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Longview woman accused in Peanut the Squirrel death

LONGVIEW — Our news partner, KETK, reports that an East Texas woman has become the target of social media users who blame her for Peanut the squirrel’s death. The mother of two is now sharing her side of the story in an attempt to clear her name.

Mark Longo, the man who rescued Peanut, posted that a raid had been conducted at his home by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, who took Peanut and Fred the raccoon. The raid was conducted after the DEC received “multiple reports from the public about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pet.”

Later, the DEC and Chemung County Department of Health confirmed that Peanut and Fred had been euthanized after biting one of the investigators issuing a need to conduct a rabies test, that would later come back as negative.Longo took out his frustrations online and posted: “Well internet, you WON,” Longo posted. “You took one of the most amazing animals away from me because of your selfishness. To the group of people who called DEC, there’s a special place in hell for you.” Continue reading Longview woman accused in Peanut the Squirrel death

City of Longview approves spay and neuter ordinance

LONGVIEW — The Longview City Council has voted to approve an ordinance to require owners to spay and neuter stray dogs and cats. According to our news partner KETK, the step was taken by the council in order to fix their stray animal problem and prevent overcrowding. The council voted 6-1 to implement a new ordinance and enact pet and breeder permits for owners of loose dogs and cats.

“It really has the ability, like a pebble in the in the pond, to reverberate throughout East Texas,” said Kelly Heitkamp, an animal welfare attorney.

The Longview Animal Advisory committee worked for months to find a solution to overcrowding and the safety of their residents. The ordinance will require owners of stray dogs and cats to be sterilized. Sterilization requirements and the intact pet permit include exemptions such as infertility or chronic health issues, according to the city. Continue reading City of Longview approves spay and neuter ordinance

Conan O’Brien to host the 2025 Oscars

Conan O'Brien will host the 2025 Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday, marking his first time hosting the star-studded awards show.

"America demanded it and now it's happening: Taco Bell's new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I'm hosting the Oscars," the Emmy-winning television host, writer, producer and comedian said in a press release.

O’Brien is best known for hosting Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, stepping in after David Letterman's departure, and Conan from 2010 to 2021. Prior to that, he was a writer for Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons.

Since 2018, he's hosted the podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Most recently, he's also starred in the travel show Conan O'Brien Must Go on Max.

The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood at 7 p.m. EST/4 p.m. PT on ABC, and will be broadcast in over 200 territories worldwide.

Barry Keoghan on playing a father in ‘Bird’: ‘Look after your little one’

Barry Keoghan’s latest film is director Andrea Arnold’s coming-of-age drama, Bird.

It follows Bailey, a young girl who lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad, Bug, played by Keoghan. This marks the actor’s first time playing a father, but it’s something he knows well — as dad to his 2-year-old son, Brando.

“I'm glad that I got to be part of this because I just got to find a lot, selfishly, about myself as well. During it and during the journey of it,” Keoghan told ABC Audio.

The actor described how exactly he saw himself in his character.

“I think men are very childlike and very, you know, the mommy boy kind of mentality,” Keoghan said. “Ironically, I sort of have that mentality. I did sort of have that mentality. You know, wanting to be almost mothered and looked after ... I realized making this movie that [those] are traits that aren't necessarily gonna lend itself to you in the best way.”

Bug’s journey to fatherhood is one that resonated with Keoghan.

“[If] you have a child ... at some stage you've got to get out of that frame of mind of you being looked after and look after your little one,” Keoghan said.

Speaking of, Keoghan wants to keep looking after the young actors he worked with on Bird.

"I like to look out for people around me, and especially kids. I want to be that sort of person that they can always get in touch with," Keoghan said. "When I was younger and I was going on to the movies, I had that source, and I had that person in Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy and all of those incredible people that I had ... I want to be that for Jason [Buda] and Nykiya [Adams].”

Iranian activist takes his own life to protest country’s dictatorship

Kianoosh Sanjari speak onstage at the Amnesty International Concert presented by the CBGB Festival at Barclays Center on February 5, 2014 in New York City (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for CBGB).

(LONDON) -- Prominent Iranian political activist, Kianoosh Sanjari, who took his own life on Wednesday in an act of protest, was buried Friday morning in Tehran. In a final post on his X account he said the decision was to protest against what he called the dictatorship of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Sanjari jumped off a five-story building in a busy area of Tehran on Wednesday after writing on his X account that "no one should be imprisoned for expressing their opinions. Protest is the right of every Iranian citizen. My life will end after this tweet, but let's not forget that we die and die for the love of life, not death."

Amnesty Iran mourned the loss of Sanjari following the news of his death in a post on Instagram, saying his “passion for human rights will continue to shine.”

“Years of interrogations, unjust detention, torture and exile haunted him as his oppressors remain unpunished,” the post read, adding that the collective grief over his death will galvanize calls for justice.

Sanjari was first imprisoned by the Islamic Republic regime following protests in Iran in 1999 when he was 17-years-old but was later repeatedly arrested and tortured for his criticism against the corruption of the clerical ruling regime until 2007.

He ended up spending months in solitary confinement and was forcefully transferred to a psychiatric center, telling Voice of America and BBC Persian that he had his hands and legs chained to a bed and would receive injections which would make him unconscious for hours.

Sanjari eventually fled Iran to seek asylum in the United States and began working for Voice of America where he continued his activism and reported on the human rights situation in Iran, including a protest in front of the United Nations when former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech at the Columbia School of Journalism in September 2007.

In spite of the potential risks of returning, he moved back to Iran in 2017 due to his mother suffering from a severe health, according to a statement on his social media.

Sanjari was arrested by the regime by the security organizations after his return, but was later released. However, he was arrested again during the nationwide Woman Life Freedom movement that took over the country in 2022 and 2023 when many activists and protesters were arrested and jailed in the aftermath of the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman under the hijab police custody after she was taken for not fully complying with hijab rules.

Sanjari supported the idea of toppling the current clerical regime and advocated for a transition to a new ruling system for the country led by the U.S.-based son of the former Iranian monarch, Reza Pahlavi, until people could choose a new governing regime.

Pahlavi posted a video on his X account saying it was “painful news” to hear about Sanjari’s death.

“We deal with a regime that its life is based on death and execution,” he said, blaming the Islamic Republic for Sanjari’s suicide and warning about the government's execution order for other protestors who were recently sentenced to execution with charges related to the Woman Life Freedom uprising.

In brief: Sophie Turner circling ‘Tomb Raider’ series, and more

Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner is reportedly in talks to play Laura Croft in Prime Video's series adaptation of the video game franchise Tomb Raider, according to Deadline. The series has been a pet project for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who'll write and executive produce the project. “Lara Croft means a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this adventure. Bats ‘n all,” Waller-Bridge said back in May. Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander previously played the titular character on the big screen ...

Hoda Kotb, who announced back in September that she would be leaving NBC's TODAY show, revealed on the Thursday episode that her last day will be Jan. 10. It was also announced that Craig Melvin will be taking over as Savannah Guthrie's co-host on Jan. 13. Melvin will continue to serve as a third-hour co-host alongside Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer. TODAY's fourth hour, which Kotb currently co-hosts alongside Jenna Bush Hager, will become TODAY with Jenna & Friends starting Jan. 13. The show will feature a rotating cast of fill-in co-hosts until a permanent host is named ...

Haley Lu Richardson has been tapped to star opposite Emilia Clarke in the upcoming Peacock series Ponies, according to Variety. The series takes place in 1977 Moscow, centering on two "ponies," or "persons of no interest" in intelligence speak. The pair "work anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy. That is until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives," per the streaming service ...

Laken Riley case: Bench trial set to begin for murder suspect

Laken Riley in an undated photo. Image via Augusta University

(ATHENS, Ga.) -- A bench trial is set to begin Friday for the suspect accused of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus.

The suspect, Jose Ibarra, waived his right to a jury trial this week. Judge H. Patrick Haggard granted the defense's motion for the bench trial on Tuesday, a day before jury selection had been scheduled to begin.

The case will now be presented in the Athens-Clarke County courtroom to Haggard, who will render a verdict.

Ibarra, 26, faces a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty to malice murder, felony murder and other offenses.

Police have said they believe Ibarra -- a migrant from Venezuela who officials said illegally entered the U.S. in 2022 -- did not know Riley and that this was a "crime of opportunity."

Riley's brutal death became a rallying cry for immigration reform from many conservatives, including President-elect Donald Trump. Trump mentioned her by name as recently as Nov. 3 when he campaigned in Macon, Georgia, in a final pitch to voters in the battleground state.

Riley, a student at Augusta University, was found dead in a wooded area on the Athens campus on Feb. 22 after she didn't return from a run. The indictment alleges Ibarra killed her by "inflicting blunt force trauma to her head and by asphyxiating her" and seriously disfigured her head by striking her "multiple times" with a rock.

Additional charges in the 10-count indictment include aggravated battery, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape, obstructing or hindering a person making an emergency telephone call and tampering with evidence. The latter charge alleged that he "knowingly concealed" evidence -- a jacket and gloves -- involving the offense of malice murder.

Ibarra was also charged with a peeping tom offense. The indictment alleges that on the same day as Riley's murder, he spied through the window of a different person who lived in an apartment on campus. The judge last month denied a motion seeking to sever that charge from the case.

Haggard also denied the defense's motion for a change of venue in the high-profile case.

Ibarra has been held without bond at the Clarke County Jail since his arrest on Feb. 23.

US military suicides increased in 2023, Pentagon reports

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military suicides increased by 30 in 2023, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday, continuing an upward trend the Pentagon has struggled to combat.

"The findings urgently demonstrate the need for the Department to redouble its work in the complex fields of suicide prevention and postvention," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement Thursday.

There were 523 service members who took their own lives last year, and the total force rate of suicide deaths per 100,000 service members was 9% higher than in 2022, the report said.

"Numerically, that was somewhat higher than the 493 that we lost in 2022, although that increase in terms of the rate and the count for the active component was not a statistically significant increase," said Dr. Timothy Hoyt, deputy director of force resiliency for the DOD.

But while there was a slight dip in the military suicide rate in 2022, and a relatively modest increase in 2023, officials described a concerning overall upward trend since 2011 for active-duty forces.

"For the longer term, we continue to see a gradual, statistically significant increase in the active component suicide rates from 2011 to 2023," said Dr. Liz Clark, director of the Pentagon's Suicide Prevention Office. "There is a low likelihood that this change is due to natural variation or chance."

Though concerning, military suicide rates have been comparable to those of the wider U.S. population over that time period.

While active-duty and reserve suicide rates increased in 2023, rates for the National Guard dipped slightly, according to the report.

The Pentagon is pursuing several lines of effort to reduce instances of suicide in the ranks, including by working to foster a supportive environment, improve mental health care, reduce stigma for seeking help and better suicide prevention training.

"Since his first day in office, the health, safety and well-being of our military community has been one of Secretary Austin's top priorities," deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said during the Thursday Pentagon briefing. "As you've heard him say many times before, we owe it to our service members and our military families to provide the best possible care, to identify risk factors and spot warning signs and to eliminate stigmas around seeking help, and when it comes to suicide, one loss to suicide is one too many. The department remains focused on long-term, sustained initiatives to prevent suicide."

If you or one of your loved ones are struggling or needs extra support, you are not alone. Please call the suicide and crisis lifeline at 9-8-8.

American Airlines flight narrowly avoids mountain with ‘expedited climb’

(NEW YORK) -- An American Airlines flight had to "perform an expedited climb" in order to avoid a mountain during a routine departure out of Hawaii on Wednesday.

The plane had just departed from Honolulu International Airport and was on its way to Los Angeles International Airport.

Air traffic control can be heard telling the pilot "turn right and expedite your climb through terrain" on audio from the flight provided by LIVEATC.NET.

According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, "An air traffic controller instructed American Airlines Flight 298 to perform an expedited climb after the crew did not make the assigned turn while departing from Honolulu International Airport."

The FAA's statement continued, "The controller's actions ensured the aircraft remained safely above nearby terrain."

"The safety of our customers and team members is our top priority," American Airlines said in a statement.

"During the climb out of Honolulu on November 13, the crew of American Airlines flight 298 requested and received right-turn clearance and complied with controller instructions. There was no Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) alert as there were no issues with terrain clearance based on the trajectory of the aircraft," the statement continued.

The incident occurred around 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday.

The FAA will continue to investigate.

‘Yellowstone’ stars Luke Grimes and Wes Bentley talk ‘interesting’ fan interactions

The second half of the fifth season of Yellowstone got off to a bloody start, with its second episode airing Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.

The debut scored some 16.4 million viewers who are very invested in the Dutton clan — but Luke Grimes (Kayce) and his onscreen adopted brother, Wes Bentley (Jamie), didn't need viewership numbers to tell them that.

The pair told ABC Audio they've had some "interesting" interactions with fans.

Bentley, whose scheming character has targeted his adopted father's empire, says even though he plays a guy fans love to hate, viewers know he's just acting.

"It's always interesting because it's a complicated reaction, right? I mean, people, you know, even if they don't like him, they're still interested in him or care about him."

Bentley continues, "There's always been a strange both disgust with Jamie, while at the same time caring about his outcome and his future — even for those who absolutely hate him."

Grimes' heroic character has a different effect, he has found. "I think sometimes, though, they think I'm probably a little more like my character than I am. ... You know, Kayce has like PTSD and his life is very hard. And, you know, I'll be like eating a bagel at an airport and someone [will] be like, 'Are you OK?'"

As for whether Grimes would be interested in continuing in either a sixth season or a spin-off, both of which have been rumored, his answer is simple: Only if show creator Taylor Sheridan remains in the saddle.

He vows, "It's basically down to if we get a call from Taylor and he's writing it ... the answer would be yes. And if it's some other version that, you know, he's not involved with, then no."

McIlroy, Europeans say Ryder Cup money would ‘change the dynamic’

Along with national pride, it appears members of the United States’ 2025 Ryder Cup team will have another incentive when teeing off against their European counterparts at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y.

Lots of zeros.

A vote by the PGA of America will ultimately determine whether, and how much, U.S. players are paid for playing in the Ryder Cup.

U.S. players competing at the event could receive roughly $400,000 apiece according to a report. The pay structure, according to The Telegraph, would be similar to that of the Presidents Cup in September — a stipend as opposed to a contribution made to the charity of each golfer’s choice.

However, there are two primary differences between the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup, according to The Telegraph.

First, the amount. The Presidents Cup stipend was $250,000.

Second, who is getting paid. While players and captains for both teams were paid at the Presidents Cup in Montreal, the European Ryder Cup golfers will not get paid — instead opting to play for what European captain Luke Donald called “passion” for golf and country.

“It’s one week where you play for more than yourself,” Donald told The Telegraph. “It’s … not about money or points, it’s about coming together as a team and the fans feed off that — it’s all passion. I don’t think we should ever get paid.”

Rory McIlroy was asked this week about the idea of compensation for participation in the Ryder Cup and scoffed at the notion of requiring cash to entice players to represent their side of the international competition. McIlroy and the European team will not be directly tied to the PGA of America payment vote. The DP World Tour represents the European players on Ryder Cup matters.

“I personally would pay for the privilege to play on the Ryder Cup,” McIlroy said in a BBC Sport interview. “The two purest forms of competition in our game right now are the Ryder Cup and the Olympics, and it’s partly because of that — the purity of no money being involved.”

McIlroy said he understands the “other side of it” because of the amount of money made on the event. He said Donald huddled players to discuss their stance after learning the direction American golfers were leaning. But McIlroy said the consensus for Team Europe was to donate the sum to the DP World Tour for other purposes.

“That $5 million would be better off spent elsewhere on the DP World Tour to support other events or even to support The Challenge Tour,” McIlroy said.

“I think we would all welcome money if it didn’t change the dynamic, but the money really would change the dynamic. That’s why I think everyone is like — let’s not do that.”

Shane Lowry said he worked toward getting a chance to play in the Ryder Cup and involvement was more than enough compensation.

“I love the tournament, and I just want to be involved. I don’t care whether I get paid or not,” he told the Irish Independent.

Talks of Americans getting paid for the Ryder Cup have been brewing for decades. In 1999 at Brookline, Mass. (one of the most famous Ryder Cup weekends in the event’s history), golfers including Tiger Woods voiced their opinions on players not being paid despite the event raking in several million dollars.

“I would like to see us receive whatever the amount is, whether it’s $200,000, $300,000, $400,000, $500,000, and I think we should be able to keep the money and do whatever we see fit,” Woods told The Washington Post in 1999. “I personally would donate all of it to charity. With all the money that’s being made, we should have a say in where it goes.”

The charitable donations began being made that same year.

Pay-for-play at the Ryder Cup became a hot-button topic during last year’s competition near Rome after American Patrick Cantlay did not wear a hat during Saturday’s play. Multiple reports stated he did not wear the hat as a protest for players not being paid. Cantlay denied that being the reason, instead saying the hat just did not fit.

One anonymous European player said to The Telegraph: “[The Americans] can do whatever they want. But we don’t want payments in our bank accounts, as it’ll be the thin end of the wedge and is not what the Ryder Cup is about.

“Let’s face it, a lot of the American players have been angling towards this for years, if not decades.

“If it does go ahead,” the player continued, “then it will be interesting to see how the fans react at Bethpage, although they’ll probably announce it as just an extension of what already happens.”

The 2025 Ryder Cup is scheduled to take place Sept. 23-28.

The Americans hold a 27-14 advantage all time in the event, though the Europeans have won five of the past seven contests, including a 16½ -11½ win at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Italy in 2023.

The U.S. team will be captained by Keegan Bradley in 2025.

Oilers’ McDavid hits 1,000-point milestone vs. Predators

EDMONTON, Alberta — Connor McDavid became the fourth-fastest NHL player to reach 1,000 points, scoring early in the second period of the Edmonton Oilers’ 3-2 overtime victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night.

McDavid reached the milestone in his 659th game. Wayne Gretzky was the fastest at 424 games, followed by Mario Lemieux at 513 and Mike Bossy at 656.

At 27 years, 306 days, McDavid also is the fourth-youngest player to reach 1,000 career points, trailing only Gretzky (23 years, 328 days), Lemieux (26 years, 171 days) and Steve Yzerman (27 years, 291 days).

McDavid has 341 goals and 660 assists. He’s the 99th NHL player to reach 1,000 points and the fourth on the Oilers, joining Gretzky (1,669), Jari Kurri (1,043), and Mark Messier (1,034).

“These milestones are a great time to reflect and look back,” McDavid said. “It’s been a good 10 years and hopefully 10 more good ones. Some of these things have kind of hit me a little more emotionally than I would have thought.”

On the milestone goal, McDavid took a pass from Leon Draisaitl on a 2-on-1 break and beat goalie Scott Wedgewood with a shot to the near post to tie it at 1.

“Just seeing the way the players reacted means the world to me. It means everything to me,” McDavid said. “To hear the fans, that stuff means more to me than any of the numbers. It was a really special moment.”

McDavid added point No. 1,001 in overtime with a spinning backhand pass for an assist on Darnell Nurse’s second goal of the game.

“It is a special moment. I said it the other day, this is legendary stuff,” said Draisaitl, who has factored in on 446 of McDavid’s 1,001 points. “To witness that and to be a part of it and to have seen him grow up from when he was 18 and we first met him, it is pretty cool, pretty amazing to be a part of.”

McDavid took only 58 games to go from 900 to 1,000. He has six goals and 13 assists this season.

Information from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was used in this report.

Mavericks’ Kyrie Irving sits out against the Jazz because of a strained right shoulder

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dallas guard Kyrie Irving sat out the Mavericks’ game Thursday night against the Utah Jazz because of a strained right shoulder.

Irving is averaging 25.2 points, 4.9 assists and 4.6 rebounds in 11 games this season. He’s shooting 54.5% from the field and 54.1% from 3-point range.

Quentin Grimes took Irving’s spot in the starting lineup. Grimes is averaging 5.1 points and 2.8 rebounds.

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Dadonov scores 2 goals, including a penalty shot, as the Stars beat the Bruins 7-2

DALLAS (AP) — Evgenii Dadonov scored two goals, including the first successful penalty shot in the NHL this season, and the Dallas Stars beat the Boston Bruins 7-2 on Thursday night.

Matt Duchene, Roope Hintz, Mason Marchment and rookies Logan Stankoven and Oskar Back also scored for the Stars, who continued an offensive roll following a 7-1 win at Pittsburgh on Monday.

Dadonov gave Dallas a 2-0 lead at 6:36 of the first period after being obstructed on a breakaway by Mason Lohrei. Five previous NHL penalty shots didn’t produce a goal.

Charlie Coyle and David Pastrnak scored for the Bruins, who split two games on a Central Division road trip.

Dallas’ Jake Oettinger made 23 saves, and Boston’s Jeremy Swayman stopped 31 shots.

Marchment had a goal and an assist following a five-point game at Pittsburgh.

It was Back’s first NHL goal. He also had an assist.
Takeaways

Bruins: They entered tied for last in the NHL with an 11.8% power play, and they went 0 for 2 with the man advantage.

Stars: The line of Duchene, Marchment and Tyler Seguin have collected five goals and 13 points in the last two games.
Key moment

Stankoven’s rebound goal at 14:15 of the second restored Dallas’ two-goal lead and was followed by Back’s one-handed poke less than two minutes later.
Key stat

The Stars are 7-0-0 in their home arena for the first time in the franchise’s 57 seasons, the first 26 as the Minnesota North Stars. They lost as the designated host to the Florida Panthers in the two-game Global Series in Finland in early November.
Up next

On Saturday, the Bruins will host the St. Louis Blues and the Stars will visit the Minnesota Wild.

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John Collins scores on a late dunk to lift Jazz past Mavericks for 1st home victory

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — John Collins scored the last of his 28 points on a tiebreaking dunk with 6.4 seconds left to give the Utah Jazz their first home victory of the season, 115-113 over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.

Collins also had nine rebounds. Jordan Clarkson added 20 points.

Luka Doncic had 37 points, seven rebounds and nine assists for Dallas. Quentin Grimes added 15 points and five assists while filling in for Kyrie Irving, who missed the game because of a right shoulder sprain. Klay Thompson had 17 points.

The Mavericks erased the double-digit deficit and tied it on Thompson’s 3-pointer in the final minute. Collins answered with his winner.

Dallas led at halftime and got six third-quarter baskets from Doncic. It wasn’t enough to keep the Jazz from surging ahead as the quarter progressed. Utah ripped off a 9-0 run following back-to-back baskets from Doncic and went up 90-78 on Collins’ tip-in layup.
Takeaways

Mavericks: Irving’s absence deprived Dallas of a reliable second scorer and inhibited efforts to keep pace with a red-hot Utah offense.

Jazz: Kyle Filipowski is showing signs of evolving into a reliable scorer. The rookie forward is averaging 16.0 points on 68.4% shooting over his last two games.
Key moment

Utah scored baskets on six straight third-quarter possessions to take and 81-73 lead. Lauri Markkanen scored three baskets himself, culminating in a step-back 3-pointer.
Key stat

The Jazz had 20 fast-break points.
Up next

The Mavericks host San Antonio on Saturday night. The Jazz are at Sacramento on Saturday night.