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• [KSL] - Rudy Gobert refutes reports his relationship with Donovan Mitchell is 'unsalvageable' | KSL.com

  13-04-2020 23:30 via sportspyder.com
  
  On Sunday, Rudy Gobert refuted reports his relationship with Donovan Mitchell was at a breaking point.
  
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• Raymond A. Hult: Trump was clearly unprepared for coronavirus pandemic

  13-04-2020 23:29
  
  With the horrible spread of the COVID-19 virus pandemic blanketing America, history will undoubtedly label President Trump as a primary contributor.It’s now clear an early and concentrated effort to comprehend the seriousness of a potential pandemic and take immediate steps to thwart it is imperative if lives are to be saved. The president fumbled the ball.In May 2018, White House officials responsible for managing a national pandemic response were forced out as a budget cutting measure. T
  
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• 1st FBI poster in Navajo language seeks info on homicide

  13-04-2020 23:00
  
  Counselor, N.M. • The FBI has issued its first poster in a Native American language, seeking information in Navajo on the death of an elderly man six years ago on the New Mexico portion of the vast Navajo Nation reservation.Wilson Joe Chiquito, 75, was beaten to death at his home in the community of Counselor in February 2014.The FBI recently released the poster that offers a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction. It has been shared on social media and
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 13: Utah has 60 new cases, no new deaths — and 218 recoveries; state turns off texts to motorists entering Utah

  13-04-2020 22:36
  
  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 Monday, April 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:25 p.m.: One-way aisles at HarmonsOne-way shopping aisles have been l
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 13: Utah has 60 new cases, no new deaths, only six new hospitalized patients — and 218 recoveries

  13-04-2020 22:16
  
  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 Monday, April 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----2:15 p.m.: San Juan Public Health director thanks residents for followi
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 13: Utah has 60 new cases, no new deaths, only six new hospitalized patients

  13-04-2020 21:26
  
  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 Monday, April 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----1 p.m.: Utah reports 60 new cases; no new deathsSixty new cases of COVI
  
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• [CBS Sports] - Rudy Gobert downplays rift with Jazz teammate Donovan Mitchell: 'There's no fight' - CBSSports.com

  13-04-2020 21:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mitchell was reportedly upset with Gobert after the two tested positive for COVID-19
  
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• Pelle Larsson could make immediate impact as part of loaded Utah hoops 2020 recruiting class

  13-04-2020 21:16
  
  Walking behind a Swedish recruit last fall as they climbed a flight of stairs, University of Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak noticed his calves trying to pop through his jeans with each passing step.At that moment, the coach thought that this combo guard resembled Cody Barton, who at 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds punished Pac-12 offenses before being drafted by the Seattle Seahawks as a middle linebacker.Comparing a European youngster to an NFL brute may have been tongue-in-cheek, but his point was valid
  
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• A Montana bird watcher keeping birds out of a toxic mine pit is deemed ‘essential’ during coronavirus pandemic

  13-04-2020 21:03
  
  Butte, Mont. • These days, the skies above Southwest Montana are teeming with birds headed north. Which means on a windy Tuesday in April, bird protection specialist Mark Mariano has been on duty since sunrise at the Berkeley Pit, Butte’s abandoned open pit copper mine turned toxic lake.This morning, he's been tracking a bunch of dabbling ducks paddling across the Pit's white-capped surface, and recording himself on his phone, Montana Public Radio reported. Now, it's time to use a lon
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 13: Salt Lake City may turn some roads over to pedestrians, bicyclists

  13-04-2020 20:33
  
  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 Monday, April 13. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:30 p.m.: LDS Church postpones youth conferences for a yearThe debut
  
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• Stolen golf cart leads Salt Lake City police to a body. Suspect told officers he killed ‘the terminator.’

  13-04-2020 20:27
  
  Salt Lake City police arrested a man in a stolen golf cart Friday, who was covered in blood.According to a probable cause statement, the property manager at Jefferson School Apartments at 1099 S. West Temple reported that he followed a resident of one of the apartments who was in the stolen golf cart.The suspect was arrested for the theft, according to police who then questioned him about his blood covered clothes. The man said he had “been in a fight with the terminator and killed him.&rd
  
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• Jon Huntsman qualifies for the primary ballot in Utah governor’s race

  13-04-2020 20:11
  
  Former Gov. Jon Huntsman is the third gubernatorial candidate to earn a place on the Republican primary ballot after gathering the 28,000 signatures he needed to make the cut.Huntsman’s campaign has been hustling to collect signatures before Monday’s deadline for submitting them to state officials. On Monday, the elections office confirmed he’d met the threshold to appear on the June primary ballot alongside at least two opponents, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and former Utah GOP chair
  
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• BYU’s Dalton Nixon was rehabbing for March Madness when everything stopped. What’s next?

  13-04-2020 19:58
  
  While the NCAA Tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus, it still played out in Dalton Nixon’s head. The BYU forward had been looking forward to March Madness so much that each date that was scheduled for a game weighed heavily on him.The senior suffered a gnarly double ankle sprain at Loyola Marymount on Feb. 13 when he went on a breakaway layup, was fouled in the air and landed badly on his right leg. At first, it seemed like a season-ending injury.But Nixon was adamant about f
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang’s growth as role player earns him Luke Walton All-Star status

  13-04-2020 19:49 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Reserve forward Georges Niang has turned into a consistent contributor for the Utah Jazz. Before the 2019-20 NBA season was put on indefinite suspension last month because of the...
  
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• Jon Huntsman qualifies for the primary ballot in governor’s race

  13-04-2020 19:42
  
  Former Gov. Jon Huntsman is the third gubernatorial candidate to earn a place on the primary ballot after gathering the 28,000 signatures he needed to make the cut.Huntsman’s campaign has been hustling to collect signatures before Monday’s deadline for submitting them to state officials. On Monday, the elections office confirmed he’d met the threshold to appear on the June primary ballot alongside at least two opponents, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and former Utah GOP chairman Thomas
  
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• Utah Shakespeare Festival shortens 2020 season because of coronavirus

  13-04-2020 19:32
  
  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.The play’s the thing, and Utah Shakespeare Festival will go on in 2020 in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, in a condensed form.Festival officials announced Monday they will stage a shortened season of the Tony-winning t
  
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• Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang’s growth as role player earns him Luke Walton All-Star status

  13-04-2020 19:22
  
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang (31) celebrates after scoring against Washington at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Reserve forward Georges Niang has turned into a consistent contributor for the Utah Jazz.
  Before the 2019-20 NBA season was put on indefinite suspension last month because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Niang had played in 58 of the Jazz’s games this season, averaging 13.3 minutes off the bench.
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• President Trump leads Joe Biden in Utah — but not by much, says new poll

  13-04-2020 19:06
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump leads rival Joe Biden by just 5 percentage points among Utah voters, a new poll shows, a worrisome showing for a Republican president in a deep-red state that hasn’t backed a Democrat for the White House in more than five decades.Some 46% of likely Utah voters say they would support Trump if the election were held now compared to 41% who back Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, a poll by UtahPolicy.com and KUTV finds.With a margin of error of
  
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• Voting by mail could be what states need. But can they pull it off?

  13-04-2020 18:31
  
  Washington • When Colorado’s 3.5 million voters help select a president this fall, their choice will be made almost entirely by mail, via ballots in postage-paid envelopes dropped off in mailboxes or, more commonly, in bins scattered statewide.Not so in Alabama. As the law now stands, all voters must cast their ballots on Election Day, at their designated polling places, unless they vote absentee. And getting an absentee ballot is so hard that fewer than 55,000 of 1.7 million voters c
  
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• Pope Francis urges solidarity on an Easter of both joy, virus sorrow

  13-04-2020 18:23
  
  Vatican City • Pope Francis called for global solidarity Sunday to confront the “epochal challenge” posed by the coronavirus pandemic as he and Christians around the world celebrated the joy of Easter in unusually solitary and somber circumstances due to bans on public gatherings and stay-at-home orders.With most churches closed to their congregations and police checkpoints set up in Europe to enforce the restrictions, families that normally would attend morning church services
  
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• What you need to know about Utah’s gubernatorial candidates

  13-04-2020 18:20
  
  Utah is guaranteed a new leader next year in the state’s highest office after Gov. Gary Herbert departs from the seat he’s held for 10 years — and there are plenty of candidates vying for the job.Gubernatorial hopefuls are gathering signatures to get on the ballot or awaiting the results of the April 25 state Republican and Democratic conventions. Utah voters will then have the chance to choose from among the candidates from their own parties in the state’s June 30 primar
  
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• At least 1 of every 8 Utah legislative candidates can already declare victory

  13-04-2020 18:13
  
  With months to go before the November election, winners are already determined in 11 of Utah’s 90 legislative races this year. And it’s all but over in another four contests.Nine Republican and two Democratic incumbents are unopposed and another four GOP members are challenged only candidates from minor parties that haven’t won a state election here in decades.Some say that coronavirus worries are partly to blame for the lack of competition. Others point to gerrymandering. Or i
  
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• Feds sue Utah criminal justice officials, alleging multimillion dollar grant fraud

  13-04-2020 18:10
  
  Federal authorities are suing some of Utah’s top public safety officials, alleging they committed fraud by misusing millions of dollars in grants that were part of stimulus programs during the Great Recession. And this case started when an inmate in Utah’s prison was photocopying paperwork that caught his attention.Reginald Williams first filed a whistleblower complaint in 2015, alleging in court papers that he uncovered the fraud while working in the prison’s print shop in 201
  
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• Muslim women who cover their faces find greater acceptance among coronavirus masks — ‘Nobody is giving me dirty looks’

  13-04-2020 18:07
  
  Americans began donning face masks after federal and local officials changed their position on whether face coverings protect against the coronavirus.This is new terrain for many, who find themselves unable to recognize neighbors and are unsure how to engage socially without using facial expressions.But not for Muslim women who wear the niqab, or Islamic face veil. Suddenly, these women — who are often received in the West with open hostility for covering their faces — look a lot mor
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Heat guard Kendrick Nunn believes he should be Rookie of the Year

  13-04-2020 17:17 via sportspyder.com
  
  Nunn has averaged 15.6 points per game for Miami this season
  
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• Baby chicks in Utah are ‘flying off the shelves’ because of the coronavirus pandemic

  13-04-2020 17:09
  
  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.Jonathan Morrison and his wife, Joellyn Manville, were supposed to be in Bolivia this summer. Instead, because of the coronavirus, they’re at home in Salt Lake City with a lot of time on their hands.Manville “idles at 6
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert rebuts report that relationship with teammate Donovan Mitchell ‘is unsalvageable’

  13-04-2020 16:57
  
  After a media report came out last Friday quoting an anonymous source suggesting the relationship between Rudy Gobert and teammate Donovan Mitchell was “unsalvageable,” that the Utah Jazz might become the first professional sports team to be ripped apart by by the coronavirus pandemic, the All-Star center took to Instagram Live on Sunday evening to refute it.While Gobert acknowledged that his relationship with Mitchell had indeed taken a beating after they became the first two profes
  
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• At Utah’s Capitol, hundreds gather on Easter weekend, despite social-distancing guidelines

  13-04-2020 16:34
  
  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.For a couple hundred people this weekend, taking in the sunny Easter season weather and smelling the cherry blossoms at the Utah State Capitol took priority over social distancing recommendations in the midst of the coronavirus pan
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Some want to restart Utah’s economy now. Here’s what needs to happen first.

  13-04-2020 16:32
  
  Toward the end of last week, with the rate of new COVID-19 cases leveling off, some started wondering if Utah had reached the peak of the outbreak and questions were raised as to when would be the right time to start easing the restrictions that have kept us housebound and teetering on the brink of madness.That’s a bit premature, and let me tell you why.The best way to really understand the full picture, as officials have said over and over, is by doing broad, large-scale testing across th
  
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• Utah governor’s race 2020: The candidates and the issues

  13-04-2020 16:18
  
  Utah is guaranteed a new leader next year in the state’s highest office after Gov. Gary Herbert departs from the seat he’s held for 10 years — and there are plenty of candidates vying for the job.Gubernatorial hopefuls are gathering signatures to get on the ballot or awaiting the results of the April 25 state Republican and Democratic conventions. Utah voters will then have the chance to choose from among the candidates from their own parties in the state’s June 30 primar
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Kentucky guard Immanuel Quickley declares for 2020 NBA Draft

  13-04-2020 16:18 via sportspyder.com
  
  Quickley was the 2020 SEC Player of the Year as a sophomore
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Wizards’ GM says team may aim to find slow-developing hidden gem in Draft

  13-04-2020 15:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Washington Wizards get John Wall back next season and expect to make a leap, so in the draft they may look for a long-term project player.
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert refutes report that relationship with teammate Donovan Mitchell ‘is unsalvageable’

  13-04-2020 15:03
  
  After a media report came out last Friday quoting an anonymous source suggesting the relationship between Rudy Gobert and teammate Donovan Mitchell was “unsalvageable,” that the Utah Jazz might become the first professional sports team to be ripped apart by by the coronavirus pandemic, the All-Star center took to Instagram Live on Sunday evening to refute it.While Gobert acknowledged that his relationship with Mitchell had indeed taken a beating after they became the first two profes
  
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• Baby chicks in Utah are ‘flying of the shelves’ because of the coronavirus pandemic

  13-04-2020 15:00
  
  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.Jonathan Morrison and his wife, Joellyn Manville, were supposed to be in Bolivia this summer. Instead, because of the coronavirus, they’re at home in Salt Lake City with a lot of time on their hands.Manville “idles at 6
  
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• Pharmacist who’s amassed malaria drugs has ear of Utah leaders about COVID-19 treatment

  13-04-2020 14:30
  
  A Utah pharmacist says he has amassed ingredients for medication to use against the coronavirus and has talked with state leaders about a distribution plan, even as health experts across the nation stress the meager evidence of the malaria drug’s efficacy.The stockpile of drug components could translate into 100,000 courses of treatment for coronavirus patients in Utah, says Meds in Motion owner Dan Richards, who hopes the unproven medication will quell fears that are keeping businesses sh
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Rudy Gobert spoke to Donovan Mitchell, “We both want the same thing, and it’s winning”

  13-04-2020 14:23 via sportspyder.com
  
  The Utah Jazz's All-Star teammates Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell spoke a couple of days ago and started to repair their relationship.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Here is where we need to focus our efforts if we want to keep the COVID-19 curve low

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  Toward the end of last week, with the rate of new COVID-19 cases leveling off, some started wondering if Utah had reached the peak of the outbreak and questions were raised as to when would be the right time to start easing the restrictions that have kept us housebound and teetering on the brink of madness.That’s a bit premature, and let me tell you why.The best way to really understand the full picture, as officials have said over and over, is by doing broad, large-scale testing across th
  
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• Letter: What would Ike say?

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  A recent letter submitted by George E. Ekdahl accused George Pyle of using language that was too harsh and wrong in describing the actions of our president in dealing with the pandemic.He made his case by providing an example of how Mr. Trump had implemented a travel ban restricting flights from China. This bold action by our president, he said, prevented a much more severe outbreak of the virus.However, in Sunday’s New York Times, an article provides a very different account of what actua
  
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• Letter: What outweighs the loss of life?

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  For some unexplained reason, our Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has refused to issue a stay-at-home order for the entire state and we are now having to self-police. We have to “trust” our fellow citizens to self-isolate, follow the recommended guidelines and adhere voluntarily to social distancing.The large majority of citizens appear to be following all those directives but, as always, there are still a portion of people who gather in parks or other public places that do not adhere to the s
  
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• Letter: President led us to these worst-case scenarios

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  James Tabery has written an elegant article from the point of view of a detached academic.I beg to differ. I’m 82 and, should I get COVID-19, either now or in the inevitable resurgence when everyone ventures out on the streets again, I’m likely to fall into the category of patients that he advises, “How to prepare for the worst-case scenario.”That means that I’m likely, in the absence of a sufficient number of ventilators, to be offered “comfort-oriented care,
  
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• Letter: Curb your enthusiasm

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  After seeing the pictures of crowds gathering to welcome home missionaries at the Salt Lake airport, and reading the criticism and condemnation from government and church officials, you can imagine my anger when, less than 10 days later, I drove down a residential street and observed a gathering for a missionary homecoming.There were banners and signs, "Return with Honor," "All together again."How could any responsible person ignore the warning and mandates of health and government officials for
  
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• Letter: Congress must declare war

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  Our nation has faced three existential threats, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II. In each case, it survived and prospered largely due to the leadership of singular individuals, Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt.Each acted under authority that placed the survival of the nation above individual liberties and the economy. Each mobilized the population in extraordinary ways. The latter two nationalized private companies and turned the astounding industrial and scientific capacit
  
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• Letter: A complete failure of leadership

  13-04-2020 14:00
  
  Did anyone really think the POTUS would rise to the occasion during this unprecedented pandemic with a modicum of humanity?His hubris, greed, denials and dangerous delays in preparing our country in advance have resulted in a complete leadership failure. Hearing him spew nonsense during his press conferences — aka mini-Trump rallies offering false facts and lies — I am more convinced he is truly evil, devoid of a heart and soul. All he can give us is more reckless impulses costing hu
  
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• At least 10 Utah cops have the coronavirus. Here’s how the pandemic is changing policing.

  13-04-2020 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.They’ve seen fellow Utah officers test positive for the coronavirus and they know cops in other states have died from the disease. But their job is not one they can do from home. As a result, for many in law enforcement a mas
  
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• [Larry Brown Sports] - Chris Paul hooked up Jazz players during uncertainty after Rudy Gobert’s positive test

  13-04-2020 06:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  Chris Paul had a nice gesture for the Utah Jazz during their uncertain time last month as they awaited testing for the coronavirus. The Athletic published a story on Friday that had an inside look at the Jazz, whose center, Rudy Gobert, had the...
  
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• [NBA] - Mike Conley beats WNBA legend Tamika Catchings in opening round of star-studded H-O-R-S-E competition

  13-04-2020 06:21 via sportspyder.com
  
  Mike Conley shoots left-handed, but signs autographs right-handed. He golfs lefty, but putts righty.And he wins games of H-O-R-S-E with both hands.The Utah Jazz point guard grabbed the W in the
  
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• People and firms desperate for aid wonder when it will come

  13-04-2020 05:28
  
  Baltimore • It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.2 trillion economic rescue package that will distribute money to struggling individuals and businesses. It feels like a lot longer than that to James Stearns of Gulfport, Miss.His job installing vinyl floors was reduced to just one day a week because of the coronavirus outbreak. He’s barely sleeping. The April rent on his trailer is past due. Unless the combined $2,400 that he and his wife are to r
  
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• Fauci says ‘rolling reentry’ of U.S. economy possible in May

  13-04-2020 05:23
  
  Washington • The United States’ top infectious disease expert said Sunday that the economy in parts of the country could have a “rolling reentry” as early as next month, provided health authorities can quickly identify and isolate people who will inevitably be infected with the coronavirus.Dr. Anthony Fauci also said he “can’t guarantee” that it will be safe for Americans to vote in person on Election Day, Nov. 3.Rather than flipping a switch to reopen th
  
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• [USA Today] - Rudy Gobert: Reports of strained relationship with Jazz's Donovan Mitchell overblown

  13-04-2020 04:58 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert said he recently spoke with Utah Jazz teammate Donovan Mitchell, and that reports of their strained relationship are overblown.
  
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• Woods gets emotional talking about Masters win and kids

  13-04-2020 04:38
  
  The Masters over, Tiger Woods slipped on the green jacket again on the second Sunday in April.He just wasn’t at Augusta National this year.Woods got emotional Sunday after CBS re-aired his victory last year. In a video production from earlier in the week, Woods joined network host Jim Nantz to provide commentary during the final round, the first time in his 15 major victories that he came from behind to win.CBS re-aired last year’s final round Sunday because the Masters has been post
  
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