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• After testing push, San Juan County has the second highest coronavirus case rate in Utah

  04-05-2020 23:50
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Following a round of free coronavirus testing last week, San Juan County saw its number of confirmed cases more than double over the weekend, and it now has the second-highest case rate in Utah behind Summit County.The Utah Department of
  
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• 5-year-old Utah boy is stopped driving his parents’ car on I-15. He wanted to go buy a Lamborghini.

  04-05-2020 23:47
  
  A 5-year-old Utah boy was stopped by police while driving his parents’ car on I-15 early Monday — and he told a UHP officer he was on his way to California to buy a Lamborghini.According to the Utah Highway Patrol, an officer in Weber County stopped what he thought was an impaired driver. But, to the state trooper’s surprise, it was a 5-year-old, who had driven from his parents’ home in the area of 17th Street and Lincoln Avenue to I-15’s 25th Street offramp.One of
  
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• New Mexico invokes riot law to control virus near Navajo Nation

  04-05-2020 23:04
  
  Gallup, N.M. • All the roads into this city on the edge of the Navajo Nation are closed. The soldiers at the checkpoints have their orders: Outsiders must turn around and drive away.Cities across the country have closed down businesses and ordered residents to remain at home, but the threat of the coronavirus in Gallup became so serious last week that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to lock down the entire city. The downtown of shops, bars and Indian t
  
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• Solangel Gonzalez: Students need to go back to school as soon as it is safe

  04-05-2020 23:00
  
  Due to COVID-19, more than 70% of schools in the United States are closed and many schools are resorting to at-home online schooling. The coronavirus pandemic has caused U.S. education to suddenly become full-time online schooling from home. In most states, including Utah, many schools have closed for the rest of the school year.This has affected and overwhelmed the lives of students, teachers and parents. Teachers have had to rush putting lesson plans online and figuring out how they are going
  
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• Utah stores starting to limit meat purchases, but there won’t be a shortage unless 'consumers create it’

  04-05-2020 22:48
  
  Grocery stores in Utah — and beyond — are limiting the amount of beef, chicken and pork customers can buy in a single shopping trip, hoping to maintain a steady supply and preventing the panic-buying that happened with toilet paper and hand sanitizer.The rationing comes after some of the largest slaughterhouses and processing plants across the country have been forced to close or slow production because of coronavirus outbreaks among workers.The circumstances mean less selection and
  
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• Utah Royals FC players can start individual training sessions

  04-05-2020 22:48
  
  Major League Soccer isn’t the only league that is allowing individual training sessions to start this week.The National Women’s Soccer League announced Monday that its teams can start sessions Wednesday, the same day as MLS. The workouts are voluntary and can only occur under strict guidelines and prohibits access to club facilities such as locker rooms, weight rooms and indoor training rooms.The league’s announcement coincides with its “Return to Play Phased Protocol,&rd
  
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• Jan Garbett drops her legal battle to be on the primary election ballot for governor

  04-05-2020 22:17
  
  Over the weekend, businesswoman Jan Garbett ended her legal battle to appear on next month’s primary election ballot for governor — and with it, her campaign.Garbett, a Republican, filed suit against the state last month, arguing that if not for the “unprecedented limitations” the state imposed in response to the coronavirus, she would have met the 28,000 signature threshold required to earn her spot on the ballot.After she was unable to meet the lower signature threshold
  
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• Dancing with the Dream Team in Barcelona

  04-05-2020 22:05
  
  In sweeping their overmatched international opponents in Barcelona, the U.S. Dream Team (including, from left, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan and Clyde Drexler) created by 11 NBA superstars set the standard for future American basketball teams. | Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — All across America, sports fans over the age of 35, many of them with PIN codes of 2323 on their garage door openers, smartphones and debit cards, are pulling down their face masks long enough to say, “I tol
  
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• How the Utah Jazz were at the center of Isiah Thomas being left off the 1992 ‘Dream Team’

  04-05-2020 21:39
  
  FILE: USA’s John Stockton, left, reaches around Spain’s Andres Jimenez Fernandez in Stockton’s first game of the Olympics, Aug. 2, 1992, Barcelona, Spain. Stockton, the former Utah Jazz great, was one of two tru point guards on the U.S. team during the 1992 Olympics, along with Magic Johnson, while Isiah Thomas was left off the American team. | Susan Ragan, Associated PressA big storyline in the fifth episode of the ESPN documentary “The Last Dance,” which aired Su
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 4: Utah reports 142 new cases with no new deaths; Annual musical satire ‘Saturday’s Voyeur’ canceled.

  04-05-2020 21:23
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---1:20 p.m.: COVID-19 panel from Utah’s BioFire Diagnostics receives emergen
  
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• Jan Garbett drops her legal battle to be on the primary election ballet for governor

  04-05-2020 21:04
  
  Over the weekend, businesswoman Jan Garbett ended her legal battle to appear on next month’s primary election ballot for governor — and with it, her campaign.Garbett, a Republican, filed suit against the state last month, arguing that if not for the “unprecedented limitations” the state imposed in response to the coronavirus, she would have met the 28,000 signature threshold required to earn her spot on the ballot.After she was unable to meet the lower signature threshold
  
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• Utah gasoline finally averages under $2 a gallon

  04-05-2020 20:16
  
  The average price of gasoline in Utah has finally dropped below $2 a gallon, weeks after most of the rest of the nation. And some Salt Lake County gas stations were selling fuel for just $1.47 a gallon on Monday morning.Utah saw the nation’s biggest drop in the price of gasoline during the past week, but it still remains well above the national average, according to national monitoring by the AAA travel services company.Utah’s belated price drop now comes as gasoline prices elsewhere
  
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• Miss the Utah Jazz? Jazz Gaming to begin NBA 2K league play later this month

  04-05-2020 20:15
  
  A photo of Utah Jazz Gaming set to tip-off. | Utah Jazz Gaming media guide Missing the Utah Jazz? The NBA 2K league is about to startThe Utah Jazz Gaming team will begin play for the 2020 regular season later this month as the real-life team awaits to finish its season.
  What’s happening:
  Jazz Gaming will face off against HEAT Check Gaming at 7 p.m. on May 21.
  The NBA 2K League will kick off its third season. It should last at least six weeks.Jazz Gaming will compete from a remote location
  
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• Hurricane boy who beat leukemia now faces brain cancer

  04-05-2020 20:15
  
  St. George • By the time doctors discovered Mac Rogers had brain cancer, he was already a leukemia survivor. Mac was three years old.He's seven now, and his prognosis is uncertain. But 10 months ago, parents Brittny and Jeremy Rogers of Hurricane made a momentous decision: They would take him off chemotherapy, at least for a while, and give him a chance at living without its devastating side effects.And Brittny decided Mac's story was worth sharing.She's written a children's book called "Th
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 4: More Utah court hearings to be done remotely; company donates 1 million masks

  04-05-2020 19:53
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---11:50 a.m.: iFit donates 1 million surgical masks to the stateLogan-based iFit &
  
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• Boiler explosion at Little America injures two

  04-05-2020 19:35
  
  Two people were injured Monday morning when a boiler exploded at the Little America Hotel, officials confirmed.The victims were taken to a hospital. The extent of their injuries is not yet known, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department.The accident happened shortly after 10 a.m. while two workers were servicing the boiler, according to the fire department. The building where the boiler is located did not have any guests staying in it. Traffic was closed in front of the hotel at 500 S. Ma
  
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• The NBA Draft Look-Back: 2014

  04-05-2020 19:34 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Six years after one of the most exciting draft classes of all-time, Matt John evaluates the best players that came out in 2014.
  
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• NBA Daily: The NBA Draft Look-Back – 2014

  04-05-2020 19:34 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Six years after one of the most exciting draft classes of all-time, Matt John evaluates the best players that came out in 2014.
  
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• Utah company claims exclusive rights to using smartphones to trace COVID-19 contacts

  04-05-2020 19:28
  
  A small Utah technology company is claiming exclusive business rights to using smartphones and other electronic devices in tracing who may be infected with COVID-19.In a move that could complicate Utah’s latest strategies to battle the coronavirus, Salt Lake City-based startup Blyncsy said it has launched a website “as a simple way” for other companies to request licensing of its patented technologies and methods for contact tracing.Blyncsy, pronounced “Blink-SEE,”
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 4: More Utah court hearings to be done remotely; Hope Lodge offers space to medical workers.

  04-05-2020 18:40
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---10:30 a.m.: Utah’s only PGA Tour-sanctioned golf tournament will be staged
  
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• RSL, Royals staying fit through team Zoom workouts

  04-05-2020 18:33
  
  Once a week, Real Salt Lake and Utah Royals FC players gather for team training session. While their surroundings are different — a living room, a bedroom, a backyard — the location is the same: Zoom.In the age of COVID-19, the online video conference application has become as ubiquitous as Apple products. Seemingly every industry is utilizing its capability and virtual backgrounds, or a similar product, and the pro soccer teams in Utah are no different.With the players largely confi
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court begins session with historic firsts: Over the phone and live to the world

  04-05-2020 18:08
  
  Washington • It's a morning of firsts for the Supreme Court, the first time audio of the court's arguments was heard live by the world and the first arguments by telephone.The changes are a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which has made holding courtroom sessions unsafe, especially with six justices aged 65 or older and at risk of getting seriously sick from the virus.The historic session began at the usual time of 10 a.m. EDT, when Marshal Pamela Talkin called the court to order and Ch
  
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• How the coronavirus could alter college football, the NFL Draft and even the Super Bowl for years

  04-05-2020 18:03
  
  In a perfect sports world, everyone starts their seasons on time, college football in earnest the first week of September and the NFL the second week, but we are living in an imperfect sports world with unanswerable questions and contingency plans abound.A late start to the college football season is feeling more and more likely with each passing day. More specifically, with Dr. Anthony Fauci voicing concerns last week of an “inevitable” second wave of coronavirus this fall.If colleg
  
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• Navajo Nation has 2,373 coronavirus cases, 73 known deaths as of Sunday

  04-05-2020 17:53
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer have finalized another agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will allow the Chinle Community Center to be used as an alternative care site to isolate positive coronavirus patients.The move was made to help prevent the further spread of COVID-19 on the vast reservation that includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.On Saturday, Navajo Department of Health officials reported 81 new cor
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 4: Hope Lodge offers space to University of Utah medical workers; dairy farmers to help feed the hungry.

  04-05-2020 17:49
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 4. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---9:50 a.m.: Dairy farmers in Utah and Idaho turn excess milk into food for the hu
  
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• Stephenie Meyer says prequel to ‘Twilight’ series will arrive Aug. 4

  04-05-2020 17:09
  
  New York • “The Midnight Sun” will finally appear.Stephenie Meyer’s long-awaited prequel to her “Twilight" series is coming out Aug. 4, the author announced on her website Monday. “The Midnight Sun” is narrated from vampire Edward Cullen’s perspective.Meyer had kept her fans in suspense all weekend with a countdown clock on her site that promised a major announcement. The site soon crashed Monday morning, but the book was also announced by Meyer's p
  
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• Women see biggest job losses during COVID-19, including in Utah

  04-05-2020 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 receive top news in your inbox every weekday morning, subscribe to our Top Stories newsletter.To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Women in the U.S. are seeing disproportionate effects of the economic downturn during the coronavirus pandemic compared to men, report
  
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• The Kearns model: Helping youths by teaching parents

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from Solutions Journalism Network, The Salt Lake Tribune is examining how Kearns is trying to improve the lives of its children. Part 2 of this three-part series focuses on the crucial role parents have in steering their teens away from underage drinking, vaping and other harmful habits.Kearns • German Ochoa likes to say that if you don’t talk to your kids about drugs and alcohol, someone else will. And you probably won’t like the messa
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Why a Utah medical leader is OK with easing restrictions, and what he wants you to keep in mind

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.We all saw the horror that played out in Italy when hospitals were overrun and the bodies of coronavirus victims piled up.Avoiding that kind of tragedy was why the world enacted drastic restrictions, shutting down huge swaths of the econ
  
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• Letter: Trump is what he is. An idiot.

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  Why is it so difficult for people to say publicly what is so patently obvious about Donald Trump's performances during the daily press briefings about the COVID-19 crisis? Do the words get stuck in their throat?Just say it. He's an idiot.When he wonders aloud about the use of disinfectants by injection or ingestion as treatments and then pathetically tries to walk it back by claiming they were a sarcastic question aimed at reporters in the room is an affront to peoples’ basic intelligence.
  
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• Letter: The next phase of Putin’s attack on the West

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  With all the attention on the pandemic in the U.S. and the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin is using this time to continue his undeclared warfare on the United States.He recognizes that it was the economic pressures on the old Soviet Union that caused it to disband. Russia gained economic independence and became the petroleum supplier to Europe. Russia became one of the biggest petroleum producers in the world.Putin started his undeclared war by having Russia hack and disrupt financial ta
  
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• Letter: Send Hughes back to the private sector

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  I was somewhat surprised to see Greg Hughes running for governor. It seems he had disappeared for some time.Is he qualified to be governor? Does anyone remember his tenure at the Utah Transit Authority? He was chairman of the board at UTA during the heyday of its insider deals with developers for special treatment on locations UTA was considering for expansion. Excessive salaries for everyone.Just as the heat got turned up, out he goes and resigns. Just as all the scandal and self-dealing is exp
  
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• Letter: Get to work on our infrastructure

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  It's time for our elected representatives to pass a bill that funds infrastructure improvements. The deteriorating condition of roads, bridges, schools, water treatment plants and other needs have been neglected for years.This initiative would be an effective way to provide work for companies and jobs for people. Such a program during the Great Depression demonstrated great success. The Civilian Conservation Corps provided needed employment for millions of young unemployed men working in the nat
  
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• Letter: An unstable medical genius

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  It is appropriate in these uncertain times to step back for a moment and briefly review the medical knowledge, character and judgment of President Trump.To give readers a brief history, Trump is a former game show host, founder of Trump University, self-acclaimed “stable genius” and “war president” who claims he inherited his unique scientific abilities from his “great, super-genius uncle” who taught at MIT. He states that his staff of doctors have been greatl
  
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• As Utah reopens its economy, some say the COVID-19 unemployment benefits could be a barrier to working

  04-05-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Never in Utah history have so many people filed for unemployment in such a rapid burst.And never have the benefits been this generous. On top of state payments that average about $430 a week, the federal government is providing $600 more
  
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• In televised town hall, Trump pushes for economic reopening

  04-05-2020 05:53
  
  Washington • Anxious to spur an economic recovery without risking lives, President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted that “you can satisfy both” — see states gradually lift lockdowns while also protecting people from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 60,000 Americans.The president, fielding questions from Americans in a virtual town hall from the Lincoln Memorial, acknowledged valid fears on both sides of the issue. Some people are worried about getting sick
  
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• China hid severity of coronavirus to hoard supplies, U.S. intelligence report finds

  04-05-2020 05:48
  
  Washington • U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as t
  
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• Looking back: How John Stockton sent the Utah Jazz to first NBA Finals ... and this sports writer to a barstool in Chicago

  04-05-2020 05:05
  
  Utah Jazz’s John Stockton (12) leaps in the air after sinking a 3-point shot a the buzzer to beat the Houston Rockets 103-100 Thursday, May 29, 1997, in Houston. The Rockets’ Charles Barkley walks off the court at left. The Jazz advance to the NBA Finals to play the Chicago Bulls. | Associated Press The 1997 championship opened with Game 1 in Chicago.Editor’s note: This is the third article in an occasional series reminiscing about games not to be forgotten.
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• 'The Wax Pack’ chronicles baseball card-fueled road trip

  04-05-2020 04:35
  
  New York • Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about.The college biology professor set out to meet every player whose image appeared on those old pieces of cardboard — from Garry Templeton to Rick Sutcliffe to Carlton Fisk — and see what life after baseball has been like.“Whether it’s musicians or artists or baseball players, I’m just fas
  
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• As ‘closed’ signs come down, Utah sees its COVID-19 cases continue to go up

  04-05-2020 02:12
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Utah reached a significant turning point this past week in its battle against the coronavirus.Shifting from a “red” risk level to “orange,” the state began cranking up its economy again, allowing restaurants, bar
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Sunday, May 3: The Gateway, Station Park to reopen; Utah deaths reach 50 with 194 new cases

  04-05-2020 01:58
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.It’s Sunday, May 3. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---5:55 p.m.: The Gateway and Station Park shopping centers to reopen Two other shop
  
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• NRA cutting staff and salaries amid coronavirus pandemic

  04-05-2020 01:12
  
  The National Rifle Association has laid off dozens of employees, canceled its national convention and scuttled fundraising, membership and shooting events that normally would be key to rallying its base in an election year.The coronavirus pandemic has upended the gun-rights organization during what should be heady times for the group, in the middle of presidential election and with gun owners riled up over what they see as an effort by authorities to trample on their Second Amendment rights.The
  
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• Man who killed 4-year-old boy with vehicle sentenced to 15 years in prison

  04-05-2020 00:55
  
  A man who killed a 4-year-old child with his car has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, per FOX 13.Carl Wayne Johnson was found guilty in March of automobile negligent homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a second degree felony. In November, Johnson was arrested after striking Holden Curtis and his mother with his vehicle at a crosswalk at California Avenue and 900 West.Curtis died and his mother was later diagnosed with a broken femur.Johnson had a history of DUI c
  
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• Intelligence report: China hid severity of coronavirus to hoard supplies

  04-05-2020 00:23
  
  Washington • U.S. officials believe China covered up the extent of the coronavirus outbreak — and how contagious the disease is — to stock up on medical supplies needed to respond to it, intelligence documents show.Chinese leaders “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic from the world in early January, according to a four-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press. The revelation comes as t
  
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