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• New allegation of racist language by RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen surfaces

  29-08-2020 23:09
  
  Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen repeatedly referred to a Black woman as “colored” and mimicked her during a corporate event about two years ago, a former employee who witnessed the incident told The Salt Lake Tribune.Tim Conyers used to work at MarketStar, a company that provides extra sales employees bought by the Hansen-owned Wasatch Group about two years ago. He recalled an event held in front of hundreds of people in the Peery’s Egyptian Theater in Ogden celebrating Wa
  
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• Deputies investigating after missing woman found dead in Iron County

  29-08-2020 23:02
  
  Iron County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating how a 26-year-old woman reported missing from St. George ended up dead in a remote area in western Iron County.Stevie Shay Wilkerson’s body was found Aug. 23, according to a news release from the sheriff’s department. Wilkerson was reported missing Aug. 9, and Investigators determined the body had been in Iron County for “some time.”Deputies are investigating Wilkerson’s death as a homicide. Anyone with i
  
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• Tribune Editorial: No Lake City

  29-08-2020 23:00
  
  One might think when a state’s capital city, its most populous county, its professional baseball team -- and, well, its most important news-gathering institution -- are all named for a prominent local geographic feature, no expense would be spared to keep that feature from disappearing.But, unless people start caring and start acting, the Great Salt Lake will only be in increasing danger of, quite literally, drying up and blowing away.This was made officially clear the other day when The G
  
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• BYU opened up the QB position in preseason camp, but it’s looking like Zach Wilson will hang on to the job

  29-08-2020 21:42
  
  Last season, for weeks, the BYU coaching staff listed three co-starters at quarterback on their weekly depth charts: Zach Wilson, Jaren Hall and Baylor Romney.Back then, coaches had to juggle between the three due to injuries. Wilson suffered a fractured right (throwing) thumb at Toledo, Hall walked off the field during the USF and Utah State games with concussions and Romney came in after Hall in those games and played a complete game against Boise State, but also sustained a foot injury in the
  
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• Number of Navajo Nation deaths tied to COVID-19 reaches 500

  29-08-2020 21:34
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials say the confirmation of a new death brings the number of fatalities from coronavirus to 500.The Navajo Nation on Friday night reported the additional death as well as 14 more confirmed cases of COVID-19.That brings the total number of people infected to 9,780. But that includes 165 cases that occurred between April 6 and Aug. 12 and were recently identified as COVID-19 related.Navajo Department of Health officials said 94,099 people have b
  
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• Utah coronavirus case numbers spike to 458 on Saturday, with another hospitalization tied to a school outbreak

  29-08-2020 20:54
  
  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 458 new coronavirus cases reported on Saturday, Utah’s rate of new went up slightly, but stayed under the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day over a seven-day average.For the past week, Utah has averaged 36
  
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• Gordon Monson: The Utah Jazz must call upon the powers of the mind against the Nuggets in Game 6

  29-08-2020 20:48
  
  So … where were we?Oh, yeah … playoff basketball.As the Jazz and Nuggets turn their attention, turn their minds, from important societal issues back to the playoffs, a question arises as towho can not only dial in effectively on the less important matter athand — for our purposes here, meaningful, nonetheless — in Game 6, but who can do so quickly. The big issues addressed among NBA players sinceteams stopped play in the bubble are significant and real and significantly
  
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• Jews welcome Utah’s Ancestry making millions of Holocaust records available

  29-08-2020 19:08
  
  Seventy-five years after World War II ended, connections to the Holocaust keep fading as more and more survivors die. And the relatively few remaining find themselves at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.Salt Lake City businesswoman and writer Faye Lincoln has been searching unsuccessfully for some of her relatives, even reaching out to Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the millions of victims, and getting no response.“As the child of Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz, most
  
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• At D.C. march, families decry ‘two systems of justice’

  29-08-2020 18:39
  
  Washington • Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously laid out a vision for harmony between white and Black people 57 years ago, his son issued a sobering reminder about the persistence of police brutality and racist violence targeting Black Americans.“We must never forget the American nightmare of racist violence exemplified when Emmett Till was murdered on this day in 1955, and the criminal justice system failed to convict his kil
  
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• Park City ski area sets COVID-19 guidelines, including no walk-up tickets

  29-08-2020 18:16
  
  Walk-up lift tickets have become a casualty of COVID-19, at least at Park City Mountain Resort and other Vail Resorts-owned properties.PCMR announced Thursday it plans to open as per usual on Nov. 20. Yet that date and the ski area’s terrain will be about the only things that will be normal for guests this season. In an attempt to complete a full season during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vail Resorts has instituted several new regulations for its 34 North American ski areas, including PCMR in U
  
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• Mission to Mars takes astronauts ‘Away’ from their families in Netflix series

  29-08-2020 17:00
  
  Can you be a good parent if you accept a work assignment that will take you away from your teenage daughter for three years? If, just as you’re about to head out, your spouse suffers a serious — perhaps life-threatening — health crisis?What if that job is commanding the first manned mission to Mars?That’s the situation faced by Emma Green (Hilary Swank) in the Netflix series “Away,” which starts streaming Friday. And it’s no spoiler to tell you that Emma
  
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• Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro: As a former resident, I believe youth treatment centers should be shut down

  29-08-2020 17:00
  
  Paris Hilton recently spoke with People magazine about her time spent at Provo Canyon School in the 1990s, and about the alleged abuse she experienced during her 11-month stay.Social media users were quick to discount her claims, making jokes that the alleged abuse she disclosed probably was because the “school didn’t have a maid.” While it may be difficult for some people to muster up the empathy for a wealthy woman, Hilton’s experience is a cautionary tale of what often
  
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• Salt Lake City’s Avenues upset over housing project with built in mother-in-law apartments

  29-08-2020 14:00
  
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) Ivory Homes, Utah's largest homebuilder, reportedly has an option to buy the 3.1-acre plot at 675 North F Street in The Avenues in Salt Lake City on what is now open space and has applied for city permission to build 25 homes on the site — plus 20 so-called accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, for a total of 45 dwellings.Some neighborhood residents are opposed to the idea. (Francisco Kjolseth/)Utah’s largest homebuilder is reworking its plans
  
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• Beaver County hopes to block neighbor’s groundwater pumping project

  29-08-2020 14:00
  
  So much water has been pumped from under Utah’s Cedar Valley over the years that the ground is sinking by as much as 1.2 inches a year, leaving cracks on the valley floor.This is because the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District annually removes at least 7,000 more acre-feet from these aquifers than nature can replenish. So the district’s solution is to build a $250 million network of wells and pipelines that would extract water from under Beaver County’s Pine Valley,
  
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• Letter: The first lady’s speech about nothing

  29-08-2020 13:45
  
  I thought Melania Trump gave a very nice speech at the Republican National Convention. The irony is that it didn’t seem to reflect anything resembling Donald Trump, or a Trump administration.Holly Rio, DraperSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Republicans promote violence

  29-08-2020 13:30
  
  After watching the Democratic National Convention and comparing it to the Republican National Convention, I have no problem knowing which one is the most violent.The DNC was all about compassion and kindness while the speakers on the RNC spoke hatred and violence, and then accused the Democrats of causing all this mayhem and protesting and violence in our cities. Melania Trump’s was the only peaceful speech at the RNC.And there was no shouting and waving of arms by the Democrats. Trump has
  
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• Letter: Trump has taken over the Republican Party

  29-08-2020 13:00
  
  I hope all Republicans are watching the Republican National Convention, because it should be obvious even to the staunchest of the hard core that this is not a Republican function, it is the Trump Convention.The Republican platform was not even mentioned, mostly because there isn’t one. All that was said was that, “We stand with our leader.”If you, as loyal Republicans, stand for the traditional Republican beliefs of small government, strong alliances, large world presence and
  
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• Dart’s 6 TD passes lead Corner Canyon past Bingham 42-20

  29-08-2020 07:19
  
  The Bingham Miners scored first. The fought hard. They even incorporated a couple of effective trick plays.But the Corner Canyon Chargers were like Thanos from “The Avengers” franchise: inevitable.TheChargers remained undefeated on the season with a 42-20 win Friday over the Miners at Bingham High in a game televised nationally on ESPN.“Wefeel super fortunate to be playing right now with the circumstances going on,” Chargers senior quarterback Jaxson Dart said. “Thi
  
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• Letter: The unalienable right of justice

  29-08-2020 06:30
  
  It’s not easy surviving coronavirus in an increasingly unstable society. The unalienable right of justice seems reduced to sensational words and empty promises by current political leaders.Alarmingly, the same perils were faced 100 years ago when Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, the first Ahmadi Muslim missionary to America, came to share true Islam’s needed values.Inspired by Prophet Muhammad’s strivings in Hilful Fudul, a 6th-century alliance to uphold justice and alleviate suffering, S
  
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• Letter: Face the rise in child sex abuse

  29-08-2020 05:30
  
  When will our Utah-elected congressmen effect reasoned, moral, vocal and effective legislation to combat the surge in online videos of child sexual abuse? A New York Times article from February quantifies the situation.Our elected representatives are shirking their collective accountability to current and future generations. There has been, and continues to be, a frightening rise in the distribution of child sexual abuse videos across powerful internet platforms.As media reports about QAnon dist
  
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• ‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43

  29-08-2020 05:09
  
  Los Angeles • Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as the regal Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died Friday of cancer, his representative said. He was 43.Boseman died at his home in the Los Angeles area with his wife and family by his side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante told The Associated Press.Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer four years ago, his family said in a statement.“A true fighter, Chadwick
  
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• Huntsman won’t run write-in campaign for Utah governor

  29-08-2020 04:42
  
  Jon Huntsman will not attempt a write-in campaign for Utah governor, he announced Friday evening in a Facebook message, saying that while proceeding with such a last-ditch effort would be a “great theoretical game,” it would end up sowing division.“While we respect the concerned voices of Utahns from every corner of the political spectrum, our earlier words also still hold true — the primary voters have spoken,” wrote Huntsman, who narrowly lost the GOP contest to L
  
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• Letter: Rep. Curtis shouldn’t apologize for climate concern

  29-08-2020 04:30
  
  I was cheered by Rep. John Curtis as he faces the climate crisis: We cannot solve what we cannot face. But, I was saddened by his seeming need to apologize for his concern, as if it was a confession of infidelity to his wife.Hundreds of other nations who know not the Republican/Democrat conflict — including the Joint Chiefs of Staff (replete with Republicans), every scientific academy in the world (NASA has a list of 200) — are together shouting desperately at our administration&rsqu
  
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• David Brooks: Trump family values are mean world values

  29-08-2020 04:00
  
  I’ve been thinking about the two families we’ve encountered over the past two weeks. The Biden family is emotionally open, rendered vulnerable by tragedy and driven by a powerful desire to connect. The Trump family is emotionally closed, isolated by enmity and driven by a powerful desire to dominate.Occasionally this week one of the female members of the Trump family would struggle to stick her head above the muck of her family’s values and display some humanity. But Donald, Do
  
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• Laura victims may go weeks without power; US deaths reach 14

  29-08-2020 03:42
  
  Lake Charles, La. • The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power confronted the possibility that basic services may not return for weeks or even longer. The number of dead climbed to at least 14.A day after the Category 4 storm hit, more bodies emerged in the aftermath in Louisiana and neighboring Texas. The deaths included five people killed by fallen trees and one person who d
  
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• RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen taking leave of absence

  29-08-2020 02:44
  
  Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen will take a leave of absence until further notice, the organization announced Friday.Hansen,who is being investigated by Major League Soccer and the NationalWomen’s Soccer League for allegedly using racist language during his time as owner, will not operate RSL, the Utah Royals FC or the Real Monarchs during the leave.“Asan organization, our priority is our employees, our teams, our players, and our fans, and Mr. Hansen in particular cares deeply
  
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• Man killed by federal task force — the 17th shot by officers in Utah this year — is identified

  29-08-2020 02:14
  
  Authorities have identified the West Valley City man killed Thursday in Salt Lake City after he reportedly pulled a gun as federal task force members tried to arrest him.The U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team, with help from West Valley City police, were tracking down 38-year-old Damien Evans for the Utah Department of Corrections and Adult Probation and Parole after a warrant had been issued for a parole violation.The task force tried to arrest Evans — who they identi
  
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• Jews rejoice as Utah’s Ancestry makes available millions of Holocaust records

  29-08-2020 01:48
  
  Seventy-five years after World War II ended, connections to the Holocaust keep fading as more and more survivors die. And the relatively few remaining find themselves at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.Salt Lake City businesswoman and writer Faye Lincoln has been searching unsuccessfully for some of her relatives, even reaching out to Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the millions of victims, and getting no response.“As the child of Holocaust survivors from Auschwitz, most
  
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• Juan Rodriguez: The best weapon we have to protect our democracy is media literacy

  29-08-2020 01:03
  
  Consider the last time you were a victim of a keyboard warrior’s fury — or, alternatively, consider the last time you were the warrior defending your argument and position — and ask yourself: Was the information that I read factually correct, or did it just feel like it?Frequently, we are bombarded on social media, in everyday interactions and at home with information that we have to decipher to determine whether or not stems from a reputable source. The past two decades have s
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: GOP Rising Star

  29-08-2020 00:12
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Tipping PointAn Emerging PatternLive from PyongyangExplaining QAnonBoat ParadeDon’t Know MuchThe Old White, Blue and RedPostal Service in DistressLong National NightmareFire FighterWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Utah Symphony musicians premiere a work on video to support Black Lives Matter

  29-08-2020 00:02
  
  Members of the Utah Symphony commissioned a new orchestral work by an up-and-coming Black composer as a way to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.The piece — a four-minute brass-and-percussion work called “Changes/Transitions,” by composer Quinn Mason — made its premiere Friday in a video posted on Facebook and YouTube. The work is performed by 13 members of Musicians of the Utah Symphony, with the symphony’s conductor and musical director, Thierry Fis
  
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