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• Live: Utah Jazz take on Denver Nuggets in Game 5

  25-08-2020 23:30
  
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• The start of the fall semester threatens BYU football’s bubble, but the Cougars say they’ll continue to adapt

  25-08-2020 23:27
  
  With the start of BYU’s fall semester less than a week away, students are making their way back to Provo for classes. But it’s not the usual hustle and bustle the campus has seen previous years.On average, BYU is home to more than 30,000 daytime students. That won’t be the case this year as the University is offering a hybrid model for classes that combines in-person and remote learning. BYU also has expanded the number of BYU online courses.Still, the addition of even a fracti
  
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• Michael Clara says Crossroads Urban Center illegally fired him after what he says was a self-defense shooting

  25-08-2020 23:16
  
  A vocal community organizer — who was charged for shooting at a vehicle that repeatedly rammed into his car — has filed a lawsuit alleging his past employer illegally fired him for it.Jon Michael Clara, who goes by Michael and who worked at Crossroads Urban Center when the shooting occurred, was fired less than a month after it happened, according to the lawsuit. Clara is currently fighting seven felony counts related to that Nov. 23, 2019, shooting, accused of putting others in dang
  
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• Deadline nears for 59 Utah bars that have not renewed their state liquor license

  25-08-2020 23:13
  
  The deadline is looming for 59 Utah bars that have not yet renewed their state liquor license.Owners of these establishment have until Aug. 31 at 5 p.m. to pony up the $2,000 annual fee or risk losing the sought-after permit that allows them to sell alcohol and stay in business.The payment has to be in the hands of the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control by Monday, Angela Micklos, the director of compliance and licensing, said. Sending a check with an Aug. 31 postmark “just won&r
  
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• Utah coach Kyle Whittingham believes winter or spring football is “probably 50-50 at best”

  25-08-2020 22:49
  
  Almost immediately upon the Big Ten and Pac-12 postponing fall football earlier this month, questions arose in regards to playing football in the winter or spring.Is it feasible? If so, how many games? Will the NFL Draft accommodate winter/spring college football? Either way, will college players opt out? What about bowl games?Most questions pertaining to a winter/spring football season are at least several weeks away from being answered, but Kyle Whittingham has clearly spent time thinking abou
  
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• Utah woman pleads guilty to buying biological agent online

  25-08-2020 22:39
  
  Holladay • A Utah woman has pleaded guilty to multiple charges after police say she bought a biological agent online to harm her former roommate.Janie Lynn Ridd was arrested in December 2019 on suspicion of aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult, attempted abuse of a vulnerable adult, and attempted possession of a biological agent, KUTV-TV reported.Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Nick Street previously said Ridd gave misleading statements before she was arrested.Police said Ridd bought V
  
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• RSL excited to finally be back at Rio Tinto despite a limited number of fans

  25-08-2020 22:25
  
  Playing in a fanless Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Saturday felt different for Real Salt Lake.While the team had recently played four games without fans in Orlando, Florida, for the MLS is Back Tournament, the empty sprawling stadium with a capacity of more than 18,000 another level of emptiness.“It felt kind of eerie, honestly,” RSL forward Corey Baird said.But RSL won’t have to feel that way Wednesday when it plays LAFC at Rio Tinto Stadium. Roughly 5,000 fans will be a
  
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• Erik B. Olson: Utah’s clean energy future should include nuclear

  25-08-2020 22:05
  
  Utah’s clean energy future is under threat from an unholy alliance of anti-nuclear environmentalists and free market ideologues. Last week, the Utah Taxpayers Association joined HEAL Utah in calling for 27 Utah municipalities to withdraw from a groundbreaking nuclear energy project.The project would produce more than 150MW of electricity for Utah from 12 small, next-generation, nuclear reactors sited at the Idaho National Laboratory. Together, with wind and solar energy, the project holds
  
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• Utah adds 403 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with new outbreaks at four schools reported in one day

  25-08-2020 21:44
  
  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. With 403 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to went up slightly, but for two weeks has stayed under the governor’s target of less than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days,
  
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• Charlotte Maloney: Time to hold elected officials responsible for equal rights

  25-08-2020 20:05
  
  Women do not have the same protections under the United States Constitution as their male counterparts. This is true for all women, whether they are a stay-at-home mother, single head of the household, small business owner, CEO or young student.It is time for this to change.Today is Women’s Equality Day. The 19th Amendment officially became law on Aug. 26, 1920. White women finally won the right to vote, while women of color were precluded from voting rights for another four decades. As we
  
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• Utahn Josh Holt featured during the GOP convention with other returned American hostages

  25-08-2020 19:56
  
  Utah native Josh Holt was one of six Americans brought home after being held hostage or prisoner by hostile foreign governments who was featured during the first night of the Republican National Convention.Holt and his Venezuelan-born wife, Thamara “Thamy” Caleno Holt, appeared with the other five former hostages in a taped sit-down at the White House with President Donald Trump.A slickly produced introductory clip praised the president for always putting Americans first and using hi
  
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• Watch ‘Trib Talk’ live: COVID-19’s impact on college football in Utah

  25-08-2020 19:44
  
  Watch live here.The coronavirus has upended nearly every aspect of our lives, and collegiate sports are no exception.At noon on Tuesday, University of Utah sports medicine specialist Dr. Peter Chalmers will join Tribune reporters Nate Carlisle and Joshua Newman for a live discussion about what university athletic departments are doing to keep players safe and if college athletics, including football, will play a full season.Tune in here or on our Facebook page to watch live. Submit your question
  
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• ‘This dude @spidadmitchell = SPECIAL’: What other players, sports personalities are saying about Donovan Mitchell

  25-08-2020 19:25
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell celebrates the team’s win over the Denver Nuggets in Game 4 of an NBA first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox, pool photo via Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — Exuberant Utah Jazz fans and exasperated Denver Nuggets fans weren’t the only ones who noticed Donovan Mitchell’s latest 50-plus-point outburst on Sunday night.
  Though Dallas rookie Luka Doncic got most of the spotlight that day aft
  
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• Sundance Institute to stream punk comedy ‘Dinner in America’ free to Utah residents

  25-08-2020 18:52
  
  The Sundance Institute’s outdoor screening series isn’t happening this summer — another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic — but the nonprofit arts group is holding a one-night at-home version.Utah residents will get a free online screening of the romantic comedy “Dinner in America,” on Monday, Aug. 31, at 6:30 p.m. Mountain time. The screening will include a post-film Q&A with the filmmakers and cast.“Dinner in America,” which premiered at the
  
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• Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns from Liberty University. Again.

  25-08-2020 18:08
  
  Jerry Falwell Jr., the embattled president of Liberty University and one of President Donald Trump's earliest and most vocal supporters, has resigned from the evangelical Christian university founded by his father.On Monday (Aug. 24), the first day of the fall semester at Liberty, Religion News Service learned from multiple sources close to the proceedings that Falwell had resigned.Later that evening, a statement from Liberty confirmed Falwell had agreed to resign as president and from the unive
  
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• Cherokee woman roller skates 2,000 miles to raise money for water quality research on Navajo Nation

  25-08-2020 17:37
  
  While Forrest Gump ended his continent-spanning run on a hill in the Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley in the 1994 film, Daisy Purdy’s own 2,000-mile journey began there — at least in spirit.Purdy, a former roller derby player in Flagstaff, Ariz., laced up a pair of roller skates on June 15 in the Navajo Nation community of Lupton, Ariz., and started rolling east. Her goal: to skate all the way to the traditional lands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina, where she
  
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• Utah Royals get more games in 2020 as NWSL announces fall series

  25-08-2020 16:58
  
  The Utah Royals FC will play again in 2020.The National Women’s Soccer League announced Tuesday a fall series that consists of 18 games in seven weeks starting Sept. 5. The series will be played in home markets.The full schedule and competition format will be released next week, the league said. Three-team “regional pods” were created in order to minimize travel.The Royals are in the West pod with the Portland Thorns and OL Reign. The Chicago Red Stars, Sky Blue FC and Washingt
  
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• Utah man charged after he coughs on cops, claiming he has coronavirus

  25-08-2020 16:58
  
  A Vernal man is accused of coughing on multiple sheriff’s deputies, claiming that he may have coronavirus and telling the officers that they and their families would die.The man, 33, now faces a felony charge of threatening terrorism, as well as other charges.The man was being arrested Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving when he told four deputies at the Duchesne County jail that he has been around people who have tested positive for COVID-19 and has symptoms of the virus, court docum
  
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• Former Utah lawmaker calls on RNC to remove Burgess Owens’ speaking slot claiming QAnon ties

  25-08-2020 16:22
  
  Sheryl Allen, a former Utah lawmaker and lifelong Republican, is calling on the Republican National Committee to strip 4th Congressional District candidate Burgess Owens of his speaking platform at this week’s party convention.Her concerns rest with Owens’ ties to QAnon, a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that the candidate has said he does not believe in after appearing on a YouTube show connected with the group earlier this summer.But Allen, who spent 15 years in the state Legi
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Fleeing the trolls for the grizzlies of the Pacific Northwest Trail

  25-08-2020 14:15
  
  Pacific Northwest Trail, Mont. • What’s a person to do in a crazy summer when our president endorses a candidate who claims the world is controlled by a “global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles,” when federal agents club a Navy veteran protesting peacefully, when the government delays postal services to impede voting (and thereby kills chicks sent in the mail)?Take a hike.For wilderness therapy, I came here to Montana to escape the hubbub and embrace the mountains, to
  
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• ‘Trib Talk’: COVID-19’s impact on college football in Utah

  25-08-2020 14:00
  
  The coronavirus has upended nearly every aspect of our lives, and collegiate sports are no exception.At noon on Tuesday, University of Utah sports medicine specialist Dr. Peter Chalmers will join Tribune reporters Nate Carlisle and Joshua Newman for a live discussion about what university athletic departments are doing to keep players safe and if college athletics, including football, will play a full season.Tune in here or on our Facebook page to watch live. Submit your questions using #TribTal
  
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• Robert Kirby: Refunding the police

  25-08-2020 14:00
  
  Although I am a former police officer and still have family in law enforcement, I have decided it’s time for a change. I am in favor of defunding the police.Before you cheer or get upset, please know that I am not on or against your side in the matter. I have my own side.As I understand it — which is not to suggest that I do — the problem is that too much of the public’s money is being used to enforce the law rather than in preventing the breaking of it.More money should
  
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• Jennifer Senior: Let the culture wars begin. Again.

  25-08-2020 14:00
  
  The Republican convention at last begins this week, and much of it will be virtual, which makes it very 2020. Yet as strange as it is to say — and bear with me here — something about this moment brings to mind the Republican convention of 1992.Does anyone remember that dark pageant of apocalyptica? The parallel circumstances are worth noting. Like Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush was a Republican incumbent with pitiful approval ratings and terrible poll numbers compared with his modera
  
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• Former Utah lawmaker calls on RNC to remove Burgess Owens’ speaking slot amid questions about his QAnon ties

  25-08-2020 14:00
  
  Sheryl Allen, a former Utah lawmaker and lifelong Republican, is calling on the Republican National Committee to strip 4th Congressional District candidate Burgess Owens of his speaking platform at this week’s party convention.Her concerns rest with Owens’ ties to QAnon, a baseless pro-Trump conspiracy theory that the candidate has said he does not believe in after appearing on a YouTube show connected with the group earlier this summer.But Allen, who spent 15 years in the state Legi
  
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• Letter: We need a national COVID-19 treatment plan

  25-08-2020 13:07
  
  Almost all of us know someone who’s had cancer; many of us have experienced that ourselves.Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but most people decide to fight it. Unless it’s extremely advanced, they don’t throw up their hands and say, “I guess it’s just my time.” They get a treatment plan from a medical specialist and follow it.Why is COVID-19 any different?It shocks me to hear people say, “If you die from coronavirus then it must have been
  
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• Letter: Will our Post Office box still be there?

  25-08-2020 13:03
  
  Today, I'm going to drop off the premium payment for the Medicare Supplement for myself and my husband at the post off box in South Jordan.Will that drop off box still be there, or will it be ripped out as has recently happened in other states? I certainly hope it will be there because we depend on the Post Office.In my opinion, this country has an ignorant, narcissistic and racist fool for a president, who lies incessantly about the economy, the coronavirus pandemic and practically everything.A
  
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• Some first-time Utah teachers thrown for a loop on ‘unusual’ first day of school

  25-08-2020 06:32
  
  Cottonwood Heights • Before her second graders walked in the doors for their first day of school at Canyon View Elementary, Ann Fisher gave each of them a warm “hello” and a required squirt of hand sanitizer.“This is the magic stuff that helps us come back to learn,” said Fisher, as she pumped the bottle for every student in line. “It’s going to be our favorite thing in the world.”Most of the kids nodded their heads enthusiastically, waiting 6 feet
  
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• Letter: Don’t screw around with our post office

  25-08-2020 06:00
  
  To President Donald Trump:I, along with a few other citizens, consider the U.S. Postal Service our personal property and, though I cringe at putting the word “president” in front of Donald, I will agree to do that if you will agree to stop your attack on the post office, which I hold dear.With the forthcoming election, It appears that you have sufficient anxiety without adding my extreme displeasure. (And, I suspect, millions of others.)To Sens. Mitt Romney and Mike Lee and To Reps.
  
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• Liberty University official says Jerry Falwell Jr. agreed to resign, then reversed course

  25-08-2020 05:47
  
  Richmond, Va. • Jerry Falwell Jr.‘s future at evangelical Liberty University was uncertain Monday, after the school said he had offered his resignation but then reversed course.Falwell agreed to “resign immediately as President of Liberty University today but then instructed his attorneys to not tender the letter for immediate resignation,” according to a university news release distributed late Monday night.The news of Falwell’s possible departure followed
  
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• GOP convention showcases rising stars, dark warnings

  25-08-2020 05:44
  
  Washington • Two of the Republican Party’s rising stars, both people of color, offered an optimistic view of President Donald Trump’s leadership on Monday night, closing the opening night of the GOP’s scaled-back convention with a positive message at odds with the dark warnings that dominated much of the night.While other Republicans predicted a national “horror movie” should Trump lose in November, Sen. Tim Scott and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley tried to
  
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• Jerry Seinfeld: So, you think New York is dead

  25-08-2020 05:00
  
  (IT’S NOT.)When I got my first apartment in Manhattan in the hot summer of 1976, there was no pooper-scooper law, and the streets were covered in dog crap.I signed the rental agreement, walked outside, and my car had been towed. I still thought, “This is the greatest place I’ve ever been in my life.”Manhattan is an island off the coast of America. Are we part of the United States? Kind of. And this is one of the toughest times we’ve had in quite a while.But one thin
  
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• These new Utah educators are teaching for the first time in the middle of a pandemic. Here’s how their first days went.

  25-08-2020 04:41
  
  Cottonwood Heights • Before her second graders walked in the doors for their first day of school at Canyon View Elementary, Ann Fisher gave each of them a warm “hello” and a required squirt of hand sanitizer.“This is the magic stuff that helps us come back to learn,” said Fisher, as she pumped the bottle for every student in line. “It’s going to be our favorite thing in the world.”Most of the kids nodded their heads enthusiastically, waiting 6 feet
  
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• Letter: Salt Lake City street plans are a slap in the face

  25-08-2020 04:00
  
  I received an email from a neighbor (who received it from another, etc., etc.) about Salt Lake City’s plans for its streets. That I, and everyone else in the city, hasn’t received this info from the city itself is unconscionable. And that the deadline for response is Aug. 31 is another indication that the “planners” are less than concerned about residents’ input is another slap in the face. The website that the city has for the plans is utterly confusing, and I susp
  
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• Behind Enemy Lines: Nuggets focusing on physicality ahead of a win-or-go-home Game 5

  25-08-2020 03:50
  
  Denver Nuggets’ Paul Millsap (4) knocks the ball away from Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell (45) during the second half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool) | AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Denver Nuggets are in a 3-1 hole, but they aren’t focusing on the deficit. They know that they need three consecutive wins to beat the Utah Jazz and advance to the next round, but they need just one to star
  
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• 5 faith facts about Vice President Mike Pence: A ‘born-again, evangelical Catholic’

  25-08-2020 03:47
  
  Vice President Mike Pence has described himself as "a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order."That has made Pence pretty popular with conservative evangelical Christians — not just as vice president but also as a U.S. congressman and governor of Indiana before that.But his time in the White House hasn't been without controversy, even among evangelicals.Pence has raised eyebrows for his refusal to eat alone with a woman who is not his wife or go without her to events wher
  
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• Demonstrators in Wisconsin protest police shooting of Black man

  25-08-2020 03:40
  
  Kenosha, Wis. • Protesters converged on the county courthouse, defying a Monday curfew and throwing objects at police, marking a second night of clashes after the police shooting of a Black man turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest.Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers activated 125 members of the National Guard to assist local law enforcement. Exit ramps off Interstate 94 from the Illinois state line into Kenosha County were closed Monday
  
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• Republicans paint dark picture of future if Trump loses

  25-08-2020 03:36
  
  Charlotte, N.C. • Republicans opened their prime-time convention Monday night with dark warnings about America’s future if President Donald Trump fails to win a second term, casting him as a protector of religious freedom, the nation’s workers and much more.A school teacher warned that conservative values were under attack from labor unions. A small business owner charged that businesses across America were facing unwarranted pandemic shutdowns and riotous mobs. And Rep. Matt Ga
  
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• Another daughter of Utah Jazz great John Stockton to play in Germany

  25-08-2020 03:30
  
  Herne, Germany • It must be the bratwurst that keeps bringing the children of retired Utah Jazz great John Stockton to Germany. The basketball, too.Laura Stockton is the fourth child of the NBA legend to sign a professional contract to play in Germany. Her older siblings Michael, David and Lindsay have all played in the basketball Bundesliga.“This has given me the opportunity to visit Germany many times and learn about and get comfortable with the lifestyle there, which is very differ
  
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• Commentary: Trump kept his promises. That’s why, as a Catholic, I want four more years.

  25-08-2020 03:28
  
  On election night 2016, I went to bed sad but not surprised, after writing a short presentation for an academic panel on why I had supported what appeared then to be the failed campaign of Donald Trump for president.While Trump was not my first (or even second or third) choice among the expansive field of Republican candidates, he promised to protect the unborn and religious liberty, in part by appointing judges who would interpret the Constitution according to the text and original intent.His p
  
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• Postmaster general defends changes, denies ‘sabotaging’ election

  25-08-2020 02:25
  
  Washington • Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told lawmakers Monday that he has warned allies of President Donald Trump that the president’s repeated attacks on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots are “not helpful,” but denied that recent changes at the Postal Service are linked to the November elections.DeJoy, who has come under intense scrutiny over sweeping policy changes at the U.S. Postal Service, faced new questions on mounting problems at the agency as it prepares to de
  
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• Utah ranked worst state for women’s equality three years in a row

  25-08-2020 02:15
  
  For the third year in a row, Utah has been named the worst state for women’s equality, and it continues to lag far behind the state ranked 49th — Idaho.WalletHub released its “2020′s Best & Worst States for Women’s Equality” on Monday, evaluating states on workplace environment, education, health and political empowerment. There was a nearly 50-point gap in the total scores between the top state — Hawaii — at 75.13 and Utah’s score of 25.
  
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• Herbert surveys flood damage in St. George, where a state of emergency has been declared

  25-08-2020 02:10
  
  A state of emergency was declared in St. George on Monday, according to a FOX 13 report, after heavy rains late Sunday flooded Interstate 15 and caused several sinkholes, stalling cars and leaving roads littered with debris.“I had the opportunity to visit today with @Cityofstgeorge officials to survey the damage caused by severe thunderstorms,” Gov. Gary Herbert tweeted after a quick trip to the region. “Response teams have done a tremendous job responding to the flooding and e
  
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• Letter: Coal port is not worth Utah’s money

  25-08-2020 02:00
  
  Why is the state of Utah still wallowing around trying to get a port in Oakland (which they have made clear they don’t want) to ship coal to China.I don't know what the figures are now, but in 2016 according to the U.S. Energy Administration there were 50,000 coal-industry employees, 102,500 wind-industry employees and 260,000 solar-industry employees in America. Do we see a pattern here? I would imagine that these numbers are even more telling in 2020.Coal is a dying industry and a terrib
  
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• Jordan Clarkson: The Utah Jazz’s ‘unsung hero’

  25-08-2020 01:41
  
  Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson (00) shoots against Denver Nuggets’ Troy Daniels (30) during the fourth quarter of Game 3 of an NBA first-round playoff series, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Mike Ehrmann, pool photo via Associated Press Jokes and criticism about the Utah Jazz’s backup shooting guard don’t come from his teammates, who are the first ones to sing his praises.SALT LAKE CITY — The numbers 8 and 24 are coincidentally rooted in and sprinkl
  
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• Liberty University official says Jerry Falwell Jr. is leaving the university, but Falwell says he’s not

  25-08-2020 01:26
  
  Richmond, Va. • Jerry Falwell Jr.‘s future at evangelical Liberty University was unclear late Monday, with a senior school official saying he had resigned from his leadership post but Falwell telling at least one news outlet that he does not plan to leave permanently.A formal announcement from the school was expected later Monday, according to the school official, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss it. The disclosure
  
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• Utah Royals player from Kenosha, Wisconsin, is appalled by police shooting of Black man

  25-08-2020 01:12
  
  Kate Del Fava recognized the street when she watched the video.Del Fava, a rookie defender for the Utah Royals FC, grew up just 10 minutes from the 2800 block of 40th Street in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where police shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, on Sunday evening.Video of the incident has circulated on social media and has millions of views. It shows Blake waking around a gray SUV while being closely followed by two white police officers with their guns drawn.As Blake opened the door to t
  
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• Howard Lehman: The inevitable implosion of the GOP

  25-08-2020 01:00
  
  In the late 1950s and early 1960s, my family lived with my grandparents. In their house, I came to respect my grandfather as a lifelong Republican. He and most other Republicans at that time believed that the GOP adhered to policies of fiscal responsibility, personal accountability, standing with allies and against adversaries, family, community and opportunity.The GOP then was a large tent. But today’s GOP has lost its way. And without an inclusionary GOP, can our two-party system survive
  
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• Republicans nominate Donald Trump; he questions election integrity

  25-08-2020 00:16
  
  Charlotte, N.C. • President Donald Trump turned a surprise opening-day appearance at his party’s scaled-down national convention into an opportunity to question the integrity of the fall election, even as his aides promised a diverse and uplifting message once the evening program shifted back to Washington, D.C. for prime time.Trump, who was not scheduled to deliver his keynote convention address until later in the week, nevertheless made multiple public appearances throughout the fir
  
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• As scams of seniors increase during COVID-19, Utah groups call for congressional action

  25-08-2020 00:06
  
  Murray • Jill Duke of South Jordan was helping her 96-year-old mother buy a three-wheel, adult electric bicycle she found online at an amazing price — but something didn’t seem right.“It said if you want the best deal on this bike, you have to pay by check. I thought, ‘That doesn’t seem right,’” especially when the site then asked for her mother’s bank routing number. So, they clicked another option to pay by credit card — but the site s
  
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• This is the Mike Conley the Jazz hoped they were getting, as they look to close out Nuggets in Game 5

  25-08-2020 00:02
  
  As Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley was conducting a postgame interview with a TNT reporter following his seven-triple, 27-point decimation of the Nuggets in Game 3, several of his teammates began loudly insisting that if he was going to shoot like that after adding a new baby to his family, well then, he was just going to have to go and have some more babies.With the Jazz now one win away from closing out the Denver Nuggets in their first-round playoff series, the stork’s impact on Utah&
  
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