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• Two men dead after small plane crashes in Cedar City

  02-08-2020 23:47
  
  Two people died after a small plane crashed in Cedar City on Sunday morning.Two men, ages 52 and 63, were in a single-engine plane that hit a 300-foot communications tower near 6500 W. 4000 South at 8:45 a.m. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene.Cedar Communications received a distress call about 5 miles south of the Cedar City Regional Airport.The names of the two men have not been released. Neither man is from the Iron County area.The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal
  
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• SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years

  02-08-2020 23:27
  
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit. The return clears the way for another SpaceX crew launch as early as next month and possible tourist fli
  
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• Gail Collins: Women have been voting for 100 years. What do we have to show for it?

  02-08-2020 23:00
  
  What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage than by discussing the way it turned out to be a big flop?The great champions of the 19th Amendment thought that when America’s women got the right to vote, they’d immediately start to change the nation. Promote women’s issues, like better health care and education. Refocus politics from special interests to the general good.Then in 1920, for the first time, they went to polls across the nation with th
  
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• Utah Jazz face another tough challenge Monday against the West best Los Angeles Lakers

  02-08-2020 22:59
  
  Utah Jazz players sit on the bench during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP KISSIMMEE Fla., — The Utah Jazz were not happy when they went back to their hotel in the NBA’s bubble on Saturday night.The Oklahoma City Thunder’s pesky defense, along with the Jazz’s odd insistence on playing nearly 48 minutes of iso-ball, sealed a blowout victory for
  
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• Two dead after small plane crashes in Cedar City

  02-08-2020 21:15
  
  Two people died after a small plane crashed in Cedar City on Sunday morning, according to a report by FOX 13.The plane hit a radio tower about 8:30 a.m., FOX 13 reported. The pilot was headed to the city’s regional airport coming from Strawberry Valley Estates Airport in Alton.Two people died in this plane crash.Per @FAANews: The pilot was flying from Strawberry Valley Estates Airport in Alton to Cedar City Regional Airport. https://t.co/HfZchfIyt6— 𝐁𝐫𝐢⻏
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: State experiences deadliest week since start of pandemic

  02-08-2020 20:56
  
  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. Sunday marked the deadliest week in Utah since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March.The Utah Department of Health reported one new death, bringing the week’s total to 38. That’s the highest death rate yet in a seven-day sp
  
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• Utes football players join Pac-12 boycott if demands for racial justice, pay and COVID-19 safety are not met

  02-08-2020 20:19
  
  At least 18 University of Utah football players, including some projected starters, tweeted Sunday morning in support of a movement by Pac-12 players to boycott games if the league does not meet a series of demands. The list, which includes items regarding safety, compensation and racial justice, was published Sunday morning on The Players’ Tribune and is signed by “Players of the Pac-12.” It is unknown whether any Utes were involved in drafting the document, but junior linebac
  
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• Paul Krugman: The nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue

  02-08-2020 20:00
  
  Every worker’s nightmare is the horrible boss — everyone knows at least one — who is utterly incompetent yet refuses to step aside. Such bosses have the reverse Midas touch — everything they handle turns to crud — but they’ll pull out every stop, violate every norm, to stay in that corner office. And they damage, sometimes destroy, the institutions they’re supposed to lead.Donald Trump is, of course, one of those bosses. Unfortunately, he’s not jus
  
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• Small plane crashes in Cedar City

  02-08-2020 19:52
  
  A small plane crashed in Cedar City on Sunday morning, according to a report by FOX 13.The plane, which had fewer than four people on board, hit a radio tower about 8:30 a.m. The condition of the occupants is “not good,” FOX 13 reported.PLANE CRASH: “A single-engine North American Navion crashed under unknown circumstances near Cedar City, Utah, around 8:30 a.m. local time Sunday. We believe two people were aboard.” - @FAANews— 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚&#
  
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• Pac-12 players threaten boycott if demands for COVID-19 safety, compensation and racial justice are not met

  02-08-2020 19:49
  
  A group of Pac-12 players, reportedly in the hundreds, is threatening to boycott preseason activity and games if a list of demands for safety, compensation and racial justice are not met.The list, published Sunday morning via The Players’ Tribune, is signed by “Players of the Pac-12.” It is unknown whether any University of Utah players were involved in drafting the document, but Utes junior linebacker Devin Lloyd, an All-Pac-12 honorable mention pick last season, tweeted his s
  
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• SpaceX guiding NASA astronauts to first splashdown in 45 years

  02-08-2020 19:40
  
  Cape Canaveral, Fla. • The first astronauts to ride a SpaceX capsule into orbit headed toward a retro-style splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon to close out a two-month test flight. It will mark the first splashdown in 45 years for NASA astronauts and the first return in the gulf. Unlike Florida's Atlantic coast, already feeling the effects of Tropical Storm Isaias, the waves and wind were calm near Pensacola in the Florida Panhandle. Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 13 more COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

  02-08-2020 19:33
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 13 more cases of COVID-19 and four additional deaths.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,068 and the known death toll to 450 as of Saturday night.Tribal health officials said 81,460 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 6,697 have recovered. The vast majority of people who are diagnosed with COVID-19 recover. For some people it causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough.But for some p
  
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• Utah Jazz are in need of a quick fix with West-leading Lakers up next

  02-08-2020 18:45
  
  Orlando, Fla. • Saturday’s game went about as poorly as it could have for the Utah Jazz.It’s probably not going to get any easier with the West-leading Los Angeles Lakers up next on Monday night.So, there’s no reprieve, no opportunity to ease back into things, no chance to sit back and work out the kinks against inferior opposition. The Jazz have to figure out what went wrong against Oklahoma City and fix it fast, because they don’t have time to mess around.“Th
  
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• Pac-12 players threaten boycott if list of demands is not met

  02-08-2020 17:26
  
  A group of Pac-12 players, reportedly in the hundreds, is threatening to boycott preseason activity and games if a list of demands for safety, compensation and racial justice are not met.The list, published Sunday morning via The Players’ Tribune, is signed by “Players of the Pac-12.” It is unknown whether any University of Utah players are involved in the movement.The players statement comes two days after the Pac-12 announced a 10-game, conference-only football schedule.Manda
  
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• Don Gale: Educating society’s young folks is never without risk

  02-08-2020 17:00
  
  School or no school? That’s the question facing all of us – children, parents, teachers, grandparents and everyone else. As with most important issues, there isn’t a simple yes or no answer.It’s a question of balancing two major risks. There is, of course, risk in sending children and teachers back into what will inevitably be crowded classrooms. That’s especially true in Utah, where lawmakers have underfunded schools for more than a quarter century. Utah’s ch
  
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• Black Lives Matter Utah leader says ‘it’s go time’ for police reform

  02-08-2020 16:10
  
  Lex Scott was ready to give up. After years of protests and fighting for reform after police shootings, the leader of Black Lives Matter Utah felt like she didn’t have much to show for it.For a week in May, she spent her time tinkering and relaxing with an inflatable swimming pool she’d bought. She wasn’t making her regular posts on social media. She turned away from conversations about civil rights. She felt like nobody cared.Then everything changed.“It’s like if y
  
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• Maureen Dowd: Double, double, Trump’s toil, our trouble

  02-08-2020 16:07
  
  Washington • Macbeth has his doubts.But his wife taunts him about his manliness until he bloodies his country.It’s hard to believe, four centuries after Shakespeare, that the fear of being unmanned is still so potent that it could wreck a country.But it is. And it has.Donald Trump’s warped view of masculinity has warped this nation’s response to a deadly pandemic. And Trump doesn’t even have a diabolical Lady MacTrump whispering in his ear, goading him about being a
  
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• Answers to Utahns’ frequently asked questions about the coronavirus

  02-08-2020 16:06
  
  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. It was just a bit awkward.At this week’s coronavirus briefing, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert bounced some questions he frequently receives off of his top epidemiologist, Dr. Angela Dunn. It’s a good idea — the old-fashioned F
  
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• Robert Kirby: What would you put in a time capsule?

  02-08-2020 15:00
  
  A little over 128 years ago, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints laid the capstone for the Salt Lake Temple.Surrounded by a sea of Mormons, church President Wilford Woodruff stepped up to the platform and said, “Attention all ye house of Israel and all ye nations of the earth...”After a few more words, Woodruff pushed a button that sent an electrical current to a contrivance connected with the capstone and the deed was done.Inside the capstone was a “time capsule&rd
  
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• From doors slammed in her face to the world paying attention, Black Lives Matter Utah leader says ‘it’s go time'

  02-08-2020 15:00
  
  Lex Scott was ready to give up. After years of protests and fighting for reform after police shootings, the leader of Black Lives Matter Utah felt like she didn’t have much to show for it.For a week in May, she spent her time tinkering and relaxing with an inflatable swimming pool she’d bought. She wasn’t making her regular posts on social media. She turned away from conversations about civil rights. She felt like nobody cared.Then everything changed.“It’s like if y
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Making a doc about Trump is nerve-wracking. And KUTV hires a sort-of-new anchorwoman.

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  Every four years since 1988, “Frontline” has produced exceptional profiles of the two major presidential candidates. “The Choice” is a two-hour program of parallel biographies, and the 2020 edition — “Trump vs. Biden” — is scheduled to air on Sept. 22.Award-winning filmmaker Mike Kirk has been producing “The Choice” since 2000, and he’s always worried about last-minute developments. But he’s never been as worried as he is no
  
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• More than 1,100 Utah health care workers have contracted COVID-19

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Dr. Jackie Simonis assumed she was tired from having worked three straight overnight shifts in a COVID-19 emergency room.She took four days off. She returned to work. Still weary.Simonis then got a headache and a stuffy nose. On May 3,
  
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• Letter: HEALS Act should help working families

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  All of us have been affected by the pandemic, but like in every recession, low-income workers have been especially hard-hit by the record-breaking underemployment brought on by this virus.The Senate has finally released details of the HEALS Act, their proposal for another round of stimulus spending. And while it includes doubling of the tax credit for business lunches, it’s missing a lot that could help our fellow Americans. What’s missing? More food assistance for people most at ris
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Deny the truth, face the consequences

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  “Nobody likes me.” — Donald Trump"Truth or Consequences" is the name of a town in New Mexico, and of a game show dating from the 1940s. But it's also one of the primal laws of existence. Where an important truth is denied, consequences follow.So none of us can be surprised at the state of the union after seven months of Donald Trump’s lies, alibis and magical thinking in the face of one of the worst public health crises in history. More than 150,000 of us are dead, the U.
  
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• Elizabeth Smart interviews a kidnapping survivor whose story is a lot like her own. It airs Sunday on Lifetime.

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  Elizabeth Smart doesn’t like seeing herself on TV.“I hate watching myself,” she said with a laugh. “I hate listening to myself. I think, ‘Oh, my goodness. Do I really sound like that? How could anyone listen to that voice for an hour?‘”But television has become a big part of her advocacy work on behalf of crime victims. Her latest effort — “Elizabeth Smart: Finding Justice” — airs Sunday at 8:04 p.m. and 10:56 p.m. on Lifetime. Sm
  
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• As pandemic unemployment aid drops off, expect Utah’s food stamp requests to pick up

  02-08-2020 14:00
  
  When the coronavirus landed in Utah and grounded tens of thousands of jobs, new requests for food stamps took off, soaring by 38% in one month.Once new unemployment benefits kicked in for many laid-off workers, especially a $600-a-week stipend in federal relief, the number of Utahns receiving food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program settled back to pre-pandemic levels.Now, however, with that bonus payment gone and the labor market still rocked by COVID-19 turbulence, Utah offi
  
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• Letter: Young people can make change

  02-08-2020 13:57
  
  This year’s election is perhaps the most important election of my life. Not because of any specific race taking place, but because it is the first one that I will participate in. As a young voter, I have the potential to change the course of history as I raise my voice with my peers. Revolutions were brought about when young people showed up to the polls, from FDR’s New Deal to Reagan’s neoconservative movement.Older Americans represent the status quo. Elected officials don&rsq
  
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• Letter: Vote for a representative who will represent you

  02-08-2020 13:49
  
  Almost every year, the state Legislature attempts to raise taxes. Last December, they passed a tax increase on gas and food. The citizen petition campaign forced legislators to repeal these taxes, but that didn’t stop them from trying to pass a property tax increase that same session.Rep. Jim Dunnigan was among a handful of legislators who voted against all of these tax increases, despite pressure from his own party. I respect someone who cares more about his constituents than party bosses
  
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• Utah native Wilford Brimley, ‘Cocoon’ Star and Quaker Oats pitchman, dies at 85

  02-08-2020 06:25
  
  Wilford Brimley, a portly actor with a walrus mustache who found his niche playing cantankerous coots in “Absence of Malice,” “The Natural,” “Cocoon” and other films, died on Saturday at age 85.Mr. Brimley had been sick for two months with a kidney ailment, said his agent, Lynda Bensky.Mr. Brimley had played the Walton Mountain resident Horace Brimley in a recurring role on the television series “The Waltons” when Michael Douglas, the producer of &
  
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• Reports: Text to Pac-12 players encourages possible opt-out

  02-08-2020 04:59
  
  A text message circulating among Pac-12 football players is encouraging them to opt out of practices and games until they can negotiate protections and benefits related to health and safety, economic rights and the fight against racial injustice.ESPN first reported the possible movement among players at multiple Pac-12 schools and The Athletic published the text invitation. The text says a public announcement, along with a list of demands, will be published Monday through The Players Tribune and
  
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• Rematch of the game that never happened gives Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder closure

  02-08-2020 04:05
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder’s Steven Adams (12) and Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert (27) vie for the ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Utah Jazz restarted the 2019-20 season on Thursday against the New Orleans Pelicans. It was a huge relief to be on the court again and to play meaningful basketball, no matter how weird the situation in the NBA’s bubble. But, t
  
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• Utah Jazz fall flat in virtually all phases against Oklahoma City Thunder

  02-08-2020 03:17
  
  Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang (31) guards Oklahoma City Thunder’s Chris Paul (3) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Utah Jazz were served up a reality check by the Oklahoma City Thunder at The Arena in ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex on Saturday, and the chef who cooked up the dish was Chris Paul.
  Paul, ever the Jazz villain, has a decent chance of tur
  
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• Utah Jazz reflect on finally playing OKC, months after March 11: ‘It’s pretty surreal that we ended up here’

  02-08-2020 02:03
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • That night in Oklahoma City when everything changed seems forever ago now for the Utah Jazz. And in many respects, it is.Still, given that their worldviews were inexorably changed back on March 11, with Rudy Gobert’s positive COVID-19 test coming out minutes before they were set to play a game against the Thunder, finally actually taking on OKC at The Arena inside the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon couldn’t help but dredge up the
  
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• The Triple Team: In response to OKC defensive pressure, Jazz don’t move the ball, resulting in bad loss

  02-08-2020 01:53
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 110-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder from Salt Lake Tribune Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz guards can’t handle OKC defensive pressureOklahoma City is a good team, with three very talented point guards in Chris Paul, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and Dennis Schroder. They also have two elite defensive guards in Lu Dort and Andre Roberson. So coming into the game, we knew this would be a strong test for Donovan Mitchell, Mike Conley, Jordan Clarks
  
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• Salt Lake City school apologizes for ‘hate speech’ quote printed in yearbook

  02-08-2020 01:27
  
  The Highland High School principal and interim Salt Lake City School District superintendent both apologized Saturday for what they called hate speech printed in the school’s recently released yearbooks.The yearbooks were released Friday, and when students opened them, they found a senior quote that said, “There are two genders and a lot of mental illnesses,” FOX13 reported.In a statement from the school district, officials said the quote was published “in spite of the ed
  
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• Jazz struggle on both ends of floor in 110-94 loss to Thunder

  02-08-2020 00:15
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Well, the Jazz did acknowledge after rallying back to beat the Pelicans on Thursday that there was still plenty to improve upon.So from a certain point of view, Saturday’s 110-94 manhandling by the Oklahoma City Thunder is simply extra confirmation of that assessment.Of course, such a rose-colored-glasses estimation was hardly realistic for anyone who watched Utah’s second seeding game, let alone anyone who actually participated in it.The Thunder’s
  
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• 3 keys in the Utah Jazz’s 110-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder

  02-08-2020 00:10
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder’s Steven Adams (12) shoots over Utah Jazz’s Tony Bradley (13) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP In the matchup that was going to be played on March 11 when the NBA was suspended, the Utah Jazz fell big to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday in Orlando, 110-94.
  Here are three keys from the game.The Jazz were bad offensively in falling behind 29-15 after one quar
  
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• More than 60 Utahns sick from onions linked to Salmonella outbreak

  02-08-2020 00:03
  
  Officials linked more than 60 cases of Salmonella in Utah to onions brought here from a California farm.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that the cases appear to stem from red onions from Thomson International, Inc., located in Bakersfield.Illnesses from the contaminated onions have been reported in 34 states. The biggest outbreak is in Oregon, where 71 cases have been reported. Utah has the second most cases, 61, followed by California, with 49, according to the FDA.
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