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• Gov. Gary Herbert plans to keep National Guard deployed after Trump extends coronavirus orders

  28-05-2020 23:49
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump says he will extend the ability to deploy National Guard troops through mid-August to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, giving Gov. Gary Herbert the option to keep Utah’s soldiers and airmen assisting with contact tracing and delivery of masks, gloves and other medical gear.About 160 soldiers and airmen in Utah have been deployed to help so far, though their federal deployment was set to expire June 24, one day shy of many National Guard members b
  
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• Hear Tribune reporters recap the news of the week Friday morning on KCPW

  28-05-2020 23:39
  
  Utah’s Hispanic community sees more coronavirus cases than any other race or ethnicity in the state. Environmentalists say the long-awaited strategic plan for the Utah Inland Port uses a lot of green jargon, but is low on sustainability specifics. And super-spreader events: the scenarios you want to avoid to try to stay safe.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Andy Larsen, Taylor Stevens and Alex Vejar join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top storie
  
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• Utah to get its first Raising Cane’s restaurant

  28-05-2020 23:36
  
  Raising Cane’s, a popular fast-food chain that specializes in deep-fried chicken fingers, is coming to Utah.It will be a new tenant in the Mountain View Business Plaza near 3300 South 5600 West in West Valley City, property owners announced on social media this week. No word on an opening date.Founded in 1996 in Baton Rouge, La., Raising Cane’s is named after the owner’s yellow Labrador and, in addition to chicken fingers, it serves fries, coleslaw, Texas toast and a pink sauce
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 28: Utah reports 2 more deaths as new cases jump by 215; law firm offers free help to businesses

  28-05-2020 23:32
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Thursday, May 28. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---3:28 p.m.: Law firm offers free legal services to businesses impacted by COVID-19
  
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• 'Utah Booze News’ podcast: Liquor agency is turning a profit during the pandemic

  28-05-2020 23:27
  
  While Utah restaurants and bars are struggling financially during the coronavirus, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is turning a profit.On the latest episode of “Utah Booze News: An Alcohol Policy Podcast,” find out how much consumers spent in April at state-run liquor stores.Also, get a recap on the upcoming “purge” of products from liquor store shelves. And if you missed The Salt Lake Tribune’s interview with actor Ty Burrell of “Modern Fami
  
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• Utah Jazz, OKC Thunder are co-winners of training staff award for handling of NBA’s first COVID-19 case

  28-05-2020 23:25
  
  March 11 is frequently invoked as the night the sports world stopped, as it was then that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 and the NBA season was put on hiatus — with myriad other leagues soon to followHowever, that evening’s events may now also be seen in a positive light, as the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association (NBATA) named the Utah Jazz athletic training staff the co-recipients of the 2019-20 Joe O’Toole/David Craig Athletic Trainin
  
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• Trump’s fossil fuel agenda gets pushback from federal judges

  28-05-2020 22:58
  
  Billings, Mont. • Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil fuel interests and the extraction of natural resources from public lands.Judges have ruled administration officials ignored or downplayed potential environmental damage in lawsuits over oil and gas leases, coal mining and pipelines to transport fuels across the U.S., according to an Asso
  
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• Would Donovan Mitchell go first overall in a 2017 NBA redraft? This national expert makes his case 

  28-05-2020 22:37
  
  NBA experts Chad Ford and John Hollinger discuss why Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell should be in strong consideration for the No. 1 pick in a 2017 NBA redraft during the latest episode of Chad Ford’s NBA Big Board podcast. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell in a Philadelphia 76ers jersey?
  Eek. Ew. Gross.
  But, at least in this instance, that thought is actually a compliment to the third-year All-Star Utah Jazz guard.
  In a tradition that’s becom
  
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• Would Donovan Mitchell go first overall in a 2017 NBA redraft? These national experts make his case 

  28-05-2020 22:37
  
  NBA experts Chad Ford and John Hollinger discuss why Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell should be in strong consideration for the No. 1 pick in a 2017 NBA redraft during the latest episode of Chad Ford’s NBA Big Board podcast. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Donovan Mitchell in a Philadelphia 76ers jersey?
  Eek. Ew. Gross.
  But, at least in this instance, that thought is actually a compliment to the third-year All-Star Utah Jazz guard.
  In a tradition that’s becom
  
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• MLS gives OK to small group training sessions

  28-05-2020 22:37
  
  New York • Major League Soccer gave its teams the go-ahead Thursday to begin small voluntary group training sessions outdoors. The group sessions, which must comply with local public health and government restrictions, are the next step in the league's efforts to return to action after suspending the season earlier this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.Teams must submit club-specific plans for the sessions to the league. A maximum of six players may be assigned to a single group. Th
  
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• Ogden officer dies in shooting. Police say there’s no threat to the public.

  28-05-2020 22:28
  
  An Ogden police officer has died in a shootout in the area of Jackson Avenue and Harrop Street that took place shortly after noon.The shooting led to a shelter-in-place order received by residents through their cellphones. That order has been lifted, but police want residents to stay in their homes likely for the next 24 hours to help facilitate the investigation.Ogden Lt. Bryan Eynon told reporters that “I can assure that the public is safe. That the area is completely locked down and sec
  
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• Ogden officers involved in a shooting; police issue shelter-in-place alert

  28-05-2020 22:01
  
  Ogden police have issued a shelter-in-place alert for residents in the area of Jackson Avenue and Harrop Street after a shooting involving police officers. Residents received the alerts on their cellphones.Multiple police officers are on the scene, and the situation has not been resolved.The department has issued no further information.The Salt Lake Tribune will update this story.
  
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• Dennis Lythgoe: The prescriber in chief is not a good source of medical advice

  28-05-2020 22:00
  
  In Utah, we learned of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine when Gov. Gary Herbert’s administration ordered a shipment for our drug store shelves. Presumably, the purchase was influenced by Donald Trump’s enthusiastic recommendation of the drug to treat the coronavirus.When scientists pronounced it ineffective, Herbert asked for the $800,000 it cost the state to be refunded. As it had not yet been shipped, his request was granted. Close call.But now Trump is not touting the drug anymo
  
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• AP Exclusive: Athletes wary about virus, testing upon return

  28-05-2020 21:56
  
  Chris Thompson is an NFL running back. He also is the father of a 4-month-old daughter, Kali. Guess which of those facts matters more to him when he ponders eventually returning to work amid a pandemic.“If I go practice or play and I come back home with the virus ... that’s my biggest worry,” said Thompson, who signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars this month after seven seasons with Washington."We're not robots out there," he said. "People out there are saying, 'Hey, with all t
  
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• After change in form of government, West Jordan manager moves to Riverton

  28-05-2020 21:35
  
  The Riverton City Council has selected a new city manager out of a pool of 90 applicants.David R. Brickey will fill the position after working as West Jordan’s city manager for two-and-a-half years. Brickey’s former position was somewhat in limbo, as West Jordan residents voted to change their form of government to a strong mayor system in November 2017, eliminating the city manager role. That change took effect in January of this year and Dirk Burton was elected mayor.“We are
  
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• How a swastika-engraved gravestone got into a Utah military cemetery and why some want it gone

  28-05-2020 20:31
  
  Little is known about Paul Eilert, a 35-year-old German prisoner of war buried in a Salt Lake City military cemetery.He was older than most of the other Germans he lived with, and died before all of them, of intestinal cancer, according to Utah historian Kent Powell.Before that, Eilert worked with the estimated 10,000 Italian and Germans POWs in Ogden, spending his time at the Union Depot.And his comrades must have revered him — because they pooled their earnings to purchase the engraved t
  
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• Richard H. Keller: COVID disaster can lead to better medical care

  28-05-2020 20:08
  
  “Some of medicine’s frailties are new; some are of long standing. But what the pandemic has exposed … is painfully clear. Medicine needs to do more than recover; it needs to get better.”— Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New YorkerWriting in the April 23 Salt Lake Tribune, Greg Elliott, M.D., quoted Theodore Woodward — our professor of medicine: “Believe half of what you read, and half of what you hear.”I am a child of the early 1930s — depression,
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 28: Utah reports 2 more deaths as new cases jump by 215; impact rises at veterans nursing home.

  28-05-2020 19:55
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Thursday, May 28. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:40 a.m.: Cases at veterans nursing home riseGary Harter, executive director of
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 28: Utah Gov. Herbert laments toll on Navajo Nation; Timpanogos reopens, just not the cave

  28-05-2020 19:23
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Thursday, May 28. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---11:25 a.m.: Farmers Feeding Utah to target northern UtahLt. Gov. Spencer Cox said
  
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• Utah highway budget cuts may delay roadkill cleanup, snowplow purchases

  28-05-2020 19:21
  
  Dead animals along roads may not be picked up as quickly, grass there may grow longer and some old snowplows won’t be replaced — but lawmakers approved such transportation cutbacks Thursday to help cover expected tax revenue losses from COVID-19 economic hits.The Legislature has asked state departments to come up with ways to cut 2%, 5% or 10% from their budgets, and an appropriations subcommittee on Thursday endorsed a plan from the Utah Department of Transportation that could cut u
  
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• Utah unemployment claims keep inching down, now reaching Great Recession levels

  28-05-2020 18:53
  
  Nearly 5,455 Utahns filed for unemployment last week, the lowest number since mid-March, when COVID-19 first began to roil labor markets.They joined some 2.1 million people across the country who sought jobless aid the week ending May 23, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Thursday, for a total more than 40 million Americans who’ve lost work due to the pandemic.That marks the seventh week Utah jobless claims have declined from their early April spike of 33,000 Utahns reporting pay cuts,
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah man who cheated death 43 years ago with Jerry Sloan has thoughts about their paths not taken

  28-05-2020 18:48
  
  Larry Kaplan never met Jerry Sloan.“But I felt like we were connected,” he says.What he means by that is Sloan almost died with Kaplan just shy of 43 years ago, on a cold, rainy, foggy December night in Evansville, Ind.The 67-year-old Utahn had a date with destiny, with tragedy, alongside the man who with additional time became a legendary Hall of Fame coach for the Utah Jazz. A few alterations from probabilities in their life paths veered them away from seats aboard a doomed aircraf
  
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• Commentary: Why governments should not be deeming in-person worship essential

  28-05-2020 18:13
  
  On Sept. 19, 1796, a couple of months before the election that would choose his successor, President George Washington used his farewell address to convey what has become a proof text for those who argue that religion must play a big role in American public life:“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. ... And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whateve
  
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• United Methodists delay meeting — and decision on splitting — to 2021

  28-05-2020 18:00
  
  The United Methodist Church has pushed back its General Conference to Aug. 29-Sept. 7, 2021, at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis.And it’s looking into ways to use technology to ensure delegates can participate in the quadrennial meeting, according to the Commission on the General Conference.The General Conference — during which delegates from across the globe are expected to discuss a proposal to split the denomination over the inclusion of LGBTQ members — had b
  
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• U.S. priest who founded Knights of Columbus to be beatified

  28-05-2020 17:44
  
  Vatican City • The founder of the Knights of Columbus, the influential U.S.-based lay Catholic organization, is moving a step closer to possible sainthood.Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Rev. Michael McGivney, a Connecticut priest who died at age 38 of pneumonia in 1890 during a pandemic similar to the current coronavirus outbreak.He would be the first U.S. parish priest to be beatified, the first major step before canonization.The Vatican said Wedn
  
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• The best ‘Jerry-isms’: These classic moments show off Jerry Sloan’s colorful personality

  28-05-2020 17:39
  
  Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan questions a call during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate) | APThe Utah Jazz recently tweeted out a video of the best Jerry Sloan quotes ... well, the ones fit to print that is.
  Enjoy some of the colorful coach’s phrases below.
  No one could turn a phrase quite like the kid from McLeansboro ❤️ pic.twitter.com/jhIIyzfk86— utahjazz (@utahj
  
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• Bangerter Highway to close overnight in Riverton Saturday; Spanish Fork Canyon restrictions begin

  28-05-2020 17:37
  
  Bangerter Highway will close overnight on Saturday in Riverton, and months of lane restrictions will also begin this weekend on U.S. 6 in Spanish Fork Canyon.The Utah Department of Transportation plans to close Bangerter Highway in both directions between 12600 South and 13400 South on Saturday from 11 p.m. to Sunday at 6 a.m. Drivers should follow signs for designated detours.Crews will remove a pedestrian bridge over Bangerter as part of a project that is building freeway-like interchanges at
  
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• Utah scraps its investigation of TestUtah’s coronavirus accuracy and will try again

  28-05-2020 16:59
  
  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. Weeks after data showed TestUtah was returning an unusually low number of positive results for the coronavirus, state officials have scrapped an experiment that was intended to ascertain the accuracy of the statewide testing system oper
  
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• Utah man was lured to his death, according to police; 3 suspects have been charged.

  28-05-2020 16:51
  
  Three Utah men are facing murder charges in connection with the killing of a Sandy man.According to a probable cause statement, the killing took place on Thursday. Sandy police said witnesses told them that Hakop Jack Keshishian, 20, of Sandy “said that he wanted to kill the victim because he was running his mouth about” him.Keshishian; Wyatt J William Smelser, 20, of Salt Lake City; and Izaiah Lee Kirkpatrick, 20, of Draper allegedly met and “planned the murder.”Accordin
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Gay member of Tab Choir discusses his gift; former missionary on track for Olympics; apostle says follow doctor’s orders.

  28-05-2020 16:32
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Gay member of Tab Choir discusses his giftHe believes. He attends church. He speaks at singles wards. He sings in The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.And he’s openly gay.“I’m currently celebate,&rdqu
  
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• Letter: Write-in your real choice

  28-05-2020 16:26
  
  I invite Brian King to do as I do when I don’t care for either presidential candidate. (“I won’t vote for a sexual predator,” The Public Forum.)I write in someone else.I know that in Utah the Republican candidate will always win, so my vote doesn't matter one way or the other. I have done this many times in the years since I turned 18 and registered to vote.My write-in candidates have ranged from Mickey Mouse (the George W. Bush elections) to my favorite former, hopefully
  
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• Letter: Recognize our big mistake

  28-05-2020 16:16
  
  Dear Most Utahns,As most Utahns are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shame on us and our Republican church as we were complicit in electing, along with Russia, the lying Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States.This ungodly clown-in-chief is a disaster to the U.S. and the world, as underscored by his reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Devoid of any empathy for the sick, the unemployed, the dead and their families, his two main concerns are about how the eco
  
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• Letter: The right to make bad decisions

  28-05-2020 16:13
  
  I am 66 years old with a compromised immune system. I wear a mask when I go out in public and don’t understand the protests.People need to come to grips with the fact that, despite the move to open up the country, there is still a danger of getting sick and dying.I particularly do not understand the big guns and ammo belts at the protests. The Nazi banners disgust me.I hear the cry, “I have rights. The government is denying me my rights.”Unfortunately, people in America do have
  
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• Letter: Hats off to Costco

  28-05-2020 16:13
  
  I just made my first trip to Costco in two months. It wasn’t without trepidation. It was well-calculated, timed when the traffic was minimal, focused shopping.The greeter requested proof of membership and said a mask was required. The shopper in front of us did not have a mask. No mask, no admittance. He was visibly frustrated.The first question the greeter posed was, “Do you have a mask in your car?” The answer was no, and to that she offered a mask.For me this served as an ed
  
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• Letter: Mitt Romney should join the Democrats

  28-05-2020 16:11
  
  An open letter to Sen. Mitt Romney.As I’ve asked before, either get behind our president or change your affiliation to Democrat, your apparent party of choice.The latest example of your contempt for President Trump is calling his firing of four inspectors generals a “threat to accountable democracy.”That is precisely the president's administrative prerogative. Senator, you are out of bounds and in contempt.Each of these were appointed by President Obama. Trump was very temperat
  
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• ‘Bummed out’: SpaceX launch scrubbed because of bad weather

  28-05-2020 15:52
  
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with less than 17 minutes to go in the countdown Wednesday because of thunderclouds and the risk of lightning.Liftoff was rescheduled for Saturday afternoon.The spacecraft — designed, built and owned by SpaceX — was set to blast off in the afternoon for the International Space Station, opening a new era in commercial spaceflight. It would have a
  
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• Utah scraps its own investigation of TestUtah’s coronavirus test accuracy and will try again

  28-05-2020 15:12
  
  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. Weeks after data showed TestUtah was returning an unusually low number of positive results for the coronavirus, state officials have scrapped an experiment that was intended to ascertain the accuracy of the statewide testing system oper
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus testing is down. How can we make it simpler and more effective?

  28-05-2020 15:10
  
  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 is testing fewer and fewer people for the coronavirus.Over the past five days, we’ve tested an average of 2,758 people per day. During our best week, in late April, we tested an average of more than 4,700 people per day.We ha
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: I ‘ghosted’ a summer flame 50 years ago and I still regret it

  28-05-2020 15:09
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • I once met a girl at Zion National Park. She was a college student on her summer break cleaning cabins at the lodge. She was a singing talent. She and others on her staff entertained lodge guests with musical numbers after dinner. The beautiful Zion Canyon provided the perfect backdrop for our brief summer romance.In the fall when I was back at my university, an opportunity arose to continue our romance. She had found a job on my campus. However, I had just broken up with
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Thursday, May 28: Utahns continue to lose jobs, adding to total of more than 40 million nationally

  28-05-2020 15:08
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. It’s Thursday, May 28. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---7:02 a.m.: More than 5,000 Utahns file jobless claimsNearly 5,455 Utahns filed fo
  
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• Taking a literal act of Congress, feds hand Utah parcels of public lands

  28-05-2020 15:00
  
  A few years ago, Hyde Park leaders were exploring an annexation request when they discovered that an 80-acre rectangle on the Cache Valley city’s eastern border is owned by, well, everyone.“The United States of America” was the purported owner indicated in the databases they reviewed.“It took some digging, but we found the land was under the title of the Bureau of Land Management,” said Mark Hurd, a City Council member at the time. “It was odd because this par
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Gov. Herbert tried to push one of Spencer Cox’s opponents out. It was a sloppy move.

  28-05-2020 15:00
  
  I’ve never been good at physics, but I’ve been a student of politics for a long time and there are some common principles — things like angles, leverage, mass, force and pressure.In that sense, Republican gubernatorial candidate Thomas Wright got a bit of a physics lesson from Gov. Gary Herbert recently.The effort, first reported by Utah Policy, started last month, right after the Utah Republican convention, when Herbert invited Wright to meet with him and discuss his campaign&
  
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• Letter: State should get out of the liquor business

  28-05-2020 14:00
  
  As I partake of alcoholic drinks and have no children, I pay more in taxes than many non-drinkers and people who have children. I have always been happy, however, to support our schools and other institutions funded by tax money.I do resent, however, that the DABC is going to further reduce their already limited inventory to increase their profit margin. This move is also going to hurt small, local distilleries and breweries, and these local businesses support our community in many ways.If the D
  
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• Letter: Entitled to his opinion

  28-05-2020 14:00
  
  Mr. Ruff is certainly entitled to his opinion about Trump (“We need a real leader,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 19). But the same adjectives he uses to describe this president could have also been used for President Obama.The real difference between the two leaders is that Trump didn’t weaponize the IRS, the CIA or the FBI like Obama did. The media has spent over three and a half years trying to smother Trump with one false narrative after another.I don’t expect people like Mr
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Wednesday, May 27: New guidance issued for Utah’s low-risk phase

  28-05-2020 05:13
  
  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 Wednesday, May 27. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---9:15 p.m.: Utah State University postpones graduationUtah State University had p
  
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• Jennifer Finney Boylan: President of the Flies

  28-05-2020 05:00
  
  “There isn’t anyone to help you,” says the haunted pig-head-on-a-stick. “Only me. And I’m the Beast.”The marooned schoolboy Simon stares at it in horror. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?” the talking head continues. “I’m the reason why it’s no go?”The scene, of course, is from William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” surely the feel-good novel of 1954. I’ve been thinking of that story
  
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• Utah man accused of killing woman he met on Tinder charged with murder

  28-05-2020 04:52
  
  A Utah man accused of killing a woman he met on Tinder — and then calling police to confess — has now been charged with murder.Ethan Robert Hunsaker, 24, was charged Wednesday with one first-degree felony count in the death of Ashlyn Black. Prosecutors are asking that he be held in jail without bail.According to court documents, Hunsaker called 911 early Sunday morning to report that he had stabbed someone inside his home near 1300 N. Reid Ave. in Layton.When officers arrived, they f
  
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• Golfers get a proper ending, as Lehi’s Lila Galeai and Lone Peak’s Berlin Long win girls’ state titles

  28-05-2020 04:37
  
  American Fork • Utah Section PGA administrators were determined to stage a high school girls’ golf state tournament Wednesday, wanting to maintain their tradition of selecting all-state teams. And then they partly sabotaged their own ceremony, having encouraged the players to depart Fox Hollow Golf Course soon after turning in their scorecards in the interest of social distancing. Lehi junior Lila Galeai teed off in the last threesome of the Class 5A field, so she stayed around long e
  
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• Public expresses skepticism as inland port board plan promises sustainable development

  28-05-2020 04:33
  
  During its first public meeting in seven months, the Utah Inland Port Authority Board received a briefing on a strategic plan that outlines a vision for an environmentally sustainable import and export hub on 16,000 acres of land largely located in Salt Lake City’s northwest side.The business plan, developed by the national consulting firm CPCS, is the result of months of public engagement and study and is meant to address long-standing concerns from residents about the port project’
  
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• Tooele County legally blocks concert aiming to protest virus restrictions — but organizer vows to proceed

  28-05-2020 03:47
  
  Tooele County officials issued an order Wednesday to block a concert that planned to openly defy and protest state COVID-19 restrictions — which earlier had been chased out of Kaysville when its City Council said it would turn sprinklers on it and cut its power.But concert organizer Eric Moutsos said he plans to defy the order and proceed with the concert Saturday featuring country star Collin Ray at the Amphitheater at Studio Ranch near Grantsville. The venue has a capacity of 100,000 peo
  
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