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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Book of Mormon can bring miracles to your life, says apostle

  04-04-2020 23:48
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Church membership tops 16.5M; former UVU president becomes general authority

  04-04-2020 23:13
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Time for a real shelter-in-place order

  04-04-2020 23:00
  
  “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”— Wayne GretzkyIt is past time for the state of Utah, and the United States as a whole, to issue genuine, enforceable shelter-in-place orders.The justification for the state and federal governments to fob these decisions off to smaller jurisdictions, or put them off until cases spike in a particular area, is based on the irrational idea that there is no need to enforce any special orders in an area if the COVID-1
  
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• Jennifer Aniston surprises Utah nurse who has coronavirus during ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

  04-04-2020 22:44
  
  A Utah nurse who tested positive for COVID-19 appeared on Thursday’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and got a surprise from Jennifer Aniston.Kimball Fairbanks appeared via video link on the ABC late-night show and told the host (who’s working from home) that she’s been furloughed from work and is quarantined from her family, including her 4-year-old and 18-month-old daughters.“I kind of felt like I got hit by a train, but I think I just have really mild sympt
  
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• Frank Bruni: The squabble of the Italian American governors

  04-04-2020 22:41
  
  When every other Democrat in America was swooning over Andrew Cuomo, Gina Raimondo was sparring with him.I can’t say I’m surprised.Raimondo, the second-term governor of Rhode Island, is blunt and sometimes contrarian. That’s what I’ve always liked about her.I can’t say I like how she singled out New Yorkers, stopping cars with New York license plates at the border and ordering any drivers who planned to remain in Rhode Island for a while to quarantine themselves for
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Church membership tops 16.5M; afternoon session begins with a virtual vote

  04-04-2020 22:34
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• Trump, Democrats clash on boosting mail-in voting during pandemic

  04-04-2020 22:21
  
  Washington • While Wisconsin struggles to hold its primary on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Democrats are bickering over how to provide voters with safe and secure access to a ballot as the coronavirus pandemic rages in the U.S. and threatens to extend into the fall, affecting the general election.With another economic rescue package in the works, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she wants money to give more voters the chance to cast their ballot by mail, an option that would allow peo
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 4: Latest Utah COVID-19 death is 85-or older woman in SLC nursing home with 8 confirmed cases

  04-04-2020 21:45
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1:25 p.m.: Latest Utah COVID-19 death is 85-year, or older woman in a
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Prepare spiritually and physically for life’s future trials, church President Russell Nelson says

  04-04-2020 21:10
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• George Pyle: It can be hard to know who to trust. And easy to know who not to.

  04-04-2020 21:00
  
  “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.”― Issac AsimovThe key to having a free society — one that is both really free and truly a society — is for most of us to be pretty good at knowing when we
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 4: Eighth Utahn dies from COVID-19, confirmed cases in state up to 1,428

  04-04-2020 20:39
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:25 p.m.: Eighth Utahn dies from COVID-19, confirmed cases in state
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Pray to get through challenging times, Eyring says

  04-04-2020 20:14
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• Meal kits put dinner on the table and help Utah food businesses survive

  04-04-2020 20:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriberWith the “Stay Safe, Stay Home” directive in effect across Utah and similar orders for multiple counties, several Salt Lake City restaurants and cooking schools are selling make-at-home meal kits that are ready to pick u
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: You can make unique contributions, Primary leader tells women

  04-04-2020 19:45
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz Rumors: Damyean Dotson to be a free agent target?

  04-04-2020 19:25 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz are one of three teams currently showing early interest in New York Knicks unrestricted free agent Damyean Dotson. With the 2019-20 NBA seaso...
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Prepare physically and spiritually for life’s next trials, says church President Russell Nelson

  04-04-2020 19:09
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• Utah Jazz Rumors: Damyean Dotson to be a free agent target?

  04-04-2020 19:02
  
  The Utah Jazz are one of three teams currently showing early interest in New York Knicks unrestricted free agent Damyean Dotson. With the 2019-20 NBA season suspended, just about everything remains in question. Will the season resume? What’s the pre-draft process going to look like? Will free agency start on time? When will the 2020-21 […]
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• National pandemic training focused on the wrong virus

  04-04-2020 19:01
  
  Denver (AP) • In August, months before the first case of the new coronavirus was documented, some of Colorado’s top health officials gathered in a room at the state Department of Public Health and Environment to train for a pandemic.The hypothetical scenario: A highly infectious and lethal new virus had jumped from animals to humans in China and was now being spread across the globe by travelers. A month-and-a-half after the first person infected with the virus was identified in the U
  
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• Amanda Poulson: Health care workers are facing a new reality during coronavirus outbreak

  04-04-2020 19:00
  
  As my alarm went off at 5:30 in the morning, I felt for the first time in my career an undercurrent of fear and worry as I got up to get ready for work.In my nursing career I have taken care of patients with influenza, pseudomonas, C. Diff, HIV, MRSA, HSV, hepatitis, and many, many more. I never felt fear or anxiety that I would be harmed while caring for these patients. I just “donned” my appropriate personal protective equipment and did my job, confident that I was healthy and if I
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 4: Lake Powell’s boat ramps will close to the public starting Monday

  04-04-2020 18:55
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10:20 a.m.: Lake Powell’s boat ramps will close to the public be
  
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• Government lawyer named as new Grand Canyon park leader

  04-04-2020 18:37
  
  Government lawyer named as new Grand Canyon park leaderGRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — A veteran lawyer for the federal government has been selected to oversee Grand Canyon National Park — a rare appointment of someone who did not move up through the ranks of the National Park Service.Edward Keable currently serves as the assistant solicitor of general law for the Interior Department's Office of the Solicitor. He is expected to assume his new post as Grand Canyon superintend
  
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• Kobe, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett headline Basketball Hall of Fame class

  04-04-2020 18:31
  
  Kobe Bryant was already immortal. Now he’s officially a Hall of Famer as well.And he's got plenty of elite company in the 2020 class.Bryant and fellow NBA greats Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett headlined a nine-person group announced Saturday as this year's class of enshrinees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.They all got into the Hall in their first year of eligibility, as did WNBA great Tamika Catchings. Two-time NBA champion coach Rudy Tomjanovich finally got his call, as
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 4: Lake Powell’s boat rams will close to the public starting Monday

  04-04-2020 18:19
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----10:20 a.m.: Lake Powell’s boat ramps will close to the public be
  
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• The latest from LDS General Conference: Sessions begin amid an eerily quiet downtown Salt Lake City

  04-04-2020 18:07
  
  A very different General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints got underway Saturday.With no public attendance amid the coronavirus pandemic, the downtown Salt Lake City Conference Center, usually packed with tens of thousands of people, was eerily quiet. Instead, the sessions can be viewed only online and on TV.Speakers and the faith’s governing First Presidency, led by 95-year-old church President Russell M. Nelson, are delivering their addresses from a “sma
  
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• [Fansided: Hoops Habit] - Thurl Bailey: The best bench player in Utah Jazz history

  04-04-2020 18:01 via sportspyder.com
  
  Shandon Anderson, Antoine Carr and Matt Harpring might’ve been stellar off the bench for the Utah Jazz, but nobody was a stronger sixth man than Thurl Ba...
  
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• Letter: We need Sen. Mitt Romney’s leadership

  04-04-2020 17:22
  
  No matter where you live or what you do, the COVID-19 outbreak is causing a massive disruption to our lives, and it seems the worst is yet to come. We are all relying on a robust response of local public services, but after years of chronic underfunding, so much — from health care to infrastructure — is stretched as far as it can go.Navigating this crisis will require nimble and quick responses that differ area to area, but with businesses facing uncertain futures, workers requiring
  
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• Salvador Oregon Torres: We acted quickly on coronavirus. Now face climate change.

  04-04-2020 17:00
  
  If everything went according to plan, I would have been in Washington, D.C., this week, lobbying my lawmakers to take action on a global crisis. Unfortunately for me and hundreds of others with the same plan, our lawmakers had to act on another global crisis — the coronavirus pandemic.Coronavirus has shuttered small businesses, upended the medical community and ended the school year for millions without an end in sight. In this sense, it is not unlike climate change, though the latter has
  
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• Gordon Monson: Athletes are hurting over the loss of their sports, and they should

  04-04-2020 17:00
  
  BYU quarterback Zach Wilson was talking during a recent interview, trying to stay optimistic, saying how difficult the current situation is for him and his teammates, having missed out on the back end of spring practices, shutting the whole thing down just as it was getting good, dealing with training circumstances at present and moving forward that are less than ideal, wondering about what comes next for his team and college football in general.But with others all around who are struggling in f
  
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• Animal rescue groups get creative to find homes for animals after adoption centers close

  04-04-2020 17:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Maranda Weathermon’s costars obviously hadn’t read their scripts. Red kept looking off-screen. Olgierd refused to look into the camera. Mickey got distracted by the audience and Emilio developed a severe case of stage f
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Saturday, April 4: Delta needs more than a congressional bailout to survive, CEO says

  04-04-2020 16:44
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.It’s Saturday, April 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:45 a.m.: Delta ‘burning more than $60M in cash every day&rsquo
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell has a shot at an Olympic roster spot. How much of a shot is the question.

  04-04-2020 16:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  Before the coronavirus outbreak became so widespread, the Utah Jazz not only had the remainder of the NBA regular season and playoffs to look forward to, but also having five players with at least theoretical shots at playing in the 2020 Olympic...
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell has a shot at an Olympic roster spot. How much of a shot is the question.

  04-04-2020 16:00
  
  Before the coronavirus outbreak became so widespread, the Utah Jazz not only had the remainder of the NBA regular season and playoffs to look forward to, but also having five players with at least theoretical shots at playing in the 2020 Olympic Games.“Theoretical,” being the optimal word here.After all, with the 2020 Olympics having been relocated to the summer of 2021, and no sense yet of the possibility of resuming the NBA season and postseason presently on hiatus, and how that wi
  
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• Scott Williams: EPA pollution changes pile on to the coronavirus crisis

  04-04-2020 15:56
  
  At the core of almost every effort to protect the environment is an attempt to protect public health. These naturally intertwined causes led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and state-level regulatory bodies like Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality.The federal law that led to the formation of the EPA and legislation like the National Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Air Act, that were passed subsequently, were unprecedented. At the time, and f
  
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• COVID-19 pandemic has led to potential college football contingency plans, so what works best for Utah Utes?

  04-04-2020 15:00
  
  As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, bringing with it a complete, prolonged stoppage to sports in the United States, an increasingly-pertinent point of discussion is what is going to happen to the 2020 college football season.Week Zero, which includes a high-profile matchup between Notre Dame and Navy in Ireland, is still five months away, so nothing definitive is happening quite yet, but there are a bevy of potential contingency plans making the rounds at athletic departments and conference offic
  
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• Should you wear, or make, a mask? Health experts now say yes.

  04-04-2020 14:30
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.As an ICU nurse, Megan Jansen knows the surge of coronavirus patients is coming.“It seems to me that it’s like the eerie calm before the storm,” Jansen said after a shift this week in the intensive care unit at Sa
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Report: “Significant amount of pessimism” NBA will restart season

  04-04-2020 14:13 via sportspyder.com
  
  While the league holds out hope and plans, there is a growing pessimism that the NBA will be able to restart it's season and even host a condensed playoffs.
  
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• Scott Williams: EPA pollution changes piles on to the coronavirus crisis

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  At the core of almost every effort to protect the environment is an attempt to protect public health. These naturally intertwined causes led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and state-level regulatory bodies like Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality.The federal law that led to the formation of the EPA and legislation like the National Environmental Protection Act and the Clean Air Act, that were passed subsequently, were unprecedented. At the time, and f
  
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• Now recovering from coronavirus, Utah Sen. Luz Escamilla says the illness has felt ‘eternal’

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  Finally, state Sen. Luz Escamilla thought, she’d managed to get through a legislative session without succumbing to a cold or the flu.She typically comes down with some kind of illness during the grueling lawmaking marathon that takes place in the dead of winter, but it seemed she’d steered clear of infection this time around.“I was like, victory!” the Salt Lake City Democrat said.Then, a few days later, a wave of fatigue hit her. She started feeling flushed and overheate
  
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• Letter: What about those with no insurance?

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  I am not necessarily advocating for a federally run health care system. I understand the sincere objections many in the U.S. have for anything that smacks of what they consider to be socialism.However, as unemployment rises to levels perhaps unseen since the Depression, what will happen to those who lose their employer-provided health insurance when COVID-19 may drive them to seek care? Additionally, what happens to those who have inadequate or no insurance when the virus strikes?Will we end up
  
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• Letter: We need Romney’s leadership

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  No matter where you live or what you do, the COVID-19 outbreak is causing a massive disruption to our lives, and it seems the worst is yet to come. We are all relying on a robust response of local public services, but after years of chronic underfunding, so much — from health care to infrastructure — is stretched as far as it can go.Navigating this crisis will require nimble and quick responses that differ area to area, but with businesses facing uncertain futures, workers requiring
  
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• Letter: Steps we must take in the face of the coronavirus

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  WHO predicts the U.S. could be the next epicenter of the coronavirus. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost of global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, offered steps America could take. They include things Trump should do:Be honest with the public.Model and require social distancing.Order the closing of all schools and non-essential businesses.Impose a shelter in place policy.Increase the manufacture of tests, ventilators, and essential equipment. Use the National Guard to construct tes
  
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• Letter: Lessons from this tragedy

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  As horrible as the current pandemic is, let’s hope the world, and the United States in particular, learns the following lessons from this devastating experience:That health care for profit is immoral. Adequate health care is a basic human right that must be available to everybody.That we must acknowledge human causes of global climate change and take immediate action to preserve our fragile planet for future generations. Science matters.That leaders, starting at the very top, must be hones
  
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• Letter: Can’t shake the image of ‘fatbergs’

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  Having little else to think about besides coronaviruses, I was almost glad that Sierra Sun’s April 2 commentary planted an image in my brain that I can’t get out. That image is of South Carolina scuba divers swimming 80 feet down through raw sewage to break up blockages and “fatbergs,” results of people flushing inappropriate items down the toilet.In addition to her list of things that should not be flushed, there is one more thing that many people flush and probably shou
  
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• Letter: Arts festival put the good of the community first

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  Recently I received an email from the Utah Arts Festival stating that the 2020 festival is canceled. I am a donor to the festival and even have tickets to attend, because of my support.My words of admiration are inadequate to describe the depth of my appreciation for the bravery and fortitude to come to this decision. Individuals, nonprofits such as the Utah Arts Festival, small businesses, mayors, etc., are having to make impossibly hard decisions that have huge repercussions.It really comes do
  
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• After-school programs have moved classes to online as the coronavirus keeps people at home

  04-04-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.One by one, a new, smiling face pops up on the Zoom group video chat and the group of pre-teens and teenagers catch up for a few minutes before their teacher logs on.Mercedes, a 12-year-old, brings her pair of ballet slippers into
  
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• Utah County Attorney tests positive for the coronavirus

  04-04-2020 06:24
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Utah County Attorney David Leavitt has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office spokeswoman said Friday evening.Leavitt had been ill for about 10 days, spokeswoman Sherrie Hall Everett said, and his COVID-19 test came back p
  
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• [Basketball Insiders] - Sources: NBA ‘angling’ to Cancel Rest of 2020 Season

  04-04-2020 06:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  The NBA suspended its season mid-March after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. A timetable to return isn’t clear as the COVID-19 pandemic continues its rapid spread throughout the United States and the world. On that note,...
  
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• 2 children hospitalized after eating THC-infused candy they got at Utah food bank

  04-04-2020 05:56
  
  An 11-year-old and a 5-year-old went to the hospital Friday after eating THC-infused Nerds candy they got from a Utah Food Bank distribution center in Roy.The children’s families picked up their bag of food from Roy Baptist Church, at 2025 W. 5700 South. Roy police said in a news release that they know 63 bags of food containing the “Medicated Nerds” rope candy were distributed.An 11-year-old girl was the first to receive treatment. Later a 5-year-old was also hospitalized, FOX
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Sacramento Kings turning former arena into coronavirus surge hospital

  04-04-2020 05:22 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Sacramento Kings have donated their former home, the one-time Arco Arena, to be a coronavirus surge hospital to help save lives.
  
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• [Clutchpoints] - Jazz star Donovan Mitchell dishes warning to NBA 2K opponents

  04-04-2020 04:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  Apart from his skills on the court, Utah Jazz superstar Donovan Mitchell is not lacking confidence in terms of his virtual prowess in NBA 2K20. The one-time All-Star, who is among the 16 athletes participating in the players-only 2K tournament,...
  
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