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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell basking in All-Star spotlight, will play vs Team LeBron Sunday Night

  15-02-2020 23:46 via sportspyder.com
  
  What can we expect when Spida and Gobzilla take the floor as NBA All-Stars?
  
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• [NBA] - Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell embracing their All-Star moment

  15-02-2020 23:28 via sportspyder.com
  
  CHICAGO — Fans pressed up against the railings, clamoring for autographs and shrieking with excitement each time they saw a celebrity or player at the NBA All-Star practice on Saturday.  “Oh my God,
  
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• Tribune Editorial: USU has a long road to regain Utahns’ trust

  15-02-2020 23:05
  
  The U.S. Justice Department has now said what hundreds of young Utahns have known for years: Utah State University let students get raped and didn’t do anything.In the five years from 2013 to 2017, there were 240 sexual harassment cases — including rapes and forcible sexual assaults — that were reported to the university, but only a tenth of the time was the report even processed under the correct federal law, let alone thoroughly investigated.“Severe sexual harassment, i
  
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• BLM to fund 11,000 miles of fuel breaks in basin states, including Utah

  15-02-2020 21:07
  
  Portland, Ore. • The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to fund 11,000 miles (17,703 kilometers) of strategic fuel breaks in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada and Utah in an effort to help control wildfires.The fuel breaks are intended to prop up fire mitigation efforts and help protect firefighters, communities and natural resources, The Oregonian reported Saturday.According to the BLM, wildfires are becoming bigger and more frequent across the Great Basin states. Be
  
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• New inland port bill has ‘some big steps forward’ for Salt Lake City, leaders say

  15-02-2020 20:54
  
  Two years after the Utah Legislature passed a bill taking control of some 16,000 acres in Salt Lake City’s northwest area with little input from city leaders, the state is once again tweaking the statute that created the inland port — this time with the support of capital city leaders.HB347, sponsored by House Majority Leader Francis Gibson, an inland port board member, attempts to address the major concerns city officials have had with the project by returning some of their land use
  
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• Trump doesn’t heed Barr’s request to cool tweeting on DOJ

  15-02-2020 19:50
  
  Washington • Unbowed by a public rebuke from his attorney general, President Donald Trump says he has the “legal right” to intervene in criminal cases and sidestep the Justice Department’s historic independence. At the same time, it was revealed federal prosecutors have been ordered to review the criminal case of his former national security adviser.A day after Attorney General William Barr said the president’s tweets were making it “impossible for me to do my
  
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• New virus cases fall; WHO says China bought the world time

  15-02-2020 19:46
  
  Beijing • China reported 143 virus deaths and a dip in new cases Saturday while the head of the World Health Organization praised the country’s efforts to contain the new disease, saying they have “bought the world time” and that other nations must make the most of it.France, meanwhile, reported Europe's first death from the new virus, a Chinese tourist from Hubei province, where the disease emerged in December. The United States was preparing to fly home American passenge
  
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• Utah lawmaker wants to address violence directed at Native women

  15-02-2020 17:35
  
  Provo • Native American women face a murder rate that is more than 10 times the national average, according to federal statistics, and a Utah lawmaker wants to address the violence.Democratic state Rep. Angela Romero said her top priority this year is her proposal to create a task force aimed at studying violence against indigenous women, the Daily Herald in Provo reported.“Native American women are at a higher risk than any other demographic when it comes to sexual violence and domes
  
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• Frank W. Fox: Mitt Romney is an old-time American hero

  15-02-2020 17:27
  
  In order to appreciate Mitt Romney’s courage in voting for his own party chief’s removal, consider the opposite case, where the charges recently made against Donald Trump would instead be made against a Democrat.There would be howls of dismay from Senate Republicans, of course, and these would embody cherished principles of the GOP going all the way back to Lincoln. National honor! Rule of Law! Standing by friends! Opposing enemies! The list would go on and on. No one would say it wa
  
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• Utah basketball won’t get into the NCAA Tournament, but they might get an NIT invite

  15-02-2020 17:25
  
  Eugene, Ore. • The University of Utah men’s basketball team does not have an NCAA Tournament resume.That much is clear right now. The Utes’ NET, an NCAA evaluation tool used to rank teams, is just 78 following Thursday night’s 70-51 loss at Oregon State. Utah has not beaten enough quality competition to put itself on the NCAA Tournament bubble. Within the NET, Utah is just 2-7 vs. Quadrant 1 teams, although they are 5-1 against Quadrant 2s.However, right behind the NCAA To
  
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• License plate complaints receive different state responses, according to records

  15-02-2020 17:24
  
  When the first complaint about the personalized “DEPORTM” Utah license plate was filed in 2016, the state employee who received it thought approving the vanity plate had been a mistake.“Clearly I missed this one when approving the order," the employee wrote to a co-worker at the state Division of Motor Vehicles. "What was I thinking?”But the “DEPORTM” plate stayed in use for more than three years after that, despite at least seven more complaints, according to
  
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• MLS’ schedule changed to allow international play, creating a longer offseason

  15-02-2020 17:11
  
  The Major League Soccer season is nigh. And if it’s felt like an elongated amount of time since you’ve seen your favorite team in action, you’re mostly right.MLS tweaked its schedule before the start of last season in an effort to solve some problems it had with momentum, particularly in the playoffs. The league went to an all-knockout postseason format and moved up the end of the regular season by about a month to avoid the November FIFA break.But the consequence of those chan
  
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• Gordon Monson: How good can the Utah Jazz become?

  15-02-2020 17:07
  
  Fifty-four games into the Jazz’s season, now at the All-Star break, with 28 yet to play, the questions emerge: Who are these guys? How good are they? Are they what they were expected to be?If they are what their record says they are, at 36-18, they are twice as likely to win as they are to lose. That may not be statistically sound reasoning, but, either way, they have shown both a propensity and an ability to stumble and bumble, then learn and fight back, then fumble, then climb back again
  
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• Meet Utah’s latest ‘Bachelor,’ who will do an entire season in two hours live

  15-02-2020 17:05
  
  Of the Utahns who have been memorable for their appearances on “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” it’s generally because of their bad behavior. That’s sort of the way the shows go.Whether it was Desiree Valentin getting drunk, dumb and aggressive; Michelle Money saying she’d had an affair with a married Jazz player; or Monica Spannbauer fighting with other contestants and seeming to flirt with one, Utahns have helped build the drama.Utahn Jef Holm &l
  
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• MLS tweaked its schedule to accommodate international play, but it has made for a longer offseason

  15-02-2020 17:00
  
  The Major League Soccer season is nigh. And if it’s felt like an elongated amount of time since you’ve seen your favorite team in action, you’re mostly right.MLS tweaked its schedule before the start of last season in an effort to solve some problems it had with momentum, particularly in the playoffs. The league went to an all-knockout postseason format and moved up the end of the regular season by about a month to avoid the November FIFA break.But the consequence of those chan
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Gordon Monson: With a third of the season left, how good can the Jazz become? Good enough to contend.

  15-02-2020 16:12 via sportspyder.com
  
  Fifty-four games into the Jazz’s season, now at the All-Star break, with 28 yet to play, the questions emerge: Who are these guys? How good are they? Are they what they were expected to be?
  
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• Gordon Monson: With a third of the season left, how good can the Jazz become? Good enough to contend.

  15-02-2020 16:00
  
  Fifty-four games into the Jazz’s season, now at the All-Star break, with 28 yet to play, the questions emerge: Who are these guys? How good are they? Are they what they were expected to be?If they are what their record says they are, at 36-18, they are twice as likely to win as they are to lose. That may not be statistically sound reasoning, but, either way, they have shown both a propensity and an ability to stumble and bumble, then learn and fight back, then fumble, then climb back again
  
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• Meet Utah’s latest ‘Bachelor’ — a Park City firefighter who will do a season in two hours live at Eccles Theater

  15-02-2020 15:00
  
  Of the Utahns who have been memorable for their appearances on “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” it’s generally because of their bad behavior. That’s sort of the way the shows go.Whether it was Desiree Valentin getting drunk, dumb and aggressive; Michelle Money saying she’d had an affair with a married Jazz player; or Monica Spannbauer fighting with other contestants and seeming to flirt with one, Utahns have helped build the drama.Utahn Jef Holm &l
  
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• License plate complaints received different state reponses, according to records

  15-02-2020 15:00
  
  When the first complaint about the personalized “DEPORTM” Utah license plate was filed in 2016, the state employee who received it thought approving the vanity plate had been a mistake.“Clearly I missed this one when approving the order," the employee wrote to a co-worker at the state Division of Motor Vehicles. "What was I thinking?”But the “DEPORTM” plate stayed in use for more than three years after that, despite at least seven more complaints, according to
  
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• Letter: Where are Utah’s values?

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  Not being a resident of Utah, I have an outsider’s perspective. To me, Utah has always seemed a state founded by people of faith, with deep moral convictions.That’s why I was so surprised to read of Utah legislative efforts to condemn Sen. Mitt Romney for his heartfelt vote in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald J.Trump.Romney could not have made his moral argument for conviction more clear, but it seems many in the Utah Republican Party do not accept it and would condemn him for
  
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• Letter: When ‘intelligence’ is an oxymoron

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart is being considered for the post of intelligence chief by President Trump.Is this not an oxymoron?Louis Borgenicht, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: That’s not how juries work

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  In the past decade I have twice been a juror. Once for an alleged rape and second for counterfeiting. After hours and days of testimony and legal arguments, we jurors voted.Had state Rep. Phil Lyman, who was not in attendance, publicly chastised me for my guilty vote, and then suggested that I should have voted “innocent” based solely on reasoning that the perpetrator was of my same age, gender, race, political party or some other affinity, I would have concluded that he was not only
  
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• Letter: Pyle was unfair to baboons

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  Kudos to George Pyle on his Feb. 9 editorial, “Whether it’s Pooh or porn, stories are not reality.” Well written and timely.However, I strongly disagree with his characterization of “the baboon in the White House,” which is highly offensive to all the stately Old World monkeys of Africa and Arabia.Incidentally, baboons are known to communicate with each other by unique vocalization, a talent unknown to the current occupant of the Oval Office.Red Oelerich, HolladaySu
  
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• Letter: Personal freedom does not include hazardous driving

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  Rep. Carol Spackman-Moss: Thank you for your persistence in sponsoring a bill to ban cellphone use while driving. I can’t wrap my head around Utah’s Legislature not seeing the value of Spackman-Moss’ bill. The notion that such a bill interferes with personal freedom is ludicrous.Laws are a balance of individual liberty and public safety and order. It is disturbing when individuals believe that their personal freedom includes driving distracted, resulting in injury or death of i
  
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• Letter: Not like the others

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  You probably remember Sesame Street’s song “One of these things is not like the others.”Here is a sampling of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients in chronological order for the past half-century. All were involved with the media and politics of their day, selected by both Democratic and Republican presidents: Edward R. Murrow, Lowell Thomas, Walter Cronkite, William F. Buckley, David Brinkley, Paul Harvey, William Safire, Ben Bradley, Tom Brokaw ... Rush Limbaugh.One of th
  
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• Letter: Just stay on standard time all year

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  I applaud the Utah Senate effort to stop changing the clocks back and forth. It really messes with a person’s circadian rhythm.I do not agree with the plan to stay on daylight savings time however. If we stay on daylight saving time it will stay too dark in the morning all winter, which is a danger to school kids in the morning. We should stay on Mountain Standard Time all year.David G. Payne, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Get serious about banning cellphones while driving

  15-02-2020 14:00
  
  I have been rear-ended three times by cellphone-wielding drivers while I was stopped at lights or in traffic. Two of these resulted in $10,000-plus each in damages. One was caused by a pickup traveling an estimated 35-40 mph at impact. Fortunately, I was never hurt.Peer-reviewed scientific studies show that a driver on a hands-free phone is impaired at a 0.08% blood alcohol content equivalent. This is the BAC which our legislature believed to be too dangerous and changed to 0.05%. I agree with t
  
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• Scott Williams: A turning point for Utah’s air quality

  15-02-2020 13:00
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune article listing some of the bipartisan Clean Air Caucus’ “to do” priorities for the 2020 state legislative session illustrates the many ways we could be reducing the smog we can see in the winter, and the equally-harmful ozone we can’t see in the summer.Over the past seven years, this group has been the driving force behind most of the major air quality legislation that has been enacted in Utah. The caucus’ full list of 21 priority bills for 20
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell’s expectations of himself led to an NBA All-Star bid, but he wants more

  15-02-2020 06:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  CHICAGO — At some point, Donovan Mitchell developed a chip on his shoulder. It might have been when he was drafted 13th overall in 2017, a lottery pick, but not considered one of the best in his...
  
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• State colleges: No. 8 Stanford shoots past Utah women 97-64

  15-02-2020 06:17
  
  Lacie Hull scored 24 and Kiana Williams added 19 to lift No. 8 Stanford to a 97-64 win over Utah on Friday night at the Huntsman Center.Fighting to keep pace with UCLA and Oregon — who played later on Friday — at the top of the Pac-12 standings, the Cardinal (22-3, 11-2 Pac-12) ran off quick outlets on rebounds and 12 takeaways into a 25-2 advantage on fast break points.Ashten Prechtel scored 16 points on a variety of post moves as the Cardinal outscored Utah in the paint, 40-16.Keme
  
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• Zeese Papanikolas: Wallace Thurman, from Salt Lake City to the Harlem Renaissance

  15-02-2020 06:00
  
  Salt Lakers might be surprised to learn that their city was the birthplace of a black, bisexual writer who was, in his time, a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance. While Wallace Thurman’s name is largely forgotten today, this young writer from the West was once a force to be reckoned with.Wallace Henry Thurman was born Aug. 16, 1902, in Salt Lake City. His father soon abandoned his family and for Thurman that began a life of constant travels in the wake of his mother’s serie
  
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• Utah man accused of beating a Latino father and son had gone to another mechanic shop two days earlier with a shovel

  15-02-2020 03:37
  
  The car dealer said he heard the man before he saw him.Jorge Crespo had been sitting in his office on a November morning when someone started shouting in the lobby of his business, Tito’s Auto Sales. He remembers a deep voice repeating: “I’m going to kill them. I’m going to kill all the Mexicans.”Crespo thought it might be a joke or at least a misunderstanding. But when he walked out to see what was going on, he found a man screaming slurs at the cash register with
  
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• Paul Krugman: Sanders isn’t a socialist. Saying he is hurts his campaign.

  15-02-2020 03:30
  
  Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils of “socialism.” When Medicare was first proposed, Ronald Reagan called it “socialized medicine,” and he declared that it would destroy our freedom. These days, if you call for something like universal child care, conservatives accuse you of wanting to turn America into the Soviet Union.It’s a smarmy, dishonest political strategy, but it’s hard to de
  
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• China reports major drop in new virus cases; 143 new deaths

  15-02-2020 03:10
  
  Beijing • China reported Saturday a figure of 2,641 new virus cases, a major drop from the higher numbers in recent days since a broader diagnostic method was implemented.The number of new deaths rose slightly to 143, bringing the total fatalities in mainland China to 1,523. The total number of confirmed cases in the country now stands at 66,492, according to a notice from China's National Health Commission.COVID-19, a disease stemming from a new form of coronavirus, has spread to more than
  
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• U.S. long track speed skating coach returns to Oval for world championships

  15-02-2020 02:52
  
  Walking by Ryan Shimabukuro during the long-track speed skating World Cup event last week in Calgary, Canada, veteran skater Joey Mantia offered the longtime U.S. Speedskating coach some advice.“Hey man, relax,” Mantia said.The three-time Olympian wasn’t being chippy. His concern about Shimabukuro, the man he credits for boosting Team USA’s on-ice performance as well as Mantia’s own confidence, was genuine.Almost exactly five months earlier, while driving home from
  
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• Utahns celebrate milestones in women’s voting rights while recognizing the fight continues

  15-02-2020 02:36
  
  As Utahns gathered Friday to celebrate major milestones for women’s voting rights in the state, leaders had a clear message: The fight continues.Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall talked about the 316,000 Utah women who are eligible but not registered to vote. Amy Rich, co-founder of the nonprofit Fair Utah, spoke about the need to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Rep. Jen Dailey-Provost (D-Salt Lake City) pointed out that women only make up a quarter of the state Legislature.“We
  
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• This Utah man has been accused of sexual assault eight times — the latest involves a child

  15-02-2020 01:54
  
  For the eighth time, a Utah man has been accused of sexual assault. The latest case, for which police arrested Samuel Heber Butler on Thursday, involved a young girl.This incident comes just two weeks since the 24-year-old was acquitted of rape in the only case that has actually made it to a courtroom.Butler sat on the witness stand in St. George on Jan. 30 and professed his innocence after a Dixie State University student reported in 2017 that he raped her on their first date. The next day, a j
  
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• Heart of U.S. long track speed skating team beating strong again as coach returns to Oval for world championships

  15-02-2020 01:54
  
  Walking by Ryan Shimabukuro during the long-track speed skating World Cup event last week in Calgary, Canada, veteran skater Joey Mantia offered the longtime U.S. Speedskating coach some advice.“Hey man, relax,” Mantia said.The three-time Olympian wasn’t being chippy. His concern about Shimabukuro, the man he credits for boosting Team USA’s on-ice performance as well as Mantia’s own confidence, was genuine.Almost exactly five months earlier, while driving home from
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell get a chance to give back, make a difference at All-Star Weekend events

  15-02-2020 01:12 via sportspyder.com
  
  Chicago • Donovan Mitchell is always keen to make a fashion statement, though it usually entails some adidas gear featuring his “Spida” logo and a pair of his signature D.O.N. Issue #1 sneakers, as opposed to a hairnet, apron, and plastic gloves.
  
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• No charges filed against 15 Utah officers who fired at armed man following cross-city chase

  15-02-2020 01:12
  
  Salt Lake County prosecutors said 15 officers were legally justified in shooting and killing a man who led them on a chase from downtown Salt Lake City to South Salt Lake in April and had been firing at police, cars and buildings.District Attorney Sim Gill said during a Friday news conference that his office watched multiple surveillance and civilian videos, police body and dash camera footage and talked to witnesses and officers to determine all police who shot did so because they believed it w
  
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• Amy Fotheringham Rich: Curtis and McAdams stand up for equality

  15-02-2020 01:11
  
  U.S. Reps. Ben McAdams and John Curtis are true examples of how bipartisan representation in Washington should work. This week, both voted in favor of removing the deadline on the Equal Rights Amendment. They put party politics aside and stood up for women, men, and families. They stood up for equality.Now, the Utah Legislature should follow their example and ratify the ERA here in Utah. Polls show that 94% of Americans and 71% of Utahns are in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. These high num
  
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• [Deseret News] - Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert spend time giving back to community during All-Star Weekend

  15-02-2020 01:06 via sportspyder.com
  
  CHICAGO — Before the fanfare and spotlight of NBA All-Star 2020 shines on Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell, the two Utah Jazz All-Stars shined the light on others. On Friday, Gobert partnered with...
  
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• Utah Senate votes unanimously to decriminalize polygamy

  15-02-2020 01:01
  
  Sen. Deidre Henderson stood on the Senate floor Friday and asked her colleagues to reconsider a decades-old state law classifying bigamy as a felony and making implied criminals of the state’s polygamous residents.Rather than deter or eliminate polygamy, the Spanish Fork Republican said, the state code’s threat of harsh punishments had driven polygamous communities underground, cut families off from jobs, education and health care, and given rise to a subculture that gives predators
  
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• No ‘Plan B’ for Tokyo Olympics over virus fears

  15-02-2020 00:58
  
  Tokyo • Tokyo Olympic organizers and the International Olympic Committee said Friday there is no “Plan B” for the 2020 Games, which open in just over five months and have been jolted by the outbreak of a virus in neighboring China.The coronavirus has infected almost 64,000 people globally with almost 1,400 deaths in China, but only one in Japan where fear is rising with so much attention focused on the outbreak.“Certainly the advice we’re received externally from the
  
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• Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell get a chance to give back, make a difference at All-Star Weekend events

  15-02-2020 00:41
  
  Chicago • Donovan Mitchell is always keen to make a fashion statement, though it usually entails some adidas gear featuring his “Spida” logo and a pair of his signature D.O.N. Issue #1 sneakers, as opposed to a hairnet, apron, and plastic gloves.Similarly, blocking a few shots is nothing particularly unique for Rudy Gobert — but then, they aren’t typically coming off the fingertips of schoolchildren.Participating in NBA All-Star Weekend made possible some special opp
  
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• Fugitive and police dog killed in shooting

  15-02-2020 00:32
  
  Federal marshals shot and killed a man late Thursday night who was wanted in connection with a North Ogden homicide last week. Herriman police dog Hondo was also killed in Thursday’s encounter in downtown Salt Lake City.According to North Ogden police, the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team were helping them find Brian Francis Filion, who was wanted in connection to the Feb. 8 death of 29-year-old Dalton Wood in North Ogden. The marshals said they encountered Filion ar
  
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• Rich Lowry: Sanders’ attraction and ascent are familiar internationally

  15-02-2020 00:28
  
  The Democratic Party could soon be taken over by a leftist who has never formally been a member.If it's any consolation to Democrats, it's a version of the same wrenching dislocation that has beset the center-left throughout the Western world.One reason Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic nomination is entirely imaginable is that it wouldn’t be a freakish occurrence outside the experience of other advanced democracies, but instead, entirely consistent with the travails of traditional cen
  
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• Lawmaker seeking $10M for a new Utahraptor State Park

  15-02-2020 00:19
  
  The proposed Utahraptor State Park came into sharper focus Friday at the Legislature, where officials unveiled a $10 million plan to turn 6,500 state-owned acres surrounding a famed, but neglected, Grand County dinosaur quarry into a well-managed destination with trails, interpretive sites and a campground at a second entrance to Arches National Park.Rep. Steve Eliason, R-Sandy, this week introduced HB322, which would direct the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation to manage Dalton Wells, just
  
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