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• Utah Rep. Phil Lyman may pay off judgment instead of giving tax returns to feds

  18-09-2020 23:54
  
  Utah Rep. Phil Lyman implied at a hearing Friday that he’ll cough up the full $96,000 restitution payment in his Recapture Canyon case rather than give federal prosecutors his tax returns.A federal judge ordered Lyman to hand over tax records from 2017 to 2019 by May 1, but the lawmaker ignored that deadline and subsequent emails from U.S. Assistant Attorney Allison J.P. Moon.On Sept. 1, Lyman apparently sent portions of his 2017 and 2018 returns to Moon’s office, but included a brie
  
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• Utah Rep. Phil Lyman may pay off judgment to instead of giving tax returns to feds

  18-09-2020 23:38
  
  Utah Rep. Phil Lyman implied at a hearing Friday that he’ll cough up the full $96,000 restitution payment in his Recapture Canyon case rather than give federal prosecutors his tax returns.A federal judge ordered Lyman to hand over tax records from 2017 to 2019 by May 1, but the lawmaker ignored that deadline and subsequent emails from U.S. Assistant Attorney Allison J.P. Moon.On Sept. 1, Lyman apparently sent portions of his 2017 and 2018 returns to Moon’s office, but included a brie
  
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• Utah filmmaker will lead online Sundance Institute workshop on making movies outside Hollywood

  18-09-2020 22:54
  
  A Utah filmmaker who filmed a low-budget movie in a small Utah town, then wowed Sundance Film Festival audiences with it, will lead a free online discussion about making movies outside the Los Angeles-New York system.Sundance Institute, through its Sundance Co//ab program, will host the online event, “Making It as a Regional Filmmaker,” Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., on the program’s website, collab.sundance.org. The Utah Film Commission is supporting the event.It will fea
  
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• ‘Utah Politics’ podcast: Coronavirus spike, 4th District race turns nasty, and the latest polling in Utah

  18-09-2020 22:49
  
  Bryan Schott is joined by political and communications consultant Taylor Morgan to discuss the latest Utah political news.Coronavirus cases in Utah are spiking. Can Gov. Gary Herbert find an effective response to the increase?Attorney General Sean Reyes attends a rally for President Donald Trump in Nevada and is photographed not wearing a mask. Will he pay a political price for that, or standing next to the Pawn Stars guy in the photo?The race between Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams and Republican B
  
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• The 'Kreilach Kid’ is sticking around. RSL’s Damir Kreilach signs multi-year contract extension.

  18-09-2020 22:47
  
  From the very first day Damir Kreilach landed in Utah and met his Real Salt Lake teammates, he felt right at home. They welcomed him and his family with open arms.It’s that sentiment that led Kreilach to sign a multiyear extension with the first and only Major League Soccer team he has ever known.“For me it was an easy decision,” Kreilach said in videoconference call with media.The midfielder’s new deal goes through the 2022 season with a club option for 2023. RSL acquire
  
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• Democrat Chris Peterson says Spencer Cox should be booted from COVID-19 leadership role as cases surge

  18-09-2020 22:40
  
  Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Peterson is urging Utah’s governor to strip Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox of his leadership role in the state’s COVID-19 response as new case numbers soared to record levels for the second day running Friday.The job of the lieutenant governor is to oversee elections and lobbying in the state, Peterson said, arguing that Cox — the Republican nominee for governor — has “crossed out of his lane and usurped the function of the Department of
  
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• Two officers deemed justified in Utah shooting that killed a fugitive and a police dog

  18-09-2020 22:36
  
  Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill ruled Friday that two officers were justified in shooting and killing a man who was wanted in connection with a North Ogden homicide.But Gill noted in his findings that Herriman Police Sgt. Ben Ricks and Homeland Security Officer Jared Holland both refused to be interviewed by investigators about why they felt they needed to use deadly force on Feb. 13 when they shot and killed Brian Filion. A Herriman police dog named Hondo was also shot and killed du
  
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• Breaking down Utah’s alarming coronavirus spike

  18-09-2020 22:20
  
  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.I didn’t expect this.Yes, I thought we’d see a rise in Utah coronavirus cases after Labor Day and once schools opened. It was clear that was going to happen. But the acceleration and sheer size of the spike we’ve seen,
  
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• David Brooks: No, the Democrats haven’t gone over the edge

  18-09-2020 22:00
  
  You’ve probably heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but you may not have heard of Derek Kilmer. Kilmer grew up in a timber region in Washington state that had seen many of its logging jobs disappear. First at Princeton, then getting a Ph.D. at Oxford, he studied how towns recover from deindustrialization. He went back home to help his community recover economically and now represents that community in Congress.Kilmer is the chairman of the largest ideological group among House Democrats, th
  
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• Utah builders hope all-female-built home will inspire women, girls to join construction industry

  18-09-2020 21:55
  
  Saratoga Springs • Elodie Allen used to tag along at her mother’s first construction job site. One day when they pulled up to the house, Elodie asked from the backseat, “Mom, when I’m older, will you teach me to build homes?”The question brought tears to Kristi Allen’s eyes. She told her daughter she’d love that.“It felt so profound to me that at 4 years old, she already knew what it took me 30 years to figure out. And that is that being a homebuild
  
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• The Conversation: Why Teddy Roosevelt’s warning to lay off a candidate’s religious beliefs is still relevant today

  18-09-2020 21:47
  
  In the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump has used religion to attack his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.During an August speech at an Ohio manufacturing plant, Trump suggested that Biden would harm religious interests. Linking religion to several conservative interests, the president claimed his opponent would “take away your guns, take away your Second Amendment” and “hurt the Bible. Hurt God.”In comments the following week, Trump again invoked Bid
  
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• The 'Karate Kid’ is sticking around. RSL’s Damir Kreilach signs multi-year contract extension.

  18-09-2020 21:31
  
  From the very first day Damir Kreilach landed in Utah and met his Real Salt Lake teammates, he felt right at home. They welcomed him and his family with open arms.It’s that sentiment that led Kreilach to sign a multiyear extension with the first and only Major League Soccer team he has ever known.“For me it was an easy decision,” Kreilach said in videoconference call with media.The midfielder’s new deal goes through the 2022 season with a club option for 2023. RSL acquire
  
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• Utah tops 1,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day for the first time

  18-09-2020 21:14
  
  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.Utah crossed an unwanted milestone Friday: More than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a day.The Utah Department of Health reported the state had 1,117 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the most in a day since the pandemic began.The state&rs
  
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• Utah’s unemployment fell in August to 4.1%, less than half the national rate

  18-09-2020 20:43
  
  Pandemic-induced unemployment in Utah continued to decline in August, according to a new government report.After dropping to 4.5% in July — the lowest for that month among all U.S. states and less than half of the national rate — the state’s jobless number fell again to 4.1%, the Labor Department reported Friday.Nebraska’s unemployment rate was 4.0% for August, giving Utah the second lowest rate. But in contrast, tourism-heavy Nevada had the nation’s highest unemplo
  
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• How the Utah Jazz can bolster their bench this offseason

  18-09-2020 20:38
  
  Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson (00), Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale (23) and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) celebrate free chicken after two missed Charlotte Hornets free throws were missed during an NBA basketball game at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. Utah won 109-92. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Entering the 2019-2020 season, one of the narratives surrounding the Utah Jazz was the notion that they would have good depth after
  
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• AP source: Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo wins 2nd straight NBA MVP award

  18-09-2020 20:32
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • Giannis Antetokounmpo’s historic year earned him a historic awards sweep.A person with knowledge of the situation says the Milwaukee forward is the NBA’s Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league is not announcing the award until Friday afternoon.The 25-year-old Antetokounmpo becomes just the third player in league history to win MVP and Defensive Player o
  
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• Connor Boyack and James Czerniawski: Government use — and misuse — of tech requires heightened scrutiny

  18-09-2020 20:00
  
  Critics of privacy advocates like to chide them for using dystopian films like “Minority Report” to forecast where government use of technology is headed. The 2002 Tom Cruise movie depicts a future when a strange race of beings called “Pre-Cogs” see the future and send police to arrest would-be offenders before a crime is committed.However, just this week, it was reported that a Florida sheriff attempted to do something very similar, using an algorithm to predict likely c
  
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• Tribes’ ancestral remains return home to American Southwest

  18-09-2020 18:31
  
  Flagstaff, Ariz. • Tribal leaders have reburied the remains of their ancestors that were taken more than a century ago from what’s now a national park in Colorado.A Swedish researcher unearthed the remains of about 20 people and more than two dozen funerary objects from southwestern Colorado in 1891. They eventually became part of a larger collection at the National Museum of Finland.The remains and items were returned to the U.S. over the weekend and reburied within Mesa Verde Nation
  
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• Kurt Streeter: The Pac-12 can still choose players over profits

  18-09-2020 18:26
  
  We are witnessing an egregious preference for profit over public health and a disregard for morality and common sense, not to mention the health of young athletes.Don’t fall into the trap, Southern Cal, Oregon, Stanford, Washington State, Colorado, Utah. ... Stand firm, Pac-12.With the coronavirus raging from coast to coast, the Big Ten voted Wednesday to play football this fall. It bent to a chorus of players, coaches and fans, including President Donald Trump, who had demanded it.It is a
  
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• RSL’s Damir Kreilach signs multi-year contract extension, keeping him in Utah through at least 2022

  18-09-2020 18:25
  
  Real Salt Lake’s Karate Kid isn’t done yet.The club announced Friday that midfielder Damir Kreilach signed a multiyear extension to stay with RSL through the 2022 season, with an option for 2023.“I’m happy to stay here and continue to be part of the RSL family,” Kreilach said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to giving my best on and off the field and be a role model for other young players. And of course I’m looking forward to winning something
  
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• RSL’s Damir Kreilach signs multi-year contract extension, keeping him in Utah through 2022

  18-09-2020 17:49
  
  Real Salt Lake’s Karate Kid isn’t done yet.The club announced Friday that midfielder Damir Kreilach signed a multiyear extension to stay with RSL through the 2022 season, with an option for 2023.“I’m happy to stay here and continue to be part of the RSL family,” Kreilach said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to giving my best on and off the field and be a role model for other young players. And of course I’m looking forward to winning something
  
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• Hiker missing in the High Uintas; police ask for public’s help

  18-09-2020 17:47
  
  An Idaho man is missing in the High Uintas Wilderness Area, and the Summit County Sheriff’s Office is asking members of the public if anyone has seen him.Kyle S. Wimpenny, 25, of Boise, left his home on Sunday for the High Uintas Wilderness Area, with plans to hike to Kings Peak, according to police. He told his roommate he would be home by Wednesday, and he was reported missing on Thursday.Summit County Search and Rescue found Wimpenny vehicle at the Henry’s Fork trailhead, and have
  
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• West Jordan police arrest suspect in fatal hit and run

  18-09-2020 17:42
  
  West Jordan police have arrested a man who allegedly ran over and killed a truck owner who was trying to retrieve his stolen vehicle.The 31-year-old suspect has been booked into the Salt Lake County jail for investigation of murder and theft by receiving stolen goods, pending formal charges.According to police, the victim — 61-year-old Robert Holladay of West Jordan — located a truck that had been stolen from him in the area of 9300 South and 1600 West on Sept. 3. Holladay got out of
  
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• E. Thomas Nelson: One more crisis in 2020 we don’t want to overlook

  18-09-2020 17:00
  
  Now three-quarters of the way complete, 2020 still has much time to shock us and potentially further disrupt our daily lives.A global pandemic forced us out of the workforce and into our homes. Racism and tribalism sent us back into the streets, where sickening displays of violence have recently become commonplace. Earthquakes shook our houses and a generational windstorm sent tree’s falling down on top of them. We all have more than enough to keep us up at night: our proverbial plates are
  
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• Rural lawmakers feel betrayed that a Utah power plant gets some of its coal from Colorado

  18-09-2020 15:24
  
  Back in the 1980s, Utah lawmakers thought they had “a gentlemen’s agreement” with the then-new Intermountain Power Plant (IPP) outside Delta to exclusively burn coal mined in Utah.But since 2012, the 1,800-megawatt plant, which sends most of its output to Southern California, has increasingly used out-of-state coal, even as its overall consumption has plunged, sparking the ire of several rural Utah legislators who gave the plant’s bosses a stern dressing down during a mee
  
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• Soon all Utah teachers and school staff will be able to get a COVID-19 test — with or without symptoms

  18-09-2020 15:00
  
  The state is rolling out a new program offering free testing to all teachers and any staff worried they may have been exposed to COVID-19 in school — whether they’re showing symptoms or not.The Utah Department of Health confirmed Thursday that it began providing the tests this week “on a limited basis” in Utah County, which has seen the biggest jump in cases recently. And it plans to soon extend the offer statewide for all public K-12 faculty, said spokesperson Tom Hudach
  
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• Robert Kirby: The stupidest person in the world may surprise you

  18-09-2020 15:00
  
  If you haven’t heard by now — and I hadn’t until five minutes ago — late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has identified who he believes is the world’s dumbest person.I won’t identify the person other than to say that it isn’t me.During an anti-mask rally in St. George, this person — with a perfectly straight face — told a KTVX reporter:“When George Floyd was saying, ‘I can’t breathe,’ and then he died. And now we&rsq
  
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• Utah’s second largest wildfire will keep burning in the Uintas for weeks

  18-09-2020 14:00
  
  While 2020 will go down as a banner year for human-caused fires in Utah, the state’s largest fires by far were sparked by lightning in remote places and subsequently whipped up by big winds.The second largest has been burning for a month in the Ashley National Forest and full containment is still weeks away. The East Fork Fire started Aug. 21 in the High Uintas Wilderness and has since burned 60,000 acres of bone dry forest, filled with standing beetle-killed conifers about 15 miles north
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Nurse ‘Ratched’ returns in gorgeous, dark, campy Netflix prequel to ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’

  18-09-2020 14:00
  
  It’s not unusual for actors to take on roles that have been played by other actors before them. But most actors aren’t faced with the challenge that Sarah Paulson took on in the Netflix series “Ratched” — playing a character indelibly linked to Louise Fletcher, who won an Oscar for the role in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”Fletcher’s performance as cold, hard-hearted, passive-aggressive and quietly vicious tyrant Nurse Ratched was so inde
  
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• Rural lawmakers feel betrayed that Utah power plant gets some of its coal from Colorado

  18-09-2020 14:00
  
  Back in the 1980s, Utah lawmakers thought they had “a gentlemen’s agreement” with the then-new Intermountain Power Plant (IPP) outside Delta to exclusively burn coal mined in Utah.But since 2012, the 1,800-megawatt plant, which sends most of its output to Southern California, has increasingly used out-of-state coal, even as its overall consumption has plunged, sparking the ire of several rural Utah legislators who gave the plant’s bosses a stern dressing down during a mee
  
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• In a COVID-19 world, Hollywood will release some fall films, but hold back its blockbusters

  18-09-2020 14:00
  
  The summer battle of the female superheroes — DC’s Wonder Woman vs. Marvel’s Black Widow — was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down theaters and prompted Hollywood studios to delay their releases.It looked like the faceoff would happen this fall, when Warner Bros. moved “Wonder Woman 1984” from June to Oct. 2, and Disney shifted “Black Widow” from May to Nov. 6.Now the showdown between Gal Gadot’s Amazon princess and Scarlett J
  
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• David Burns: ‘J’Accuse’ the president of a failure of leadership

  18-09-2020 14:00
  
  On Jan. 13, 1898, French writer Emile Zola published an open letter to the president of France accusing the government of anti-Semitism in the conviction of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus for passing secrets to Germany. Known to history as the Dreyfus Affair, this political scandal convulsed France for more than a decade in the lead-up to World War I.Over time, the title of the letter, “J’Accuse!” (I accuse!), spread beyond France and came to mean a declaration of outrage and accusation
  
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• Letter: Our leaders need to step up

  18-09-2020 13:30
  
  I read with sadness recently in The Tribune that our leaders in Utah have announced paltry goals for our COVID-19 metrics: less than 1% fatality rate and maybe decreasing the daily infection rate to 300-350. These goals stand in contrast to what most of the rest of the world enjoys. A goal of 300 cases per day equates to 100 new cases per day per million people. Compare this with Japan, which has five cases per million per day, or Germany with its 15 per million per day. Even Sweden, which took
  
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• Letter: School should expand a child’s point of view

  18-09-2020 13:02
  
  I enjoyed the Sept. 10 commentary by Roni Jo Draper and agree that classrooms are not politically neutral spaces. If any of you parents have perused textbooks over the years, then you have noticed changes, additions and deletions consistent with bias coming out of textbook committees in Texas and elsewhere. Teachers with competent university degrees must then work around these changes from firsthand knowledge they acquired in their own research.Library censorship is another form of bias in schoo
  
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• Most major news outlets still use the term ‘Mormon,’ study shows, despite church’s wishes

  18-09-2020 13:00
  
  Even after President Russell M. Nelson urged the media to use the Utah-based faith’s full name — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — and stop employing shortened forms or nicknames, most top national news sites were still using “Mormon” and “LDS” in their coverage a year later.That’s one of the findings in a five-month study of 20 websites — including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Fox News and Forbes — by Public S
  
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• At town hall, Biden blasts Trump’s ‘criminal’ virus response

  18-09-2020 07:00
  
  Moosic, Pa. • Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump’s downplaying of the pandemic “criminal” and his administration “totally irresponsible.”“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up. The president should step down,” the Democratic presidential nominee said to ap
  
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• Letter: Navajo Nation displays community values

  18-09-2020 05:30
  
  What a beautiful yet overwhelming description of how the Navajo Nation is dealing with the awful COVID-19 by Zak Podmore. The San Juan County Indigenous people of the Navajo Nation are displaying profound love and showing the necessity of community welfare over individual wants. This commitment and attitude should be copied by other communities. All the best to these givers and helpers.Joanne Saltas, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Box Elder parents protest at school district, asking for end to mask mandate

  18-09-2020 05:20
  
  Some 20 to 30 parents gathered outside the Box Elder County School District offices on Thursday afternoon to call for an end to their children being required to wear masks in class, according to a report from FOX 13.Ever since Box Elder County moved to a “green” restriction status last Friday, Superintendent Steve Carlsen has been flooded with calls and emails from parents asking how this would impact the existing mask mandate for schools in the district, he told FOX 13. On Thursday,
  
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• Reports: Pac-12 football season could begin on Oct. 31

  18-09-2020 04:00
  
  Pac-12 athletic directors appear to be aiming at an Oct. 31 start for the conference’s football season, according to a report.A Thursday story by Jon Wilner of the Mercury News said that Halloween is the Pac-12 ADs' preferred opening date, and they are now waiting for approval from conference presidents and chancellors, who will meet Friday.According to The Associated Press, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott says a vote by the CEO Group is not expected Friday.“(Friday) is a chance to g
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: A cataclysm of hunger, disease and illiteracy

  18-09-2020 04:00
  
  We think of COVID-19 as killing primarily the elderly around the world, but in poor countries it is more cataclysmic than that.It is killing children through malnutrition. It is leading more people to die from tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. It is forcing girls out of school and into child marriages. It is causing women to die in childbirth. It is setting back efforts to eradicate polio, fight malaria and reduce female genital mutilation. It is leading to lapses in vitamin A distribution that wi
  
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• Family of man shot to death by Bountiful police urges people to take mental health seriously

  18-09-2020 03:36
  
  The family of a man shot to death by Bountiful police outside of Viewmont High School late Tuesday night released a statement on Thursday characterizing the shooting as a suicide and urging those struggling with mental health issues to seek help.The man was identified as 27-year-old Bountiful resident Clay A. Reynolds. Police said they were called to the school, where they found Reynolds armed with a shotgun, a knife, and a bow and arrow. Officers say he asked them to shoot him, after which he p
  
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• Letter: Plant seeds for our future

  18-09-2020 03:30
  
  When the first non-native settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley, there were few trees. They wanted shade fast, so they planted fast-growing trees. Some of the first city ordinances required the planting of street trees. Early Salt Lake City had an urban forest that was uniform, beautiful and remarkable, as described by early travel writers. As the short-lived trees died, longer-lived elms, oaks, sycamores and maples were planted in the missing teeth. Gradually, the urban forest changed to includ
  
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• Report: Pac-12 football season could begin on Oct. 31

  18-09-2020 03:13
  
  Pac-12 athletic directors appear to be aiming at an Oct. 31 start for the conference’s football season, according to a report.A Thursday story by Jon Wilner of the Mercury News said that Halloween is the Pac-12 ADs' preferred opening date, and they are now waiting for approval from conference presidents and chancellors.The Pac-12 start date is also subject to the loosening of local health restrictions, most notably in California and Oregon.Governors in both states have indicated that USC,
  
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• Man shot after pointing gun at police officer in Holladay

  18-09-2020 02:28
  
  A man is in “serious or critical condition” after a violent altercation with a police officer ended with the man pointing a gun at police and being shot by officers.Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said the officer was getting gas at a Chevron station on the corner of 4500 South and 2300 East in Holladay when he either observed or heard a crash involving a motorcycle and a truck. As he approached to investigate, the man riding the motorcycle attempted to flee the scene, and the
  
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• 3,000 students haven’t logged on for the first week of school in Salt Lake City

  18-09-2020 02:12
  
  Roughly one out of every seven students in Salt Lake City hasn’t logged on for the first week of classes, which started online-only Monday because of the coronavirus pandemic.And one big reason is that many still don’t have the technology needed to do so.“I really am alarmed at how many kids don’t have access,” said Melissa Ford, the president of Salt Lake City School District’s board of education. “We can’t just leave them behind.”The distri
  
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• Dan Coats: What’s at stake in this election? The American democratic experiment.

  18-09-2020 02:00
  
  We hear often that the November election is the most consequential in our lifetime. But the importance of the election is not just which candidate or which party wins. Voters also face the question of whether the American democratic experiment, one of the boldest political innovations in human history, will survive.Our democracy’s enemies, foreign and domestic, want us to concede in advance that our voting systems are faulty or fraudulent; that sinister conspiracies have distorted the poli
  
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• Justin Thomas leads U.S. Open with 65; Utahn Tony Finau rallies for 69

  18-09-2020 01:44
  
  Mamaroneck, N.Y. • This wasn’t the kind of fun Justin Thomas had in mind for a U.S. Open at Winged Foot.But he’ll take it.For all the hype and history of how much punishment Winged Foot has doled out over the years. Thomas took advantage of a surprising soft and gentle Thursday morning with a 5-under 65, the lowest score in six U.S. Opens on this tough Tillinghast design.All that got him was a one-shot lead over Patrick Reed, Thomas Pieters of Belgium and Matthew Wolff, the 21-y
  
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• Letter: We need wealthy donors to fund education

  18-09-2020 01:30
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic caused the Utah Legislature, in a special session, to drastically reduce the amount of state funding for public education for this school year. The big problem is that, because of the pandemic, schools will actually need more funding to adequately do their job of properly educating students.Therefore, we need wealthy Utahns, big Utah businesses and charitable organizations to step up and help provide the money our schools desperately need. Businesses that want to be respons
  
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• Democratic candidate for Utah governor says he’s no Nancy Pelosi

  18-09-2020 01:10
  
  Chris Peterson, the Democratic candidate for Utah governor, says it would be a mistake to view him as a “wild-eyed liberal.”Sure, the University of Utah law professor believes people who are well-off should contribute more to society than those who are less able. But that’s a lesson he learned from the Bible, which teaches that “to whom more is given, a little bit more needs to be expected,” Peterson said Thursday during a gubernatorial forum with his Republican opp
  
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• RSL still disappointed about ‘unacceptable’ loss to Colorado, but looking to move on quickly

  18-09-2020 01:06
  
  Nearly 40 seconds passed before Real Salt Lake defender Justen Glad provided an answer when asked what the team learned from watching the film of last weekend’s embarrassing home loss to the Colorado Rapids.“I don’t know,” Glad said. “I’m going to skip that question, if that’s alright.”Five days after RSL suffered its worst home loss in franchise history, it’s clear the disappointment still lingers. Fellow defender Donny Toia said players wer
  
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