football recruits’ deeper connections to the Cougs

  06-02-2020 22:48
  
  Eye on the Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.After wrapping up the Signing Day press conference with Kalani Sitake and his assistant coaches on Wednesday, BYU football spokesman Brett Pyne sent me a text I wasn’t expecting. It was photos of four BYU recruits rocking BYU gear when they were little.So, obviously, I thought I’d share a few with y’all.
  Alex Muti is part of BYU football's 2020 recruiting class. (BYU Athletics
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz quiet at Trade Deadline, to get noisy in buyout market?

  06-02-2020 22:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA's Trade Deadline has passed, and the Utah Jazz did not make a move. They may, however, have some buyout plans on their minds. While other teams end...
  
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• A new Utah art exhibit offers a rare look at Japan in the early 20th century

  06-02-2020 22:33
  
  The first traveling exhibition of Japanese art ever displayed at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts opens this weekend, providing a window into Japan’s reaction to Western influences in the early 20th century.In the works of“Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints,” artists “are still trying to sellold Japan, traditional Japan,” said Andreas Marks, curator of the exhibit. “You look at these landscapes, you don’t have any new buildings on there, y
  
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• New report investigates causes, response to Sandy over-fluoridation incident last year

  06-02-2020 22:09
  
  One year after a fluoridation pump malfunctioned and flooded the pipes in some Sandy homes with tainted water, a new report released Thursday outlined the problems that led to the incident and provided recommendations to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.The 181-page investigative review, mandated by the Utah Division of Drinking Water and the Salt Lake County Health Department, provides an hour-by-hour and day-by-day account of the causes of the over-fluoridation and the responses by city o
  
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• Behind the Headlines: Tune in to KCPW to hear Tribune reporters discuss impeachment, polygamy and more

  06-02-2020 22:07
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney breaks with his party by voting to convict President Donald Trump on the abuse of power impeachment charge. A Utah polygamist who pleaded guilty in a massive biodiesel fraud scam testifies against another major player in the scheme. And a state senator files a bill to reduce the penalties for polygamy in Utah. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune Washington bureau chief Thomas Burr, reporter Nate Carlisle and news columnist Robert Gehrke join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to ta
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz stay quiet as NBA trade deadline passes

  06-02-2020 22:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — It was all quiet on the Salt Flat front as Thursday’s NBA trade deadline came and went without the Jazz making any last-minute moves. As other Western Conference-contending teams...
  
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• Brian Wonnacott: It’s not about equality. It’s about fairness.

  06-02-2020 22:00
  
  It’s not about equality. It’s about fairness. Instead of the Equal Rights Amendment, it should be called the Fairness Amendment.I worked with a woman who did more work for less pay. It’s not fair.We hear arguments against the amendment. Don’t listen to them.We hear arguments that the amendment will affect abortion law and family law and result in cultural and moral decay. These are all purely hypothetical arguments. These speculations are scare tactics invented by misogyn
  
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• Utah Jazz quiet at Trade Deadline, to get noisy in buyout market?

  06-02-2020 21:58
  
  The NBA’s Trade Deadline has passed, and the Utah Jazz did not make a move. They may, however, have some buyout plans on their minds. While other teams endured the chaos of the Trade Deadline, the Utah Jazz weren’t nearly as aggressive, ending the day with zero roster moves, which should have been expected all […]
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Jazz stand pat as NBA trade deadline expires; other big moves around the league

  06-02-2020 21:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Jazz weren’t exactly armed with tradable pieces.
  
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• NBA buyout candidates: Who's available after 2020 trade deadline?

  06-02-2020 21:49
  
  Now that the 2020 NBA trade deadline has officially passed, it is worth looking at the most interesting buyout candidates in the league.
  Some of the bigger names that could have been available (e.g. Tristan Thompson, Ian Mahinmi, E’Twaun Moore, Langston Galloway and even Vince Carter) are expected to stay with their teams for the remainder of the season. Similarly, there are various other players (e.g. Isaiah Thomas, Trey Burke and Tim Frazier) who are expected to be waived
  
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• Jazz stand pat as NBA trade deadline expires; other big moves around the league

  06-02-2020 21:33
  
  The Jazz weren’t exactly armed with tradable pieces.With most of their players either too important, too unimportant, or contractually unable to be traded, the Jazz allowed Thursday’s 1 p.m. MT trade deadline to come and go without making a deal. In some ways, the Jazz made their trade early this season, when they moved Dante Exum and two second round picks for Jordan Clarkson. That move revitalized the bench, and also moved a year of Exum’s salary onto the Cavaliers. It also m
  
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• A multimillion-dollar biofuel fraud began with a cowboy hat and a slew of seafood, Jacob Kingston testifies

  06-02-2020 21:09
  
  When Lev Dermen’s private jet landed in Brigham City in January 2012, Jacob Kingston welcomed him with a basket of Armenian fruit and a cowboy hat.After a tour of Washakie Renewable Energy’s plant in northern Utah, Dermen invited Kingston and his wife to dinner — in Seattle. The couple flew with him.Before flying the Kingstons back to Brigham City, Dermen took them to a seafood store.“He asked if we liked crab and lobster,” Kingston testified Thursday, “and th
  
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• Charles M. Blow: They acquitted Trump. Make them pay.

  06-02-2020 21:01
  
  It is done. Donald Trump, impeached by the House of Representatives, has been acquitted by the Senate.He acted with corrupt intent to pressure the government of Ukraine to announce an investigation into the Bidens. He withheld congressionally approved aid to do so. In so doing, he broke the law. Then he did everything he could to obstruct the inquiry looking into his crime.He did these things. This is not in question anymore. Everyone paying attention to the evidence presented and that which con
  
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• New report investigates causes, response to Sandy City over-fluoridation incident last year

  06-02-2020 20:54
  
  One year after a fluoridation pump malfunctioned and flooded the pipes in some Sandy City homes with tainted water, a new report released Thursday outlined the problems that led to the incident and provided recommendations to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.The 181-page investigative review, mandated by the Utah Division of Drinking Water and the Salt Lake County Health Department, provides an hour-by-hour and day-by-day account of the causes of the over-fluoridation incident and the respo
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Jazz are on the brink of falling into a pit of great regret

  06-02-2020 20:54
  
  It’s time for the Jazz to decide what it is they want to be.We’ve seen enough to guess, at least within a couple of 9-rons, what they can be, what they’re talented enough to be.What we don’t know is what it is they hunger to be.What they showed on Wednesday night against the Nuggets, in a loss that was about as bad as they come, blowing a number of leads, turning the ball over four times in the final minutes, treating it as though it were a nest of hornets, flying oh-so c
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Three pros and cons of loss to Nuggets

  06-02-2020 20:48 via sportspyder.com
  Here are three pros and three cons from the Utah Jazz in their latest loss to the depleted Denver Nuggets. The Utah Jazz were oh so close to snapping their...
  
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• Gail Collins: Think the president has learned his lesson? Haha.

  06-02-2020 20:36
  
  Pick the worst moment of the Senate impeachment hearings:A) Susan Collins saying it’s OK to keep Donald Trump in office because he’s “learned from this case.”B) A spokeswoman for Jim Risch claiming the senator was not sleeping but just “listening with his eyes closed.”C) Mitch McConnell denouncing partisanship.Well, the McConnell speech during Wednesday’s finale was pretty stunning. “Our adversaries seek to divide us against each other,” the
  
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• Feds release final management plans for Utah’s Bears Ears, Grand Staircase to outcry from environmentalists

  06-02-2020 20:27
  
  The Bureau of Land Management approved new management plans Thursday for the reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, land-use road maps that largely reflect the preferred alternatives released last summer.One noteworthy difference: The agency reversed its move to return livestock grazing along some 40 miles of the Escalante River, a proposal that drew criticism from the groups that invested heavily in restoring the fragile desert corridor. With backing from Utah offi
  
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• Utah Jazz: Three pros and cons of loss to Nuggets

  06-02-2020 20:22
  
  Here are three pros and three cons from the Utah Jazz in their latest loss to the depleted Denver Nuggets. The Utah Jazz were oh so close to snapping their losing streak. A win would have put them only a game back of the Denver Nuggets for the third seed in the Western Conference standings, […]
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• Staffer at Utah youth hospital accused of forcing sex on 12-year-old former patient

  06-02-2020 20:19
  
  A staff member at a youth behavioral hospital is accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl he met at work.Gabriel Michael Lima was charged Thursday with first-degree felony sodomy on a child and second-degree felony enticing a minor.Charging documents allege that the 25-year-old man befriended the 12-year-old girl while she was staying at Provo Canyon Behavorial Hospital, which is licensed as a 16-bed secure facility in Orem.The girl told police that days after she left the hospital last Se
  
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• AP source: Andre Iguodala getting traded to Heat; ex-Jazzman Jae Crowder also Miami-bound

  06-02-2020 20:19
  
  Miami • Andre Iguodala’s trade to Miami was getting closer to the finish line Thursday after the Heat and Memphis Grizzlies agreed to terms on a six-player trade, according to two people with direct knowledge of the terms.The portion of the trade involving Iguodala was agreed upon Wednesday night, as was the 2015 NBA Finals MVP agreeing to a two-year extension with Miami that will be formalized when the totality of the deal actually gets approved by the league sometime Thursday.Justis
  
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• New report investigates causes, response to last Sandy City over-fluoridation incident last year

  06-02-2020 20:09
  
  One year after a fluoridation pump malfunctioned and flooded the pipes in some Sandy City homes with tainted water, a new report released Thursday outlined the problems that led to the incident and provided recommendations to ensure it wouldn’t happen again.The 181-page investigative review, mandated by the Utah Division of Drinking Water and the Salt Lake County Health Department, provides an hour-by-hour and day-by-day account of the causes of the over-fluoridation incident and the respo
  
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• AP source: Wolves send Andrew Wiggins to Warriors for D’Angelo Russell

  06-02-2020 20:08
  
  Minneapolis • In a swap of high scorers, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired D’Angelo Russell on Thursday from the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, according to a person with knowledge of the trade.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal had yet to be finalized by the NBA with a few hours remaining before the deadline. ESPN first reported the trade, which also includes additional players and draft picks. Russell had been on Minnesot
  
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• Utah football player Terrell Perriman makes initial court appearance on rape, kidnapping charges; first hearing is Feb. 18

  06-02-2020 20:02
  
  Terrell Perriman’s initial court appearance Thursday morning did not produce anything out of the ordinary.The University of Utah redshirt freshman wide receiver, who was arrested on the morning of Jan. 30 and later charged with first-degree felony rape and third-degree felony aggravated kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl, went before a judge for the first time via video from Salt Lake County Jail.A Rule 16 Discovery Request was made and a new court date of Feb. 18 was set. At that time, Perr
  
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• Census Bureau still has 3,000 job openings in Utah

  06-02-2020 20:01
  
  The last census in 2010 came during the Great Recession, and the unemployed flocked to snap up the temporary jobs it created. This year, the count that begins next month arrives during record low unemployment — and more than 3,000 census jobs in Utah remain unfilled.“We’re still hiring both for part-time and full-time positions,” said Susan Sharp, area census office manager for the northern half of Utah. She adds that just in Salt Lake County, “we are at 77% percent
  
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• After acquittal, Trump unleashes fury at impeachment

  06-02-2020 19:23
  
  Washington • Exulting in his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump took a scorched-earth victory lap Thursday, unleashing his fury against those who tried to remove him from office while looking ahead to his reelection campaign.Trump, speaking to a room full of supporters at the White House, declared the impeachment proceedings a "disgrace" and complained anew that it was "a very unfair situation," echoing his broadsides hours earlier that stunned the crowd at an annual prayer break
  
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• A rare look at when old Japan met the new, opening at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

  06-02-2020 19:17
  
  The first traveling exhibition of Japanese art ever displayed at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts opens this weekend, providing a window into Japan’s reaction to Western influences in the early 20th century.In the works of“Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints,” artists “are still trying to sell,old Japan, traditional Japan,” said Andreas Marks, curator of the exhibit. “You look at these landscapes, you don’t have any new buildings on there,
  
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• The Conversation: What’s a church? That can depend on the eye of the beholder or papers filed with the IRS

  06-02-2020 19:06
  
  In 2016, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association told the IRS that it no longer wanted to be treated merely as a tax-exempt religious organization, free from the obligation to pay taxes on its income. Instead, the association — a Charlotte, North Carolina-based group that produces evangelical events, celebrates the legacy of Billy Graham and proselytizes about Jesus Christ — wanted the IRS to recognize it as a church.The IRS complied with its request.Similar religious groups lackin
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: A handier handbook, a mock missionary repellent and a super coach

  06-02-2020 18:51
  
  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.The one and only true handbookMembers soon will be on the same page as their leaders when it comes to church policies and governance.On Feb. 19, the faith is switching to a one-size-fits-all handbook.Gone will be Handbo
  
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• Utah lawmaker files bill to censure Mitt Romney over Trump impeachment vote

  06-02-2020 18:44
  
  A rural Utah lawmaker is asking his colleagues to send a message of support to President Donald Trump by voting to censure Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.Romney joined Senate Democrats Wednesday in voting to convict Trump for abuse of power and remove the president from office. He was the only Republican to break ranks with his party in opposition during the impeachment process.Rep. Phil Lyman, R-Blanding, on Thursday announced that he had filed a resolution to censure Romney, telling reporters that i
  
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• West Valley police are looking for witnesses in the shooting death of a 20-year-old man

  06-02-2020 18:30
  
  West Valley City police are asking for the public's help after a man was found shot to death in a street on Wednesday.According to police, they received reports of gunshots and a man with gunshot wounds near 6400 S. Wakefield Way at about 6 p.m. When they arrived, witnesses were performing CPR but the victim — Manuel Andres Martinez, 20 — died at the scene.WAKEFILED SHOOTING: the victim in yesterday’s fatal shooting is identified as 20yo Manuel Andres Martinez.The investigation
  
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• Major League Soccer, players association tentatively agree to new collective bargaining agreement

  06-02-2020 18:09
  
  Major League Soccer and the league’s players association tentatively agreed Thursday to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement.The agreement, which ends after the 2024 season, brings significant changes to player compensation, free agency, charter travel and several other areas the MLSPA felt were important to the control growth of the league.“This agreement addresses key strategic priorities for the league and our players while also retaining the basic player compensation s
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - Floundering Jazz Search for Answers After Another Loss

  06-02-2020 18:07 via sportspyder.com
  
  Or even a turnover here and there and an offensive board giving the Nuggets an extra possession. And probably any of those things could have changed the outcome of the game.
  
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• Red All Over: The curious case of Both Gach’s knee and why Ute basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak isn’t talking about it

  06-02-2020 18:02
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.Until the NCAA decides it is going to make injury reports in college football and basketball mandatory, the majority of those head coaches are not going to offer transparency.In fairness, voluntarily offering injury updates yields nothing positive in terms of competitive advantage in the cutthroat world of major college athletics, so why do it if you’re a coach?Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak do
  
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• Despite injuries, BYU’s Yoeli Childs relishing his senior season

  06-02-2020 17:42
  
  Provo • Since choosing to withdraw from the NBA Draft and come back to BYU for his final year, Yoeli Childs hasn’t had the senior season he thought he would have. But he’s had the one he needed.And it’s one he has loved, even through all of its ups and downs.Shortly after making the decision to play a fourth year at BYU, a paperwork snafu landed Childs with an NCAA-mandated nine-game penalty at the start of the season. Then, a month after getting back in action, Childs suf
  
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• Salt Lake City appeals inland port lawsuit to Utah Supreme Court

  06-02-2020 17:40
  
  The Salt Lake City Attorney’s Office is formally contesting the ruling last month of a 3rd District judge that the state’s takeover of a large chunk of land in Salt Lake City’s northwest side did not run afoul of the Utah Constitution, as the city had argued.At the heart of the case is the question of who should have control over land use and tax decisions over some 16,000 acres of land slated to become a massive import and export trading hub for international cargo.“This
  
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• Utah ‘safe haven’ expansion could allow newborns be given up 30 days after birth

  06-02-2020 17:39
  
  Seventeen years ago, a pregnant woman checked in to a Utah hospital under a false name.The little that Sam Peterson knows is that she gave birth to him, received the medical care she needed and left him in the hospital’s care — immune from prosecution because of the state’s new safe haven law.Peterson, now a high school senior who loves surfing and aspires to become a mechanical engineer, says he believes the law saved his life."It's a blessing to me. I was placed into my famil
  
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• ‘Rent-a-banks’ involving Utah high-interest lending falling under scrutiny of Congress

  06-02-2020 17:38
  
  Consumer groups say that high-interest lenders — who issue such things as payday or car title loans — are using a novel way to evade state interest rate caps nationally: They partner with banks in Utah, which puts no limit on rates.In what the groups call a “rent-a-bank scheme,” such lenders solicit, structure and collect on loans that charge up to 222% annual interest — but their partner banks in Utah technically issue or hold the loans to evade caps elsewhere.Grou
  
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• Elizabeth Smart says she was sexually assaulted on a plane last year

  06-02-2020 17:14
  
  Elizabeth Smart — who survived being kidnapped and raped when she was just 14 years old — told CBS that a man sexually assaulted her on a plane last year.“I called up my husband and I was saying, 'Do I just have, like, a big badge on my forehead that says, “Easy prey” or “victim,” because I am sick of it,'” Smart told “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King in a segment broadcast on Thursday.“I've always felt safe on an airplane,&
  
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• Utah Shakespeare Festival founder Fred C. Adams dies at 89

  06-02-2020 16:46
  
  The founder of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Fred C. Adams, died early Thursday in Cedar City. He was 89.Adams founded the festival in 1961. It grew from a start-up with a budget of $1,000 and approximately 3,000 paid admissions in 1962 to an organization with an annual attendance today of approximately 100,000 and an annual budget of more than $8 million, that draws about 100,000 theater-goers annually.In 2000, the Utah Shakespeare Festival won a Tony Award for outstanding regional theater.&ld
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - The worst stretch of Jazz basketball in four years

  06-02-2020 16:45 via sportspyder.com
  
  It’s been a while since a Jazz team dropped five in a row
  
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• Winter storms expected to continue into Friday

  06-02-2020 15:52
  
  Heavy snow showers blanketed the Wasatch Front on Thursday morning, creating hazardous driving conditions.“The roads in North Utah County and Davis County are also iced up,” Utah Highway Patrol warned on social media. “We are on the scene of numerous crashes in Salt Lake, Davis and on the Tech Corridor of I-15. Slow down, increase following distance, and watch out for first responders.”Snow and rain were expected to continue into Friday, according to the National Weather
  
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• Utah’s Dented Brick Distillery gives customers a chance to own stock in the company

  06-02-2020 15:21
  
  Utah’s Dented Brick Distillery — which produces rum, gin, vodka and whiskey — is offering consumers a chance to own stock in the 4-year-old spirits company.To be a partial owner, a minimum investment of $1,000 is required, said founder and CEO Marc Christensen. Those who invest more — between $4,500 and $150,000 — qualify for perks such as merchandise, new product tastings and a brick on the wall with their name on it.Details about the stock, including the company&r
  
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