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What should have been a routine police call to remove a disruptive juvenile from a public park resulted in two officers being assaulted and two people arrested on Tuesday. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2H2B4Bn

Rocky Mountain Power is seeking project proposals for renewable energy development based on requests from communities that include Salt Lake City, Park City and Summit County. Solar, wind or geothermal power would be enough to power 34,000 homes. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2xsmhR5

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources posted this video that shows a moose running after a golf cart on Monday at the Park City Golf Club. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2LLoqdx

Adult Probation and Parole agents doing a routine house check on Monday ended up finding a live pipe bomb in a probationer's home. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2siF8cb

Two Utah dancers are getting their chance to show the nation what they’ve got on this season’s World of Dance. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2L7UjMt

Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, and his GOP primary opponent, former state lawmaker Chris Herrod, sparred in their first debate Tuesday over whether Curtis is conservative enough for 3rd Congressional District voters. from KSL / Utah / Local Stories https://ift.tt/2kDrY5s

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Oakland, Calif. • Cleveland and Golden State were stressed and stretched to their limits in the conference finals this time around, leaving little time to recoup and prepare for their latest showdown in the NBA Finals. “Splintered” is how Stephen Curry described what he feared could happen in the second quarter of Game 7 at Houston, with the Warriors pushed to the brink by the Rockets. So, Golden State held a serious team chat and got it together at last. LeBron James willed his Cavaliers back to the big stage with another spectacular performance against Boston. “It was a special moment for us. And I think one that we’ll look back, if we get the job done over these next two weeks, where, again, as an appreciation of all that goes into winning a championship,” Curry said Wednesday, “and doing it by committee and making sure every guy, whether you’re playing well or not, or things are going your way or not, that we all bring something to the fold that have gotten us to four straight...

Sandy • Real Salt Lake veteran Kyle Beckerman didn’t start Wednesday night against the Houston Dynamo. When he came on in the second half as a substitute, he didn’t grab the captain’s armband traditionally wrapped around his arm. In the end, he scored the winning goal in RSL’s 2-1 win at Rio Tinto stadium, a win that moves RSL for the time being into the top six of the Western Conference. “Kyle is our engine,” RSL coach Mike Petke said. “Kyle is our leader. The work that he does — if I showed you guys the printouts of the workload that we track throughout the week, he’s far and above the hardest worker on this team. And I just needed to force a rest for him.” Due to a jam-packed schedule with three MLS matches in eight days, followed by a mid-week U.S. Open Cup match before another league game, RSL rested several regular starters. One of the hardest for Petke to tell he was sitting, however, was Beckerman. “This was the plan all along,” Petke said. “So for him to come on in that ...

The two Democratic candidates hoping to earn a state Senate seat in one of Utah’s most liberal districts squared off Wednesday to each make their case for how they would best represent the people of Salt Lake City. In a primary election debate at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Senate District 2 Democratic candidates Derek Kitchen and Jennifer Plumb covered a variety of issues, including homelessness, Medicaid expansion, education, ballot initiatives and taxes. The discussion between the Democratic candidates came after incumbent Sen. Jim Dabakis, one of the most outspoken and vocal liberal voices in Utah politics, announced in late February he would not seek re-election in November. While there was agreement between the two candidates at most points of the debate, a moment of contention arose on the subject of Operation Rio Grande and how to best address homelessness. Kitchen, a Salt Lake City Council member, praised the multi-agency effort to crack down on crime and drug use...

Oakland, Calif. • LeBron James spent Memorial Day with his kids enjoying some barbecue. Once the grill got turned off, the television went on and he tuned in to study Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. Golden State at Houston. James had no doubt who would win. “Going against the Warriors in the last three years in the finals, I kind of figured or thought that they could get it done,” James said. “Just because of the 18 of a possible 21 finals games that I’ve played against them in the last three years, I figured that they could make it happen. Just their championship DNA.” He was right. And Warriors-Cavs IV now awaits. The NBA Finals are now as much a part of James’ calendar each year as birthdays and holidays. He’s always there, now eight consecutive years and counting, the last four of those with the Warriors standing in the way of James and his Cleveland Cavaliers. Game 1 is Thursday night, and even with James playing at absurd levels the Cavs find themselves as signific...

Las Vegas • Alex Ovechkin, Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals stayed cool in the 100-degree Vegas heat and evened the Stanley Cup Final. Holtby made 37 saves, Ovechkin scored a power-play goal and Lars Eller added a goal and two assists in the Capitals’ 3-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 2 on Wednesday night. The Caps hung on through a scoreless third period for their first Stanley Cup Final victory in franchise history largely because of a bounce-back performance by Holtby, who was battered in Vegas’ 6-4 series-opening win. Holtby capped his energetic performance with a jaw-dropping stick save with 1:59 to play, stretching back to rob Alex Tuch of a possible tying goal. Brooks Orpik ended a personal 220-game drought with the eventual winning goal for the Caps, who rebounded from a ramshackle loss in the opener and handed the expansion Golden Knights only their second home defeat — the first in regulation — in Vegas’ nine postseason games. James Neal and She...

The nonprofit science and technology museum on Salt Lake City’s Library Square faces an uncertain future after years of struggling to pay its debts, with some wondering whether the best option now is closure. The Leonardo owes as much as $3.5 million to Salt Lake City and the museum’s board and staff members, leaving some to argue that past financial choices put in doubt whether it’s capable of climbing out of a deep financial hole. “The problem is that the debt is such a problem for the organization that again you have to burn Rome to build it again,” said Diane Stewart, who until last week was a member of the group’s board. “I think there are other opportunities that might exist for Library Square.” The museum’s management says it has a plan to move forward. That includes consolidating the mashup of short-term debt it’s struggling to pay into a long-term loan it believes it could more easily manage. But banks are leery to assume that kind of risk with an organization that has str...

Phoenix • The deadline for college players to withdraw from the NBA draft has a widespread impact, from the individuals involved to their families to the teams who may select them in June. The decisions made on or just before Wednesday’s deadline also will have a lasting effect on the 2018-19 college basketball season. Teams losing key players will have to find replacements, possibly ending up in rebuilding mode. Teams who get their stars back will be eyeing NCAA Tournament runs. A rundown of how some of the top teams fared at the NBA draft deadline: Winners AUBURN. Not only did coach Bruce Pearl pull together one of the nation’s top recruiting classes despite the program being caught up in an FBI investigation, he will have three of his top underclassmen back. Bryce Brown, Jared Harper and Austin Wiley all opted to withdraw from the draft, possibly putting the Tigers in position to contend for an SEC title. NORTH CAROLINA. Luke Maye, an AP third-team All-American, decided to com...

Boston • The Boston Celtics say forward Gordon Hayward had surgery to remove a plate and screws in his broken left leg and will be ready to start next season. Hayward missed almost the entire season after breaking his leg in the first quarter of the season opener. The Celtics went on to reach Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals before losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The team says his leg and ankle are sound, but the plate and screws that were implanted to help the injury heal were irritating his tendons. He is scheduled to resume basketball activities in six to eight weeks and be ready for training camp. Also Wednesday: the Celtics said center Aron Baynes had successful surgery to repair a nasal fracture he sustained during Game 6 of the Cleveland series. He is expected to be back on the court in two to four weeks. from The Salt Lake Tribune https://ift.tt/2sti3CP

Dry conditions in southwest Utah prompted state officials to implement fire restriction on lands in southwest Utah beginning Friday. The majority of lands impacted are in Washington, Iron, Beaver, Kane and Garfield counties, according to a joint news release from state fire officials, including the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, the Bureau of Land Management, Dixie National Forest, the National Parks Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The restrictions mean people are no longer allowed to ignite, build or maintain a fire outside a fire structure and are prohibited from burning trash. Discharging fireworks and detonating explosives or like devices also are banned during the restricted period, as well as using an internal or external combustion engine without a spark arrested device. Cutting, welding and grinding metal is prohibited in areas with dry vegetation. People also cannot smoke, unless they are in an vehicle, building or developed recreation sites that...

Editor’s note: This story was reported and written by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune. A third former inmate at the Daggett County jail filed suit in federal court Wednesday claiming that he was repeatedly shocked with stun guns and subjected to dog attacks by a guard at the remote facility in the state’s least populated county. Joshua Asay, 27, joined former inmates Dustin Law Porter, 37, and Steven Drollette, 48, in an ACLU civil-rights lawsuit against Daggett County, the Utah Department of Corrections, and former supervisors and guards at the jail. The 80-inmate facility was closed by state officials in February 2017 after an initial investigation showed widespread violations and abuses by jail staff. A fourth inmate, Joshua Reed Olsen, 29, also said he was tortured at the jail by former guard Joshua Cox but has retained separate counsel. Cox, 28, is now on probation after serving a four-month sentence on his guilty plea to ...

Las Vegas • At the time, Nick Bogdanovich thought he was actually giving the Vegas Golden Knights pretty favorable odds. Bogdanovich’s William Hill sportsbook listed the city’s new hockey team as 250-to-1 long shots to win the Stanley Cup in their first year of existence. The true odds before the season, he said, should’ve been closer to 2,500 to 1. “Every expert had them finishing dead last or maybe next to last in the Western Conference,” said Bogdanovich, William Hill’s chief oddsmaker. With the Golden Knights holding a one-game advantage heading into Game 2 Wednesday night, William Hill could be three Vegas wins away from losing close to $2 million. One bettor is in for $1,000 on a 50-1 ticket. Another has $200 at 200-1. And there are many smaller bets that were placed at 250-1. Casinos all along the Strip are facing similar circumstances, and the total liability in Las Vegas has been estimated at $5 million to $7 million, which would likely mark the city’s biggest loss on futu...

Utah wildlife officials are eager to restore bighorn sheep, the West’s most coveted big game species for sport hunting, to native ranges that are not used by domestic sheep. But a proposal to relocate wild sheep into Beaver County’s Mineral Mountains has woolgrowers on high alert with concerns that such projects could displace their operations. The fear isn’t about competition for forage but rather about disease transmission and how a bighorn die-off could be used to push sheep ranchers off their grazing allotments. “There are a lot of unknowns out there, and the [domestic] sheep are getting blamed for [other] die-offs,” said grower Matt Mickel, who has sheep about 10 miles west of the Mineral range. ”I don’t see any advantage to putting [bighorns] there. I don’t see a scenario I would be comfortable with.” The Division of Wildlife Resources has promised to take every precaution to ensure the bighorns, which are famous for roaming far and wide, have no contact with their domestic c...

Las Vegas • Las Vegas police released video Wednesday from traffic surveillance cameras along the Las Vegas Strip showing emergency vehicles arriving as the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history unfolded. A partial review of files made public under court order shows video of police cars streaming down Las Vegas Boulevard and an aircraft view of the Mandalay Bay resort and concert venue where the attack occurred. The video includes footage from Oct. 1 when shots were being fired into the crowd after 10 p.m. Muzzle flashes of gunfire cannot be seen from the camera view about a block from the concert venue. As emergency vehicles clog the street, shadows can be seen of people running across a pedestrian bridge and people on the sidewalk clutching each other as they emerge from darkness and pass the camera. The video is in color but there is no sound. Courts have ordered police to make public officers’ body-camera video, dispatch logs, witness accounts and officer reports. T...

Boise, Idaho • An eastern Idaho fertility doctor accused in a lawsuit of secretly using his own sperm to inseminate a patient nearly four decades ago says he did nothing wrong and doesn’t remember using his own sperm for the procedure. Dr. Gerald Mortimer, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist from Idaho Falls who once served as president of an LDS Church temple and a church mission in the Philippines, filed his response to the lawsuit in Idaho’s U.S. District Court on Wednesday. In it, he contends his patient agreed to let him select the “anonymous donor sperm” as long as he judged it to be appropriate and safe. Kelli Rowlette and her parents Sally Ashby and Howard Fowler filed the lawsuit against Mortimer in March, contending that the doctor committed medical malpractice, breach of contract and fraud when he carried out the artificial insemination procedures on Ashby over several months in 1980. At the time, the couple was told Ashby had a tipped uterus and Fowler had a low sp...

On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune reporter Benjamin Wood chats with Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Thomas Burr and Jacob Olidort, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, about last week’s release of Utahn Josh Holt by the Venezuelan government. A lightly edited transcription of their conversation is included below. Benjamin Wood: Two years ago, Josh Holt traveled to Venezuela to get married. Shortly after, he and his wife were arrested and imprisoned without trial. The Holts arrived home last week, following the work of U.S. government officials to secure their release. Many details remain unknown, but the details we do have — involving prison riots, sham elections, police corruption and a Venezuelan liaison known as “Dracula” — create as many questions as they answer. From The Salt Lake Tribune, this is Trib Talk. I’m Benjamin Wood, joined today by Thomas Burr, the Tribune’s Washington Bureau chief. Tommy, tell us about the Saturday meeting at the Whit...

I echo Connie Gosling’s letter (May 26) regarding the worthwhileness of the game of bridge. It is a challenge to learn, fun to play, and the source of lifetime friendships. The Tribune’s bridge column not only instructs, but often shows that an unlikely hand can be bid and made. The bridge column is one reason I continue my subscription to The Tribune. Continue to include it. Yvonne Dehm, Salt Lake City from The Salt Lake Tribune https://ift.tt/2H6PsZB

The Utah Cold Case Coalition is urging people to voluntarily submit their DNA to a database readily accessible to law enforcement, but the ACLU of Utah is advising caution. Inspired by a pair of high-profile cases solved with DNA submitted to a genealogy site — including the arrest of the Golden State Killer — the Coalition is asking Utahns to submit their DNA to GedMatch.com (go to genesis.GedMatch.com ), which will share the information without requiring law enforcement to get a warrant. (Sites like Ancestry.com, 23andMe, FTDNA and MyHeritage do require warrants.) “ We have a very detailed list of all of the unsolved murders, disappearances and unidentified remains in Utah, and we realized that with a fair number of those, there is potentially DNA available,” said Coalition co-founder Karra Porter, a Salt Lake City attorney. “We just need more people to compare it to.” The group suggests that Utahns upload their genetic profile to the open-source DNA-sharing website, which can be...

This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, May 31, 2018.<br>You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below.<br> Master Class in Dog Whistling <br> Suffer the Children <br> Morning Commute <br> If I Had a Hammer <br> Nyet Collusion! <br> High Church <br> Always In Our Hearts <br> Ruffing the Fourth Estate <br> Mother’s Day <br> Takers <br>Want more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook. from The Salt Lake Tribune https://ift.tt/2ssz5RS