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• Copper Hills’ Makayla Gomez is Utah’s Gatorade Softball Player of the Year

  06-06-2020 23:38
  
  Makayia Gomez only got to play one game with her Copper Hills High teammates on the Grizzlies’ home field. The rest were in California, Arizona and New Mexico. So when she woke up to a text message with the news she had won the Gatorade Utah Softball Player of the Year award, Gomez was shocked. Not only was she unaware her coach nominated her, but it came as a surprise also because her senior season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s kind of crazy because I wasn&r
  
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• As Trump blames antifa, protest records show scant evidence

  06-06-2020 23:28
  
  Washington • Scott Nichols, a balloon artist, was riding home on his scooter from the protests engulfing Minneapolis last weekend when he was struck by a rubber bullet fired from a cluster of police officers in riot gear.“I just pulled over and put my hands up, because I didn’t want to get killed,” said Nichols, 40. “Anybody that knows me knows I wasn’t out there to cause problems.”Nichols, who before the coronavirus pandemic made his living performing at
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Reasons for optimism in a gloomy time

  06-06-2020 23:00
  
  A police chief who takes a knee.A mayor who ends her curfew order days ahead of schedule.A university that tweets out a welcome to a thousand peaceful marchers calling for justice.A thousand peaceful marchers calling for justice. And, the next day, another thousand.A governor who chokes up a bit when confronted with testimony of what it is really like to be a black person in Utah.A senator who calls out the White House for violently clearing peaceful demonstrators from one of the most important
  
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• After a wave of record spikes in Utah cases, here’s the COVID-19 state of the state

  06-06-2020 22:48
  
  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. “By the end of the month, we’ll have an idea of what impact opening parts of our economy had on the spread of the virus in Utah.”That was the final sentence of our last “state of the state” article, in whic
  
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• Salt Lake City Council decries police shooting, vows change

  06-06-2020 22:27
  
  The Salt Lake City Council did not mince words in a statement following the release of police body cam footage that shows officers shoot a 22-year-old man in the back at least 20 times as he ran away from them. “We feel outraged at the death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal,” the council said in a press release. “We are angry about having someone shot and killed in our City.”The council acknowledged that Utahns “are not interested in words," making it clear that everyt
  
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• Navajo Nation extends closings of tribal casinos into July

  06-06-2020 22:15
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Nation’s gambling operation had hoped to reopen its casinos in mid-June but they’ll stay closed until at least early July because of the coronavirus outbreak.Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise officials said Friday that closures ordered to help curb spread of the virus will stay in place due to a recent order by tribal President Jonathan Nez that continues closures of tribal government operations through July 5..All properties have been deep cleaned
  
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• The spike continues to grow: Utah sets another record for new COVID-19 cases, with 546 reported Saturday.

  06-06-2020 21:32
  
  The Beehive State coronavirus spike continues. And it’s getting bigger.Utah set another dubious one-day record for new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with 546. That’s a jump of 107 cases, or 4.9% from Friday.The state also reported one new death, a male Weber County resident over 85 in a long-term care facility. Altogether, 121 Utahns have died of COVID-19.The state is now reporting a total of 11,798 cases overall.Hospitalizations are at a total of 890, an increase of 20 over Friday. Th
  
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• Gordon Monson: Should Utah defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley be fired for use of racist slur?

  06-06-2020 20:15
  
  You ever know a person over a long stretch who you really like, who you respect, who is smart and talented, who is an effective leader, who has helped others, who has demonstrated nothing but integrity in your associations with him and then …?And then.Morgan Scalley is that kind of person, is known as that kind of person.And then, he makes national sports headlines for an ignorant mistake.In the middle of a worldwide stir of increased awareness about treating people of color with equality
  
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• A new-blood group gives the Utah Jazz some new hope with the bracing playoff run of 2006-07

  06-06-2020 19:00
  
  Editor’s note: If not for the coronavirus outbreak, the NBA Finals would be underway right now. In the spirit of postseason fervor, The Salt Lake Tribune is doing a multi-part series on the most impactful playoff runs in Jazz history. Part 1 — 1983-84: The Jazz save professional basketball in Utah. Part 2 — 1987-88: Trading haymakers with the champs. Part 3 — 1991-92: A huge step forward, but still coming up short. Part 4 — 1996-97: Finally breaking through, only to
  
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• Prosecutor: 2 Buffalo police charged with assault in shoving elderly man

  06-06-2020 18:52
  
  Buffalo, N.Y. • Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said, after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski, who surrendered Saturday morning, pleaded not guilty to second-degree assault. They were released without bail.At a news conference Saturday, District Attorney John Flynn said the officers “crossed a line.”The officers had
  
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• Black Lives Matter protests spread to southern Utah communities of Moab, Kanab, St. George

  06-06-2020 18:39
  
  Moab • Sixteen-year-old Ash Howe stood in front of hundreds of protesters Friday evening in Moab, talking through a megaphone.“I’m not a public speaker, and I didn’t plan to be up here” he said, before launching into a passionate speech about racism and police violence that drew cheers from his fellow protesters.“I am here alongside my brothers and sisters who were killed,” he told the crowd, “and I will not stop standing until they stop being kille
  
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• Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

  06-06-2020 17:29
  
  Washington • Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.“It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded," Biden said in a statement Friday night, ”and I am proud to say that we are going into this general elect
  
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• Utes happy with voluntary workout plan, eager to get back at it on June 15

  06-06-2020 17:00
  
  Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham this week expressed gratitude for what has been viewed as an extensive layout for the restart plan for football and other sports. Athletic department and medical officials rolled the plan out publicly for the first time on May 28.“Incredible job by our administration, primarily Mark Harlan, our AD, getting the procedures and protocols in place,” Whittingham said. “Our medical staff here is obviously the driving force, making sure we’re
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah State’s Jordan Love is facing pressure and scrutiny in Green Bay

  06-06-2020 16:00
  
  The most prominent story of the recent NFL Draft circled not around the No. 1 pick, Joe Burrow, or the No. 2, Chase Young. It wasn’t the Dolphins taking Tua Tagovailoa. It was Green Bay going out of its way to select Utah State’s own Jordan Love. That two-fisted maneuver — the move up and the pick itself — created more buzz than any other personnel deal through the entire offseason, other than some quarterback moving from New England to Tampa Bay.And it will go on stirrin
  
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• Trump’s order could speed major Utah projects by dodging some environmental reviews

  06-06-2020 15:00
  
  President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that lowers regulatory hurdles for major infrastructure and energy projects with the purported goal of jump-starting a pandemic-battered economy.The order, inked late Thursday, lifts “to the fullest extent possible and consistent with applicable laws,” safeguards and procedures outlined in the nation’s bedrock environmental laws, such as the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Sp
  
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• On 42nd anniversary of end to the priesthood ban, black Latter-day Saints say protests may have finally woken up white members to racism

  06-06-2020 15:00
  
  Two years ago, soul diva and Mormon convert Gladys Knight brought a multiracial audience of Latter-day Saints to tears with her haunting rendition of “Somewhere.”“There’s a place for us,” the African American singer crooned to her listeners who had gathered in the cavernous Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the June 8, 1978, end of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ centurylong ban on blacks holding
  
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• George Pyle: Government is not like a business. Especially now.

  06-06-2020 15:00
  
  “If you don’t know jewelry, know the jeweler.”— Warren BuffettMany political leaders, especially in conservative circles, tout their expertise in private business as evidence that they would be good at running public services.There are similarities. Managing people, hiring and firing, finding efficiencies, setting goals, EEOC and OSHA and FICA and hostile work environments and time-and-a-half.Some folks are just natural born leaders and can thrive in any surroundings. But
  
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• Utah’s college journalists got creative to keep delivering news to their campuses, but now see few jobs

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  Kat Webb was in India over spring break, on a study abroad trip with fellow yoga studies minors and religious studies students, when she got the email: The remainder of Utah State University’s classes for the semester would be moved online due to the recently named pandemic.“It was like the wind got knocked out of me,” said Webb, who was a senior. “Obviously, I was glad I got to go on my trip still — because if we’d been scheduled to leave even a few days late
  
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• Letter: Yes, pornography is the real issue we’re facing

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  To the esteemed brethren in the house on the hill, who look down upon us in our lowly city in the valley, I want to thank you for your unparalleled wisdom and foresight in declaring pornography a public health crisis. I can’t even begin to count the number of lives you may have saved.To those who would scoff and instead point to our government’s response to the still rising cases of COVID-19, I would say shame on you, for a blind man can see that the pandemic is first and foremost an
  
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• Letter: This country has a long history of racism

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  Of course all lives matter. Of course every human being should be treated fairly and with respect.When people say "Black lives matter," they are not saying that all lives do not matter. If that is what you think, then you are missing the point. The point that is trying to be conveyed is they want to be treated fairly and with respect.Our country has a horrible history of not treating everyone fairly. Racism has a long history. Almost immediately after the first Europeans arrived on America's sho
  
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• Letter: The Republican Party just needs to go

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  George Pyle is right. The Republican Party “as a whole deserves to come to an end.”No political party is guaranteed eternal survival. The Federalist and Whig parties each enjoyed periods of success in American history, but are no longer with us.Today's Republican Party has changed greatly from the one I joined as a young man growing up in Kansas. I was raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who Bob Dole sent to Washington to work for Ronald Reagan. That was for a Republican Party that d
  
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• Letter: Motorcycles should act like cars

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  The more I drive my car, the more I realize how stupid it was for our state Legislature to allow motorcyclists to drive in between the adjacent lanes of traffic that cars are already in.Come on, guys, make motorcyclists be like the driver of a car and drive directly in front of or behind a car or truck. I’m sure I am not the only driver that feels this way.Stan Jacobson, OgdenSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: I’ve had it bad, but not that bad

  06-06-2020 14:00
  
  I have been denied a raise because I "wasn't married with kids and didn't need the money." But at least I have never been denied a job because of the color of my skin.I have had rocks thrown at my car. But at least I have never been shot for having a broken taillight.I have had bottle rockets shot at my bedroom window. But at least I have never been shot while at home minding my own business.I have had beer bottles thrown at me to the shouts of “f--got!” But no one has called the pol
  
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• Protesters return to the streets as new bodycam video shows Salt Lake City officers shot at a fleeing man more than 20 times

  06-06-2020 06:05
  
  Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a 22-year-old man who was running away from them two weeks ago, body camera footage released Friday shows.Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was killed in the early morning of May 23 after police responding to a call of a gun threat chased the Salt Lake City man for several blocks when he ran from a motel as they approached.The body camera footage showed the officers encountered Palacios-Carbajal at the Utah Village Motel, 271 W. 900 South, just
  
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• Back on track: IndyCar delayed debut all-in-one Texas affair

  06-06-2020 05:13
  
  Fort Worth, Texas • Things are starting to feel a little more normal for Ed Carpenter with IndyCar finally about to start its season, though the timing still has him a bit out of sorts. The only owner-driver in the series surely isn’t alone feeling that way.“One of the weirdest things, I’ve been doing this so long, knowing the (Indianapolis) 500 is in August, it still feels like it’s going to be in May even though we’re in June,” Carpenter said. “It
  
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• Salt Lake City doctors demonstrate to honor George Floyd and decry racism

  06-06-2020 03:13
  
  Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday.About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor George Floyd, a black man in Minnesota who died at the hands of police in an incident that sparked protests around the world. They knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the same amount of time Floyd was held under an officer'
  
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• Kyle Whittingham’s efforts to shepherd Utah football through current social unrest put to test by Morgan Scalley’s racial slur

  06-06-2020 03:09
  
  In the days since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was caught on camera pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes until he died, Utah football head coach Kyle Whittingham and his staff have addressed the incident in team meetings.There has been discussion and support, both as a team and individual units, as the fallout from Floyd’s death plays out across the nation in the form of rallies and protests of police brutality. In an interview with
  
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• Jon Huntsman in quarantine after campaign staffer tests positive for COVID-19

  06-06-2020 03:02
  
  A staff member working on Jon Huntsman’s gubernatorial campaign has tested positive for COVID-19, and the former governor has gone into temporary quarantine and canceled his in-person public events until he can also be checked for the virus.“The health of each member of our team and the public is our primary concern,” Huntsman said in a prepared statement. “We will follow the instructions of health experts and not put politics and campaign concerns ahead of health and saf
  
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• Minneapolis bans police chokeholds in wake of George Floyd’s death

  06-06-2020 02:10
  
  Minneapolis • Minneapolis agreed Friday to ban chokeholds and neck restraints by police and to require officers to try to stop any other officers they see using improper force, in the first concrete steps to remake the city’s police force since George Floyd’s death.The changes are part of a stipulation between the city and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which launched a civil rights investigation this week in response to the death of Floyd. The City Council approved t
  
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• Rich Lowry: Of course destruction of property is violence

  06-06-2020 02:00
  
  Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn’t had since the late 1960s or early 1970s.Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty universally condemned for decades now — until the past week or so.Forced to choose between criticizing the George Floyd protests when they get out of hand and defending the indefensible, activists and writers on the left have been tempted into the latter.Their inventive, if completely absurd, c
  
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• NBA players vote 28-0 to back league’s plan to resume the season in Orlando

  06-06-2020 01:25
  
  On Friday afternoon, the NBA took another big step toward resuming the 2019-20 season.A day after the league’s Board of Governors approved commissioner Adam Silver’s return plan by a 29-1 margin, the National Basketball Players Association followed suit, as all 28 player representatives who took part in a conference call vote cast a vote in favor of the 22-team format.Afterward, the NBPA issued a statement noting “various details remain to be negotiated.” Still, for now,
  
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• Body camera video shows Salt Lake City officers shot at a 22-year-old man more than 20 times as he ran away

  06-06-2020 01:15
  
  Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a 22-year-old man who was running away from them two weeks ago, body camera footage released Friday shows.Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, 22, of Salt Lake City, was killed in the early morning of May 23 after police responding to a call of a gun threat chased him for several blocks when he ran from a motel as they approached.Body camera footage released Friday afternoon showed the officers encountered Palacios-Carbajal at the Utah Village Mot
  
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• Utah suspends defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley after a 2013 text in which he used a racist slur surfaces

  06-06-2020 01:05
  
  University of Utah athletic director Mark Harlan late Friday afternoon announced an immediate suspension of defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley while the school investigates a social media post which referenced a 2013 text message from Scalley that included racist language.Per an athletic department spokesman, Scalley, who was safeties coach and recruiting coordinator at Utah in 2013, will be suspended with pay. On Dec. 9, Utah announced a “contract amendment” for Scalley, designed
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Dressed for Unrest

  06-06-2020 00:42
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, June 7, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:The Frat Boy PartyCOVID Hide and SeekFree RiderBeat the PressNon-essential BillionairesFacebook LinksConfederacy of DuncesPrimary Face OffOne of the GreatsFree-dumbWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Body camera video shows Salt Lake City officers shot a 22-year-old man more than 20 times as he ran away

  06-06-2020 00:35
  
  Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a 22-year-old man who was running away from them two weeks ago, body camera footage released Friday shows.Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, 22, of Salt Lake City, was killed in the early morning of May 23 after police responding to a call of a gun threat chased him for several blocks when he ran from a motel.Body camera footage released Friday afternoon showed the officers encountered Palacios-Carbajal at the Utah Village Motel, 271 W. 900 Sout
  
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• Joseph Q. Jarvis: Trump offers a hollowed-out pretense of religiosity

  06-06-2020 00:00
  
  I watched the president of the United States use a Bible as a talisman, a political good luck charm. He wanted a photo op, so his minions hammered the peaceful protesters who were standing in the way. I am told that Trump, while preening with grumpy visage at the camera, was holding the Bible upside down.He wanted to project power and domination. What I saw instead was a fool who is intentionally ignorant about the nature of biblical authority.If Trump had ever read the Bible, he might have come
  
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