West Valley City • Indian pizza has landed in Utah. A few restaurants have started combining two cuisines that may seem foreign to marry, unless you remember that Italian and Indian dishes are both complemented by bread.

The tikka masala and chicken curry pizzas have so far been novelties at other spots. But they are the stars at Curry Pizza, which opened its first location in rural Bicknell last year and a second shop in a West Valley City shopping development off Interstate 80 and 5600 West in May.

A sign on the door assures customers they can find classic pizzas, made with marinara or pesto and plenty of pepperoni. But after trying the Mango Korma Pizza — made with chicken, large slices of Canadian bacon, green onions, mozzarella and a sweet mango sauce — you’ll be asking, marinara what?

The concept for Curry Pizza started as a joke, says owner Bhinda Singh, whose family runs the successful India Palace in South Jordan and Provo. He bought a pizza place in Wayne County outside Capitol Reef National Park last year after he said he received terrible service and decided he could do better.

He began serving traditional Indian dishes. As he explored how to excel at pies, a customer-turned-friend suggested he combine the two cuisines and promised that if he liked it, everyone would.

The friend approved, and Singh converted another pizza spot in West Valley City.

Curry Pizza is about crafting your own pie, with a giant menu board by the door that lists the 40 or so ingredients from which to choose, including the expected pepperoni, sausage, pineapple and black olives and surprises like chicken tikka, gyro meat, chorizo, paneer, avocado and peanuts. The pizzas are crafted and baked in a 500-degree pizza oven, flames visible, as you watch while standing in line.

Personal-size pizzas, with six to seven slices, are $8.49. The 16-inch pies range from $14 for plain cheese to $21 for the specialty curry pizzas.

The dining area is simple, with booths and tables made of smooth and glossy particle board. The restaurant wasn’t busy on our two visits. The drink menu is limited to soda, sparkling water and sweet and thick lassi drinks.

The house-made base is naan-pizza crust, pulled thin but still thick enough to keep from getting soggy even after a couple of days in the fridge. Some of the sauces will be familiar to Indian food fans, including mango korma, tikka masala and makhani (butter chicken) curry.

But they don’t taste like you’ve slathered your naan bread in Indian curry. Singh says he altered them from traditional dishes, thinning and strengthening them so that the flavor cuts through the cheese. The curry sauce and honey curry —both made with a tomato base and flavored with ginger, garlic and chile — were made for the pizzas. Go ahead and ask for a sample of the sauce; the employees happily oblige.

The employees may have too light of a touch with some of the ingredients — the small chunks of chicken were negligible. But the pizzas are packed with flavorful herbs and vegetables.

The Old World Mediterranean is a standout, made with with spicy sausage and roasted mushrooms, garlic and onions complemented by the honey curry. The first bite is sweet from the roasted onions, and it ends with the sauce’s heat.

The Thai Peanut Chicken isn’t Indian but has a sweet peanut sauce that is addictive — and is a good choice for kids. It’s made with chicken, roasted bell peppers, carrot slivers and peanuts.

If you like heat, ask for the owner’s special — which isn’t on the menu — made with roasted red onions, cauliflower, chicken, mozzarella, fresh basil, cilantro, ginger, garlic and fenugreek on the curry sauce.

For now, the restaurant delivers only $100-plus orders. But it promises to expand soon. And with so many options to try, it can’t be soon enough.

Curry Pizza

★★ (out of ★★★★) The Indian owner has added his home cuisine to a pizza parlor, and the results are delicious. There’s marinara, too, but branch out and try honey curry sauce with your pepperoni. The ingredients and oven are on display and you can determine which of the 40 flavors end up on your pie as it’s being made.

Food • ★★

Mood • ★

Service • ★

Location • 2927 S. 5600 West #D, West Valley City; 801-890-0415

Online • currypizzautah.com

Hours • Mondays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Children’s menu • No

Prices • $-$$

Liquor • No

Reservations • Yes

Takeout • $100 orders for now but expanding to all orders later this month

Wheelchair access • Yes

Outdoor dining • Yes

On-site parking • Yes

Credit cards • Yes

Dear Ann Cannon • I have a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old who play in our backyard constantly. My neighbor is out in her yard gardening all the time, too. Problem is, she swears constantly — maybe because she can’t get all the weeds out or she pricks herself on a rosebush or who knows why. And we are NOT talking about the occasional “damn” or “hell” either. My question is this — what can I do to get her to stop without totally alienating her? I actually do like her a lot.

— Protectress of Tender Ears

Dear Protectress • Because human beings can be very predictable in their habits, I was going to advise you to notice what time your neighbor typically works in her yard and then keep your kids indoors. But when I re-read your question I realized that probably won’t work in this case. You could, of course, talk to her, but I doubt it would help. After all, she doesn’t self-edit now even though she has to be aware that your children are within earshot. So I’m going to pass along what my Uncle Don always said to the their kids whenever my Aunt Mary swore: “Only your mother is allowed to use that variety of the King’s English.”

Feel free to modify Uncle Don’s sentiment to fit your particular situation.

Dear Ann Cannon • I have a child with cognitive delays, and though I applaud the successes of the children of my friends when they crow endlessly about their children’s academic triumphs, I wonder if it ever occurs to them that it might be painful for me and my husband to listen to. I don’t mind listening a time or two, but. … Can you help me come up with any replies that make that point without being too pointed?

— Tired of Bragging Parents

Dear Tired • After reading your letter, I spent a few days thinking about something you could say whenever you find yourself in the situation you describe. But then it occurred to me that it might be more useful to address those individuals (no matter how well-meaning) who sometimes get carried away when it comes to giving progress reports about their own children. So, I offer this instead:

Dear Parents Whose Children Are Doing Exceedingly Well • OK. It’s only natural for you to be proud of them. We’re happy for you and your children, too. We really are! And we want to hear about their successes. But before you go on and on (and on!) about how exceedingly well your children are doing, look around first and size up your audience. Is there someone there who’s dealing with a child facing some tough stuff? Addiction? Disabilities? Physical or mental illnesses? Unemployment? Relationship issues? Or is there someone there who wants a child but isn’t in a position to have one?

If your answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then be sensitive. Do share your happy news, of course, but think about giving us the Cliff Notes version instead of asking us to listen to the entire audiobook.

Best wishes, Ann Cannon

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Just days after Utah was deemed the second-most sexist state and the worst state for women’s equality in national reports, a new study shows wages for Utah women have actually declined in recent years.

That decline stands in contrast to national trends, which show a slight increase in women’s wages — and Utah’s pay gap between men and women already is the worst in the country.

“It does not bode well that we’re beginning to see this occur (in Utah),” said Chandra Childers, researcher at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Childers presented data on women’s employment, education, health and political participation at the Utah Women’s Policy Conference, hosted by the YWCA of Utah on Thursday in Salt Lake City.

The median wage decline — from a little more than $36,000 in 2015 to $35,000 in 2018 — was among the “most concerning” parts of a report that showed Utah underperforming the nation on several crucial measures of wellness — but showing success and rapid improvements in educational attainment, access to health insurance, and reductions in poverty, Childers said.

“We get all the Ds and the Fs — and then we get the voices here in the state that say, ‘Oh that’s about national sources, that’s about national women, it’s not really about Utah women,” said Pam Perlich, director of demographic research for the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah. The findings in the new report, titled “The Well-being of Women in Utah in 2018,” sheds light on conditions that are unique to the state, Perlich said — some of which are very poor and some of which are more promising for women.

Utah women experienced the lowest rate of unintended pregnancy, low rates of violent crime, and high percentages obtaining bachelor’s degrees or higher.

But Utah women also had the fourth-highest suicide rate of any state — and it has risen since 2015. They ranked in the bottom 10 for voter registration and turnout, and in the bottom five for business ownership and employment in managerial or professional occupations. And while labor force participation was above the national average, Utah had the highest percentage of its employed women working part time.

The wage gap between men and women in Utah — 70 cents paid to women for every dollar paid to men — earned it 50th place among the states. With women’s wages decreasing here, parity appears to be far away.

“We’re not making much progress in Utah or outside of Utah,” Childers said. “And most of the progress we had closing the gender wage gap happened in the 80s and 90s.”

Racial disparity worsened the gap. Compared to white men — the largest share of Utah workers — all women received only 62.8 cents to the dollar. White women, the highest paid group of women, received 66.5 percent of what white men were paid; for Hispanic women, the lowest paid group, that dropped to 46.2 percent of white men’s wages.

“I hear people say, ‘Women should just chose better jobs,’ ” Childers said. But men and women are “highly segregated by occupation.”

“I understand the segregation here in Utah is even higher here than it is nationally. And nationally it’s pretty bad,” she said. “Construction, welding — and these are jobs that women can do — jobs that tend to [employ] men predominantly pay more than jobs that tend to [employ] women, even if they require a [similar] skill-level.”

Even when holding the same job title, women are paid less on average than are equally qualified men, largely because male-dominated industries pay more than industries that mostly employ women, Childers said. Men and women receive a lot of implicit messages about what kind of work is appropriate for them, she said. Women may be less likely to envision themselves in the highest-paying industries, and to begin planning and preparing for those careers, “until we get a certain number of women role models in those positions,” Childers said.

Utah’s tech industry is one such area where women may be left behind. As of last year, Utah had the fastest-growing tech industry of any state, and its employers have struggled to fill jobs. But Utah was ranked 51 (among all states and Washington, D.C.) for the share of science and technology jobs held by women, according to a 2016 report by researchers at Utah Valley University.

“Women comprise only 23.5% of all STEM-sector workers in Utah, as compared to 28.8% for women nationwide,” that report stated. “...Gender stereotypes and a scarcity of female STEM role models continue to affect decisions made by girls and women in regards to their education and future career.”

Last week, 94 percent of you knew about a group’s “Hail Mary” attempt to stop legalize medical marijuana. Only 34 percent of you, however, knew who the state’s highest political donor is. How well did you stay up to date on Utah news this week? Take our quiz to find out. A new quiz will post every Friday morning. You can find previous quizzes here.

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A man who set himself on fire in a Kaysville gas station back in April has been charged with aggravated arson and multiple counts of assault against police officers.

On April 5, according to charging documents, 27-year-old Tyler Ray Ivison of South Ogden entered a Chevron gas station convenience store near 200 North and 300 West in Kaysville, purchased a gas can, filled it with gasoline, poured it over himself and threatened to set himself on fire. Police officers intervened, first trying to talk Ivison into surrendering and then attempting to physically restrain him — at which point he “leaned down and ignited the gasoline on the floor with the lighter, lighting him and multiple officers on fire.”

Two of the officers were seriously injured, requiring “long-term recovery”; two others received minor injuries.

Ivison was also seriously injured and flown by helicopter to a local hospital. But, according to charging documents, as the helicopter was landing he “broke free from his restraints and began violently kicking the helicopter’s window and door in an effort to escape,” causing $2,156.45 in damage to the aircraft.

Additionally, when the in-flight nurse tried to restrain him, Ivison “grabbed the worker by the face, tearing at the nurse’s cheek.”

Ivison is charged with one count of aggravated arson, a first-degree felony; four counts of aggravated assault against a peace officer, second-degree felonies; one count of criminal mischief, a third-degree felony; and one count of assault against a health care provider, a class A misdemeanor.

Washington • John McCain, the six-term Arizona senator and the Republican presidential nominee in 2008, has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for his brain cancer, his family said Friday.

In a statement, the family said McCain has surpassed expectations for survival, but "the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict." The family added, "With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment."

The senator, who would be 82 next week, has been away from the Capitol since December.

McCain, a former Navy pilot, was held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than five years. He was elected to Congress in the early 1980s and was elected to the Senate in 1986, replacing Barry Goldwater who retired. McCain gained a reputation as a lawmaker who was willing to stick to his convictions rather than go along with party leaders. It is a streak that draws a mix of respect and ire.

He has been a frequent target of criticism from President Donald Trump, especially for his vote against a Republican replacement for "Obamacare."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Twitter that he was "very sad to hear this morning's update" from McCain's family.

"We are so fortunate to call him our friend and colleague. John, Cindy, and the entire McCain family are in our prayers at this incredibly difficult hour," McConnell said.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey called McCain "an American hero" who always put his country before himself.

Ducey said a "spirt of service and civility" guided McCain's life, standing as a model for Americans regardless of political affiliation.

McCain's wife, Cindy, tweeted: "I love my husband with all of my heart. God bless everyone who has cared for my husband along this journey."

McCain underwent surgery in July 2017 to remove a blood clot in his brain after being diagnosed with an aggressive tumor called a glioblastoma. It's the same type of tumor that killed Sen. Edward M. Kennedy at age 77 in 2009.

McCain rebounded quickly, however, returning to Washington and entering the Senate in late July to a standing ovation from his colleagues. In a dramatic turn, he later cast a deciding vote against the Republican health care bill, earning the wrath of Trump, who frequently cites McCain's vote at campaign events.

McCain’s condition worsened last fall and he has been in Arizona since December.

Video: Richard Nixon was a more qualified president and less corrupt than Donald Trump, according to former Watergate prosecutor Philip Allen Lacovara. Now, he says, Congress once again needs to put country above party. (Adriana Usero,Kate Woodsome,Breanna Muir/The Washington Post)

President Trump’s touchstone mob boss, Al Capone, famously went down for tax evasion when the feds couldn’t nail him on more serious crimes. Has Trump stopped to consider whether he could be headed for the same fate?

Trump and surrogates have argued that his former lawyer's and his campaign chairman's near-simultaneous legal losses don't imperil the president himself. After all, none of the charges that Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort were convicted of this week involved Russian connections to Trump's 2016 campaign.

Quoth the president: "And what's come out of Manafort? No collusion. What's come out of Michael Cohen? No collusion."

As for the Cohen crimes that did directly implicate Trump — the campaign finance violations — the president and his people have argued that these are not actually crimes. After all, they’re so rarely prosecuted!

What about tax crimes, though?

There's plenty of precedent for prosecuting those. And the Cohen filings this week raise serious new questions about whether Trump has criminal tax-fraud exposure.

To be clear, we don't know whether Trump has violated any tax laws. But there's a red flag in prosecutors' filings against Cohen regarding the fate of hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes one would expect to have been paid Uncle Sam.

It's a little technical, so bear with me. The issue involves payments that the Trump Organization made to Cohen as part of an agreement silencing adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels) and how the company accounted for them.

Cohen paid Clifford $130,000. Trump's company ultimately reimbursed him for this payment to the tune of $420,000.

Why so much more than the original hush-money amount?

Because the Trump Organization peculiarly decided not to categorize the payment as a reimbursement for an expense Cohen incurred, the way a client might normally reimburse a lawyer for airfare while traveling on client business. Instead, according to prosecutors' filings, the Trump Organization falsely called the entire payment a "retainer" and accounted for it internally as "legal expenses."

That is, they indicated they were merely compensating Cohen for legal services provided to the company.

But income for legal services, unlike reimbursement for airfare, would require Cohen to pay taxes on the payment, meaning he wouldn’t be made whole by a mere $130,000. So, the Trump Organization “grossed up” the total to cover Cohen’s taxes (on both the $130,000 Clifford payment and a separate $50,000 payment Cohen made for “tech services”). It also added a $60,000 bonus.

"These are not normal business practices," said Jenny L. Johnson Ware, a criminal tax lawyer.

Other tax practitioners I consulted said the same.

Why go through all this rigmarole? Well, maybe to hide something.

Maybe Trump Organization execs were helping hide an excessive campaign contribution, one of the charges Cohen pleaded guilty to. Or maybe, as current Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani has argued, it was merely a payment for a personal legal settlement designed to "save" the "reputation" of Trump's marriage.

Under neither explanation, though, would the $420,000 be a legitimate business expense that Trump or his company could deduct on their tax returns.

And yet: "The reason to go through the shenanigans of making this transaction look like legal expenses, to me, is to make something not deductible look deductible," said Johnson Ware.

Hence that red flag.

I sent a list of questions to the Trump Organization about the $420,000 payment — including whether it was deducted on returns filed by Trump or any of his companies, and how it was categorized on the 1099 form Cohen should have received in January. (This 1099 info would indicate whether Trump or one of his companies planned to deduct it, if they haven't yet filed returns for 2017.) As of press time, I had not received a response.

This is not the only tax issue for which Trump could have some legal exposure.

New York state's Department of Taxation and Finance this week subpoenaed Cohen as part of its investigation into the Trump Foundation and whether Trump illegally used tax-subsidized charitable donations to settle his private companies' legal disputes, pay personal expenses and help his campaign. The state attorney general has already filed a civil suit against Trump, while leaving open the possibility of criminal charges.

There's an easy way for Trump to clear up these concerns: He could release his tax returns.

Or maybe Congress could help a brother out and release his returns for him — which it could do by majority vote in any of three committees.

That would, of course, require a Republican or two to "flip" — which I know could pose a problem. As Trump and Capone could both tell you, the family doesn't care for rats.

Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. She frequently covers economics, public policy, politics and culture, with a special emphasis on data-driven journalism. Before joining The Post, she wrote about economics and theater for the New York Times. Catherine Rampell’s email address is crampell@washpost.com. Follow her on Twitter, @crampell.

As you may have heard, Netflix is having quite a summer of romantic comedies. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos recently boasted that Joey King’s “The Kissing Booth” was “one of the most-watched movies in the country, and maybe in the world.” In June, “Set It Up” became a favorite with viewers, while the streaming giant included other offerings from “Like Father” to “Ibiza.”

As the Netflix rom-com factory keeps churning, it's easy for selections to get lost, though that is certainly not the case with "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," about a teenager whose private love letters to her crushes are inadvertently delivered to their doorsteps. A mere seven days after its release, the film has already whipped up an intense fan base and rave reviews. The unwieldy hashtag #TATBILB results in hundreds upon hundreds of tweets and photos as fans declare their love of the film, and clamor for a sequel.

The chance of a sequel from Netflix is likely — the film is based on Jenny Han’s popular YA trilogy, so source material already exists. But, as happens with any hit, others in Hollywood will take notice as they inevitably try to replicate the success. And there are quite a few lessons to the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the film.

First, as many have already noted, it's an important reminder that your rom-com leads don't have to be all white. Even though you might think that's an obvious one, as it's 2018 and there are many blockbuster movies that feature diverse casts, Han told People magazine that she had to turn down offers from studios that wanted Lara Jean's (Lana Condon) character to be white, and not Asian-American.

"It was a difficult position. You have to say no again and again," Han said, adding that when she did find a production company, "the fact that the lead was Asian-American wasn't seen as a liability. It was something they were excited about."

Another big lesson: Even though satire and snark are popular tonal choices, sometimes viewers crave a movie that's just really nice. Sound boring? Really, it's just refreshing.

This issue has come up multiple times in coverage of the film, as the most common descriptor is "sweet": Vox praised "the unabashed sweetness of this movie, and the way it builds itself around nice people who care about each other and want to do nice things for each other." While promoting the film, Condor noted, "there's not a lot of just good-hearted movies." The Huffington Post called out Lara Jean's most significant crush, Peter Kavinsky, for his "bedrock kindness."

And that's another critical takeaway for producers and writers everywhere: Never, ever underestimate the power of a leading man who is simply kind. Peter Kavinsky has become an internet sensation — the Cut noted that he "has grown women actually running to IMDb to make sure the actor, Noah Centineo, is an appropriate age. (He's 22.)" Netflix's own Twitter bio currently reads, "this is now a Peter Kavinsky stan account."

Sure, Peter is the typically handsome athlete; still, he’s sensitive, thoughtful and emotionally intelligent. At first, it doesn’t seem that way — when he receives one of Lara Jean’s letters, he comes up with their wacky scheme of pretending to date so he can make his ex-girlfriend jealous. But throughout the movie, he reveals himself as a genuinely good person, who has been pretty hurt by his past relationship, yet is mature enough to know that he has to process his feelings. He drives Lara Jean and her little sister to school. He goes across town to the grocery store to find the Korean yogurt drinks she likes. He never pressures Lara Jean, even when her first rule for the fake relationship is “no kissing.”

"Swoon. Sigh. Moon," the Cut added. "It's enough to make viewers wish they were a teenager again. If only all adults could correct everything they've done wrong in their lives, which is, most pressingly, not finding a Peter Kavinsky."

Dramatic? Perhaps. But also, accurate! Other movies only wish that they could form this kind of personal connection with viewers. So hopefully, “All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” will not only help prove that rom-coms can command a devoted audience, but with just a few unique elements, they can stand out from all the rest.

Arizona State's fall from a second-place finish in the Pac-12 South to a last-place ranking in the 2018 media poll might be the fastest drop any football program ever experienced, without playing a game.

Welcome to the Herm Edwards Experiment. ASU athletic director Ray Anderson brought his friend back to the sideline as the Sun Devils' coach after a long tenure as an ESPN studio analyst, turning the program into a subject of considerable curiosity. Will this work?

Many observers have their doubts. Edwards even has made some “hot seat” lists this summer; that's unheard of, for a first-year coach. Asked during the Pac-12 Media Day if he is amused by some of the reactions to his hiring, Edwards claimed to be unaware of them. Yet his responses to other questions confirmed that he knows what people are saying.

To those pointing out he has been away from coaching for 10 years, he said, “Mentally, you’re never out of football. … You’re still learning football, watching football.”

The Sun Devils would have to perform much worse than last year to finish last in the South, having gone 6-3 in conference play (7-6 overall) in a showing that resulted in the firing of coach Todd Graham. ASU has decent personnel. Thanks mostly to N’Keal Harry, Athlon Sports ranks the Sun Devils' receivers/tight ends No. 1 in the conference. ASU’s quarterback (Manny Wilkins) and defensive line are No. 5. Only the secondary (No. 11) has a ranking that fits with the last-place forecast.

ASU’s nonconference schedule includes home games vs. Texas-San Antonio and Michigan State and a trip to San Diego State, where Edwards played in the 1970s. Utah will visit Sun Devil Stadium on Nov. 3, after having lost 30-10 to ASU last October.

The Sun Devils will succeed if:

Wilkins plays consistently as a senior and a defense with only three returning starters comes together quickly.

ASU should be productive offensively with Harry and Kyle Williams catching passes. The 6-foot-4 Harry is one of the conference's best athletes. Running back Eno Benjamin, once a Utah recruiting target, will step into a big role at running back.

The Sun Devils won’t succeed if:

They get blasted by Michigan State at home, lose to San Diego State on the road and then have to visit a Washington team that remembers being upset last season. Starting 1-3 would immediately raise questions about Edwards, fairly or not.

ASU’s defense has to give up fewer big plays, or finishing last in the South becomes a genuine possibility. The Sun Devils ranked No. 111 last season by 6.3 yards per play.

Salt Lake City • Republican Utah Congresswoman Mia Love is hosting a campaign rally with the state’s beloved adopted son, Mitt Romney, as she gears up for the final months of a tight election race.

The rally at Friday night at Thanksgiving Point will also include more than 40 local elected officials.

Romney is running for the U.S. Senate seat left open by retiring Sen. Orrin Hatch. He was a high-profile critic of President Donald Trump in 2016, though the relationship is largely patched up now.

Many Utah voters have been ambivalent about Trump's bombastic style and his comments on things like women and immigrants, and Love's district includes the more political mixed Salt Lake City suburbs.

Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams is challenging her for the seat.

Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested Friday in New York after he was accused of touching a woman's buttocks without permission, law enforcement officials said.

Frieden turned himself in to authorities on Friday in Brooklyn, police said.

According to the New York Police Department, the alleged groping took place on Oct. 20, 2017, and then was reported to authorities in July. Police said the incident took place in a residential part of Brooklyn.

"He was arrested for forcible touching, for sexual abuse and harassment, for touching her buttocks without permission," a New York police spokeswoman said.

He is expected to be arraigned on Friday afternoon. It was not immediately clear whether Frieden had an attorney.

Frieden, who is also a former New York City health commissioner, led the CDC for seven years during the Obama administration, and he served as a high-profile figure speaking to the public during the Ebola epidemic. He led the CDC longer than any director since the 1970s and oversaw it during major disease outbreaks including the Zika epidemic and the 2009 global H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

Last year, Frieden said he was starting a new initiative to tackle cardiovascular disease and epidemics.

Herriman • Craig Waibel called it an eerie suspicion.

Real Salt Lake officials had a hunch about the young, playmaking midfielder they were scouting. Turns out, the evaluation was quite spot-on, and this is what stood out the most: The 22-year-old Manchester City academy product, the son of a European soccer scout, was a youngster who was comfortable being uncomfortable at times.

Trying something new, something different, that never bothered Albert Rusnák. RSL’s homework showed that the midfielder could be a seamless fit, a long-term linchpin in what was an ongoing rebuild of the club. His personality, those close to him said, isn’t bombastic or flashy, not out for attention. Which made him a perfect fit.

“Let’s be honest,” Waibel said reflecting on the process of acquiring Rusnák, “that’s what Salt Lake is.”

But when needed, RSL’s attacking midfielder has swiftly immersed himself into a leadership role essential for the club, Rusnák faces the cameras when things go south as much as when RSL storms past an opponent. He represents the gap between the last remnants of the RSL glory days, of Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando, and the now.

So on a muggy late-summer night in Houston, Rusnák, who found himself on the bench in RSL’s third game in eight days, delivered the sort of message during a halftime TV interview after subbing on that showed why he might be the heir apparent to Beckerman. He might someday be the guy with the armband.

Albert's thoughts at half. pic.twitter.com/1id0J3fW0b

— Real Salt Lake (@RealSaltLake) August 19, 2018

Take a breath, he pleaded with his teammates.

Be less selfish in front of the net, he added.

Have the confidence to punish the opposition that allowed six clear-cut chances on goal in the first 45 minutes.

“To come out with zero goals after the first 45 minutes was unacceptable,” Rusnák said, “so that’s why I was, yeah, not happy.”

In the locker room, RSL coach Mike Petke — himself no stranger to motivational rants — said it was clear he wasn’t needed. They were doing everything right up until that point, except for putting the ball in.

“Didn’t feel like the moment for me to unleash a usual thing of yelling and screaming,” Petke said.

Instead, it was Rusnák. Even looking back on it Petke said, “it fired him up.” That, he said, was awesome. Because RSL and the Dynamo saw the result of what happens when Rusnák can get fired up. His two stoppage-time goals lifted RSL to a 2-1 win, only its second win of the year away from Rio Tinto Stadium. As RSL finds itself buried in the thick of this Western Conference playoff chase, it needed a star to take hold of a match as much as the three points itself.

Have a go, Albert Rusnak! Wow. #HOUvRSL https://t.co/gp0db64Y1Q

— Major League Soccer (@MLS) August 19, 2018

“I want to see him continue to take over a game like he did late in the second half,” Petke said. “He’s a big player. Big players are capable of big moments. … It’s not that I need more out of Albert. It’s that I’d like to see his true talents be more recognized throughout a game.”

So far in 2018, Rusnák has seven goals and six assists. He’s already matched his 2017 goal total and there are eight matches remaining. But in his first year with RSL in MLS, his assist totals showed that he was, when on, one of the top playmakers in the league. He had 14 assists in 2017. Beckerman said part of it is the league adjusting to a new player. He’s not sneaking up on anyone anymore. Rusnák goes as RSL does.

On the ball, he’s the primary threat. But as Beckerman puts it, Rusnák is needed to spur on the group. His position can both shoulder the load and inspire. It helps, too, that he speaks up and doesn’t quell his emotions.

“Good teams don’t have just one — you have a bunch of leaders out there,” Beckerman said. “Albert, he’s young, but he’s a lot more mature than his age would tell you. He has that ability to be your leader. Being your No. 10, those things that we saw on Saturday, that’s what it’s all about.”

Since his arrival last January, he’s been endorsed by the pillars of the club. That’s a major plus.

“He has to be a captain in the future,” Waibel said. “It’s his personality. The worst thing you could do to a player is stunt their personality, or in some way, prevent them from being who they are. Albert’s a leader. He’s a leader on the field by example, but he’s also a vocal leader. He has the ability.”

RSL has its young star on the books for two more years. But at 24, a regular on the Slovakian national team, clubs in Europe will continue to show interest. That’s the reality facing Rusnák and RSL. The organization wants to keep him around for as long as possible. Because ask around and you get the sense that he can be the face of the franchise for a good long while. And the voice of it, too.

In a scathing criticism of FanX’s founders and legal team, a federal judge has ruled that the organizers of the former Salt Lake Comic Con must pay nearly $4 million in attorney fees and costs to San Diego Comic-Con after losing a trademark-infringement case.

In an order filed Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia ordered Dan Farr Productions, the company that stages Salt Lake City’s annual pop-culture convention, and FanX founders Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg to pay $3,962,486.84 to San Diego Comic-Con for attorney fees and expert costs in the four-year-old lawsuit.

Battaglia also declared that FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention must stop using the phrase “formerly known as Salt Lake Comic Con” in advertising and social media, and can no longer use its old website domain, saltlakecomiccon.com, to link to its current one, fanxsaltlake.com. The judge gave FanX 30 days to comply with that ruling, so FanX can still use the phrase and domain through this year’s convention, set for Sept. 6 through 8 at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

In a statement Friday, Farr and Brandenburg vowed to appeal the jury’s verdict and the judge’s ruling on the fees.

“We do not expect a $4 million attorney fee award predicated on a $20,000 jury verdict to survive appellate review,” they wrote. “We have instructed our attorneys to begin working on an appeal to the 9th Circuit [Court of Appeals] — while we prepare for what we expect to be our best event ever, starting September 6.”

A jury last December ruled that Dan Farr Productions violated San Diego Comic-Con’s trademark when it named its event Salt Lake Comic Con. The jury found it wasn’t a “willful infringement” and rewarded a mere $20,000 in damages to the San Diego event.

Attorney fees are rarely awarded in trademark lawsuits, except in “exceptional cases.” Battaglia’s order said this was “exceptional,” a case “that stands out from others based on the unreasonable manner in which it was litigated,” he wrote.

That unreasonable litigation, Battaglia added, came from FanX’s side.

In a 37-page order, Battaglia called out Dan Farr Productions’ legal team for arguments he called “nonsensical,” “hodgepodge” and “legally irrelevant.” He criticized the “wasteful litigation tactic” of repeatedly raising issues on which Battaglia had already ruled.

At one point, Battaglia decries Dan Farr Productions’ “‘head in the sand’ litigation strategies that has resulted in this Court repeatedly re-analyzing the same arguments. … Ultimately, like a broken record, DFP has repetitively restated and rehashed several contentions that they were unable to advance successfully prior to trial.”

The order also says DFP’s lawyers committed “clear misconduct” by playing to the jury’s bias in mentioning San Diego Comic-Con’s size and financial success. Battaglia also admonished DFP’s legal team for violating the court’s “Golden Rule” by improperly asking jurors to put themselves in the place of Farr and Brandenburg.

Battaglia’s order chides Brandenburg for breaking court rules in divulging confidential information on Twitter and his social media accounts. He also said Brandenburg’s efforts to reject San Diego Comic-Con’s original cease-and-desist letter, and taking the argument to the media, were “objectively irrational.”

In other rulings Thursday, Battaglia denied FanX’s motion for a new trial and rejected a request to delay entry of his judgment until after this year’s convention.

It wasn’t all bad news for FanX, though. Battaglia denied San Diego Comic-Con’s motion for a new trial, in which the San Diego event argued the jury’s ruling that FanX’s infringement wasn’t “willful.” The judge also ruled FanX doesn’t have to destroy old merchandise and items with the Salt Lake Comic Con name, as long as they are for the company’s “historical archive” — and not sold or otherwise distributed. And FanX still can use the words “comic convention” in its full name.

FanX even caught a slight break on attorney fees. San Diego Comic-Con sought nearly $5 million in lawyer fees and costs, plus $243,833.06 for expert witnesses. The judge pared that to just over $3.76 million for attorneys and $212,323.56 for the experts.

San Diego Comic-Con’s lawsuit against the Salt Lake City event is seen as a test case. San Diego organizers have asserted their trademark against other cities' conventions that use variations of the “comic con” name.

New York — President Donald Trump’s finance chief, a close confidant who has worked for the family’s real estate business since the early 1970s, was granted immunity in the federal probe of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, media outlets reported Friday.

Depending on the extent of the immunity granted to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, which was not immediately known, it could be a major development in the ongoing investigations surrounding the president. The 71-year-old Weisselberg is likely to have knowledge of every major personal and business deal Trump has been involved in since his career as a real estate mogul began.

The Wall Street Journal and NBC News were the first to report on anonymous sources that Weisselberg got immunity to talk to federal prosecutors in the investigation of hush money Cohen paid to two women who claimed affairs with Trump.

Cohen pleaded guilty to tax and campaign finance violations Tuesday. And while not named in the Cohen case, Weisselberg is believed to be one of two Trump executives mentioned in the suit who reimbursed Cohen and falsely recorded the payments as legal expenses.

Weisselberg's deal comes on the heels of several media reports Thursday that Trump's longtime friend David Pecker, the CEO of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., had also been granted immunity in the Cohen probe, as well as the company's chief content officer, Dylan Howard.

The AP reported Thursday that the tabloid kept a safe containing documents about hush-money payments and damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election.

What's not clear is the extent of Weisselberg's immunity, whether it was in exchange for his cooperation just on Cohen's case, or if it extends to cooperation on other investigations. A spokeswoman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office declined comment.

Calls and emails to the Trump Organization to reach Weisselberg and general counsel Alan Garten were not immediately answered. An assistant said both were out of the office Friday.

Weisselberg, an intensely private, loyal numbers-man for Trump, was mentioned on an audiotape that Cohen's lawyer released in July of Cohen talking with Trump about paying for Playboy model Karen McDougal's silence in the months leading up to the election. Cohen says on the tape that he's already spoken about the payment with Weisselberg on "how to set the whole thing up."

In Cohen's court appearance in Manhattan to enter his guilty plea Tuesday, Cohen admitted to making payments of $150,000 to McDougal and $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels "at the direction" of Trump for the "principal purpose of influencing the election."

The Trump Organization eventually reimbursed Cohen for that payment, setting up a sham invoices for legal expenses. The court filings, prosecutor say two unnamed Trump Organization employees — "executive 1" and "executive 2" — helped in making the payments.

"Please pay from the Trust," executive 1 is quoted directing to another unnamed employee. "Post to legal expenses."

The “Trust” refers to the entity that Trump set up after the election to hold his assets. He put the trust in charge of his two sons and Weisselberg.

On the west side on the island of Maui, where Kapalua Bay bends like a horseshoe and waves crash on the welcoming sand in Kaanapali, a man defined by unrelenting purpose tries his best to unwind. That place, surrounded by family, is where Kyle Whittingham comes as close as he can to tranquility. Other than a raucous Rice-Eccles Stadium, a beach in Hawaii is the coach’s favorite place on earth.

“Cleanses the soul,” he says.

Each July, in the last weeks before the University of Utah football coach returns to campus for the start of preseason camp, Kyle and his wife Jamie take their kids and grandkids to Maui. They have gone there for years now. It’s tradition. At first, each trip featured the usual tourist-traps. Now, they go and relax. Maui is fit for perspective. For family. For golf. It is for snorkeling around sea turtles, for hearing the Pacific Ocean roar, for watching the grandchildren play in the sand or outrun the water moving further up on shore.

It’s also a training exercise for the suddenly not-so-distant future. This is all a precursor for the day when Whittingham doesn’t have to be concerned about an opposing quarterback or the health of his offensive line. This annual retreat is practice. He is approaching 60, and the idea of retirement is no longer an abstract thought.

“I’m getting to the point where it’s starting to creep in,” he said. “It’s not too far away.”

Unfinished business

I have seen Kyle Whittingham the Coach, the leader of one of the most stable Division I programs in the nation, on the practice fields during fall camp. He is strict, stern, in control of everything.

I have also seen the pictures and heard the stories of Kyle Whittingham the Husband and Father and Grandfather, cutting loose in paradise, teeing off, riding a ski lift up a mountain.

And I wanted to square the two versions of the man.

When I arrived for my interview, it struck me quickly that I would be talking to the Coach. Somehow, being less than 10 minutes early felt like being late to chat with the 58-year-old who rarely takes time for 1-on-1 interviews — let alone discussions about life away from football.

It is just before 5 p.m. on a Tuesday and inside Utah’s state-of-the-art complex the hallway is dark, but every office is filled with coaches, eyes fixed on their laptops. His office is at the end of the hall. In perfect line of sight is the stadium, Whittingham’s other office, where over the past 13 seasons as head coach, he has become a University of Utah legend.

As he prepares for his 14th season, football consumes him. It always has.

“Just being in the competitive arena is exciting,” he says. “It’s an addictive feeling. That’s one of the reasons I know we have unfinished business here.”

If you are looking for a theme for his 25th season as a coach at Utah, there it is: Unfinished business. He is the longest-tenured head coach in the Pac-12 Conference. He is tied for third as the nation’s longest-tenured head coach across college football. He has won 111 games and lost 56. He is an astounding 11-1 in bowl games, one of which resulted in a perfect season. But he yearns for that elusive Pac-12 South title and a shot to hoist a different conference crown.

Over these past three decades, though, Whittingham has come to realize that to reach the next stage in the evolution of the program, those precious moments of life away from the game are just as important. That is the taxing part of life as a head coach. Knowing it’s impossible to perfect the balance between those nights under the lights and everything before and after, but also knowing that no matter what, you have to try.

“You never master it,” he explains. “It’s an ongoing challenge, but I’ve certainly gotten better at it. I think my wife would attest to that. I’m not wound quite as tight as I was 10 years ago. I’m a little more able to deal with everything, and keep things in perspective a bit better.”

Lessons from Fred

Whittingham does not sleep well. His mind won’t turn off. The demands of the job program your mind to be ready to respond to whatever developments arise. It’s a byproduct of being in charge of hundreds of other people, not only in the intense time frame of a season, but 12 months a year.

On average, he gets about five to six hours of shut-eye. It’s better than it used to be.

His early years as a head coach were agonizing, overwhelming, all-consuming. Kyle said it took him at least three years to understand how to handle everything that comes with the job. He thought it was all X’s and O’s back then, making sure practices were crisp and the preparation spotless. Instead, he learned about another vital part.

“The psychological part of the team,” he said. “I didn’t spend enough time on that early on. After a couple of years, that clicked.”

It took a little longer for the coach to apply that to his own life.

He credits Jamie for much of this ongoing transformation. When he walks through the door after another lengthy day of work, she isn’t asking about how the first-team offense handled the red zone. Alex Whittingham remembers his dad getting home just early enough each night to get a rundown of everyone’s day before prep for the next day began. “There’s always a season,” the coacch says. There’s so much to attend to, to make sure everything is done, to tied off potential loose ends every day. And then you do it again.

It’s an ongoing battle familiar to the Whittingham family. The family patriarch, Fred, taught his kids to leave work at work, as much as possible. Don’t let your mind be other places. Be present always.

“My dad never took football home,” said Kyle’s brother, Brady. “It wasn’t part of the dinner conversation unless someone needed to ask a question.”

Kyle Whittingham looks back and cracks a smile. He remembers now how football could’ve been a round-the-clock topic even as a teenager or later as a college student. Fred, he said, had the presence of mind to let it go. As the seasons have stacked up like bowl trophies inside the Utah football complex, trying to let go when the time calls for it has provided Whittingham with a clearer perspective on that balance he’ll always strive for.

There is indeed a Whittingham Intensity Index, Brady confirms. There are varying levels. Fred remains at the top. Kyle is a close second. It’s been 15 years since Fred Whittingham passed away. When asked what he misses most about his dad and mentor, Kyle, back in his office, a towel around his neck after a workout, pauses. The kind of pause necessary to ward off tears.

“Oh gosh,” he said. “Just … everything.”

‘He goes hard’

One of Whittingham’s closest friends has noticed a shift.

Gary Andersen returned to Utah after a decade away and has seen in the eight months back on campus that Whittingham is still adapting — on and off the field. You never really walk away or get to unplug entirely, but Whittingham has a structure and a staff in place to realize that when it’s time to go dark, to board a plane for some place for anything other than football, it’s time.

“Fifteen years ago, that’s not what he would’ve done,” Andersen said. “He would’ve been here.”

And when he gets time off?

“He goes hard,” says his son, Alex.

When it’s warm out, Whittingham is golfing. If he had 50 days to golf, Brady deadpans, he golfed 50 rounds of 18. A decade ago, he used to tease Brady that golf was a waste of time. Now he can’t get enough of it. He’s played Pebble Beach and wants to play in the annual celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe every July. Earlier this summer, he tuned in live and was texting former Utah coach Urban Meyer, telling him he wants in.

“Brutally bad,” is how Whittingham described his game at first. “Just horrible.” Now he can play to a 12-handicap. Not good, he said, but it’s progress. He’s determined to win every time he steps on the course, though. Each putt can have stakes beyond the scorecard.

When the mountains are capped white in the winter, Whittingham starts the app on his phone that clocks how fast he can zip down the mountain. Snowbird is his resort. He used to be able to get from his driveway into his boots in 14 minutes, but the Whittinghams recently moved.

Jamie said a benefit to skiing is that just like her husband’s playing days so long ago, he’s covered up.

“With his helmet and goggles, no one bothers him," Jamie said, laughing. "He can go anywhere, and nobody knows who he is.”

His favorite run is Think Young, but to him, it’s still Anderson’s Hill. It’s a black diamond run. Whittingham wants to be the fastest.

“He’s got to the best at what he does,” says Alex, now a defensive assistant coach with the Kansas City Chiefs.

They talk every day, and when Alex and his dad riff on what transpired throughout their respective days, Whittingham will ask Alex what time he got to work and how late he stayed. He brags a bit the days he stays later than his son.

“He’s just got this competitive edge that probably is one of the main things that’s brought him success for so long,” Alex said. “It’s never being satisfied.”

It’s also pursuing new things. Kyle and Jamie have gone to Europe twice in recent years. Utah football gear has been sported in London and Paris, across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, and later in the Mediterranean. The way he tells it, he’d love to go back. And the way he tells it, you get a sense that Andersen is right: Fifteen years ago, Whittingham probably wouldn’t have been wearing the drum-and-feather on a cruise ship around the island of Malta.

Then, of course, there’s Maui, where he does it all. Except for surf. He only does things, his family says, that he has a chance to be really good at.

By design

My nervousness around being early but not too early to meet with Whittingham in his office is later validated when I am talking to his family, and Brady shares this anecdote: Utah road trips are detailed down to the minute of every day. Schedules are passed out to every coach, player and staffer.

“If they say the bus is leaving at 10:55,” Brady says, “and if you’re at the bus at 10:54, you’re late.”

“What he knows is being a football coach,” daughter Missy says, “and that is how he just carried it over and structured it.”

Somethings never change, but others do. His intimidation factor hasn’t waned. His beard may be more grey, but don’t mistake age for fading fire. His workouts remain a thing of lore, and Utah’s social media accounts are still ripe with exaggerations of his otherworldly calf muscles.

“He hasn’t missed a [workout] day in like 3,000 days or something,” Jamie says, noting Sunday is the only day off.

Perhaps nothing’s affected him like becoming a grandfather. It’s there, in those moments, where he can run counter to everything he’s been his whole life. There, he’s a bit of a rule-breaker, nothing close to the proprietor of Pac-12 program, like sneaking Missy’s daughter ice cream and grinning just as wide as granddaughter, Remi, when they’re caught. It’s where when he’s still down following a heart-wrenching loss, he aims the motorcycle ride he and Jamie are on toward Missy’s house to wish the grandkids good night 10 minutes before bedtime.

“He is just adoring to them,” says Missy.

As he’s said, you never master it. You try, though. Because when you’re a football lifer raised in the game by a man who showed you how it’s done, you know that as much as you love it, as much as you crave it, football is not everything.

He has plans. He wants Utah to win the Pac-12 South. To make noise, upset the established order, to wrap up the unfinished business.

“I think he loves the game,” said senior captain Chase Hansen. “I think he loves the experiences. At the end of every [tough] game, he’s as heartbroken as any, and I think his heart’s just in it.”

So when approached with the question that will be posed more the longer his tenure continues, he says he has no fear of retirement. There will be more runs to rip down, more chips out of the rough, more ice cream cones to share with his grandchildren.

“I’ll be going around the clock,” he said.

Just like football.

The approach remains year-to-year. Whittingham will not be coaching when he’s old, although he immediately corrects himself with, “whatever old is.” He’s asked around, too, to former coaches about what the feeling might be like when it inevitably dawns on him.

And everything away from football? Bluebird days at Snowbird or the mornings on the greens at the Salt Lake Country Club or twilight motorcycle rides or the weeks in Kaanapali? Were these all tests to see how he’d handle it when the time finally comes?

“That,” he said, when my time in his office is nearly up, “was by design.”

He is practicing for the next step, but he is not ready yet. Because when Kyle Whittingham is on a beach in Maui, and the sun begins its slow drop beneath the horizon, turning the sky a radiant gold hue, even then, in those most vivid of moments, he can’t forget about football.

“No,” the coach said. “Completely? No.”

But, he is getting better at it. It’s by design.

Las Vegas • Robin Leach, whose voice crystallized the opulent 1980s on TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” died Friday. He was 76

Leach's family said through a public relations firm that he died in Las Vegas, where he made his home.

Leach had a stroke in November while on vacation in Mexico that led to a months-long recovery, much of which he spent at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio before returning to Las Vegas in June.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, which ran Leach's columns before he became ill, said he suffered another stroke Monday.

"Champagne wishes and caviar dreams" was Leach's sign-off at the end of every episode of his syndicated show's decade-long run that began in 1984.

The catchphrase captured excesses and sometimes gaudy style of the 1980s, a time before oil billionaires, titans of industry and Wall Street traders gave way to sneaker-wearing tech execs as the world's richest people.

Leach appeared occasionally on the show, but he and his unmistakable English-accent narrated throughout, taking wishful viewers on tours of mansions with diamond-crusted chandeliers, yachts with Jacuzzis, and champagne that ran to four figures. It was much like rap videos would do in future decades.

Leach and producer Al Masini coined the catchphrase and conceived of the show.

"He asked me if I could get magnates T. Boone Pickens or Sam Walton to do the show," Leach told The Huffington Post in 2016. "In my naivete, I said, 'Of course.' And thus, 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.'"

Leach said in later years that someone still shouted "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" at him almost daily. He was constantly parodied, and like other distinctive voices of the age like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Howard Cosell, everyone had a Leach impression.

"Saturday Night Live" consistently satirized him through the years, with Harry Shearer as a subdued Leach hosting "Lifestyles of the Relatives of the Rich and Famous" in the 1980s, and Dana Carvey as a brash, shouting Leach on "Weekend Update" in the 1990s.

Even decades later, in 2011, Snoop Dogg spotted Leach at a news conference in Las Vegas and was thrilled, rushing to grab the mic and breaking out his impression, touting his career earnings in an over-the-top English accent.

"Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was the core of Leach's career that spanned six decades and included stints with CNN, People magazine, Entertainment Tonight and the Daily Mail, where he began as a writer in Britain at 18.

In the mid-1970s, he tried out TV as a regular contributor to "AM Los Angeles" with hosts Regis Philbin and Sarah Purcell, and found his calling. He became a regular on television's morning news and entertainment shows, practicing a sort of tabloid journalism that was more celebratory and light-hearted than tawdry. He often became friends with the celebrities he covered.

Then, in 1984, he landed "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and gained his own fame.

The gaudy show became wildly popular, but never with critics.

"They wrote that television had reached an all-time-low," Leach told The Huffington Post. "But I looked at the ratings every Monday morning, and I was rubbing my hands with glee."

He was also an executive producer and occasional writer on the show, and hosted a brief spinoff, "Runaway with the Rich and Famous."

For the show's final year, with producers looking to liven up the aging property, he had a younger co-host, actress Shari Belafonte. The show was retitled "Lifestyles with Robin Leach and Shari Belafonte" but the new look didn't save it.

In 1999, Leach went to Las Vegas to work with celebrity chefs at the Venetian casino-resort, and made the move permanent, becoming a fixture in the city as he covered the destination's entertainment and lifestyles for America Online and his own website. He also wrote for the Las Vegas Sun and, most recently, for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

He made frequent appearances on the celebrity reality TV circuit, hosting VH-1's "The Surreal Life: Fame Games" and appearing on the celebrity editions of "Wife Swap" and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."

He was among the founders of the Food Network, selling his equity for a big payday when the channel took off.

Married once and divorced, Leach spent much of his later years in the company of his three sons, Steven, Rick and Greg, and several grandchildren.

"There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes," Leach told the Las Vegas Sun in 2011. "But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too."

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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.

For the second time in three years, KSL-Channel 5 and DirecTV can't come to an agreement, and local TV viewers are the ones paying the price.

The NBC affiliate has been off the satellite provider's lineup since Aug. 14, and there's no end in sight.

“We are continuing to negotiate and are hopeful we will reach an agreement soon,” said Tanya Vea, KSL's vice president/general manager.

Ugh.

KSL insists that “DirecTV has chosen not to” pay “fair market compensation for the content we provide.”

DirecTV is putting 100 percent of the blame on KSL, insisting it “will never remove” a local station “from your lineup. Period. Station owners may try to avoid their responsibilities to you, but make no mistake: the station owners are the only ones who can decide to take away your local stations.”

The satellite company adds that “fewer people watch shows on local stations than ever before, but broadcasters continue to demand everyone pay more to get the few shows they do watch.”

Ugh.

We’ve been down this road before with umpteen broadcast and cable channels battling multiple cable and satellite providers. Including, yes, the last KSL vs. DirecTV battle, which stretched from Aug. 21-Sept. 12, 2015.

Sigh.

Since legislation that went into effect in 1992, cable and satellite providers have been required to obtain the permission — retransmission consent — of broadcast stations to carry their signal. Generally, they have to pay for it.

And the theory behind that is simple — cable/satellite providers are charging their customers to watch KSL and other broadcast stations while stations are paying to both produce and buy programming.

It's only fair.

And, again, it's not unusual. DirecTV pays Disney for all the ESPNs and Disney channels; it pays Discovery for Animal Planet, TLC, Food Network, HGTV, Travel and, of course, Discovery; it pays Viacom for Comedy Central, MTV, Paramount Network, VH1, Nickelodeon, etc. — and on and on.

The fact that KSL is a broadcast station — that its signal is free to anyone who has an antenna hooked up to their TV — doesn't change the equation at all.

When a channel disappears from your cable/satellite lineup like this, it's almost always temporary. But it's worth pointing out that DirecTV and the Pac-12 Networks have never come to an agreement in the six years since P12N launched, and there's no indication they ever will.

Sigh.

As is always the case when something like this happens, readers ask if they should find another cable/satellite provider. And I never recommend that because it's entirely possible that, as soon as you make the switch, that provider will get into the same sort of dispute with another channel you value.

Ugh.

KSL is encouraging viewers to call DirectTV at 888-333-9947 and demand a discount for the loss of Channel 5. It’s pointing viewers toward its app as well as the NBC app.

And what the folks at KSL aren’t saying is that NFL football is coming up, and they’re hoping that viewers unhappy when they can’t see “Sunday Night Football” will put added pressure on DirecTV.

If history is any indicator, this will be resolved. Eventually. When that will be is anybody's guess.

Ugh.

The man charged with murdering a West Valley code-enforcement officer Aug. 9 and setting both her body and a neighbor’s house on fire pleaded not guilty to 13 felony counts Friday.

Attorneys representing Kevin Wayne Billings, 64, entered the not guilty pleas; Billings remained silent during an appearance via closed-circuit TV from the Salt Lake County Jail, where he’s being held without bail.

Billings is charged with aggravated murder in the death of Jill Robinson. She was shot in the head in the driveway of Billings' home, and he’s also charged with setting her body on fire and then igniting a neighboring home.

According to charging documents, Billings' neighbor heard a gunshot, came to investigate and saw Robinson's body in the driveway and Billings sitting nearby, smirking.

“Why did you shoot her?” the neighbor asked, according to the documents.

“I’ve had all the harassment I can take,” Billings allegedly responded.

The probable cause statement indicated that Billings had “previous dealings” with Robinson over code-enforcement issues at his home. And one witness reported that, after the officer was killed, Billings said, “After 40 years of harassment, the b---- got what she deserved."

Billings is charged with aggravated murder and aggravated arson, first-degree felonies; arson, a second-degree felony; desecration of a human body and five counts of possession of explosive parts, third-degree felonies; and four counts of aggravated animal cruelty, Class A misdemeanors. Four dogs were killed when the neighbor’s house burned.

Billing’s next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 4.

President Donald Trump is on a tear, attacking his own Justice Department, hinting at a pardon for Paul Manafort and making excuses not to cooperate with the special counsel during an important investigation. (The last, in and of itself, is dereliction of duty and evidence that it is impossible for him to “take care” in the enforcement of our laws.) What’s worse, Republicans are silent — or, worst of all, cheering him on. The Republican Party, in other words, is at risk of collaborating in the destruction of the rule of law. Unless something changes, this is the future of the GOP — corrupt, incoherent and authoritarian.

It is widely assumed that Trump will be the 2020 Republican nominee. Perhaps, but he might not be around that long. And the party might recognize a train wreck and prevail on him to retire. In any event, if there is any Republican out there (such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley; or Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., or Ben Sasse, R-Neb.) who is contemplating a challenge to Trump from within the party — a final last stand to save the GOP from itself — we are reaching a do-or-die moment. No one who wants to challenge Trump is going to be able to pull it off unless he or she sounds the alarm early and often. (I’d argue that some contenders have already disqualified themselves on this ground.)

Here are some suggestions:

1. Demand hearings on Trump's possible illegal conduct, beyond the Russia probe.

2. Push legislation that already cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee to protect special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

3. Announce that if either is fired or disabled (for example, by replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions or by stripping them of security clearances), impeachment hearings should commence.

4. Call out by name lawmakers such as Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., who encourage reckless conduct. Publicly admonish Republicans for failing to safeguard the rule of law.

5. Demand that Reps. Duncan D. Hunter, R-Calif., and Chris Collins, R-N.Y., be expelled from the House.

6. Implore Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to replace Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

7. Recommend a Senate resolution that pardoning those with ties to the president who have either been convicted of or have pleaded guilty to felonies shall be grounds to commence impeachment hearings.

8. Denounce Trump's attacks on the Justice Department and the rule of law. (Why are nearly all the ones speaking out Democrats?)

9. Urge that if Mueller is fired or disabled, he be hired forthwith as counsel for congressional investigators (for now, that would be the Senate Intelligence Committee).

10. Explain it to the voters. It's not a small thing that the Republican electorate is cordoned off from reality and common sense. They've been fed a steady diet of lunacy from right-wing media outlets. A Republican who wants to lead the party must first educate and persuade them that there is such a thing as the rule of law.

Now, if you think those 10 recommendations seem preposterous or useless, I would suggest it is time to stake out ground for a new party. A party that no longer understands or embraces the rule of law cannot be trusted with power. We’ll need something else if we want a viable two-party system.

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion from a center-right perspective for The Washington Post.

Provo • BYU coaches went into Thursday’s final scrimmage of preseason camp with several position battles still on their hands.

The team’s field goal kicker is not one of them.

Special teams coordinator Ed Lamb said after the scrimmage that freshman returned missionary Skyler Southam, the former prep All-American from Wasatch High, “is winning the job right now.”

Southam beat out last year’s place-kicker, senior Rhett Almond, who has mostly focused on winning the punting job in camp.

Southam said he has regained the strength, form and accuracy that made him a standout in high school.

“My accuracy has been good and I have been really consistent with my field goals,” he said. “Obviously, I still have a lot to work on, but I feel pretty good about things right now.”

The freshman grew up playing soccer, but got the tutelage of a kicking coach his freshman year of high school and started focusing on the skill. He also played safety at Wasatch.

He said he made a 65-yarder while “messing around” before practice but does not expect to be called on to attempt anything from that distance in games.

“Anything inside of 55 [yards] I feel confident I can make it every time,” he said. “Any time I get outside that, I can make it, but I won’t be nearly as consistent.”

Lamb said senior Andrew Mikkelsen will handle the kickoffs. A new NCAA rule is in place for kickoffs that allow returners to make fair catches inside the 25 yard line and have the ball placed at the 25.

Almond is competing with Australian newcomer Danny Jones, who punts left-footed, for the punting job. However, Lamb said both will be used in games.

“They both bring something to the table right now and I think they are both still working through obstacles to get to the ultimate consistency level that they would like to be at,” Lamb said.

The punters have not looked sharp in the media viewing portions of fall camp; Sophomore Jared Kapisi, who also plays rugby, has been given some reps there as well.

Lamb said junior Aleva Hifo and senior Matt Hadley will be the primary kick returners, backed up by senior Michael Shelton and junior Dayan Ghanwoloku.

Shelton is the No. 1 punt returner right now, backed up by Hifo and senior Dylan Collie, the Hawaii transfer.

“They’ve done it in games and we have a high level of confidence in them,” Lamb said.

The coach feels really good about the kickoff and punt coverage teams.

“You know, there’s not a better group of coverage guys in the country — kickoff coverage, punt coverage have just been fantastic for two years running,” Lamb said. “We still have most of those guys around. I have a higher level of confidence in that personnel and what they have done than I have in the return games. And I feel really good about the way the guys on the return teams have blocked and worked this offseason.

“But I think we are nothing until we go out and get our first returns. I am just anxious for it.”

Head coach Kalani Sitake said the special teams are “looking good” and should be a strength of the team if they can get more consistency from the punters.

Mitch Harris will handle the deep snapping and is backed up by fellow senior Matt Foley, who is joining the team next week after missing preseason camp.