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• Statue of Brigham Young covered in paint at BYU with the word ‘racist’ sprayed at the base

  19-06-2020 23:43
  
  The iconic statue of Brigham Young on campus at the Provo university named for him was doused in red paint earlier this week and the word “racist” was sprayed onto the base.The vandalism occurred sometime late Sunday night or early Monday morning, said Brigham Young University police Lt. Rich Christianson. And it included someone also marking an “X” over the sign of the Abraham O. Smoot Administration Building; the statue sits at its entrance.“It looks like they had
  
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• Rep. Ben McAdams is winning 4th District fundraising race so far

  19-06-2020 23:43
  
  Washington • Former NFL player Burgess Owens is winning the cash race in his primary bid for the GOP nomination for the 4th Congressional District of Utah but his campaign account is still a fraction of what Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams has in the bank.McAdams, a freshman who is seeking reelection, has amassed more than $2.2 million, far more than all four Republican candidates combined in the district made up mostly of voters in Salt Lake and Utah counties.Owens has $111,000 in campaign cas
  
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• Utahns gather at Salt Lake City park for Juneteenth celebration

  19-06-2020 22:55
  
  Utahns gathered Friday afternoon at Washington Square Park in Salt Lake City for a protest and block party as part of a series of Juneteenth celebrations going on throughout the day.The June 19th holiday — contracted to “Juneteenth” — marks the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to free the slaves there, the last in the nation. In 2016, the Utah Legislature declared the third Saturda
  
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• Black MLS players form coalition to fight systemic racism

  19-06-2020 22:36
  
  A group of black Major League Soccer players has formed a coalition that seeks to address racial inequities in the league and across soccer, and to positively impact local communities. The coalition is the result of an Instagram group that began after the death of George Floyd, which sparked a wave of nationwide protests against racism and policy brutality.Started by Toronto FC defender Justin Morrow, the group grew to some 70 MLS players, who formed the Black Players Coalition of MLS. Morrow sa
  
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• Deaths prompt Alaska officials to remove ‘Into the Wild’ bus

  19-06-2020 22:22
  
  Anchorage, Alaska • An abandoned bus in the Alaska wilderness where a young man documented his demise over 114 days in 1992 has been removed by officials, frustrated that the bus has become a lure for dangerous, sometimes deadly pilgrimages into treacherous backcountry.An Alaska National Guard Chinook helicopter flew the bus out of the woods just north of Denali National Park and Preserve on Thursday.Christopher McCandless hiked to the bus located about 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of A
  
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• Jazz Gaming makes final four of the NBA 2K League’s ‘Tipoff’ tournament

  19-06-2020 22:17
  
  Jazz Gaming’s big rookie faces the No. 1 draft pick tonight. | Utah Jazz Gaming Jazz Gaming has been on a rollJazz Gaming will compete in the semifinal round of the NBA 2K League’s “Tipoff” Tournament on Friday night.
  Jazz Gaming secured its spot in the final four after a quarterfinal victory over Pistons GTThe Utah Jazz affiliate will now play Kings Guard Gaming (Sacramento Kings) in the semifinals. The winner moves on to play either Raptors Uprising GC (Toronto Raptors
  
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• Two Salt Lake City girls are missing. Have you seen them?

  19-06-2020 22:11
  
  Salt Lake City Police are searching for a 3-year-old and a teenager who have been missing since Thursday afternoon.Sandra Juarez-Martinez, 3, and Eugenia Martinez-Juarez, 17, were last seen in the area of 200 S. Pueblo Street — in the Poplar Grove neighborhood on the city’s west side — on Thursday at approximately 2 p.m., according to police. Eugenia was last seen wearing a gray jacket, gray pants, and pink and gray shoes.
  (Photo courtesy of the Salt Lake City Police Department
  
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• Farah Melendez: Reyes has been a disaster as Utah attorney general

  19-06-2020 22:00
  
  As Utah confronts the deadly COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 110,000 Americans, and urgent and valid questions about systemic inequality and police brutality against Black Americans, we are looking for leaders to guide us.As a native Utahn, with nieces and nephews growing up here during this deadly time, I am searching for state leaders I can trust to put Utah families and values at the center of their actions. Right now, Utah is coming up short — especially at state attorney g
  
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• Utah’s unemployment rate for May is 8.5%, well below the national mark of 13.3%

  19-06-2020 21:34
  
  May may have marked a turning point for Utah as it recovers from its worst unemployment crisis in history, a leading economist said Friday.The state’s official jobless rate was 8.5% last month, officials announced in the latest report revealing ongoing impacts of the pandemic.New data shows as many as 75,400 jobs were lost in May compared to the same month the year before, when Utah’s economy was breaking records for job creation. Employment shrank by 4.8% overall in Utah last month,
  
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• Coronavirus cases spike in Utah, with Friday’s increase the biggest yet

  19-06-2020 21:22
  
  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. Friday marked the biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases reported in Utah, with state health officials tallying 586 new diagnoses.The new record also continues a trend of elevated cases; only one day in the past 10 brought few
  
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• Why one writer has ‘underrated’ BYU star Yoeli Childs projected as a second round NBA draft pick

  19-06-2020 21:21
  
  Brigham Young Cougars forward Yoeli Childs (23) grabs a defensive rebound as Utah and BYU play an NCAA basketball game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Following a remarkable senior campaign that saw the 6-foot-8 forward overcome a nine-game suspension and a serious finger injury, the NBA draft has been moved from late June until October due to the coronavirus pandemic.PROVO — Former BYU star Yoeli Childs has often stat
  
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• Kentucky police officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting to be fired

  19-06-2020 21:19
  
  Louisville, Ky. • Louisville’s mayor said Friday that one of three police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor will be fired.Mayor Greg Fischer said interim Louisville police Chief Robert Schroeder has started termination proceedings for Officer Brett Hankison. Two other officers remain on administrative reassignment while the shooting is investigated.Fischer said officials could not answer questions about the firing because of state law. He referred all questions
  
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• Paul Petersen pleads guilty to human smuggling in Utah as part of a multistate adoption scheme

  19-06-2020 20:29
  
  A former public official in Arizona accused of smuggling pregnant women from the Marshall Islands into at least three states — including Utah — pleaded guilty to human smuggling and communication fraud.Paul Petersen pleaded guilty to the four felonies in Utah on Friday, a day after he pleaded guilty to fraud charges in his home state of Arizona for submitting false applications to their Medicaid system for the mothers to receive state-funded health coverage. He’s also expected
  
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• AMC Theaters reverses course on masks after backlash

  19-06-2020 20:21
  
  Los Angeles • The nation’s largest movie theater chain changed its position on mask-wearing less than a day after the company became a target on social media for saying it would defer to local governments on the issue.AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron said Friday that its theaters will require patrons to wear masks upon reopening, which will begin in mid-July."We think it is absolutely crucial that we listen to our guests," Aron said. "It is clear from this response that we did not go far en
  
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• 1st Congressional District candidates dig into their own pockets for half their campaign funds

  19-06-2020 20:04
  
  Just four donors with deep pockets are providing nearly half of all campaign money for the hotly contested 1st Congressional District Republican primary to replace retiring Rep. Rob Bishop.Those big donors are the four candidates themselves.They used personal money to provide 48% of what their campaigns have raised — a combined $572,000 of the $1.2 million total, according to disclosure forms filed this week.Providing the most so far is Davis County Commissioner Bob Stevenson, loaning his
  
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• Breaking down the Utah football schedule — assuming COVID-19 allows an on-time start

  19-06-2020 20:02
  
  There is no guarantee that a college football season will take place in 2020.No promise of a season, and even if the season were to take place, what would it look like? Will the University of Utah play a full 12-game slate? Will Pac-12 teams only play other Pac-12 teams? If so, how many games? Eleven? The full 12? If you’re playing conference-only, how will that be viewed in the eyes of the College Football Playoff selection committee?Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are stil
  
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• Louis Wertz: How I discovered my ranchette dream is actually nature’s nightmare

  19-06-2020 20:00
  
  New data released by American Farmland Trust (AFT) in “Farms Under Threat: The State of the States” is troubling me. AFT found that 11 million acres of agricultural land were paved over, fragmented or converted to uses that compromise agriculture from 2001-2016. The greatest threat to these vital acres, especially out west, is low-density residential development in rural regions; aka ranchette subdivisions.What’s most troubling about ranchettes is that I want one.I work as the
  
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• RSL finally focused on playing games again as it gets ready to head for Orlando to resume the season

  19-06-2020 18:47
  
  There’s only a week left until Major League Soccer teams can start arriving to Orlando for the MLS is Back Tournament. And while COVID-19 cases in Orange Country, Florida, are rising, Real Salt Lake is solely focused on playing games again after the season was suspended in March due to the pandemic.“It’s no injuries, everyone feels good that now we can just be positive and looking forward to the tournament that will be in Orlando,” midfielder Damir Kreilach said this week
  
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• Trump threatens protesters as Tulsa braces for rally

  19-06-2020 18:43
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Friday morning issued a thinly veiled threat to individuals who want to protest his campaign rally scheduled for Saturday evening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, writing on Twitter: “Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!”In his tweet, Trump drew no distinction between peace
  
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• Virus diary: A pandemic, a layoff and a suddenly stay-home dad

  19-06-2020 18:29
  
  Salt Lake City • The day his boss looked over at the TV screen and gave a forlorn nod at the plunging red lines of the stock market, my husband could feel the layoff coming.It was a gut punch when it hit our family, like millions of others. But we didn't have much time to ponder as he switched from his microbrewery job to being a full-time dad to our 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son.When Dave put away his steel-toed boots and safety goggles, he traded one world for another. His daily
  
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• Johnny Townsend: Mormons must stop practicing racism by proxy

  19-06-2020 18:00
  
  In cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, someone deliberately sickens another person, usually their child, because they receive so much love and support for having a chronically ill loved one. Often, other family members and friends are shocked to discover the deception. “You couldn’t have asked for a more devoted mother.”Despite extensive racist policies and doctrine throughout Mormon history, most Mormons today practice racism by proxy. “I didn’t say that. Brigha
  
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• ‘Into the Wild’ bus removed from Alaska backcountry

  19-06-2020 18:00
  
  Juneau, Alaska • An abandoned bus in the Alaska backcountry, popularized by the book “Into the Wild” and movie of the same name, was removed Thursday, state officials said.The decision prioritizes public safety, Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige said.The bus has long attracted adventurers to an area without cellphone service and marked by unpredictable weather and at-times swollen rivers. Some have had to be rescued or have died. Christopher McCandless, the subje
  
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• Vatican: Climate change efforts go forward even without U.S.

  19-06-2020 17:37
  
  Vatican City • The Vatican stressed Thursday that the movement to combat climate change is unstoppable and worldwide, although it said it would welcome a U.S. return to the Paris Agreement.The Holy See’s foreign minister, Monsignor Paul Gallagher, at a news conference marking five years since Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si'” decrying human damage to the environment, insisted that “humanity will not be blown off course” by any one player’s deci
  
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• Advocates worry blacks, Hispanics falling behind in census

  19-06-2020 17:00
  
  Orlando, Fla. • Halfway through the extended effort to count every U.S. resident, civil rights leaders worry that minority communities are falling behind in responding to the 2020 census.With outreach efforts to motivate minority responses upended by a global pandemic, both the National Urban League and the NALEO Educational Fund are sounding the alarm that communities with concentrations of blacks and Hispanics have been trailing the rest of the nation in answering the census questionnaire
  
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• Jana Riess: When Mormons make an idol of the church

  19-06-2020 16:28
  
  I regularly get messages from orthodox Latter-day Saint readers who take me to task for continuing to use the word “Mormon” in my writing. I’ve discovered that it’s not particularly helpful for me to explain (though I have certainly tried) that a national media outlet that covers all religions, not just one, will continue to use the established terminology that readers already know and expect. It’s the terminology that the church itself pushed pretty heavily until l
  
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• Documentaries about LGBTQ life in Utah among 18 films in Damn These Heels online film festival

  19-06-2020 16:15
  
  Though it may be screening movies virtually, this year’s Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival is digging into some real stories — including two documentaries of LGBTQ stories in Utah.The festival, in its 17th year, will happen online from July 10 to 19, showcasing 18 films from the United States, Chile, Mexico, Singapore, Brazil, Japan, Vietnam, Iceland, Israel, Australia and Portugal. The lineup was announced Wednesday by the Utah Film Center, the nonprofit that presents the festiva
  
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• Tiffany Lundeen and Stacey Solie: Pandemic pause a chance to erase LDS racism

  19-06-2020 16:00
  
  Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently co-published an essay with leaders of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, calling for an end to racism.This marks a significant shift from the 1960s, when the NAACP protested the church’s white supremacist policies, such as the ban that barred faithful black members entry to Mormon temples and prohibited black men from performing sacred rites that white men could perform.&l
  
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• Catch up on this week’s news with Tribune reporters on KCPW’s ‘Behind the Headlines’

  19-06-2020 15:14
  
  The Supreme Court rejects President Trump’s bid to end DACA. The Salt Lake City Council makes minor changes to funding for police. And while the risk of COVID-19 exposure is “higher than ever,” Utah moves forward with a “full-blown” economic recovery.At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Leia Larsen and Sean P. Means, and Washington Bureau Chief Thomas Burr join KCPW’s Roger McDonough to talk about the week’s top stories. Every Friday at 9 a.m
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Why Juneteenth matters

  19-06-2020 15:11
  
  Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment, but they were not themselves responsible for the end of slavery. They were not the ones who brought about its final destruction.Who freed the slaves? The slaves freed the slaves.“Slave resistance,” as historian Manisha Sinha points out in “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition,” “lay at the heart
  
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• Utah’s Ben McAdams, others push for release of list of federal loan recipients

  19-06-2020 15:10
  
  Washington • The Trump administration remains adamant that recipients of a coronavirus relief package for businesses will remain private despite increasing pressure from Congress and government watchdogs to publicly disclose those who took some $500 billion in government funds amid the crisis.The latest revelation that some members of Congress themselves took loans from the Paycheck Protection Program — not to mention some large businesses with plenty of cash in their reserves —
  
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• Robert Kirby: When fighting a pandemic, humans can be dumb and dumber

  19-06-2020 15:00
  
  I’ll just come right out and say it: Every human being is ill. Either we’re clearly sick, or we’re carriers waiting to infect others while our own sickness has yet to manifest.What is this disease? Well, in layman’s terms it’s called crainus brainus. Essentially that each of us has a brain that doesn’t work nearly as well as we believe.An excellent case is made in our behavior toward COVID-19. We argue and whine about masks, social distancing and other “
  
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• Letter: Chokehold ban must include sanctions

  19-06-2020 14:01
  
  I appreciate Gov. Gary Herbert’s decision to ban chokeholds in Utah. I hope this is just a small first step toward a goal of fair, humane and equal treatment of all Utahns by law enforcement, especially people of color. It is important to follow this first step up with sanctions that will be put in place against officers who use chokeholds, sanctions that cannot be overturned by any union.Beverly Hawkins, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• ‘Yellowstone’ breaks the mold with strong Native American characters

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  Now entering its third season, the mostly made-in-Utah “Yellowstone” has something rarely seen on television — strong Native American characters.Sure, the narrative centers on John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and his remarkably dysfunctional family. John is the sixth-generation owner of the largest ranch in America — but the Native Americans who were there before the Duttons want the Montana land back. And Chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) of the (fictional) Broken Rock
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: New ‘Perry Mason’ is decidedly different and deeply disturbing

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  For more than 60 years, “Perry Mason” has been TV comfort food. The original series ran from 1957-66, and the 271 black-and-white episodes featuring Raymond Burr as the title character — a stalwart lawyer who, more often than not, got the real killers to confess on the witness stand — have been rerun endlessly ever since.For a number of years, KBYU-Ch. 11 aired old episodes at bedtime, and I know several people who used to watch them as they drifted off to sleep.WARNING:
  
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• Lish Harris: This is what ‘defunding the police’ can look like

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  Nine and a half years ago, I began working at Dixie State University and I was tasked with creating a baccalaureate degree in criminal justice. I felt overwhelmed. This was my first job and I hadn’t finished my Ph.D. yet.I remember sitting in my office surveying the landscape of criminal justice programs across the region, realizing many programs were educating students to fill roles in an antiquated criminal justice system in need of substantial reform. I didn’t know what to do.My b
  
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• Letter: What do Utah Republicans value?

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  Being that Donald Trump currently has higher poll numbers, in Utah, than an LDS Republican named Mitt Romney, does it not seem that those partaking in this particular poll, place a higher value in their president than they do of the values taught by their very own religion?As far as I know, the 47%ers comment by Mitt, and now his marching with Black Lives Matter protesters, are the only remarkable “stains” on Mitt’s career. Maybe Bain Capital and their ways of making money coul
  
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• Letter: The ‘nick of time’ has passed us by

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  I quote myself from a letter to the editor I wrote in July 2016:“I am 69 years old and have been called a ‘baby boomer’ all of my life. Someone recently asked what was bothering me. I didn’t need to pause for a moment to relate my worries: overpopulation, poverty, war, greed, political corruption, religious intolerance, pollution, gun violence, underfunded education.“It’s true that the sheer numbers of my post-war clan have added to the world’s sorry sta
  
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• Letter: No drilling on federal land

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  If you needed any further evidence that continuing to allow oil and gas companies access to our public lands was a bad deal for Utah, look no further than last month’s announcement by the Bureau of Land Management that they’re slashing royalty payments for producers, a move that is likely to cost our state millions in lost revenue, money that could have gone to support public employees on the frontlines of the pandemic.Never mind that the federal royalty rate of 12.5% hasn’t be
  
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• Letter: Huntsman has it right about demonstrations

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  I am paying close attention to the Republican gubernatorial primary, as one of the four men running in it will almost certainly become our governor.In the discussion about the recent protests, I was disappointed that Greg Hughes focused on the brief (though not to be dismissed) episode of looting and property damage that occurred on the first evening, at least in part triggered by provocateurs (“crossbow guy”) and certainly fueled by intense, long-simmering frustration.Ignoring that
  
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• Juneteenth: A day of joy and pain — and now national action

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  In just about any other year, Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that the last enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage, would be marked by African American families across the nation with a cookout, a parade, a community festival, a soulful rendition of “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing.”But in 2020, as the coronavirus ravishes black America disproportionately, as economic uncertainty wrought by the pandemic strains black pocketbooks, and as pol
  
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• Dreamscapes, Salt Lake City’s walk-through art project, is back with COVID-19 safety in mind (bye-bye, ball pit)

  19-06-2020 14:00
  
  Derek Dyer was all set in March to mark the first anniversary of the walk-through art installation Dreamscapes, a pop-up that became a permanent fixture in The Gateway outdoor mall.Then the coronavirus pandemic, and the shutdown of businesses and art spaces, changed the plan.“At that moment, we decided that we would use this time to our advantage, and go ahead and start redesigning, rebuilding and re-visioning” the space, said Dyer, executive director of the Utah Arts Alliance, which
  
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• Protesters again ask for Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill to release Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal report

  19-06-2020 07:07
  
  As pledged, dozens of protesters gathered again outside Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill’s office on Thursday evening, asking for the report on the police shooting death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal to be released to the public.In the early morning hours of May 23, Salt Lake City police shot towards Palacios-Carbajal more than twenty times as he ran from officers.Officers said Palacios-Carbajal dropped a gun during the chase. Salt Lake City police turned the shooting investigat
  
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• Protesters ask again for Salt Lake County Sim Gill to release Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal report

  19-06-2020 04:22
  
  As pledged, dozens of protestors gathered again outside Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill’s office on Thursday evening, asking for the report on the police shooting death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal to be released to the public.In the early morning hours of May 23, Salt Lake City police shot towards Palacios-Carbajal over twenty times, eventually striking and killing the man as he ran from officers, who said Palacios-Carbajal dropped a gun during the chase. SLCPD turned the inv
  
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• Players at 70 games, MLB at 60, Manfred says deadline near

  19-06-2020 03:28
  
  New York • Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, a plan immediately rejected by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred with the sides 10 games and about $275 million apart on plans to start the coronavirus-delayed season.As part of the union proposal, players would wear advertisement patches on their uniforms during all games for the first time in major league history.“This needs to be over,” Manfred said. “Until I speak with owners, I can’
  
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• NWSL player tests positive for COVID-19

  19-06-2020 03:26
  
  A National Women’s Soccer League player on an unidentified team has tested positive for COVID-19 just nine days before the start of the league’s Challenge Cup Tournament in Utah.It is the league’s first reported case of the illness caused by the coronavirus.“The health and safety of the players and staff is of utmost importance and the NWSL is doing everything to ensure the affected player is receiving proper care,” the NWSL said in a statement Thursday.The impacted
  
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• Utah Legislature approves coronavirus-related budget cuts, addresses other pandemic impacts in special session

  19-06-2020 03:08
  
  The Utah Legislature unanimously approved a proposal Thursday to bring the state to a “balanced budget” in the face of a pandemic-induced economic downturn.SB5001 slashes spending across state government and largely wipes out new dollars authorized earlier this year in response to declining state revenue. But with the help of rainy day funds and federal dollars from the CARES Act, the Legislature was able to spare public education and social services from the most dramatic cuts.The p
  
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• Utah Jazz players Donovan Mitchell, Royce O’Neale and Jordan Clarkson working out together in California

  19-06-2020 02:24
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and forward Royce O’Neale (23) celebrate their win against Washington at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News If there was any doubt about whether Donovan Mitchell would be joining the Utah Jazz in Orlando, some pictures and videos posted to Instagram have seemed to clear that upSALT LAKE CITY — A picture can say a thousand words, and a video can say a little more. Put them on social media and it c
  
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• Utah lawmakers free up millions in COVID-19 relief for renters, businesses and tourism efforts

  19-06-2020 02:01
  
  Utah lawmakers voted Thursday to open up and widen access to at least $122 million in federal COVID-19 relief for residents, business owners and cultural groups as the state continues to reel financially from the pandemic.With bills passed in the Legislature’s special session Thursday, they eased rules for spending up to $20 million in previously approved housing aid and $40 million in grants for rental assistance to commercial tenants, all in hopes of making more recipients eligible and g
  
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• Campaign ad by Jefferson Burton again runs afoul of Defense Department rules

  19-06-2020 01:52
  
  Jefferson Burton — the former Utah National Guard commander who now leads the Utah Department of Health’s COVID-19 efforts — apparently again ran afoul of Defense Department rules that ban featuring photos of him in uniform in ads for his legislative campaign.That comes after Burton acknowledged that an earlier flyer had violated a ban on retired military members who run for office from using pictures of themselves in uniform “as the primary graphic representation in any
  
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• Bad cops shouldn’t be able to jump jobs, says Salt Lake City police chief in Tribune online forum

  19-06-2020 01:45
  
  A police officer shouldn’t be able to escape a misconduct investigation by resigning and then take a job with another department. And new training and new bodycams can help reduce incidents that build mistrust between law enforcement and the community they are sworn to protect.That was the message Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown delivered during Trib Talk, a virtual town hall hosted by Salt Lake Tribune Executive Editor Jennifer Napier-Pearce on Wednesday.The conversation, a part of
  
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