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• Salt Lake County District Attorney launches a new unit to help victims of violent crime

  27-02-2020 23:48
  
  If someone is a victim of a violent crime, what does it mean to get justice?Sometimes that closure can come from watching the person who harmed them get convicted. But sometimes it’s not so simple. Sometimes the case never gets filed. Sometimes the trauma continues even after someone is found guilty. What then?Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill believes his office could do a better job of offering that support and services to victims, and on Thursday announced the formation of a n
  
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• Utah’s Republican leaders disapprove of teacher walkout planned for Friday

  27-02-2020 23:42
  
  Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson said he disapproves of the planned Friday walkout by Salt Lake City teachers — who will march to the Capitol to ask for increased education funding — suggesting there are “more productive ways to express concern.”“We encourage the teachers to consider alternatives,” the Republican leader urged in a statement this week, “including meeting with legislative leadership and reviewing actual funding proposals.”He noted, too
  
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• Coronavirus causes LDS Church to postpone pre-General Conference sessions, affects an ever-widening number of Asian missions

  27-02-2020 23:34
  
  April’s General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is still on and missionary work is still taking place in Asia, but the global leadership sessions before the twice-yearly gatherings have been pushed back and proselytizing has been severely curtailed.Concerns about the coronavirus have prompted the Utah-based faith’s governing First Presidency to postpone the leadership meetings — which draws church authorities from around the world — until the
  
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• Utah lawmakers, Better Boundaries explain how they’ve compromised on the anti-gerrymandering law

  27-02-2020 23:04
  
  Utah’s independent redistricting commission will have to adopt their own anti-gerrymandering standards before drawing maps for congressional, legislative and other voting districts, under a compromise unveiled Thursday.Better Boundaries, a group fighting to preserve Proposition 4, and state lawmakers announced the deal during an amicable news conference that belied the recent tensions between the groups. All agreed that the solution they hammered out would resolve lawmakers’ concerns
  
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• Utah Gov. Gary Herbert supports Trump, opposes GOP move to censure Mitt Romney

  27-02-2020 22:55
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert threw support Thursday to President Donald Trump, but also to Sen. Mitt Romney for his conscience-based vote to impeach the president.Herbert said that despite misgivings about Trump’s style, he will vote for him in Utah’s presidential primary on Tuesday.Meanwhile, he is urging the Republican State Central Committee not to pass a resolution that it is scheduled to consider on Saturday to censure Romney for his impeachment vote.“Sometimes we don’t like hi
  
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• Coronavirus may kill a Utah tax cut

  27-02-2020 22:55
  
  The spread of coronavirus has claimed a different sort of victim: a potential tax cut in Utah.Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that a hoped-for tax cut may be dumped to handle health and economic threats from the virus. Also, he said President Donald Trump has downplayed the seriousness of the disease, and Herbert may even cancel upcoming foreign trade trips because of it.“I think everybody would like to have a tax cut,” Herbert said at his monthly news conference on PBS Utah. “
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah, BYU and Utah State need not worry. A proposed NCAA transfer rule is the right thing to do.

  27-02-2020 22:54
  
  BYU football coach Kalani Sitake, in a slightly different context, had it right nearly three years ago, long before the NCAA, spurred by the Big Ten and the ACC and various other administrators, started seriously considering what they are considering now — allowing student-athletes in football and basketball to transfer from one school to another, free of penalty, at least on a one-time basis.Sitake said back before its time: “If people want to transfer, we will release them. The las
  
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• [The Score] - NBA Podcast: What's going wrong with the slumping Jazz?

  27-02-2020 22:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  Welcome to the latest edition of "Pound the Rock," an NBA podcast hosted by Joseph Casciaro and Joe Wolfond.Find the show on iTunes, Google Play, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and Spotify.Topics for this episode include: What's going on in Utah? The Salt...
  
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• New U.S. coronavirus case may be 1st from unknown origin

  27-02-2020 22:48
  
  Sacramento, Calif. • California and federal officials were in the midst of an intense effort Thursday to retrace the movements of a Northern California woman believed to be the first person in the U.S. to contract the highly contagious coronavirus with no known connection to travel abroad or other known causes.The woman lives in Solano County, home to Travis Air Force Base, where dozens of people infected in China or on cruise ships have been treated. But Sonia Angell, director of the Calif
  
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• Eye on the Y: The Cougars’ big win over Gonzaga helped BYU win over a talented JUCO transfer

  27-02-2020 22:41
  
  Eye on the Y is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly newsletter covering BYU athletics. Subscribe here.Beating Gonzaga on Senior Night has proved to be an even bigger accomplishment for the Cougars than what we initially thought. Sure, we all expected the win to move BYU multiple spots up on the AP Poll (and it did), but it also proved to be a great recruiting tool.Looking back at it, how could it not be?After visiting BYU and seeing the Cougars defeat the Zags in person, Gideon George committed
  
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• Coronavirus fears cause LDS Church to postpone pre-General Conference sessions, urge leaders outside the U.S. to stay home

  27-02-2020 22:39
  
  April’s General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is still on, but the global leadership sessions before the twice-yearly gatherings have been pushed back.Concerns about the coronavirus have prompted the Utah-based faith’s governing First Presidency to postpone the leadership meetings — which draws church authorities from around the world — until the fall General Conference in October.The church also is discouraging members who live outside the
  
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• Stock market rout deepens on virus worries; indexes lose 4%

  27-02-2020 22:33
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 1,200 points Thursday, deepening a weeklong global market rout caused by worries that the coronavirus outbreak will wreak havoc on the global economy.Bond prices soared again, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury to another record low. When yields fall it's a sign that investors are feeling less confident about the strength of the economy going forward."People can demand things that feel safe for irrational amounts of time," said Katy Kaminski, c
  
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• [YouTube: Utah Jazz Videos] - Dunks of the Week - 2.27.20

  27-02-2020 22:31 via sportspyder.com
  
  Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
  
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• Utah bill aims to crack down on fringe gambling

  27-02-2020 22:30
  
  Sen. Karen Mayne, D-West Valley City, is drafting a bill to close loopholes in state law that have allowed fringe gambling — any gambling, lottery or gaming device that is given by a business in exchange for money.“It’s a cancer that needs to be out of the state of Utah. If they want this kind of practice, it needs to be elsewhere because it’s bringing down all our communities, and bringing drug use, more violence, all those kinds of things,” Mayne said Thursday at
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah, BYU and USU need not worry. A proposed NCAA transfer rule is the right thing to do.

  27-02-2020 22:09
  
  BYU football coach Kalani Sitake, in a slightly different context, had it right nearly three years ago, long before the NCAA, spurred by the Big Ten and the ACC and various other administrators, started seriously considering what they are considering now — allowing student-athletes in football and basketball to transfer from one school to another, free of penalty, at least on a one-time basis.Sitake said back before its time: “If people want to transfer, we will release them. The las
  
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• Michael A. Kalm: Democrats must overcome the tribalism of their campaigns

  27-02-2020 22:00
  
  I told my wife that I wished the Democratic debates were over. I saw the candidates destroying each other without adding any useful information. But, with Mike Bloomberg’s joining the debates for the first time, we watched the Feb. 19 episode.We watched the Democratic candidates savaging each other and, at the conclusion, my wife asked me how on Earth the party could come together once the actual nominee is picked.I said, easy. Whoever gets the nomination says as his or her first statement
  
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• U.S. Olympic marketing chief Lisa Baird is new NWSL commissioner

  27-02-2020 21:58
  
  The marketing executive who branded the U.S. Olympic squad “Team USA” will now try to turn American women’s soccer players into household names more than once every four years. Lisa Baird, the longtime marketing chief at the U.S. Olympic Committee, was named commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League on Thursday. Baird most recently spent more than a year at New York Public Radio after nine years at the USOC. She will now be charged with running a league that is positio
  
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• Utah’s governor supports Trump, opposes GOP move to censure Mitt Romney

  27-02-2020 21:38
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert threw support Thursday to President Donald Trump, but also to Sen. Mitt Romney for his conscience-based vote to impeach the president.Herbert said that despite misgivings about Trump’s style, he will vote for him in Utah’s presidential primary on Tuesday.Meanwhile, he is urging the Republican State Central Committee not to pass a resolution that it is scheduled to consider on Saturday to censure Romney for his impeachment vote.“Sometimes we don’t like hi
  
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• Utah’s stellar work on the balance beam has the Utes on a potentially history-making path

  27-02-2020 21:33
  
  As one of the most successful gymnastics teams in collegiate gymnastics, Utah has a long history of achievements, awards and records. So it says a lot then, when coach Tom Farden speculates the 2020 beam lineup could be the best the school has ever had.Talk about putting some high expectations on a team, but it’s hard to argue with Farden after the Utes set a school record against UCLA, totaling a 49.775 on the event, breaking the old mark of 49.65 set in 1995.If that effort was a one-off,
  
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• BYU, Fresno State agree to deal for ‘25, ‘27 football matchups

  27-02-2020 21:11
  
  Provo • BYU is set to face an old Mountain West and WAC foe in a few years.On Thursday, BYU and Fresno State announced a two-game football series for the 2025 and 2027 seasons.Fresno State will host the first game in the home-and-home series at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, Calif. On Nov. 8, 2025, with the return game scheduled at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Oct. 9, 2027.The Cougars and Bulldogs have previously played 11 times in football, including five meetings as members of the WAC from 1992-
  
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• Red All Over: You can question whatever you want about the Runnin’ Utes, but not Rylan Jones’ toughness

  27-02-2020 21:00
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.In an effort to be transparent, let me clarify that I am not a doctor, let alone an orthopaedic specialist.With that bit of housekeeping out of the way, I was in my seat Sunday night at the Huntsman Center, watching as Rylan Jones lay on the floor in pain, holding his left shin after drawing a charge on USC’s Daniel Utomi. Jones stayed down, the building fell silent. After about 90 seconds, he got to his feet, but
  
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• NBA free agency: Who should (and should not) opt out this offseason?

  27-02-2020 20:46
  
  In the 2019 offseason, half the league had significant cap space, with most teams having maximum space available. The abundance of cap room convinced 11 of 18 players with player options to opt out and test the market. With more than $600 million available to be spent, no player who opted out of their deals got left behind. 2020 pales in comparison, projecting with just over $200 million in cap space to offer with a whopping 29 players with pending player options who will need to make decisions
  
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• [True Hoop: Salt City Hoops] - This Year’s Junior Jazz

  27-02-2020 20:41 via sportspyder.com
  
  In the midst of a rebuild, the 2014-15 Utah Jazz had a record nine different rookies get playing time. Those rookies played 5,782 combined minutes. This is an anomaly in the NBA.
  
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• Coronavirus causes a different type of casualty in Utah: it may kill a tax cut

  27-02-2020 20:36
  
  The spread of coronavirus has claimed a different sort of victim: a potential tax cut in Utah.Gov. Gary Herbert said Thursday that a hoped-for tax cut may be dumped to handle health and economic threats from the virus. Also, he said President Donald Trump has downplayed the seriousness of the disease, and Herbert may even cancel upcoming foreign trade trips because of it.“I think everybody would like to have a tax cut,” Herbert said at his monthly news conference on PBS Utah. “
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Expect a huge stretch run from Bojan Bogdanovic

  27-02-2020 20:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic is capable of some big time scoring nights every time he steps on the floor. The Jazz will need every ounce of scoring t...
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah, BYU and USU football and basketball need not worry. A new NCAA transfer rule is the right thing to do.

  27-02-2020 20:21
  
  BYU football coach Kalani Sitake, in a slightly different context, had it right nearly three years ago, long before the NCAA, spurred by the Big Ten and the ACC and various other administrators, started seriously considering what they are considering now — allowing student-athletes in football and basketball to transfer from one school to another, free of penalty, at least on a one-time basis.Sitake said back before its time: “If people want to transfer, we will release them. The las
  
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• Geneva Rock wants to expand its gravel mine at Point of the Mountain

  27-02-2020 20:19
  
  Geneva Rock is trying once again to expand its operations at the Point of the Mountain through a proposed zone change that would allow the company to begin mining 27 additional acres of land.This is the second time the company has tried rezone the area, located in Draper and bordering Lehi.The proposal has been met with fierce opposition from residents and air quality activists since 2018 when the company tried to expand its operations by 73 acres. However, it died during its first public hearin
  
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• Ronald Fraser: Utah’s parole merry-go-round costs taxpayers millions

  27-02-2020 20:16
  
  State-run parole and probation programs are designed to keep persons convicted of crimes — including a very large number of non-violent crimes — out of prison. But in Utah, according to a recent Council of State Governments study, “Confined and Costly: How Supervision Violations are Filling Prisons,” “On any given day 3,254 people (or 49% of the 2018 Utah prison population) are behind bars as a result of a probation or parole violation, at an annual cost to the stat
  
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• Navajo company reaches immunity deal with U.S. for coal mines

  27-02-2020 20:07
  
  Casper, Wyo. • A Navajo tribal company has reached an agreement that would allow the U.S. government to enforce environmental laws at two coal mines in Wyoming and one in Montana.Navajo Transitional Energy Company has agreed to a limited waiver of sovereign immunity, the company announced Tuesday.As a tribal entity, NTEC normally would be able to claim sovereign immunity and avoid being taken to court. That would prevent government agencies from suing the company to enforce environmental la
  
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• Utah Jazz: Expect a huge stretch run from Bojan Bogdanovic

  27-02-2020 20:02
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic is capable of some big time scoring nights every time he steps on the floor. The Jazz will need every ounce of scoring they can get from the Croatian sensation. When the Utah Jazz signed Bojan Bogdanovic last summer, I didn’t know too much about him. I knew he could […]
  Utah Jazz: Expect a huge stretch run from Bojan Bogdanovic - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert’s lack of touches a disappointing development

  27-02-2020 19:44 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz aren't getting Rudy Gobert the ball nearly enough coming off the heels of the All-Star break. That's going to have to change. Going into the ...
  
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• In signing former Man United forward Giuseppe Rossi, RSL is aiming for high impact — and taking some risk in the process

  27-02-2020 19:43
  
  Real Salt Lake for years has searched for a forward with dynamic goal-scoring and playmaking. It didn’t work with Alfredo Ortuño. It didn’t work with Yura Movsisyan. Due to injuries, it so far hasn’t worked with Sam Johnson.But it just might work with Guiseppe Rossi, whose resume, as general manager Elliot Fall put it, speaks for itself.Real Salt Lake announced Rossi’s signing Thursday. He’s a player with significant experience in Europe for teams like Manche
  
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• Stocks go on a wild ride as virus threatens economic damage

  27-02-2020 19:27
  
  New York • Stocks took an early nosedive on Wall Street Thursday before recovering much of the ground they lost as investors struggle to anticipate how wide the economic damage from the coronavirus outbreak will be.The losses extended a weeklong rout that has brought the S&P 500 8.8% below the record high it set just a week ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average cut its loss to 300 points by the early afternoon after being down as many as 960 earlier as investors saw some buying opportun
  
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• Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert’s lack of touches a disappointing development

  27-02-2020 19:16
  
  The Utah Jazz aren’t getting Rudy Gobert the ball nearly enough coming off the heels of the All-Star break. That’s going to have to change. Going into the All-Star break, the Utah Jazz had won four straight games, and Rudy Gobert had been playing the best basketball of his career. Now, the Jazz have lost […]
  Utah Jazz: Rudy Gobert’s lack of touches a disappointing development - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More
  
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• [Sports Keeda] - NBA Sixth Man of the Year 2020: February Power Rankings

  27-02-2020 18:57 via sportspyder.com
  
  Here are the fiving leading contenders to be named Sixth Man of the Year
  
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• Watch: Gov. Gary Herbert holds monthly news conference

  27-02-2020 18:55
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert is scheduled to hold his monthly news conference at 10 a.m. at KUED. He is expected to address questions about his involvement in negotiations about rewriting a voter-passed initiative to create an independent redistricting commission, whether he supports several abortion bills and debates about how to use a budget surplus.Watch the news conference live here.
  
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• [Deseret News] - Buddy time for BYU’s Kalani Sitake and Utah’s Kyle Whittingham involves Spida jerseys and a putting contest

  27-02-2020 18:32 via sportspyder.com
  
  Some red, blue and purple on the front row at Wednesday night’s matchup between the Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics wasn’t a political statement.
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Orrin Hatch joins Mitt Romney, Dalin Oaks in winning religion prize; Russell M. Nelson makes Easter pitch; coronavirus slows preaching

  27-02-2020 18:30
  
  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.Hatch wins religious freedom prizeOrrin Hatch will join Dallin H. Oaks and Mitt Romney as Latter-day Saints awarded the Canterbury Medal from Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm.Hatch, who served as a Republica
  
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• Tribal nation condemns ‘desecration’ to build border wall

  27-02-2020 18:21
  
  Lukeville, Ariz. • Cut down a saguaro cactus in Arizona and you can face years in prison. But over the past several weeks, work crews have been destroying dozens of the protected cactuses, which can live for 200 years, to build a new wall on the southwestern border.The remains of chopped-up saguaros are now visible along a swath of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, part of what Native American leaders warn is a range of environmental and archaeological threats posed by the Trump admin
  
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• The Triple Team: Utah Jazz lose again on this homestand, but Quin Snyder says progress made amid lineup change

  27-02-2020 18:12
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 114-103 loss to the Boston Celtics from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Do we believe Quin Snyder should be positive about this loss?As soon as Quin Snyder began his press conference, without receiving a question, he delivered this statement:“While it’s not the result that we want, obviously, but I thought we gave a really, really pure, good effort. I think you can feel it watching the game. We’ve got to make a few more
  
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• Watch live: Gov. Gary Herbert holds monthly news conference

  27-02-2020 17:58
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert is scheduled to hold his monthly news conference at 10 a.m. at KUED. He is expected to address questions about his involvement in negotiations about rewriting a voter-passed initiative to create an independent redistricting commission, whether he supports several abortion bills and debates about how to use a budget surplus.Watch the news conference live here.
  
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• RSL signs former Manchester United forward Giuseppe Rossi

  27-02-2020 17:55
  
  Pepito is here.Real Salt Lake announced Thursday the singing of forward Guiseppe Rossi, a player with significant experience in Europe for teams like Manchester United, Newcastle and Genoa. He’s played in the Premier League, Seria A and La Liga.“For me, MLS has been growing every year and has produced an exciting product,” Rossi said in a statement. “I’m lucky enough to have RSL be my first contact in the league during this process. The club’s respect and kind
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Hatch joins Romney, Oaks in winning religion prize; Nelson makes Easter pitch; coronavirus slows preaching

  27-02-2020 17:54
  
  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.Hatch wins religious freedom prizeOrrin Hatch will join Dallin H. Oaks and Mitt Romney as Latter-day Saints awarded the Canterbury Medal from Becket, a leading religious liberty law firm.Hatch, who served as a Republica
  
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• Utah Shakespeare Festival signs partnership with London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

  27-02-2020 17:50
  
  Some of the English accents at the Utah Shakespeare Festival will be authentically English, thanks to a new partnership between the Cedar City-based organization and London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.The five-year partnership between the festival and RADA, announced Thursday by both groups, officially began at the first of the year and runs through Dec. 31, 2024.Under the deal, the festival commits to hire at least one RADA student or graduate for its acting company each year. Also, R
  
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• Feds say resuming coal sales from public lands has little impact on environment

  27-02-2020 17:45
  
  Billings, Mont. • The Trump administration said Wednesday a resumption of coal sales from public lands that had been blocked under former President Barack Obama will result in a negligible increase in greenhouse gas emissions.Critics accused the administration of producing a flawed analysis of the federal coal program that ignores its broader impacts.A federal judge last year had faulted the administration for failing to consider potential damage to the environment when former U.S. Interior
  
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• Coronavirus latest: Virus forges on as world hunts solutions

  27-02-2020 17:39
  
  One by one, more and more countries are reporting cases of the new coronavirus. Governments and doctors on the front lines are scrambling for solutions and everyday life around the globe is being disrupted in a manner that’s not been seen in recent times.The spread of the virus is having an impact all around the world. Here are some of the latest developments:Hunting for patient zeroFrom California to Italy and beyond, more cases are popping up with no clear origin. These are people who di
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Mike Conley’s reaction to lineup change snafu

  27-02-2020 17:19 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz have been determined to change things around in the midst of a losing skid. The team reportedly initially decided to bench veteran newcomer Mike Conley Jr. in favor of Royce O’Neale, yet the 13-year veteran soon found out his place in...
  
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• Utah will be warm before the arrival of another winter storm

  27-02-2020 17:10
  
  Utahns will get a taste of spring on Thursday, Friday and Saturday — but March will come in like a lion, as winter returns on Saturday night and continues through Sunday and into Monday.According to the National Weather Service, it will be sunny and unseasonably warm on Thursday (forecast high of 47) and Friday (52). It will be a bit warmer on Saturday (53), but skies will be mostly cloudy.And those clouds will bring a storm to the western two-thirds of Utah on Saturday night. There’
  
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• [KSL] - Celtics hand struggling Jazz fourth straight loss | KSL.com

  27-02-2020 16:52 via sportspyder.com
  
  The blues continue for the Utah Jazz in a 114-103 loss to the Boston Celtics. Wednesday felt different — but the result was the same.
  
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Is the sky falling on the Utah Jazz?

  27-02-2020 16:36 via sportspyder.com
  
  One collapse after another, the Jazz might be at rock bottom for this season
  
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