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• BYU in review: Saturday’s game brought back memories of last year’s losses to Toledo and USF, but Cougars won this time

  11-10-2020 23:49
  
  Saturday afternoon’s game against UTSA didn’t provide the same dominating performance BYU has become known for this season, but it did show growth and improvement.A year ago, the Cougars may have not been able to hold on for the win (remember Toledo and USF), but this time around they were able to close the game with a 27-20 victory over the Roadrunners at LaVell Edwards Stadium.Last season, BYU had fourth-quarter leads against both the Rockets and Bulls, but late-game mistakes and l
  
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• Trump claims he’s free of virus, ready for campaign trail

  11-10-2020 23:31
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump on Sunday declared he was ready to return to the campaign trail despite unanswered questions about his health on the eve of a Florida rally meant to kick off the stretch run before Election Day.His impending return comes after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. The president insisted he was now “immune” fro
  
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• Letter: Amendment G will harm public education funding

  11-10-2020 23:30
  
  As an educator in Utah for 40 years, I am skeptical when the Legislature says they will provide additional funding for public education if we vote to change the Utah State Constitution through Constitutional Amendment G.Moreover, I have researched the issue and see no guarantees in the new proposal. What it does is open the door for spending more education dollars on other needs. I would be the first person to state we should support the needs of children and individuals with disabilities. Howev
  
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• Perfect in Paris, Rafael Nadal overwhelms Djokovic to tie Federer

  11-10-2020 23:11
  
  Paris • All the years of work, all the many wins, led to this moment, with Rafael Nadal preparing to serve against Novak Djokovic, one point from a 13th French Open championship, one point from a 20th Grand Slam trophy to tie Roger Federer’s record for men.Nadal swept his right foot along the baseline, clearing away the red dust as he has so many times before. He rapped his shoes' soles with his racket — right, then left, then right again. He discarded one tennis ball behind him
  
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• Thiesmann impressed by Washington QB Alex Smith’s remarkable comeback after gruesome injury

  11-10-2020 22:46
  
  Joe Thiesmann didn’t cringe, but he was curious to see how Alex Smith would react to getting hit.After entering an NFL game for the first time since breaking his right leg in gruesome fashion 23 months ago, Smith didn’t have to wait long. He absorbed two sacks from Aaron Donald, got up each time and finished the game that Washington lost 30-10 to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.Smith completed his remarkable comeback 693 days after a broken tibia and fibula, 17 surgeries and a life-th
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: Sunday’s 1,200 new cases, seven new deaths cap another bad week for the pandemic

  11-10-2020 22:06
  
  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.If you’re waiting for the COVID-19 pandemic to subside across the state of Utah, last week was a reminder that it’s unlikely to happen any time soon.The Department of Health on Sunday reported 1,200 new cases and seven new de
  
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• Coronavirus in Utah: 1,200 new cases, seven new deaths Sunday as pandemic shows no signs of slowing

  11-10-2020 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.The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the state of Utah.Utah’s Department of Health on Sunday afternoon reported 1,200 new cases, bringing the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 85,844. Sunday marked the
  
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• BYU in review: Saturday’s game brought back memories of last year’s loss to Toledo and USF, but Cougars changed the outcome this time

  11-10-2020 20:41
  
  Saturday afternoon’s game against UTSA didn’t provide the same dominating performance BYU has become known for this season, but it did show growth and improvement.A year ago, the Cougars may have not been able to hold on for the win (remember Toledo and USF), but this time around they were able to close the game with a 27-20 victory over the Roadrunners at LaVell Edwards Stadium.Last season, BYU had fourth-quarter leads against both the Torpedos and Bulls, but late-game mistakes and
  
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• Timothy Egan: What makes Mike Pence’s complicity so chilling

  11-10-2020 20:00
  
  Somewhere under the cornfields and backyard hoop courts of Indiana is a small black box holding the conscience of Vice President Mike Pence. He buried it four years ago, when a tape emerged of Donald Trump boasting about sexually assaulting women.Pence and his wife, Karen, whom he reportedly calls “Mother,” had rushed home to pray during the biggest campaign crisis of 2016. Ever since an evangelical conversion in college, Pence had been a beacon of Hoosier holiness, using his talk ra
  
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• Herriman Police say 12-year-old Haley White is ‘home safe’

  11-10-2020 19:14
  
  Herriman Police say 12-year-old Haley White is “home safe” after being reported as missing and endangered on SaturdayPolice said she hadn’t been seen since Friday. She was not believed to be in immediate danger, but police were “concerned for her safety due to her age.”UPDATE: Haley has been located and is home safe. Thank you to our community for your assistance. https://t.co/jXF3NaUWlj— Herriman PD (@HerrimanPolice) October 11, 2020
  
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• Utah football’s offense could see more passing in 2020

  11-10-2020 18:37
  
  Kyle Whittingham will contend that Andy Ludwig does a great job of maximizing each of his players' strengths and what they do best.Ludwig has 11 seasons as an OC at five different Power Five schools as part of a 23-year coaching career to help back that up, but that notion will be put to the test again this fall as he embarks on the second season of his second stint as the University of Utah’s OC.Over the last few years, the Utes relied on a heavy dose of running the ball, namely from 2019
  
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• Rafael Nadal ties Roger Federer at 20 Slams by beating Djokovic in Paris

  11-10-2020 18:11
  
  Paris • Rafael Nadal tied Roger Federer with 20 Grand Slam titles by producing a nearly perfect performance against Novak Djokovic in the French Open final.Nadal equaled long-time rival Federer for the most major singles tennis championships won by a man and added to his own record at Roland Garros with No. 13 on the red clay, courtesty of a surprisingly dominant 6-0, 6-2, 7-5 victory over the No. 1-ranked Djokovic on Sunday.When Nadal ended it with an ace, he dropped to his knees, smiled w
  
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• Martha Hughes Cannon’s life goes deeper than her role as first female state senator

  11-10-2020 17:22
  
  Martha Hughes Cannon’s name is usually followed by “the nation’s first female state senator.” Often she’s also described as a suffragist and a physician; sometimes as a polygamist.She’s typically placed on a pedestal among historical Utah women as a groundbreaking pioneer — and held up as evidence, despite persistent inequities, that Utah has a tradition of welcoming women into roles of power. A statue of Cannon, unveiled last month at the state Capitol,
  
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• Pepper Provenzano: Indigenous people deserve their own holiday

  11-10-2020 17:17
  
  Ordinarily, I’m proud to be an American, but these days, not so much. Regarding Columbus Day, I suggested taking the high road and path of good sense by creating an entirely new, well-deserved Indigenous Peoples Day instead of smearing all Italians by attributing genocide to one man.I offered a modest resolution, and proposed we think this through. In response, a reader from my beloved hometown of Princeton, N.J., glibly pointed out that Christopher Columbus was a vicious colonizer. To whi
  
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• Doctor says Trump won’t transmit virus, stays mum on tests

  11-10-2020 16:42
  
  Washington • The White House doctor said that President Donald Trump was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. The diagnosis came as the president prepared to resume campaign rallies and other activities.In a memo released Saturday night by the White House, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley said Trump met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for safely discontinuing isolation and that by “curr
  
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• Maureen Dowd: McConnell is distancing himself from Trump. Literally.

  11-10-2020 16:13
  
  Washington — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.Literally.Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy Coney Barrett superspreader event in the Rose Garden or set foot on that 18 acres of magical thinking known as the White House because he could see that the president and his team were courting danger. At 78, the wily Senate majority leader, a polio survivor, wasn’t taking a
  
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• Charlie Warzel: Facebook and the group that planned to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer

  11-10-2020 16:13
  
  This week, Facebook has been busy disabling itself.On Tuesday, the company pledged to remove all pages, groups and Instagram accounts identified with the QAnon conspiracy movement — a move that will purge hundreds of groups and potentially many thousands of accounts.On Wednesday, the company announced it would widen its ban on political advertisements indefinitely, starting after polls close on Election Day. The goal is to stop political candidates and groups from undermining the outcome o
  
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• Eric C. Ewert: Maybe Utahns will finally vote in their own best interests

  11-10-2020 16:12
  
  One of the most politically vexing parts (of many) of living in Utah is the tendency for the state’s residents to routinely vote for elected officials who don’t represent their viewpoints nor preferences. It’s an incongruity played out over and over again.Take for example, the grassroots propositions that passed two years ago. Proposition 2, the medical marijuana initiative, handily passed by nearly 6 percentage points. Within weeks the state House passed a bill (HB3001) that g
  
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• Robert Kirby: Running for — or away from — office

  11-10-2020 15:00
  
  With so much stupidity to occupy the media’s attention, you no doubt have missed the news that Sonny and I are running for the same congressional seat.Sonny is running for the newly formed Garbage Party. Meanwhile, I am a candidate for the long-venerated (six weeks) Trash Party.Political pundits insist that there isn’t much difference between our stands on the issues. We both support the Second Amendment, we advocate for public health care, and generally agree that Japan is a country
  
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• Martha Hughes Cannon’s life was more complex than iconic role as first female state senator

  11-10-2020 15:00
  
  Martha Hughes Cannon’s name is usually followed by “the nation’s first female state senator.” Often she’s also described as a suffragist and a physician; sometimes as a polygamist.She’s typically placed on a pedestal among historical Utah women as a groundbreaking pioneer — and held up as evidence, despite persistent inequities, that Utah has a tradition of welcoming women into roles of power. A statue of Cannon, unveiled last month at the state Capitol,
  
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• COVID-19 is fueling a Utah shift to outdoor classrooms

  11-10-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note • Through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting in-depth on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on education.Students in Dasch Houdeshel’s science class are using beakers filled with green, yellow and clear liquids to see how water is transferred in plant cells.This could be a scene from any high school biology class. The only difference is that this science lab is entirely outdoors; the experiment is set up behind Judge Mem
  
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• Big Utah potash project collapses for lack of investors

  11-10-2020 15:00
  
  A few years ago, Crystal Peak Minerals boasted of plans to become a top producer of potash, a valuable mineral used in fertilizers, once it got its operation running on the bed of Utah’s Sevier Lake.Yet after successfully securing the permits and incentives it needed to commence construction last year, the Canadian-owned firm is walking away from the project after failing to raise sufficient capital, according to company news releases. Not even a promised tax credit worth up $112 million f
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Genealogy is a religious experience for PBS host

  11-10-2020 14:00
  
  Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born in West Virginia, went to Yale and is a professor at Harvard. But when you get the host of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” talking about genealogy, he sounds like he might be from Utah. He approaches it with a religious zeal.“I believe our ancestors are in a kind of purgatory waiting to be discovered,” Gates said.He first became interested in genealogy when he was 9 years old and his father showed him a photo and the obituary of his great-gr
  
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• How will Utah restaurants survive when cold weather brings an end to patio dining?

  11-10-2020 14:00
  
  The outdoor patio at The Brickyard Bar has been a welcome sanctuary this summer, a well-ventilated place where diners could enjoy a fried chicken sandwich and a beer and feel distanced from the coronavirus.But cool temperatures are looming, putting an end to Utah’s al fresco dining season and causing a new wave of pandemic worry — not just at the Millcreek bar, but at restaurants and bars across the state.“It does stress me out,” said server Tawny Evelyn, who is unsure ho
  
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• Letter: Where are Spencer Cox’s priorities?

  11-10-2020 13:00
  
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox prioritizes national politics above his local responsibilities. His endorsement of Trump’s Supreme Court packing ignores further impact on climate change, voting rights and immigration policy, all of which impact Utah residents. He fails to recognize that prudent judgement is the primary qualification of this critical appointment, as Amy Coney Barrett drags along her children to Trump’s COVID-19 superspreader photo op. Utahns should be concerned that Mr. Cox elev
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Trump’s order discourages discussion of race and gender

  11-10-2020 13:00
  
  “I didn’t know.”Those were the first words my friend, a white guy named Dave, spoke to me the day after the first episode of “Roots,” which depicted the capture and enslavement of an African boy named Kunta Kinte. This was 43 years ago.So you can perhaps imagine my frustration last year when the HBO miniseries “Watchmen” debuted with an episode depicting the Tulsa massacre of 1921 in which white mobs razed a thriving African American neighborhood, killin
  
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• RSL loses to Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1, missing opportunity for playoff position

  11-10-2020 06:47
  
  Vancouver has enjoyed playing Real Salt Lake this season — though maybe that’s a fair statement for most teams.After four consecutive losses, the Whitecaps found a win against RSL in a neutral site on Saturday night, getting a 2-1 victory over an RSL side that has fallen flat recently this season. Indeed, it’s Vancouver’s first win since the last time it played RSL.Early, it looked like RSL was going to do enough to get three points against one of the two teams below them
  
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• Letter: The Trump alphabet

  11-10-2020 05:30
  
  With respect to the 26 letters in the alphabet, Donald Trump lacks acumen, balance, civility, decency, empathy, fairness, goodness, honesty, imagination, judiciousness, kindness, leadership, modesty, niceties, objectivity, personality, quality, radiance, sympathy, talent, understanding, viability, wisdom, youthfulness and zest. Among a myriad of tremendously negative attributes he possesses, he is xenophobic.Under his “reign,” the past four years have been nothing short of a total di
  
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• Crews continue to search Zion National Park for missing woman

  11-10-2020 04:41
  
  Search teams continue to look in Zion National Park for a woman who has been missing since Tuesday.Rangers at Zion and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office are continuing their investigation of the missing-person case of Holly Suzanne Courtier. She is described as 38 years old, 5-foot-3, about 100 pounds. She is white, with brown hair and blue eyes.Courtier was dropped off Tuesday by a private shuttle bus at the Grotto park area in Zion. She was scheduled to be picked up by shuttle bus a
  
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• Herriman Police asking for help to find missing 12-year-old girl

  11-10-2020 03:47
  
  Herriman Police are seeking the public’s help to find a 12-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Friday.Haley White is described as a Black girl, about 5 feet tall, with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink hoodie, grey-and-black shoes, and carrying a black-and-blue backpack.Haley was last seen near her home, and may be in the Herriman area, police said on Twitter. She is not believed to be in immediate danger, but police are “concerned for her safety
  
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• No. 15 BYU struggles with UTSA, but hangs on for 27-20 victory to improve to 4-0

  11-10-2020 03:15
  
  Provo • Maybe it was bound to happen sooner or later, but No. 15 BYU returned to earth on Saturday.Grinding out the yards but struggling to score, the Cougars found themselves in a close game for the first time all season. Yet, they did rise to the occasion when it counted, holding off the upset-minded UTSA Roadrunners 27-20 at LaVell Edwards Stadium.It was a wake-up call.For the first time in four games, the Cougars found themselves in a real battle. They trailed and failed to score in the
  
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• BYU has some nice offensive moments against UTSA, just not enough of them

  11-10-2020 02:34
  
  Kalani Sitake spent a lot of his postgame press conference late Saturday afternoon expressing his disappointment.The BYU coach thought there were too many mistakes in a 27-20 win over UTSA at LaVell Edwards Stadium. He lamented a lost fumble on the game’s opening drive as the 15th-ranked Cougars were moving right down the field. Too many plays left on the field, too many penalties, not enough urgency.Still, there were flashes of the high-octane, Zach Wilson-led BYU offense that has made th
  
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• Letter: LDS Church leaders give flawed mental health advice

  11-10-2020 02:30
  
  Elder Ulisses Soares' talk in general conference was harmful to people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder.OCD is widely misunderstood. Many see it as a cleaning disorder or having to do with organizing M&Ms by color. That’s not what OCD is about. OCD is about having terribly scary and/or repulsive bad thoughts. Sufferers will do anything to get rid of the thoughts through compulsions. Compulsions can not always be seen by others. Many times they take place in the mind.Elder
  
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• Gordon Monson: Disappointment and doubts created, Kalani Sitake knows BYU has to get better

  11-10-2020 02:26
  
  Don’t stop us if you’ve heard this before. Some of it you haven’t.BYU defeated its majorly undermanned opponent on Saturday.That sentence ultimately covers all of the Cougars' first four games and youcould slip in all of the victims' names — Navy, Troy, Louisiana Techand Saturday’s actual foe, UTSA, which stands for University of Texas-San Antonio, although the school prefers the abbreviatedalphabetical form of identification.The visiting Roadrunners at LaVell&rsquo
  
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• No. 15 BYU struggles with UTSA, but hangs on for 27-20 victory

  11-10-2020 01:32
  
  Provo • Maybe it was bound to happen sooner or later, but No. 15 BYU returned to earth on Saturday.Grinding out the yards but struggling to score, the Cougars found themselves in a close game for the first time all season. Yet, they did rise to the occasion when it counted, holding off the upset-minded Roadrunners 27-20 at LaVell Edwards Stadium.It was a wake-up call.For the first time in four games, the Cougars trailed and failed to score in the first quarter. BYU started the game started
  
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• Park City mountain bikers overcome UCI World Championships’ muddy conditions

  11-10-2020 01:02
  
  Park City’s Haley Batten led all USA Cycling members in Saturday’s sludgy UCI Mountain Biking World Championship races in Leogang, Austria.Batten placed fourth of 39 riders in the U23 Women’s cross country race, which required four laps on a muddy and rutted 3.6-kilometer course. Her time of 1 hour, 17 minutes, 12 seconds was 3:38 behind winner Loana Lecomte of France, who won the two most recent UCI World Cup Elite Women’s cross country races. Lacomte’s win sparked
  
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• Letter: What happened to bipartisan reporting

  11-10-2020 00:30
  
  When did The Salt Lake Tribune become a pimp for the Democratic Party? When did The Tribune forsake bipartisan reporting and editorials? I am frustrated with the fact that a very large portion of your print is anti-Republican and anti-President Trump.Believe it or not, there are conservatives who live in Utah. I believe in God, the greatness of America, and the Constitution of the United States of America. I believe in free speech and the right to bear arms. I believe in a president who has kept
  
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• Suspect arrested in 10-year-old stabbing death of South Salt Lake bookseller Sherry Black

  11-10-2020 00:18
  
  Police have made an arrest in a 10-year-old cold case, the stabbing death of South Salt Lake City bookseller Sherry Black.Salt Lake County’s Unified Police Department announced that a suspect was arrested in Black’s death on Saturday morning. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office will screen the case starting Tuesday, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said Saturday.On Nov. 30, 2010, police investigated a call to B&W Billiards & Books, the business Black an
  
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• Suspect arrested in 10-year-old stabbing death of South Salt Lake bookseller

  11-10-2020 00:07
  
  Police have made an arrest in a 10-year-old cold case, the stabbing death of South Salt Lake City bookseller Sherry Black.Salt Lake County’s Unified Police Department announced that a suspect was arrested in Black’s death on Saturday morning. The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office will screen the case starting Tuesday, Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said Saturday.On Nov. 30, 2010, police investigated a call to B&W Billiards & Books, the business Black an
  
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