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• Auditors urge Utah officials to speed up COVID-19 testing as state records 6 new deaths, 421 cases

  05-08-2020 23:55
  
  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. Auditors are urging state health officials to explore how to get COVID-19 test results to patients faster and to be more transparent about that process, as Utah on Wednesday reported another 421 confirmed cases and six new deaths.&ldquo
  
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• Sim Gill accused of filing excessive charges against protesters for broken windows, paint on the street

  05-08-2020 23:54
  
  Protesters painted the street blood red. Some smashed windows at the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office. Less than a month later, prosecutors believe they know who is responsible and they’ve charged them with felonies that carry a potential life sentence.Now, District Attorney Sim Gill faces accusations that he filed excessive charges and questions of why he filed the charges at all, since there is an apparent conflict of interest: the vandalism was carried out against his b
  
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• State opens rental aid program to Utahns receiving jobless benefits

  05-08-2020 23:49
  
  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. Utahns who receive unemployment benefits are now eligible to receive rental assistance from the pandemic housing assistance program, the Utah Department of Workforce services said Wednesday.“We continue to adjust the housing assis
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Newly released diaries reveal the legacy of an early LDS writer and her fight for women’s rights

  05-08-2020 23:31
  
  A few weeks after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published the sermons of Eliza R. Snow comes the online release of additional diaries by a lesser known, but no less influential, female leader in the faith’s history.Emmeline B. Wells packed a lot into her 93 years of life. She was a three-time wife, mother of five daughters, a writer, editor, longtime Relief Society record-keeper, Relief Society general president, and, perhaps above all, a zealous advocate for suffrage and
  
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• Joe Ingles breaks out as Utah Jazz knock off Memphis Grizzlies

  05-08-2020 23:23
  
  Wednesday afternoon’s Utah Jazz game wasn’t always pretty. In fact, there were times it was downright scary, challenged as they were by a short-handed, winless-in-the-bubble Memphis squad.Long stretches of sketchy defense. Frequent sequences of offensive dry spells with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert on the bench.In the end, though, a resurgently aggressive Joe Ingles, a steady Mike Conley and an efficient effort from the 3-point line powered Utah to a 124-115 victory over the Griz
  
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• Jazz rediscover 3-point shooting touch, plus two other keys in Utah’s 124-115 win over Memphis

  05-08-2020 23:18
  
  Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles, left, shoots a 3-pointer against the Memphis Grizzlies during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz moved to 2-2 overall in seeding games during the NBA restart after beating the Memphis Grizzlies 124-115 on Wednesday afternoon in Orlando.
  Here are three takeaways from the game:Utah, which has been struggling from 3-point range in the Orlando
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Dr. Donald’s Devotees

  05-08-2020 23:10
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Cottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsJohn LewisMaking Moscow Great AgainLow BarrDidn’t See That ComingStorm TrumpersWhat Women Don’t WantAntifa Super SoldierSocial Distance StudiesWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Six new deaths, 421 more cases as auditors urge Utah officials to speed up COVID-19 testing

  05-08-2020 22:45
  
  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. Auditors are urging state health officials to explore how to get COVID-19 test results to patients faster and to be more transparent about that process, as Utah on Wednesday reported another 421 confirmed cases and six new deaths.The nu
  
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• Trump signs landmark land conservation bill

  05-08-2020 22:36
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law the Great American Outdoors Act, a measure with broad bipartisan support that guarantees maximum annual funding for a federal program to acquire and preserve land for public use.Trump — who has exited the Paris Agreement on climate change, loosened restrictions on toxic air pollution and removed climate change from a list of national security threats — heralded the new law as a groundbreaking environmental achievemen
  
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• Donovan Mitchell in Players’ Tribune: ‘You should know what I stand for’

  05-08-2020 22:25
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) looks into the fans as the Utah Jazz and the Boston Celtics play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — During the past few months, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell has become a notable voice in the conversations about racial justice, and that continued Wednesday in a first-person piece published by The Players’ Tribune.
  Yes, Mitchell spent a good po
  
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• Rep. Ben McAdams recovered from COVID-19, but still wears a face mask

  05-08-2020 22:19
  
  Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, recovered from a rough bout with COVID-19, but he still wears a face mask in public. So, he was asked Wednesday if he favors mandatory orders for face coverings.“I do,” he said at a town hall meeting with Millcreek business people. “They tell me I’m low risk. They won’t tell me I’m no risk. So, it’s important for all of us, I think, to do our part.”He described how the virus affected him, saying he wants to drive home that
  
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• Utah, EPA reach $360M settlement over Gold King mine spill

  05-08-2020 22:07
  
  Utah officials announced a “landmark” settlement Wednesday with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others in the massive release of contaminated sludge from the old Gold King Mine in 2015 that washed out of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains and into the Beehive State via the San Juan River.The Aug. 5, 2015, disaster sparked dozens of claims against the federal government, with Utah’s the largest at $1.9 billion. In the suit filed in U.S. District Court in New Mexico
  
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• Deb Sawyer: Question the usefulness of nuclear weapons

  05-08-2020 22:04
  
  This year will be the first year in over a decade that, as chair of the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (UCAN), I have not been involved in planning a commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945.Our events usually included music, especially singing. And often they were in places of worship, the last three being at Wasatch Presbyterian Church.COVID-19 changes things. After much brainstorming of other possible options, and knowing that a number
  
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• Davis Park golf pro Zach J. Johnson, Tony Finau to play in PGA Championship

  05-08-2020 21:27
  
  For the second time in three years, Farmington’s Zach J. Johnson is joining PGA Tour regular Tony Finau in the PGA Championship.Johnson, whose middle initial distinguishes him from tour veteran Zach Johnson, is a Davis Park Golf Course assistant pro from Cottonwood High School and Southern Utah University. He shot 76-69 in St. Louis in 2018, missing the 36-hole cut by five strokes. Johnson qualified for this year’s event in San Francisco via the 2019 PGA national points list, after t
  
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• Six more deaths and another 421 cases of COVID-19 in Utah, health officials report

  05-08-2020 21:22
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Another 421 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, while six more people in the state have died from the disease, the Utah Department of Health said Wednesday in its daily report. The six new deaths brings the state’s overall d
  
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• Bret Stephens: Why Edmund Burke still matters

  05-08-2020 20:23
  
  Had it not been for the revolution in France, Edmund Burke would likely have been remembered, a bit vaguely, as an 18th-century philosopher-statesman of extravagant rhetorical gifts but frustratingly ambivalent views.The Irish-born member of the British Parliament was sympathetic to the grievances of the American colonies but not (like his onetime friend Thomas Paine) an enthusiastic champion of their independence; an acerbic critic of George III but a firm defender of monarchy; a staunch oppone
  
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• Utah Grizzlies to start hockey in early December

  05-08-2020 20:18
  
  The Utah Grizzlies have a start date.The East Coast Hockey League announced Wednesday that the 2020-21 season is anticipated to begin on Dec. 4 and feature a full 72-game schedule. The Grizzlies, who are affiliated with the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, play in the third-tier hockey league.The original start date of the upcoming season was scheduled for Oct. 16. It was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic.“We are eager to return to hockey, but at this time we believe this decision is
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz face Memphis Grizzlies in Orlando

  05-08-2020 20:00
  
  FILE: Utah Jazz’s Mike Conley (10) plays against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second half of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Ashley Landis, Pool, AP photo SALT LAKE CITY — Less than 48 hours after falling to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Utah Jazz are playing again in the Orlando ‘bubble.’
  This time, the Jazz match up against the Memphis Grizzlies in their fourth game since the NBA season resumed. Game time is Wednesday at
  
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• Utah congressional candidate’s daughter says he abandoned family after several affairs

  05-08-2020 19:31
  
  After an ex-wife of Democratic 1st Congressional District candidate Darren Parry said he lied about regularly paying child support for their seven children, a daughter now is publicly saying that Parry abandoned the family after he had several affairs.The candidate says the accusations dredge up misdeeds that he thought he had repented of and moved beyond years ago. He adds that he has learned from his mistakes and is a better person and leader now, so he says will remain in the race to replace
  
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• Independent UConn becomes 1st FBS program to cancel football over coronavirus

  05-08-2020 18:25
  
  Storrs, Conn. • UConn canceled its 2020-2021 football season Wednesday, becoming the first FBS program to do so because of the coronavirus pandemic, as other schools had taken the Huskies off their schedules and the governor was reluctant to allow UConn to travel to states with high infection rates."After receiving guidance from state and public health officials and consulting with football student-athletes, we've decided that we will not compete on the gridiron this season," athletic direc
  
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• For the Navajo Nation, a fight for better food gains new urgency

  05-08-2020 18:09
  
  The Navajo Nation • When Summer Brown lived in Phoenix, she had no problem finding fresh produce. If the Sprouts supermarket near her home didn’t have what she was looking for, she would just drive somewhere else.This winter, Brown, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, moved back to her childhood home in Cornfields, Arizona, to start a small business as a leatherworker. Now, healthy food is harder to find for her two children, Paisley, 6, and Landon, 7. The entire nation, which st
  
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• Report: University of Utah officer showed multiple co-workers intimate evidence photos of Lauren McCluskey

  05-08-2020 18:00
  
  Days before student-athlete Lauren McCluskey was killed, a University of Utah police officer showed offexplicit photos that McCluskey had taken of herself to at least three of his male co-workers without a work-related reason, according to a monthslong investigation from the Utah Department of Public Safety.One staffer recounted that Officer Miguel Deras commented specifically about getting to “look at them whenever he wants.” And that employee admitted that he, too, made crude remar
  
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• Utah State Aggies basketball returns to gym after COVID-19 layoff

  05-08-2020 17:58
  
  As Utah State junior guard Brock Miller walked down the tunnel of The Spectrum last week and took his first steps on the basketball court since mid-March, his mind wasn’t flooded by thought after thought about what the return meant.Instead, he discerned a familiar, homey feeling. One he hasn’t felt since USU NCAA Tournament run was canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was almost like a sense of calm fell over him.“I think one word to sum it up would be ‘refreshing,&rsquo
  
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• Mitt Romney proposes another compromise on unemployment relief

  05-08-2020 17:32
  
  As congressional negotiations continue about possible COVID-19 relief, Sen. Mitt Romney and two other GOP senators proposed another possible compromise on Wednesday about enhanced unemployment benefits.They now suggest extending payments through the end of the year (as do most Democrats). But they want to provide less than the $600 a week extra that had been provided until payments expired last Friday (as do most Republicans).The trio are proposing to allow payments of $500 a week in August (or
  
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• Dozens speak about police and protester clash at Cottonwood Heights meeting

  05-08-2020 16:51
  
  The Cottonwood Heights City Council briefly mulled policing reforms Tuesday night shortly before numerous residents expressed misgivings about the city’s law enforcement.It was the council’s first public meeting since two protests over police violence in the city. The first of those gatherings, held Sunday, turned violent when officers arrived and made nine arrests. At a second rally, held Monday, police did not engage, although the situation became tense as heavily armed Utah Citize
  
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• Utah researchers and health experts are preparing for the eventual coronavirus vaccine

  05-08-2020 15:06
  
  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. The federal government’s “Operation Warp Speed” is aiming to develop a coronavirus vaccine by January. While that might seem like an eternity to front-line workers and those vulnerable to COVID-19, Utah health official
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s governor isn’t letting the coronavirus stop his last big fundraiser

  05-08-2020 15:00
  
  It just might be your last chance to write an enormous check to Gov. Gary Herbert before “Available Jones” becomes unavailable.This week, the state’s titans of business and connected lobbyists got a reminder to save Sept. 4 for “Governor Herbert’s Farewell Gala!” Combined with his spring golf fundraiser, It will be, by my estimation, his 20th big-ticket event. The fall gala regularly brings in somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million on its own.This time is d
  
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• Report on COVID-19 predicts 2020 will be a ‘lost year’ for Utah’s economy

  05-08-2020 15:00
  
  The coronavirus could cost Utah 73,000 nonagricultural jobs this year and shave an estimated $16 billion from its gross domestic product, according to a new economic forecast.Home sales will slow. Construction will slump. And overall, the global pandemic will likely make 2020 a “lost year” for employment, income and output in the state, say economic experts at the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.“It’s a serious short-term shock to the economy, w
  
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• Here are 7 of the top Salt Lake City restaurant patios for social distancing

  05-08-2020 15:00
  
  This probably wasn’t how Patrick McIver imagined celebrating the 90th anniversary of Ruth’s Diner.To meet Utah’s COVID-19 guidelines, the general manager of the popular Emigration Canyon restaurant reduced the number of tables on the famed patio in half. He then eliminated the back waiting area to make room for live music. Now he’s looking to invest in snow-proof bubble tents so he can keep the patio open in winter.Yet, despite all the changes and fewer patrons filling th
  
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• Dozens of residents speak about police and protester clash at Cottonwood Heights Council meeting

  05-08-2020 15:00
  
  The Cottonwood Heights City Council briefly mulled policing reforms Tuesday night shortly before numerous residents expressed misgivings about the city’s law enforcement.It was the council’s first public meeting since two protests over police violence in the city. The first of those gatherings, held Sunday, turned violent when officers arrived and made nine arrests. At a second rally, held Monday, police did not engage, although the situation became tense as heavily armed Utah Citize
  
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• Letter: We need to smile again

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  We need more humor, not just that kind that vilifies but that up-lifts us to a higher plane.We need more compassion, especially for those with whom we disagree. Discussions without rancor matter.We need more tenacity to stay whatever course we've chosen to take, even against rebuke or derision.We need more intellect to discern fact from fantasy, ours and others.We need to believe we all make a difference and that wrongs can be righted.We need to bend more quickly when proven — with facts,
  
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• Letter: Stop supporting Trump

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  Representative Stewart: Your support of Trump dismays me. Move to have your disgusting colleague, Rep. Yoho, removed from the House. To call a female colleague “a f-----g b---h” is totally unacceptable. No decent person should ever have anything to do with him.The occupation of Portland incites violence rather than quelling it. Trump is waging war on the American people. Impeach him again, but this time throw the bum out.I know your views are diametrically opposed to mine but you&rsq
  
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• Letter: Online schooling can be effective

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  The last few months of the 2020 school year were chaotic, especially for parents, teachers and students who were thrown into the digital learning space without any warning, in what can only be called “crisis schooling.”Educators worked hard with the resources at their disposal to provide a quality experience for our children. Our educators are everyday superheroes, whether they are creating engaging learning environments online or in the classroom.At a recent Salt Lake School Board m
  
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• Letter: A ‘modified’ quarantine is no quarantine

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert,As a liberal girl in a conservative state, I have defended you to other liberals. Sure, we didn’t agree on everything, but I believed you cared. I told them you support education. I told them you love Utah. I told them you are cool-headed and don’t let emotion get the best of you.Unfortunately, your response to teacher concerns in the July 30 press conference proved me wrong in the following ways.You admitted this virus is five times more deadly than the flu, yet wi
  
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• Letter: A list of substitutes

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  Teachers cannot be absent from teaching if they have been exposed to COVID if a substitute teacher is not available. Let's start a list of substitute teachers:1. Gov. Gary Herbert.2. The Granite School District hierarchy.3.Alan C. Anderson, MidvaleSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• George Pyle: Police will rise to the level expected of them

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.— Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of RoboticsPolice officers are not robots. They are human beings.And it is likely to take up all of a hum
  
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• Former Waterford School student alleges school didn’t protect her after she was sexually assaulted

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  After Tabitha Bell reported to her school that she had been sexually assaulted by a classmate, she felt at first like she had a community of classmates supporting her.It was late 2017, and the #MeToo movement had just begun. She heard from other girls at Waterford School, a private liberal arts campus in Sandy, who told her they also had experiences with that same classmate being sexually aggressive toward them.But Bell says a few months later, Waterford administrators had called a senior class
  
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• Environmental groups sue Utah board over oil railway grants

  05-08-2020 14:00
  
  Utah officials violated federal law last year when they awarded nearly $28 million in grants to plan and develop a railway that oil-producing counties have proposed to connect with the national rail network in hopes of enhancing the marketability of the Uinta Basin’s waxy crude.That’s according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by environmental groups demanding the money be returned to the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund, which takes in federal mineral royalties to fund projects in rur
  
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• More protesters charged with painting outside the Salt Lake County district attorney’s office

  05-08-2020 06:06
  
  Salt Lake County prosecutors on Tuesday charged three protesters with rioting and helping to spread red paint on the road and on the district attorney’s building during a July demonstration — and accused the group of acting as a gang while doing so.Two of those charged, Madalena McNeil and Marvin Oliveros, were accused of first-degree felony criminal mischief with a gang enhancement that could make the count punishable by up to life in prison. They are also charged with rioting. A th
  
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• Two men who died in Utah plane crash were from Las Vegas

  05-08-2020 05:42
  
  Two Las Vegas men have been identified as the victims in a fatal plane crash on Sunday in Cedar City.Darwin Mao, 52, and Richard Essex, 63, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, according to the Iron County Sheriff’s Office. They reported their plane — a North American Navion, a four-seat plane built in the 1940s — was in distress at about 8:45 a.m. Moments later, the plane crashed into a 300-foot-tall communications tower near 6500 W. 4000 South, according to Lt. Del
  
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• Local artists create Black Lives Matter mural at Salt Lake City and County Building

  05-08-2020 04:14
  
  A group of local artists worked on a Black Lives Matter mural on the east side of the Salt Lake City and County Building on Tuesday.
  
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• Ross Douthat: Will the Tea Party live again?

  05-08-2020 04:00
  
  “This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”This is a Don Draper line from “Mad Men,” delivered as advice he earned the hard way, when he stole another man’s identity and left his own behind.It’s also the way that many Republican senators hope to deal with the memory of the Donald Trump era, assuming that they wake up on Nov. 4 (or whenever the ballot counting ends) and discover that the president has not been reelected.Acting as if Tru
  
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• Judge orders trial tied to discovery of missing Idaho kids’ bodies

  05-08-2020 03:08
  
  Boise, Idaho • A judge ruled Tuesday there’s enough evidence for a man to go to trial after the bodies of his new wife’s two children were found buried on his Idaho property. The bizarre case involving doomsday beliefs and the deaths of several people linked to the couple has attracted national headlines.Chad Daybell, 52, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to hiding the remains of 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 17-year-old Tylee Ryan. Investigators found th
  
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• Bill Mader: Freeways, cronyism and an environmental Alamo

  05-08-2020 02:00
  
  Another devastating fire (12,000 acres) recently ripped through the Red-Cliffs Desert Reserve outside St. George and then, before that fire was fully contained, another started (3,000 acres) adjacent to Interstate 15 in the reserve. Both were man caused and both were started from roads.The point has been made that fires in the reserve can be stopped by the proposed Northern Corridor Highway (NCH) which would go through it. The vast majority of people who talk about using highways as fire breaks
  
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• Behind enemy lines: After 3 losses, Memphis Grizzlies are desperate for a win against Jazz on Wednesday

  05-08-2020 01:40
  
  Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant dribbles up the court against the San Antonio Spurs Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The Grizzlies are 0-3 in the bubble and will be plenty motivated for their Wednesday matinee against the Utah Jazz.| AP Photo/Ashley Landis, PoolSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will take on the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday in the fourth contest for both teams in the bubble.
  The Memphis squad, after back-to-back losses to the Spurs and Pelicans on Sunday a
  
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• Mike Lee criticizes Supreme Court for allowing big crowds in casinos but not churches during pandemic

  05-08-2020 01:30
  
  A week after calling on President Donald Trump to require states to allow churches to reopen or lose any forthcoming COVID-19 aid, Sen. Mike Lee criticized the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for allowing big crowds in casinos but not churches during the pandemic.“It’s a really significant missed opportunity,” the Utah Republican said about justices declining two weeks ago to issue an injunction to temporarily halt such Nevada COVID-19 restrictions.“As Justice [Neil] Gorsuc
  
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• UNLV golfer wins Utah Women’s Open ahead of BYU grad Lea Garner

  05-08-2020 01:18
  
  Lehi • In the four years of the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Women’s Open, a couple of trends have developed. Lea Garner almost always claims the biggest check and an out-of-state college golfer takes home the crystal trophy.UNLV’s Veronica Joels rallied with a 6-under-par 66 in Tuesday’s final round at Thanksgiving Point Golf Club. She posted a 5-under 139 total and finished three strokes ahead of Garner, a former Bonneville High School and BYU golfer, who closed with a 70
  
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• Massive Beirut blast kills more than 70, injures thousands

  05-08-2020 01:02
  
  Beirut • A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 70 people were killed and 3,000 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said.The blast struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany’s geosciences center GFZ, and it was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 200 kilometers (180 miles) across the Medit
  
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• Here’s how Rose Park residents who don’t have it at home can get Wi-Fi and computer access

  05-08-2020 00:51
  
  A new Salt Lake City pilot program called Rose Park Connect aims to make it easier for residents of the west side neighborhood to access Wi-Fi and computers to find information about essential services.The Rose Park Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County have teamed up to provid a computer lab at an LDS church located at 760 N. 1200 West.The lab will be open Mondays and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 p.m.
  
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• While uncertainty looms over BYU football, Cougars open fall camp

  05-08-2020 00:32
  
  With so much uncertainty surrounding BYU's 2020 football season, there was some level of assurance on Tuesday.The last few months have been a whirlwind. Players were encouraged to go home in mid-March after the coronavirus pandemic forced spring practices to be canceled and the BYU campus to shut down. The athletic facilities reopened on June 1 for voluntary workouts, but for the most part, athletes were still left responsible for themselves.While the Cougars have lost half of their originally-s
  
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