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• Ex-MLB pitcher Tyson Brummett identified as one of the victims in American Fork plane crash

  04-07-2020 23:41
  
  American Fork • A former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and three others died in a plane crash in rural Utah.Ex-pitcher Tyson Brummett, 35, of Salt Lake City, was flying the small plane, which left from the South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan and crashed near Box Elder Peak in American Fork Canyon just before 8 a.m. Friday, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.A witness said the plane went into a downward corkscrew motion as it crashed.TV station WPVI reports all four
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah needs a Marshall Plan for online education

  04-07-2020 23:02
  
  What if back to school isn’t back at school?As he stood next to a jumbo jet full of a half million face masks last week, Gov. Gary Herbert was thumbs up on reopening schools for the first time since COVID-19 shut them down in March.But it’s more optimism than realism when the state is adding 500 cases a day. As University of Utah epidemiologist Andrew Pavia said, “If we can’t get the numbers down, we can’t reopen schools.”In a state that has the most schoolchi
  
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• Leonard Pitts: America faces difficult days, no matter what happens in November

  04-07-2020 23:00
  
  Even if this ends well, it will not end well.Mind you, if it ends badly — that is to say, if Donald Trump is returned to the White House in November — America’s likely future will be, in the words of Thomas Hobbes, “nasty, brutish and short.” But the paradox of our predicament is that even if it ends well — Joe Biden becomes the 46th president — our likely future will, at least in the short term, be only marginally better.That's not an indictment of the
  
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• Ex-MLB pitcher Tyson Brummett, 3 others die in plane crash in Utah

  04-07-2020 22:58
  
  American Fork, Utah • A former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and three others died in a plane crash in rural Utah.Ex-pitcher Tyson Brummett, 35, of Salt Lake City, was flying the small plane, which left from the South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan and crashed near Box Elder Peak in American Fork Canyon just before 8 a.m. Friday, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.A witness said the plane went into a downward corkscrew motion as it crashed.TV station WPVI repor
  
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• Amy Rodriguez and Vero Boquete connect, and lead Utah Royals to first win of season

  04-07-2020 22:19
  
  Herriman • Utah Royals FC coach Craig Harrington compared captain Amy Rodriguez to Michael Jordan after Utah’s 1-0 victory over Sky Blue FC on Saturday.“We all watched ‘The Last Dance’ and if you’re on the Chicago Bulls, you get Michael Jordan the ball,” said Harrington, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Red Stars before coming to Utah. “So if you’re on the Utah Royals, you get A-Rod the ball, and you get those pl
  
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• After Blanding canceled its famous Fourth of July celebration due to COVID-19, residents organized their own event

  04-07-2020 22:16
  
  Blanding • Toniee Lewis, like many of the 3,600 people who live in the southeastern Utah town of Blanding, begins anticipating the Fourth of July months in advance.The town’s festivities typically draw hundreds of people from across the Four Corners, and last year, the small town boasted it had the largest fireworks display in Utah, sponsored by a doctor who grew up in the area. After the fireworks, some stay up for an all-night softball game.“It’s a huge family celebratio
  
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• Amy Rodriguez and Vero Boquete connect, and lead Utah Royals to their first win of the season

  04-07-2020 21:44
  
  Herriman • Utah Royals FC coach Craig Harrington compared captain Amy Rodriguez to Michael Jordan after Utah’s 1-0 victory over Sky Blue FC on Saturday.“We all watched ‘The Last Dance’ and if you’re on the Chicago Bulls, you get Michael Jordan the ball,” said Harrington, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant with the Chicago Red Stars before coming to Utah. “So if you’re on the Utah Royals, you get A-Rod the ball, and you get those pl
  
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• Without Bojan Bogdanovic on the floor, the Utah Jazz are going to have to play it a little differently in Orlando

  04-07-2020 21:07
  
  With the acknowledged caveat that their official preparation for the coming season restart is, at this point, still limited to individual players working with one assistant coach and one person to rebound the ball — no organized scrimmages or practices allowed for now — the Utah Jazz nevertheless have a collective urgency about them.They’re due to depart for Orlando on Tuesday. After a couple days of self-quarantine and COVID-19 testing, they’ll finally get to resume full
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus surge continues with a record-tying 676 new cases, but no new deaths reported

  04-07-2020 20:40
  
  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.Utah reported 676 new cases of COVID-19, tying with its highest reported number to date.There have been 24,524 positive cases so far, and numbers reported on July 4 represent a 2.8% increase from the day before. Thirty-six people with th
  
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• Utah Royals get first win of season with 1-0 victory over Sky Blue FC

  04-07-2020 20:34
  
  The Utah Royals FC picked up its first win of the 2020 season with a 1-0 result over Sky Blue FC on Saturday at Zions Bank Stadium.Royals captain Amy Rodriguez scored the lone goal for the Royals, who now have four points in the preliminary round of the National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup. Midfielder Veronica Boquete assisted on Rodriguez’s goal.Rodriguez and Boquete now each have a goal and an assist through two tournament games.The Royals amassed 14 shots (four on goal) to
  
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• Much of U.S. scales back on holiday, but Trump plans to go big

  04-07-2020 19:48
  
  Washington • As coronavirus cases spike, public health officials are pleading with Americans to avoid large crowds and hold more muted Independence Day celebrations, but subdued is not President Donald Trump’s style, and he aimed to go big, promising a “special evening” in Washington that could bring tens of thousands to the National Mall.Trump’s “Salute for America” celebration on Saturday evening was to include a speech from the White House South Lawn t
  
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• Young Utah women of color create space to share passion for writing, reading

  04-07-2020 19:00
  
  Madeika Vercella didn’t know any of the people sitting in a circle with her at her first Woke Words workshop. Using cut-up magazines and books, she was supposed to create an identity collage to show the other women and girls where she came from and where she wanted to be.In the piece she created last fall, Vercella included the phrase, “Home is where my feet go.” Now, 10 months and many Woke Words meetings later, Vercella said the group has become another home for her.“At
  
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• Governors stress ‘personal responsibility’ over virus orders

  04-07-2020 17:52
  
  Nashville, Tenn. • Earlier this week, as Tennessee registered what then was its highest single-day coronavirus case increase, Gov. Bill Lee held a news conference and issued a stern response.It wasn't a mandate to wear masks in public or clamp down on businesses or social gatherings. Instead, it was a plea for residents to do the right thing.“When we have people dying in this state as a result of this virus, we should be taking personal responsibility for this,” the Republican g
  
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• Major League Soccer cancels ‘MLS is Back’ game due to COVID-19

  04-07-2020 17:34
  
  A game from the upcoming Major League Soccer tournament in Orlando, Florida, has been postponed due to COVID-19.Thematch between FC Dallas and the Vancouver Whitecaps was originallyslated for Thursday. But it was postponed due to players from both teams testing positive within the last week. Nine players and one staff member from FC Dallas have reportedly testedpositive for the novel coronavirus. The league confirmed Wednesday the positive tests for six of those players. The Whitecaps,
  
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• Winds keep fanning pesky Millard County fire as it exceeds 70,000 acres, damaging two homes

  04-07-2020 17:28
  
  Hundreds of firefighters were cutting and digging containment lines Thursday around the growing Canal Fire, which has blackened more than 70,000 acres and damaged two homes in Millard County since June 25, when lightning sparked the blaze outside Oak City.Burning about about 100 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, the blaze remained small for the first few days, but high winds Sunday whipped it into Utah’s largest fire of the season as it churned through the Canyon and Gilson ranges west of
  
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• Bill Barron: Lake Powell Pipeline would accelerate climate damage in Colorado River Basin

  04-07-2020 17:06
  
  Rivers. Without them we could not live in our desert state.The Colorado River in Southern Utah is one of those rivers that allow us the survive, thrive and enjoy a unique landscape found no-where else in the world. It provides a unique ecosystem for migrating birds, for the grazing and migration of the Paunsaugunt mule deer herd, for endangered flora and of course provides the vital water for communities along the river and for the farmers who grow our food.Already affected by the warming temper
  
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• Zion National Park’s visitor numbers are way down due to COVID-19, but demand isn’t

  04-07-2020 17:01
  
  Regan Smith estimates that she and her fiance walked about 8 miles more than the typical pre-pandemic visitor during her June 27 trip to Zion National Park.Smith didn’t rent a bike, and the southern Utah park’s shuttles were closed until July 1. Cars containing an average of 2.5 people lined up before 6 a.m. to drive up the scenic route.So, at 8 a.m., the Nevada couple “hoofed it” from their parking spot near the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, seeking an escape from coronavir
  
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• Steve Erickson: Utah leaders must speak out against new nuclear weapons tests

  04-07-2020 15:06
  
  Recently, alarming reports surfaced that the Trump Administration is actively considering resuming nuclear weapons tests in Nevada, perhaps within months, as part of a renewed effort to develop new nuclear weapons.In swift reaction, legislation was filed in both the U.S. Senate and House to prohibit use of funds to conduct new tests (S.3886 and H.R. 7140 - Preserving Leadership Against Nuclear Explosives Testing or PLANET Act), and a letter signed by 82 members of Congress was sent June 8 to Pre
  
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• Vehicle tried to dodge road closure for Saratoga Springs fire and sparked another blaze, damaging a rock art preserve

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  A motorist driving off the highway to evade a road closure associated with Saratoga Springs’ Knolls Fire last weekend triggered a secondary blaze on private land that burned over a rock art preserve on Utah Lake’s west shore.The trespassing vehicle was destroyed after it sparked a fire in a brush-filled ravine on the 197-acre Adelbert Doyle Smith Family Archaeological Preserve and one of its occupants suffered severe burns, according to Utah County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon
  
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• Special needs families feeling tired, lonely and scared as Utah coronavirus restrictions loosen, cases rise

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  For a little while, Tristin West felt like we were all in this together.When Utah went into lockdown in March as part of Gov. Gary Herbert’s “Stay Safe, Stay Home” plan to prevent the rampant spread of COVID-19, members of the West family didn’t feel inconvenienced. Truthfully, they hardly felt any changes at all. Ever since the birth of their son Jayson, who has a rare genetic mutation, they’ve become quarantine experts. They were already deep into self-imposed iso
  
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• New podcast tells Utah women’s stories from past, present

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  Not everyone in Utah can name an instrumental woman from the state’s history, let alone a female leader working in their community today, Naomi Watkins said. But by listening to a new podcast she’s co-hosting, they can learn.Each episode of “This is Her Place” tells the stories of multiple women centered around a theme. The first one, which focused on law enforcement, featured Rosie Rivera, Salt Lake County’s first female sheriff, sworn in in 2017, and Claire Fergus
  
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• Letter: Trump sees himself as a monument

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  It is quite telling how our president has chosen to use his power in these days of unrest. President Trump has signed an executive order to protect monuments and impose prison sentences for acts of vandalism done to these inanimate objects.So, rather than display empathy and concern for protecting the rights of citizens of flesh and bone, he has acted to defend the rights of men of metal and stone.It is not that surprising. The best con men always find great value in symbols. They use symbols th
  
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• Letter: Trump does not value national monuments

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  President Trump has issued an executive order threatening prison time for people who destroy monuments, memorials or statues. He accuses people who attack symbolic statuary of being “violent extremists.”Given this rhetoric, it’s impossible to forget that in December, 2017, Trump came to Utah for the express purpose of destroying two National Monuments — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.The National Monuments that Trump destroyed were created for specific reasons:
  
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• Letter: The irrational and frightened herd

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  Paul Sharp (“Road to totalitarianism,” The Public Forum, June 27) believes it unconstitutional for the government to require masks in public places for the express purpose of protecting others from potential death. He believes “Forced masking” is a “slippery slope” to end all freedoms, and that no citizen should participate, else they have given way to tyranny which will result in the big bad government taking his guns.Sharp refers to those willing to submit t
  
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• Letter: No mask, no service

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  Years ago, I remember frequently seeing signs in restaurants and similar public places that read, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service."Just common sense, right? Strangely, I do not remember even one riot or public protest march in opposition to that policy.What has changed that makes protecting health by wearing a mask in public during a pandemic health crisis so volatile?Glade I. Nelson, North Salt LakeSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Fort Douglas needs a new name

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  Recent activism targeting the removal of Confederate symbols is one small part of a great American awakening long overdue. There aren’t many Confederate symbols in Utah (except those publicly displayed by private citizens). Even so, there is one change that needs to happen in our state: Fort Douglas.The old fort is the namesake of Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, former judge, U.S. senator and candidate for president. He was Abraham Lincoln’s political rival for the U.S. Senate and on
  
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• Letter: Fireworks don’t threaten the governor’s mansion

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  What will take for our lame-duck governor to start governing and outlaw fireworks?We are repeatedly told Utah is the second-driest state in the nation, with great fire danger.I must assume neither of those conditions directly affect the governor's mansion.Karolynn Braden, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Brodi Ashton: Our weird, stupid and totally uplifting and endearing country

  04-07-2020 14:00
  
  This week the country turns 244 years old, and I gotta say, it’s starting to show its age. There’s some wear and tear around the edges. Its residents are doing this weird step out, step back in, step out, put on a mask, avoid people, but wave enthusiastically on the street as you dive across the asphalt to dodge them kind of thing.America is suffering from a deadly strain of virus, but it also seems to be suffering from a deadly strain of… stupidity.For instance, a Tennessee p
  
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• Fire burns Big O Tires on South Temple and adjacent mansion; no injuries reported

  04-07-2020 07:41
  
  A fire started at the Big O Tires at 178 East South Temple on Friday night and spread to the vacant apartment building to the West.A firefighter suffered heat exhaustion after responding to the fire. He was treated at the scene, according to Captain Anthony Burton. There were no other injuries. Burton said the fire was considered under control by 10:45 p.m.The Salt Lake City fire department issued a two-alarm commercial fire call shortly before 10 p.m., Burton said. Eight fire trucks and two lad
  
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• Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore

  04-07-2020 06:41
  
  Mount Rushmore National Memorial, S.D. • At the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump made a direct appeal to disaffected white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”The president dug further into American divisions Friday, offering a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and wounded by racial injustice f
  
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• David Brooks: The national humiliation we need

  04-07-2020 06:00
  
  We Americans enter the July 4 weekend of 2020 humiliated as almost never before. We had one collective project this year and that was to crush COVID-19, and we failed.On Wednesday, we had about 50,000 new positive tests, a record. Other nations are beating the disease while our infection lines shoot upward as sharply as they did in March.This failure will lead to other failures. A third of Americans show signs of clinical anxiety or depression, according to the Census Bureau. Suspected drug over
  
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• Protesters dance for change Friday night

  04-07-2020 05:35
  
  Friday night’s protest could be heard before it could be seen.A heavy bassline preceded the procession of about 50 protesters who used their feet and hips to make a statement in the “Dance Rally for Change” demonstration.The protest started at the Salt Lake City and County Building where activists wrote ideas for how to spark social change on yellow sticky notes.They then adhered them to the side of two whiteboards flanking a flatbed trailer filled with speakers and a makeshift
  
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• Timothy Egan: Let’s finish the American Revolution

  04-07-2020 05:00
  
  As baffling as it is to find statues of traitors, slaveholders and killers of Union soldiers ensconced in many a prominent square, consider the historical discordance of Custer County, South Dakota.The hard beauty of the Black Hills, sacred land to Native Americans, overshadows the county, the main town and the state park, all named for George Armstrong Custer. The hard history was shaped by the slayer of those native people. Custer’s willful trespass into territory promised by treaty to t
  
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• Winds keep fanning pesky Millard County fire as it exceeds 70,000 acres, damages two homes

  04-07-2020 04:55
  
  Hundreds of firefighters were cutting and digging containment lines Thursday around the growing Canal Fire, which has blackened more than 70,000 acres and damaged two homes in Millard County since June 25, when lightning sparked the blaze outside Oak City.Burning about about 100 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, the blaze remained small for the first few days, but high winds Sunday whipped it into Utah’s largest fire of the season as it churned through the Canyon and Gilson ranges west of
  
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• Holly Richardson: Independence Day in the time of a pandemic

  04-07-2020 03:00
  
  Celebrating the day a group of men became traitors to the crown will be a bit different in a year of pandemic and drought.Our family is not headed up the canyon but to the backyard for a rousing game of badminton. Once it’s too hot to stay outside, we will head inside to watch Hamilton, a rollicking tribute to this country’s first public administrator.We will definitely have hamburgers, popsicles, “frog-eye” salad and red, white and blue Jell-o, because what’s a hol
  
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• FanX says it’s ‘looking bleak’ that the 2020 convention will happen, because of COVID-19

  04-07-2020 02:46
  
  One of the biggest gatherings in Utah — the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention — might cancel its 2020 edition because of the coronavirus pandemic.In a notice posted on the event’s blog and sent to patrons via email and through social media, the event’s organizers said prospects for the 2020 edition, set for Sept. 17-19 at the Salt Palace Convention Center, are “looking bleak.”“Unless we see a significant reduction in the number of new COVID-19 cases in the
  
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• Sean Reyes bests GOP challenger in attorney general race

  04-07-2020 01:41
  
  Republican Sean Reyes has won the primary in his bid for re-election as Utah attorney general.The Associated Press called the race on Friday for Reyes. He was endorsed by President Donald Trump and garnered 54% of the vote over challenger David Leavitt.He is the top prosecutor in Utah County who is focused on criminal justice reform and the brother of former governor Mike Leavitt.Reyes will face Democratic defense attorney Greg Skordas in November, though Republican candidates have a leg up in c
  
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• Driver crashes truck into Utah house, 10-year-old boy injured

  04-07-2020 01:36
  
  A 10-year-old boy was flown to Primary Children’s Hospital after he was pinned under a truck that crashed into his house near 3300 South and 300 East on Friday.A man in his 50s was driving the Chevrolet Silverado at a fast speed eastbound on 3300 South when he lost control of the vehicle, said Sergeant Matthew S. Oehler of the South Salt Lake Police Department. The truck veered at an angle through a strip mall parking lot and a residential fence before crashing into the house, Oehler said.
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Monkey Business

  04-07-2020 00:45
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, July 5, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Freedumb FourthPlaying Dice With DeathPalling Around With PutinUtah Goes ViralThe BaseCriminal AccompliceWho Was That Masked Man?From Estonia With LoveTransparently CrookedThe Sinking FeelingWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• High school football coaches grappling with positive COVID-19 tests at several programs

  04-07-2020 00:04
  
  Positive COVID-19 tests at several Utah high school football programs have caused some coaches to doubt the upcoming season will start on time.A staff member from Herriman High’s football team recently tested positive, causing the program to shut down and go into quarantine through Tuesday. But that was just one program that’s been affected.Jody Morgan, president of the Utah High School Football Coaches Association and coach of Riverton High, said he knows of six schools that have be
  
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• Burgess Owens opposes NFL playing unofficial Black national anthem before games

  04-07-2020 00:01
  
  Burgess Owens, who on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for Utah’s 4th Congressional District, has voiced disdain for the playing of a song widely considered the Black national anthem prior to NFL games.The NFL is reportedly considering playing “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing” prior to the “The Star-Spangled Banner” for all Week 1 games, scheduled between Sept. 10-16. That move, first reported Thursday by ESPN’s The Undefeated by a person familiar with th
  
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