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• Trump orders more unemployment pay, a payroll tax deferral

  08-08-2020 23:15 via sltrib.com
  
  Bedminster, N.J. • Seizing the power of his podium and his pen, President Donald Trump on Saturday moved to bypass the nation’s elected lawmakers as he claimed the authority to defer payroll taxes and extend an expired unemployment benefit after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.At his private country club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump signed four executive orders to act where Congress hasn't, contending Washington's gridlock had compelled him
  
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• Real Salt Lake announces home games with fans in attendance

  08-08-2020 23:07 via sltrib.com
  
  Real Salt Lake is back.Major League Soccer announced the first phase of its return to play in home markets since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 season in March. The league will return in two phases that total 18 games for each team and end on Nov. 8.RSL’s first home game is Aug. 26 against LAFC, but the team restarts its season Aug. 22 on the road against the Colorado Rapids.Rio Tinto Stadium is expected to allow roughly 5,000 fans to attend games, and RSL defender Justen Glad sa
  
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• 6 injured when small plane crashes in Duchesne County

  08-08-2020 23:03 via sltrib.com
  
  Duchesne • Six people were injured when their plane crashed in Duchesne County, according to a press release.KUTV reports the Cessna T210M took off from Roosevelt on Friday morning en route to Moon Lake.The plane had engine trouble and crashed just south of the lake near a campground, the release states.One man was taken by air ambulance to a hospital in Provo with injuries that were serious but non-life-threatening. The other five were taken by ambulance to Roosevelt.“An up
  
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• See art by Utah women as exhibits mark the anniversary of the 19th Amendment

  08-08-2020 22:00 via sltrib.com
  
  One painting shows a woman in a kitchen holding a power drill and a bowl as she balances on a board on top of a ball. Another shows a woman wearing a yellow dress and tiara as she puts on makeup with a beehive in the background. A third display features live birds in a cage.This is how 30 female artists chose to portray their roles as a women in Utah today.The exhibit, “Rouge: Utah Women’s Voices,” is one of the art projects on display in the Beehive State as people across the
  
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• An elementary principal has died of the coronavirus and Utah reports 376 new cases

  08-08-2020 21:45 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Kelly Rindlisbacher, the principal of Nibley Elementary School, has died after a five-week battle with the coronavirus.The Cache County School District said in a statement reported by The Cache Valley Daily on Saturday that it was &ldqu
  
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• Kearns church among places distributing food boxes to Utahns in need

  08-08-2020 21:41 via sltrib.com
  
  Kearns • The pandemic has been “real tough” for Angelia Jones.The Murray resident usually makes a living selling jewelry at house parties, but those invites have largely dried up. And with less money coming in, Jones now has to worry about how to ensure her grandchildren don’t go hungry.It’s “that stress of ‘Oh my god, where’s our next meal going to come from?’” she said. “Because you can’t really work. You can’t go out
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus cases increase by 376, and an elementary principal has died

  08-08-2020 21:23 via sltrib.com
  
  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 latest report from the Utah Department of Health shows the state added 376 coronavirus cases Saturday. There were no new deaths reported.Overall, Utah has now seen 43,751 coronavirus infections and a total of 335 deaths. The Cache V
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz face Denver Nuggets in Orlando

  08-08-2020 21:04
  
  Utah Jazz’s Royce O’Neale (23) celebrates with teammate Georges Niang after scoring a 3-pointer against the Memphis Grizzlies during the first 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 — In a potential preview of the first round of the NBA playoffs, the Utah Jazz will face the Denver Nuggets on Saturday afternoon in their fifth game inside the Orlando bubble.
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• Donovan Mitchell’s late game heroics not enough, plus two other takeaways from Utah’s double-overtime loss to the Denver Nuggets

  08-08-2020 21:04
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell (45) drives the ball against Denver Nuggets’ Torrey Craig (3) during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP The Jazz lost to the Nuggets 134-132 despite jaw-dropping late-game heroics by Donovan Mitchell. SALT LAKE CITY — Despite jaw-dropping late-game heroics by Donovan Mitchell, the Utah Jazz fell to Denver Nuggets 134-132 in double-overtime Saturday, their se
  
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• Utah Sen. Deidre Henderson tests positive for COVID-19

  08-08-2020 20:47 via sltrib.com
  
  UPDATE: This story has been updated with the news of Sen. Deidre Henderson’s positive test.Utah Sen. Deidre Henderson on Friday tweeted that two of her immediate family members have tested positive for coronavirus and that she’s also starting to experience symptoms of the disease. On Saturday, she received her positive test result.“No big surprise, my COVID test came back positive. Stay safe out there, everyone. Wear your masks to protect others—by the time you have sympt
  
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• BYU loses Northern Illinois game as Mid-American Conference cancels fall football due to virus

  08-08-2020 20:05 via sltrib.com
  
  Two days after adding Navy to its 2020 football schedule, BYU took another hit. The Mid-American Conference decided Saturday to postpone its fall season for all sports, including football, due to player health and safety concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. The decision, first reported by Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, results in another lost game for the Cougars, who were set to play at Northern Illinois on Oct. 24.pic.twitter.com/GJZqGpQBMr— #MACtion (@MACSports) August 8, 2020BYU ha
  
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• Utah artists create interactive outdoor pieces to celebrate 55th anniversary of Voting Rights Act

  08-08-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  In Ogden, Utahns can grab a marker and write on three colorful pillars about the ways they want to see their communities change and how they’ll make that happen. Over in Centerville, people are asked to pick up a rock and add it to a ballot box to show why they vote.Tamia Green, 19, and Tawnie Richman, 23, the Utah artists who created these new interactive public installations that will be on display through August, said they hope their pieces will make people stop and think.Green, who&rsq
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Police are supposed to keep the peace, not escalate violence

  08-08-2020 20:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Take a knife to a gun fight, and you are a fool.Take a gun to a peaceful demonstration, and you are a thug.That is true whether the person toting the firearm is a sworn police officer or a self-appointed member of “citizens militia.”From Cottonwood Heights to Salt Lake City to Portland to Washington, D.C., there is cause to be seriously concerned that both government officials and civilians are so afraid of constitutionally protected protests and marches by people with legitimate cau
  
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• Gold King mine spill left lingering troubles on Navajo Nation

  08-08-2020 19:52 via sltrib.com
  
  Shiprock, N.M. • Duane “Chili” Yazzie wears a “Water is Life” shirt as he walks the rows of his farm. He speaks of the river and earth as sacred entities for the Navajo people.But the Shiprock Chapter president can’t forget when the river turned yellow.On Aug. 5, 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the Animas a
  
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• Tear gas, clashes in Beirut amid fury over massive blast

  08-08-2020 19:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Beirut • Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators Saturday in Beirut, and a group of protesters stormed the foreign ministry amid mounting fury over this week’s explosion that devastated much of the city and killed nearly 160 people. Dozens were still missing and nearly 6,000 people injured.Activists who called for the protest set up symbolic nooses at Beirut's Martyrs' Square to hang politicians whose corruption and negligence they blame for Tuesda
  
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• Real Salt Lake announces home games with fans

  08-08-2020 19:14 via sltrib.com
  
  Real Salt Lake is back.Major League Soccer announced the first phase of its return to play in home markets since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 season. The league will return in two phases that total 18 games for each team and end on Nov. 8.RSL’s first home game is Aug. 26 against LAFC, but the team restarts its season Aug. Aug. 22 on the road against the Colorado Rapids. Rio Tinto Stadium is expected to allow roughly 5,000 fans to attend games.Salt Lake’s other games are A
  
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• Roy police kill suspect and a police dog has been shot in the face

  08-08-2020 18:20 via sltrib.com
  
  Roy police say officers were shot at as they approached a car in a field early Saturday. Those officers returned fire and killed a suspect. Another man has been arrested. And a police dog, shot in the face, is being treated and is expected to live.The violent incident started at 2 a.m., when an officer tried to pull over a car for violating a traffic law. The officer talked to two men in the car briefly before they sped away. The officer chased the car for awhile, but decided to pull back, accor
  
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• Gold King mine spill left linger troubles on Navajo Nation

  08-08-2020 17:51 via sltrib.com
  
  Shiprock, N.M. • Duane “Chili” Yazzie wears a “Water is Life” shirt as he walks the rows of his farm. He speaks of the river and earth as sacred entities for the Navajo people.But the Shiprock Chapter president can’t forget when the river turned yellow.On Aug. 5, 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contractors breached a mine tunnel at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, sending 3 million gallons of acid mine drainage into the Animas a
  
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• Gordon Monson: If you love college sports, don’t buy into the ruse that is the glorification of amateurism

  08-08-2020 17:44 via sltrib.com
  
  It’s remarkable to see the reaction — the outrage — of some college football and basketball fans/observers when they see athletes ask for changes to the antiquated model of college sports, changes that would bump that model toward more favorable treatment of athletes, toward a more equitable distribution of resources created by and made possible by them.A group of Pac-12 athletes, followed by players from both the Big 10 and the Mountain West conferences, recently made a list o
  
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• Letter: Armed thugs are not ‘militia'

  08-08-2020 17:36 via sltrib.com
  
  I have a bone to pick with The Salt Lake Tribune. In the subheadline of the lead article on Tuesday’s front page, “Protesters, counter protesters, militia trade barbs, avoid violence,” the word militia is a misnomer. The thugs who showed up in their battle gear and long guns were not a militia. They were a bunch of white supremacists who came to intimidate peaceful protesters, not a militia. To refer to them as such gives them a credibility they do not deserve. Our modern milit
  
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• George Pyle: Stewart worries about suicide while he peddles hemlock

  08-08-2020 17:00 via sltrib.com
  
  “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”-- Abraham LincolnAddress to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., Jan. 27, 1838Chris Stewart has the same fear.Utah’s 2nd District congressman Monday warned a virtual gathering sponsored by the conservative think tank The Sutherland Institute that our nation is in trouble.“I worry that we may destroy ourselves, t
  
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• What the public learns about police shootings in Utah depends on where they happen

  08-08-2020 16:57 via sltrib.com
  
  It’s a presentation that Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill has done dozens of times.He stands in front of a projection screen and painstakingly goes through the evidence of a police shooting.He shows photos of weapons that a suspect may have used. A trajectory of how a bullet traveled. A frame-by-frame analysis of bodycam footage that shows what happened.He explains how he used that evidence to make a conclusion on whether that officer was legally justified in pulling the trigger
  
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• Letter: I can’t respect a team that doesn’t respect the flag

  08-08-2020 16:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I lost all respect for the Jazz and the NBA when I saw the picture on the front page of the July 31 Tribune. At that moment, the flag of our country was completely forgotten and the words to the anthem were meaningless. I am a veteran and I cannot believe what has become of the respect we used to have for our nation.Many men have died for that flag and for the freedoms it stands for. They would gladly stand up if they could. The least we can do is stand and honor it for them. We should always st
  
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• Some Utah companies getting PPP loans reported having zero employees

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  More than 50,000 Utah businesses have tapped into federal Paycheck Protection Program loans, an infusion of cash to help them cover employee salaries and avoid layoffs during the pandemic-induced economic slump.So why did some of them tell the government they didn’t have any employees?Records released by the U.S. Treasury Department show that 30 Utah businesses received millions of dollars in loan money — despite writing on their applications that they had zero workers to pay.One of
  
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• Saturday art market created to help Utah artists safely sell their work in person

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Ceramic artist Min Oh called her electrician with a peculiar request: She needed a hotter garage.Oh wanted to set up a kiln to create mugs and other ceramic work to sell at festivals and at the Downtown Farmers Market in Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park. Once the electrician rewired her garage so that it could become warm enough for her projects to set, her dream of having an at-home studio came true. And Oh sold enough work at the farmers market last year to pay her bills.That stream of reve
  
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• Letter: What are our lawmakers’ priorities?

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  The state legislators voted to close clinics that serve underinsured people. This is during a pandemic that has caused many Utahns to lose their employer-sponsored health insurance because of loss of work. Where are uninsured people supposed to go for health care, especially during a pandemic? Neither hospitals nor legislators want them going to the emergency departments of hospitals. These are the most expensive of care settings.While we all understand that the revenues are down at the state le
  
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• Letter: Utah doesn’t take care of its own

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Say goodbye to Utah’s oft-repeated boast that “we take care of our own.” As recently reported, our legislature has just eliminated a $2.5 million annual subsidy that allows public health clinics to operate in Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo. According to the report, as a result, some 13,000 low-income patients will be forced to search for new care providers.Doubtlessly, many of those unfortunates will be stymied in their search for regular health care, and will delay seeking ca
  
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• Letter: A bone to pick

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I have a bone to pick with The Salt Lake Tribune. In the subheadline of the lead article on Tuesday’s front page, “Protesters, counter protesters, militia trade barbs, avoid violence,” the word militia is a misnomer. The thugs who showed up in their battle gear and long guns were not a militia. They were a bunch of white supremacists who came to intimidate peaceful protesters, not a militia. To refer to them as such gives them a credibility they do not deserve. Our modern milit
  
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• It’s time to stop burning volatile propellants at Salt Lake Valley rocket facility, groups say

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  For decades, potentially explosive waste has been burned in the open in the western part of the Salt Lake Valley, starting with dynamite and now unspent rocket propellant produced by defense contractor Northrop Grumman and its subsidiary ATK Launch Systems.Now, several groups are asking the Utah Department of Environmental Quality to put an end to the practice, citing well-established alternatives for processing such reactive wastes with far less emissions.“Why on earth, in this day and ag
  
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• Holly Richardson: Back-to-school, 2020 style

  08-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Remember when schools shut down quickly and Utah’s school teachers were expected to pivot to online education with virtually no warning and no prep time?Remember the memes that praised teachers and advocated raising their salaries to a million dollars a year, since they clearly were the most essential of all workers?That didn’t last long, did it?We have moved from “We love you, teachers!” to “Sacrifice it all, teachers, because these kids aren’t staying home&r
  
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• Black Lives Matter protesters rallying in Cottonwood Heights met with armed group

  08-08-2020 06:31 via sltrib.com
  
  When the Black Lives Matter protesters arrived Friday night for a protest outside the Cottonwood Heights police station, throngs of others were already there to meet them — most armed, many in white T-shirts, some holding U.S.A flags.At first, the two groups remained separate, with protesters on the east side of the streets and Utah Citizens Alarm members and supporters on the west. The latter group was larger at first. Then, Lex Scott brought the groups together.“Come on over here e
  
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• Letter: Vote for a candidate you can trust

  08-08-2020 05:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I am flabbergasted to read the letter “Vote for a representative who will represent you,” published Aug. 2.I am also a resident of Taylorsville, born and raised in Utah, and I deeply care for my neighbors, city and environment. Rep. Jim Dunnigan not only doesn’t represent me, he votes in favor of policies that hurt me.I am a single parent, the only financial provider for my daughter, primary caregiver for stepfather, and was my mother’s primary caregiver during her fight
  
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• Letter: It’s not safe to reopen schools yet

  08-08-2020 05:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Is reopening schools worse for the adults or the kids? A France study shows that children don’t infect adults; it’s the other way around, and most kids don’t get sick.But what about the adults in the building? You have teachers, substitutes, counselors, secretaries, custodians, librarians, administrators, nurses (who will be essential), and other staff who could all be carriers of COVID-19. If any of those folks contract the coronavirus, the whole school could be shut down.Subs
  
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• Uyen Hoang: Climate justice means prison abolition

  08-08-2020 04:00 via sltrib.com
  
  For the past year, I have been a volunteer with the University of Utah Prison Education Project (UPEP), a program that provides on-site college courses to incarcerated students.As an environmental studies major, I find that many people are confused when I tell them I volunteer with UPEP.“Why are you involved with something that doesn’t relate to your major?” they ask.What they do not realize is that environmental justice also means prison abolition.A recently released investiga
  
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• New Utah coronavirus cases drop again on Friday, with 5 more deaths reported

  08-08-2020 03:48 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Chad Arbon doesn’t blame anyone for his dad’s death — but he hopes Jim Arbon’s passing can provide one last lesson from the longtime Davis County teacher.“It happened,” Chad Arbon said of his father&r
  
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• Utah teachers drive around the Capitol to call for safer school reopenings

  08-08-2020 03:43 via sltrib.com
  
  Teachers drove around the Utah Capitol on Friday, honking car horns and waving signs to call for safer reopenings of schools this fall during the coronavirus pandemic.About 150 educators — joined by some parents and students — participated in the “Safe Schools Save Lives Caravan.” Starting at 700 South, they drove in a pack up State Street and then rallied on the Capitol lawn while social distancing and wearing masks.Some had decorated their cars for the occasion with &ld
  
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• Inside the Premier Lacrosse League bubble tournament in Utah

  08-08-2020 02:32 via sltrib.com
  
  Marcus Holman coaches as an assistant for the University of Utah’s lacrosse team. He also plays in the Premier Lacrosse League as an attacker for the Archers.So when the PLL chose to conduct its 2020 season as a tournament in Utah at the Real Salt Lake facility, Holman was more than pleased. He would have to drive only 20 minutes from his Salt Lake City apartment to Herriman as opposed to the hours-long flights others around the league took.But more than the short trip to the bubble enviro
  
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• Nathan Hult: Utahns must tell international students that they are welcome here

  08-08-2020 02:19 via sltrib.com
  
  If you’ve ever lived abroad for an extended period of time — perhaps on a mission or during a semester abroad — you’ve likely experienced the kindness of strangers. It’s one of the things that can make a foreign, and sometimes lonely place feel like home.This is exactly what we do at the International Friends Program, which helps international students at Utah State University adjust to life in the United States. Since 2016, 120 Utah families have volunteered to hos
  
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• Paul Krugman: Coming next: The Greater Recession

  08-08-2020 02:00 via sltrib.com
  
  One pretty good forecasting rule for the coronavirus era has been to take whatever Trump administration officials are saying and assume that the opposite will happen. When President Donald Trump declared in February that the number of cases would soon go close to zero, you knew that a huge pandemic was coming. When Vice President Mike Pence insisted in mid-June that “there isn’t a coronavirus ‘second wave,’” a giant surge in new cases and deaths was clearly imminent
  
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• State grant program closes application window due to heavy demand

  08-08-2020 01:44 via sltrib.com
  
  A state grant program designed to boost consumer confidence during the coronavirus pandemic has closed its application window, less than two weeks after launching, due to heavy demand.The “Shop in Utah” program has received 748 applications since July 27 and was nearing its $25 million cap, said Dane Ishihara, economic analyst at the Governor’s Office of Economic DevelopmentThe program initially sought to provide grants between $50,000 and $100,000, he said, but the office deci
  
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• Utah State football to play eight conference games, two nonconference games

  08-08-2020 01:34 via sltrib.com
  
  The Utah State football team will play eight conference games and two nonconference games if the fall season returns this year.The Mountain West Conference announced Wednesday that the schedules for football, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country will start no later than the week ending Sept. 26. Football teams, if they choose to play games, can play eight within the conference and two outside of them.The MW’s decision is “desi
  
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• New Utah coronavirus cases drop again on Friday, with 5 new deaths reported

  08-08-2020 01:34 via sltrib.com
  
  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. Chad Arbon doesn’t blame anyone for his dad’s death — but he hopes Jim Arbon’s passing can provide one last lesson from the longtime Davis County teacher.“It happened,” Chad Arbon said of his father&r
  
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• I-80 reopens as crews fight Parleys Canyon fire

  08-08-2020 01:29 via sltrib.com
  
  The fire burning near Mount Aire in Parleys Canyon was said to be only 80 acres Friday, but that was still enough to close a major U.S. thoroughfare and evacuate nearby homeowners.No structures had been reported damaged or destroyed. Interstate 80 reopened about 5 p.m. Friday after being closed for most of the day. Kait Webb, a spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, warned the freeway could shut down again if the blaze worsens or smoke becomes a hazard. The on-ramps
  
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• Inmates suing Utah jail rebuffed in effort to seek release

  08-08-2020 01:22 via sltrib.com
  
  Federal inmates who have sued a Utah jail and alleged a failure to adequately protect them from the coronavirus will not be able to seek immediate release through a habeas corpus petition, a judge ruled Friday.Six people charged with federal crimes and held at Weber County Jail in Ogden filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court last month, asking for more inmates to be released to home confinement and additional health measures, such as mandating masks and providing hygiene supplies.Attorney Benj
  
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• Logan police fire Officer Miguel Deras for showing off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey

  08-08-2020 01:14 via sltrib.com
  
  The Logan City Police Department has fired Officer Miguel Deras after a new report concluded he showed off compromising photos student-athlete Lauren McCluskey had taken to at least three of his co-workers while he was assigned to her case at the University of Utah.The findings on Deras, who left the U. to join Logan’s force in September 2019, came as part of an investigation by the Utah Department of Public Safety.In a letter, Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen wrote: “The conclusions d
  
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• I-80 open as Parleys Canyon fire now at 80 acres

  08-08-2020 01:08 via sltrib.com
  
  The fire burning near Mount Aire in Parleys Canyon was said to be only 80 acres Friday, but that was still enough to close a major American thoroughfare and evacuate nearby homeowners.No structures had been reported damaged or destroyed. Interstate 80 reopened about 5 p.m. Friday after being closed for most of the day.Kait Webb, a spokeswoman for the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands warned the interstate could be closed again if the blaze flares or smoke becomes a hazard. On ramps and
  
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• ‘One of the greatest humans I’ve ever been around’: Jordan Clarkson starting to thrive again

  08-08-2020 01:07
  
  Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson reacts to a 3-point basket against the San Antonio Spurs during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox, Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — At one point during Thursday’s game between the Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs in Orlando, Florida, Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson felt like he was playing a little bit too fast, a little bit too aggressive.
  Perhaps that admission can be seen as a si
  
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• Climate change and extreme heat felt the most acutely by the poor and marginalized

  08-08-2020 01:05 via sltrib.com
  
  It was a record 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Baghdad in July, and 100 degrees above the Arctic Circle in June. Australia shattered its summer heat records as wildfires, fueled by prolonged drought, turned the sky fever red.For 150 years of industrialization, the combustion of coal, oil and gas has steadily released heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, driving up average global temperatures and setting heat records. Nearly everywhere around the world, heat waves are more frequent and longer last
  
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• Utah veterans home declared coronavirus-free after 13 deaths

  08-08-2020 01:03 via sltrib.com
  
  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 veterans home where 13 residents died of COVID-19 no longer has any cases of the virus, the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs announced Friday.The William E. Christoffersen Veterans Home in Salt Lake City was the site
  
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• Logan police fire Officer Miguel Deras, who showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey

  08-08-2020 00:57 via sltrib.com
  
  The Logan City Police Department has fired Officer Miguel Deras after a new report concluded he showed off compromising photos student-athlete Lauren McCluskey had taken to at least three of his co-workers while he was assigned to her case at the University of Utah.The findings on Deras, who left the U. to join Logan’s force in September 2019, came as part of an investigation by the Utah Department of Public Safety.In a letter, Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen wrote: “The conclusions d
  
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