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• Joe Biden introduces VP choice Kamala Harris; much history, no crowd

  12-08-2020 23:45 via sltrib.com
  
  Wilmington, Del. • Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his newly chosen running mate Kamala Harris campaigned together for the first time Wednesday, as the former primary rivals sought to solidify their advantage over President Donald Trump and secure their place in American history.Biden, a 77-year-old white man, embraced the significance of naming the first Black woman to a major party's presidential ticket, but he focused on other attributes Harris brings to the ticket. He ha
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Veep

  12-08-2020 23:39 via sltrib.com
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Quality vs. QanonBlowing Up the MessengerGoes to ElevenDr. Donald’s DevoteesCottonwood Heights LowsBusiness DocsJohn LewisMaking Moscow Great AgainLow BarrDidn’t See That ComingWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Analysis: Racial minorities are overrepresented in Salt Lake County homeless system

  12-08-2020 23:34 via sltrib.com
  
  Racial minorities are overrepresented in Salt Lake County’s homeless system as a proportion of their population, a new analysis of homeless data shows.The disparities are largest among African Americans, who make up 12.6% of those receiving homeless services but only 2.2% of the county’s total population. That means there are 5.7 times more Black people in the homeless system than would be expected based on demographic data alone.American Indian or Alaskan Natives also make up a larg
  
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• Analysis: Racial minorities are more likely to be homeless in Salt Lake County than whites are

  12-08-2020 23:21 via sltrib.com
  
  Racial minorities are more likely to face homelessness in Salt Lake County than white people are, a new analysis of homeless system data shows.The largest disparities are among African Americans, who make up 12.6% of those receiving homeless services but only 2.2% of the county’s total population. That means there are 5.7 times more Black people in the homeless system than would be expected based on demographic data alone.American Indian or Alaskan Natives also make up a larger percentage
  
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• Retired judge will prosecute the protesters facing life in prison for allegedly vandalizing the Salt Lake County DA’s office

  12-08-2020 23:20 via sltrib.com
  
  The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has announced a retired juvenile court judge will prosecute cases filed against protesters alleged to have damaged the district attorney building during a July protest.Dane Nolan was appointed to the 3rd District Juvenile Court in May 2003 by Gov. Mike Leavitt, and retired in July 2017.District Attorney Sim Gill said his office would find an independent prosecutor to try the case because of the apparent conflict of interest, since Gill’
  
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• Utah’s college football fans see loss of season as symptom of poor pandemic response

  12-08-2020 23:12 via sltrib.com
  
  Autumn weekends consist of appointment television in Cate Brabson’s home.She and her partner watch and cheer for University of Utah football from their home in Park City. They also root for Brabson’s alma mater, Tennessee, and her partner’s, Stanford. If games coincide, they record one and watch it later.“College football is on for two days,” Brabson said.There will be little or no college pigskin to watch in 2020. The Pac-12, where Utah and Stanford play, has cance
  
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• Bluff latest municipality in Utah to require masks after Gov. Gary Herbert OKs more local control

  12-08-2020 23:01 via sltrib.com
  
  Bluff became the latest Utah town to enact a local mask mandate on Tuesday, joining Logan and Springdale as the third Utah municipality to pass a local rule requiring face coverings in indoor public spaces.The decision came after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert loosened restrictions on local governments last week so that they can simply notify the state of their intent to mandate masks. Cities and counties had previously been required to request permission from the Utah Department of Health and the Gover
  
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• Frank Bruni: Kamala Harris is the future, so Mike Pence may well be history

  12-08-2020 22:44 via sltrib.com
  
  Already, I am dreaming of the debate.There’s Mike Pence, white of hair as well as cheek, his demeanor more starched than his dress shirt, his smile so tight it’s the twin of a grimace. He represents more than the Trump administration, God help him. He represents an America that’s half memory, half myth.And there’s Kamala Harris — younger, blacker and more buoyant. She’s only the fourth woman on the presidential ticket of one of the country’s two major po
  
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• Trump tweets Cache County with news of grant

  12-08-2020 22:30 via sltrib.com
  
  Hey Cache County, President Donald Trump took out time from his duties to send a special tweet to you on Wednesday about an $18 million federal grant that was just awarded to help bus service there.But don’t feel too special. He sent out at least 16 similar tweets on Wednesday to various places that received grants with 83 days left before Election Day.His tweet read: “Happy to send $18 MILLION in @USDOT funding to Utah to support their transit infrastructure and improve bus service.
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Utah rabbi talks about life in an LDS Zion, meeting an apostle, his views about Christians holding Seders and more

  12-08-2020 22:16 via sltrib.com
  
  Rabbi Sam Spector of Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City has been in Utah a little more than two years but has already built strong relationships with members and leaders of the state’s predominant faith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Just last week, the 30-something rabbi was on hand to oversee a group of Latter-day Saint volunteers who spent five days working alongside Kol Ami congregants to xeriscape the synagogue’s six-acre plot.On this week’s podcast,
  
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• Feds yank oil and gas leases near Arches, Canyonlands parks from upcoming sale

  12-08-2020 21:58 via sltrib.com
  
  Bowing to the wishes of Grand County officials, the Bureau of Land Management will not offer oil and gas leases on 87,000 acres near Arches and Canyonlands national parks it had proposed for its quarterly auction next month.The surprise move will avoid what many critics said would be a replay of the BLM’s 2008 leasing debacle when the outgoing administration of George W. Bush attempted to lease vast swaths of redrock terrain in the same area, only to see the auction monkey-wrenched by a cl
  
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• Man shot by police in Holladay has died

  12-08-2020 21:27 via sltrib.com
  
  A 39-year-old man shot by police over the weekend has died, Unified police announced Wednesday.The man, identified as Matthew Hilbelink, was taken to the hospital after the Aug. 8 shooting and reported to be in critical condition.The shooting happened after officers were called to a parking garage near 3210 E. 6200 South on a report of a suicidal person with a gun.“Officers negotiated with the man for approximately 30 minutes. At 1:13 p.m., an officer-involved shooting occurred,” acc
  
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• Another 338 cases of COVID-19 in Utah, and two more deaths reported

  12-08-2020 21:27 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. Another 338 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, while two more people in the state — both Salt Lake County men — have died from the disease, the Utah Department of Health said Wednesday in its daily report.The two new
  
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• Big 12 moves ahead with fall sports beginning in September

  12-08-2020 21:12 via sltrib.com
  
  Baylor coach Dave Aranda could see a weight being lifted off the shoulders of his players during a meeting Tuesday night, when word began to filter out that the Big 12 Conference would attempt to play football this fall."You could just see the joy," Aranda said. "Everyone was smiling. Guys were cracking jokes, were excited."Months of uncertainty had finally given the Bears and their conference rivals the slightest bit of clarity. If all goes according to plan, they will take the field for a non-
  
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• Salt Lake City suspends use of police dogs after a Black man was bit while complying

  12-08-2020 20:50 via sltrib.com
  
  A Salt Lake City police officer who ordered a police dog to attack a Black man who was on his knees with his hands in the air has been suspended from duty pending an investigation into whether the use of force was necessary, the city’s mayor announced Wednesday.Mayor Erin Mendenhall tweeted that the use of police dogs “to engage with suspects” will be suspended until policies and practices can be reviewed.The announcement comes a day after The Salt Lake Tribune published bodyca
  
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• Dixie State cancels fall football, its first season as an FCS program

  12-08-2020 19:49 via sltrib.com
  
  Dixie State will not begin its first season of Division I football on time this fall.As expected, the first-year FCS independent postponed fall football on Wednesday morning, saying it would attempt to play in the spring if COVID-19 pandemic conditions improve.Dixie State is the third football program from the state of Utah to have its season postponed. The Pac-12, which includes the University of Utah, postponed on Tuesday, while the Mountain West, which houses Utah State, postponed on Monday.
  
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• Bluff becomes first town in Utah to require masks after Gov. Gary Herbert OKs more local control

  12-08-2020 19:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Bluff became the latest Utah town to enact a local mask mandate on Tuesday, joining Logan and Springdale as the third Utah municipality to pass a local rule requiring face coverings in indoor public spaces.The decision came after Utah Gov. Gary Herbert loosened restrictions on local governments last week. Cities and counties had previously been required to request permission from the Utah Department of Health and the Governor’s Office in order to impose health rules that deviated from stat
  
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• North Alabama still plans on playing BYU this fall

  12-08-2020 19:04 via sltrib.com
  
  With only three games left on the schedule, BYU received some relief on Wednesday when North Alabama said in a news release that the match up with the Cougars is still on the books.The Big South Conference, which North Alabama belongs to, announced earlier Wednesday that it would delay its fall season, with intent of playing in the spring.However, the Big South Football Members voted to allow up to four non-conference games in the fall at institutional discretion.North Alabama's current fall sch
  
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• Pac-12 cancels sports through Jan. 1. It’s ‘disappointing news,‘ says Utes football coach Kyle Whittingham.

  12-08-2020 18:31 via sltrib.com
  
  Whether it was the Pacific Coast Conference, Pac-8, Pac-10 or Pac-12, the league has played football each fall dating back to 1916.Through World Wars and any number of global or domestic events in between and afterward, the preeminent collegiate athletics conference in the Western United States has persevered.Until Tuesday.The Pac-12 announced on Tuesday afternoon that it will not only not play fall sports in 2020, but that it is postponing all sports through at least Jan. 1, 2021.The vote by Pa
  
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• Salt Lake City enforcing metered parking once more, will give motorists a warning over next two weeks

  12-08-2020 17:59 via sltrib.com
  
  After a five-month break, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Salt Lake City started reinforcing metered parking areas in the city on Wednesday.Salt Lake City Public Services suggests downloading the free ParkSLC app “to avoid interacting with the pay station kiosks,” the department said in a tweet.The city paused metered parking enforcement back in March as part of its COVID-19 pandemic response, but will ramp up renewed enforcement by issuing warnings over the next two weeks. After the w
  
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• The BYU Cougars want to play, and won’t stop pursuing fall football season until there’s no other option

  12-08-2020 17:43 via sltrib.com
  
  As the floor continues to crumble under them, the BYU Cougars continue to stand their ground and hold out hope for a fall football season.Tuesday was especially trying, not just for BYU, but college football as a whole, as two Power Five programs opted to cancel the fall season and instead eye a possible spring season amid the pandemic.Yet, BYU still wants to play. And no player has opted to sit out this season due to concerns about COVID-19.The Big Ten and Pac-12′s decision to cancel foot
  
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• UTA officer in critical condition after being struck by car

  12-08-2020 15:37 via sltrib.com
  
  A good deed led a Utah Transit Authority police officer being taken to the hospital after being hit by a car in South Salt Lake Tuesday night.According to FOX 13, it happened a little before 10 p.m. in the area of 2700 South State Street.The officer had gotten out of her vehicle to help someone track down their dog running along State Street when the driver of an Audi made a turn onto the street and hit the officer with her car.Investigators told FOX 13 the driver was going between 30 and 40 mph
  
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• The Conversation: Freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom from mask mandates

  12-08-2020 15:33 via sltrib.com
  
  Mask mandates do not violate the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech, assembly and association, as I wrote recently in a story that examined Constitution-based objections to mask-wearing requirements.But a recent lawsuit filed in Florida, Tillis v. Manatee County, raises a different question: Do mask mandates violate the free exercise of religion?The answer is no. No matter what you believe or why you believe it, the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion, known a
  
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• 5 faith facts about Biden’s veep pick, Kamala Harris — a Baptist with Hindu family

  12-08-2020 15:15 via sltrib.com
  
  Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California whom Joe Biden just picked as his running mate.Harris’ ethnic, racial and cultural biography represents a slice of the U.S. population that is becoming ascendant but that has never been represented in the nation’s second-highest office.Here are five faith facts about Harris:She was raised on Hinduism and Christianity.Her mother,
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Vicious police attack on an unarmed Black man proves talk of reform only goes so far

  12-08-2020 15:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Over the years I’ve seen my share of body camera footage, but watching Salt Lake City police turning a dog on Jeffery Ryans was particularly hard.The attack itself is short, but brutal enough I had to stop in the middle and take a break. Ryans was smoking a cigarette in his backyard before heading to work in April when police responded to a neighbor’s report of an argument.He did what police requested, kneeling in the corner of the yard when an officer ordered the dog, Tuco, to attac
  
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• Daybreak apologizes for notice to remove Black Lives Matter signs

  12-08-2020 14:30 via sltrib.com
  
  The homeowners association that governs the South Jordan planned community of Daybreak apologized Tuesday after residents received notices to remove their Black Lives Matter yard signs.One of those who received the notice was University of Utah sociology and family and consumer studies professor Dan Carlson, who posted a photo of his notice on Twitter.So this is what the #Daybreak HOA in South Jordan UT gave me today. There are no bylaws regarding content of political signs. But apparently my #B
  
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• Utah advocates blast fee hikes for legal immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, asylum

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Recently announced plans to significantly increase fees for legal immigrants seeking to become citizens or requesting U.S. asylum are inhumane, especially during the pandemic, say immigrant advocates in Utah.“[Increasing fees] is wrong during a time when families are already struggling with unemployment, housing and getting sick with COVID-19,” said Ciriac Alvarez Valle, a policy analyst and community organizer for Voices for Utah Children. “It will affect so many of our low-in
  
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• Letter: Save the post office

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Recently, a Republican-dominated Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a state election had to be held in spite of the danger to voters coming to the polls during a pandemic. The result was voter outrage, which led to an upset win for the Democrat running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.The Republicans are in serious danger of igniting the same voter outrage nationally by allowing the Trump administration to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service in order to seed chaos and doubt into the national electio
  
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• Letter: Limiting free speech

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Sen. Mike Lee doesn’t like social media companies suspending, deleting or truthing content on their sites (“Lee scolds social media giants for ‘censorship’ of conservatives,” Tribune, Aug. 1). Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes didn’t anticipate the internet and social media when he used the analogy of a prohibition against falsely shouting “fire” in a crowded theater as a reasonable limitation on free speech because that shout could resul
  
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• Letter: Here are some ways you can help local businesses get through this rough time

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I am an owner of both an alcoholic beverage manufacturing company with a package agency license and a bar. Needless to say these are challenging times.Weekly, we see bars and restaurants closing because they can’t pay their bills with only 50% occupancy. As manufacturers, many of us are facing the same issues with reduced demand from bars and restaurants or reduced orders from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.Currently, there are about 35 breweries, 15 distilleries and a handfu
  
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• Letter: Don’t trust protesters

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  I saw on TV news that peaceful protesters in Davis County were protesting that they wanted their schools to open five days a week with full instruction. One woman carried a sign that said, “Liquor stores are open.”Comparing the opening of liquor stores in Utah has nothing to do with schools being open five days a week with students, vulnerable teachers, their parents, grandparents or autoimmune suppressed people in their households.Liquor stores that reopened after the shutdown are t
  
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• Kathleen Kaufman: Lawmakers don’t know how hard it is to find a doctor

  12-08-2020 14:00 via sltrib.com
  
  On Aug. 3, The Salt Lake Tribune reported that budget cuts made in a special appropriation session in June will close the doors of three medical and two dental clinics that are state-funded. Apparently just enough funds were left to close the Ogden and Provo clinics on the 15th of this month and the Salt Lake Clinic on the 31st of October.These clinics, The Health Clinics of Utah (HCU) provide primary care to 13,000 patients. These patients are those who are on Medicaid, some on Medicare, and so
  
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• Portland beats Orlando 2-1 to claim MLS is Back championship

  12-08-2020 06:32 via sltrib.com
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Soaked in sweat and doused in water, the Portland Timbers hoisted the MLS is Back trophy at midfield and then headed toward a giant TV screen filled with fans cheering from afar.It was a huge Zoom party. It might just be the way to celebrate championships in 2020.Dario Zuparic’s first goal of the season gave Portland a 2-1 victory against Orlando in Major League Soccer’s return tournament finale Tuesday night, capping a month-long event that showed sport
  
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• Vigil for Dillon Taylor evokes names of others killed by Utah police

  12-08-2020 04:17 via sltrib.com
  
  Almost six years before George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, people marched for police reform in Utah.Those protests began after a Salt Lake City police officer shot and killed Dillon Taylor on Aug. 11, 2014. On Tuesday, the anniversary of Taylor’s death, his loved ones and supporters lamented many of the people killed by police in Utah over the past six years.“If people would have listened a long time ago,” said Gina Thayne, Dillon Taylor’s aunt, “maybe we co
  
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• Kip Yost: One year after the homeless shelter

  12-08-2020 04:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Our pets are funny.When our morning alarm goes off, our little cat comes up first, her motorboat purr and whiskers announcing her presence. Frodo the Pomeranian always waits for the snooze alarm for some reason, but as soon as that goes off, he bounces up and joins in, a great big yawning ball of fur.At that point, we can either get up or get smothered, and so we crawl out of bed, my wife going off to fix coffee while I shower and get ready for work.Or at least, that’s how mornings were in
  
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• Commentary: At 6th in the West, Utah Jazz would face either Nuggets, Rockets or Clippers in 1st round of NBA playoffs

  12-08-2020 03:58
  
  Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) fakes and hops back as Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) works to defend as the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets play an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The Rockets won 125-98. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Good luck trying to find someone that believes the Utah Jazz didn’t intentionally lose to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday.
  Donovan Mitchell did not play on
  
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• Trump, Biden seek Latter-day Saint voters in battleground states

  12-08-2020 02:05 via sltrib.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Arizona on Tuesday in an effort to persuade a small but potentially powerful coalition to give President Donald Trump four more years in office — members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.During a 40-minute speech at a hotel ballroom in Mesa, Pence sought to contrast the Trump administration’s support for religious liberty and the “sanctity of life” against what he called Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s “so
  
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• Justin F. Thulin: Are climate change and COVID-19 a modern Greek tragedy?

  12-08-2020 02:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Most parents do what they can to make the world a better place for their kids and grandkids. They buy them their first bike when they are little. If they can, they help them pay for college when they are teens. If they are able, they might help with the down payment on their kids’ first house in their 20s or 30s.And it doesn’t end there, as they lavish their generosity on their grandchildren in a similar fashion and give whatever is left over to their offspring when they pass.What ma
  
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• Pac-12 cancels all sports through Jan. 1. It’s ‘disappointing news for our program’ Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham says.

  12-08-2020 01:42 via sltrib.com
  
  Whether it was the Pacific Coast Conference, Pac-8, Pac-10, Pac-12, the league has played football each fall dating back to 1916.Through World Wars and any number of global or domestic events in between and afterwards, the preeminent collegiate athletics conference in the Western United States has persevered.Until Tuesday.The Pac-12 announced on Tuesday afternoon that it will not only not play fall sports in 2020, but that it is postponing all sports through at least Jan. 1, 2021.The vote by Pac
  
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• Utah police officer suspected of sex with probationer

  12-08-2020 01:28 via sltrib.com
  
  A police officer in Price was arrested last month on suspicion of having sex with a woman on probation.The officer, Michael G. Jones, 30, resigned on Aug. 3, three days after his arrest, according to the Price Police Department. A search of court records shows Jones has not formally been charged with any crimes.Utah law calls sex between peace officers and inmates, probationers or parolees custodial sexual relations. It can be a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.A probable cause st
  
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• Utah Democrats see Kamala Harris as a unifying force for a divided America

  12-08-2020 01:15 via sltrib.com
  
  Darlene McDonald says that as a child the thought of a Black woman like her getting elected as vice president was so unimaginable that it never even occurred to her.Now, Joe Biden selected California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate — and McDonald, Democratic National Committee member from Utah, is over-the-moon ecstatic.“I’m practically in tears. I think it is wonderful,” McDonald said. “It is the first time that an African American woman and an Asian America
  
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• Utah Jazz mailbag: Who could boost the bench and biggest NBA bubble surprises

  12-08-2020 01:08
  
  Houston Rockets’ Austin Rivers (25) defends as Utah Jazz’s Georges Niang drives the basket in the second half during an NBA basketball game Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The Houston Rockets defeated the Utah Jazz 120-110.| Kim Raff, APSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz are just one game away from the playoffs and while their first-round opponent has yet to be decided, there’s still plenty to talk about.
  What is on the minds of Jazz fans heading into the postsea
  
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• These guys are still playing: Ten Utah prep football teams to watch this season

  12-08-2020 01:07 via sltrib.com
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic first hit sports in Utah when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, sending a ripple effect as leagues all across the country halted their seasons.It didn’t long for high schools in the state to feel the effects of the pandemic. The Utah High School Activities Association ostensibly canceled the spring prep season twice — once initially in April when schools went to at-home learning, and again a month later despite calls from athletes
  
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• Wyoming not top contender for purchase of land and mineral rights

  12-08-2020 00:37 via sltrib.com
  
  Cheyenne, Wyo. • The state of Wyoming isn’t the lead contender to buy a vast swath of land and mineral rights in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah offered for sale by Occidental Petroleum, the governor’s office said Tuesday.Still, Wyoming will keep its bid active and confidential in case the top bid falls through, Gov. Mark Gordon said."We believe our bid positions Wyoming to generate additional investment revenue and would keep taxes low into the future," Gordon said.The total land ar
  
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• Jenny Wilson: Take time for the census, today

  12-08-2020 00:00 via sltrib.com
  
  Ten years is a long time to wait on representation. And that is what is facing thousands of residents of this state if we do not seriously make an effort to fill out the census before it’s too late.On July 30, it was reported that the Census Bureau will shortchange key 2020 census operations and cut its door-knocking operation and self-response period by one month. The bureau is also making substantial changes to how we count people experiencing homelessness.A successful 2020 census has to
  
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