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• Should juries on death penalty cases learn about the cost of execution?

  14-06-2020 23:28
  
  Ogden • Debate over Utah’s death penalty is intensifying in 2nd District Court as attorneys prepare for the trial of an Ogden couple accused of starving and fatally abusing their 3-year-old daughter.Prosecutors said earlier they will seek the death penalty against Miller Costello, 28, and Brenda Emile, 25, if they are convicted of aggravated murder in the July 6, 2017, death of Angelina Costello.Over the past year, defense attorneys have filed several motions challenging the death pen
  
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• Arizona hospital’s nurses on front lines of COVID-19 fight

  14-06-2020 23:20
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • In the intensive care unit, nurses and doctors are valued for their ability to take quick and decisive action with every patient who needs the highest level of care for their critical condition.However, nurses and doctors, now on the front lines of COVID-19, have had to restructure every action and routine of both their work and personal lives because of the virus. Over the past three months, healthcare strategies based on federal recommendations have been in nearly const
  
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• Should death-penalty juries learn about death penalty costs?

  14-06-2020 22:50
  
  Ogden • Debate over Utah’s death penalty is intensifying in 2nd District Court as attorneys prepare for the trial of an Ogden couple accused of starving and fatally abusing their 3-year-old daughter.Prosecutors said earlier they will seek the death penalty against Miller Costello, 28, and Brenda Emile, 25, if they are convicted of aggravated murder in the July 6, 2017, death of Angelina Costello.Over the past year, defense attorneys have filed several motions challenging the death pen
  
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• Trump rally called ‘dangerous move’ in age of coronavirus

  14-06-2020 22:38
  
  Washington • After months away from the campaign trail, President Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters next Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus. But health experts are questioning that decision.Trump will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma — a state that has seen relatively few COVID-19 cases. Yet the Tulsa City-County Health Department’s director told the Tulsa World over the weekend that he wished the Trump campaign would move the
  
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• Atlanta police officer’s fatal shooting of black man ignites new wave of protests

  14-06-2020 22:15
  
  A makeshift memorial popped up Sunday at a fast-food restaurant where a black man was fatally shot by a white Atlanta police officer, one of the latest deaths of black men that have ignited a new wave of anti-racism protests across the country.Early Sunday, Atlanta police announced that an officer, Garrett Rolfe, had been fired following the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks, 27, on Friday night, and another officer, Devin Brosnan, had been placed on administrative duty. On Saturday, Mayor Keish
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Cities from Logan to St. George hit hard, as average cases topped 300 for the whole week

  14-06-2020 22:05
  
  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. While no new deaths were reported, Utah saw an increase of 332 positive COVID-19 cases Sunday, according to the Utah Department of Health and the state set a record for active hospitalizations at 137.Sunday’s data ends a week in U
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Daily cases average above 300 for first time

  14-06-2020 20:57
  
  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. While no new deaths were reported, Utah saw an increase of 332 positive COVID-19 cases Sunday, per the Utah Department of Health. It also reported 16 new hospitalizations.Sunday’s data ends a week in Utah that saw rising case numb
  
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• Charlie Warzel: The Floyd protests show that Twitter is real life

  14-06-2020 20:00
  
  In February, I declared, somewhat winkingly, that Twitter is real life. My argument was not that what happens on that social media website is broadly representative of popular opinion but that what happens on Twitter is a good barometer of enthusiasm around movement-building and fandoms. And that elites tend to undervalue or dismiss what happens on the platform, suggesting that those loud voices making them uncomfortable aren’t accurate indicators of lived experiences.Since, I’ve rec
  
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• The revived Utah Motorsports Campus had big plans for 2020, then COVID-19 struck. The comeback will have to wait.

  14-06-2020 19:18
  
  Grantsville • Dixon Hunt, senior vice president of the Utah Motorsports Campus, envisioned 2020 as a banner year for the 15-year-old asphalt track that sprawls across 511 acres of pasture near the southern tip of the Great Salt Lake. This season would stand as the starting line in the race to profitability. It would be the baseline on which a bright new future would be built.But that future will have to wait — again.This time that pesky virus called COVID-19 sidetracked the turnaround
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Nations may be safer under women

  14-06-2020 17:58
  
  Are female leaders better at fighting a pandemic?I compiled death rates from the coronavirus for 21 countries around the world, 13 led by men and eight by women. The male-led countries suffered an average of 214 coronavirus-related deaths per million inhabitants. Those led by women lost only one-fifth as many, 36 per million.If the United States had the coronavirus death rate of the average female-led country, 102,000 American lives would have been saved out of the 114,000 lost.“Countries
  
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• Maureen Dowd: A slam dunk on Donald Trump

  14-06-2020 17:30
  
  Washington • “Shut up and dribble.”Those four words sum up the attitude of Donald Trump and his acolytes toward athletes who speak out when the president uses sports to ferment racial animosity and rile up his base.LeBron James, who has a new group with other sports stars designed to protect and inspire the black vote, dunked on Laura Ingraham the other week. He tweeted: “If you still haven’t figured out why the protesting is going on. Why we’re acting as we ar
  
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• Harry Fuller: The United States hesitated, and lost

  14-06-2020 17:00
  
  "On the plains of hesitation bleach the bonesof millions, who at the dawn of decision satdown to wait, and waiting, died."— George W. CecilIn confronting the novel COVID-19 pandemic on its own ground, the United States struggled, while other countries simultaneously threatened nimbly met and at least stalled the menace, a sobering realization that the self-declared “most powerful nation in the world” abjectly faltered in countering a recognizably major health assault destined t
  
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• Robert Kirby: Go ye into all the world, LDS missionaries, without purse or necktie

  14-06-2020 16:02
  
  Word came down Friday from Mount COB (Church Office Building) that the dress code for missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint will be relaxed.This time, it’s just for elders, or male missionaries. The dress code for female, or sister, missionaries was changed in December 2018 to allow them to wear dress pants at their discretion.Elders may now — with the approval of area leaders — proselytize without neckties, wear blue dress shirts, and, in some extreme
  
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• Poll: Utah Republican voters mostly see wearing a mask as a sign of respect, not weakness

  14-06-2020 16:01
  
  Utah voters likely to vote in the June 30 Republican primary overwhelmingly see wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic as a sign of respect, not of weakness — though far fewer wear one all the time they’re out in public.That’s one takeaway from a new poll conducted by Suffolk University for The Salt Lake Tribune.Of the 500 respondents polled June 4-7, 73% said they thought wearing a face mask in public was a sign of respect. Only 10% considered it a sign of weaknes
  
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• Here’s what Utah businesses have to say about the death of George Floyd

  14-06-2020 16:01
  
  As Americans across the country protest the killing of George Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police, Utah based companies are speaking out.“Horn of Africa Restaurant stands in solidarity with the black community and extends our support to the family and loved ones of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and the countless number of black men and women who have lost their lives due to systemic racism in our country,” owner Halimo Omar said in a statement.“
  
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• Utah wasn’t prepared to help Hispanics fight the coronavirus. And the cases have skyrocketed.

  14-06-2020 16:00
  
  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. Even before Utah had its first case of the coronavirus, the state had created a task force to coordinate its response and, shortly after, added a group to focus on the economic impacts of what soon would become a life-altering pandemic.
  
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• Utah’s first female black lawmaker leads out as ‘conscience of the Legislature’

  14-06-2020 15:00
  
  Flames lapped through the truck, spreading over the seat and snaking up the seat belt from a cardboard tube that someone had stuffed with paper and lit on fire.There had been cash inside the truck when Sandra Hollins and her husband had left to grab dinner. She noticed the arsonist hadn’t touched it.At that time, in 2014, Hollins was running to become the first black woman to serve in the Utah Legislature. The fire, she said, sent a clear message that someone wanted to keep her out. She go
  
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• Utah’s Juneteenth celebration goes virtual this year

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  A year ago, thousands of people turned out to Juneteenth events in Salt Lake City and Ogden. This year, organizers are hoping people will join the celebrations online.In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, seminars, discussions, musical performances and even a movie screening will all take place on the internet. The only exceptions are a flag-raising ceremony — complete with social distancing — and a caravan through Ogden in which most participants will be riding in cars.(You can wal
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘Love, Victor’ will make ‘Love, Simon’ proud during Pride Month

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  Two years ago, “Love, Simon” became the first romantic comedy about a gay teenager ever released in theaters across the nation. Sweet and funny, it tugged at heartstrings as 17-year-old Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) struggled with first love and coming out of the closet.Simon spent much of the film texting and falling in love with another gay kid at his high school, even though he didn’t find out who that other teen was until the end of the movie. In the TV series sequel “L
  
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• NBA players voicing concern is exactly what is supposed to happen right now

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) comes off the court with praise from Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — A large faction of NBA players reportedly took part in a Friday conference call to voice their concerns with the league’s proposed restart plan.The news that so many players were pushing back on restarting the season and only just recently speaking up seemed to catch a lot of pe
  
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• Letter: What will be the world’s memory of us?

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  The picture of the lone Chinese protester standing in Tiananmen Square in front of the long line of Chinese tanks will forever be burned into the memory of the World.Now picture the protester holding a sign that says “Black Lives Matter” and put American flags on the tanks.What will be the world's memory of our own U.S. troops in combat with our American citizens?Janice Duncan Kennedy, MidwaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Stamp out racism now

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  A letter of understanding about racial issues:The human species is genetically programmed to fear difference and other races trigger this fear, which is in back of all racist behavior. But it is a human trait that has far outlived its usefulness.It is past time for humanity to come to grips with it and begin to act accordingly. It is time for parents to tell their children that humans come in all sizes and colors and one is not better than another.If you have a white dog and a black or brown dog
  
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• Letter: Now is the rainy day we’ve saved for

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  Thanks to The Salt Lake Tribune for publishing the opinion piece by Jean Hill on June 5. I only wish I was smart enough to have written it, as she articulates so clearly that across the board tax cuts will harm Utah’s most vulnerable.My understanding, from listening to the May 13 Executive Appropriation Committee meeting, is that Utah currently holds $5.4 billion in rainy day funds and other budget reserves. Across-the-board budget cuts have been known to disproportionately hurt low-income
  
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• Letter: Join Big Brothers Big Sisters in the fight against racism

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  The senseless death of George Floyd, and many preceding deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of law enforcement, have sparked unyielding protests here in Salt Lake City and around the globe.While many assemble peacefully to demand an end to systemic racism and police brutality, others incite terror that runs counter to finding solutions. Still others hope we will find a way to honor our foundational national commitments to unalienable rights and justice for all — and wonder how t
  
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• Letter: I am part of the problem

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  I want to report my experience with Salt Lake City law enforcement.There are several businesses below my neighborhood that leave vacant parking lots after work hours. We have a view of those lots and many people use them for various purposes at night.One night a few years ago, three cars of people were having a rather loud party around 2 a.m.I called 911 to complain. The operator took down my location information and then asked me, “Are they black or Hispanic?”To my shame, I answered
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: My mother-in-law is tracking my every move with a phone locator. Can I turn it off without offending?

  14-06-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • A few years ago, we were on a family vacation that included my husband’s whole family. We wanted to be able to see where each other was, so we shared our locations with each other, and I must have selected “indefinitely” for the sharing period. Well, it’s driving me crazy that my mother-in-law is keeping tabs on where we are. If I stop sharing my location with her, she will know that I deliberately decided to stop sharing it with her and it will hur
  
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• 22-year-old drowns at Yuba State Park

  14-06-2020 06:05
  
  A 22-year-old Utah man died Saturday after falling off a personal watercraft at Yuba State Park.Around 9:30 a.m., state park officials learned two people were thrown off a watercraft in the lake. One resurfaced, but the other didn’t, according to a news release.Law enforcement arrived and used sonar to scan for that person in the water. The Springville man’s body was found about 5:30 p.m.Police are still investigating what happened and have not released the man’s name.The park
  
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• Salt Lake City protesters join national day of action in calling for community control of police

  14-06-2020 04:10
  
  Protesters took the streets again on Saturday — for the 14th time in 15 days — to protest against police brutality and demand community control of law enforcement agencies.About 100 people initially gathered in Pioneer Park in downtown Salt Lake City, where organizer John Sullivan with Insurgence News urged those who know racism is wrong and that inequities exist in society to put their words into actions.He was adopted by white parents, he said, and saw firsthand how people treated
  
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• Utah protest concert with Collin Raye gets big crowd in Cedar City

  14-06-2020 03:27
  
  Cedar City • Families began toting portable chairs and American flags into Iron Springs Resort late Saturday afternoon, many wearing shirts and caps bearing the flag and few wearing masks, to await a twice-canceled concert by country singer Collin Raye organized to protest COVID-19 restrictions.Hundreds arrived in the event’s first hour, as food trucks and scores of businesses set up and began selling wares from hamburgers, corn dogs and tacos to jewelry to clothing — including
  
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• Report: Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell among players pushing for injury insurance in Orlando

  14-06-2020 01:25
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell (45) plays against the Boston Celtics during the first half on an NBA basketball game in Boston, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) | Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell is part of a group that is looking into the possibility of an insurance policy that would protect a player who suffers serious injury in Orlando, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
  The group of players is highlighted by some of the
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Don’t say, ‘I am not a racist’

  14-06-2020 01:00
  
  This column is presented as a public service.A few days ago, Greg Glassman, the founder and CEO of CrossFit, set off an uproar by belittling the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. In a Zoom call with gym owners, he bristled at the idea of memorializing a man whose killing outraged the nation and the world."We're not mourning for George Floyd," he said. "I don't think me or any of my staff are. Can you tell me why I should mourn for him? Other than, it's the 'white' thing t
  
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• Atlanta police chief resigns after fatal police shooting

  14-06-2020 00:52
  
  Atlanta • Atlanta's police chief resigned Saturday hours after a black man was fatally shot by officers in a struggle following a field sobriety test. Authorities said the slain man had grabbed an officer's Taser, but was running away when he was shot.Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields at a Saturday news conference as roughly 150 protesters marched outside the Wendy's restaurant where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot late F
  
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• What we know about Friday's players call to restart NBA season

  14-06-2020 00:48
  
  The NBA has approved the format for a 22-team return to action at the ESPN Wide World of Sport in Florida. But there are still concerns.
  Of course, preventing the spread of coronavirus amidst a global pandemic is a prominent focus of these conversations. There are still tons of questions to be answered about how the league will account for social distancing while on the campus as well as who will be allowed in and out of the bubble.
  However, among the issues players have been discussing before a
  
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• What we know about Friday's players call to NBA restart season

  14-06-2020 00:48
  
  The NBA has approved the format for a 22-team return to action at the ESPN Wide World of Sport in Florida. But there are still concerns.
  Of course, preventing the spread of coronavirus amidst a global pandemic is a prominent focus of these conversations. There are still tons of questions to be answered about how the league will account for social distancing while on the campus as well as who will be allowed in and out of the bubble.
  However, among the issues players have been discussing before a
  
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• Bodies of 2 kids identified as Idaho community mourns

  14-06-2020 00:00
  
  Boise, Idaho • The bodies found this week at a rural property in Idaho are those of two children missing since last year, authorities confirmed Saturday.The Rexburg Police Department issued the press release confirming that remains found on Tuesday have been positively identified by the medical examiner’s office as belonging to Joshua “JJ” Vallow, who was 7 when he vanished in September, and his 17-year-old sister Tylee Ryan.“It is not the outcome we had hoped; to be
  
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