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• Fatal crash kills two, temporarily closes part of I-15

  17-05-2020 23:23
  
  Two people were killed Sunday morning near Paragonah when the right rear tire of the van they were passengers in failed, causing the driver to lose control, and the vehicle to crash into the median and roll twice.The two victims, 14-year-old Zahara Ismael and 74-year-old Hamdiyan Salman, both of San Diego, were riding in the second row of the van when the accident occurred at approximately 7:25 a.m. Neither was wearing a seat belt, and both were ejected from the vehicle.Ismael was pronounced dea
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Two new deaths, 170 new cases Sunday, but new cases per week are dropping and recoveries are rising

  17-05-2020 22:50
  
  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. Saturday marked the first day that most of Utah moved into the low-risk “yellow” coronavirus safety level — a shift that has brought increasing optimism to some and accusations of premature relaxation from others.There
  
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• Now retired from the NBA, Trevor Booker is a Utah Jazz fan favorite, and the feeling is mutual

  17-05-2020 22:00
  
  Utah Jazz forward Trevor Booker (33) throws balls to the fans after the Utah Jazz defeated the Dallas Mavericks 109-92 in their last home game of the season, Monday, April 13, 2015, in Salt Lake City. | Tom Smart, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Trevor Booker hadn’t intended on retiring from the NBA this year. Of course, this year hasn’t exactly played out the way anyone thought it would.
  Booker spent his last year in the NBA — the 2017-18 season — on three different
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Two new deaths, 170 new cases

  17-05-2020 21:28
  
  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. The Utah Department of Health on Sunday announced that two more people have died as a result of COVID-19, and that there are 170 new positive diagnoses of the disease in the state.According to UDOH, the new deaths include a 60- to 85-ye
  
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• Utah Jazz’s George Niang paints a stark picture of workouts in the practice facility

  17-05-2020 20:58
  
  Utah Jazz forward Georges Niang told reporters a few days ago that every NBA player he has spoken to since the season went on hiatus is eager for games to start up again, for the schedule to be completed and a champion to be crowned.In the same conversation, Niang gave some intriguing insight into how he is preparing to return to action should the season indeed be restarted.On May 8, the league granted teams the ability to reopen their practice facilities to players for individual, voluntary wor
  
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• Why Dante Exum is the biggest draft bust in Utah Jazz history

  17-05-2020 20:26
  
  For over five years, the Utah Jazz gave Dante Exum every opportunity imaginable to succeed in their system — he simply couldn’t do anything with ‘em, though. The night of the infamous, courtside argument between Shane Keisel and Russell Westbrook, my wife and I were watching the game from the nosebleeds at Vivint Smart Home […]
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• Wakbat, a Provo couple’s brainchild, mixes lawn games with social distancing

  17-05-2020 20:14
  
  Sydney and Josh Crockett saw a game that crudely resembled cricket being played in Brazilian favelas while serving there as missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Uncomplicated yet competitive, they thought it was something people elsewhere would enjoy playing. So they brought the idea home to Provo and started tinkering with it.What they most liked about the game was how it brought people together. What makes it most marketable may be how it keeps them apart.The Crock
  
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• Min Jin Lee: The people behind the counter are people

  17-05-2020 20:00
  
  I wanted some noodles.You can get jajangmyeon, the Korean version of the Chinese black bean sauce noodles, in plenty of places. Queens has a strong jajangmyeon game, but I live in Harlem now, so it’s easier for me to go to 32nd Street in Manhattan.When I got to the restaurant, I kept on my mask, disposable gloves and baseball hat. I stood between the front door and the entryway, which was sealed off with heavy plastic. No one could get inside. In that plastic sheeting in place of an interi
  
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• ‘COVID toes,’ other rashes are the latest rare-but-possible signs of the coronavirus

  17-05-2020 19:49
  
  Skin doctors suddenly are looking at a lot of toes — whether by emailed picture or video visit — as concern grows that for some people, a sign of COVID-19 may pop up in an unusual spot.Boston dermatologist Esther Freeman expected to see skin complaints as the pandemic unfolded — various kinds of rashes occur when people get very ill from other viruses.“But I was not anticipating those would be toes,” said Freeman of Massachusetts General Hospital, who has viewed via
  
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• Bret Stephens: In this election, it’s the remote against the exposed

  17-05-2020 19:42
  
  In February 2016 Peggy Noonan wrote a prescient column in The Wall Street Journal, in which she made the distinction between two classes of people: The “protected” — that is, the well-off, the connected, the comfortably insulated — and the “unprotected” — everyone else.“The protected make public policy,” she wrote. “The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.” Her larger point, unfathomable t
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 172 more coronavirus cases, 13 more deaths

  17-05-2020 19:33
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Health officials have reported 13 more deaths from the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation along with 172 new cases of COVID-19.According to the Navajo Department of Health, the number of positive coronavirus cases on the vast reservation has reached 3,912 with 140 known deaths as of Saturday.Tribal health officials said about 544 people have recovered from COVID-19 with more reports still pending as of Sunday.They said that of 23,791 coronavirus tests have been administer
  
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• Fatal crash temporarily closes part of I-15 near Parowan

  17-05-2020 19:05
  
  Utah Highway Patrol reported Sunday morning that part of Interstate 15 was shut down due to a fatal crash near mile post 82 — just north of Parowan in Iron County.UHP initially said at 9:17 that I-15 had been closed in both directions as a result of the accident. About a half-hour later, though, it reported the southbound lane had reopened, while northbound traffic was being diverted off of the on ramp and right back onto I-15.Just before 11 a.m., I-15 was completely re-opened in the area.
  
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• Sen. Mitt Romney calls Trump’s firing of government watchdogs ‘a threat to accountable democracy’

  17-05-2020 18:54
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday blasted President Donald Trump’s firing of government watchdogs.“The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented,” Romney, R-Utah, tweeted. “Doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose. It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so
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• Latter-day Saint missionary from Bountiful killed in hit-and-run in Georgia

  17-05-2020 18:51
  
  Mckay Bergeson, a 19-year-old Bountiful native who was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was killed Saturday night just outside LaFayette, Georgia, according to a church spokesman.Bergeson, who had served in the Tennessee Knoxville Mission since December, was traveling northbound in the outside lane of Georgia Highway 1 — a four-lane highway — about 9:30 p.m. ET when his bicycle was struck from behind by an automobile, according to Sgt. First Clas
  
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• Wahleah Johns: A life on and off the Navajo Reservation

  17-05-2020 18:41
  
  I was born in the Navajo Nation and raised half on and half off the reservation. Shuttling between my grandmother’s ranch in Black Mesa, Ariz., and the small border town of Winslow, I took note from an early age of the vast inequities between those two places.In Black Mesa, where the clay soil is blanketed with sagebrush and juniper, there’s no electricity, running water or paved roads. A typical day began as early as 4 in the morning; we made a corn pollen offering to the holy peopl
  
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• Robert Kirby: When it comes to art of Jesus, remember that holiness is more than skin deep

  17-05-2020 18:15
  
  The latest directive to make The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a more Christ-centered faith came last week from top leaders.From now on — or at least once we’re allowed back in the meetinghouses — the only paintings that will be permitted in the foyers and entryways will be those that feature Christ.No pictures of current church leaders, Joseph Smith, Orrin Porter Rockwell, or angels helping pioneers push handcarts in the snow.For the record, I was not consulted o
  
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• Latter-day Saint missionary from Bountiful killed while bicycling

  17-05-2020 17:30
  
  Mckay Bergeson, a 19-year-old Bountiful native who was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was killed Saturday evening in LaFayette, Georgia, according to a church spokesman.Bergeson, who had served in the Tennessee Knoxville Mission since December, was struck by an automobile while riding his bicycle. His companion was uninjured.“We express our sympathy and heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones as they mourn his passing and remember his life
  
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• Robert Kirby: When it comes to art of Jesus, remember that holiness is more than skip deep

  17-05-2020 16:19
  
  The latest directive to make The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a more Christ-centered faith came last week from top leaders.From now on — or at least once we’re allowed back in the meetinghouses — the only paintings that will be permitted in the foyers and entryways will be those that feature Christ.No pictures of current church leaders, Joseph Smith, Orrin Porter Rockwell, or angels helping pioneers push handcarts in the snow.For the record, I was not consulted o
  
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• How much Utahns spent on groceries, helped small businesses and more during this pandemic

  17-05-2020 16:18
  
  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. I’ve been hunting for solid economic data on Utah for months.After all, my assigned task is to explain the impact of the coronavirus here, and clearly, the pandemic is having a huge impact on our economy.But most of the data is hi
  
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• University of Utah police officer showed explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker

  17-05-2020 16:13
  
  Lauren McCluskey explained to the officer at the University of Utah that she was being extorted over explicit photos she had taken of herself. Someone — she wasn’t certain who at that moment — had accessed her files and was threatening to release them if she didn’t hand over $1,000.Scared by the demand, she paid the money and then sent copies of the messages and the pictures to the campus police department as evidence.When Miguel Deras, one of the officers assigned to her
  
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• Utah’s no-bid contracts guided by personal contacts, CEO suggestions

  17-05-2020 16:09
  
  In the war on COVID-19, Utah has doled out more than $84 million in no-bid contracts and supply orders outside the normal purchasing process designed to promote transparency, fairness and competition among businesses.These procurement shortcuts were necessary during the pandemic, officials argue, to cope with the urgent need for protective gear, shattered supply chains and intense international competition over precious medical equipment.Still, lawmakers and whistleblowers are increasingly deman
  
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• Utah Jazz: Latest D.O.N Issue #2 leak has fans changing tune

  17-05-2020 16:00
  
  Initial visuals left fans disappointed, but the latest leak of Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell’s second signature shoe shows much more promise. As Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell itches to get back on the hardwood, he continues to tease the eventual release of his second signature sneaker from Adidas — the D.O.N (Determination Over Negativity) […]
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• University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker

  17-05-2020 15:04
  
  Lauren McCluskey explained to the officer at the University of Utah that she was being extorted over explicit photos she had taken of herself. Someone — she wasn’t certain who at that moment — had accessed her files and was threatening to release them if she didn’t hand over $1,000.Scared by the demand, she paid the money and then sent copies of the messages and the pictures to the campus police department as evidence.When Miguel Deras, one of the officers assigned to her
  
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• See Phil Jackson’s scouting report on the Utah Jazz ahead of the 1998 NBA Finals

  17-05-2020 15:00
  
  Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan, left, holds the Most Valuable Player trophy as coach Phil Jackson holds the NBA championship trophy after the Bulls defeated the Utah Jazz 87-86 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Salt Lake City, in this June 14, 1998 photo. | Jack Smith, Associated Press Rusty LaRue, who played for the Chicago Bulls during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons and later played for the Utah Jazz in the 2001-02 season, has been sharing some artifacts from the Bulls’ 1997-98 seaso
  
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• Alyson Pinkelman: Wear your mask for those who can’t

  17-05-2020 15:00
  
  The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (better known as COVID-19) has highlighted countless disparities within our health care system, such as the lack of affordable health care available to marginalized communities, improper allocation of resources within our health care system, the general disregard for our elderly and immunocompromised populations and the mistreatment of hospital and frontline workers.However, one issue that has not been discussed is the complex circumstances of sexual assault survivors and
  
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• Worldwide threats are supposed to unify humanity. This pandemic has widened the rift.

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  Washington • In the movies, when the asteroid hurtles toward Earth, or aliens invade, or a quake pulverizes cities, or a nuclear-mutated dinosaur wreaks havoc, humanity links arms to save itself.Gone are divisions over race or class. Countries lay down arms and grudges. Politics be damned.“We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore,” President Thomas Whitmore says in “Independence Day.” “We will be united in our common interests.”But that
  
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• Utah’s Red Butte Garden welcomes a new director, works to reopen

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  As Jimmy Turner boarded a plane in Sydney, Australia, Red Butte Garden was still welcoming guests in the foothills east of Salt Lake City.Four hours after Turner landed, the garden he had flown across the world to oversee shut its doors indefinitely due to COVID-19.He went straight into self-quarantine, following travel recommendations that asked new residents to isolate themselves for two weeks. Five days after his March 13 arrival, a 5.7-magnitude earthquake shook him, his partner, Toby Stedfo
  
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• Letter: Working from home is not the perfect solution

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  In response to Jared Turner’s op-ed about working from home: I too have enjoyed many years working from home. In 1975, I was left a single mother of four on a farm in Pennsylvania. Fortunately for me, I attended a cosmetic demonstration at a friend’s home. I quickly signed up and was “beautifying America one face at a time.” This company taught, among many other things, how to budget your time and work from home — no laundry between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. — when th
  
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• Letter: Will we learn our lesson from this pandemic?

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  COVID-19 offers a lesson for climate change. Early warnings of the pandemic went unheeded, and thousands are losing their lives. Due to the virus, our economy is unstable and the supply of food and basic supplies in jeopardy. People are dying while we try to play catchup.Rather than call it a hoax, there were things we could have done to prepare, just as now is the time to attack global warming. Limiting the burning of fossil fuels is one of the most effective ways. Coal burning power plants and
  
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• Letter: Our public health system does too little, too late

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  Perhaps only in Utah can citizen taxpayer funds support million-dollar, no-bid, inside-job contracts to a previously unknown vendor of unvalidated COVID tests that don’t provide accurate COVID-19 diagnostic answers. We move from no testing to too late, inadequate testing to poor, unvalidated testing known to produce the wrong answers. And the vendor still doesn’t have to show any public evidence that their assay even works. What a public health system.David Grainger, Salt Lake CitySu
  
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• Letter: Our government is all, no action

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  My wife and I are still waiting for our $2,400 stimulus payment. Our daughter, who was forced to close her yoga studio in late March, has yet to receive a penny from state pandemic unemployment assistance or the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.I wonder how many millions of Americans are experiencing the same all-talk, no-action response to their financial hardship? Perhaps it's the reason so many are in desperate conditions, waiting in line for hours at food banks for the first ti
  
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• Letter: It’s the GOP’s fault we’re in this mess

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  Let's put the blame where it belongs. I've been venting about President Trump and his reluctance to act ever since this pandemic began. But it's time to put the blame where it belongs. We all knew that the president is an arrogant moron, but the Republican senators who allowed him to remain in office are really to blame. With the exception of Mitt Romney.The blood is on their hands, and we’ve already had more Americans die during this pandemic (over 83,000) than we did during the entire wa
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Go ahead, McConnell, call Obama the n-word

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Mitch McConnell:Why don't you just go ahead and call Barack Obama the n-word?You know you want to. It'd probably do wonders for your blood pressure. And it would free you from the tiresome charade of using coded language to say the same thing. It would also free the rest of us from having to listen.Your latest vomitous spew came last week, after the former president criticized Donald Trump for the “chaotic disaster” of his response to the coronavirus pandemic in audio leaked fro
  
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• Former Red Butte Garden director says goodbye

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  When Gregory Lee submitted his notice of retirement as executive director of Red Butte Garden in June 2019, he was not planning on transitioning into socially isolated hibernation.“When you make your plans a year in advance, you don’t really factor in the probability of a global pandemic,” Lee said. He and his partner, Ann Deneris, “were looking forward to traveling and making memories together, but for right now, that’s on hold.”Lee and Deneris used his accru
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: What are the pros and cons of getting a tattoo?

  17-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • My adult, professional daughter asked me what I thought of her getting a tattoo. Personally, I’m not a fan of tattoos, as she already knows, for various reasons. Any advice on the pros and cons of a tattoo?— Ole MamaDear Ole Mama • OK, there are some areas in which I have a certain expertise. For instance, drop me in any city in America and I can tell you almost immediately which convenience store will have single cold cans of Dr Pepper and which ones will
  
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• Fire, explosion in Los Angeles injures 11 firefighters

  17-05-2020 06:48
  
  Los Angeles • An explosion Saturday at a hash oil manufacturer in downtown Los Angeles injured 11 firefighters who had gone inside the building after an initial report of a fire.Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott said “one significant explosion" shook the neighborhood around 6:30 p.m., and as first responders arrived they saw firefighters emerge from the building with burns and other injuries. He did not provide conditions on the injured.Scott said the building was a warehou
  
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• 18-year-old killed in West Valley City shooting

  17-05-2020 06:03
  
  An 18-year-old died Saturday after being shot during some kind of confrontation at a park in West Valley City.The shooting happened around 6 p.m., after two groups of people met at Kings Pointe Park, 1330 W. Rothchild Drive.The victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died there. Police haven’t released his name. No one has been arrested.Anyone with information about the shooting can contact police at 801-840-4000.
  
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• Looking back: A ‘Flu Game’ for Michael Jordan, a ‘Fluke Game’ for the Utah Jazz

  17-05-2020 06:00
  
  Chicago’s Michael Jordan shoots while Utah’s John Stockton and Bryon Russell defend during the fourth quarter of the Jazz-Bulls 1997 NBA Finals Game 5 at the Delta Center on June 11, 1997. | Laura Seitz, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Sunday night could be a rough one for Utah Jazz fans. Not “Flu Game” rough. But close.
  And get this: Ever a visionary, Deseret News columnist Lee Benson predicted a scenario in which the sports world would watch a documentary like &ldqu
  
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• Fire, explosion in Los Angeles injures 10 firefighters

  17-05-2020 05:09
  
  Los Angeles •An explosion in downtown Los Angeles injured 10 firefighters Saturday, and more than 200 others rushed to the scene as the flames spread to several buildings.The condition of the injured was not immediately known. News helicopters showed dozens of fire trucks at the scene. As firefighters aimed hoses at the long-slung building in the city's Toy District where the explosion occurred, others could be seen standing next to gurneys that had been readied for the injured.“&rdqu
  
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• Darpana Sheth and Daryl James: Profit-minded police exploit K-9 partners

  17-05-2020 01:00
  
  Tank the police dog is a good boy caught in a bad situation. But don’t blame him. When a federal court criticized the reliability of every drug K-9 in Utah on April 21, the rebuke had more to do with human behavior than anything else.People can’t sniff out trace amounts of narcotics, but the humans in charge of law enforcement speak on behalf of the dogs who do. And sometimes, often unintentionally, the people who control training, certification and fieldwork cue behavior from their
  
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• Looking At The NBA Draft: The No. 5 Picks

  17-05-2020 00:20 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  David Yapkowitz checks out a decade's worth of No. 5 overall picks in the NBA Draft.
  
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