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• WVC man charged with hitting his roommate with his car twice, killing him

  21-07-2020 23:05
  
  A West Valley City man has been arrested after he allegedly ran down his roommate with his car, turned around, and ran over the roommate again.The 40-year-old suspect has been booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of aggravated murder. He is being held without bail.According to West Valley City police, they found the body of the victim — Lewis Ricky Yates Jr., 50 — in the road at 3661 S. Market St. (2820 West) shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, a few yards away from his
  
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• Stagehands march to Utah Capitol, urging more government help until live events come back

  21-07-2020 22:53
  
  Linzie Middleton’s sign, like a good rock song, cut straight to the heart.“His music feeds my children,” it said, with an arrow pointing to her husband as they marched up Salt Lake City’s State Street, from City Hall to the Utah Capitol.The Tuesday march, organized by the recently formed Utah Live Event Industry Association, aimed to draw attention and legislative support to the people and businesses who put on concerts, theater, sports and other live happenings — w
  
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• Utah County man accused of assaulting woman after positive COVID-19 test

  21-07-2020 22:50
  
  Provo • Four Utah County Sheriff’s deputies are in isolation after arresting a man who is accused of assaulting a woman after he reportedly tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus.Matthew Jarel Harding, 31, also threatened police officers with a small kitchen knife after they arrived at the scene in Eagle Mountain on Friday, authorities said. He screamed, “Kill me now,” in an apparent effort to prompt officers to fire their weapons, the Daily Herald repor
  
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• George Pyle: Fascism on the streets of Portland

  21-07-2020 22:00
  
  If battle-armored troops from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set one foot inside Salt Lake City on the pretext of putting down a domestic insurrection, and Utah’s governor, legislators, senators and congressmen do anything other than raise holy hell about it, on their way to drafting articles of impeachment, then we will have learned a couple of very important things.One, that I have been right all along in labeling the current president of the United States and his various toadi
  
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• New Utah coronavirus cases below 500, but four more deaths reported.

  21-07-2020 21:29
  
  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’s new coronavirus cases on Tuesday held below 500 for the second day in a row, but the state reported for more deaths.They are:A Davis County man, between the ages of 65 and 84, who lived in a long-term care facility.A Salt L
  
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• Real Monarchs change dates of New Mexico games due to NM governor’s executive order

  21-07-2020 20:47
  
  A health directive in New Mexico related to the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Real Monarchs to augment their upcoming schedule.New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an executive order that went into effect July 13 stipulating that people visiting the state must self-quarantine for the duration of their stay or 14 days, whichever is shorter. There are exceptions to that order, but it does not include sports teams.The Monarchs were scheduled play a road game against New Mexico United on Jul
  
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• Utah Jazz will wear jersey patch honoring late coach Jerry Sloan

  21-07-2020 20:39
  
  When the Utah Jazz resume play in Orlando on Thursday with a scrimmage against the Phoenix Suns, their warmups and jerseys will feature a new addition: a patch honoring the legacy of late coach Jerry Sloan.Sloan died May 22 from the effects of Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy Body Dementia. He was 78.The patch will simply feature the number “1223″ in recognition of the 1,223 combined regular-season and playoff wins Sloan accumulated as the Jazz’s head coach between Dec. 9, 19
  
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• Utah State picked to finish 4th in Mountain Division in MWC preseason football poll

  21-07-2020 20:27
  
  Utah State has been picked to finish fourth in the Mountain Division in the Mountain West Conference preseason football poll released Tuesday by the league office.Boise State was picked to win the Mountain Division title as the Broncos garnered 20 first-place votes and earned a total of 125points. The Broncos went 8-0 in league play last season and beat Hawai’i 31-10 in the Mountain West championship game.Wyoming was picked second in the Mountain Division after the Cowboys received the oth
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s occupation of American cities has begun

  21-07-2020 20:13
  
  The month after Donald Trump’s inauguration, Yale historian Timothy Snyder published the bestselling book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.” It was part of a small flood of titles meant to help Americans find their bearings as the new president laid siege to liberal democracy.One of Snyder’s lessons was, “Be wary of paramilitaries.” He wrote, “When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: Indigenous mascots in Utah and across the U.S.

  21-07-2020 20:06
  
  Communities across the country are reconsidering whether to change mascots and place names that some consider offensive. In Utah, Bountiful High School is grappling with renaming its mascot while Intermountain Healthcare announced it’s removing Dixie from its St. George hospital.On Tuesday at noon, reporter Courtney Tanner will speak with Utah Division Director of Indian Affairs Dustin Jansen and BYU Professor Roni Jo Draper about the use of Indigenous mascots in Utah and across the countr
  
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• RSL looks to keep foot on gas in final group stage game of MLS is Back tournament

  21-07-2020 20:01
  
  Real Salt Lake has not lost a game in the entirety of the 2020 season. It recorded two draws before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the Major League Soccer season, and has come out with a win and a draw in the first two games of the MLS is Back Tournament in Orlando, Florida.RSL will have the opportunity to stay undefeated when it plays its rival, Sporting Kansas City, on Wednesday in the final game of the tournament’s group stage. So far, Salt Lake has earned four points — it’s t
  
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• Utah Jazz unveil jersey patch to be worn in Orlando in honor of Jerry Sloan

  21-07-2020 18:57
  
  The jersey patch Utah Jazz players will wear to honor legendary coach Jerry Sloan, who passed away in May. | Utah JazzSALT LAKE CITY — The timing of legendary Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan’s death in May has thus far prevented the organization from having any sort of formal public memorial at Vivint Arena, but the team will honor him during the NBA’s restart in Orlando and next season with a jersey patch that was unveiled Tuesday morning.
  The patch, which will be worn in the top
  
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• If college basketball schedules get curtailed, would Utah’s Division I programs play each other instead?

  21-07-2020 18:34
  
  Larry Krystkowiak is not ready to rule out an on-time start to the college basketball season, but at this point, the University of Utah coach will tell you that contingency plans need to continue to be discussed.Randy Rahe, Weber State’s head coach, puts an on-time start at 50-50. Utah Valley’s Mark Madsen sounds more like Krystkowiak, hopeful for an on-time start, but continually coming back to the realities the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing to college athletics. Fourth-year Souther
  
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• Politicians and business interests pushed health officials aside to control Utah’s reopening. Then cases exploded.

  21-07-2020 18:19
  
  This story was originally published by ProPublica.Back in April, when public health officials were still helping lead Utah’s response to the coronavirus, the spread of the disease had slowed, stabilizing at fewer than 200 reported cases a day.Then came a shift in power, and priorities.State legislators who felt Gov. Gary Herbert was not moving quickly enough to lift restrictions on businesses created a commission to set guidelines to reopen. “It’s not meant to give economic out
  
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• Utah County man accused of assaulting woman after positive COVID test

  21-07-2020 18:18
  
  Provo • Four Utah County Sheriff’s deputies are in isolation after arresting a man who is accused of assaulting a woman after he reportedly tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus.Matthew Jarel Harding, 31, also threatened police officers with a small kitchen knife after they arrived at the scene in Eagle Mountain on Friday, authorities said. He screamed “Kill me now,” in an apparent effort to prompt officers to fire their weapons, the Daily Herald report
  
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• Two small earthquakes rattle southern Utah

  21-07-2020 17:52
  
  Two small earthquakes hit southern Utah early Tuesday morning, rattling local residents.The first quake struck at 2:44 a.m. It measured at magnitude 3.74, according to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, and was centered about six miles north of Pine Valley in Washington County, which is about 27 miles north of St. George. A second quake, measured at 2.7, hit the same area at 6:29 a.m.There have been no reports of damage.
  
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• Two small quakes rattle southern Utah

  21-07-2020 16:07
  
  Two small earthquakes hit southern Utah early Tuesday morning, rattling local residents.The first — measured at magnitude 3.74, according to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations — was centered about six miles north of Pine Valley in Washington County, which is about 27 miles north of St. George. A second quake, measured at 2.7, hit the same area at 6:29 a.m.There have been no reports of damage.
  
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• Letter: A third way to educate children in a pandemic

  21-07-2020 15:45
  
  It’s not either go to school or stay home with online lessons. Some homes lack appropriate equipment or wi-fi, or have overwhelmed parents. Here’s a workable third option for schooling this fall.Every neighborhood has church buildings of different faiths with lots of empty classrooms during the week. Be sure the buildings are outfitted with great wi-fi and plenty of computers. Neighborhood children can gather in these classrooms in small age/grade groups, masked and distanced with vo
  
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• NWSL announces expansion to Los Angeles; new club will be called ‘Angel City'

  21-07-2020 15:22
  
  Two years after a new Major League Soccer team in Los Angeles played its first game, the country’s top professional women’s league added to the market.The National Women’s Soccer League announced Tuesday its expansion into L.A. with a new club scheduled to start play in the spring of 2022. The team’s name and stadium partner will be announced before the end of the year, but it has called itself “Angel City.”“We’ve long sought the right partner in L
  
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• Letter: A third way to education children in a pandemic

  21-07-2020 15:17
  
  It’s not either go to school or stay home with online lessons. Some homes lack appropriate equipment or wi-fi, or have overwhelmed parents. Here’s a workable third option for schooling this fall.Every neighborhood has church buildings of different faiths with lots of empty classrooms during the week. Be sure the buildings are outfitted with great wi-fi and plenty of computers. Neighborhood children can gather in these classrooms in small age/grade groups, masked and distanced with vo
  
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• NWSL announces expansion to Los Angeles

  21-07-2020 15:15
  
  Two years after a new Major League Soccer team in Los Angeles played its first game, the country’s top professional women’s league added to the market.The National Women’s Soccer League announced Tuesday its expansion into L.A. with a new club scheduled to start play in the spring of 2022. The team’s name and stadium partner will be announced before the end of the year, but it has called itself “Angel City.”“We’ve long sought the right partner in L
  
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• Letter: Know your constitutional rights

  21-07-2020 14:01
  
  Dear Anti-Face Mask Wearer,This is an open letter to all the people and flash mob people who are jeopardizing the lives of others by claiming to have a constitutional right not to wear a face mask in public places and businesses. You are acting like an oxymoron. Here are two reasons why: One, it proves that you have not read and/or studied the United States Constitution, which states in the first paragraph “… to promote the general welfare” — and it is not discussing fin
  
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• Utah city renames street in honor of Mormon Black pioneer couple

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  Two former slaves who rose to prominence in early Utah and in their adopted faith now have a Salt Lake Valley street dedicated to them.Millcreek has renamed 3205 South in the heart of the east-side city “Chambers Avenue” to honor Samuel and Amanda Chambers — and the impact the husband and wife had on their community during the late 1800s and early 1900s.Samuel, born in Alabama in 1831 and enslaved in Mississippi, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a young
  
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• University of Utah says it won’t release Lauren McCluskey’s counseling records to her parents

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  The University of Utah says it shouldn’t have to release the counseling records of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey — who spoke to a school psychologist in the days and hours before she was killed — arguing in a new lawsuit that those should be considered confidential even in death.The filing in state court Monday comes after Utah’s State Records Committee ordered the U. last month to release the reports to McCluskey’s parents and their attorneys. The school, though
  
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• Robert Kirby: Binge-watching birds during the coronavirus

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  A robin flew into the window of my office last week. Because the window was closed, what the bird thought was a clean shot to another tree was actually just a reflection of the tree in which it was already perched.Bonk.The window is only an arm’s length from my desk. I heard the strike and caught a glimpse of the bird.I went outside and rescued the robin — I dubbed him Smack — before a cat or a dog got him. He was alive but suffering from a major concussion. When he came to his
  
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• Pepper Provenzano: A nation divided under mob rule

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  The passing of lifelong civil rights leader John R. Lewis, who marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, at the side of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965, is especially significant at a time when human rights, civil rights, voting rights, freedom of assembly and freedom of speech are more thwarted than ever.That historic Selma march came to represent an epic struggle for the right to vote and the vicious attempts to block that right by a hate-filled opposition steeped in a century of white pr
  
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• Letter: Utah County students need education in science

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  Reading The Tribune article about the Utah County Commission meeting where citizens cut down tape meant for social distancing and spit gum into masks, it became obvious that the children of Utah County need to attend school (with masks and social distancing and alternative scheduling) to get an education in science, public health, civics, history and decency.The number of uninformed and misguided comments coming from the citizenry that attended that meeting alarmed me.Because of the continual un
  
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• Letter: School should go online

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  Children and teachers are largely set to resume in-person learning this fall, a mere month from now. With how swiftly this summer’s COVID-19 resurgence descended upon us, it is understandable that many teachers, parents and students share concerns about returning to the classroom. Likewise, concerns from working parents on how remote learning will work for a full school year, both from a childcare and education perspective, are justified and shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.It is f
  
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• Letter: Keep highway out of Red Cliffs Desert Reserve

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  Our objection to the Northern Corridor Highway being built in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and National Conservation Area is associated with the discovery of St. George and Washington when we were searching for a place to enjoy our winters away from the Midwest cold and snow.We selected the Green Springs area due to its beauty and its great view of Pine Valley Mountain. We could walk out of our house and be in the Red Cliffs Reserve in a short distance.This occurred almost every day, enjoying a
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Where is the outrage?

  21-07-2020 14:00
  
  It never ceases to amaze me how more people aren’t outraged, shocked and disgusted by Donald Trump’s cruelty and malfeasance.Nearly 140,000 Americans are now dead because of the COVID-19 pandemic and more than 3 million have contracted the disease. Furthermore, our outlook in this country is dire: Cases are surging and the number of dead continues to climb.This is still the first wave; a second wave could simply pile on and be catastrophic.And yet, Trump’s cronies are attacking
  
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• Mormonleaks founders pay $15,000 to settle copyright suit with the Jehovah’s Witnesses

  21-07-2020 04:16
  
  The Truth and Transparency Foundation — the nonprofit group behind the controversial MormonLeaks website — has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit with the Jehovah’s Witnesses.The settlement comes after the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the publisher for the religious group, sued the nonprofit, alleging it violated copyright when it published Jehovah’s Witnesses’s educational videos on its website, Faithleaks.The lawsuit alleged that the Truth and Transp
  
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• Workers protest racial inequality on day of national strike

  21-07-2020 03:45
  
  New York • Workers from the service industry, fast-food chains and the gig economy rallied with organized labor Monday to protest systemic racism and economic inequality, staging demonstrations across the U.S. and around the world seeking better treatment of Black Americans in the workplace.Organizers said at least 20,000 workers in 160 cities walked off the job, inspired by the racial reckoning that followed the deaths of several Black men and women at the hands of police. Visible support
  
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• Trump, Congress square off over virus aid as crisis worsens

  21-07-2020 03:36
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump acknowledged Monday a “big flare up” of COVID-19 cases, but divisions between the White House and Senate Republicans and differences with Democrats posed fresh challenges for a new federal aid package with the U.S. crisis worsening and emergency relief about to expire.Trump convened GOP leaders at the White House as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell prepared to roll out his $1 trillion package in a matter of days. But the administration c
  
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• Former Utah running back Devonta’e Henry-Cole leaves BYU for Utah State

  21-07-2020 03:20
  
  If Devonta’e Henry-Cole’s initial transfer from Utah to BYU surprised people, his next move may stun some more.The former Utah running back will instead take his talents to Logan to play for Utah State, as initially reported by Jake Hatch of The Zone Sports Network.Had Henry-Cole stayed in Provo, he would have found himself fighting for the starting running back position against Lopini Katoa. Last season, Katoa provided a steady flow of production as the running back group suffered c
  
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• David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Federal law often leaves Native women unprotected

  21-07-2020 03:00
  
  There was something of a scramble, after the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma that much of Eastern Oklahoma was now officially Indian Country.Under the doctrine of tribal sovereignty, the state of Oklahoma could no longer prosecute serious felony cases involving Native Americans on reservation land. But there was little clarity about other critical jurisdictional questions.Shortly after the McGirt decision was handed down, the Oklahoma attorney general and five Native nations in Oklahom
  
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• House passes Ben McAdams’ ban on nuclear weapons testing

  21-07-2020 02:37
  
  Washington • The House on Monday moved to prohibit the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by passing Rep. Ben McAdams’s amendment to a bill funding the Department of Defense.The amendment, which bars the use of any funding to test nuclear weapons, passed nearly along partisan lines 227-179, with one Republican and one independent supporting the amendment.McAdams, D-Utah, voted for his proposal while Utah GOP Reps. Rob Bishop, John Curtis and Chris Stewart opposed the effort to halt
  
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• Wildfire crews are battling nearly a dozen fires throughout Utah

  21-07-2020 01:46
  
  Utah fire officials say that 33 wildfires were started over the weekend — almost all of which were human-caused.And two more wildfires were sparked on Monday. Firefighters were working to control 11 fires that are burning throughout the state, most torching hundreds of acres.The latest is the Strawberry Fire, located at Bowers Flat, north of Mammoth Creek in Kane County. It has burned through about 70 acres of timber as of 5 p.m. on Monday. Fire officials say there has been evacuations and
  
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• Adelaide Parker: John Lewis inspired today’s youth to continue the march

  21-07-2020 01:00
  
  What difference can one person make? If you had asked me this question last year, my response would have been pessimistic. The world is too big — one person cannot really make a difference. I certainly cannot make a difference. After all, I am just a teenager.That was before I met John Lewis.Last summer I had the opportunity to accompany a family friend onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. As I exited the floor, a gentle hand pulled me aside. Expecting to see my friend, I w
  
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• Navajo lawmakers to take up coronavirus-related bills

  21-07-2020 00:48
  
  Farmington, N.M. • Navajo Nation lawmakers are considering overturning a presidential veto of a bill that cancels the tribe’s primary election in early August over concerns about the coronavirus.Navajo voters narrow the list of candidates for local chapter officials in line with the statewide primary election in Arizona.Tribal lawmakers approved a bill in April to cancel the tribe's primary election and decide the winner by plurality vote in the November general election. Tribal Presi
  
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• As Utah records 409 new COVID-19 cases, a BYU researcher says people are misunderstanding mask studies

  21-07-2020 00:10
  
  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. A new report from Brigham Young University on the effectiveness of masks against the spread of the coronavirus began with a Facebook fight.“Two friends ... asked me, ‘Who’s right?’” said Ben Abbott, an ecol
  
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• Cache County holds ‘Day of Prayer,' but critics want more action against COVID-19

  21-07-2020 00:00
  
  As coronavirus cases continue to spike across Utah, the Cache County Council called on its residents Sunday to observe a “Day of Prayer” to “humbly petition Almighty God for his tender mercies” and for deliverance of “healing, comfort [and] wisdom” to the county and across the nation.Councilwoman Gina Worthen, who sponsored the interfaith resolution, said she hoped it would bring the community together during a time marked for many by sickness, death, anxiety,
  
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