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• Coronavirus in Utah: Three more die and nearly 400 new diagnoses are reported as part of ‘dramatic’ rise in cases

  21-06-2020 23:28
  
  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. Three more Utahns have died from COVID-19, the Utah Department of Health reported Sunday, and for the first time in two days, case counts didn’t set a new one-day high.Still, over the past few weeks, Utah has seen a steady and uns
  
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• Three more Utahns die of coronavirus and nearly 400 new diagnoses reported as part of ‘dramatic’ rise in cases

  21-06-2020 23:23
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Three more Utahns have died from COVID-19, the Utah Department of Health reported Sunday, and for the first time in two days, case counts didn’t set a new one-day high.Still, over the past few weeks, Utah has seen a steady and uns
  
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• Three more Utahns die of coronavirus and nearly 400 new cases reported

  21-06-2020 21:04
  
  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. Three more Utahns have died from COVID-19, the Utah Department of Health reported Sunday, and for the first time in two days, cases counts didn’t set a new one-day high.The three deaths came from three counties: Salt Lake, Utah an
  
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• Two dead after train collides with car in Juab County

  21-06-2020 20:40
  
  Two people were killed and another critically injured on Saturday when a train struck a car at a railroad crossing in Juab County.Cassandra Brielle Hatch, 22, of Gilbert, Ariz., and Tanner Ryan Davies, 22, of Spanish Fork, were passengers in the vehicle and both were killed. The driver, 22-year-old Jacob Michael Cottle, of La Plata, Md., was taken to the hospital in critical condition, according to a news release from the Juab County sheriff’s office.The sheriff’s office said the cra
  
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• New dates and details emerge about NBA training camps, the Draft and free agency

  21-06-2020 20:21
  
  Though ever-escalating COVID-19 diagnoses in Florida now have many wondering if the NBA’s plan to resume its shelved season within the Disney World campus is in trouble, the league continues to proceed with business as usual.Well, OK — not as usual, but with business, nevertheless.Over the weekend, several reports emerged giving new details about updated rules governing coaches and players in team facilities, an upcoming “transaction window” to fortify rosters, and even c
  
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• Maureen Dowd: I never told my father I was proud of him

  21-06-2020 20:10
  
  I never told my father I was proud of him.I grew up in the ’60s, another era filled with tears and tear gas and violent clashes about race and class.I didn’t want to be a hippie, but I certainly didn’t want to be a fascist. I was sheltered in my demure blue school uniform and saddle shoes, watching the world burn.The National Guard slaughtering students at Kent State. The Chicago police billy-clubbing yippies at the ’68 Democratic convention. Soldiers in Vietnam getting d
  
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• Second wave of coronavirus cases? Experts say we’re still in the first.

  21-06-2020 20:07
  
  What’s all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases?In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined "There Isn't a Coronavirus 'Second Wave'" that the nation is winning the fight against the virus.Many public health experts, however, suggest it's no time to celebrate. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and daily counts of new cases in the U.S. are the highest they've been in more than a month, driven
  
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• Tooele drinking water is now safe, officials say

  21-06-2020 20:06
  
  Tooele officials gave their drinking water system the all-clear Sunday morning.On Saturday, residents in the city’s southeast neighborhoods were told not to drink the water because a broken water tank may have contaminated the water supply.City officials noticed the break during a routine inspection, according to a statement.According to a city notice, testing determined that water for residents living south of Vine Street and east of Main Street was again safe to drink. All other water sy
  
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• Former BYU basketball star Yoeli Childs’ post about racial justice begins a conversation among his former teammates

  21-06-2020 19:25
  
  It took more time for Yoeli Childs to write his Black Lives Matter-inspired Instagram post describing the racism he experienced while growing up in Utah than it took for the post’s impact to be felt.For two weeks, BYU’s recently graduated star basketball player crafted his message. He took painstaking measures to ensure it was educational, not attacking. He pored over each sentence, seeking out words like “ignorant” and replacing them with less loaded terms like “no
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 4 more COVID-19 deaths, 69 new cases

  21-06-2020 17:47
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • The Navajo Department of Health has reported 69 new cases of coronavirus on the Navajo Nation and four more known deaths.That pushes the totals to 6,963 positive COVID-19 cases and 334 known deaths as of Saturday night.Tribal officials also said preliminary reports from 11 health care facilities indicate about 3,470 people have recovered from COVID-19 with more reports still pending. The Navajo Nation has resumed weekend lockdowns with businesses closed as the number of
  
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• Minneapolis shooting leaves 1 man dead, 11 people wounded

  21-06-2020 17:42
  
  Minneapolis • A shooting in a popular Minneapolis nightlife area early Sunday left one man dead and 11 people wounded in a chaotic scene that sent people ducking into restaurants and other businesses for cover.The shooting broke out shortly after midnight in the city's trendy Uptown neighborhood, a nightlife hub with bars, restaurants and retail including Apple and Fjallraven stores. Police first said 10 people had been shot with “various severity levels of injuries,” but revise
  
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• Former BYU basketball star Yoeli Childs’ post about racial justice begins a conversation among his old teammates

  21-06-2020 17:16
  
  It took more time for Yoeli Childs to write his Black Lives Matter-inspired Instagram post describing the racism he experienced while growing up in Utah than it took for the post’s impact to be felt.For two weeks, BYU’s recently graduated star basketball player crafted his message. He took painstaking measures to ensure it was educational, not attacking. He pored over each sentence, seeking out words like “ignorant” and replacing them with less loaded terms like “no
  
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• Jared Price: How will we celebrate when all this is over?

  21-06-2020 17:00
  
  Over the past several weeks, a common phrase in conversation has been, “When all this is over…” People speak at length about their plans when life returns to normal: They’ll travel to exotic places, hold the world’s biggest barbecue or eagerly visit their natural habitat, the shopping mall.One of the famous moments of life returning to normal was August 14, 1945. Otherwise known as V-J Day, this date marked the end of World War II and the victory over Japan. Large
  
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• Reports of child abuse in Utah are down. Experts say it’s because schools closed early with COVID-19.

  21-06-2020 16:35
  
  Editor’s note • The state abuse and neglect hotline is answered 24 hours a day at 855-323-3237. Kids who have a smartphone can use the SafeUT app, which is anonymous. Parents can contact helpmegrowutah.org for assistance, including family support centers and crisis nurseries.Maybe it’s an unusual bruise on a student’s arm that doesn’t quite match the explanation for how she got it. Or maybe she has suddenly become more quiet, nervous and withdrawn.It might appear, to
  
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• No, Mitt Romney is not leading the resistance

  21-06-2020 16:15
  
  Washington • Sen. Mitt Romney voted to remove President Donald Trump from office. He marched with Black Lives Matter demonstrators. And he’s not shy in critiquing the White House occupant.But Romney isn't leading the resistance.“I’m just following my conscience,” Romney told The Salt Lake Tribune in a recent interview.The Utah Republican has become somewhat of a darling of the left for his historic vote to convict Trump of abuse of power in the impeachment trial. The
  
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• Crew scurries to care for birds after Hogle Zoo grounds popular ‘World of Flight’ show, ending its 25-year run

  21-06-2020 16:06
  
  Around 8 every morning, Steve Chindgren walks up a small hill near his home in Emigration Canyon to feed quail to three eagles.Surrounded by trees and tucked away from the road, the birds — bald eagles Freedom and Liberty and golden eagle MaGondo — may be resting on their perch or taking a bath in their 20-foot wide shelter throughout the day. But when Chindgren comes, they screech and flock to him.Two months ago, they resided among 160 birds at Hogle Zoo. The two bald eagles used to
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Talking personnel decisions and what could await Utah in Orlando

  21-06-2020 16:00
  
  One of the decisions the Utah Jazz front office faces in the future will be whether or not to give center Rudy Gobert a supermax contract. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
  SALT LAKE CITY — Every day we inch close to what could possibly be a restart to the NBA season. As momentum grows, so does curiosity and that’s where all of you come in.
  Once again I reached out to have Jazz fans send their queries my way so that I can speculate with mild authority. I put out the call and as alwa
  
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• Robert Kirby: Sometimes sitting in the pews needs to take a back seat

  21-06-2020 15:00
  
  Last Sunday, the Rose Summit Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held services in the street.Our bishopric formally invited us to leave our homes at 7 p.m. and passingly engage with one another. Brother Hawk, first counselor in the bishopric, sent out this email to the congregation:“We ask that social distancing guidelines not be maintained through the application of gunfire, but instead be followed out of concern for others. This will continue until the weather turns c
  
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• Ski resorts gear up for summer season with new features — and new rules to deal with COVID-19

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  Snowbird • For 40 years, Stephen and Gayle Halversen of Paragoonah have spent a week with their kids, and later their grandchildren, at their timeshare in Snowbird’s Iron Blosam Lodge. This year, they expected to have to scuttle their plans after receiving a letter telling them the coronavirus would keep the resort closed for the foreseeable future.Then, just last week, they got what their daughter called “a miracle”: a message from the resort alerting them that it would b
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Fox lawyers admit Tucker Carlson doesn’t always tell the truth

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  The drivel that Tucker Carlson spouts on Fox News isn’t factual, and the people who watch him not only know it’s false, but they don’t expect him to tell them the truth.Don’t get mad at me for that statement. It comes straight from lawyers who represent Fox News.What those lawyers made clear is that not only do Carlson and Fox News have contempt for the truth, they also have contempt for their own viewers.The Fox News legal team is defending against a slander lawsuit by c
  
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• Reports of child abuse in Utah are down. Experts says it’s because schools closed early with COVID-19.

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note • The state abuse and neglect hotline is answered 24 hours a day at 855-323-3237. Kids who have a smartphone can use the SafeUT app, which is anonymous. Parents can contact helpmegrowutah.org for assistance, including family support centers and crisis nurseries.Maybe it’s an unusual bruise on a student’s arm that doesn’t quite match the explanation for how she got it. Or maybe she has suddenly become more quiet, nervous and withdrawn.It might appear, to
  
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• Letter: LDS Church must acknowledge its history of racism

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  In the 19th century, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints banned men and women of African descent from receiving the priesthood and temple ordinances. These sacred rites are not only believed to be necessary for salvation, but also for families to be eternally united. Although the ban was belatedly lifted in 1978, an unapologetic legacy of racism persists in the church today.Erroneous pseudo-doctrinal theories and justifications for the ban are continually shared among members trying
  
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• Letter: Get loud for publicly financed elections

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  Our society cannot agree on much, but the majority of Americans could get behind publicly funded elections. Conservatives as well as liberals are concerned that a few wealthy people and corporations effectively buy elections and put the people who will do their bidding into office.In the 2016 elections, according to CBS News, about $6.8 billion was spent on all the elections. That is a lot of money, but if you divide that by approximately 119 million families in the United States, that works out
  
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• Letter: Genuflection is a sign of respect

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  Genuflection is the act of putting the right knee in a kneeling position in order to show respect and absolute loyalty. It was usually to the lord of the manor. If the king were present, it was to the crown. In my youth, on visiting a Roman Catholic Church, before entering a pew, I was expected to genuflect, even though I was Greek Orthodox. This was to pay respect to Christ, who was on the altar in the form of Holy Communion.In the last few years, athletes (mainly football players) have genufle
  
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• Letter: Don’t like police? Call a hippie.

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  I see many jurisdictions in the country are calling for defunding or elimination of police functions. The Salt Lake City Council is bending that way, it seems.As an old retired cop, I would submit that the council body acquire the means to monitor police radio calls for a shift to witness the various activities assigned to on-duty police officers.I remember in the ’60s when political activists demonstrated in protest, the demonstrators would refer to police monitoring the activities as &ld
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Aunt Jemima is off the pancake box

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  “I wish knew how it would feel to be free” — Nina Simone, 1967
  Here’s a knock-knock joke:"Knock knock.""Who's there?""Aunt Jemima.""Aunt Jemima who?""Ain't yo' mama on the pancake box?"Okay, so you're not laughing. But that joke killed in 1969 on the playground at Adams Junior High. What self-respecting black kid wanted his mama likened to the handkerchief-head mammy who beamed from the box of pancake mix?Now comes word Aunt Jemima will no longer be “on the pancake
  
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• Brodi Ashton: Top 10 surprising things about life during the pandemic

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  My friends and I were planning on a “quarantini” get-together this weekend, in-person, socially distant and outdoors. One friend had to cancel because her father is on immunosuppressants. Another because his parents had chronic lung problems. And with the uptick in cases in Utah, I was tempted to say, “Yeah, I can’t meet up, even outside, because my parents are 65 and older.”Who knew that one day we’d be planning our weekends around our parents’ ages and
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: Here’s what’s in my mailbag

  21-06-2020 14:00
  
  Well, well, well. I opened my mailbag and what did I spy with my little eye?E-mails from readers with contrasting points of view about how to deal with issues ranging from rogue tree limbs to intrusive mothers-in-law to friends who make fun of friends for social distancing. My takeaway? Turns out there’s usually more than one solution to a problem — some of which may be even better than what I originally offered. (Seriously, you guys. I don’t try to give bad advice on purpose.)
  
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• Top Manhattan prosecutor leaves job after standoff with Barr

  21-06-2020 06:10
  
  Washington •An extraordinary standoff between the Justice Department and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman ended Saturday when the prosecutor agreed to leave his job with an assurance that his investigations into allies of President Donald Trump would not be disturbed.The announcement capped two days of conflicting statements, allegations of political interference in prosecutions, and defiance from Berman. On Saturday, Attorney General William Barr said Berman's refusal to resign u
  
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• Trump comeback rally features empty seats, staff infections

  21-06-2020 06:00
  
  Tulsa, Okla. • President Donald Trump launched his comeback rally Saturday by defining the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force amid a pandemic featured thousands of empty seats and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff.Trump ignored health warnings to hold his first rally in 110 days — one of the largest indoor gatherings in the world during a coronavirus outbreak that has killed mo
  
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• Sports is a gift that keeps on giving for dads and their kids

  21-06-2020 04:07
  
  Deseret News sports writer Jody Genessy poses for a photo with his children, from left, Sydney, Aidan, Ethan and Jackson at a Salt Lake Bees game. | Jody Genessy, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — I can’t begin to tell you how many sporting events I’ve been fortunate to attend and cover as a sports writer for the Deseret News for the past 26 years.Olympic hockey. NBA Finals. All-Star Games. BYU-Utah rivalry games. High school championships. Mitt Romney’s boxing debu
  
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• Pro-police group and those protesting law enforcement rallied in downtown Salt Lake City

  21-06-2020 03:53
  
  Two groups of demonstrators — one protesting police violence and the other supporting law enforcement — gathered in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday, flanking opposite sides of City Hall.On the west side, the so-called Blue Rally hosted by the Utah Business Revival, attracted 200 protesters waving Thin Blue Line flags and Blue Lives Matter posters. A Facebook post Friday said more than 100 off-duty officers had said they would attend.Meanwhile, about 500 Black Lives Matter supporters
  
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• Pro-police group and those protesting police violence rallied in downtown Salt Lake City

  21-06-2020 03:37
  
  Two groups of demonstrators — one protesting police violence and the other supporting law enforcement — gathered in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday, flanking opposite sides of City Hall.On the west side, the so-called Blue Rally hosted by the Utah Business Revival, attracted 200 protesters waving Thin Blue Line flags and Blue Lives Matter posters. A Facebook post Friday said more than 100 off-duty officers had said they would attend.Meanwhile, about 500 Black Lives Matter supporters
  
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• Both police supporters and those calling for an end to police violence rallied in downtown Salt Lake City

  21-06-2020 03:24
  
  Two groups of demonstrators — one protesting police violence and the other supporting law enforcement — gathered in downtown Salt Lake City Saturday, flanking opposite sides of City Hall. On the west side, the so-called Blue Rally hosted by the Utah Business Revival, attracted a few hundred protesters waving Thin Blue Line flags and Blue Lives Matter posters. A Facebook post Friday said more than 100 off-duty officers had said they would attend.Organizer and former Salt Lake City pol
  
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• New York-bred Tiz the Law wins barren Belmont Stakes

  21-06-2020 02:59
  
  New York • Eerily empty grandstands. Masked jockeys. Shuttered betting windows.For Tiz the Law trainer Barclay Tagg, no finer way to round out a career Triple Crown.“I’m not trying to be a jerk about it,” the 82-year-old said. “But I thought the quiet, to me, was very nice.”Everything was strange about this Belmont Stakes, except the winner.Heavily favored Tiz the Law won an unprecedented Belmont, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Trip
  
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• Utah Jazz are trying to sell new season tickets despite coronavirus uncertainties

  21-06-2020 02:55
  
  We’re still about six weeks away from the NBA’s target date of returning to complete the 2019-20 season that was shelved back on March 11 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Which doesn’t mean that the Utah Jazz aren’t already preparing for the 2020-21 campaign.While the renewal program for existing season ticket-holders got going all the way back in January, the organization has just started reaching out to potential new customers over the past few days about the possibility
  
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• Report: NBA comes to decision on transaction window, draft and free agency dates as COVID-19 cases rise in Florida

  21-06-2020 02:25
  
  Utah Jazz two-players like Justin Wright-Foreman, pictured, and Jarrell Brantley will be eligible to play during the playoffs at the NBA’s restart in Orlando even if they’re not converted to a standard NBA contract. | Steve Griffin, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are working to finalize several key items in order to move forward with the 2019-20 season restart in Orlando.
  ESPN’s Bobby Marks and Adrian Wojnarowski rep
  
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• Top prosecutor in NYC resigns after feud with administration

  21-06-2020 00:28
  
  Washington •  A top federal prosecutor in Manhattan stepped down from his position Saturday after the Trump administration fired him.U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman of the Southern District of New York said in a statement that Attorney General William Barr’s decision “to respect the normal operation of law and have Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss become Acting U.S. Attorney” led to his decision. He said it would be “effective immediately.”Berman and B
  
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• Longtime Midvale mayor JoAnn Seghini dies at age 82

  21-06-2020 00:13
  
  Longtime Midvale mayor JoAnn Seghini, who retired from office just more than three years ago, has died at age 82.Seghini served in Midvale’s government for 32 years, first as a three-term councilwoman, then becoming the city’s first female mayor in 1998. She went on to serve four terms as chief executive before retiring in 2017. She never failed to win less than 60% of the vote in any of her seven political campaigns.Seghini’s death was confirmed by Midvale City Council member
  
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• New York-bred Tiz the Law wins Belmont Stakes in Triple Crown opener

  21-06-2020 00:12
  
  New York • Tiz the Law has won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule and crossing the finish line in front of eerily empty grandstands.The 3-year-old colt from upstate New York charged to the lead turning to the frontstretch and now can set his sights on the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and Oct. 3 Preakness. All three legs of this year’s Triple Crown schedule were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Belmont,
  
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