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• Utah’s lawmakers won’t extend COVID-19 state of emergency

  19-08-2020 23:56
  
  Citing a lack of support among House and Senate leadership, Utah lawmakers said Wednesday that they will not extend the governor’s state of emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic before it lapses at the end of this week.Rep. Jake Anderegg, R-Lehi, announced that decision at Wednesday’s Political Subdivisions Interim Committee meeting as he pulled the item related to the state’s Emergency Powers Act and the state of emergency from discussion.“Between the caucuses, t
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Therapist discusses what’s right with bishops’ interviews

  19-08-2020 22:33
  
  The long-standing practice of having lay bishops interview teens and ask them questions about their faith and their lives, including any sexual activity, has come under fire in recent years.A group called “Protect LDS Children” urged the church to stop the practice, citing examples of bishops who were insensitive and even abusive. Church leaders made changes, allowing, for instance, those being interviewed to have a second adult with them in these conversations. But critics and some
  
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• Lawmakers eye borrowing $500 million to push road projects forward

  19-08-2020 22:04
  
  Utah lawmakers on Wednesday discussed the possibility of borrowing $500 million through bonding to keep transportation projects on track that might otherwise be slowed during the pandemic and to take advantage of low interest rates.“We’re thinking possibly a bond might be helpful in moving some of the transportation projects along,” said Rep. Kay Christofferson, R-Lehi, co-chairman of the Transportation Interim Committee.Its members discussed the pros and cons of the borrowing
  
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• Child sex abuse victims don’t need to testify twice, Utah Supreme Court rules

  19-08-2020 22:03
  
  The Utah Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that children who report that they were sexual assaulted don’t need to testify and confront their alleged abuser multiple times in court.The unanimous decision means that, going forward, young people who allege sexual abuse won’t have to testify at preliminary hearings, except in rare circumstances.Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor who represented one of the alleged victims in the case, called the decision a “big victory&rdquo
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz lead Denver Nuggets 61-48 at halftime of Game 2

  19-08-2020 21:48
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray (27) and Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles (2) converse while Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., not visible, prepares to take a freethrow during overtime in an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Nuggets’ Monte Morris (11) looks on. The Nuggets won 135-125 in overtime. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will be looking to even up their playoff series against the Denve
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz lead Denver Nuggets 27-25 after 1st quarter of Game 2

  19-08-2020 21:48
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray (27) and Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles (2) converse while Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., not visible, prepares to take a freethrow during overtime in an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Nuggets’ Monte Morris (11) looks on. The Nuggets won 135-125 in overtime. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will be looking to even up their playoff series against the Denve
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz lead Denver Nuggets 104-79 at end of 3rd quarter of Game 2

  19-08-2020 21:48
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) shoots the basketball against Denver Nuggets guard PJ Dozier (35) in game Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will be looking to even up their playoff series against the Denver Nuggets at a game apiece when the two sides square off Wednesday afternoon in Orlando.
  The Nuggets won Game 1 135-125 on Monday in overtime after
  
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• Live coverage: Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets square off in Game 2 of playoff series

  19-08-2020 21:48
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray (27) and Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles (2) converse while Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., not visible, prepares to take a freethrow during overtime in an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Nuggets’ Monte Morris (11) looks on. The Nuggets won 135-125 in overtime. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz will be looking to even up their playoff series against the Denve
  
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• 3 keys in the Utah Jazz’s emphatic 124-105 Game 2 win over the Denver Nuggets

  19-08-2020 21:48
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00) shoots the basketball against Denver Nuggets guard PJ Dozier (35) in game Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz tied up their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets in emphatic fashion on Wednesday afternoon in Orlando, dominating Game 2 and ultimately winning 124-105.
  Here are three keys from the game.The J
  
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• 8 new liquor stores — and maybe curbside pickup — in the works for Utah

  19-08-2020 21:46
  
  A record eight new liquor stores could open along the Wasatch Front within the next four years, the executive director of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said this week.New stores will open in Farmington and Saratoga Spring by the end of 2020 and in Taylorsville in mid-2021, DABC Executive Director Sal Petilos told a Legislative committee.In 2022, replacements for stores on Foothill Boulevard, in Salt Lake City, and Redwood Road in West Valley City are expected to open —
  
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• Eight new deaths and another 364 cases of COVID-19 reported in Utah

  19-08-2020 21:28
  
  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. Eight more Utahns have died from COVID-19, and while half of them were residents of long-term care facilities, the number of outbreaks in such centers are dropping. There were 21 nursing homes and other long-term care facilities on the
  
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• Live: Utah Jazz take on Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of playoff series

  19-08-2020 21:00
  
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• Pope: Rich can’t get priority for vaccine, poor need help

  19-08-2020 20:30
  
  Vatican City • Pope Francis on Wednesday warned against any prospect that rich people would get priority for a coronavirus vaccine."The pandemic is a crisis. You don't come out of it the same — either better or worse,'' Francis said, adding improvised remarks to his planned speech for his weekly public audience.“We must come out better” from the COVID-19 pandemic, the pope said.After the COVID-19 pandemic, the pope said, the world can’t return to normality if normal
  
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• Public lands chief hangs on despite nomination getting nixed

  19-08-2020 20:00
  
  Billings, Mont. • A former oil industry attorney will continue calling the shots for a government agency that oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West, despite the White House saying over the weekend that President Donald Trump would withdraw the nomination of William Perry Pendley.Pendley’s continued rein at the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management comes under an unusual arrangement that Pendley himself set up months ago, according to a documen
  
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• Christian groups unveil new criminal justice reform push

  19-08-2020 19:43
  
  A coalition of Christian groups including the Church of God in Christ and the National Association of Evangelicals is launching a new criminal justice reform push that seeks to rally believers behind policing changes grounded in biblical principles.Set to be announced Wednesday, the Prayer & Action Justice Initiative has its roots in a campaign started in the aftermath of the coronavirus to help save small churches at risk of closing, with top contributors to that work now channeling their e
  
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• Utah reduces toxic algae testing after budget reductions

  19-08-2020 19:00
  
  Provo • Dozens of bodies of water in Utah were not tested for toxic algae blooms this spring because of state budget cuts.They previously underwent regular testing before the cuts to the Utah Division of Water Quality testing and monitoring program, The Daily Herald reported.State lawmakers in 2019 dedicated $200,000 annually for monitoring and testing of the algae blooms. But they cut the funding this year to prioritize Utah Lake initiatives, said Erica Gaddis, the director of the water qu
  
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• Norbert Thelissen is newest piece in Utah basketball’s growing European connection

  19-08-2020 18:57
  
  Andy Hill was driving to Montana for some vacation time earlier this summer when his phone rang, a familiar name showing up on his Caller ID.Roel Van de Graaf, a director with Dutch professional basketball club Heroes Den Bosch, had a player for Hill. Norbert Thelissen is a 6-foot-7 wing who played 41 games for Den Bosch across the 2019 and 2020 seasons. Thelissen had the option to continue playing professionally, but long term, he wants to be a doctor. The road to that goal is easier going thro
  
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• Beyond belief: Religion as a motivating force for 5 women suffragists

  19-08-2020 18:32
  
  Many might assume the feminists who fought for women’s right to vote were casting off the shackles of religion.There were certainly some of those. But many suffragists who pushed for the 19th Amendment, ratified 100 years ago today (Aug. 18), had a complex relationship with faith.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the first leaders of the movement, famously wrote of the Christian Bible, “I know no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.”In 1895, she
  
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• Teens struggle to balance school, family and work amid COVID-19

  19-08-2020 18:00
  
  With her baby brother in her arms, Kara Apuzzo tried to follow along in an online class as he squirmed or slept. Other times, the 18-year-old rushed to get ready for work at a front-line job at Target as her virtual high school lessons were still wrapping up.Last school year was further complicated by computer issues that kept her from logging in and online tools that bedeviled even her teachers. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Apuzzo, who lives in New Haven, Connecticut, knew she wanted t
  
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• It’s official: fellow football independents BYU and Army to meet for first time

  19-08-2020 17:34
  
  A day after coach Kalani Sitake was mums the word on rumors surrounding a possible game against Army, BYU announced the deal. The Cougars and the Black Knights have agreed to a home-and-home football series.The first game of the series will be played Sept. 19 at Blaik Field at Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y. The game, which is scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. MT kickoff, will be broadcast nationally on CBS.This will be the first time the two independent programs will meet.“It’s a real ho
  
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• Police ID woman who was stabbed to death and thrown from her car. Friends are raising funds for her family.

  19-08-2020 16:46
  
  Friends are raising funds for the family of a Utah woman who was stabbed to death and pushed from her car on Interstate 15 on Sunday.Police have identified the victim as Shilo Marie Stewart, 34, of Fruit Heights. She was driving north on I-15 just south of the 200 West off-ramp in Farmington shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunday when she was killed.According to police, the 18-year-old suspect told them that Stewart “looked at him funny” so he “stabbed the victim multiple times, unbu
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 17 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths

  19-08-2020 16:43
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials have reported 17 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four additional deaths.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,486 and the known death toll to 484 as of Tuesday.Navajo Department of Health officials said 89,399 people have been tested for the coronavirus and 6,987 have recovered.The Navajo Nation lifted its stay-at-home order last Sunday, but is encouraging residents to leave their homes only for emergencies or essential
  
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• Family raising funds for Utah man severely injured when a teen attacked him with a sledgehammer

  19-08-2020 16:14
  
  The family of a Payson man who was attacked by a teenager with sledgehammer on Friday is raising funds to help pay for his recovery.Payson police have identified the victim as Benjamin Partridge, 41. He was working in his driveway on Friday morning when a 17-year-old boy approached him from behind and struck him with the sledgehammer. The teenager, who later turned himself in, also hit several children at an adjacent home daycare center and another adult with his fists before fleeing on foot.Par
  
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• RSL’s Aaron Herrera now playing at a ‘national team’ level in his third MLS year

  19-08-2020 15:21
  
  Zac MacMath entered the 2020 preseason with Real Salt Lake as a newcomer. And for any player acclimating to a new city and club, meeting and connecting with teammates is a top priority.It didn’t take long for a few players to catch the goalkeeper’s attention. One of them was defender Aaron Herrera.“Wow, this kid’s got it,” MacMath recalled thinking.Herrera is in his third year with not only RSL, but Major League Soccer. He signed a four-year contract extension in th
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah can lead the nation in helping average people navigate the legal system

  19-08-2020 15:00
  
  One day a guy calls a lawyer and asks how much he charges for a consultation. The lawyer says he’ll answer three questions for $350. “That’s kinda steep, isn’t it?” the guy asks. “Yes,” the lawyer responded. “Now what’s your third question?”All the best lawyer jokes play on pretty much this same theme, that if you ever need a lawyer it’ll cost you. And, like all jokes, there’s an element of truth to it. For many Utahns, lega
  
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• Election bill provides more in-person voter options but county clerks want longer time frame for mailed ballots

  19-08-2020 14:53
  
  A new bill under consideration in the state Legislature would give Utah voters more options for casting their ballot in November’s election than they had in this summer’s almost entirely by-mail primary.The bill, HB6009, would allow counties to offer outdoor and in-person voting as well as drive-thru options, plus dropbox and mail-in balloting — all in an effort to provide “added flexibility” as the coronavirus pandemic wears on, said Sen. Wayne Harper, the bill&rsq
  
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• Rancho Markets adapting during the coronavirus

  19-08-2020 14:00
  
  The first days of the quarantine were tough at Rancho Markets. The shelves emptied fast, and the storage didn’t last long.When a truck carrying rice arrived at one of the Salt Lake City stores, frustrated and desperate customers pounced, grabbing more bags than they could carry.“It was extremely stressful to see people’s reactions. It was truly apocalyptic,” said Eli Madrigal, CEO and president of the Utah grocery chain that caters to the growing Hispanic population in Sa
  
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• Letter: No freedom to harm others

  19-08-2020 14:00
  
  I don’t think that there are very many who believe that my freedom gives me the right to drink and drive. If I do, I endanger not only myself, but others on the road.Wearing a mask is similar. If I don't wear one, I endanger myself. But, if I have the symptomless version of this virus, which is common, I also endanger everyone I am in contact with.Is a mask perfect? No. Is my driving perfect when I am dead sober? I doubt it, but it is much better. It is similar with masks. We need to wear
  
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• George Pyle: Homelessness demands a Marshall Plan, not a Versailles Conference

  19-08-2020 14:00
  
  The dumbest decision of a sometimes astoundingly dumb 20th century was what the victorious nations did after World War I.Not content to have defeated Germany on the battlefield, the supposed best brains of the Western world assembled in the Palace of Versailles and took steps to make sure that nation remained beaten, impoverished, bereft, humiliated, ruined.And somehow they were all surprised when the German people decided they were sick and tired of being beaten down, poor and hungry. Shocked t
  
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• Letter: Trump’s USPS corruption

  19-08-2020 13:00
  
  On Aug. 13, the president admitted that his motivations for not seeking funding for the United States Postal Service are to inhibit voting by mail. This is patently corrupt and obviously politically motivated and wrong.The president needs to be held to account for his unabashed corruption, and the USPS needs to be funded. The USPS is a vital service for millions of Americans; it is a public good and it deserves to be funded properly. S.4174 in the Senate should be passed, in addition to the HERO
  
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• Letter: Cancel college football

  19-08-2020 13:00
  
  I read today that Brigham Young University is still trying to play football this fall, whereas the rest of Utah’s teams belong to conferences that have wisely cancelled or postponed seasons due to COVID.However, the present circumstances lead me to wonder where the consideration is for student athlete health and safety surrounding chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)? Studies have indicated that around 90% of the autopsied brains of former college football players exhibited CTE. If you a
  
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• Letter: Open your ballot and cast your vote

  19-08-2020 07:00
  
  It is a federal offense to tamper with the mail. By exploiting the fear of a virus, a current domestic threat may slow down the mail service that we will depend on to vote safely.As citizens, countrymen and patriots, we must all help defend every citizen's constitutional right to vote by mail if they so choose.I trust our mail carriers will work as hard and as long as is necessary to deliver our ballots. We have a duty to help them. When you receive your ballot, do not set it aside. It is the mo
  
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• Celtics: Gordon Hayward out 4 weeks with right ankle sprain

  19-08-2020 06:44
  
  Boston • The Celtics say forward Gordon Hayward will be sidelined for around four weeks after suffering a severe right ankle sprain in Boston’s Game 1 win over Philadelphia in their first-round playoff series.The injury occurred in the fourth quarter of the Celtics’ 109-101 victory Monday night when he went up for a rebound and rolled his ankle as he landed on teammate Daniel Theis’ foot. He limped to the locker room and didn’t return.Hayward played 34 minutes and sc
  
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• Letter: You would think colleges could save football

  19-08-2020 06:00
  
  Well, it finally happened! Was anyone surprised?I have to say that I was surprised. Because it looks like after months of watching, and doing nothing else but that, the best and the brightest in the world of college athletics could not figure out how to keep athletes healthy during the fall season of sports.One would think that if any faction of our society could figure out how not to lose $60 million, it would be the world of academia! But no! All around the country the powers that be in colleg
  
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• Letter: The uncomfortable work continues

  19-08-2020 05:00
  
  Three years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor that was a response to my disgust at the white supremacist marchers brandishing tiki torches and shouting hate in Charlottesville (”What is wrong with you, white supremacists?” Aug. 20, 2017).It went viral with tens of thousands of views across the internet and I felt, for a brief moment, that justice would prevail in America and that, in reaction to those young white thugs, we would move forward together as a country toward equity for
  
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• Jazz mailbag: Grading Juwan Morgan and explaining the NBA’s return-to-bubble protocol

  19-08-2020 04:41
  
  Utah Jazz’ Juwan Morgan (16) is assisted by teammate Miye Oni after coming down hard on his knee after a rebound against the San Antonio Spurs in the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game Friday, Aug. 7, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox/Pool photo via Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — They NBA playoffs have begun!
  The Denver Nuggets beat the Utah Jazz 135-125 on Monday to take a 1-0 lead in the first round of the best-of-seven series.
  Mike Conley left the bubble on
  
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• Democrats make it official, nominate Biden to take on Trump

  19-08-2020 04:38
  
  New York • Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential nominee Tuesday night, as party officials and activists from across the nation gave the former vice president their overwhelming support during his party’s all-virtual national convention.The moment marked a political high point for Biden, who had sought the presidency twice before and is now cemented as the embodiment of Democrats' desperate desire to defeat President Donald Trump this fall.The roll call of
  
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• Utah’s Democratic delegates defend by-mail voting

  19-08-2020 04:33
  
  Utah Democrats used their moment in the spotlight Tuesday during the official roll call of the states at the Democratic National Convention not only to announce their votes for president, but to defend the voting by mail the Beehive State has used for years — but which President Donald Trump attacks.“Democrats and Republicans here in Utah agree: Mail-in voting strengthens our democracy,” said Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson — who is also Utah’s Democratic Nation
  
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• Frank Bruni: Michelle Obama showed us why these Democrats are our last best hope

  19-08-2020 04:00
  
  I think I’m supposed to question whether the Democratic Party can really stretch far enough in opposite directions to accommodate a democratic socialist like Bernie Sanders and an estranged Republican like John Kasich, transcendently strange bedfellows who spoke and served as ideological poles on the opening night of whatever we’re calling this shrunken, not-in-Milwaukee, pandemic-warped political jubilee.I should probably describe that warping, review the attendant adjustments and f
  
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• Two online charter schools in Utah see massive jumps in enrollment during pandemic

  19-08-2020 03:45
  
  Two Utah charter schools that specialize in online learning have seen a huge jump in families looking to enroll kids there this fall — instead of returning to their traditional K-12 districts — while the coronavirus pandemic wears on. Utah Connections Academy, based in Woods Cross, has had roughly 1,000 more students statewide seeking to register for its online classes than usual. And Utah Virtual Academy, which is separately owned and has offices in Murray, has had an additional 1,5
  
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• Cottonwood Heights City Council debates whether Utah A.G. should investigate recent protest

  19-08-2020 03:36
  
  As Cottonwood Heights seeks answers for an early August protest that turned violent once the police arrived, some City Council members are questioning whether it’s appropriate for the Utah attorney general’s office to conduct a third-party investigation of the incident.That’s because the attorney general, Sean Reyes, is a Cottonwood Heights resident who reportedly lives in the district where the protest took place. At a work session Tuesday evening, council member Christine Mic
  
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• Behind enemy lines: Denver Nuggets’ defensive plan for Donovan Mitchell needs a tuneup

  19-08-2020 03:23
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell, left, drives against Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray, right, 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 SALT LAKE CITY — When Denver Nuggets coach Mike Malone looks at the box score from Monday’s Game 1 win over the Utah Jazz, there’s a lot to be happy about. But Donovan Mitchell’s 57 points is a glaring eyesore.Despite the Nuggets, and partic
  
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• On convention day 2, Democrats focus on experience to fix Trump’s ‘chaos’

  19-08-2020 03:16
  
  New York • Joe Biden drew on party elders at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, making the case that he and his party are uniquely positioned with experience and expertise to repair chaos that President Donald Trump has created at home and abroad.He also showed off younger Democrats the party hopes will be the political stars of tomorrow, although there was little room given to the stars of the party’s far-left wing. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of
  
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• After public opposition, top Latter-day Saint leaders halt high-density housing project near planned Tooele temple

  19-08-2020 02:23
  
  The governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints withdrew Tuesday an approved, but controversial, rezoning request that would have allowed it to build a high-density housing development around its planned Tooele Valley Temple in Erda.The move came after opponents to the housing development appeared to have gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to reverse the rezoning, although a one-week period still remained when signatures could be remove
  
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• After public opposition, Latter-day Saint First Presidency halts high-density housing project near Tooele temple

  19-08-2020 02:08
  
  The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints withdrew Tuesday an approved, but controversial, rezoning request that would have allowed it to build a high-density housing development around its planned Tooele Valley Temple in Erda.The move came after opponents to the housing development appeared to have gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to reverse the rezoning, although a one-week period still remained when signatures could be removed by reque
  
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• Karen Azenberg: A New Deal for the American theater

  19-08-2020 02:00
  
  “The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”― John Steinbeck, “Once There Was a War”Those of us who chose theater as a career did it because the idea of doing anything else seemed inconceivable. It defines who we are. It is not an avocation; it is a job — one that does not stop at 5 p.m. or on weekends. We accepted it would be unst
  
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• On convention day 2, Democrats focus on Trump’s global leadership deficit

  19-08-2020 01:57
  
  New York • Joe Biden is drawing on a collection of his party’s most experienced leaders at the Democratic National Convention to underscore what he calls a current global leadership deficit that threatens U.S. national security under Donald Trump.Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State John Kerry are among the heavy hitters on a Tuesday night schedule that emphasizes a simple theme: Leadership matters. Former President Jimmy Carter, now 95 years old, will also make
  
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• Some lawmakers fret about leveraging long-awaited appraisal of Utah’s public lands

  19-08-2020 01:25
  
  After an investment of $700,000 and months of waiting, Utah lawmakers thought they’d finally nailed down the number they’d long needed to solidify their case that the federal government is dramatically shortchanging the state.The figure was $534 million, the amount they believe the Interior Department should be paying Utah each year for the value of its federally-controlled public lands. Armed with this sum — churned out by pricey property appraisal software — state offic
  
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• Utah investigation finds that 20% of sex offenders contacted were not properly registered

  19-08-2020 01:24
  
  Police and federal agents spent the first two weeks of August nabbing fugitive sex offenders and checking that sex offenders were following registration laws as part of one of the largest such investigations in Utah history.Beginning Aug. 3, officers from 11 state agencies went door-to-door to check on sex offenders to make sure their registration information was current, U.S. Marshal Matthew Harris said at a Tuesday news conference. The U.S. Marshals Service funded the investigation.Officers vi
  
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• Jana Riess: Chad Daybell’s strange end times beliefs are not Mormon theology, says historian

  19-08-2020 01:01
  
  An Idaho couple, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, have been in the news since last year, after the disappearance of Vallow’s two children. In June, the two became murder suspects when remains of the girl and boy were found on Daybell’s property in rural Idaho. Media fascination with Daybell and Vallow intensified when Daybell and Vallow turned out to subscribe to a strain of apocalyptic beliefs related to their Mormon faith.Christopher Blythe, a faculty research associate at the Neal A
  
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