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• RSL’s Giuseppe Rossi finding ways to pass time, learn about himself after COVID-19 halted his first MLS season

  27-04-2020 23:36
  
  Giuseppe Rossi feels the COVID-19 pandemic, and the isolation it’s forced, from multiple angles.The Real Salt Lake forward originally hails from New Jersey, where much of his immediate family lives. That’s one of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus.Rossi played much of his career in Italy. He has family and many friends there, too. That’s one of the hardest-hit countries in the world.On top of all that, Rossi has had to stay by himself in his apartment because his wife ma
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Gubernatorial Graphic

  27-04-2020 23:34
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/24/bagley-cartoon-grave/" target=_blank><u>Grave Message</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/23/bagley-cartoon-between/"><u>Between COVID and a Bad Place</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/04/22/ba
  
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• Gas prices in Utah are higher than most states

  27-04-2020 23:30
  
  Utah is one of only 12 states in the nation where the average price of gasoline is still above $2 a gallon — but the AAA travel services company predicts it will fall below that here this week.It also says that Sevier County is a wildly inexpensive exception to those relatively high gas prices in Utah. The average price there on Monday was a mere $1.30 a gallon, a third cheaper than most other places in the state.AAA reported on Monday that the average price per gallon of regular gasoline
  
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• The coronavirus is expected to reduce meat selection and raise prices

  27-04-2020 23:21
  
  Des Moines, Iowa • Meat isn’t going to disappear from supermarkets because of outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers at U.S. slaughterhouses. But as the meat plants struggle to remain open, consumers could face less selection and slightly higher prices.Industry leaders acknowledge that the U.S. food chain has rarely been so stressed and that no one is sure about the future, even as they try to dispel concerns about shortages.On Sunday, the meat processing giant Tyson Foods ran a f
  
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• Woman arrested after she chased her fiancé and rammed his car

  27-04-2020 23:01
  
  A Utah woman was arrested Saturday after she reportedly rammed the car that carried her fiancé.According to Sandy City Police, the 32-year-old woman was chasing her fiancé and “attempting to arrest him for a warrant she believed he had.” Both vehicles were speeding through a residential area, and the suspect was “opening her door while driving and leaning out of the car to yell at her fiancé in the other vehicle.”She rammed the other vehicle three tim
  
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• NBA says players can return to practice facilities May 8. Utah Jazz consider options.

  27-04-2020 22:43
  
  On Monday afternoon, the NBA announced players may be able to get shots up in their team’s practice facilities as early as May 8.With many state and local governments easing stay-at-home orders and peeling back limitations on nonessential businesses, the league decided to change its “guidance regarding the use of team practice facilities and player training.“The purpose of these changes is to allow for safe and controlled environments for players to train in states that allow t
  
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• Murray liquor store becomes second one to close due to employee testing positive for COVID-19

  27-04-2020 22:36
  
  The state liquor store at 5056 S. State St. in Murray shut down Monday after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.The employee reported testing positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, said Terry Wood, spokesman for the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.“As soon as the test came in, we knew we had to close the store,” said Wood, adding that "the employee contracted the virus after close contact with a family member. It wasn’t from someone who came into the
  
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• Washington County plans to allow businesses to reopen Friday

  27-04-2020 22:19
  
  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.Washington County leaders for weeks have groused that state coronavirus actions have been too restrictive for an area with relatively few cases, and announced plans Monday to largely reopen for businesses on Friday, at least as muc
  
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• Police searching for missing Utah girl

  27-04-2020 20:56
  
  Police have issued an alert for a 13-year-old Utah girl who is missing and endangered.The Millard County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to locate Taline Meguerditchian, who was last seen Sunday morning at 145 E. 100 South in Meadow. She is described as white, 5-feet-2, 120 pounds, with hazel eyes and brown hair.The teenager is believed to be with her father, Nichan Meguerditchian.Anyone with any information about Taline Meguerditchian’s whereabouts is asked to
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 27: No new deaths, only four new hospitalizations reported; NAMI Utah launches free online support and seminars.

  27-04-2020 20:52
  
  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 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----12:50 p.m.: NAMI Utah launching free online support groups, mental heal
  
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• Questions over Kim’s health highlight intelligence limits

  27-04-2020 20:38
  
  Seoul, South Korea • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s prolonged public absence has led to rumors of ill health and worries about how it could influence the future of what one analyst calls Northeast Asia’s “Achilles’ heel,” a reference to the North’s belligerence and unpredictable nature.But there's a basic, unanswered question, debated by the media and government intelligence services alike: Are the rumors even true?The exact state of Kim's health matte
  
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• Joe Ingles and family considered returning to Australia, but decided to stay in Utah

  27-04-2020 20:34
  
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles he and his wife, Renae, considered returning to Australia dduring the COVID-19 pandemic, but ultimately decided to stay in Utah. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz arrived back in Salt Lake City on March 12, after one of the longest nights they’d experienced following Rudy Gobert’s coronavirus diagnosis. Two weeks later, after a mandatory self-quarantine at home, Joe Ingles and his wife Renae, realized the NBA season wasn&r
  
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• As questions about upcoming season persist, Utah tweaks its football season ticket process

  27-04-2020 20:01
  
  Amid ongoing concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic and how it may affect the 2020 college football season, the University of Utah is attempting to put its large season-ticket base at ease.The Utes’ athletic department reached out to season-ticket holders Monday morning, offering three temporary revisions to its ticket refund possibility. The options were outlined in an email, which was obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune.Season-ticket holders are now being allowed to transfer payments to
  
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• BYU’s Cinderella run in the Ultimate Fan Bracket ends in the championship round

  27-04-2020 19:55
  
  There was no game-winning shot from TJ Haws or another dominating double-double performance from Yoeli Childs. Jake Toolson didn't knock down 3-pointer after 3-pointer.And there definitely wasn’t a NCAA Tournament, a downer for a BYU squad that was set to return to the Big Dance for the first time since 2015.Yet, No. 10 BYU found itself in the championship round, staying in the game up until the final seconds. But top-seeded North Carolina pulled ahead to win.With no March Madness, FOX Col
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 27: Murray liquor store closes after worker tests positive; social distancing is hardest in Utah, study says.

  27-04-2020 19:22
  
  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 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----11:20 a.m.: Second Utah liquor store closes after employee tests positi
  
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• Human remains found in canyon near Salt Lake City

  27-04-2020 18:33
  
  Police are investigating decayed human remains found in a canyon near Salt Lake City.They were found by a hiker up City Creek Canyon Saturday night in a “severe state of decay,” KUTV reported. Lt. Brett Olsen of Salt Lake City Police said authorities have little information about who the person was or how they died.Forensic investigators from the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner will look into what might have caused the death.Remains were also found at Memory Grove Park in the sam
  
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• Nations, U.S. states each chart their own path on reopening their economies

  27-04-2020 18:31
  
  London • A thinner-looking British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to work Monday after a bout with the coronavirus and warned strongly against easing the country's lockdown, even as other European countries and U.S. states began lifting restrictions to get their economies going again.The shutdowns are being eased piecemeal, with governments charting their own path as they seek to reopen for business without triggering a second wave of infections. Hair salons, restaurants and beaches,
  
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• In a pandemic, more Americans are turning to Congress for help

  27-04-2020 18:04
  
  Washington • Being stuck aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship as the coronavirus raged on board was “pretty horrible” for Utah’s Monica Achter and her parents, David and LoRene Richards.They didn’t know when they could disembark the vacation-turned-nightmare — or if the novel virus would strike them first.And when hope finally emerged, an evacuation off the ship to a Georgia military base for quarantine, they found themselves again stuck, only now hundreds of
  
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• Tabernacle Choir delays overseas tour until next year

  27-04-2020 16:46
  
  The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square got a new name 18 months ago, a new logo last week and was poised to launch a tour of Scandinavia and the British Isles in late June, but that trip has been pushed back a year.A news release Monday said the 2021 performances will include all the same cities planned for the original heritage tour. The shows were set for Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki; Finland; Copenhagen, Denmark; Oslo, Norway; Cardiff, Wales; and Edinburgh, Scotland.Details of the revised dates
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, April 27: Social distancing is hardest in Utah, study says

  27-04-2020 16:16
  
  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 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]----8:11 a.m.: Utahns having hardest time with social distancing, survey sa
  
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• Utah Guard soldiers bring their language skills to a new battlefront — as contact tracers in war against coronavirus

  27-04-2020 15:04
  
  Lt. Col. Scott Chalmers once deployed to Afghanistan to communicate with locals there for the U.S. Army. Now he’s overseeing soldiers trying to tell Utahns about the coronavirus.“Our job is to help the community wherever we’re at,” said Chalmers, the administrative officer for the Utah National Guard’s 300th Military Intelligence Brigade.Twenty soldiers from the brigade are among the battalion of state employees who have volunteered to do what’s called contact
  
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• Dan McCready: Voter fraud is part of the Republican playbook

  27-04-2020 15:04
  
  By now most of us have seen the photos from the Wisconsin primary, where voters had to stand for hours in lines that wrapped around city blocks in cold, pouring rain. To exercise what was supposed to be their most sacred democratic right, people had to risk catching the deadly coronavirus — and several did.To avoid a repeat of the situation and hold a fair election in November, when America may still be in the middle of a pandemic, elections experts and public health officials say we must
  
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• Domestic violence experts worried about the impacts of coronavirus. Here’s what happened as Utah locked down.

  27-04-2020 15:03
  
  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.Living in a world infected with the coronavirus is stressful. That’s before adding in possible job losses or food concerns or figuring out how to care for children who are not in school. it can make a tough situation all the
  
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• Letter: What are we doing for our essential workers?

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  I am a proud worker for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program. With additional funding provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the program is providing a critical service by supporting pregnant women and mothers with young children who have lost their jobs due to coronavirus.But helping to support families suffering from hunger due to this crisis means that I am potentially exposing myself and my family to the virus. This has led to immense stress.I am one of the luc
  
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• Letter: We could learn a lot from South Korea

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  Lately, South Korea seems to have been doing a number of things better than we have been.Recently they ran an election in the middle of a pandemic better than we did in Wisconsin.They have handled the COVID-19 epidemic better than we have by making testing and contacttracing a top priority rather than something that would be nice if we could afford it.And a couple of years ago, when they realized that they were dealing with a president who was corrupt, dissembled and was ineffectual, they not on
  
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• Letter: Tariffs hurt Utah businesses

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  We own a digital fabric printing business in Sandy with seven employees on payroll and many others doing contract work. We supply materials to multiple cut-and-sew shops here in Utah. Recently, there has been incredible demand for face mask material. Some of this material is only made overseas.Did you know that the Trump administration has set the tariff at 35% for fabric? China does not pay this tariff. American businesses pay the tariff. We all pay these tariffs. Tariffs are more taxation, per
  
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• Letter: Modeling leadership skills on the president’s?

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  To the Utah congressional delegation:The presidential election of 2020 demands assessment of the president’s leadership, as recently demonstrated in the COVID-19 crisis.President Trump, especially lately when we’d hope he could be more, well, presidential, has operated on his usual, “Blurt first, assess the facts later” style, then when his blunders are revealed, “Blame others – blame them all.”If you need examples:The “hoax” statements of Ja
  
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• Letter: Congressional candidate Kerry Gibson is a deceiver

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  Voters owe a debt of gratitude to The Salt Lake Tribune for unveiling the egregious falsehood being promulgated by congressional candidate Kerry Gibson, who is claiming that he earned his daily herdsman “degree” from Utah State University.Gibson was a student at USU for a total of three semesters. He did indeed earn a "certificate" for completing the coursework for a particular subject. Those who truly have met the stringent requirements and have indeed earned a degree from a univers
  
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• Americans may dislike Congress but they’re flooding it with requests for help

  27-04-2020 14:00
  
  Washington • Being stuck aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship as the coronavirus raged on board was “pretty horrible” for Utah’s Monica Achter and her parents, David and LoRene Richards.They didn’t know when they could disembark the vacation-turned-nightmare — or if the novel virus would strike them first.And when hope finally emerged, an evacuation off the ship to a Georgia military base for quarantine, they found themselves again stuck, only now hundreds of
  
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• ‘The Last Dance’ Episodes 3 and 4: The Jazz show up, Rodman goes ‘wild’

  27-04-2020 08:45
  
  Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls talks with the media at Key Arena on June 14, 1996 in Seattle, Washington. Rodman’s life story, and his tenure with the Bulls, is explored in Episode 3 of ESPN’s “The Last Dance.” | NBAE via Getty Images 2 Deseret News reporters discuss the newest episodes of ESPN’s ‘The Last Dance’ Finally, the moments we’ve been waiting for.
  In Episodes 3 and 4 of ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” which aired on Sunday
  
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• Spain lets children play outside as U.S. states move toward reopening at various speeds

  27-04-2020 05:49
  
  Minneapolis • Spain let children go outside and play Sunday for the first time in six weeks as European countries methodically worked to ease their lockdowns and reopen their economies, while governors in the United States moved at differing speeds, some more aggressive, others more cautious.Elsewhere around the world, China’s state-run media said that hospitals in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the disaster, no longer have any COVID-19 patients, after a crisis in which the city rec
  
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• NHL goalies trying to stay sharp during break

  27-04-2020 03:48
  
  Toronto • Vancouver Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom is using a tennis ball machine as part of his training to stay sharp.Columbus Blue Jackets counterpart Joonas Korpisalo doesn’t have that technology at his disposal during the coronavirus pandemic, so a wall has had to do the trick.Toronto’s Frederik Andersen is self-isolating with teammate and 47-goal man Auston Matthews.“I have a pretty good shooter here,” Andersen said.No matter the setup, NHL puck-stoppers are,
  
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• Neemias Queta will return next season for Utah State men’s basketball team

  27-04-2020 02:41
  
  The Utah State Aggies were going to be without Sam Merrill and Abel Porter next season after the former graduated and the latter transferred to Ohio State. But they will get one of their main players back.Center Neemias Queta announced Sunday that he will return to USU for his junior season. There was a question as to whether he would declare for the NBA draft this summer after doing so last year but eventually coming back for his sophomore season.Queta won’t be doing that this time.&ldquo
  
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• The Utah Jazz can’t afford to lose Jordan Clarkson

  27-04-2020 01:57
  
  Jordan Clarkson’s arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in late December was everything the Utah Jazz needed to inject life into the team. Heading into the offseason, keeping him on Quin Snyder’s roster must be viewed as a top priority. I don’t care how closely you follow the Utah Jazz, you — along with just about […]
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• Failed power line ignites fire above Farmington

  27-04-2020 01:49
  
  Fire crews from Farmington City and Kaysville battled a grass fire started by a failed power line on Sunday.The fire is located on BLM land on the north side of Shepherd Creek near Farmington. Farmington City Fire Department Chief Guido Smith said it was about a mile-and-a-half from the nearest structures and burning in light fuels.At 5 p.m. the fire had burned about a 2 acre-by-1-acre swath.Smith said the local fire departments are coordinating with state and federal agencies whose responses ha
  
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• Most Utah state parks open to residents of all counties

  27-04-2020 01:02
  
  Like the final scramble up a talus field, the view for Utah’s hikers is improving bit by bit.Over the past week and a half, the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation has been expanding the recreation options for the state’s hikers as well as mountain and road bikers, off-roaders and water sports enthusiasts. As of Friday, anyone in need of a change of scenery from the walls of their house or apartment could find it at all but four of the state’s parks.That hasn’t been the
  
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• Out in South Jordan, the parks and rec department is going virtual to provide residents with their sports fix

  27-04-2020 00:51
  
  Many South Jordan residents had already signed up for the city’s annual Earth Day 10K race when the COVID-19 pandemic caused closures to recreation sites all over the state. That left parks and recreation officials looking for ways to provide their residents with something to do, even though facilities in the city were closing left and right.That’s when program director Brad Vaske thought of something. What if he took the Earth Day race and made it virtual? Runners could send screens
  
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