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• Utah football continues to practice as the college football season starts to crumble

  10-08-2020 23:40
  
  As uncertainty swirls around the state of the college football season, the University of Utah continues to push forward.At least, for now.Multiple sources told The Salt Lake Tribune that the football team practiced Monday, and planned to do so again Tuesday, even as the possibility of the Pac-12 pulling the plug on its fall sports in 2020 has become very real.The Seattle Times reported Monday morning that all football workouts at the University of Washington were canceled. It later clarified tha
  
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• Utah Jazz tank fourth quarter against the Mavericks to remain sixth in West

  10-08-2020 23:34
  
  For the first three quarters of the Utah Jazz’s penultimate seeding game Monday vs. the Mavericks, the players happily moved the ball, rained down 3s, shut down the Mavericks beyond the arc.And then in the fourth quarter …They rolled out the tanks.With Donovan Mitchell sitting out the entire game with an apparent leg injury, and his fellow starters heading to the bench for good after halftime, Utah relinquished a double-digit lead as Dallas relied on a dominant fourth quarter to sur
  
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• Kenneth Lougee: Mask refusal is not liberty. It is anarchy.

  10-08-2020 23:00
  
  In 1900, Florence Cox, age 10, had a problem. She wanted to go to the Hamilton Grade School in Salt Lake City. Florence’s parents also wished that she go to school. The only problem was that Salt Lake City experienced an outbreak of smallpox in 1900. Florence wasn’t vaccinated and her parents objected to vaccines.On Jan. 14, 1900, as recorded by The Salt Lake Tribune, the school board, uncertain of its obligations, asked the city attorney to advise the school board as to its duties o
  
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• Utah’s new coronavirus cases below 300 for the first time since early June

  10-08-2020 21:23
  
  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. For the first time since June 9, Utah on Monday reported fewer than 300 new cases of coronavirus, along with nine new deaths.The Utah Department of Health reported 263 new diagnoses on Monday, down from Saturday and Sunday’s repor
  
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• AP Fact Check: Trump’s smoke and mirrors on executive orders

  10-08-2020 21:00
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump isn’t telling the full story when it comes to executive orders on coronavirus relief payments and health care.Over the weekend, the president suggested that his move to bypass Congress with executive action calling for up to $400 in weekly unemployment assistance would mean immediate cash in hand for laid-off Americans during the pandemic. There's no guarantee of that. His own economic adviser acknowledged Sunday that various details remained to be
  
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• Utah Jazz collapse in the fourth quarter, plus two other takeaways from Utah’s 122-114 loss to the Dallas Mavericks

  10-08-2020 20:28
  
  Utah jazz’ Royce O’Neale (23) celebrates a three-point basket with teammate Joe Ingles during an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets during the first quarter Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — No starter played more than 16 minutes for the Utah Jazz as they fell 122-114 to the Dallas Mavericks in Orlando. Here are three keys from the game:The Jazz were on fire from deep in the first half, shooting 13-fo
  
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• Live coverage: Sans Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz take on Dallas Mavericks

  10-08-2020 20:28
  
  Utah jazz’ Royce O’Neale (23) celebrates a three-point basket with teammate Joe Ingles during an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets during the first quarter Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — With the playoffs nearing, the Utah Jazz face the Dallas Mavericks in their next seeding game in Orlando’s NBA bubble.
  The Jazz and Mavericks tip at 1 p.m. MDT, with the game televised on both NBA TV and AT&
  
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• BYU and Navy are led by coaches who go way back

  10-08-2020 20:23
  
  The BYU and Navy football teams may not have a long, storied shared history, but their coaches do.Both the Cougars and the Midshipmen are coached by Polynesian men who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo has hometown connections to BYU coach Kalani Sitake and ties to BYU.The third meeting between the private religious school and the military institution is now scheduled for Sept. 7 and if played it could very well end up being one of the mos
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 15 more COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths

  10-08-2020 19:42
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 15 more cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,308 and the known death toll to 472 as of Sunday night.Navajo Department of Health officials said 85,206 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 6,859 have recovered.Tribal President Jonathan Nez pointed to the latest coronavirus figures as evidence that most Navajo Nation residents are complying with lockdown orde
  
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• Salmonella cases linked to onions in Utah, across the U.S. increase to nearly 900

  10-08-2020 19:39
  
  A salmonella outbreak linked to onions has expanded to 43 states and Canada, prompting a recall from a producer in California and various grocery chains, health officials said.As of Sunday, there had been 640 reported salmonella cases, including 85 hospitalizations, tied to the outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration said. Many of the reported cases were in the Western states of Utah (90); Oregon (85); California (76); and Montana (52). There have also been 41 cases reported in Illinois.The P
  
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• 10 LDS temples in Utah to expand their operations with COVID-19 precautions in place

  10-08-2020 19:12
  
  Next week, Latter-day Saints will be able to participate in temple “endowments,” or ritual teachings about the origin and purpose of mortality, in 17 more temples — including 10 in Utah.Because of the coronavirus, the faith’s temples shut down in late March and began to reopen in May for marriages (known as “sealings”) of couples under a Phase 1 plan, with stringent space limitations and mask requirements.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announc
  
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• Utah activists seek pandemic aid for undocumented immigrants

  10-08-2020 18:45
  
  Activists rallied Monday to ask Utah’s senators to help pass more pandemic relief and include a group of needy taxpayers who have been excluded so far: undocumented immigrants.“There are approximately 59,000 undocumented or mixed-status families in Utah who have paid taxes through their ITIN number” for workers without a Social Security number, said Moe Hickey, CEO of Voices for Utah’s Children.But he said a study recently released by his group and Comunidades Unidas said
  
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• BYU and Navy are lead by coaches who go way back

  10-08-2020 18:19
  
  The BYU and Navy football teams may not have a long, storied shared history, but their coaches do.Both the Cougars and the Midshipmen are coached by Polynesian men who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo has hometown connections to BYU coach Kalani Sitake and ties to BYU.The third meeting between the private religious school and the military institution is now scheduled for Sept. 7 and if played it could very well end up being one of the mos
  
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• Donovan Mitchell out for Utah Jazz against Dallas Mavericks

  10-08-2020 18:07
  
  Utah Jazz’ Donovan Mitchell is fouled as he goes to the basket by Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic (15) during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool PhotoSALT LAKE CITY — A lot of star power will be missing from Monday’s Utah Jazz matchup against the Dallas Mavericks, including Donovan Mitchell.
  The Jazz’s All-Star guard did not play in Friday’s back-to-back opener against the San Antonio
  
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• Runnin’ Utes getting back to work, but freshman Pelle Larsson will be a late arrival

  10-08-2020 17:51
  
  University of Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak was scheduled to have most of his roster back in Salt Lake City by Monday for required summer activities, but not everyone will be there.Such is life when an international player is attempting to travel in the middle of the pandemic.Pelle Larsson, a 6-foot-5 Swedish-born combo guard, who is expected to make an immediate impact as a freshman, is in limbo. With the United States Embassy in Stockholm only having recently reopened the
  
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• Dance party protest moved its way through Salt Lake City on Sunday

  10-08-2020 17:37
  
  Close to 300 protesters danced and skated through the streets of downtown Salt Lake City on Sunday afternoon during the weekly protest dubbed “Dance Dance for Revolution.” Demonstrators marched in support of racial equality, Black Lives Matter, Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal as well as pleas to drop the felony charges facing some protesters. Several dozen marchers wore T-shirts with “Drop the charges” printed on the front with an illustration of the red paint spilled at the S
  
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• Utah Sen. Mike Lee goes after Google, says its search function is biased against conservatives

  10-08-2020 16:48
  
  Sen. Mike Lee says Google’s CEO may have lied to Congress by asserting that its search engine designs are nonpartisan, and that they do not put conservatives at a disadvantage.“There are numerous examples to support that the contrary is happening,” Lee and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote last week to Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive officer. They demanded that he answer several of their questions and “correct the record if necessary” from his recent tes
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The University of Utah’s latest failure in the Lauren McCluskey murder should lead to these actions

  10-08-2020 14:45
  
  Lauren McCluskey hadn’t been dead long, shot by an abusive ex-boyfriend, but the University of Utah police officers were already focused on their most important question.“I wonder what she looked like,” a sergeant at the murder scene wondered — a question utterly irrelevant aside from his own morbid curiosity.Officer Miguel Deras was happy to oblige, pulling out his phone and showing his colleague an explicit photo of the young victim.McCluskey had gone to police nine day
  
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• Utah’s Fraternal Order of Police pushes its own reform agenda

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  Utah’s largest police union has long seen Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill as its antagonist, so it’s not surprising that the group rejected his ideas to revamp how and when an officer can use deadly force, calling them “Sim’s random assortment of ideas to avoid accountability and maybe save his job.”And when Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall signed an executive order Monday that among other things increases the responsibility of officers to stop their
  
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• Postal Service urges Utahns to vote early to avoid problems, while county clerks express confidence

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  President Donald Trump tweeted this week that a move by Nevada to vote by mail “made it impossible for Republicans to win the state” because the “Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation.”Congressional Democrats are attacking changes made by Trump’s new postmaster general — including eliminating overtime and ordering that mail be kept until the next day if distribution centers are running late — that are creating de
  
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• Letter: Why do we need nuclear testing?

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  I and many others — especially “downwinders” and their families — are extremely curious: Can someone explain logically exactly why we would have any reason to restart testing nuclear weapons? Don’t we already know that they work?Alan Linett, SandySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: The UEA’s conclusions are complicated and nuanced

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  I’m writing in response to Ben Henderson’s op-ed “Not all teachers oppose reopening of schools in Utah.” His inflammatory language and lack of evidence for his assertions demonstrates his passion but also lack of information about the Utah Education Association and its processes. UEA President Heidi Matthews’ statement came from the UEA board, elected teacher representatives from around the state. It is complicated and nuanced, which UEA readily appreciates.1. UEA h
  
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• Letter: Silence isn’t an option

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  Distressed and angry are just a couple of the emotions I felt after learning of the closing of state-run health clinics according to a Aug. 3 Tribune article. This action is a perfect example of those in power deciding the fate of those who have no voice.Statements from patients and physicians concerning the Salt Lake clinic specifically describe an example of healthcare at its best: yearslong relationships; compassionate and trusted providers; medical, dental and psychological care; accessible
  
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• How school lunches will work when Utah students return

  10-08-2020 14:00
  
  A school cafeteria can be a germy place, a crowded petri dish where bacteria — or a virus — could spread.Each day, hundreds of students — who may or may not have washed their hands — touch trays, counters, plates, utensils and sometimes one another before grabbing food, sitting at a communal table and devouring their midday meals amid a cacophony of chatter.This fall, with many Utah students heading back to class — and the spread of the coronavirus still at the fore
  
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• Mark Cuban Wants to Fix Health Care, the N.B.A. and Maybe Everything Else

  10-08-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  "I’m just looking to say — and this may be arrogant — how can I solve this problem?"
  
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• Letter: Curtail BLM’s bad land management practices

  10-08-2020 06:00
  
  “Habitat restoration.” “Watershed improvement.” The Bureau of Land Management’s talk sounds good, but there’s a less sanguine descriptor of the agency’s “treatment” of public lands: “chaining.” Chaining involves ripping native trees out by their roots, destroying habitat for countless species — some imperiled and declining — and potentially damaging archaeological sites.Infrequently, chaining is beneficial. It may crea
  
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• Devin Glenn: Victims of trafficking are still being used

  10-08-2020 05:00
  
  I was a junior in high school when a nonprofit organization came to my school to talk about its efforts against human trafficking.As horrified as I was by the entire idea of human trafficking, I was uncomfortable with the way the presenter sensationalized his role as a Mission Impossible-type agent set on getting “the bad guys” — a phase he repeatedly used.As he showed photos of victims being rescued, blown up to huge proportions on our gym’s projector screen, I felt sick
  
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• Tony Finau’s 66 gives him a tie for fourth place in the PGA Championship

  10-08-2020 04:00
  
  Tony Finau will always remember being part of a seven-way tie for the lead in the final round of a major golf tournament. His problem Sunday was that Finau’s parring the last four holes was not good enough, thanks to Collin Morikawa’s late surge to win the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.Finau’s closing 66 hardly resembled his weekend struggles in other opportunities to win PGA Tour events this summer. The West High School graduate was “happy to make
  
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• Letter: Trump’s new national park

  10-08-2020 04:00
  
  Based on what I’ve read in The Salt Lake Tribune and heard on TV, I had the impression that President Trump had no or little interest in preserving national parks. I now realize I may have misjudged him. Not only did he praise the establishment of the wonderful Grand Canyon during his press conference, but he announced the designation of a new one. Yes, Trump referred to the new Yo-Semite National Park.My only concern is this: As a Gentile, will I be allowed to visit this park?Sandra Willi
  
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• Postal Service emerges as flash point heading into election

  10-08-2020 03:30
  
  Washington • Mail piling up. Constant attacks from the president. Cuts to overtime as record numbers of ballots are expected to pass through post offices this fall.The success of the 2020 presidential election could hinge on a most unlikely government agency: the U.S. Postal Service. Current signs are not promising.The Postal Service already was facing questions over how it would handle the expected spike of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic, but several operational changes im
  
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• Fire near Fruitland damages two structures, destroys one home

  10-08-2020 03:12
  
  A fire at a Duchesne County church spread and damaged two structures Sunday and destroyed one home and two outbuildings. Several other structures are threatened.The 6400 Fire — previously known as the Fruitland Church Fire — is estimated at 225 acres and it is 0% contained. All evacuations have been lifted.The fire destroyed one primary residence and damaged two other residences, according to Utah Fire Info.The cause of the fire is unknown.The #FruitlandChurchFire has been renamed th
  
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• Behind enemy lines: Mavericks resting Doncic, Porzingis, Finney-Smith, which is good for Jazz

  10-08-2020 03:12
  
  FILE - Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic (77) and Kristaps Porzingis (6) celebrate a basket made against the Portland Trail Blazers on Oct. 27, 2019.Doncic, Porzingis, and Dorian Finney-Smith will rest against the Utah Jazz on Monday, the first game of a Mavericks back-to-back set. | Tony Gutierrez, AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Dallas Mavericks will be without Luka Doncic, Kristaps Porzingis, and Dorian Finney-Smith, against the Utah Jazz on Monday, the first game of a Mavericks back-to-back
  
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• States on hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan

  10-08-2020 03:02
  
  Falls Church, Va. • Whether President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to extend federal unemployment benefits by executive order remains unclear. Equally up in the air is whether states, which are necessary partners in Trump’s plan to bypass Congress, will sign on.Trump announced an executive order Saturday that extends additional unemployment payments of $400 a week to help cushion the economic fallout of the pandemic. Congress had approved payments of $600 a week at th
  
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• People’s Council rallies to defund West Valley City Police Department

  10-08-2020 01:32
  
  Protesters led by the Salt Lake City chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) called for a West Valley City budget that reflects its citizens needs as the largest minority majority city in Utah.“Most of what people call crime is a lack of resources and people’s material needs not being met,” said PSL member Amanda Peterson, who advocated re-appropriating funds from the city’s $28 million police budget to fund the needs of its low-income communities.The grou
  
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• The Utah Jazz have a lot to clean up with the NBA playoffs only two games away

  10-08-2020 01:00
  
  Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert (27) attempts a steal against Denver Nuggets’ Mason Plumlee (7) during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via AP Lessons learned from Saturday’s loss to the Nuggets, and whatever can be gleaned from upcoming games against the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs, will be paramount to what the team is able to do moving forward. SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz&rsq
  
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• Police find woman who says she was kidnapped and beaten

  10-08-2020 00:56
  
  Police on Saturday found a woman who was allegedly held against her will for two days and showed signs she had been physically abused.Officers said they saw injuries to the woman’s face and neck when they found her running and screaming as a man chased her. She told police the man had hit her with a pole and punched her. She also said the man threatened to hang her with a noose that hung in the detached garage in Midvale where she had been living.Salt Lake County officers arrested the man
  
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• Utah Jazz now giving rookies a longer look in bid to fill out rotation

  10-08-2020 00:12
  
  It was hardly a surprise to see the likes of Miye Oni and Jarrell Brantley get substantial playing time for the Utah Jazz in Friday’s loss against the Spurs, considering Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley and Royce O’Neale all sat out.Seeing Oni and Brantley continue to get minutes in Saturday’s double-overtime loss against the Nuggets, however, when all those regulars were back, was something else entirely.Maybe it’s not that surprising, though, considering a con
  
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• Elizabeth Bruenig: ‘Racism makes a liar of God’

  10-08-2020 00:01
  
  In 1963, when 250,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial and heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I have a dream” speech, they did so under the prayerful invocation of Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle of Washington. He called for the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of Christians to the injustice of racial discrimination, condemned violence and praised the activists who had possessed the courage to go forth, like Moses, in search of a beautiful country.Five deca
  
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