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• 2 Salt Lake City liquor stores shut down after employee tests positive for COVID-19

  01-06-2020 23:48
  
  Two state liquor stores in Salt Lake City have closed after one employee — who worked at both outlets — tested positive for the coronavirus.An employee at the downtown store, 205 W. 400 South, tested positive, officials with the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control announced Monday.The employee had also recently worked at the store at 1255 W. North Temple. Both stores will remain closed until professional sanitation and disinfection are completed by an independent company, D
  
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• Utah Jazz’s Quin Snyder addresses racism, the protests and what he can do

  01-06-2020 23:45
  
  Memorial Day saw a pair of viral videos that were but the latest examples of the racism so deeply woven into the fabric of the United States. In one, a white woman in New York called 911, telling the dispatcher that “an African-American male is threatening my life!” when what he had really done is ask her to put her dog on a leash. In the other, a white cop in the Minneapolis Police Department killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes, even as the latter imp
  
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• Utah’s 4th District GOP contenders praise Trump, condemn Democrats and Obamacare

  01-06-2020 23:37
  
  Washington • Four Utah Republicans hoping to take on — and topple — Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams sparred Monday over the leadership of President Donald Trump, the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, rioting in major U.S. cities and even the wearing of masks in public.The GOP contenders looking to win the GOP nomination in the June 30 primary also complained about “out of state” protesters wreaking havoc in Salt Lake City over the weekend — a false claim as arr
  
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• Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control

  01-06-2020 23:15
  
  New York • Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement's response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway.Health experts need newly infected people to remember and recount everyone they've interacted with over several days in order to alert others who may have been exposed, and prevent them from spreading the disease further.
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 98 new COVID-19 cases on Monday with 5 more deaths

  01-06-2020 23:07
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Department of Health has reported 98 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation and five more known deaths.That pushes the numbers to 5,348 positive COVID-19 cases and 246 known deaths as of Sunday night.Tribal officials also said preliminary reports from eight health care facilities indicate about 1,840 people have recovered from COVID-19 with more reports still pending.The vast Navajo Nation reservation stretches into northeastern Arizona, northwestern N
  
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• Rate of positive COVID-19 results increasing in Utah as cases near 10,000

  01-06-2020 23:06
  
  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. Nearly 10,000 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, with the percentage of people testing positive rising quickly over the past week.The Utah Department of Health reported 202 new cases on Monday, continuing a five-day trend of dail
  
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• Matthew Weinstein: Why Is Utah cutting budgets when we have ample reserves?

  01-06-2020 23:00
  
  This past week, the Legislature’s Appropriations Subcommittees spent many hours diligently poring over budgets to carry out a directive from legislative leadership to recommend FY21 base budget cuts of 2%, 5% and 10%. These cuts, which add up to either $143 million, $360 million or $723 million, are in addition to $650 million to $1 billion of cuts that the Legislature’s Executive Appropriations Committee has said it intends to make from the FY21 budget additions enacted by the Legis
  
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• Utah’s 4th District GOP contenders to debate amid pandemic, civil unrest

  01-06-2020 22:59
  
  Washington • Four Republicans looking to take on — and topple — Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams will square off Monday in their first, and only, debate before Utah’s June 30 primary election.State Rep. Kim Coleman, former NFL player Burgess Owens, nonprofit executive Trent Christensen and ex-radio host Jay McFarland will take questions in a virtual setting to woo voters in hopes of garnering the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional District.The eventual GOP nominee w
  
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• Watch live: Democrats competing for party nomination in 1st District debate

  01-06-2020 22:54
  
  Democrats Jamie Cheek and Darren Parry debate one another at the University of Utah Monday afternoon in the lead-up to the June 30 primary. Watch the live stream here.Darren Parry, the chairperson of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, announced his candidacy in February.Jamie Cheek announced she is running in September 2019 and works as a district director for the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation in northern Utah.
  
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• Weber State professor under investigation for tweets threatening those involved in police protests

  01-06-2020 21:31
  
  Weber State University will investigate a criminal justice professor who allegedly made several threatening comments about those involved in the nationwide protests this weekend against use of deadly force by police, including a Twitter post about how he would have driven a car into a crowd.The school declined to say Monday if professor Scott Senjo would be put on leave or what the review would include. WSU spokeswoman Allison Barlow Hess said the university is aware of the posts and “look
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, June 1: Utah sees positive test rate rising; University of Utah releases plans to reopen

  01-06-2020 21:31
  
  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, June 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:10 p.m.: A higher percentage of Utahns are testing positive Nearly 10,000 Utahns
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, June 1: A higher percentage of tested Utahns are positive for COVID-19; Here is how the University of Utah plans to reopen this fall

  01-06-2020 21:13
  
  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 Monday, June 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---1:10 p.m.: A higher percentage of Utahns are testing positive Nearly 10,000 Utahns
  
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• Utah Medicaid to cover COVID-19 tests for uninsured patients

  01-06-2020 20:33
  
  Utah Medicaid will now cover COVID-19 tests for uninsured Utahns, state health officials announced on Monday.Coverage begins June 1 and will continue through the public health emergency. Testing for active infections as well as antibodies will be covered, as well as any further diagnostic services such as X-rays.Patients must be uninsured and meet citizenship and Utah residency requirements to receive the newly offered coverage, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Health.Utah
  
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• RSL players skip practice in response to the threat of a MLS lockout

  01-06-2020 20:18
  
  Herriman • Everton Luiz sat in his car in the parking lot of Real Salt Lake’s practice facility. Moments later, coach Freddy Juarez came over to talk. After a brief exchange, Luiz drove off.RSL had a practice scheduled Monday, but all indications were it didn’t happen. Juarez declined comment, but a team athletic trainer said his understanding was RSL was joining the rest of the league in a refusal to attend scheduled practices in response to negotiations between the league and
  
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• Watch live: Utah’s 4th District GOP contenders to debate amid pandemic, civil unrest

  01-06-2020 19:59
  
  Washington • Four Republicans looking to take on — and topple — Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams will square off Monday in their first, and only, debate before Utah’s June 30 primary election.State Rep. Kim Coleman, former NFL player Burgess Owens, nonprofit executive Trent Christensen and ex-radio host Jay McFarland will take questions in a virtual setting to woo voters in hopes of garnering the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional District.The eventual GOP nominee w
  
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• Workers say Orem steakhouse opened without quarantines after employee tested positive for COVID-19

  01-06-2020 19:43
  
  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. Employees at an Outback Steakhouse in Orem say that after a hostess tested positive for COVID-19, other workers who had been in contact with her were not asked to be tested nor to go into self-quarantine — and many returned to wor
  
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• Utah Royals face the Washington Spirit as draw revealed for Challenge Cup

  01-06-2020 19:24
  
  The Utah Royals FC has its draw for the Challenge Cup.National Women’s Soccer League Commissioner Lisa Baird revealed Monday that the Royals, who are hosting the month-long tournament in Utah, are the No. 4 seed and will play the No. 2 seed Washington Spirit on Tuesday, June 30. The game will be played at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman.The Royals are 4-1-1 all-time against the Spirit.The tournament starts June 27 with the Orlando Pride playing the Chicago Red Stars, and the Portland Thorns
  
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• Salt Lake City police and National Guard block area where protest turned violent as curfew lifts

  01-06-2020 19:14
  
  Police SUVs and military transports continued to block a major downtown Salt Lake City street Monday morning, two days after protests stemming from police violence in Minneapolis turned violent.Hours after a citywide curfew lifted at 6 a.m., Salt Lake City police and Utah National Guard troops were stationed along 400 South between State Street and 400 East. The military vehicles blocked eastbound traffic next to Washington Square and Library Square, and near the police department, the focal poi
  
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• Former baseball star Dale Murphy, who lives in Utah, says his son was ‘shot in the eye’ with rubber bullet during Denver protest

  01-06-2020 18:19
  
  The nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death hit close to home for Dale Murphy on Sunday evening.The Alpine resident, an 18-year Major League outfielder and two-time National League MVP with the Atlanta Braves, tweeted Sunday that his son was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet while peacefully protesting.“Last night, my son was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet while peacefully protesting for justice for George Floyd. His story is not unique. Countless others have
  
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• Trump slams governors as ‘weak,’ urges crackdown on George Floyd protests

  01-06-2020 18:13
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Monday derided the nation’s governors as “weak” and demanded tougher crackdowns on protesters in the aftermath of another night of violent protests in dozens of American cities.Trump spoke to governors on a video teleconference with law enforcement and national security officials, telling the local leaders they "have to get much tougher" amid nationwide protests and criticizing their responses."Most of you are weak," Trump said. "You
  
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• Latinos increasingly affected by COVID-19 in rural Idaho

  01-06-2020 18:13
  
  Boise, Idaho • New data shows a recent spike in coronavirus cases has hit Latinos in rural Idaho, an already disproportionately affected community that makes up a third of the state’s cases where the race is known.Data collected from all seven Idaho public health districts has shown a majority of the people who have contracted the coronavirus in multiple Magic Valley counties are Latino, the Idaho Statesman reported.The report released Wednesday showed Latinos made up more than half o
  
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• Utah social services, school funding on the chopping block

  01-06-2020 17:20
  
  Plans to slash state spending “into the bone” have Utah lawmakers scouring every corner of government to target programs and employee positions for cuts and outright elimination.The proposals they are crafting will do away with any new money promised by the Legislature and then plunge deeper into agency budgets to reduce funds they’ve received in past years. Lawmakers say it’s a painful but vital exercise as they predict lean times ahead as the state’s economy reels
  
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• Live coronavirus updates for Monday, June 1: Two Salt Lake City liquor stores close after employee tests positive

  01-06-2020 16:58
  
  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, June 1. We’ll provide the latest coronavirus updates involving Utah throughout the day.[Read more coronavirus coverage here.]---8:50 a.m.: Two Salt Lake City liquor stores are shut down by the virusTwo Salt Lake
  
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• NCAA eliminates evaluation periods, makes it ‘tough’ for 2021 basketball prospects, says Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak

  01-06-2020 16:54
  
  Specifically as it pertains to basketball, everything the NCAA has done with its recruiting calendar since the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the United States in mid-March was to be expected — if not obviously necessary.College sports’ governing body instituted a dead period for recruiting in all sports on March 13. It has since extended that dead period three times, most recently through July 31, meaning a coach cannot have any in-person, face-to-face contact with a high school prospect
  
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• George Floyd’s death opens old wounds for ex-Jazzman Thabo Sefolosha

  01-06-2020 16:53
  
  Thabo Sefolosha knows what it’s like to be a black man, on the ground, surrounded by police officers.Such was the scenario when George Floyd died in Minneapolis last week.And when Sefolosha watched that video, his memories came flooding back.“I was just horrified by what I saw,“ Sefolosha said. “That could have been me.“Time has not healed all wounds for Sefolosha, the NBA veteran who said he was attacked by a group of New York Police Department officers in April 20
  
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• ‘He saw something in me’: CJ Miles reflects on the impact of legendary Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan on his NBA career

  01-06-2020 16:08
  
  Utah’s #34 CJ Miles celebrates a dunk as the Jazz and the Lakers play in game three of the Western Conference Playoffs at Energy Solutions Arena. Saturday, May 8, 2010. Photo by Scott G Winterton Deseret News. | Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — CJ Miles will never forget Jerry Sloan.
  The NBA veteran recently spoke with CBSSports’ James Herbert about the legendary Utah Jazz coach, following his passing on May 22.Miles went through, in detail, many of his fondes
  
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• After demonstrations in downtown Salt Lake City, a determined cause still smolders

  01-06-2020 16:00
  
  A bronze sculpture of two open hands that sits outside Salt Lake City’s Public Safety Building is meant to symbolize the duty emergency responders have to protect and serve their communities.But during a Salt Lake City demonstration denouncing racism and deadly force by law enforcement Saturday night, protesters transformed the piece, staining it with streaks of bright red paint that pooled like blood.Those hands still appeared to drip early Sunday afternoon, serving as an evocative remind
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Trump tweets, therefore he is

  01-06-2020 15:10
  
  Washington • C’mon, @Jack. You can do it.Throw on some Kendrick Lamar and get your head in the right space. Pour yourself a big old glass of salt juice. Draw an ice bath and fire up the cryotherapy pod and the infrared sauna. Then just pull the plug on him. You know you want to.You could answer the existential question of whether @realDonaldTrump even exists if he doesn’t exist on Twitter. I tweet, therefore I am. Dorsey meets Descartes.All it would take is one sweet click to fo
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Navajo Nation hit hardest by coronavirus

  01-06-2020 15:08
  
  Chinle, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation is a vast, awe-inspiring land of desert crags and canyons, the largest reservation in the country, but today it reverberates with grief and fear.The Navajo have had more people infected with the coronavirus per capita than any state in the country. Decades of neglect, exploitation and discrimination mean that even before this pandemic, Navajo here had a shorter life expectancy (72) than people in Guatemala (74) — and now COVID-19 is hitting Native Ame
  
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• Robert Gehrke: For the first time in my life, I belong to a political party — and here’s why you should, too

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  Well, I’ve done it. I’m officially a Republican.A couple weeks ago I went online, filled out the form on the Salt Lake County Clerk’s website and for the first time in my life I belong to a political party.Maybe now lawmakers will be nicer to me, or invite me into their secret meetings and exclusive parties.I’m not counting on it, but that’s not why I made the switch. I did it because I should get to have a voice in who Utah’s next governor is. And I’m n
  
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• Letter: Wright is a hypocrite

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  Interesting campaign tactic from Thomas Wright. He says he wants to replace “career politicians” (meaning Jon Huntsman, obviously) but he picks Rob Bishop as his running mate.Rob Bishop has been on the public payroll as a legislator since 1978. Forty-two years!So why would Wright choose the ultimate career politician? In the 2016 election cycle, 92.6% of contributions to Bishop’s political campaign came from outside Utah, the highest out-of-state percentage of any member of the
  
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• Letter: While Trump played golf

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  Rome burnedWhile Nero played the violin.The peasants were starvingWhen Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake.”USA reached 100,000 dead from COVID-19While Trump played golf.Elise Lazar, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Utah rejects help for its most vulnerable

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  Once again, Utah officials declined congressional approved federal funding, this time to the tune of $50 million to feed Utah’s needy children.How and why did this happen? Nate McDonald, assistant deputy of the Department of Workforce Services, asserts it would have been too complex a task in a short amount of time to get the food to children. He further claimed, “we felt confident that the need was being met,” by other programs in place.Without providing any evidence based dat
  
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• Letter: Trump gives a whole new meaning to ‘swamp

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  I enjoyed a grim chuckle reading the last sentence of Gene Sturzenegger’s complaint to Mitt Romney. “Please be on the side of draining the swamp not being in the swamp.”Seriously?Donald Trump’s four years as president will redefine the word “swamp” in American political history forever. Authoritarian governments and plutocracies throughout all time will marvel at the Trump Swamp. The Caesars? The Medicis? The Grant and Harding (Republican) administrations? The
  
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• Letter: Putin can’t hack mail-in ballots

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  When it comes to voting by mail, I do not understand the Republicans’ objections to it. All the information I have read indicates it is the most secure form of voting there is.One of the best reasons for it is that Vladimir Putin and his cronies can't touch it or hack it.Voting by mail is very prudent and the right thing to do with the pandemic going on.David G. Payne, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: If you don’t like it, you can leave

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  In response to Celeste Meyeres’ objections to Best Friends’ recent land acquisition outside of Kanab, I will borrow a saying commonly used by the “Utah values” folks like her: If you don’t like it, why don’t you just leave?Jeff Green, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Get your facts straight

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  In response to Larry Henkels’ letter to the editor (“Entitled to his opinion,” May 28), he should have fact-checked his claim that Barack Obama weaponized the IRS, CIA and the FBI. This is totally false, as it was done so by the Bush administration after the 9/11 bombings.Poor Donald Trump. He has now told more than 16,000 lies and is still going. He has seriously hurt people with his accusations.Henkels should get his priorities straight now that we are in the middle of COVID-
  
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• Letter: Clean that hallowed place

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  After Donald Trump’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial last month with his Fox News toadies, the National Park Service will need at least two tank cars full of disinfectant to fumigate that hallowed place.Ed Hebda, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: A candidate’s religion is not relevant

  01-06-2020 14:00
  
  The “Governor’s Race 2020” page on The Salt Lake Tribune’s website is a very helpful resource to find out how the candidates compare on key issues. However, what is the reasoning behind asking each candidate their religious affiliation and including it as the fourth question in the list?If you are including each candidate's religious affiliation, then you might as well include each candidate's race, sex, gender and sexual orientation, all of which have nothing to do with
  
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• NASA astronauts arrive at space station after historic launch

  01-06-2020 06:01
  
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company. With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, no assistance needed. The hatches swung open a few hours later, and the two Dragon riders floated i
  
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• Unrest overshadows peaceful U.S. protests for another night

  01-06-2020 05:16
  
  Minneapolis • Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations against police killings of black people overshadowed by unrest that quickly ravaged parts of cities from Pennsylvania to California.City and state officials had deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers, enacted strict curfews and shut down mass transit systems, but that did little to stop many cities from again erupting into unrest.Protesters in Philadelphia hurle
  
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• Supercross meets silence: Series returns to action in Salt Lake City, but it’s a surreal scene without fans

  01-06-2020 03:49
  
  The buzz inside Rice-Eccles Stadium during the Monster Energy AMA Supercross races Sunday afternoon was loud. Loud like a hundred-contestant chainsaw competition at a lumberjack games. Loud like a Led Zeppelin concert. Loud like a jackhammer when the baby’s sleeping.The silence, however, was deafening.No music, no chanting crowds, no pyrotechnic blasts. Once the motorcycles were cleared from the track, an odd hush fell across the stadium. Occasionally, it was broken by the beeps of a rever
  
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• Salt Lake City ‘streets are quiet and calm’ after day of unrest. Protesters keep up their ‘demand’ for change.

  01-06-2020 03:39
  
  The day after a violent protest erupted in downtown Salt Lake City — leading to smashed windows, scarred buildings and two torched cars, while triggering a curfew that will last until at least 6 a.m. Monday — Mayor Erin Mendenhall said the “streets are quiet and calm.”“And we are fortunate for that,” she said, especially when compared to a Saturday of unrest across the nation in response to police use of deadly force in Minneapolis and elsewhere.Police from a
  
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• The day after: An eerie calm fills downtown Salt Lake City, but a determined cause still smolders

  01-06-2020 02:53
  
  A bronze sculpture of two open hands that sits outside Salt Lake City’s Public Safety Building is meant to symbolize the duty emergency responders have to protect and serve their communities.But during a Salt Lake City demonstration denouncing racism and deadly force by law enforcement Saturday night, protesters transformed the piece, staining it with streaks of bright red paint that pooled like blood.Those hands still appeared to drip early Sunday afternoon, serving as an evocative remind
  
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• A guide to that graffiti and slang you see after Salt Lake City’s protest

  01-06-2020 01:55
  
  From Washington Square to the Capitol, protesters on Saturday painted graffiti in Salt Lake City to memorialize their complaints.Here’s a guide to what some of the acronyms and slang mean:• 12: A reference for police. There are conflicting accounts about where it came from. Some believe it references the police drama “Adam-12” that ran from 1968 to 1975. The 12th Precinct was also the setting for the television comedy “Barney Miller," which appeared from 1975 to 1982
  
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• Fire above Ogden largely contained as crews work to determine cause

  01-06-2020 01:10
  
  A wildfire broke out late Saturday above Ogden, but by Sunday afternoon, crews were mostly devoting their efforts to assessing the blaze’s cause, while also putting out a few remaining hot spots.Utah Fire Info tweeted Sunday midafternoon that the blaze was 15% contained and covered about 35 acres. A few hours later, though, Chief Shelby Willis of the Ogden Fire Department told The Salt Lake Tribune that the fire was “absolutely” under control, and that crews from her department
  
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• Man with bow is expected to be charged; Salt Lake City chief decries officer who knocked down elderly man with a cane

  01-06-2020 01:06
  
  While Saturday’s unrest drew hordes of demonstrators to downtown Salt Lake City and spurred innumerable staredowns and physical clashes between police and protesters, two altercations grabbed much of the attention Sunday.The first: A man who drove his vehicle into the crowd and pulled out a bow and arrow, which he allegedly aimed at protesters.The second: A police officer, decked out in riot gear, who knocked over an elderly man with a cane while he was standing on a sidewalk by the Main L
  
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• Utah Jazz players and NBA react following death of George Floyd and ensuing protests

  01-06-2020 01:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) fakes Miami Heat Andre Iguodala (28) as the Utah Jazz and the Miami Heat play in an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City. Clarkson is among the Jazz players who have not stayed silent following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz and the NBA community have not stayed silent following the death of George Floyd and protests that have taken hold in
  
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• D.C. mayor: We have to be concerned about virus rebound after protests

  01-06-2020 00:42
  
  Miami • In hindsight, Rosa Jimenez Cano realizes that attending a protest against police brutality was risky — and not just for the usual reasons.“This can be kind of a tinderbox for COVID," the 39-year-old venture capitalist said after attending a demonstration in Florida, one of many around the country sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer.As more beaches, churches, mosques, schools and
  
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