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• Harmons Grocery helps Girl Scouts of Utah sell cookies during COVID-19

  08-05-2020 23:54
  
  Girl Scouts are gone from stores during the spread of COVID-19, but their cookies are now on Harmons Grocery’s shelves.Each spring, Girl Scouts set up at area stores to sell the treats. This year, they also kept hand sanitizer and gloves at their tables to “make sure everybody was being safe” during the coronavirus pandemic, said Ruth, a 17-year-old Girl Scout from Tooele. But by mid-March, Girl Scouts of Utah decided to stop the in-person sales to protect the health of the gir
  
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• Founders of Utah’s R&R BBQ are retiring

  08-05-2020 23:47
  
  Rod and Roger Livingston, the twin brothers who founded Utah’s R&R BBQ restaurants, are retiring.“We have loved serving this community,” Rod Livingston said Friday in a news release. “It has been one of the greatest accomplishments of our lives.”Added Roger: “It is exciting to see how far we have come from the early days of R&R BBQ to now. Rod and I are so grateful for the entire community’s support.”Before opening their first restaurant in
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 8: West Jordan canceling the Western Stampede rodeo due to COVID-19 concerns

  08-05-2020 23:32
  
  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 Friday, May 8. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---3:30 p.m.: West Jordan canceling the Western Stampede rodeo due to COVID-19 concerns
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Well-run State

  08-05-2020 23:20
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, May 10, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/07/bagley-cartoon-an-abuse/" target=_blank><u>An Abuse of Justice</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/06/bagley-cartoon-aliens/"><u>Aliens Among Us</u></a><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley/2020/05/05/bagley-cart
  
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• Utah Jazz talk with Mitt Romney as they try to keep Zoom meetings interesting

  08-05-2020 23:17
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, recently joined the Utah Jazz on a Zoom meeting. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are trying to keep things interesting as the NBA’s suspension of the regular season wears on.
  While holding virtual group workouts and regular team meetings via Zoom does the trick on some days, there are other days in which head coach Quin Snyder has decided the team needs a little bit more of a boost.
  “He’s been able to keep the engagemen
  
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• Three former Salt Lake Bees take the field in the Korean Baseball League

  08-05-2020 23:16
  
  David Ortiz and Mike Trout rank as two of the most recognizable players to have graced a Salt Lake Bees roster. For at least a few weeks, and maybe until the coronavirus scare is over, though, three other former Bees may become household names.Jose Miguel Fernandez, Drew Gagnon and Drew Rucinski are all playing in the South Korean KBO baseball league. On Tuesday, that league became the only one in the world to play live games this season.While those games will be played in stadiums without fans,
  
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• Utahns return to worship services

  08-05-2020 22:49
  
  Given this week’s announcement that Utah churches, mosques and synagogues can begin to meet again, several have begun to do just that — albeit following strict rules about mask wearing, sanitation and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.On Friday morning, the majestic Cathedral of the Madeleine in downtown Salt Lake City celebrated Mass, heeding guidelines spelled out by the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, which oversees Utah’s more than 300,000 Catholics.Ho
  
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• Utah Jazz offer refunds, credits to season-ticket holders for remaining 2019-20 games

  08-05-2020 22:45
  
  Though it remains to be seen whether the 2019-20 NBA season may yet resume after going on hiatus on March 11, the Utah Jazz have taken steps to give season-ticket holders some options.On Thursday, the Jazz sent an email to season-ticket holders, letting them know that, with 10 games slated for Vivint Smart Home Arena yet to be played, they have the option of the price of their outstanding tickets being refunded or converted to a credit for future games.“With the postponement of games since
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 8: Salt Lake County will furnish restaurants, bars with thermometers to take temperatures of staffers

  08-05-2020 22:37
  
  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 Friday, May 8. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2:35 p.m.: Salt Lake County will furnish restaurants, bars with thermometers to take
  
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• Utah Royals begin voluntary individual training sessions

  08-05-2020 22:26
  
  Amy Rodriguez hadn’t yet stepped on the field for her individual training session Friday. But the anticipation of doing so just a few short hours radiated from her face.“At the end of the day, I do have a smile on my face because I’m so exited to step back on the field and just kind of get my toe in a little bit to a sense of normalcy and normal training, which I haven’t gotten to have in the last two months,” Rodriguez said Friday during a Zoom call with media. &ld
  
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• Baseball execs with Salt Lake Bees, Ogden Raptors and Orem Owlz hoping for best, preparing for worst

  08-05-2020 22:05
  
  Dave Baggott gets his best ideas while mowing the outfield at Lindquist Field in Ogden.With baseball temporarily on hold because of COVID-19, the president of the Ogden Raptors has spent his time on the padded seat ruminating on how to get people to the ballpark if the virus prevents the minor league baseball team from playing this season. Social-distancing measures and state lockdowns have postponed the start of Major League Baseball, to which the minors are intrinsically linked. And though reg
  
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• Jean Norman: Why we can’t call them Generation Z anymore

  08-05-2020 22:00
  
  By the time it is done, COVID-19 — this deadly rascal — will do more than kill hundreds of thousands of people and close entire nations. It will also define a generation.My seniors completing their degrees at Weber State University this unfortunate spring will someday tell their grandchildren what it was like to graduate via Zoom, just as my 7-year-old granddaughter in a few years will compare notes with her high school friends about how they studied at their dining room table on the
  
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• Utah man charged with murder. He says he shot and killed a man breaking into his house.

  08-05-2020 21:56
  
  A Utah man has been charged with murder after he shot and killed a man he said was trying to break into his house Thursday night.Bradly Scott Hunt, 32, of Washington City, has been charged in 5th District Court with murder, a first-degree felony.According to Washington City police, the victim, whose name has not been released, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.Hunt told police he had a “physical altercation” with the
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 8: Utah adds 195 cases, nears 6,000 total. No new deaths.

  08-05-2020 21:19
  
  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 Friday, May 8. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:15 p.m.: No new deaths and active hospitalizations declineThe Utah Department of H
  
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• Did you order a grocery pickup? Don’t expect that six-pack to be in your bag. In Utah, you have to buy beer inside.

  08-05-2020 21:13
  
  Ordering online for curbside pickup is a convenient way to buy groceries, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, unless you want beer in your bag.Alcohol purchases must be made from inside the store, under current state law, said Dave Davis, president of the Utah Food Industry Association.Store employees can bring everything from milk and carrots to soap and toilet paper to your car, he said. But when shoppers want beer, they have to go inside to buy it.Home delivery of beer also is not all
  
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• Utah man says he shot and killed a man breaking into his house

  08-05-2020 20:50
  
  A Utah man has been arrested after he shot and killed a man he said was trying to break into his house Thursday night.According to Washington City police, the victim, whose name has not been released, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.The 32-year-old suspect told police he had a “physical altercation” with the victim earlier Thursday. Police said the suspect added that he had been told the victim got a gun from his ow
  
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• Utah man pleads guilty to vandalizing Logan Latter-day Saint temple

  08-05-2020 20:48
  
  Logan • A Utah man has pleaded guilty to burglary and criminal mischief after authorities said he vandalized a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple and caused over $5,000 in damage.Peter Abraham Ambrose, 34, entered his plea Tuesday to the second-degree felonies as part of an agreement with prosecutors to recommend no prison time and credit for time served in jail, The Herald Journal reported.Ambrose broke into the Logan temple on Christmas Eve and is responsible for broken gl
  
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• Utah gun lobbyist loses his appeal to block the ban on bump stocks

  08-05-2020 20:01
  
  Utah gun lobbyist Clark Aposhian lost his latest bid to temporarily block the Trump administration’s ban on the gun accessory known as bump stocks, but his attorneys have promised that they’ll continue fighting the case.Gun owners last year were supposed to give up or destroy the accessory — which makes a semi-automatic weapon fire in quick bursts like a machine gun — after the federal government banned them in response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas, where 58 died. It
  
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• Kyle Roerink and Steve Erickson: The tale of two pipelines for desert cities

  08-05-2020 20:00
  
  Nevadans and Utahns won a major economic and environmental victory in mid-April that will help protect air quality along the Wasatch Front and the Great Basin’s fragile water supply –– including Great Salt Lake.After weeks of deliberation, the Southern Nevada Water Authority declined to appeal a resounding rejection of its Las Vegas pipeline project by a Nevada District Court – essentially ending the 14-year legal fight over water applications in Nevada’s Spring, Ca
  
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• Jana Riess: What history tells us about Donald Trump’s reelection prospects

  08-05-2020 19:53
  
  A lot can happen in six months. Heck, this spring has demonstrated that a lot can happen in six weeks. So while all prognostications should be taken with a grain of salt in a presidential election year in which little has gone according to plan, we can still look at some lessons from history and ask: Six months before the Nov. 3 presidential election, what are Donald Trump’s chances?On the side of reelection, Trump has several things going for him. • Most incumbents win reelection. It
  
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• LHM Sports & Entertainment — the company that runs Jazz, Bees and Megaplex Theaters — furloughing 40% of workforce

  08-05-2020 19:21
  
  Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment announced a 40% reduction in workforce on Friday morning via furloughs, after revenues were cut to near zero in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.About 200 people will temporarily lose their jobs as a result of the cuts — with no clear return date. The NBA and Minor League Baseball seasons are on indefinite hiatus, while those leagues wait until play can resume safely.Meanwhile, big-studio films that Megaplex Theaters rely on have been delayed thr
  
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• Q&A: Lost your job? Here’s what you need to know

  08-05-2020 18:19
  
  Washington • Nearly 33.5 million Americans have lost their jobs and applied for unemployment benefits in the past 7 weeks — a stunning record high that reflects the near-complete shutdown of the U.S. economy.On Friday, the government said the U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression. As recently as February, the unemployment rate was just 3.5%, a 50-year low.For those who have lost jobs, it's a frightening time. Bills need to be paid. Do t
  
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• For Latinos and COVID-19, doctors are seeing an ‘alarming’ disparity

  08-05-2020 18:15
  
  Dr. Eva Galvez works as a family physician for a network of clinics in northwestern Oregon, where low-income patients have been streaming in for nasal swabs over the past several weeks to test for the coronavirus.Galvez was dumbfounded by the results. Latinos, about half of those screened, were 20 times as likely as other patients to be diagnosed with the virus.“The disparity really alarmed me,” said Galvez, who began trying to understand what could account for the difference.It is a
  
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• Miller group announces 40% staff reduction involving Jazz, Bees, Megaplex

  08-05-2020 18:11
  
  Brian Soukup, director of field operations for the Salt Lake Bees, mows the field at Smith’s Ballpark in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Soukup is intentionally keeping the discolored grass in an effort to save money until the season begins. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The sprawling Larry H. Miller Sports and Entertainment group of companies began furlough announcements Friday morning that will result in a 40% reduction of staff working for the Utah Jazz,
  
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• BYU’s Alex Barcello broke his wrist at the end of the college basketball season; he’s now healed and ready for what’s next

  08-05-2020 18:11
  
  During the regular season finale at Pepperdine, with less than five minutes left in the game, Alex Barcello got a steal and was fouled attempting a breakaway shot. The junior fell so hard that Jake Toolson got off the bench to help his teammate, but was ejected for entering the playing court.There didn’t seem to be any major repercussions of that singular event; Barcello got back up and continued playing for a few more minutes, Toolson was not subject to suspension and both were able to pl
  
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• U.S. unemployment spikes to a Depression-era level of 14.7%

  08-05-2020 17:32
  
  Washington • The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, a level last seen during the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record — stark evidence of how the coronavirus has brought the economy to its knees.The breathtaking losses, reported by the Labor Department on Friday, are certain to intensify the push-pull over how and when to ease the coast-to-coast shutdowns of factories, stores, offices and schools. And they undermine any effort by
  
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• Thomas Toland Smart: Don’t ‘open up’ without seat belts and guardrails

  08-05-2020 17:00
  
  I keep seeing the argument that driving is risky but we do it anyway; therefore we should reopen the economy. That’s a false-equivalence argument for several reasons. For one thing, car crashes aren’t contagious. For another, COVID-19 has already killed more than twice as many Americans in three months as die in car crashes over an entire year, even as we have been doing the infectious-disease equivalent of not driving.That said, let's consider the argument seriously for a moment.In
  
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• Pac-12 to move football media day to virtual format amid COVID-19 pandemic

  08-05-2020 16:50
  
  As far as football media days this summer go, the Pac-12 is falling in line with its FBS brethren.A league spokesman confirmed to The Salt Lake Tribune late Thursday evening that the Pac-12 will not hold its football media day as planned on July 29 at the Hollywood & Highland Entertainment Center. Instead, the league will hold virtual media days.Of the 10 FBS conferences, seven have said they will go to a virtual format. Of those seven, the Pac-12 and Big 12 are the only Power Five conferenc
  
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• Utah Jazz 2020 NBA Draft: Jahmi’us Ramsey’s elite shooting is appealing

  08-05-2020 16:00
  
  Texas Tech freshman Jahmi’us Ramsey is one of the best shooters in his class, and that could intrigue a team like the Utah Jazz late in the first round. While the NBA season remains suspended, the Utah Jazz, along with every other team in the league, have ramped up their studies on the 2020 NBA […]
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• Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 8: Loveland Living Planet Aquarium is reopening

  08-05-2020 15:48
  
  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 Friday, May 8. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---7:35 a.m.: Loveland Living Planet Aquarium will reopen SaturdayThe Loveland Living P
  
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• Utah cook to compete on ‘Bakeaway Camp with Martha Stewart’

  08-05-2020 15:16
  
  Brian Clark is a triplet and comes by his competitive spirit naturally.“Growing up in a house with nine children, it was inevitable,” said Clark, who runs a home-based bakery called Sweet Bites by Bryan from his South Jordan home.Those skills should prove useful when Clark battles five other contestants on “Bakeaway Camp with Martha Stewart.”The new culinary competition premieres Monday, May 11, on the Food Network and gives amateur bakers a chance to learn from America&r
  
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• David Brooks: We need national service. Now.

  08-05-2020 15:16
  
  There is now a vast army of young people ready and yearning to serve their country. There are college graduates emerging into a workplace that has few jobs for them. There are more high school graduates who suddenly can’t afford college. There are college students who don’t want to return to a college experience. This is a passionate, idealistic generation that sees the emergency, wants to serve those around them and groans to live up to this moment.Suddenly there is a wealth of work
  
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• Paul Krugman: An epidemic of hardship and hunger

  08-05-2020 15:15
  
  COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on workers. The economy has plunged so quickly that official statistics can’t keep up, but the available data suggest that tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, with more job losses to come and full recovery probably years away.But Republicans adamantly oppose extending enhanced unemployment benefits — such an extension, says Sen. Lindsey Graham, will take place “over our dead bodies.” (Actu
  
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• Robert Kirby: This year just keeps getting worse, but screaming won’t help

  08-05-2020 14:15
  
  2020 will go down in history as the year when everything was messed up. The pandemic was just the start. Now it’s just one thing after another, a dog pile of miserableness with no end in sight.On a personal level it’s been less than pleasant. Being quarantined wasn’t so bad at first. I’ve worked from home for years, so I was already acclimated. But now everyone else works from home as well. Things have become crowded and noisy.What else? Oh, I fell off a ladder in the gar
  
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• Utah governor pressured to extend rent deferrals and eviction moratorium to July 15

  08-05-2020 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. Civic groups, faith leaders and advocates for low-income Utahns are pressing Gov. Gary Herbert to extend his coronavirus-related rent deferral and eviction moratorium for two more months — a move hotly resisted by many landlords.T
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: It’s irresponsible for Salt Lake City TV stations to celebrate the 5-year-old who stole his family’s SUV

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  Why are some Salt Lake City TV news outlets celebrating a kid who stole a car and put his own life — and the lives of who knows how many other people — in danger?You probably saw one of the first-day stories, which I wrote for The Salt Lake Tribune and other outlets also produced. On Monday, a 5-year-old Ogden boy argued with his mother when she refused to buy him a Lamborghini. He later took the car keys, drove away in the family SUV and headed for California to buy his own Lamborgh
  
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• Letter: Who wants what they did at 17 made public?

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  I don’t know the Banjo CEO, Damien Patton, but I am feeling some sympathy for him.The stories about him have revealed he had aligned himself with a white supremacist groups when he was 17 years old. Seventeen, for heaven’s sake. Most of us would not want our background known as to what we were doing at 17.Forgiveness is a basic Christian tenant. How many times does the guy have to acknowledge his mistake? He has worked hard to disavow his association with that organization for more t
  
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• Letter: President has jeopardized our recovery

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  President Trump’s lack of leadership and inability to concern himself with anyone or anything other than himself will jeopardize an acceptable outcome to the coronavirus (Trump) pandemic.The virus that Trump said would miraculously disappear in early April has made the United States the leader of most cases and deaths. We’ve all heard the president brag about winning.The United States has more than 1.2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 74,000 deaths. The United States exceede
  
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• Letter: Article exposes greed and danger

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  The Salt Lake Tribune’s May 1 article about the nursing home debacle now in place under the administration of the Beaver Valley Hospital has brought to light the incompetence and overt malpractice being foisted on our disabled, elderly and those with needed care in these specific locations.Why has this happened and why is it being allowed to continue and, in some instances, flourish?Simple. Our governor and the responsible regulatory and oversight agencies sit on their politically controll
  
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• Lauren Merkley: Give every Utah student a P for pandemic

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  This year, every Utah teacher passes Go. The State Board of Education has granted us every grace imaginable: They’ve waived year-end tests, teacher evaluations, school grades, even the 180-day requirement.Students, too, enjoy reprieve in the form of new grading policies, some of which promote grades of P (pass) and I (incomplete) as the cure for their pandemic distress.However, these policies are no panacea. While the word “incomplete” may smack of mercy — giving kids mor
  
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• How would Utah’s gubernatorial candidates lead the state out of COVID-19?

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  Utah's next governor will take the helm of a state battered by a virus that has killed thousands of Americans, forced businesses to close and resulted in record unemployment levels.Because of that, the pandemic has emerged as a central theme for candidates vying for the state’s top executive post — and the five rivals are all working to convince Utahns they’re most capable of navigating the trying times ahead and bracing the state for any future calamities.Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox,
  
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• Coronavirus through the eyes of Utah 10-year-olds

  08-05-2020 14:00
  
  After COVID-19 first turned his life upside down, Beckley Brown, age 10, started tracking the virus.Each night, the fourth grader at Daybreak Elementary School in South Jordan would borrow his mother’s phone. He’d look up the latest grim statistics on the spread of the coronavirus. He followed its path across Utah, the United States and the world. He committed to memory the number of cases, hospitalizations, deaths.Then, one day, he just stopped following it.When his mother asked him
  
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• Father, son charged with killing black man Ahmaud Arbery

  08-05-2020 06:52
  
  Savannah, Ga. • Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on a residential street just outside the port city of Brunswick. National outrage over the case swelled this week after cellphone video that appeared to show the shooting.Those close to Arbery
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Utah minorities especially affected by COVID-19, panelists say

  08-05-2020 04:57
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---Utah minorities especially affected by COVID-19, panelists sayPanelists from s
  
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• Blood, sweat and swabs: UFC seeks safe shows in pandemic

  08-05-2020 04:26
  
  Even before they check in to the hotel, every fighter, coach, cameraman, journalist and UFC employee arriving in Jacksonville, Florida, is immediately directed to a screening station. Their temperatures are taken, and their fingers are pricked for a coronavirus antibody test.And then comes the part that reduces even the world’s most fearsome cage fighters to squirming schoolchildren: a long swab is pushed deep into the back of their nasal cavities.“That thing in the nose, that was th
  
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• Kicking off: Texans at Chiefs to open NFL season Sept. 10

  08-05-2020 04:15
  
  The Kansas City Chiefs will open defense of their Super Bowl championship by hosting Houston on Sept. 10 in the NFL’s annual kickoff game — pending developments in the coronavirus pandemic, of course.The Texans won a regular-season game at Arrowhead Stadium in 2019, then blew a 24-0 lead in the divisional round of the playoffs.Another highlight of the opening weekend will have Tom Brady’s regular-season debut with Tampa Bay against Drew Brees at New Orleans on Sept. 13 —
  
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• Two teenagers missing on Utah Lake, search ongoing through the night

  08-05-2020 04:13
  
  A pair of teenagers missing on Utah Lake have now been missing for over 24 hours — though the search was planned to continue through Thursday night.Family members reported 17-year-old Sophie Hernandez of Eagle Mountain and 18-year-old Priscilla Bienkowski of Saratoga Springs missing Wednesday evening. According to police, the teens had gone to the Knolls area on the west side of Utah Lake late that afternoon.One of two tubes they are believed to have been floating on was found along the sh
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 7: Park service to reopen more Glen Canyon facilities; Little Sahara to reopen

  08-05-2020 04:05
  
  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 Thursday, May 7. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read complete coronavirus coverage here.]---More facilities to reopen in Glen Canyon National Recreation AreaGlen Canyon N
  
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• Charles M. Blow: The killing of Ahmaud Arbery

  08-05-2020 04:00
  
  The video is short and shocking.It’s taken from the perspective of a vehicle following a young black man running at a jogger’s pace. The jogger is 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery approaches a pickup truck parked in the street. There are two white men, one outside the vehicle with a shotgun, 34-year-old Travis McMichael, and the other, his father, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael, standing aloft in the flatbed.The McMichaels had reportedly chased Arbery, blocking his path at another lo
  
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• Arrests made in shooting death of black man after outcry

  08-05-2020 03:29
  
  Savannah, Ga. • Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on a residential street just outside the port city of Brunswick. National outrage over the case swelled this week after a cellphone video that appeared to show the shooting.Those close to Arbe
  
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