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• Utes getting ready to play, but will have to find a new locker room — crews demolished the old one

  28-09-2020 23:53
  
  When the University of Utah decided late last month to expedite the construction of the Ken Garff Performance Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium by more than three months, it did so with the understanding that football games may still be played this winter or spring and if, so, adjustments would be necessary.The Pac-12 postponed its fall football season Aug. 11, meaning the plan at that time was that Rice-Eccles would not see any use until at least the winter of 2021. Two weeks later, Sandy-based Layto
  
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• Utah officials say elections here will be secure, but they’re not so sure about other states

  28-09-2020 23:53
  
  Election officials from around Utah said Monday they are confident that elections here next month will be secure, safe and fraud-free. But they’re not so confident about the rest of the nation.“We’re doing things that some of these other states aren’t,” Utah County Clerk-Auditor Amelia Powers Gardner said at an online forum about election security sponsored by the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.Similarly, Justin Lee, state elections directo
  
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• Giant gourds break Utah state record at weigh-off in Lehi

  28-09-2020 23:52
  
  Lehi • The Utah Giant Pumpkin Growers has recorded eight pumpkins in Utah this year weighing over 1,000 pounds, setting a state record.The first-place pumpkin at the 16th Annual UGPG Thanksgiving Point Weigh-Off on Saturday weighed an incredible 1,825 pounds, KSTU-TV reported.The hefty gourd was grown by local farmer Mohamed Sadiq. It was the largest pumpkin to be grown outside of a greenhouse, and the second largest pumpkin ever grown in the state, event organizers said.The event was
  
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• A month into the pandemic-revised 2020 schedule, BYU keeps rolling with the punches

  28-09-2020 23:42
  
  It may not seem like it, but the BYU football team is a month into a 2020 season that almost didn’t happen.No. 22 Cougars have played only two games, but have been through more adversity and challenges than a pre-pandemic season would have presented in that time period. And now they have yet another challenge: getting ready for an opponent in four days.The Cougars were one of the few teams in the nation that kicked off a fall camp early and held nearly five weeks of camp and team practices
  
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• For BYU athletes like football player Chandon Herring, the pandemic has focused his faith on ‘what matters most’

  28-09-2020 23:32
  
  Back in March, Chandon Herring was going at 100 mph, juggling classes, spring football, religious obligations and fitting in a personal life. Then everything came to a halt.The coronavirus pandemic put an end to in-person classes, canceled football practices, and shut down businesses and church buildings.With the drastic change in life, Herring thought back to a 2015 talk apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf gave at the women’s session of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' General Conf
  
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• Police: Car submerged in Utah lake as owner takes pictures

  28-09-2020 23:13
  
  A car accidently rolled into a Utah reservoir Sunday while the owner of the vehicle got out of his car to take photos, authorities said.Wasatch County Search and Rescue was asked at 11:05 p.m. to help recover the car from Deer Creek Reservoir, KUTV-TV reported. The car was safely removed, and no injuries were reported.The owner of the car, who remained unidentified, was on a boat ramp at the state park to take pictures of his car when it began rolling toward the water.No one was inside the vehic
  
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• Commentary: Too many are misusing the word ‘socialism’

  28-09-2020 23:00
  
  “Socialism” is currently a hot-button word that is too often misused. In 1952, President Harry Truman called the term “a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years .... Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”Seems not much has changed in almost 70 years.Here are three stories, one from each of us, about our own experiences at the intersection of free markets and public goods. They’ve helped
  
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• Burgess Owens appears on a QAnon conspiracy theory-linked program

  28-09-2020 21:54
  
  Burgess Owens, the Republican running in Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District race, has appeared as a guest on another obscure program tied to the fringe QAnon conspiracy theory.The liberal Media Matters for America first reported that Owens was a guest on the “Flockop” podcast last week where he asked for support for his campaign. He did not discuss QAnon with the hosts during his appearance. Instead, he spent a majority of the time on the show talking about his run for con
  
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• Utah reports 827 new coronavirus cases Monday

  28-09-2020 21:21
  
  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 827 new coronavirus cases reported on Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise, passing 1,000 for the first time.For the past week, the Utah Department of Health has tallied 1,001 new positive test results per da
  
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• Will the Utah Jazz be a top-10 team next season?

  28-09-2020 20:44
  
  Utah Jazz’s Donovan Mitchell, center, celebrates with Royce O’Neale, left, and Mike Conley after the Jazz defeated the Denver Nuggets in Game 4 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo via APSALT LAKE CITY — How quickly a forecast can change.
  At this time last year, the Utah Jazz were being talked about as a potential contender for an NBA championship after the summer acquisitions of Mike Conley,
  
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• Orem evidence technician runs a police room holding grim history

  28-09-2020 20:24
  
  Orem • For 11 years Tara Calancea has been caring for, recording and storing evidence from Orem’s crime scenes. To her co-workers she is known as the evidence room czar — or better — Czarina.While Calancea, Orem’s evidence technician, admits she is just shy of the formal education most in her career position are required to have, she has “boots on the ground” experience.That means she has been seeing a lot of crime scenes.“It feels like I am going o
  
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• Amber Alert: Police seek public’s help to find missing 6-year-old

  28-09-2020 19:50
  
  The search for a missing 6-year-old Utah boy believed to have been taken by his biological mother has been upgraded to an Amber Alert.On Sunday, the Unified Police Department asked for the public’s help to locate Terran Butler, who went missing along with his biological mother, Emily Jolley, following a court-supervised visit. On Monday, an Amber Alert was issued.Butler was visiting Jolley on Saturday. When his father attempted to pick him up, it was discovered that Jolley had taken the bo
  
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• South Salt Lake police investigating ‘apparent homicide’

  28-09-2020 18:51
  
  Police are investigating what they believe is a homicide, after a body was found in a South Salt Lake parking lot.According to South Salt Lake police, at about 7:30 a.m. Monday they received a report of a dead woman at 2440 S. 300 West. Investigators are calling it an ‘apparent homicide,’ according to a police spokeswoman.The only description of the woman is that she is “possibly Caucasian." Her identity is unknown, and police have not determined how she died.This story will be
  
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• Three Points: RSL gets off the snide, Justen Glad holds his own at outside back and Emanuel Reynoso can play

  28-09-2020 18:28
  
  Here are three observations from Real Lake Lake’s scoreless draw to Minnesota United from beat writer Alex Vejar.1. RSL gets a pointThe Loons are pretty good at home.Even in 2017, their expansion year, they won seven games and drew six. Since then, Minnesota has won 22 games at home (Allianz Field opened in April 2019).RSL has been just one of many victims to Minnesota’s prowess at home, having lost four straight games there heading into Sunday. Real finally left that statistic behin
  
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• Fact-checking falsehoods on mail-in voting

  28-09-2020 18:28
  
  If you are among the tens of millions of Americans who intend to vote by mail this year, you’re facing a deluge of misinformation about the integrity of that voting method.Much of it is coming from President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked state efforts to expand voting by mail. He uses language meant to discourage it, mischaracterizing mail-in ballots as “dangerous,” “unconstitutional,” “a scam” or rife with “fraud.”His comments ar
  
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• Tribes see ballot collection as a lifeline in Indian Country

  28-09-2020 18:19
  
  Nixon, Nev. • Many older people living on the expansive Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in northern Nevada relied on the tribe’s senior services van to get to the grocery store or the doctor before the coronavirus pandemic ended that option.Now, tribal officials worry how elders and others who don’t have cars or can’t travel on their own will get to the post office to return their ballots before Election Day.“The distance has been a barrier for our people to vote,&rd
  
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• 18 revelations from a trove of Trump tax records

  28-09-2020 18:01
  
  The New York Times has obtained tax-return data for President Donald Trump and his companies that covers more than two decades. Trump has long refused to release this information, making him the first president in decades to hide basic details about his finances. His refusal has made his tax returns among the most sought-after documents in recent memory.Among the key findings of The Times' investigation:— Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years that The Times examined. In 2017
  
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• Trump’s taxes show chronic losses and years of income tax avoidance

  28-09-2020 17:51
  
  Donald Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750.He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.As the president wages a reelection campaign that polls say he is in danger of losing, his finances are under stress, beset by losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due that he has personally guaranteed.
  
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• Months after a coronavirus outbreak at Utah meatpacking plant, employees wonder why they didn’t get more help

  28-09-2020 15:32
  
  Josue Rivera Pabon earned $16 an hour removing tongues from the heads of cows at the JBS Beef Plant in Hyrum.Those tasks didn’t make him ill. COVID-19 did that — twice, he says.The outbreak that spread through the meatpacking plant also found its way into Rivera’s home, infecting his daughter and a brother who lives with him.He resigned from JBS in August rather than risk getting sick again. Now he’s behind on his bills.JBS “offered no psychological help or financia
  
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• Scholars turn anew to an old question: If Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, how did he do it?

  28-09-2020 15:10
  
  Everybody loves a good whodunit, but in the case of the Book of Mormon, the mystery is more like a howhedunit.For more than 190 years, critics of Mormon founder Joseph Smith have tried to find unimpeachable evidence that the former money-digger-turned-prophet invented the story of ancient American inhabitants who journeyed to the New World from Jerusalem.On top of a seemingly far-fetched tale of a centuries-long fratricide, a visit by the resurrected Christ, and an apocalyptic genocide, Smith&rs
  
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• Robert Gehrke: We’re all losing our minds, but now is not a time to lose our focus

  28-09-2020 14:15
  
  I’m trying not to get too judgy when I see videos of Utah County dance parties and Salt Lake City nightclubs.But, man, it’s hard.I get that we’re exhausted after six months of coping with the coronavirus in our midst. Humans are not built to live like this — sheltered and isolated and in fear.And I will admit that my own risk tolerance has eased. I’ve eaten at a restaurant and even been to a couple bars (preferably outdoors), something I never would have done a mont
  
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• Months after outbreak at Utah meatpacking plant, employees wonder why they didn’t get more help

  28-09-2020 14:15
  
  Josue Rivera Pabon earned $16 an hour removing tongues from the heads of cows at the JBS Beef Plant in Hyrum.Those tasks didn’t make him ill. COVID-19 did that — twice, he says.The outbreak that spread through the meatpacking plant also found its way into Rivera’s home, infecting his daughter and a brother who lives with him.He resigned from JBS in August rather than risk getting sick again. Now he’s behind on his bills.JBS “offered no psychological help or financia
  
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• Utah’s mail-in ballots are printed by private companies and some have had screw-ups

  28-09-2020 14:00
  
  In the lead-up to Utah’s primary election in June, voters in Duchesne County opened their mail-in ballots to a surprise. Every registered Republican in the county received Democratic Party ballots and vice versa.The mix-up was due to a communication error between the Midwestern ballot printing company the county was contracting with at the time and the county clerk’s office. (The company blamed the clerk and the clerk blamed the printer for the snafu.)Clerk/Auditor JoAnn Evans said h
  
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• Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: The tyranny of Republican consensus and coercion

  28-09-2020 14:00
  
  “It should never be forgotten how much repression and violence consensus can support, or how many crimes it has justified.”— Marilynne RobinsonHistory will hold Donald Trump responsible for taking American democracy to the edge of a precipice. But it will also hold Senate Republicans responsible for enabling the president for four reasons:1) Their collective knowledge and experience in understanding both the fundamentals and the fragility of Democracy in a way that Trump’
  
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• Letter: Neurodivergent people are vulnerable to police violence

  28-09-2020 13:30
  
  The recent shooting of a 13-year-old autistic boy by Salt Lake City police was a reconfirmation of what Neurodiverse Utah leadership already knew — that autistic people in crisis are at a high risk of police brutality.Neurodiverse Utah is an autistic-led grassroots organization that promotes autism acceptance and self-advocacy. We focus on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, mental illness and other disabilities and the social change that needs to happen so autistic people can lea
  
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• Letter: Utah deserves better

  28-09-2020 13:00
  
  Dear Sen. Romney,It’s hard to adequately express how disappointed I am in your decision to join with other Republicans in pushing forward a Supreme Court nomination with the election just a few weeks away. I took heart in knowing that there have been times when you were willing to stand on your own and speak from your heart and mind to do what was right and fair in contradiction to the position of other Republicans.I had hoped that you would be a man who had the morals, courage and backbon
  
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• Letter: Burgess Owens’ failings

  28-09-2020 05:00
  
  I’m still shaking my head over the letter to the editor I read on Sept. 21 from Larry Henkels titled “Rep. Ben McAdams puts party before people.”There are some glaring inaccuracies to Henkels' opinion. Firstly, Donald Trump was impeached for attempting to blackmail the Ukranian government to help him discredit Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The jaw-dropping evidence for impeachment had nothing to do with “Russian collusion.” Secondly, his claim that McAdams is more
  
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• Veyo Pool Fire threatens buildings in southwest Utah

  28-09-2020 04:31
  
  Another wildfire is burning in Utah, according to Utah Fire Info.The Veyo Pool Fire started Sunday afternoon and is burning about 400 acres in Washington County, south of Veyo.Officials said structures are threatened, but no evacuations had been ordered on Sunday night.On Sunday night, one lane of Highway 18 was closed as firefighters worked, according to a tweet from Utah Fire Info.The #VeyoPoolFire is impacting travel on Hwy 18, 1 lane is closed. The fire has grown to 400 acres, primarily driv
  
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• Real Salt Lake draws Minnesota 0-0 and earns first-ever road point against the Loons

  28-09-2020 04:11
  
  It took five trips over three years, but Real Salt Lake finally got a point on the road in Minnesota.RSL traveled to Allianz Field on Sunday and played the Loons to a scoreless draw in a game without fans. It’s the second time this season the two teams tied without scoring.Salt Lake goalkeeper Andrew Putna and a breakout game between the sticks as he picked up seven saves and caught one cross. It was his third shutout of the season and fifth of his career.The Loons outshot RSL 14-12, while
  
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• Trump vows quick court vote while Biden urges delay for Nov. 3

  28-09-2020 03:13
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Sunday that confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will go “quickly” but his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, implored the Republican-led Senate to hold off on voting on her nomination until after the Nov. 3 election to “let the people decide.”Speaking at a press conference at the White House, the president spotlighted Barrett’s Roman Catholic religion, portraying her as a victim of attacks on
  
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• Letter: Permits should be required for wilderness access

  28-09-2020 03:00
  
  We read about and see smoke from the Neffs Fire, first reported on Sept. 22 and now burning over 60 acres. According to FOX 13, officials have assigned 131 personnel to contain the fire, and their resources include four helicopters, four fixed-wing aircraft and five engines. Containment was 20% as of Sunday.According to Utah Fire Information, last year Utah had 1,027 wildfires with 67% of them human-caused.A Public Lands Protection Permit may be a start to remind people of the dangers of wildern
  
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• Police seek public’s help in locating missing 6-year-old

  28-09-2020 01:52
  
  The Unified Police Department are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Terran Butler, a 6-year-old Millcreek boy who went missing along with his biological mother, Emily Jolley, following a court-supervised visit.Butler was visiting Jolley on Saturday. When his father attempted to pick him up, it was discovered that Jolley had taken the boy from the residence without permission.They were last seen together in the Millcreek area.The boy is described as Caucasian with brown hair, l
  
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• Letter: Control your dogs

  28-09-2020 01:00
  
  For eight years I have enjoyed walking in Memory Grove and up City Creek Canyon, which are close to my home — except for navigating the number of dogs running loose, contrary to the signs at the south end of Memory Grove and the north end of City Creek road. The only off-leash area is on the dirt trail on the east side of the creek.In the past few months I saw an Animal Services officer talk to two of the offenders, who then put leashes on their pets. As soon as his van was out of sight, t
  
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