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• A new generation gets to see the great Jordan

  12-05-2020 23:30
  
  Michael Jordan picks up a loose ball in front of Utah’s John Stockton during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. | Gary McKellar, Deseret News“The Last Dance” is the hottest thing going in sports while we wait out the coronavirus and the attendant political gamesmanship.
  On the other hand, when ESPN is covering the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championships and replays of old NFL drafts, there’s not a lot of competition for viewers.
  But “The Last Dance” — th
  
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• Utah Summer Games canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

  12-05-2020 23:10
  
  Cedar City • The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another sports casualty. The Utah Summer Games have been canceled, organizers announced Tuesday.Utah’s current social distancing requirements prohibiting gatherings of more than 20 people make it impossible to hold the annual summer games scheduled June 1- 21, including the Opening Ceremonoies, June 12.“Although we are deeply saddened by this decision, we feel that it is the best thing we can do for the health and safety of our athl
  
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• Eight Park City athletes make the ‘A Team’ cut for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team

  12-05-2020 22:57
  
  As the hometown kid, Nick Page drew a cacophony of cheers at the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup event at Deer Valley in February. He rode the support to his first career final, capping off his rookie season on the U.S. Ski & Snowboard moguls team. Next year, though, Parkites will have to spread their love around. Nominated alongside Page for this year’s national moguls squad are two Park City-based sisters Casey and Madison Hogg. In total, eight Park City athletes made the A-team cut last
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 12: Five more die; Shakespeare Festival and the Greek Festival are canceled

  12-05-2020 22:27
  
  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 Tuesday, May 12. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2:25 p.m.: Utah Shakespeare Festival canceledAll the world’s a stage, but th
  
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• More coronavirus aid to states? That may depend on their political hue.

  12-05-2020 22:13
  
  Washington • When Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah strode into a luncheon with fellow Republicans last week, he was carrying an oversize poster in his black-gloved hand that bore a blunt message: “Blue states aren’t the only ones who are screwed.”Two days later, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida made the opposite point, arriving at another party gathering with his own placard that showed how rosy his state’s financial picture was compared with those of three Democratic states: New
  
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• An 11-game, conference-only Pac-12 football schedule is on the table, and Utah’s Kyle Whittingham is on board

  12-05-2020 21:45
  
  The Pac-12 is conducting media-only webinars this week with its football coaches, and it didn’t take long for one to make some waves.On Monday afternoon, USC head coach Clay Helton revealed that an 11-game, conference-only football schedule has been discussed. The logistics would include entirely wiping out non-conference slates across the league, while adding two more conference games. Pac-12 teams already play nine league games. Under this scenario, each Pac-12 team would play each other
  
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• Utah’s international students are facing new challenges because of coronavirus

  12-05-2020 21:26
  
  Marlene Aniambossou just graduated from Utah State University with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and coaching after two years as a basketball player for USU.She planned to take a job as a middle school or high school PE teacher and work towards becoming a basketball coach for a Division 1 college, but the international student from Benin said finding work became harder when COVID-19 hit the state.After graduating, international students can apply for employment authorization ca
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney says now is no time to celebrate as President Trump takes a victory lap on testing

  12-05-2020 21:11
  
  Washington • A day after President Donald Trump took a sort of victory lap on testing for coronavirus — even as America’s death toll from COVID-19 topped 80,000 — Sen. Mitt Romney said now was not the time to break out the bubbly.“I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever,” the Utah Republican said at a Senate hearing Tuesday featuring the nation's top health officials.Romney took aim at Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of the U.S. Dep
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 12: Five die, hospitalizations increase, but new cases slow down

  12-05-2020 21:04
  
  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. It’s Tuesday, May 12. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1 p.m.: Salt Lake City’s Greek Festival canceledSalt Lake City’s annua
  
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• Steve Booth: What has this country come to?

  12-05-2020 21:02
  
  The United States has always prided itself on being the best there is compared to the rest. We are the strongest, richest, most productive, most innovative and, well, just the all-around best at everything. We have told ourselves that for so long that most, if not all, of us truly believe that.The problem here is I’m beginning to have a hard time maintaining that belief.When I was young, I grew up believing that the president of the United State of America was a truly wonderful person, no
  
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• Utah cities and counties to seek up to $70 million from Legislature to cover plummeting fuel tax revenue

  12-05-2020 20:54
  
  Utah’s cities and towns plan to ask the Legislature for $60 million to $70 million to help make up for motor fuel taxes lost during coronavirus restrictions. They say it is needed to keep local road projects on schedule.They will seek adding that amount to bonds, or loans, the state is considering to keep its own highway projects moving, said Lincoln Shurtz, director of government affairs for the Utah Association of Counties.He outlined those plans during a meeting Tuesday of the Joint Hig
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 12: Mexican consulate in Utah offers free testing

  12-05-2020 20:05
  
  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 Tuesday, May 12. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---12 p.m.: Free COVID-19 testing offered by the Mexican consulateThe Mexican consula
  
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• A Republican mayor in a Democratic New Mexico fights to reopen his city

  12-05-2020 19:54
  
  To understand why Mayor Nate Duckett wants Farmington, New Mexico, to reopen while the governor wants it shut, it helps to know something about what he calls his city’s “death spiral.”Perched in a rural corner of northwest New Mexico, Farmington watched its wealth vanish as its oil and gas industries went elsewhere. Its population is one of the fastest-shrinking in America. What keeps the lights on in Farmington is a coal-fired power plant whose fate remains uncertain.And all o
  
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• Utah nursing home linked to COVID-19 outbreak can now take residents who recovered from virus

  12-05-2020 19:44
  
  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. Pine Creek Rehabilitation and Nursing, which was the first long-term care facility in Utah to be limited to residents who tested positive for the coronavirus, has been given a clean bill of health.All residents and staffers have tested
  
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• 7-year-old Utah girl killed in Monday’s Emery County flash flood. Her 3-year-old sister is still missing.

  12-05-2020 19:14
  
  Authorities identified the victim of Monday’s flash flood in Little Wildhorse Canyon as a 7-year-old Utah girl — and they have yet to find her 3-year-old sister.Their names were not released.According to the Emery County Sheriff’s Office, all of the other hikers in the area at the time are believed to be safe.Crews resumed their search for the missing child Tuesday morning. A piece of clothing that is believed to belong to the 3-year-old was found Monday night about 7 miles dow
  
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• Motorcyclist’s widow sues Utah over deadly debris on Bangerter Highway

  12-05-2020 19:05
  
  The widow of a motorcyclist who died after hitting a wooden pallet on Bangerter Highway — which she contends was left by road construction crews — is suing the state and contractors for more than $300,000.Dayna Schmidt, widow of Craig Schmidt of West Jordan, filed suit in 3rd District Court against the state, the Utah Department of Transportation, Clyde Companies and Ralph L. Wadworth Construction.She says her husband was riding his motorcycle about 11 p.m. on Bangerter near 8900 Sou
  
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• Gordon Monson: Leadership — and winning — comes in many forms, from Michael Jordan’s to LaVell Edwards'

  12-05-2020 19:03
  
  In my 40 years of covering sports, I’ve encountered various types of leadership from many types of leaders. More than a few times, that type has, if not been the equal of, at least been aligned with Michael Jordan’s tough leadership, tough love.Maybe it’s not love at all. Maybe it’s just tough.If love is involved, it’s the love of, the need for winning, as Jordan said in episode 7 of his 10-part documentary on ESPN, “at all costs.”Tim Duncan did his shar
  
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• Utah ranks No. 51 in per pupil spending behind Idaho

  12-05-2020 18:36
  
  Utah has once again ranked last in the nation in per-pupil spending, a spot it has held now for more than two decades — meaning students who started kindergarten when the trend began could have graduated from college in that time.The numbers, released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau, show the state allocated $7,628 per student using totals from 2018, the most recent available. That keeps Utah in its longtime place at No. 51 behind Idaho, which spent $7,771.“We are just last year aft
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Tuesday, May 12: New study says Utahns are least vulnerable to the virus

  12-05-2020 18:28
  
  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 Tuesday, May 12. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---10:25 a.m.: Deer Valley cancels 2020 summer concertsThe hills will not be alive wi
  
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• Lauren McCluskey’s parents will discuss a possible legal settlement with the University of Utah

  12-05-2020 18:21
  
  The parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey have agreed to discuss a possible settlement to their $56 million lawsuit filed against the University of Utah.The meeting will be held next week via videoconference over two days — May 19 and 20 — with officials from the U. being represented by the state attorney general’s office.“Because it’s a mediation, either party can leave the table at any time,” said Jim McConkie, the Salt Lake City attorney hired by the
  
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• 7-year-old Utah girl killed in flash flood. Her 3-year-old sister is still missing.

  12-05-2020 17:55
  
  Authorities identified the victim of Tuesday’s flash flood in Little Wildhorse Canyon as a 7-year-old Utah girl — and they have yet to find her 3-year-old sister.Their names were not released.According to the Emery County Sheriff’s Office, all of the other hikers in the area at the time are believed to be safe.Crews resumed their search for the missing child Tuesday morning. A piece of clothing that is believed to belong to the 3-year-old was found Monday night about 7 miles do
  
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• Lauren McCluskey’s parents will discuss a possible settlement to their lawsuit against the University of Utah

  12-05-2020 17:49
  
  The parents of slain track star Lauren McCluskey have agreed to discuss a possible settlement to their $56 million lawsuit filed against the University of Utah.The meeting will be held next week via video conference over two days — May 19 and 20 — with officials from the U. being represented by the state attorney general’s office.“Because it’s a mediation, either party can leave the table at any time,” said Jim McConkie, the attorney hired by the McCluskey fam
  
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• Trib Talk: Actor Ty Burrell discusses his campaign to help Salt Lake City’s hospitality industry

  12-05-2020 17:47
  
  Actor Ty Burrell of “Modern Family” fame is also part-owner of several restaurants and bars in Utah. He joined Tribune food writer Kathy Stephenson on The Salt Lake Tribune’s Facebook page to talk about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the food and drink industry in Utah — and how he’s trying to help.Read more about the “Tip Your Server” program here, and sign up for our Utah Eats newsletter to stay up-to-date on what’s happening at Utah r
  
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• Dr. Anthony Fauci warns of ‘suffering and death’ if US reopens too soon

  12-05-2020 17:46
  
  Washington • Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is warning Congress that reopening the economy too soon during the coronavirus pandemic will result in “needless suffering and death.”Fauci is among the health experts testifying Tuesday to a Senate panel. His testimony comes as President Donald Trump is praising states that are reopening after the prolonged lockdown aimed at controlling the virus's spread.Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn, chairman of
  
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• U.S. plans reimagine fighting wildfires amid crews’ coronavirus risk

  12-05-2020 17:33
  
  Boise, Idaho • In new plans that offer a national reimagining of how to fight wildfires amid the risk of the coronavirus spreading through crews, it’s not clear how officials will get the testing and equipment needed to keep firefighters safe in what’s expected to be a difficult fire season.A U.S. group instead put together broad guidelines to consider when sending crews to blazes, with agencies and firefighting groups in different parts of the country able to tailor them to fit
  
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• Tribal nations face most severe crisis in decades as the coronavirus closes casinos

  12-05-2020 17:26
  
  Albuquerque, N.M. • Tribal nations around the United States are facing their most severe crisis in decades as they grapple simultaneously with some of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks in rural America and the economic devastation caused by the protracted shutdown of nearly 500 tribally owned casinos.The Navajo Nation, the country’s largest Indian reservation, now has a higher death rate than any U.S. state except New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.Across Indian Cou
  
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• Paul Krugman: How to create a pandemic depression

  12-05-2020 14:53
  
  Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics officially validated what we already knew: Just a few months into the COVID-19 crisis, America already has a Great Depression level of unemployment. But that’s not the same thing as saying that we’re in a depression. We won’t know whether that’s true until we see whether extremely high unemployment lasts for a long time, say a year or more.Unfortunately, the Trump administration and its allies are doing all they can to make a full
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: We’re all casualties of the Republican war on science

  12-05-2020 14:52
  
  In 2004, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on what it called “virus hunters,” scientists searching for bugs that can leap from animals to humans and cause pandemics. “What worries me the most is that we are going to miss the next emerging disease,” said a scientist named Peter Daszak, describing his fear of a coronavirus “that moves from one part of the planet to another, wiping out people as it moves along.”In the intervening years, Daszak became presi
  
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• Utah, dead last again in per pupil spending, would need $94 million to move up one spot

  12-05-2020 14:51
  
  Utah has once again ranked last in the nation in per-pupil spending, a spot it has held now for more than two decades — meaning students who started kindergarten when the trend began could have graduated from college in that time.The numbers, released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau, show the state allocated $7,628 per student using totals from 2018, the most recent available. That keeps Utah in its longtime place at No. 51 behind Idaho, which spent $7,771.“We are just last year aft
  
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• A Utah man convicted of gang-related robberies to be let out 40 years early because of a new law

  12-05-2020 14:30
  
  Kepa Maumau will be a free man four decades earlier than anyone expected.Convicted of three armed robberies as part of a sweeping prosecution of the Tongan Crip Gang, Maumau faced a mandatory sentence of 55 years.He’s been locked up for 12, and he would have remained imprisoned until 2057 if Congress didn’t pass the First Step Act. That 2018 overhaul of the federal sentencing system gave U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell the flexibility she lacked in 2011 when she reluctantly s
  
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• Removing polygamy as a felony is one of the important laws that take effect today

  12-05-2020 14:15
  
  Their marriages carried a felony charge punishable by up to five years in prison for most of Utah’s history.But after a new law decriminalizing polygamy among consenting adults takes effect Tuesday, plural marriages are now considered an infraction — an offense less than some traffic tickets and a historic shift in how the state regards the practice.The bill ran into some opposition during the legislative session among groups opposed to polygamy, who said the practice is inherently a
  
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• Robert Kirby: It could be worse. We could be stuck watching nonstop Election ’20 coverage.

  12-05-2020 14:00
  
  I stopped watching TV months ago. Got fed up with one more story on COVID-19, yanked the cord out of the wall, and haven’t plugged it back in.The news is/was always a depressing gab about the world’s descent into mass death, cannibalism and the proper application of hand sanitizer in nostrils.The media aren’t to blame. They report what sells. I understand that other people want to know about the twin plagues sweeping America right now.I am referring, of course, to COVID-19 and
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Live and let die, Trump style

  12-05-2020 14:00
  
  Washington • This is not a good time for vampires.Or bats.Which is disorienting for me because, as a lifelong aficionado of vampires, I have a big collection of bat T-shirts, Victorian bat pins and vampire books and movies.Once, the imagery was hot: Batman with his bat signal; Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise slinking around New Orleans in “Interview With the Vampire”; Sookie Stackhouse from “True Blood” naked and drenched in blood on the cover of “Rolling Stone”
  
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• Letter: America is No. 1 in sickness and death

  12-05-2020 14:00
  
  Congrats to you, Donald Trump, for your leadership.Thanks to your reality denial, despite multiple briefings by intelligence and medical experts since January, you have made America No. 1 in the world. America has 4.25% of the world’s population. Thanks to your ignorance and arrogance, America is No. 1 in total COVID-19 infections. America is No. 1 in world total COVID-19 deaths. America is No. 1 in percentage of world infections — one third of the world’s total — and Ame
  
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• Douglas Douville: America does poorly in the pandemic stress test

  12-05-2020 14:00
  
  American exceptionalism is less about our unequaled wealth and power and more about the ideals our nation was founded upon and the rightness of our endeavors. There have been some less than exceptional moments for American exceptionalism.Although Native Americans often gave as good as they got, eventually we were able to appropriate their lands and subjugate their culture. Although our founding documents provided for freedom and equality for all, blacks waited nearly 200 years to see those promi
  
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• Skipping a mask, Trump says he’s ‘met the moment’ on testing

  12-05-2020 07:06
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump insisted his administration has “met the moment” and “prevailed” on coronavirus testing, even as the White House itself became a potent symbol of the risk facing Americans everywhere by belatedly ordering everyone who enters the West Wing to wear a mask.Trump on Monday addressed a Rose Garden audience filled with mask-wearing administration officials, some appearing publicly with face coverings for the first time during the outbrea
  
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• Utah reaches a coronavirus milestone: More people have beaten the virus than currently have it

  12-05-2020 06:39
  
  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. For the first time, the number of Utahns believed to have recovered from the coronavirus outnumbers the people who are still battling the disease.According to the Utah Department of Health’s count Monday, there are 3,114 active ca
  
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• At least one hiker killed in Utah slot canyon flash flood; search teams looking for people who may be trapped

  12-05-2020 06:25
  
  At least one hiker was killed Monday afternoon when flash floods ripped through slot canyons in Utah’s San Rafael Swell, prompting a massive search by ground and air for other possible victims.The Emery County Sheriff’s Office said the person died in Little Wildhorse Canyon, a popular hiking destination near Goblin Valley State Park, while 21 others made it out of the flooded canyon safely.Emery County authorities had dispatched three helicopters as well as ground teams from three ne
  
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• Zion to reopen Wednesday followed by Arches and Canyonlands — but after Memorial Day

  12-05-2020 05:52
  
  Three more of southern Utah’s marquee national parks, as well as Dinosaur National Monument, have scheduled reopenings this month as part of the National Park Service’s phased approach to increasing recreational access at its destinations shuttered last month in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.Zion — Utah’s most popular national park — is to open Wednesday, but many visitor services, including the shuttle, visitors center and attractions will not be available r
  
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• At least one hiker killed in Utah slot canyon flash flood; search teams looking people who may be trapped

  12-05-2020 04:43
  
  At least one hiker was killed Monday afternoon when flash floods ripped through slot canyons in Utah’s San Rafael Swell, prompting a massive search by ground and air for other possible victims.The Emery County Sheriff’s Office said the person died in Little Wildhorse Canyon, a popular hiking destination near Goblin Valley State Park, while 21 others made it out of the flooded canyon safely.Emery County authorities had dispatched three helicopters as well as ground teams from three ne
  
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• Scott Dalgarno: Don’t reopen Utah based on wishful thinking

  12-05-2020 04:00
  
  Churches are reopening in Utah. Should this be reason for rejoicing? For praise?I am writing this on VE day — the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe in World War II. Sadly, the parades and commemorations scheduled for that day will not be held.The victory makes me remember the evacuation of British troops from the beaches of Dunkirk and the jubilation of the British when the boys were rescued. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was rightly aghast at such premature celebration.“We mu
  
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• Raiders agree to deal with former University of Utah and Broncos RB Devontae Booker

  12-05-2020 03:48
  
  Alameda, Calif. • The Las Vegas Raiders agreed to a deal Monday with former Denver Broncos running back Devontae Booker.A 2016 fourth-round pick out of Utah, Booker played four seasons with the Broncos and rushed for 1,103 yards over 61 games that included six starts.Last season, the 27-year-old Booker saw his role largely reduced to special teams. He had two carries for 9 yards.Booker’s most productive season was his rookie campaign when he rushed for 612 yards and scored four touchd
  
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• Trump faces virus at White House amid push to ‘reopen’ U.S.

  12-05-2020 03:13
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump insisted Monday his administration has “met the moment” and “prevailed” on coronavirus testing, even as the White House itself became a potent symbol of the risk facing Americans everywhere by belatedly ordering everyone who enters the West Wing to wear a mask.Trump addressed a Rose Garden audience filled with mask-wearing administration officials, some appearing publicly with face coverings for the first time during the pandemic,
  
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• Latter-day Saint leaders want art of Jesus — and only art of Jesus — in church foyers

  12-05-2020 03:13
  
  President Russell M. Nelson wants Jesus Christ front and center not only in the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but also in the faith’s meetinghouses.To emphasize that, he and his counselors in the governing First Presidency directed local lay leaders Monday to place artwork that depicts Christ himself — or Jesus ministering to others — in all church foyers and entryways.That will be the only art allowed in those prime spots. Banished to other parts of t
  
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• Latter-day Saints leaders want art of Jesus — and only art of Jesus — in church foyers

  12-05-2020 02:59
  
  President Russell M. Nelson wants Jesus Christ front and center not only in thename of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but also in the faith’s meetinghouses.To emphasize that, he and his counselors in the governing First Presidency directed local lay leaders Monday to place artwork that depicts Christ himself — or Jesus ministering to others — in all church foyers and entryways.That will be the only art allowed in those prime spots. Banished to other parts of th
  
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• ‘Handful’ of Utah Jazz players work out at reopened practice facility

  12-05-2020 02:12
  
  Utah Jazz players worked out at a team facility on Monday for the first time since the NBA shut down March 11 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, with the team acknowledging that “a handful” of them took part in voluntary, individual workouts at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus.As of Friday, May 8, the NBA enabled teams to reopen their facilities for such workouts, provided those teams are in locales where city and state governments have lightened stay-at-home restrictions. Jazz V
  
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• Brian Moench: We need a vaccine against conspiracy theories

  12-05-2020 02:00
  
  If time travel was a thing, 17th century Americans enjoying the Salem Witch Trials would feel right at home in 21st century America — awash in conspiracy theories, paranoia and gullibility, void of critical thinking, with “stable geniuses” in charge of things.Except now it isn’t just witches getting burned. We need a vaccine against conspiracy theories as much as we do against the virus.In case you weren’t aware, the pandemic is a hoax because people have seen hospi
  
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• Helicopters, search teams looking for hikers who may be trapped in flooded Utah canyons

  12-05-2020 01:33
  
  Concerned that flash flooding Monday afternoon may have stranded hikers in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County authorities have dispatched three helicopters as well as ground teams from neighboring counties to check out slot canyons near Goblin Valley State Park.The Emery County Sheriff's Office was unable to provide many details while the operation remains active.“We do have reports of 21 people making it safely out of the canyons,” said a news advisory issued just before 5 p.m.This
  
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• Utah reaches a coronavirus milestone: More people have beat the virus than currently have it

  12-05-2020 01:30
  
  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. For the first time, the number of Utahns believed to have recovered from the coronavirus outnumbers the people who are still battling the disease.According to the Utah Department of Health’s count Monday, there are 3,114 active ca
  
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• Camping in Utah’s state parks may have gotten safer — but the upgrade will cost you

  12-05-2020 01:28
  
  (Photo courtesy of Tentrr)
  The Utah Division of Parks and Recreation has teamed up with Tentrr to create 48 campsites across five state parks this season, including East Canyon (pictured). Designed as a bridge between a campsite and a hotel, sites are set away from other campgrounds. They feature an already set-up tent, a queen bed set on a raised platform, chairs and a rudimentary shower and toilet, among other amenities.The camping options at Utah’s state parks can be as colorful as the
  
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