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• Any reason for Trump to resume nuclear tests upwind from Utah? Just political ones, expert says

  10-09-2020 23:53
  
  When she was director of Sandia National Laboratories, Jill Hruby was among officials who each year certified whether the nation’s nuclear stockpile was safe and reliable. She sees only one reason now for the Trump administration proposals to resume explosive nuclear weapons testing.“If nuclear testing were resumed at this point, I believe it would be driven by political, not technical reasons,” she said Thursday in an online roundtable organized by Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah.McA
  
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• Social media giants insist they are not biased against conservatives, but Sen. Mike Lee doesn’t buy it

  10-09-2020 23:37
  
  Social media companies such as Twitter, Google and Facebook are insisting to Sen. Mike Lee that they are not biased toward conservatives, but he’s not buying it.He made that clear Thursday after looking at their responses to a series of questions he sent them about how and why they moderate or cut comments online — after he had attacked what he says is their warping of public debate by unfairly silencing many conservatives.“The responses received from the tech companies about b
  
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• Recap the week’s news on ‘Behind the Headlines’ with The Tribune and KCPW

  10-09-2020 22:34
  
  This week in Utah news:A windstorm wreaked havoc in Utah, causing widespread damage, power outages and school closures across the Wasatch Front. Power outages affected as many as 170,000 on Tuesday, and crews continue to work on clearing downed trees and restoring electricity. The Salt Lake City School District canceled classes until at least Friday, delaying the start of their school year of online-only instruction until COVID-19 conditions improve.All of Utah’s partner states sharing the
  
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• UTA, Sandy dedicate new trail to TRAX station

  10-09-2020 22:04
  
  The Utah Transit Authority and Sandy City on Thursday dedicated a new $3.7 million path for pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders to help connect the Sandy Civic Center TRAX station with the surrounding area.It includes a tunnel under the TRAX rails, and ties into 10200 South and the Dimple Dell and Sandy Rail trails.“Pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians will now have further connectivity east to west via Sandy’s extensive trail system,” said Sandy Mayor Kurt Bradburn. &ld
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Lowering the Barr

  10-09-2020 22:04
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Over the RainbowA Mighty WindLoserPutting Pelosi Out ThereUtah FanBring on the ClownThe Deep HateGOP Rising StarTipping PointAn Emerging PatternWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Deborah Gatrell: True patriotism is service and engagement

  10-09-2020 22:00
  
  Her name is Jamie Campbell.She is the first person I personally know to make the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. A lieutenant in the Alaska Air National Guard, she was one of four people killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2006.There have been others, lost to suicide and training accidents. 9/11 is a terrible day in our history, another day that lives in infamy. Yet that day, we were all Americans first — not Republicans or Democrats. It was a unifying moment as we cheere
  
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• Meatpacker says it will give money to Hyrum, Utah, where a coronavirus outbreak sickened workers

  10-09-2020 21:43
  
  JBS USA, which owns the beef plant in Hyrum where 385 employees tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this summer, said Thursday it will donate $1.7 million to causes in and around the town.A news release from the company said the money will target three issues: food insecurity, community infrastructure and well-being. Awards will be made by the end of the year. Organizations can apply or community members can make suggestions on where to send funds by emailing [email protected]
  
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• U.S. jobless claims remained high last week, while Utah’s numbers continued to stabilize

  10-09-2020 21:42
  
  More than four months after Americans began emerging from the coronavirus-caused lockdown across most states — including Utah — job markets remain treacherous, according to new data from the Labor Department.More than 857,000 workers across the country filed new claims for state unemployment insurance last week, before seasonal adjustments, a slight increase from the previous week. Although the national unemployment rate has fallen to 8.4%, the level of layoffs reflects the challenge
  
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• As Utah clears rape kit backlog, leaders say more reforms ahead

  10-09-2020 21:20
  
  When Julie Valentine started working as a forensic nurse more than a decade ago, her patients asked her, “What happens to my rape kit? What happens to the evidence collected from my body?”“The truthful answer was, ‘I don’t know,’” Valentine said. Today, though, she can confidently tell them, “This will be submitted, and this will be tested.”Valentine joined other leaders outside the state crime lab in Salt Lake City Thursday to announce that
  
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• Utah Royals trade for player with Utah ties

  10-09-2020 21:11
  
  The Utah Royals FC have traded for Chicago Red Stars forward Michele Vasconelos, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Salt Lake Tribune.The Red Stars received $55,000 in allocation money in the transaction.“I’m thrilled to be able to do what I love in my hometown,” Vasconcelos said in a statement. “I grew up going to games at Rio Tinto Stadium, I even played my high school state finals there. I look forward to playing in front of my family and friends, as wel
  
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• Utah man arrested in parking lot hit-and-run killing

  10-09-2020 21:10
  
  A 25-year-old Utah man has been arrested, accused of intentionally running down and killing another man with his car in a Cedar City parking lot.According to a probable cause statement, the 37-year-old victim and a woman were walking in the parking lot of a Home Depot at 1518 S. Providence Center Dr. when, according to witnesses, a car drove directly at them. It nearly hit them, then turned around and hit and ran over the victim “as he was trying to run away.”The driver then immediat
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee says KSL.com is too liberal, wants the LDS Church to sell it

  10-09-2020 21:07
  
  Sen. Mike Lee has become something of a media critic in recent weeks.On his personal Facebook page, Lee has repeatedly criticized KSL.com and The Associated Press, attacking them for “bias” and inaccurate reporting.He has gone so far as to call for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to sell the news website, creating the hashtag #sellKSL.It appears the sustained campaign began Aug. 15, when the senator ripped into KSL.com for a tweet about an AP story. The tweet read &ld
  
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• Utah reports 346 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths

  10-09-2020 20:05
  
  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 346 new coronavirus cases reported on Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses dropped back below the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days, Utah has averaged 381 new positive test resul
  
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• Johnny Townsend: Taxes pay for the nation’s physical, not spiritual, needs

  10-09-2020 20:00
  
  Whenever I discuss poverty with my Mormon family members or former missionary companions, they tell me, “Helping others should only be done out of the goodness of our hearts. The government has no right to force us to be kind.”But it’s not the government’s responsibility to ensure our spiritual growth. The government is responsible, however, for ensuring the physical well-being of its citizens.If we allow people a choice whether or not to help their fellow man, and they c
  
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• As flu season nears, Utah leaders define success as keeping COVID-19 death rates below 1%

  10-09-2020 19:46
  
  State leaders on Thursday rolled out a new COVID-19 plan that they say will see the state through the fall and winter — and unveiled an online scoreboard for holding them to account.The plan rests on two major goals: Keeping the state’s case fatality rate below 1% and holding the unemployment rate below 4.5%.“Now that we’re six months into this pandemic, what are the main things we need to focus on?” Richard Saunders, acting executive director of the Utah Department
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee says KSL is too liberal, wants the LDS Church to sell it

  10-09-2020 19:40
  
  Sen. Mike Lee has become something of a media critic in recent weeks.On his personal Facebook page, Lee has repeatedly criticized KSL.com and The Associated Press, attacking them for “bias” and inaccurate reporting.He has gone so far as to call for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to sell the news website, creating the hashtag #sellKSL.It appears the sustained campaign began Aug. 15, when the senator ripped into KSL.com for a tweet about an AP story. The tweet read &ld
  
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• ‘Not going to happen:’ BLM’s acting director wants to prioritize wildfires and horses, not transferring public lands

  10-09-2020 18:58
  
  During his time as a Colorado-based lawyer fighting for the rights of property owners, William Perry Pendley argued for selling off public lands in support of Utah’s long-standing claim to millions of federal acres within its borders.“The Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold,” Pendley wrote unequivocally in 2016. Now that the former Marine captain heads the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees a huge portion of Utah’s land ma
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee-led group pushes his bill to waive LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws for faith-based adoptions, foster care

  10-09-2020 18:50
  
  The Joint Economic Committee chaired by Utah Sen. Mike Lee issued a report Wednesday saying that his bill exempting faith-based organizations from LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws could help boost foster and adoption services.One apparent problem under current law, the report says, is that some churches stopped offering adoption or foster services in states where sexual orientation and gender identity laws would require them to place children with same-sex couples, which conflict with their religi
  
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• Three Points: Putna provides, set piece success, and RSL just played harder

  10-09-2020 17:40
  
  Here are three observations from Real Salt Lake’s 3-0 win over LAFC from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. Andrew Putna saves and saves and savesRSL goalkeeper Andrew Putna couldn’t remember the last time he had eight saves in a game.“Not since college, probably,” Putna said after he chuckled at the question.Regardless of when it last happened, Putna’s eight-save performance was notable. Not only did he help get RSL’s first clean sheet since July 17 against Minnesota
  
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• 67,000 remain without power after Utah windstorm. Salt Lake City schools are still closed.

  10-09-2020 17:35
  
  Two days after a windstorm wreaked havoc in Utah, many schools remain closed and more than 67,000 customers are still without electricity.According to Rocky Mountain Power, its crews are working “round the clock” to repair 3,501 separate outages affecting 67,064 on Thursday morning. That’s down from about 80,000 on Wednesday night, and more than 170,000 on Tuesday.The company had no estimate on when all the repairs will be completed.As repairs continue, the Salt Lake School Dis
  
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• Terry Marasco: Utah leadership commits deceit by omission

  10-09-2020 17:00
  
  On Fox-13 TV Monday morning, Jared Mendenhall, the public information officer for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality stated: “The people with heart and lung conditions, the people with asthma, they’re going to find it hard to breathe. For the rest of us, it’s going to be just hazy, murky skies.”This was regarding two major air pollution events; ozone and California wildfires.The Utah Division of Air Quality has access to the same science that I do, which clearly
  
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• Gordon Monson: Root for a Cougar great who once ran afoul of the Honor Code and now intends to lead BYU football

  10-09-2020 17:00
  
  This is a happy story of inspiration when, straight In the teeth of the coronavirus era, all of us could use a few more of them.It caroms from the brilliant and record-breaking to the dull anddisheartening to the positive and promising, updating most recently withwhat BYU’s running game did to Navy on Monday night. It shredded the Midshipmen, gaining 301 yards, benefiting from a concrete slab of anoffensive line and backs agile enough not only to take advantage of the openings created, but
  
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• Wednesday was the coldest Sept. 9 ever in SLC — and records were set around Utah

  10-09-2020 16:47
  
  The windstorm grabbed the weather headlines this week in Utah, but the state set a dozen temperature records on Wednesday — record lows.The wind blowing in from Wyoming not only knocked down thousands of trees and knocked out power to more than 170,000 Utahns, but dropped temperatures 30-40 degrees across the state. It was the coldest Sept. 9 ever recorded in downtown Salt Lake City, according to the National Weather Service, with a low of 43 and a high of 62.And that was just one of 19 lo
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Nelson turns 96, predicting the next apostles and temples, and a new anti-Trump push

  10-09-2020 16:36
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Sixteen candles plus 80
  (Photo courtesy of Russell M. Nelson)
  Russell M. Nelson as a young boy.At 96, Russell M. Nelson is used to receiving birthday wishes, but he no doubt is getting many, many more since taking the c
  
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• 67,000 remain without power after Utah windstorm. Some schools are still closed.

  10-09-2020 15:51
  
  Two days after a windstorm wreaked havoc in Utah, more than 67,000 customers are still without electricity.According to Rocky Mountain Power, its crews are working “round the clock” to repair 3,501 separate outages affecting 67,064 on Thursday morning. That’s down from about 80,000 on Wednesday night, and more than 170,000 on Tuesday.The company had no estimate on when all the repairs will be completed.As repairs continue, a number of schools remained closed on Friday, includin
  
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• Utah declares state of emergency after windstorm knocked down thousands of trees

  10-09-2020 15:24
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency in response to Tuesday’s historic windstorm, which killed one person and caused significant damage from Salt Lake City to Logan.Herbert made the announcement Wednesday, after touring parts of Salt Lake City’s hard-hit Rose Park neighborhood. Such a declaration will let the state access federal funds.Rose Park was one of many areas in northern Utah that sought to restore order Wednesday, after the storm leveled thousands of trees and cut
  
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• Public lands boss says he’s focused on curbing wildfires, wild horses

  10-09-2020 15:14
  
  During his time as a Colorado-based lawyer fighting for the rights of property owners, William Perry Pendley argued for selling off public lands in support of Utah’s long-standing claim to millions of federal acres within its borders.“The Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold,” Pendley wrote unequivocally in 2016. Now that the former Marine captain heads the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees a huge portion of Utah’s land ma
  
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• How to keep food safe when the power goes out

  10-09-2020 15:13
  
  The recent windstorms have left thousands of Utah residents without power and the potential loss of food in refrigerators and freezers is a cause for concern.Utah State University Extension Services offers these tips to keep your food safe when the power is out for extended periods of time.• Keep refrigerator and freezer doors closed. Open them briefly and only if necessary.• If full, most freezers will keep food frozen for 48-60 hours, depending on the type of food and the beginning f
  
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• A realistic guess at a coronavirus vaccine timeline — and how to know if the process gets politicized

  10-09-2020 14:01
  
  About 72% of Republicans and 82% of Democrats worry the vaccine approval process is being driven more by politics than science, according to an August survey done by the Harris Poll and STAT News.There’s some evidence to back up those fears. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn told the Financial Times that he would consider an emergency use authorization before the end of Phase 3 trials. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked state officials to get their vaccine distributio
  
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• Roni Jo Draper: Classrooms are not a politically neutral space

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  I began my teaching career over 25 years ago as a high school mathematics teacher. I now prepare teachers to teach.Teachers have a difficult job. They work every day with all the children in our community who come to learn and grow. Teachers do so, despite finding themselves in sometimes dangerous situations (think Sandy Hook, Parkland, COVID-19). And they do so while keeping the well-being of children at the forefront of their minds.Perhaps that is why I felt so disappointed to read the letter
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Frustrated with Trump, these LDS women are calling for change, but will it matter?

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  More than 150 years ago, Seraph Young cast a historic ballot in a Salt Lake City municipal election, the first woman in U.S. history to vote under an equal suffrage law.Now, with another election approaching, a group of women who, like Young, are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are making their voices heard and urging their sisters in the faith to help defeat President Donald Trump.These women are not radicals, even if what they’re doing — appealing to the
  
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• Letter: When does it stop?

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  When does it stop? That is the question from Donovan Mitchell. I can no longer turn away from my responsibility. Maybe I should say we can no longer turn away.How many more examples do we need before we learn there is a problem with some police officers? Not all, but some. Sadly, they have not been held accountable. All of these killings are hate crimes and should be treated as such. George Floyd was lynched by a knee. Trayvon, Tamir, Rodney, Michael, Amadou, Breonna, Taylor, Jacob Blake and mor
  
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• Letter: Tyranny gets closer every day

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  We cannot afford to be so naïve as to believe it won’t happen here, because it gets closer every day. “It” is tyranny. Not the so-called tyranny of mask wearing. There are multiple historical parallels to what our country is experiencing, but here are just four elements of real tyranny that our current president has exhibited in plain sight for four years.1. Control or suppression of the press and media. Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to mainstream press and media so
  
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• Letter: Token economies work

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  I must take exception to the comments in Ms. Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro’s Aug. 29 commentary regarding the implementation of “unethical token economies” and her comments attempting to disparage behavioral support procedures by comparing them with similar procedures used with nonhuman animals (i.e., pigeons).There are literally thousands of empirical data-based studies demonstrating the positive impact of such procedures in supporting children and adults to both achieve desired behavi
  
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• Brian K. Zehnder: In this election, every issue is a health issue

  10-09-2020 14:00
  
  Imagine no COVID-19. Welcoming a friend with a hug. Yelling in the arena, donning no face mask.This “normal” feels a long way away. But we can get back, with the right people. Who are they? People who uniquely understand health care.Normal has changed. Every issue is a health issue.According to a survey by the Utah Foundation, the top five voter concerns are health care, taxes and spending, K-12 education, jobs and the economy and air quality.All issues involve health. Take care of o
  
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• Showing no mercy, Real Salt Lake hammers LAFC 3-0

  10-09-2020 06:36
  
  Sandy • Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.Real Salt Lake lived that aphorism popularized by the “Cobra Kai” television show Wednesday in its 3-0 win over LAFC in front of 4,147 fans at Rio Tinto Stadium.RSL struck first for the first time since its win against the Colorado Rapids in the opener of the MLS is Back Tournament on July 12. It had played from behind in each of the previous four games.RSL players and assistant coach Tyrone Marshall said scoring first was a topic of d
  
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• Real Salt Lake hammers LAFC 3-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium

  10-09-2020 05:37
  
  Sandy • Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.Real Salt Lake lived that aphorism popularized by the “Cobra Kai” television show Wednesday in its 3-0 win over LAFC in front of 4,147 fans at Rio Tinto Stadium.RSL struck first for the first time since its win against the Colorado Rapids in the opener of the MLS is Back Tournament on July 12.RSL’s passing earned it several opportunities at goal. Forward Maikel Chang, who had a breakout game last month against Colorado, displayed
  
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• Thomas L. Friedman: Who can win America’s politics of humiliation?

  10-09-2020 05:00
  
  About four years ago, without asking anybody, I changed my job description. It used to be “New York Times foreign affairs columnist.” Instead, I started calling myself the “New York Times humiliation and dignity columnist.” I even included it on my business card.It had become so obvious to me that so much of what I’d been doing since I became a journalist in 1978 was reporting or opining about people, leaders, refugees, terrorists and nation-states acting out on the
  
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• Farhad Manjoo: Strike. This could be our last stand.

  10-09-2020 04:00
  
  Labor Day hit with an extra knife-twist of cruel irony this year, in an America that is barely trying to pretend anymore that the plight of tens of millions of working people merits national concern.On Friday, the government announced a slowing recovery from the job losses and economic shutdown caused by the pandemic. Nearly 14 million Americans are now unemployed, and almost 8 million more are euphemistically called “involuntary part-time,” meaning they would work more if there were
  
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• Another 314 COVID-19 cases in Utah; test numbers depressed by windstorms, health officials say

  10-09-2020 03:56
  
  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 314 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses stayed above the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day — despite fewer patients testing as a result of Tuesday’s winds
  
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• Lawyers for SUWA, Kane County and San Juan County argue Open Meetings Act case before Utah Supreme Court

  10-09-2020 02:49
  
  The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday from attorneys representing three southern Utah counties and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance over a case that has been in the courts since 2017 when then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke made a tour of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments.On the May 2017 trip, which was initiated by an executive order from President Donald Trump, Zinke met behind closed doors with the county commissioners of San Juan, Kane an
  
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• Salt Lake City employee dies on the job

  10-09-2020 02:47
  
  A member of Salt Lake City’s fleet team was killed in an accident while at work, according to a news release from the office of Mayor Erin Mendenhall.The city is not providing a name or cause of death at this time.“Every person who works for Salt Lake City is part of a family," Mendenhall said in the news release. "The work our city team does is because we love this city and we want to serve it, and this loss is a tragic one that impacts us all.”In an email to city employees ob
  
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• Rodney Dueck: Weston is the opposite of Stewart

  10-09-2020 01:47
  
  Two years ago, I attended a town hall meeting with U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart in St. George.After the Pledge of Allegiance and a sincere constituent prayer ending with the words, “in Jesus' name, Amen,” Stewart began to speak. He started bemoaning Democrat Nancy Pelosi, denounced her refusal to consider Republican proposals, darkly suggesting she was sanctioning the murder of babies. He then told us about his private dinners with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump and spoke of his allegianc
  
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• Salt Lake police shot 13-year-old boy with autism hours before new de-escalation policy took effect

  10-09-2020 01:43
  
  Salt Lake City police shot a 13-year-old boy with autism who was running away during a “mental episode” last week — an encounter that came just hours before a new policy took effect requiring officers to try de-escalation first when responding to most cases.The response from Salt Lake City police has since drawn national attention — and criticism — at a time when officers have been the subject of ongoing protests for their use of deadly force. The policy that the de
  
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• Former player in girls’ tackle football league tells of her love for the game on Day 2 of Title IX trial

  10-09-2020 01:27
  
  A former player in the Utah Girls Tackle Football League provided an example of the significant amount of interest girls have in playing a sport traditionally played by boys during the second day of the lawsuit aimed to determine whether three Utah school districts and the Utah High School Activities Association are in violation of Title IX.BayLee Simmons, who graduated from Riverton High in 2018, testified Wednesday that as a student-athlete at both Riverton and Lone Peak High prior, she wanted
  
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• Explosive wildfires across the West stoked by fierce winds

  10-09-2020 00:54
  
  Shaver Lake, Calif. • Wildfires raged unchecked across parts of the western U.S. on Wednesday amid gusty and dry conditions, but forecasters said some weather relief was in sight that could help firefighters overwhelmed by the blazes.In California, winds stoked unprecedented numbers of fires that have forced rescues and evacuations. In Washington, more acres burned in a single day than firefighters usually see all year. Fires also forced people to flee in Oregon and Idaho.A temperature plun
  
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• Bob Woodward’s new book alleges Donald Trump knew coronavirus severity, played it down

  10-09-2020 00:53
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump talked privately about the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation the virus was no worse than the seasonal flu and insisting the government had it totally under control, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It&rsq
  
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• Utah declares state of emergency after wind storm knocked down thousands of trees

  10-09-2020 00:24
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert will declare a state of emergency in response to Tuesday’s historic windstorm, which killed one person and caused significant damage from Salt Lake City to Logan.Herbert made the announcement Wednesday after touring parts of Salt Lake City’s hard-hit Rose Park neighborhood. Such a declaration will let the state access federal funds.Rose Park was one of many areas in northern Utah that sought to restore order Wednesday, after the storm leveled thousands of trees and
  
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• Extensions on the horizon for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell as Jazz evaluate how to further improve the team

  10-09-2020 00:17
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) give each other five during a timeout as the Utah Jazz and the L.A. Lakers play at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz fully intend on keeping Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert on the roster.
  As part of the annual end-of-season media sessions, executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lindsey and general manager Ju
  
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