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• Only one new coronavirus death reported Sunday, but Utah saw its deadliest week since the pandemic began

  10-05-2020 22:48
  
  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. The good news is that the Utah Department of Health on Sunday announced only one new COVID-19 death. The bad news is that even without that figure, the state saw its deadliest week since the pandemic began. For the seven-day period begi
  
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• How ‘The Last Dance’ is inspiring the Utah State men’s basketball team

  10-05-2020 22:47
  
  Sunday nights, no matter where in the country they are, have turned into a ritual for the Utah State men’s basketball team.Coach Craig Smith gathers his entire family into one room. Forward Justin Bean does the same, with ice cream and popcorn in tow. Center Neemias Queta and guard Marco Anthony are alone, while guard Brock Miller enjoys with his wife.As sports across the United States continue the wait-and-see game due to COVID-19, one weekly event has seemed to unify fans over the past f
  
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• Woman shot in the face by Orem police officer, her family says

  10-05-2020 21:20
  
  An Orem police officer shooting at a truck to stop the driver struck a passenger in the face, according to the injured woman’s family.Orem police have said a police officer discharged his weapon Friday night, but have not confirmed or commented on whether anyone was hit. The department has said only that an officer fired before a vehicle chase that ended in a wreck near 1600 North and Interstate 15.Police arrested the driver, Sam Bencomo. Bencomo’s court documents do not mention an o
  
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• Coronavirus complicates safety for families living together

  10-05-2020 21:12
  
  Chicago • At the age of 24, Francy Sandoval has unwittingly become the sole breadwinner for her family, after her mom, dad and brother — a nanny, a painter and a server — all lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic.Her family needs the money, so the aspiring nurse feels she has no choice but to keep her high-risk job at the front desk of a suburban Chicago community health clinic treating many COVID-19 patients. But her home hardly feels like a haven either.“Working du
  
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• On Mother’s Day, leaders search for optimism amid pandemic

  10-05-2020 20:59
  
  Berlin • As families in the U.S. and elsewhere marked Mother’s Day in a time of social distancing and isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, world leaders projected optimism they could loosen lockdowns while controlling a potential second wave of infections.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin predicted the American economy would rebound in the second half of this year from unemployment rates that rival the Great Depression. Another 3.2 million U.S. workers applied for jobless benefi
  
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• William Cooper: Trump vs. Congress and the states

  10-05-2020 20:00
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney showed unusual political courage as the only Senate Republican to vote to convict President Trump. To Romney’s chagrin, however, Trump was acquitted by a Republican Senate majority.Now it’s the Supreme Court’s turn to get involved in the long-running battle between Trump and Congress. The court will hear oral argument (via teleconference) on May 12 in three cases involving the constitutional limits of investigations into Trump.Commenting on the Supreme Cou
  
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• Utah Jazz: Andrei Kirilenko was better than you remember

  10-05-2020 19:33
  
  Andrei Kirilenko spent 10 of his 14 seasons as a professional basketball player with the Utah Jazz. Still, many Jazz fans forget how incredibly talented he was. Andrei Kirilenko spent a decade with the Utah Jazz. His time with the franchise certainly left a positive impression in the minds of most Jazz fans — for good […]
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• Coronavirus in Utah: One new death reported Sunday, total up to 67

  10-05-2020 18:59
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday announced one new COVID-19 death, bringing the total in the state to 67.The person who died was a man older than 60 residing in Salt Lake County. It is unclear if the death was related to a long-t
  
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• Jana Riess: Latter-day Saint women are finding — and using — their voices. Are men in the church listening?

  10-05-2020 18:42
  
  On my bookshelves I have a copy of the famous 1971 “pink” issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, a pioneering effort for Mormon feminists to make themselves heard. Nearly 70 years later, Dialogue’s latest issue builds upon that effort with a special issue guest-edited by the feminist magazine Exponent II.As a collection of essays, articles, poetry, and art all organized around the theme of women claiming power, it’s beautiful and strong. (And downloading it here
  
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• Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott is preaching unity for 2020 season, but will the league get left behind?

  10-05-2020 17:29
  
  In a perfect college football world amid imperfect conditions with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting everything, Power Five commissioners would come to an agreement on how to operate.Specifically, a singular set of guidelines pertaining to the 2020 season: if and when the season can start, whether campuses need to be fully operational first, whether fans can attend, what happens if a player tests positive, and an abundance of other questions currently floating around.College athletics have always
  
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• Hundreds of small paintings by Utah artists go on sale, as popular fundraiser 300 Plates moves online

  10-05-2020 16:05
  
  The first time Art Access had to redesign its popular 300 Plates fundraiser, it was because the 10-by-11-inch works contributed by Utah artists caused chaos.“I have heard stories of two people going into the gallery and literally fighting, like on the ground, trying to get the same plate,” said Executive Director Shandra Benito. “It’s definitely high stakes.”Under the newer tradition, interested buyers paid $75 for a ticket and chose a wristband color. Benito would
  
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• Utah data reveals how people catch COVID-19, how many are in the hospital and more

  10-05-2020 16:04
  
  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’s Department of Health deserves some credit.Look, the state’s response to the coronavirus hasn’t been perfect. TestUtah.com has been the source of additional testing but also some significant inconsistencies &mdas
  
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• PBS’ ‘Asian Americans’ proves the community is more than ‘American enough’

  10-05-2020 16:04
  
  The four-part, four-hour documentary “Asian Americans” is not telling new stories. But most of them have never been heard by most PBS viewers.“Our old stories are new stories to most Americans,” said comedian Hari Kondabolu, who is interviewed in the documentary. “Like, they didn’t let us talk for a really long time and share our points of views and our family stories. So stuff that we’ve known, experienced [and] has been part of our culture in this coun
  
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• How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism’s darkest hours

  10-05-2020 16:03
  
  It was 1986, a dark time for Mormon historians.Just months earlier, infamous document collector Mark Hofmann had forged his way into the market for historical pieces relating to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — even fooling church President Spencer W. Kimball and future President Gordon B. Hinckley, with his supposedly fabulous finds — and then killing two innocent members to cover his double-dealing and deceit.There was also serious mistrust of professional historia
  
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• Robert Kirby: Happy Mother’s Day to all the ‘moms’ I’ve had

  10-05-2020 15:00
  
  It’s Mother’s Day, when we celebrate the women who blessed us with life, nurtured us to adulthood, or simply didn’t sell us to a circus when we proved more trouble than we were worth.Everyone has a mother. You might wish you didn’t, but the biological fact is that someone — almost certainly a female — had to lug you around for a small eternity and then loose you upon the world.I have a mother. She’s 86 and currently in an assisted living center in South
  
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• Ogden family repurposes flower business to help community celebrate Mother’s Day

  10-05-2020 15:00
  
  Anna Zack’s purple hair and mask matched the lilacs on her dining room table. She attached labels to the flowers as her 1-year-old daughter slept upstairs and her 5-year-old son played with a Slinky. After Anna Zack loaded the vases in a box, her husband, Ben Zack, helped her bring them out to the truck.For the next couple of hours, Anna Zack drove the “big orange Crush” -- her orange pickup -- around Ogden delivering flowers Saturday. She met her real estate agent in a Starbuc
  
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• The Salt Lake Tribune’s Quarantine Film Festival: 29 films about isolation, hand-washing and having a laugh

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  What do filmmakers, in Utah and around the world, need to say about life during the coronavirus pandemic?Some want to talk about themselves, or to educate others. But a good number of submissions to The Salt Lake Tribune’s first (and, heaven help us, last) Quarantine Film Festival had the goal of making people laugh, or at least smile.The range of these 29 films includes comedy, drama, documentary and animation — from enthusiastic amateurs, film students and professionals. Twenty wer
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Mark Ruffalo is great as twin brothers in dark HBO drama. And there are happier things to watch, too.

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  Mark Ruffalo doesn’t turn in one great performance in the HBO limited series “I Know This Much Is True,” he turns in TWO great performances.Based on the 1998 book by Wally Lamb, this harrowing six-part series (which begins Sunday at 7 p.m) is about identical twin brothers Thomas and Dominick Birdsey. Thomas is a paranoid schizophrenic and Dominick tries to protect and care for him.Ruffalo plays both brothers, and he had to eat his way into becoming Thomas. Seriously. Because of
  
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• Letter: We’re not ready to reopen

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  I understand the need to get businesses open and running as soon as possible, but easing restrictions before hand sanitizer and rubbing alcohol are in adequate supply seems totally irresponsible.Don Malouf, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Utah voters have a choice

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  This year, as the Republican-led Utah Legislature made it abundantly clear that Utah is one of the worst places for women, I noted the behavior of Rep. Steve Eliason.Eliason has the reputation of being a moderate. But, at least with respect to equality and women’s issues, this is far from the truth.While the legislature marked the anniversary of women’s suffrage and legislation ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (HJR7) was introduced, I didn’t see Eliason sign on or even voic
  
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• Letter: If not for you, wear the mask for us

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  There has been some pushback from people concerned about their personal rights, when it comes to wearing face masks in public places. Many of us don’t mind wearing them, and we are trying to wear them in the most effective way. From all that I have read about the subject, the main function of wearing a face mask in public is to protect others from ourselves. So, to you who are resisting: If you won’t wear one for yourself, will you wear one for the rest of us? The rest of us includes
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Black people are dying to know

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  That video broke my heart.If you’ve seen it, you need no further explanation. You know exactly what video I’m talking about and why it shattered me. If you haven’t, be advised that the clip in question depicts the last seconds in the life of Ahmaud Arbery. He was just 25, a young man out jogging on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Glynn County, Georgia.A white man, 64-year-old former district attorney’s investigator Gregory McMichael, saw him running and thought he looked like
  
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• Jazz fans share their thoughts on how the NBA should proceed with games

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) moves around Toronto Raptors guard Norman Powell (24) during an NBA game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Monday, March 9, 2020. The Jazz lost 92-101. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — As the NBA continues its discussions about how and when it could bring back games and what that might look like, I took to Twitter to ask Jazz fans how they think it should proceed.
  Jazz fans, I want to know what you think should happen with the rest o
  
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• Former Operation Rio Grande collaborators now face off in governor’s race

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  In the summer of 2017, then-House Speaker Greg Hughes wondered aloud if the state should consider summoning the National Guard to Salt Lake City’s troubled Rio Grande neighborhood.In his estimation, there was no hyperbole in the comment. He’d come to believe the crime and mayhem in the Pioneer Park area was really that bad. An assault on a minor league baseball player had made national headlines. A car had jumped a curb and plowed into a group of people, killing one. A bludgeoning de
  
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• Coronavirus tests were slow to arrive at Highland Cove, where 9 elderly and disabled Utahns have died

  10-05-2020 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. Millcreek • No one in Kathleen Hardy’s family knew she had contracted COVID-19, says Ruth Schmidt, her cousin and the executor of her estate.Then, on May 1, Schmidt said, the family was notified that the 72-year-old Hardy was
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My co-worker wants to steal my job. Should I speak up?

  10-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • A colleague I work with is clearly after my job. My manager continues to have me train her in areas specific to my job and areas of expertise. Although I don’t think my manager has the intention of replacing me, I feel used by this co-worker. Should I say something? Either to her or to my manager?— Anxious EmployeeDear Anxious • There are a lot of unknown variables here for me, which makes answering your question a little tricky. For instance, are you cert
  
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• Supporters hold vigil for teens still missing on Utah Lake

  10-05-2020 06:06
  
  Friends and family gathered Saturday night at Utah Lake to support each other and offer hope that rescue crews will locate two teenagers who’ve been missing for days after going tubing at the lake. Sophie Hernandez, 17, and Priscilla Bienkowski, 18, went tubing on Wednesday in the Knolls area on the west side of the lake and haven’t been seen since.A tube believed to belong to one of the teens was found along the shoreline, and a second tube was found 2 to 3 miles away on the lake. O
  
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• George Pyle: Where’s our Harry Truman?

  10-05-2020 02:00
  
  At a time when our nation is burdened by a leader who has been heard to say “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” — longing for the assistance of one of the most morally bankrupt characters in American history — what we ought to be saying is, “Where’s our Harry Truman?”As a United States senator from Missouri, Truman spent a lot of his time looking for — and finding — graft and corruption in government contracts. And there wasn’t anyone more qua
  
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• Five more Utahns die from the coronavirus

  10-05-2020 01:00
  
  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. Five more Utahns have died from COVID-19, the state’s health department announced Saturday, bringing Utah’s death toll to 66.It’s also the first time that the number of coronavirus cases in the Beehive State have surpa
  
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• Nancy Workman, Salt Lake County’s first mayor, dies at 79

  10-05-2020 00:55
  
  Salt Lake County’s first mayor, Nancy Workman, has died at her home in St. George.Workman, 79, was remembered in her obituary for the series of other firsts in her life, achievements it said that “went far beyond her life in politics.” She died peacefully at home on May 3.Before Workman took office in January 2001, Salt Lake County was governed by a County Commission. She was placed on paid administrative leave in September 2004 as she battled felony-level misuse of public fund
  
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• First-time ‘panic’ gardeners flood Utah nurseries during coronavirus pandemic

  10-05-2020 00:32
  
  Foot-tall tomato stalks and stringy onion stems filled cardboard boxes at Wasatch Community Gardens on Saturday morning, waiting for Utah gardeners to pick them up.A last name is scribbled on the side of each box in black marker, matching the plants to a waiting owner in a line of cars outside of the garden at 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City.This is the first time in the community garden’s three-decade history that its patrons ordered online and relied on garden staff to pick the perf
  
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