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• Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine in case he contracts coronavirus

  18-05-2020 23:49
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to lessen symptoms should he get the new coronavirus, despite warnings from his own government that it should only be administered in a hospital or research setting due to potentially fatal side effects.Trump told reporters he has been taking the drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a zinc supplement daily “for about a week and a half now.” Trump spent weeks pushing the drug as a potential cure for COVID-1
  
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• Utah keeps its stellar AAA credit rating

  18-05-2020 23:46
  
  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Treasurer David Damschen announced Monday that S&P Global, Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings have reaffirmed Utah’s AAA credit rating, the highest rating a state can receive.“In Utah, we are thorough and collaborative in our fiscal management,” Herbert said in a news release. “We have worked closely with the Legislature to adhere to the principles of fiscal discipline and budgetary restraint, making our state one of only a ha
  
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• Tech-assisted COVID-19 tracking is having some issues

  18-05-2020 23:04
  Providence, R.I. • Harnessing today’s technology to the task of fighting the coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be more complicated than it first appeared.The first U.S. states that rolled out smartphone apps for tracing the contacts of COVID-19 patients are dealing with technical glitches and a general lack of interest by their residents. A second wave of tech-assisted pandemic surveillance tools is on its way, this time with the imprimatur of tech giants Apple and Google. But th
  
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• Matthew D. LaPlante: A story is not the story, and we are not divided

  18-05-2020 23:00
  
  Armed men storm a state capital. People fight over toilet paper in grocery stores. A security guard is killed in an altercation that begins when he asks a customer to put on a mask.It’s understandable if the news has you feeling despondent, or feeling as though — as The Salt Lake Tribune’s Washington D.C. bureau chief, Thomas Burr, recently put it — that you are witnessing “an us vs. them attitude taking hold across the United States and the world at large.”Bu
  
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• Heavily Republican Utah likes voting by mail, but national GOP declares war on it

  18-05-2020 22:51
  
  Heavily Republican Utah is one of just five states that for years have voted primarily by mail (the others lean Democratic), and leaders here say it increases turnout by making voting easier.But national GOP leaders on Monday denounced the practice as part of a Democratic plot to use coronavirus scares to alter elections in ways that could increase fraud.They vowed to fight voting by mail and other election proposals they dislike with a $20 million legal fund.“A national vote-by-mail syste
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 18: No new deaths; Salt Lake County is reopening recreation spots

  18-05-2020 22:24
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---2:20 p.m.: Another LDS temple reopens in Utah; two more to follow next weekThe Jord
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 18: No new deaths reported Monday; Salt Lake County is reopening recreation spots

  18-05-2020 21:24
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:20 p.m.: No new deaths from COVID-19, Utah Department of Health reportsUtah has l
  
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• Media outlets demand names of two Utah County firms accused of ignoring COVID-19 safeguards

  18-05-2020 21:12
  
  The Utah Media Coalition, made up of the state’s largest news organizations, is prepared to go to court to obtain the names of the two Utah County businesses that reportedly flouted coronavirus restrictions and created hotspots of the virus. But the coalition’s attorney said in a letter to county commissioners Monday that it doesn’t have to come to that and called on them to release the information without a public records fight.In a time of “struggle and uncertainty,&rdq
  
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• Utah Jazz executive hired by the New York Knicks

  18-05-2020 20:50
  
  After spending 19 years with the Utah Jazz, Walt Perrin, the vice president of player personnel, will move to New York City to become the Knicks’ assistant general manager, The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed.The Athletic’s Shams Charania was first to report the news.Perrin was named the Jazz’s VP of player personnel in September 2007 after spending the previous seven years as the Jazz’s director of scouting. Before that, he spent nine years with the Detroit Pistons, mostly a
  
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• Utah Jazz: Championship aspirations take major hit sans Bogdanovic

  18-05-2020 20:29
  
  The Utah Jazz took another blow on Monday morning, learning that Bojan Bogdanovic would miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season due to a wrist injury. It’s been a rough year thus far for Utah Jazz fans. From chemistry/inconsistency issues on the court to the whole Rudy Gobert/Donovan Mitchell novel coronavirus fiasco, fans have watched […]
  Utah Jazz: Championship aspirations take major hit sans Bogdanovic - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and
  
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• Knicks hiring Walt Perrin as assistant general manager

  18-05-2020 20:25
  
  Shams Charania: Sources: The Knicks are finalizing hiring Jazz VP of Player Personnel Walt Perrin as assistant general manager as they reshuffle front office under Leon Rose. Perrin is a well-respected executive who has worked in Jazz organization for 19 years.
  
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• Utah Jazz VP of player personnel Walt Perrin leaving for job with New York Knicks

  18-05-2020 20:23
  
  Walt Perrin, vice president of player personnel for the Utah Jazz, talks to the media during a Jazz workout at the Zions Bank Basketball Campus in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Sources say Perrin will leave Utah for a job with the New York Knicks | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — One of the longest tenured members of the Utah Jazz front office is leaving for a job with the New York Knicks.
  Jazz vice president of player personnel Walt Perrin will become the Knicks&rs
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz VP of player personnel Walt Perrin leaving for job with New York Knicks

  18-05-2020 20:23
  
  Spenser Heaps, Deseret News One of the longest tenured members of the Utah Jazz front office is reportedly leaving for a job with the New York Knicks.
  On Monday, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported that Jazz vice president of player personnel Walt Perrin will become the Knicks’ new assistant general manager.
  Sources: The Knicks are finalizing hiring Jazz VP of Player Personnel Walt Perrin as assistant general manager as they reshuffle front office under Leon Rose. Perrin is a wel
  
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• Bojan Bogdanovic to undergo season-ending surgery

  18-05-2020 19:58
  
  Adrian Wojnarowski: Utah Jazz F Bojan Bogdanovic is undergoing season-ending surgery on his right wrist, sources tell ESPN. Full recovery expected for start of 2020-21 season. He’s averaged 20 points per game for Jazz, fourth-seed in West.
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Bojan Bogdanovic undergoing season-ending wrist surgery

  18-05-2020 19:54
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo surgery on his right wrist and miss the rest of the season, according to a report by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.In his first season with the Jazz, the team’s marquee free-agent signing was averaging 20.2 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game. He was shooting 44.7% from the field and 41.4% from the 3-point line.Utah was in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 41-23 record when the season went on hiatus March 11 due to th
  
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• Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgery

  18-05-2020 19:43
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) dribbles the ball during an NBA game against the San Antonio Spurs at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. The Jazz lost 104-113. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — If the 2019-2020 NBA season resumes, the Utah Jazz will be without a key player.
  Forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgery on his right wrist on Tuesday to repair a ruptured scapholunate ligament in his right wrist, team sources con
  
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• Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic to undergo season-ending surgery; how will it impact the rotation?

  18-05-2020 19:43
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) dribbles the ball during an NBA game against the San Antonio Spurs at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. The Jazz lost 104-113. Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a ruptured scapholunate ligament in his right wrist, team sources say.| Kristin Murphy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — If the 2019-2020 NBA season resumes, the Utah Jazz will be without a key player.
  Forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgery

  18-05-2020 19:43
  
  Utah Jazz forward Bojan Bogdanovic (44) dribbles the ball during an NBA game against the San Antonio Spurs at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. The Jazz lost 104-113. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News If the 2019-2020 NBA season resumes, the Utah Jazz will reportedly be without a key player.
  On Monday morning, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that forward Bojan Bogdanovic will undergo season-ending surgery on his right wrist.Utah Jazz F Bojan Bogdanovic is under
  
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• For the first time in 128 years, Angel Moroni statue no longer sits atop Salt Lake Temple — see more photos

  18-05-2020 19:37
  
  Moroni is no fallen angel, but, for the first time in 128 years, he has lost his lofty status atop the Salt Lake Temple.Temporarily.A giant crane brought down the golden statue Monday so workers can repair it after March’s magnitude 5.7 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) Crews work to remove the Angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday, May 18, 2020. The temple closed in
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 18: Utah gas prices go up as restrictions ease; Salt Lake County is reopening recreation spots

  18-05-2020 19:29
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:25 a.m.: Salt Lake County begins reopening recreation spots Salt Lake County&rsq
  
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• For the first time in 128 years, Angel Moroni statue no longer sits atop Salt Lake Temple

  18-05-2020 18:56
  
  Moroni is no fallen angel, but, for the first time in 128 years, he has lost his lofty status atop the Salt Lake Temple.Temporarily.A giant crane brought down the golden statue Monday so workers can repair it after March’s magnitude 5.7 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) Crews work to remove the Angel Moroni statue atop the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday, May 18, 2020. The temple closed in
  
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• Utah Utes hope the Pac-12 opens athletic facilities June 1 — with limits

  18-05-2020 18:05
  
  A major step toward regaining some semblance of normalcy in college athletics may be coming this week, at least in the Pac-12.The Power Five conference, whose footprint includes six states with varying stay-at-home and social-distancing guidelines, is expected to announce this week an update to its March 30 mandate of no organized, in-person team activities of any kind through May 31.The Pac-12 could merely extend its ban, but there has been growing optimism at the University of Utah that an ope
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, May 18: Weekly grocery donations helping Utah bartenders

  18-05-2020 17:52
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Monday, May 18. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---9:50 a.m.: Weekly grocery donations have helped Utah bartendersUtah bartenders and
  
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• Kaysville couple finds true love, marriage during coronavirus pandemic

  18-05-2020 17:50
  
  Kaysville • With all the bad press COVID-19 has gotten, it only seems fair to point out when something good comes of the pandemic.Something like, say, true love.Our story begins back in early December, when 76-year-old Enoch Bell called up 83-year-old Ann Marcusen to ask her out on a date. The two Kaysville residents had lost their spouses within the last few years — Enoch after a 50-year marriage, and Ann after nearly 60."It was a blind date," Enoch said. "A mutual friend thought we
  
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• Crews lowering Angel Moroni statue on Salt Lake Temple

  18-05-2020 16:53
  
  Moroni is no fallen angel, but he is losing his lofty perch atop the Salt Lake Temple.Temporarily.Workers began bringing down the golden statue Monday so crews can repair it after March’s magnitude 5.7 earthquake knocked the trumpet from its hand.“This has long been planned as part of the temple renovation, but the timeline to do so was accelerated following the earthquake in March,” Daniel Woodruff, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said Monday in
  
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• How have Utahns coped with stay-at-home life? Our utility bills offer clues.

  18-05-2020 15:11
  
  There’s a subtle paper trail on the many ways Utahns have coped with radical changes in their lives during the pandemic.These behavioral tea leaves, as it were, are found in our utilities — how we’re using the internet, consuming water, flushing toilets and what we’re putting in the garbage.Here is a look at what has changed and what it says about life during the crisis:Getting on the ‘web’The Wasatch Front’s largest internet service providers, or ISPs,
  
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• Robert Gehrke: We should consider a better way to provide hospital care during the pandemic

  18-05-2020 14:30
  
  Last week, I was sad to learn that one of my favorite people growing up — one of those unfailingly upbeat and positive people who lifts up everyone around them — died. He wasn’t a victim of COVID-19, at least not directly.He suffered a fall and injured his back one evening. He was taken to the hospital where a doctor ordered an X-ray, gave him pain medication and sent him home, not wanting to admit him, his son told me, because of the pandemic.Within a couple of days, the pain
  
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• Utah companies change plans, and make new products, to join the COVID-19 battle

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  Last week, for the first time in more than a month, all the workers at the tent manufacturer Springbar were back in their Millcreek factory, where they usually make the canvas tents that have been the company’s stock and trade since World War II.With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing businesses to shut down or alter their workplaces, about half the employees at Springbar, formerly Kirkham’s Outdoor Products, had been sewing from home.The workers aren’t just making tents, though. Fo
  
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• This Salt Lake City company is turning snorkel masks into reusable medical gear

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  True Health, a Salt Lake City-based startup, is producing reusable medical gear out of full-face snorkel masks, a quick reaction to the pandemic pushed by a doctor and a business student.Back in March, Dr. John Pearson, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Utah, was concerned about the rapidly spreading coronavirus and its drain on personal protective gear used by doctors and nurses.After all, many of the face masks needed were made in China. The problem was that China,
  
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• Letter: What Fauci has not said

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Dr. Fauci:You were accused this week by Donald Trump of NOT giving “an acceptable answer” to your opinion about being cautious in opening the schools this fall given COVID-19. What else have you “not” said?You have not said the virus will be gone in the fall.You have not said COVID will go away by itself, without a vaccine or like some kind of “miracle” in April when it warms up.You have not said that anyone who wants a test could get one.You have not sai
  
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• Letter: We’ll never find a ‘perfect candidate’

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  In his letter to the editor, Brian King declared that he would not cast a vote for president, as neither candidate met his expectations.Well… it has been a very long time since we have had the perfect candidate. If we all waited for “the perfect one,” the winner would be declared by votes totaling in the 100s. There will never be a perfect candidate. And after what happened last time when all the Bernie supporters withheld their votes and we got this guy, I would think everyon
  
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• Letter: Oil and gas companies are getting a state handout

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  We should all be outraged at the news that came out recently that the Permanent Community Impact Fund, which comes from oil and gas revenue, is being used not to mitigate the impacts of fossil fuel development here in Utah, its legally defined purpose, but to give handouts to oil and gas companies so they can do even more damage to our land, water and climate.The state audit now being discussed by the Legislature reveals that the Community Impact Board, which manages the funds, authorized, among
  
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• Letter: Follow Trump’s suggestions, see what happens

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  I challenge the anti-science party, aka Republicans, to follow the president’s COVID-19 suggestions and send their kids back to school, dine out, go to large parties (including Trump rallies), and renounce any medical procedures including surgeries, prescriptions, setting broken bones, etc. In fact, they really should be proud card-carrying Republican Science Deniers (RSD) that will inform first responders not to bother if they’re in an accident, having a heart attack, exhibiting COV
  
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• Letter: Child care providers are heroes, too

  18-05-2020 14:00
  
  When I think of all the people that are taking a risk at this time, it baffles me that preschool and day care teachers are not mentioned. Children will be dropped off then walk 6 feet from their mothers’ and fathers’ arms into the arms of these brave teachers. They do it without reticence and a smile from ear to ear. These brave teachers make it so health care workers with children are able to perform the amazing work that they do. I do not want to minimize any other brave people dur
  
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• As the Navajo Nation battles a COVID-19 onslaught, some Utah leaders cry conspiracy

  18-05-2020 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.Aneth • The day before Charlaine Tso joined Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez to distribute food to communities along the Arizona-Utah border, she attended three funerals.“It was one of the biggest heartbreaking moments [of
  
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• ESPN’s ‘Last Dance’ finale: Let’s debate the Utah Jazz

  18-05-2020 09:09
  
  Karl Malone shoots over Luc Longley during the NBA Finals in Chicago. | Chuck Wing, Deseret News In the final two episodes of ‘The Last Dance,’ Utah audiences finally got a hefty dose of the ’97 and ’98 Jazz. We have some thoughts.SALT LAKE CITY — What a five weeks it’s been. And no, we’re not talking about the coronavirus.
  “The Last Dance,” ESPN’s 10-part documentary series on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, came to a close on S
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Two new deaths, but rate of new cases is dropping and recoveries are rising

  18-05-2020 05:15
  
  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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• U.S., European leaders weigh reopening risks without a vaccine

  18-05-2020 03:56
  
  New York • On a weekend when many pandemic-weary people emerged from weeks of lockdown, leaders in the U.S. and Europe weighed the risks and rewards of lifting COVID-19 restrictions knowing that a vaccine could take years to develop.In separate stark warnings, two major European leaders bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to living with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by a vaccine.“We are confronting this risk, and we need to accept it, otherwise we w
  
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• ‘The Last Dance:’ Michael Jordan says ‘Flu Game’ was really food poisoning

  18-05-2020 03:41
  
  Jack Smith, File, Associated Press For more than 20 years, there has been talk that Michael Jordan didn’t really have the flu when he scored 38 points in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals in a contest that has become known simply as the “Flu Game.”
  On Sunday night during the ninth episode of “The Last Dance” documentary on ESPN, Jordan said it was food poisoning, which many have said over the years.
  “So it really wasn’t the ‘Flu Game,’” Jo
  
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• McIlroy delivers the winner as live golf returns to TV

  18-05-2020 03:06
  
  Rory McIlroy delivered the money shot Sunday as live golf returned to television for a Skins game that revealed plenty of rust and raised more than $5 million for COVID-19 relief funds.McIlroy and Dustin Johnson, who had not won a skin since the sixth hole, had a chance to win the final six skins worth $1.1 million on the final hole at Seminole in the TaylorMade Driving Relief exhibition. Both missed and they returned to the par-3 17th for a closest-to-the-pin contest.From a forward tee at 120 y
  
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• Harvick wins at Darlington as NASCAR returns to racing

  18-05-2020 03:02
  
  Darlington, S.C. • This was a 400-mile drive unlike any other in modern day NASCAR.The grandstands were completely empty. There wasn’t a single tailgate inside the track. Everyone wore face coverings — some with the team logos, others opting for plain disposable medical masks. It was nothing close to the corporate sponsorship, pomp and patriotic traveling circus that symbolizes NASCAR.But when the engines fired at Darlington Raceway following a 10-week layoff during the coronavi
  
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• Logan police will investigate officer who showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey

  18-05-2020 02:15
  
  The Logan Police Department has announced that it will investigate Officer Miguel Deras, who is accused of showing off explicit photos of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey while he was supposed to be investigating her extortion case at his previous job with the University of Utah.In a statement Sunday evening, the department said it didn’t know about the incident prior to hiring him and only learned about it from a story in The Salt Lake Tribune.“We are very concerned about this alleg
  
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• Small free libraries offering solace amid virus shutdowns

  18-05-2020 00:26
  
  Christine Gale Reynolds worked at the public library in Yosemite National Park before it closed in March when California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued shutdown orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. So, she filled the back of her car with donated books and began her own mobile library.“I know this may not be legal, conventional, or ethically sound, and yet it has worked for many, and I feel of use,” she said. She physically distances while making her stops and sanitizes the books.A
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang paints a stark picture of workouts in the practice facility

  18-05-2020 00:17
  
  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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• Post offices, beloved community hubs, fight virus-era threat

  18-05-2020 00:16
  
  Philadelphia • For some of the 2,000 or so year-round residents of Deer Isle, Maine, the fraying American flag outside the post office this spring was a reminder of the nation’s mood.The flag was in tatters. It twisted in the wind from a single hook. But it was stuck in the up position, so the postmistress hadn’t been able to replace it.“I was thinking what a metaphor it is for our country right now,” community health director René Colson Hudson said. “I
  
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