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• City surveys damage winds heaped on top of cemetery’s already crumbling infrastructure

  19-09-2020 23:35
  
  As the rain let up before noon Saturday, Jordan Rogers dropped by the Salt Lake City Cemetery for a quiet stroll.“Cemeteries are always really peaceful, it’s a nice morning walk,” she said. “No chainsaws out this morning, so that’s good.”While the air was still over the vast, 121-acre memorial park, the grounds were another story. Massive trees, stumps and limbs remained strewn about from the hurricane-force winds 10 days before. Root balls had opened wide hol
  
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• Letter: Make suicide prevention resources more available

  19-09-2020 23:30
  
  September is Suicide Prevention Month and it’s important that we are there for each other and take steps to prevent suicide. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s theme for the month is to #KeepGoing, by taking simple actions to safeguard our mental health and save lives. From learning the warning signs for suicide and what to do if you are worried someone is struggling, to bringing education programs to your community, we can all learn new ways to help each other save liv
  
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• Wingsuit flyer from Utah killed in crash in Switzerland

  19-09-2020 23:01
  
  David Wall, a skydiver and thrill-seeker from Utah, died Sept. 10 when he crashed on a wingsuit flight in Switzerland.Wall was 34 years old. The crash happened in the Churfirsten mountain range in northeast Switzerland, according to the Agence France-Presse. The news agency cited a statement from police in St. Gallen as saying the wingsuit pilot jumped from the highest spot in a group of peaks — an elevation of 7,566 feet.Local authorities said the cause of the crash was under investigatio
  
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• Tribune Editorial: Utah is failing its pandemic test

  19-09-2020 23:00
  
  Utah calls itself the Best Managed State™. But, after six months of experience, it is clear that Utah’s leaders have perhaps done the worst job of any state of managing the COVID-19 pandemic, endangering our lives and dragging down our economy.Utah reported 911 new cases Thursday, a record high. Until Friday, when the number hit 1,117. On Saturday, it was 1,077.New York, once the state at the dystopian epicenter of the pandemic, recorded 652 new cases Thursday and hasn’t had a
  
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• Utah Royals get true test of youth movement as they begin NWSL Fall Series

  19-09-2020 22:53
  
  Utah Royals FC has transformed from what it was when it first arrived to Utah in 2018.The team had three current U.S. Women’s National Team stars in Becky Sauerbrunn, Christen Press and Kelley O’Hara. It had Amy Rodriguez, a former USWNT staple in her own right. It had a highly respected coach in Laura Harvey.But the roster skewed toward veteran players who were heading toward the latter portions of their careers. Two seasons of missing the playoffs coincided with many veterans retir
  
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• Gordon Monson: Utah is ‘absolutely’ ready to play some football when the green light comes

  19-09-2020 22:11
  
  A wise old sage says the Utes are getting ready to play some football.“Absolutely,” he says.All they need now is the formal green light.As much as Pac-12 school presidents might want to distance themselves from the appearance of merely following Big Ten school presidents as it pertains to playing football this fall … well, there’s no getting aroundit.They are following them.And Utah football’s been caught in the hang time.When the Big Ten chose to play only confere
  
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• Robert W. Gore, the inventor of Gore-Tex fabric and Utah native, dead at 83

  19-09-2020 22:06
  
  Newark, Del. • Robert W. Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionized outdoor wear and helped spawn uses in numerous other fields, has died. He was 83.Gore, who was president of W. L. Gore & Associates for almost 25 years and company chairman for 30 years, died on Thursday following a prolonged illness at his home in Delaware, company spokesperson Amy Calhoun confirmed Saturday.Gore discovered a new form of a polymer in 1969
  
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• With the NBA Draft two months away, here’s who the early mock drafters have coming to the Utah Jazz

  19-09-2020 21:35
  
  After much debating and delaying, it has now been firmly established that the NBA Draft will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 18.And so it is that the Utah Jazz now have approximately two months to settle upon those prospects they feel may help them best.Which, of course, is not stopping anyone else from putting their two cents in right at this very moment.While discerning who the team has actual interest in is, of course, paramount, half the fun (give or take) of draft season is simply trying to a
  
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• Utah’s coronavirus cases again top 1,000, with three deaths

  19-09-2020 21:06
  
  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 again had more than 1,000 cases of COVID-19 Saturday, but infection’s didn’t quite beat yesterday’s record.The Utah Department of Health reported the state had 1,077 new cases of people testing positive for the cor
  
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• George Pyle: We all need a little ‘defensible space’

  19-09-2020 20:04
  
  Firefighters call it a “defensible space.”Or that’s what they would call it, if they weren’t too exhausted and gasping for breath after days and weeks of battling wildfires to be able to say anything.It is the idea, promoted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other state and local experts, that a really good way to prevent your home or business from being consumed by the next huge wildfire is to tend to the surrounding ground.It is pruning or removing trees or
  
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• 8 ways to ‘mind your pandemic manners’ when dining at a Utah restaurant

  19-09-2020 20:00
  
  Restaurants are going to great lengths to make sure customers feel safe when they come to dine — from placing tables 6 feet apart and wiping down chairs to wearing masks and gloves and logging employee temperatures before every shift.The least their customers can do is follow a few new rules of etiquette for dining during a pandemic. Here are eight ways diners can mind their manners, with some inspiration from the online reservation system OpenTable.If you’re sick, stay homeThis is t
  
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• Prospective RSL buyer? Ryan Smith of Qualtrics took tour of team facilities last week, sources say.

  19-09-2020 17:52
  
  As the three Utah professional soccer teams chug along in various ways on the field, the search for who will overtake ownership of them continues behind the scenes.Ryan Smith, billionaire co-founder of software company Qualtrics, recently took a tour of Utah Soccer facilities, sources told The Salt Lake Tribune. Smith visited Rio Tinto Stadium and the Zions Bank Real Academy last Thursday, said the sources, who asked not to be identified in order to disclose privileged information.Real Salt Lake
  
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• Trump to Senate: Vote ‘without delay’ on his high court pick

  19-09-2020 17:51
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the Republican-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the election.The White House was making preparations to select a nominee for the seat held by Ginsburg, who spent her final years on the bench as the unquestioned leader of the court’s liberal wing.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-
  
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• Donovan Mitchell appears on ESPN’s College GameDay with Lamar Jackson, Jack Harlow

  19-09-2020 17:31
  
  North Carolina’s Joel Berry II (2) and Kennedy Meeks, right defend against Louisville’s Donovan Mitchell (45) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. North Carolina won 74-63. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) | AP SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell proudly claims Louisville as his alma mater, and on Saturday, that pride was shown off on a big stage.
  ESPN’s College GameDay show is in Louisvil
  
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• Prospective RSL buyer? Ryan Smith of Qualtrics took tour of RSL facilities last week, sources say.

  19-09-2020 17:23
  
  As the three Utah professional soccer teams chug along in various ways on the field, the search for who will overtake ownership of them continues behind the scenes.Ryan Smith, billionaire co-founder of software company Qualtrics, recently took a tour of Utah Soccer facilities, sources told The Salt Lake Tribune. Smith visited Rio Tinto Stadium and the Zions Bank Real Academy last Thursday, said the sources, who asked not to be identified in order to disclose privileged information.Real Salt Lake
  
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• There are ‘Filthy Rich’ Christians on TV ... and, good heavens, are they ever flawed!

  19-09-2020 17:00
  
  The new Fox series “Filthy Rich” goes where not a whole lot of TV shows have gone before — inside a family of believers.The Monreaux family isn’t just a go-to-church-on-Sunday clan: Religion is their life and their business. They own, operate and star on a hugely successful Christian TV channel, the Sunshine Network, and they’re about to launch their own Christian home shopping service.However … things take a turn when a plane carrying family patriarch Eugene
  
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• Feds' preferred highway route would impact lands it spent millions acquiring for conservation

  19-09-2020 14:49
  
  Over the years, the Bureau of Land Management has spent millions acquiring private parcels inside the desert tortoise preserve that is now enveloped by the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area just outside St. George.Now the agency is proposing to allow Utah transportation officials to pave a major highway through or near 15 of these parcels covering 832 acres, according to an analysis by Conserve Southwest Utah. The property was purchased with nearly $21 million drawn from the federal Land and
  
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• John Parrish and Roger McQueen: SLCC meets the challenges of unprecedented times

  19-09-2020 14:00
  
  “Fortunes are not made in boom times … this is merely the collection period. Fortunes are made in the depressions or lean periods when the wise man overhauls his mind, his methods, his response and gets training for the race to come.”This George W. Bacon quote appeared in Forbes magazine in 2009 during our last economic crisis. It was wise counsel, considering that the past decade ushered in amazing economic growth for many.Today, the world is suffering from a global pandemic
  
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• Brodi Ashton: What I learned after living without electricity for days and days and days

  19-09-2020 14:00
  
  It was a Tuesday, my day off. That morning, I was tending to my house (which, since the pandemic, was slowly morphing into its own episode of “Hoarders”) and babying my tomatoes and myself, and trying to keep the plants from falling down, and then the winds picked up and a branch hit my head, and another one hit my son’s car, and I realized that Toto, we weren’t in Kansas anymore.My writing teacher would say that sentence was the opposite of an “economy of words.&rd
  
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• Letter: The Bureau of Land Management harms our lands

  19-09-2020 13:29
  
  According to his interview, Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Pendley is proud to have removed hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth pinyon-juniper woodlands in Utah. And he’s gunning for more.Pendley seems to believe that only sagebrush “greeted the pioneers.” No, a variety of native ecosystems “greeted the pioneers” and sustained indigenous peoples. Old-growth pinyon-juniper forests are among these native ecosystems. They have been here for
  
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• Mutual interest between Jazz, Derrick Favors

  19-09-2020 09:47
  
  This is Utah’s main use of finding a guy who can slide into its rotation. Obviously, there is significant Derrick Favors speculation here. Here’s the deal. There is mutual interest. Favors would not mind a return to Utah, even if it means coming off the bench as Gobert’s primary backup. But, at this point, that’s all it is … interest. The Jazz have to decide whether Favors would be the right place to spend their most significant chunk of offseason money, especially
  
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• Letter: Make Trump put his mouth where his money is

  19-09-2020 07:30
  
  I would like to watch Trump at one of his rallies go out and mingle with the crowd. Watching him kiss babies and shake hands with all his supporters would make me feel that he really cares about the people who risk their lives to go see him and not wear a mask. Instead, all I see is him risking the lives of the people who are there to support him. Do you think that if Herman Cain had it to do over he would have gone to a Trump tally so he could mingle and high five with the other people? I think
  
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• Letter: Don’t blame The Tribune

  19-09-2020 06:30
  
  I read, with some dismay, the petty complaints of one Holly Robison, an ostensible educator from Richfield, in her Sept. 14 letter to the editor. I have a slightly different take on the matter. Some 30 years ago, I was an adjunct to law enforcement and got quite a different view of things. Among other things, I observed virtual ubiquitous lying under oath by officers (and have observed it in other contexts since then), the assault of an injured teenager, and the occasional good deed (in fairness
  
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• A Corner Canyon teacher is hospitalized. After first ignoring Utah’s COVID-19 guidance, the school will now close.

  19-09-2020 06:04
  
  A teacher at Corner Canyon High — whose students endearingly call her “Mama J” and who rides a wooden hobbyhorse to cheer at every game — is currently in an intensive care unit, her family says, after she contracted COVID-19 at the school that she loves.Charri Jensen’s hospitalization comes as part of a larger outbreak at the Draper high school, where the district’s board voted last week to ignore state health guidance and not shut down, despite having over 15
  
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• A Corner Canyon High teacher is hospitalized. After ignoring Utah’s COVID-19 guidance, the school will close.

  19-09-2020 05:43
  
  A teacher at Corner Canyon High — whose students endearingly call her “Mama J” and who rides a wooden hobbyhorse to cheer at every game — is currently in an intensive care unit, her family says, after she contracted COVID-19 at the school that she loves.Charri Jensen’s hospitalization comes as part of a larger outbreak at the Draper high school, where the district’s board voted last week to ignore state health guidance and not shut down, despite having over 15
  
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• Letter: Getting a lot done

  19-09-2020 05:30
  
  Last year I hired a landscaper to help maintain my lovely 1-acre lot. Over the course of the year I noticed that he had broken all the sprinkler heads, dug huge holes all around the property, trampled the flowers and debarked all the trees. I was wondering if Mr. Lawton (“I’d rather have a president who gets things done,” Sept. 15) would be interested in hiring this contractor? Though my yard is a total disaster I have to admit he did get a lot done.Mark West, LehiSubmit a lett
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death will spark a political fight. Mike Lee, Mitt Romney will likely play prominent roles.

  19-09-2020 05:02
  
  The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has become a liberal icon and has long been a champion of women’s rights, shocked the political world Friday, leading many Utahns to offer their condolences.It will upend the presidential race and create an intense fight in the Senate over her replacement, a fight start started just hours after her death was announced. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., vowed that President Donald Trump’s nominee would get a
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: The Biden campaign is not out door-knocking. Don’t freak out.

  19-09-2020 05:02
  
  Adam Barbanel-Fried is the director of Changing the Conversation Together, a group that does something called “deep canvassing” in Pennsylvania, targeting infrequent voters who lean Democratic.The idea behind deep canvassing is that people are more responsive to emotions than campaign issues, so persuasion requires getting them to open up about their lives and those closest to them. A well-trained deep canvasser, Barbanel-Fried said, can have an emotionally and politically meaningful
  
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• Letter: Bureau of Land Management is destroying pinyon-juniper forests

  19-09-2020 04:30
  
  The Bureau of Land Management is “chaining” the pinyon and juniper forests in southern Utah in the name of what they call “habitat restoration.” Grand Staircase Escalante is targeted and the forests there are already being destroyed.What is happening is really habitat destruction of the pinyon and juniper forests and of the soil and more habitat fragmentation.In Utah, the range and habitat of the sage grouse has been greatly reduced because of fragmentation. Thousands of
  
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• Pac-12 presidents briefed on moving up start of football season. A kickoff date could come Thursday.

  19-09-2020 04:05
  
  Facing second and long, Pac-12 athletic directors gained little yardage Friday in their drive to move up the start of the football season.The ADs had hoped to get some clarity from a meeting of Pac-12 presidents and chancellors Friday about whether play could begin this fall. No decisions were made, but the CEOs are expected to meet again Thursday, at which time they could vote to restart the season.“The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports wil
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: Facebook has been a disaster for the world

  19-09-2020 04:00
  
  For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, leading to mass death and displacement. It took until 2018 for Facebook to admit to and apologize for its failure to act.Two years later, the platform is, yet again, sowing the seeds for genocidal violence. This time it’s in Ethiopia, where the recent assassination of Hachalu Hundessa, a singer and political activist from the country&r
  
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• Police shoot and kill man in Midvale who fired at officers

  19-09-2020 03:59
  
  Unified police reported officers shot and killed a 22-year-old man Friday evening in Midvale.Police were searching for a robbery and drive-by shooting suspect Friday and tracked the car to a Motel 6, Unified police spokeswoman Melody Cutler said.Police tried to stop the car with spike strips, but the suspect drove out of the parking lot and crashed soon after, near 7200 S. Bingham Junction Blvd. The driver, a female passenger and a male passenger all got out of the crashed car. The male passenge
  
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• After Ginsburg: McConnell pledges quick vote on successor

  19-09-2020 03:53
  
  Washington • The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just over six weeks before the election cast an immediate spotlight on the high court vacancy, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell quickly vowing to bring to a vote whoever President Donald Trump nominates.McConnell, in a statement just over an hour after Ginsburg’s death was announced, declared unequivocally that Trump’s nominee would receive a vote, even though he had stalled President Barack Obama&rsq
  
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• Person shot by police in Midvale

  19-09-2020 03:20
  
  Unified police reported officers shot someone Friday evening in Midvale.Officials announced the shooting just before 6:45 p.m., and said it happened near 7200 S. Bingham Junction Blvd.Additional details about the shooting were not immediately released.The police shooting marks the 20th this year in Utah, and the third in four days.This is a developing story and will be updated.
  
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• Mitch McConnell says Senate will vote on Trump court pick

  19-09-2020 03:05
  
  Washington • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will vote on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, even though it’s an election year.The Republican Senate leader issued a statement Friday night, about an hour and a half after the Supreme Court announced the liberal justice’s death from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer.When conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, also an electio
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG

  19-09-2020 02:55
  
  Washington • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly.When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think she was asleep. She once acknowledged that she did occasionally nod off. She once confessed to dozing during a State of the Union.But it was a mistake to equate her gait and gaze with frailty, for Ginsburg showed over and over a steely resilience in the face of personal loss and serious health problems that made the diminutive New Yo
  
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• Utahns react to death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a ‘trailblazer,' ‘gifted lawyer’ and ‘true hero’

  19-09-2020 02:27
  
  As the world learned Friday evening of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Utahns took to Twitter to pay their respects to the champion of women’s rights.The court said the 87-year-old died from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton and became the second woman to sit on the court.Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, met Ginsburg two years ago when she spoke at the Utah State Bar Convention in Idaho. There, she
  
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• Utah’s Jewish community celebrates High Holy Days virtually or distanced during pandemic

  19-09-2020 02:19
  
  Most of Utah’s Jewish community celebrated Rosh Hashana virtually Friday evening due to the coronavirus, but Rabbi Benny Zippel found a way to have a small number of members come together in person — wearing masks and with at least 6 feet between them. He created a worship space in a tent behind Chabad Lubavitch of Utah’s synagogue in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood for the beginning of the Jewish New Year at sundown Friday. High holiday services continue with Y
  
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• Patrick Reed takes U.S. Open lead; Utahn Tony Finau tied for 17th

  19-09-2020 02:09
  
  Mamaroneck, N.Y. • This was the Winged Foot everyone has heard about. This is the U.S. Open everyone expected.Patrick Reed answered the first big test Friday when the wind arrived out of the north, bringing a little chill and a lot of trouble. He never got flustered by bogeys and made enough birdie putts and key saves for an even-par 70.It felt just as rewarding as the 66 he shot in the opening round, and it gave him a one-shot lead over muscleman Bryson DeChambeau, who powered and putted h
  
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• Holly Richardson: What makes us sad after achieving a big goal?

  19-09-2020 02:00
  
  My husband and I have been in our current home for almost 17 years and, after most of our kids have flown the coop, it was time for a redo. We ripped out carpet from our front room and off three sets of stairs — 16 months ago.It took us 16 months to go from the “before” picture to the “after” picture. Except for a little help putting in new electrical boxes, we did all the work ourselves — repair work on the stairs, priming and painting walls, ceilings, stairs
  
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• Pac-12 presidents briefed on moving up start of football season. A kickoff date could come this weekend.

  19-09-2020 01:42
  
  Facing second and long, Pac-12 athletic directors gained little yardage Friday in their drive to move up the start of the football season.The ADs had hoped to get some clarity from a meeting of Pac-12 presidents and chancellors Friday about whether play could begin this fall. No decisions were made, but the CEOs are expected to meet again over the weekend when they could vote to restart the season.The Pac-12 had pledged in mid-August that it wouldn’t allow games in any sports until 2021. T
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

  19-09-2020 01:40
  
  Washington • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at her home in Washington, the court says. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court says.This story will be updated.
  
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• The 'Kreilach Kid’ is sticking around. RSL’s Damir Kreilach signs multiyear contract extension.

  19-09-2020 01:36
  
  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 Croatian midfielder’s new deal goes through the 2022 season with a club option for 2023. RS
  
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• A teacher at Utah’s Corner Canyon High has been hospitalized. This is what her daughter has to say.

  19-09-2020 01:16
  
  A teacher at Corner Canyon High — whose students endearingly call her “Mama J” and who rides a wooden horse to cheer at every game — is currently in an intensive care unit after, her family says, she contracted COVID-19 at the school that she loves.Charri Jensen, a popular sewing and design teacher, was put on a ventilator Thursday after testing positive a week earlier, said her daughter, Talesha Jensen. Her case comes as part of a larger outbreak at the Draper high schoo
  
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• Hall of Fame safety Larry Wilson, a former Ute great, dies at 82

  19-09-2020 01:07
  
  Tempe, Ariz. • Larry Wilson, a former Cardinals safety and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 82.Wilson died Thursday evening, according to a news release from the team.Wilson spent more than 43 years in the Cardinals' organization as a player and an executive.“For more than 40 years, Larry Wilson played a remarkable role in the history of the Cardinals and National Football League as a Hall of Fame player and team executive,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodel
  
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• There’s speculation that Joe Biden might consider Mitt Romney as secretary of state

  19-09-2020 01:05
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney was under consideration to be President Donald Trump’s first secretary of state before the president tapped oil executive Rex Tillerson. Now, there’s speculation in Washington that Romney could be a candidate for that same spot if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in November.The lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck sent a memo to clients Friday speculating who could potentially fill cabinet and staff positions in a Biden administration come 2021. The mem
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: His Story History

  19-09-2020 00:48
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Spiking the RonaRevenge of the DemsFire StarterLowering the BarrOver the RainbowA Mighty WindLoserPutting Pelosi Out ThereUtah FanBring on the ClownWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Ahead of forecast rain, Salt Lake City asks residents to help clear drains of wind storm debris

  19-09-2020 00:20
  
  Salt Lake City crews are still busy cleaning up debris after hurricane-force winds last week toppled trees and hurled branches into the streets.While the city’s efforts are still mainly focused on hundreds of uprooted city-owned trees, officials are asking residents for their help. The National Weather Service forecast says that showers are likely this weekend, and city workers worry obstructed storm drains could cause another disaster.Good news, we were able to find the rain shower icon f
  
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• Utah teachers union demands governor force schools to close during COVID-19 outbreaks

  19-09-2020 00:04
  
  Utah’s largest teachers union is demanding that Gov. Gary Herbert create “clear, enforceable requirements” for schools after several have elected to ignore state health guidelines and stay open despite outbreaks of the coronavirus.The call from the Utah Education Association on Friday comes after more than 15 students and staff at both Corner Canyon High and Riverton High tested positive for the virus, but the boards for each school district voted not to shut down. Meanwhile, a
  
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• Feds hand over water projects to local districts in Utah

  19-09-2020 00:01
  
  In what is being heralded as an historic first, the federal government on Tuesday handed title to a pair of federal water projects to the local Utah water agencies the projects serve.Interior Secretary David Bernhardt joined nearly all of Utah’s top political leadership in lauding the agreement at the Utah Capitol, where he officially signed over the century-old facilities to the Emery County Water Conservancy District and the Moon Lake Water Users Association, along with more than 1,100 a
  
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