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• NBA mock draft roundup: Who might the Utah Jazz select?

  01-10-2020 23:49
  
  Arizona guard Josh Green (0) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Washington State Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona won 83-62. Two national outlets think the Jazz might peg him with the No. 23 pick. | AP Photo/Rick ScuteriSALT LAKE CITY — Barring another postponement, the 2020 NBA draft will be held Nov. 18.
  Just as with virtually everything else since March, the draft has been in limbo because of the coronavirus pandemic, but the logistics fo
  
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• Portion of Salt Lake City’s Allen Park will open for the first time in 50 years

  01-10-2020 23:36
  
  Allen Park has formerly been home to both a bird sanctuary as well as to the thoroughly unique “Hobbitville” community that fell into disrepair. And it was supposed to become a home to, well, homes, as developers had intended to use the seven-acre site for 60 single- and multifamily units.But when Salt Lake City purchased the tract, which runs along Emigration Creek near Westminster College on 1300 East, for $7.5 million in March, plans were announced to preserve the natural areas an
  
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• Portion of Allen Park will open for the first time in 50 years

  01-10-2020 23:36
  
  Allen Park has formerly been home to both a bird sanctuary as well as to the thoroughly unique “Hobbitville” community that fell into disrepair. And it was supposed to become a home to, well, homes, as developers had intended to use the seven-acre site for 60 single- and multifamily units.But when Salt Lake City purchased the tract, which runs along Emigration Creek near Westminster College on 1300 East, for $7.5 million in March, plans were announced to preserve the natural areas an
  
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• BYU creates new security force, seeming to sidestep a law that makes its police obey open records rules

  01-10-2020 23:28
  
  Brigham Young University announced Thursday that it has created a security department that will “function separately” from its police — forming a new division that the university seems to suggest will be exempt from state open records laws.The surprising move comes after years of legal battles over whether officers at the private religious school had improperly shared police evidence, including while investigating student reports of rape. In response to those accounts, legislat
  
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• U.S., Utah unemployment claims show small improvement, as ‘disruptive’ pandemic drags on

  01-10-2020 23:19
  
  U.S. employers continue to cut jobs at rates that dwarf the pace of layoffs in past decades, even as the economy crawls forward from the coronavirus-induced recession that began last spring.Utah’s unemployment problems from the pandemic kept improving last week as the state reached its 22th consecutive week of declines in ongoing claims for benefits, but a top state official said Thursday “it is clear the pandemic continues to be disruptive.”Nearly 4,468 state residents filed n
  
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• Utah State to meet MWC champ Boise State in football opener; SDSU comes to Logan in Week 2

  01-10-2020 23:04
  
  Utah State will be going from zero to 60 in four weeks, but it will feel more like four seconds.The Mountain West Conference released its football schedule Thursday and the Aggies will open the abbreviated season at defending league champion Boise State on Oct. 24.That gives the Aggies, the third-place finisher last year in the Mountain Division behind the undefeated Broncos, just less than four weeks to prepare for perhaps its biggest game of the season. Both teams officially began practice Fri
  
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• ‘Behind the Headlines:’ Utah’s coronavirus response audited and the state’s new jobs program

  01-10-2020 22:57
  
  This week in Utah news:This week’s other debate between the two candidates vying to become Utah’s next governor focused mostly on education funding and the coronavirus response. Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and Democratic challenger Chris Peterson both supported increasing public school investments in Utah, but they did not agree on current policies on schooling during the coronavirus pandemic.A newly released review of the state’s early response to COVID-19 found that Utah leaders wer
  
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• Utah State football to meet Mountain West champ Boise State in opener; SDSU comes to Logan in Week 2

  01-10-2020 22:56
  
  Utah State will be going from zero to 60 in four weeks, but it will feel more like four seconds.The Mountain West Conference released its football schedule Thursday and the Aggies will open the abbreviated season at defending league champion Boise State on Oct. 24.That gives the Aggies, the third-place finisher last year in the Mountain Division behind the undefeated Broncos, just less than four weeks to prepare for perhaps its biggest game of the season. Both teams officially began practice Fri
  
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• Ballet West will start letting dancers wear tights and shoes in their own skin color

  01-10-2020 22:54
  
  Ballet West dancers soon will be wearing tights and shoes that more closely resemble their own skin color — an effort to push back against a white bias in the ballet world going back decades.“I believe a more diverse and inclusive organization is a stronger Ballet West,” Adam Sklute, Ballet West’s artistic director, said in a statement issued by the troupe Thursday. “It is time we hold a mirror to ourselves and examine how our art form — and how Ballet West &m
  
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• BYU, Boise State will meet in Boise on Nov. 7

  01-10-2020 22:28
  
  Provo • While there is no Holy War or battle for the Wagon Wheelthis season, BYU recovered another one of its biggest rivals for the2020 season.The Cougars will face Boise State Nov. 7 at Albertsons Stadium.Bothprograms were originally set up play on Nov. 7 as part of a 10-yearscheduling agreement, but the game was canceled when the Mountain WestConference opted to postpone its 2020 season on Aug. 10.“Theannual game between BYU and Boise State has become a much-anticipatedregional riv
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Trump called on extremists to ‘stand by’

  01-10-2020 21:16
  
  President Donald Trump didn’t hurt Joe Biden in Tuesday’s debate, but he badly damaged our country.Trump harmed the United States in three ways, reminding us that the biggest threat to America comes not from desperate migrants, not from “socialists” seeking universal health care and not from “anarchists” in the streets — but from the White House itself.The first way in which Trump damaged the country was in his salute to violent extremists.“Are you
  
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• Frank Bruni: For the sake of democracy, cancel the debates

  01-10-2020 21:16
  
  Little more than 12 hours after the conclusion of the most chaotic, counterproductive and outright offensive American presidential debate in my lifetime, the Commission on Presidential Debates promised unspecified format changes in the two remaining faceoffs between Donald Trump and Joe Biden so that the events would be more orderly, which is to say watchable at all.Hooray for the commission, but give me a break. If its members fully absorbed President Donald Trump’s 90-minute snit on Tues
  
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• Utah QB competition again takes center stage with truncated seven-game season set

  01-10-2020 21:15
  
  The University of Utah’s quarterback competition is exactly where the Utes left it six months ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the remaining 80% of spring practice, followed by any semblance of a normal offseason routine.Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham said on a Zoom call Thursday morning that his team will open training camp Oct. 9 in preparation for a truncated seven-game season. At that time, it will be a three-way quarterback competition between South Carolina graduate transf
  
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• U.S., Utah unemployment claims show small improvement, as 'disruptive’ pandemic drags on

  01-10-2020 21:00
  
  U.S. employers continue to cut jobs at rates that dwarf the pace of layoffs in past decades, even as the economy crawls forward from the coronavirus-induced recession that began last spring.Utah’s unemployment problems from the pandemic kept improving last week as the state reached its 22th consecutive week of declines in ongoing claims for benefits, but a top state official said Thursday “it is clear the pandemic continues to be disruptive.”Nearly 4,468 state residents filed n
  
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• Kurt Bestor’s Christmas concerts will go on — with a smaller audience everyone in masks

  01-10-2020 20:45
  
  Christmas is coming, pandemic or not, and Kurt Bestor is getting ready.The Utah musician and composer announced Thursday that his 33rd annual “A Kurt Bestor Christmas" will be performed Dec. 10-12 at the Eccles Theatre, 131 S. Main St., in downtown Salt Lake City.The show will have a different look, because of COVID-19 restrictions — with fewer people in the audience, and both audience and performers wearing face masks in the theater.Even with masks and social distancing, Bestor said
  
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• Vatican releases financial, budget data amid scandal

  01-10-2020 20:04
  
  Rome • The Vatican released a detailed budget, balance sheet and earning statement for the first time Thursday as it seeks to reassure Catholics amid a corruption scandal that has exposed its shoddy financial management.The data marked the first time since 2016 that the Vatican has released any information about its finances, despite pledges by Pope Francis from the start of his pontificate in 2013 to be more transparent and accountable.The data showed that the Vatican bureaucracy had narro
  
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• State officials, after forcing TestUtah to change tests and labs, are still negotiating its new agreement

  01-10-2020 19:55
  
  When TestUtah sites returned an unusually low number of positive results for the coronavirus this spring, state officials devised two unsuccessful attempts to discover the reason — then promised a third try.The new review never got underway. But decisions by state officials have forced TestUtah to stop working with the two testing partners it had chosen — Salt Lake City company Co-Diagnostics Inc., which had supplied its testing kits, and Orem’s Timpanogos Regional Hospital, wh
  
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• BYU quarterback Zach Wilson is completing 80% of his passes. Will he be able to keep that up?

  01-10-2020 19:38
  
  Provo • Zach Wilson is a changed man.The BYU starting quarterback is bigger, faster and has a newfound focus out on the field.The improvement from the junior has been evident from the Cougars' first two games. Wilson is completing 80% of his passes and has thrown for 624 yards and four touchdowns, while giving up one interception.Wilson’s performances so far this season have started to garner national attention and placed the junior on “The Too-Early Heisman Watch” list on
  
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• Utah reports 1,008 new coronavirus cases Thursday

  01-10-2020 19:22
  
  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 1,008 new coronavirus cases reported on Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses declined slightly after days of record high spread.The Utah Department of Health on Thursday reported a seven-day average of 987 new positive test
  
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• Police say mother of kidnapped Utah boy is believed to be in Oregon

  01-10-2020 19:09
  
  Unified Police said Thursday morning that the mother of a 6-year-old Millcreek boy at the center of an Amber Alert case is believed to be in Oregon.Emily Jolley, 43, and her biological son, Terran Butler, went missing during a supervised visit over the weekend. After Butler’s father arrived at Jolley’s residence to pick Butler up, they were not there, and Jolley — who does not have custody of Butler — was accused of abducting him. Police initially suspected they were trav
  
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• Salt Lake City schools fire back at Spencer Cox for saying online-only classes are damaging kids

  01-10-2020 19:04
  
  Salt Lake City school officials are defending the district’s choice to hold online-only classes after Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox called the decision as a “huge mistake” that could be damaging children.The city school district is the only one in the state that has entirely sworn off in-person learning this fall to protect staff and students from COVID-19 — but Cox during a Tuesday evening gubernatorial debate said remote classes might be harming students more than the disease. T
  
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• Mike Leavitt works to restart the cruise industry as White House seeks to end no-sail order

  01-10-2020 17:47
  
  The White House has blocked a new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep cruise ships docked until mid-February, a step that would have displeased the politically powerful tourism industry in the crucial swing state of Florida.The current “no sail” policy is set to expire Wednesday. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the CDC, had recommended the extension, worried that cruise ships could become viral hot spots, as they did at the beginning of the pandemic.
  
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• How Donovan Mitchell, Damian Lillard and ‘Toy Story’ are all tied together

  01-10-2020 17:44
  
  Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell (45) defends Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) as the Utah Jazz and the Portland Trailblazers play at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
  SALT LAKE CITY — Basketball shoes themed around a kids movie franchise might seem like a very niche combination, but youngsters looking for such a combo now have friends in Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell and Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lilla
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Trump’s private scorn; teeing up conference; missionary recovers from stabbing.

  01-10-2020 16:41
  
  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.Mocker in chief?
  (Courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)President Henry B. Eyring and President Russell M. Nelson, then head of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, visit with U.S. President Donald J
  
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• Newspaper created by, for LDS women helped Utah connect with national suffrage leaders

  01-10-2020 16:36
  
  When the Woman’s Exponent launched in 1872 in Salt Lake City, its creators set out to discuss “every subject interesting and valuable to women.”That lofty goal was a tad elusive, but the newspaper’s editors “made a valiant effort in that direction” during the publication’s 42-year run, according to Sherilyn Cox Bennion, a professor emeritus of journalism at northern California’s Humboldt State University who has written about the Exponent.One consi
  
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• Sen. Mike Lee warns of big changes if Democrats win the election

  01-10-2020 16:35
  
  Sen. Mike Lee warned Thursday if Democrats win the election in November, taking control of the White House and Senate, they’ll move quickly to change the power structure to put Republicans at a disadvantage.“They’ll violate the rules of the Senate to get rid of the longstanding rule in order to get to a final vote you’ve got to have 60 votes. They’ll take that down to a simple majority,” said Lee during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.”Currently,
  
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• Robert Gehrke: After that debate, can we come up with some fixes? Or should we even bother?

  01-10-2020 15:00
  
  Instead of watching the presidential debate, I decided to catch the wild-card game between Cleveland and New York.It was another post-season meltdown for Cleveland. My team fell behind just four pitches into the first inning and it got worse from there.Disgusted, I flipped over to the debate. Even more disgusted by the debate I flipped it back to the baseball game and went back-and-forth between the two travesties.Since then I have watched most of the debate (in small doses) and, if I had to pic
  
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• LDS Church’s northern Utah ranch is proving to be a model for Western livestock grazing

  01-10-2020 15:00
  
  Livestock grazing has taken a heavy toll on Western rangelands since the arrival of domestic cattle and sheep that were bred for much damper climates.These animals, which have contributed greatly to the West’s pioneer heritage, have damaged fragile alpine and desert ecosystems, fouled stream corridors and rearranged native plant communities, environmentalist say.While they contend public lands grazing is not sustainable in its time-worn form, Utah’s notably dry and cold Monte Cristo
  
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• American, United to furlough 32,000 as time runs out on aid

  01-10-2020 15:00
  
  American Airlines and United Airlines say they will begin to furlough 32,000 employees after lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on a broad pandemic relief package that includes more federal aid for airlines.American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said that if Washington comes up with a deal with $25 billion for airlines “over the next few days,” the company will reverse 19,000 furloughs set to begin Thursday and recall the workers.United said the impasse forced it to furlough 13
  
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• State officials, after forcing TestUtah to change tests and labs, are still negotiating its new contract

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  When TestUtah sites returned an unusually low number of positive results for the coronavirus this spring, state officials devised two unsuccessful attempts to discover the reason — then promised a third try.The new review never got underway. But decisions by state officials have forced TestUtah to stop working with the two testing partners it had chosen — Salt Lake City company Co-Diagnostics Inc., which had supplied its testing kits, and Orem’s Timpanogos Regional Hospital, wh
  
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• Letter: Why all the ruckus over the coronavirus?

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  This letter is in response to the article in the Sept. 23 Salt Lake Tribune titled “U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 200K” and the subhead, “The ‘unfathomable’ number of dead, equally roughly to the population of Salt Lake City, is still climbing.”I agree that any death is a sad time for any family, but why are we making such a ruckus over these particular deaths? According to the 2018 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the total n
  
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• Letter: The greatest generation is on the rise now

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  I am teaching the greatest generation. For over 10 years, I have taught both in and outside the United States, and the more I teach, the more I am convinced that the generation of students I teach really is one of the greatest generations.There is little question that our nation currently faces a wave of political, racial and environmental tensions that increasingly separates 20th century generations in thought, action and collaboration with little promise of resolution. However, when I arrive t
  
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• Letter: Our senators should do the honorable thing

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Sens. Romney and Lee:The dirty tricks of both parties that are often a part of politics are quite upsetting to the common citizen. It has caused Americans to no longer trust politicians in general. Unfortunately, the word politician can now be used as a pejorative in many cases in this great land. I am writing you this letter to ask you to add some honesty and decency to your calling and sacred position as a U.S. senator for the great state of Utah.The following are facts that I know you ar
  
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• Letter: Kael Weston embodies qualities we need in our leaders

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  As a nation, our strength is in unity by finding common ground. Yet, because we’ve become so divided, we’re paying a painful price. To heal our divisions, we need leaders who understand the only way forward is to work together. Because no one has all the answers, we must support candidates who demonstrate trust, integrity, empathy and the ability to embrace different viewpoints.I just read an op-ed by Kael Weston, candidate for Congress in our 2nd Congressional District. Kael served
  
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• Letter: It’s a zero-sum game in TrumpWorld

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  I am sick to death of Donald J. Trump, sick at heart and weary of spirit at what I see happening daily in this country. Tuesday’s debate was the nail in the coffin.I want a president, not a peevish child who can’t control himself, not a nasty overgrown boy who goes gimlet-eyed white-with-rage if someone suggests he might not be smart, not a schoolyard bully who means to intimidate by talking nonstop over opponent and moderator alike, so no one can hear anything being said.He does not
  
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• George Pyle: Cox-style politics not enough to protect us from president’s Brownshirts

  01-10-2020 14:00
  
  Organs of the Utah Body Politic were understandably proud of themselves Tuesday night when the debate between the two major party candidates for governor was followed by the debate between the two major party candidates for president of the United States.The Utah debate, between Republican Spencer Cox and Democrat Chris Peterson, was a model of civil discourse, with compliments exchanged and rules followed. In some ways there wasn’t even that much space between the candidates on substantiv
  
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• Why a bad Utah Jazz record became a talking point during Game 1 of the NBA Finals

  01-10-2020 05:56
  
  Jazz guard John Stockton (12) slices past Scottie Pippen (33) and the Bulls’ defense during the 1998 NBA Finals. | Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz last made the NBA Finals 22 years ago, but on Wednesday night, that 1998 series became a topic of discussion during Game 1 of the 2020 Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.
  It wasn’t a good reason for either the Jazz or the Heat.
  As the Lakers built a lead of as many as 32 points on Wednesday, many on
  
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• Lakers, LeBron roll in Game 1 of NBA Finals, top Heat 116-98

  01-10-2020 05:54
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • LeBron James finally got an easy Game 1 in the NBA Finals.A very easy one, at that.Anthony Davis scored 34 points in his finals debut, James had 25 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists and the Los Angeles Lakers rolled past the Miami Heat 116-98 on Wednesday night.The Heat left beaten and battered.Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 13 points, Danny Green had 11 and Alex Caruso finished with 10 for the Lakers. They returned to the finals for the first time in a decade a
  
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• Latino family agrees to $137,000 settlement after their home was raided by Utah officers looking for someone who didn’t live there

  01-10-2020 04:45
  
  A Latino family whose home was violently raided by Utah probation officers — in what was a failed search for someone who hadn’t lived there in more than a year — has now agreed to settle their case with the state.In a compromise announced Wednesday, the Yañez family will receive $137,000 to cover damage to their Salt Lake City home, as well as injuries caused by the officers who tackled the mother and father during the raid. And the Utah Department of Corrections has pro
  
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• Virginia Riley: Who are the people for whom America is great?

  01-10-2020 04:14
  
  “Keep America Great.” That’s the new slogan.But here is my question: Who are the people for which America is currently “great”?Not people of color. From the very beginning, this administration has given legitimacy to white supremacy, with Trump referring to Mexicans as “rapists,” tweeting that four minority congresswomen should “go back” to the “corrupt countries” he said they are from, and calling neo-Nazis in Charlottesville &ld
  
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• Leonard Pitts: There is a fire in the house of democracy

  01-10-2020 04:00
  
  Just last week, the headlines were inescapable.They stemmed from a story in The Atlantic detailing what amounts to the Republican Party plotting a coup. Which is to say, cooking up Electoral College schemes designed to keep Donald Trump in office even if voters turn him out. Even worse, Trump himself explicitly refused to say he would respect the judgment of the electorate. For a couple days, it dominated the news, this shocking confirmation of our worst fears, the brazen theft of a nation.Again
  
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• The Utah Jazz have interviewed French draft prospect Theo Maledon. Would he be a good fit?

  01-10-2020 03:00
  
  FILE — Utah Jazz Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Dennis Lindsey and head coach Quin Snyder talk to journalists at the Zions Bank Basketball Center in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — Théo Maledon has been playing professional basketball in his home country of France for three years. He is the protégé of former San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker, has trained with Utah Jazz center Rudy Gober
  
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• Man could face death penalty for killing Utah woman and leaving her body in the desert

  01-10-2020 02:52
  
  A man has been charged with aggravated murder — and could face the death penalty — for allegedly killing a 26-year-old woman and leaving her body in a remote desert of southern Utah.Joseph Edward Fought, 30, faces four felony counts in connection with the homicide. One of those, the murder charge, was amended Wednesday to a capital offense. That means, if convicted, Fought would spend a minimum of 25 years in prison, but prosecutors could also choose to seek his death.He has been cha
  
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• September was Utah’s worst month for COVID-19 cases, but with far fewer deaths

  01-10-2020 01:53
  
  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 906 new coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise — and, with those cases added to the rest of the month, September has brought more new cases to Utah than any other month si
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Thunderdome Debate

  01-10-2020 01:32
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:Workhorse Bad FaithLooking for TroubleUtah SkillsVote!Notorious RBGHis Story HistorySpiking the RonaRevenge of the DemsFire StarterWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Paris Hilton creates petition to shut down Provo Canyon School

  01-10-2020 01:24
  
  Celebrity Paris Hilton says she is now on a mission to reform the troubled teen industry.Her first target: Provo Canyon School, the Utah facility she attended in the 1990s where she says she was physically and emotionally abused.Hilton started a change.org petition this week demanding that the school be shut down. So far, it’s garnered more than 40,000 signatures as of 5 p.m. Friday.Hilton, an heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and a reality television star, recently released a documentar
  
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• South Salt Lake police investigating after woman found dead in parking lot

  01-10-2020 01:00
  
  Police are investigating after a young woman was killed and her body left in a South Salt Lake parking lot.Officers first received a report of someone finding a dead woman at 2440 S. 300 West on Monday morning. They have since identified the woman as 23-year-old Kaitlyn Barron, from Salt Lake City.On Wednesday, police also said it appears she died from blunt force trauma.The investigation into her death — considered a homicide — is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call So
  
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• Mitt Romney questions Trump administration threat to pull diplomats out of Baghdad

  01-10-2020 00:47
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney questions whether Iraq’s stability may crumble if the Trump administration completes a threat to pull all U.S. diplomats from Baghdad unless that country does more to protect them against frequent rocket and improvised explosive devise attacks.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued that warning to Iraqi officials last week.Romney, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, questioned the move in a
  
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