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• Utahns rally in Salt Lake City to ‘save the post office'

  22-08-2020 22:46
  
  About 70 people rallied outside of downtown Salt Lake City’s post office Saturday, waving signs in support of the federal system they say is under attack by President Donald Trump.It was part of a nationwide day of action in response to recent delays in the U.S. Postal Service and Trump’s unfounded criticism of voting by mail as unreliable and easy to manipulate.Katie Matheson, with Alliance for a Better Utah, told the crowd that while Utah has a lot of areas that need improvement, t
  
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• Paris Hilton says she was abused while at Utah facility for ‘troubled teens’

  22-08-2020 22:35
  
  Paris Hilton is speaking out publicly about what she says was abuse she endured while at a “troubled teen” facility in Utah in the 1990s.The reality star spoke about Provo Canyon School in an interview with People ahead of the release of her documentary, This is Paris.“The staff would say terrible things,” she told the magazine. “They were constantly making me feel bad about myself and bully me. I think it was their goal to break us down. And they were physically ab
  
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• How rookie Juwan Morgan went from undrafted free agent to playoff contributor for the Utah Jazz

  22-08-2020 22:30
  
  Utah Jazz’s Juwan Morgan (16) dunks as Denver Nuggets’ Paul Millsap (4) looks on during the second half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Juwan Morgan still remembers the tweet he posted on the morning of June 21, 2019.
  The night before, Morgan had not been among the 60 players selected in the annual NBA draft, although immediately after, The Athletic’s Michael Scotto report
  
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• Utah reports 369 new COVID-19 cases and two more deaths

  22-08-2020 22:03
  
  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 369 Utahns have tested positive for COVID-19, while two more have died from the disease, the Utah Department of Health said Saturday in its daily report.The new deaths being the state’s overall death toll to 385 people.Both
  
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• Royce O’Neale’s defense on Jamal Murray has changed Jazz-Nuggets series. Can he keep it up?

  22-08-2020 22:00
  
  The question to Joe Ingles Saturday afternoon centered around the ability of the Jazz to defend Denver Nuggets star guard Jamal Murray, especially over the last two games.Before the interviewer could finish the question, Ingles interrupted to make a clarifying point.“I haven’t guarded Jamal Murray at all, let’s be honest,” Ingles said tongue-in-cheek on a Zoom call, less than 24 hours after the Jazz blew out the Nuggets to take a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference first
  
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• The Utah Jazz have gone from never beating Denver this season to blowing them out twice. But how?

  22-08-2020 21:32
  
  It was some kind of trip hearing the question posed to Quin Snyder in the immediate aftermath of the Utah Jazz’s 124-87 Game 3 victory over Denver on Friday: Following two straight blowout wins, do you now have to guard against complacency?My, how far they’ve come.Considering the Jazz’s double-overtime seeding game loss to the Nuggets just two short weeks ago had planted seeds of doubt about Utah’s capacity to vanquish its Northwest Division rival, and considering the Jaz
  
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• Utah Jazz have gone from never beating Denver Nuggets this season to blowing them out twice. But how?

  22-08-2020 21:20
  
  It was some kind of trip hearing the question posed to Quin Snyder in the immediate aftermath of the Utah Jazz’s 124-87 Game 3 victory over Denver on Friday: Following two straight blowout wins, do you now have to guard against complacency?My, how far they’ve come.Considering the Jazz’s double-overtime seeding game loss to the Nuggets just two short weeks ago had planted seeds of doubt about Utah’s capacity to vanquish its Northwest Division rival, and considering the Jaz
  
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• Man shot and killed on Salt Lake City street

  22-08-2020 21:08
  
  A 34-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday morning on the sidewalk near 800 West and North Temple.The man, whom police have not publicly identified, was shot multiple times at around 10:30 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died.Lt. Brian Sloan said Saturday afternoon that police don't have any concrete information about who the shooter might be, but said there were a lot of business security cameras in the area that likely captured what happened.“We really don’t hav
  
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• Utahns rally in downtown SLC to ‘save the Post Office'

  22-08-2020 20:34
  
  About 70 people rallied outside of downtown Salt Lake City’s postal office Saturday morning, waving signs in support of the federal system they say is under attack by President Donald Trump.It was part of a nationwide day of action in response to recent delays in the U.S. Postal Service and Trump’s criticism of voting by mail as unreliable and easy to manipulate.Katie Matheson, with Alliance for a Better Utah, told the crowd that while Utah has a lot of areas that need improvement, t
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah Jazz stars Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert are healed from whatever ailed them

  22-08-2020 19:38
  
  As Rudy Gobert strutted off the court for a timeout the other day, havingput another two-fisted dunk on the bean of Nikola Jokic and declaredhimself a huge threat to the overall well-being of the Denver Nuggets, agrinning Donovan Mitchell, who had been sitting on the bench for abrief rest, ran to him and shoved the big man straight in themidsection, the way only friends do.Love was in the air.In that moment and in almost every moment at present, nobody — certainlynot either of them —
  
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• University of Utah is open for business, so now comes the hard part for the athletic department

  22-08-2020 18:15
  
  The University of Utah is open for business for the fall semester, so now comes the hard part for the athletic department.The five-day staggered move-in process for students began Tuesday. By Sunday, roughly 3,600 total students were expected to be living on campus.As classes, not to mention some semblance of campus life begin on Monday, regular students will now be living and mingling among the athletic department’s 500-plus student athletes, many of whom came back as early as mid-June to
  
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• Letter: Help the Post Office. Run against Lee.

  22-08-2020 18:06
  
  Two things:Where do I volunteer to work for the United States Post Office for free?And, Jon Huntsman, forget the write-in for governor idea and please run against Mike Lee for the U.S. Senate.Pat Smith, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Who else can you call?

  22-08-2020 18:05
  
  I could not help but smile when I saw in the news that in Chicago there was a "peaceful demonstration," which is a constitutional right, went out of control and resulted in vandalism and looting.To maintain control and reduce property damage and looting, the mayor called for a police presence. This on the heels of a call for defunding and reform within police circles.I smile because who else can they call when there is lawlessness and damages caused by peaceful demonstrations even though a const
  
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• Letter: BYU should remove names of racists

  22-08-2020 18:05
  
  I would like to agree with Don Izekor's Aug. 9 commentary, which explores the moral relativism problem. Can early Mormon leaders be forgiven for the white supremacy they practiced?Izekor asks the question, "Can we say in 1875 that no one knew racism was wrong because of the standards of the time?"The answer to that is "No."Vermont abolished slavery in 1777, Ohio in 1802, New York in 1828. Brigham Young was passionately defending slavery and white supremacy in Utah in the decades after these time
  
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• Letter: Investigate Cottonwood Heights Police Department

  22-08-2020 18:04
  
  The information contained in this letter was received through a GRAMA filing with the city of Cottonwood Heights.The estimated population of Cottonwood Heights in 2019 was 33,843. The city owns or leases 42 retrofitted 2020 vehicles for the Cottonwood Heights Police Department at an annual cost of $1.9 million. The sweeping inventory includes 32 Ford F150s, Chevy 2500XO/LTZs, Chevy Tahoes, Chevy Traverses, Ford Rangers, Honda Accords, Chevy Colorados and Chevy 1500 LTZs.The city requires retrofi
  
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• Letter: ‘Hate speech’ is a flawed concept

  22-08-2020 18:03
  
  Recently an administrator in the Salt Lake City school district took umbrage from the following statement included in a school publication “There are two genders and a lot of mental illnesses.” He referred to this as hate speech, and seems to want to punish whoever included it.One could, though, also classify his retort as hate speech directed toward the writer of the statement. Hate speech is a flawed concept and is really in the eye of the speaker.Thus, the term “hate speech&
  
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• Letter: A chance to redeem Utah’s good name

  22-08-2020 18:03
  
  We now have the opportunity to redeem Utah’s good name from the pathetic voting outcome of the 2016 presidential election.The majority of Utahans were not taken-in by Donald Trump’s diabolical lies in 2016, but splitting the vote between two other candidates left Trump with Utah’s six Electoral College votes.And, true to the expectations of the majority of all American voters, Trump has been the absolute worst disaster that America has faced, in a single individual, in its hist
  
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• Paul Krugman: Stocks are soaring. So is misery.

  22-08-2020 18:02
  
  On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company in history to be valued at more than $2 trillion. Donald Trump is, of course, touting the stock market as proof that the economy has recovered from the coronavirus; too bad about those 173,000 dead Americans, but as he says, “It is what it is.”But the economy probably doesn’t feel so great to the millions of workers who still haven’t gotten their jobs back and who
  
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• Frank Bruni: With the speech of his life, Joe Biden becomes the man for this moment

  22-08-2020 18:02
  
  Let’s be honest. One of the big questions attending Joe Biden’s big speech at the Democratic National Convention was whether he still had enough gas and enough grip to get to the end of it without losing velocity or swerving this way and that.He did. He absolutely did. Is he in the fleetest, shiniest, nimblest form of his very long career? No. And Donald Trump — no Ferrari himself — is constantly trying to exploit that.But as I watched Biden, 77, on Thursday night, I kept
  
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• The toughest NBA rival is the bubble, where ‘every day is Wednesday’

  22-08-2020 17:53
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • In a normal NBA playoff series Mike D’Antoni would be taking his Houston Rockets on the road.Finished with the first two games, it would be time to switch sites and head to Oklahoma City for the next two.With the Rockets leading 2-0, he might tell them all they’ve done is win their home games, warn them not to get complacent knowing the Thunder would be dangerous in their own building.Not this year.Coaches can’t count on the usual mind tricks in th
  
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• Holly Richardson: Elevating the voices and the stories of Utah women

  22-08-2020 17:36
  
  In 2014, Mandee Grant was working on research for an English class she was taking and began reading about Martha Hughes Cannon and Emmeline B. Wells. She was shocked — and somewhat angry — that she had never heard about these women. Or of Seraph Young. Or an all-women Kanab mayor and City Council, elected in 1911, almost nine years before the United States passed the 19th Amendment.Grant asked her friends if they knew the stories of these politically active Utah women and most did no
  
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• Pandemic adds risk to already dangerous job of firefighting

  22-08-2020 17:27
  
  Helena, Mont. • Jon Paul was leery entering his first wildfire camp of the year late last month to fight three lightning-caused fires scorching parts of a Northern California forest that hadn’t burned in 40 years.The 54-year-old engine captain from southern Oregon knew from experience that these crowded, grimy camps can be breeding grounds for norovirus and a respiratory illness that firefighters call the “camp crud” in a normal year. He wondered what the coronavirus would
  
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• California wildfires some of largest in state history

  22-08-2020 17:14
  
  San Francisco • Lightning-sparked wildfires in Northern California exploded in size Friday to become some of the largest in state history, forcing thousands to flee and destroying hundreds of homes and other structures as reinforcements began arriving to help weary firefighters.More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers are battling wildfires throughout California. Three groups of fires, called complexes, burning north, east and south of San Francisco have together s
  
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• Utah chokes under the smoke of historic California fires

  22-08-2020 17:13
  
  Air quality along the Wasatch Front took a dive late Thursday after shifting weather patterns pushed smoke billowing from California’s raging wildfires over northern Utah, erasing mountain views, pushing people indoors and creating colorful sunsets.“We’re being inundated with smoke from a lot of fires. It’s parking here, so we are being smoked out,” said Bo Call, who heads the Utah Division of Air Quality’s monitoring program. “There isn’t a lot we
  
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• Rich Lowry: The Democratic Convention was a massive evasion

  22-08-2020 17:04
  
  The number of Republicans speaking at the Democratic National Convention had progressives on edge.They shouldn't have fretted. Even if a handful of estranged Republicans are along for the ride, the left is steadily moving the Democratic Party in its direction. Would progressives prefer winning the optics at a virtual convention, or the substance over the longer term?The Democratic Convention was, for the most part, bereft of policy, focusing instead on President Donald Trump’s character fa
  
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• Don Gale: Old age and the challenge of disappearing

  22-08-2020 17:04
  
  You grow old. Then you die. But first, you disappear.On her kitchen wall, my mother, suffering from Parkinson’s, hung a framed cross-stitched quotation: “Old age is not for sissies.”When George Burns was about my age, he said: “Everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work any more.”Woody Allen said: “I’m not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”But no one says anything quotable about the reality of
  
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• Jamie Henn: Stop adding (fossil) fuels to the fire

  22-08-2020 17:03
  
  The hills of the Wasatch Front have been a refuge for me during the last few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a long day cooped up at home, I’ve savored getting up to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail for a run or heading to Corner Canyon in Draper to sweat it out on my mountain bike.But these days the tranquility I often find in the outdoors has been tinged with a sense of underlying dread, as dry blades of grass graze my shins and desiccated leaves crunch under my tires. The hills tha
  
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• What’s going wrong for the Denver Nuggets? Everything

  22-08-2020 05:44
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell, top left, goes up to shoot against Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic (15) and Michael Porter Jr. (1) during the third quarter of Game 3 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mike Ehrmann, Pool photo via Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Denver Nuggets are just a week removed from being in a position to claim the No. 2 seed in the NBA’s Western Conference. They still entered the pla
  
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• At least 3 students at the University of Utah dorms test positive for COVID-19, as well as 2 at Westminster College

  22-08-2020 05:36
  
  The University of Utah has confirmed that “a handful” of the students who moved into the dorms this week have tested positive for the coronavirus.School spokesman Chris Nelson declined to say exactly how many students have been quarantined. But the U. plans to release a final count, he added, when move-in has wrapped up on Monday — the same day that classes begin.“We have had a handful of positive cases,” he said Friday. “And we are checking for who else may h
  
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• At least three students at the University of Utah dorms test positive for COVID-19, as well as two at Westminster College

  22-08-2020 05:16
  
  The University of Utah has confirmed that “a handful” of the students who moved into the dorms this week have tested positive for the coronavirus.School spokesman Chris Nelson declined to say exactly how many students have been quarantined. But the U. plans to release a final count, he added, when move-in has wrapped up on Monday — the same day that classes begin.“We have had a handful of positive cases,” he said Friday. “And we are checking for who else may h
  
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• Rudy Gobert’s offense — yep, you read that correctly — leads Jazz to another blowout

  22-08-2020 04:51
  
  Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert celebrates a basket against the Denver Nuggets during the second quarter of Game 3 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mike Ehrmann, Pool photo via Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Denver Nuggets’ social media team might have a tweet worth deleting from their account.
  The photo: Donovan Mitchell, standing in front of Nikola Jokic, seemingly with a perplexed look of concern and constern
  
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• Utah A.G.’s Office postpones ‘Freedom for the Children’ event because of questions about organizing group

  22-08-2020 04:13
  
  The Utah Attorney General’s Office is postponing a child exploitation and human trafficking awareness rally it had planned for Saturday in Salt Lake City after questions were raised about one of the event’s organizers.The office announced the decision Friday night, a little more than 12 hours before the Freedom for the Children event was scheduled to begin, citing “questions about association with other human trafficking events being held the same day.” It said the event
  
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• The Triple Team: The Denver Nuggets are extremely lackadaisical, and the Utah Jazz are taking full advantage

  22-08-2020 04:06
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 124-87 win over the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz offense tears apart Nuggets defense againAfter a 139 offensive rating in Game 2, the Jazz “only” put up a 135 points per 100 possessions in Game 3. What a disappointment.But seriously, this Nuggets defense looks sunk. They look like they have no idea what they’re doing to defend the Jazz, just cycling through defensive strategies while being terrible
  
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• In Mike Conley’s return, the Jazz have too many weapons for the Nuggets to contend with

  22-08-2020 04:01
  
  AP SALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday afternoon, Mike Conley watched the Utah Jazz play Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets while quarantined in a hotel room just 3 miles from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex where the game took place.
  “I’m not a guy that gets nervous during games, but I was about as nervous as you can get,” he said Friday of watching the game on TV. “I’m like a super fan and I get anxious and I start to swea
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz are killing the Denver Nuggets, and the Nuggets know it

  22-08-2020 03:30
  
  Whew.Everybody expected the Jazz to crush Denver the way they did in Game 3 on Friday —right? — and the final count was a glorious/pathetic 124-87. The onlyquestions to ask afterward were … 1) What the hell happened to the Nuggets? … and 2) What’s gotten into the Jazz?The answers were … 1) They sucked and then quit. … and 2) A belly full of fire. “They’replaying at a different level than us,” Nuggets coach Mike Malone saidafter
  
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• Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert’s big first half does a number on the Denver Nuggets

  22-08-2020 03:04
  
  By any measure, Rudy Gobert was dominant on Friday afternoon against the Denver Nuggets.The 7-foot-2 Frenchman got anything he wanted at the rim, working pick-and-roll after pick-and-roll to perfection. He cleaned the glass on both ends, he went baseline to baseline effortlessly, and the Nuggets had no answer, including another elite big man, Nikola Jokic.Gobert hit eight of his first nine shots. He had 20 points and 11 rebounds at halftime, 24 and 14 on the day and when it was over, the Jazz ha
  
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• Mike Conley returns with a splash, Rudy Gobert dominates and Utah Jazz hammer Denver Nuggets to take 2-1 series lead

  22-08-2020 02:34
  
  Donovan Mitchell deservedly garnered national attention for his brilliant, dominant play in the first two games of the Utah Jazz’s first-round series against the Denver Nuggets.Turns out, Utah’s got some other players capable of dominating, too.Mike Conley casually nailed seven 3-pointers and scored 27 points in his return from a two-game hiatus, while Rudy Gobert added 24 points and 14 rebounds in a forceful display down low, as the Jazz cruised to their second straight blowout vict
  
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• The Triple Team: The Nuggets are extremely lackadaisical, and the Jazz are taking full advantage

  22-08-2020 02:00
  
  Three thoughts on the Utah Jazz’s 124-87 win over the Denver Nuggets from Salt Lake Tribune beat writer Andy Larsen.1. Jazz offense tears apart Nuggets defense againAfter a 139 offensive rating in Game 2, the Jazz “only” put up a 135 points per 100 possessions in Game 3. What a disappointment.But seriously, this Nuggets defense looks sunk. They look like they have no idea what they’re doing to defend the Jazz, just cycling through defensive strategies while being terrible
  
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• 3 large corrals approved for western US wild horse roundups

  22-08-2020 01:28
  
  Reno, Nev. • The federal Bureau of Land Management has approved construction of three new corrals to hold more than 8,000 wild horses captured on federal rangeland to accelerate horse roundups slowed by a lack of space in existing holding pens.The bureau issued final decisions on environmental assessments of the plans this week for the pens in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.The pens are the next step in plans announced last year by the administration of President Donald Trump to speed up the ca
  
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• Salt Lake City officer deemed justified in shooting a suspected car thief who tried to run him over

  22-08-2020 01:00
  
  Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill has ruled that an officer was justified when he shot and injured a 20-year-old man suspected of stealing a car.Prosecutors won’t file criminal charges against Salt Lake City Officer Jordan Winegar, Gill added, saying the officer reasonably believed he needed to use deadly force to prevent himself from being seriously injured or killed.It’s the second time Gill has cleared Winegar in a police shooting. The officer also shot and injured a Som
  
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• ‘Handful’ of students at the University of Utah dorms test positive for COVID-19

  22-08-2020 00:54
  
  The University of Utah has confirmed that “a handful” of the students who moved into the dorms this week have tested positive for the coronavirus.School spokesman Chris Nelson declined to say exactly how many students have been quarantined. But the U. plans to release a final count, he added, when move-in has wrapped up on Monday — the same day that classes begin.“We have had a handful of positive cases,” he said Friday. “And we are checking for who else may h
  
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• Utah Jazz hammer Denver Nuggets 124-87 in Game 3, take 2-1 series lead

  22-08-2020 00:38
  
  DonovanMitchell deservedly garnered national attention for his brilliant playin the first two games of the Utah Jazz’s first-round series against theDenver Nuggets.Turns out, Utah’s got some other pretty good players, too.Mike Conley casually nailed seven 3-pointers en route to 27 points in his return from a two-game hiatus, while Rudy Gobert added 24 points and 14rebounds in a dominant display down low, as the Jazz cruised to their second straight blowout victory, 124-87, on Friday
  
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• Amended charges mean Utah protesters no longer face life in prison for alleged paint crimes

  22-08-2020 00:33
  
  When Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill hired a retired judge to take over the prosecutions of eight protesters accused of damaging the district attorney’s office building, he stressed that Dane Nolan had the independence to do what he wanted in the case.In Nolan’s first public move, he did just that by unilaterally cutting decades from the possible sentences those protesters were facing by reducing their charges.This means that seven of the eight defendants who were initial
  
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