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• Another Utah hospital fills its ICU, with 1,168 more coronavirus cases reported Monday

  19-10-2020 23:24
  
  As Utah continues to report new coronavirus cases at unprecedented levels, a second Utah hospital has filled its intensive care unit, forcing it to open — and staff — overflow beds.Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George filled its intensive care unit beds on Sunday, when southwest Utah reported its highest-yet number of hospitalizations during one week.“We continue to see high volumes of patients in intensive care units at our hospitals across the state,” said Jess G
  
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• Hiker who was missing in Zion was injured and disoriented, her daughter says

  19-10-2020 23:05
  
  California hiker Holly Courtier, who was missing in Zion National Park for 12 days, suffered a head injury shortly after she began hiking and became disoriented, her daughter told CNN.“She injured her head on a tree,” Kailey Chambers texted to CNN. “She was very disoriented as a result and thankfully ended up near a water source — a river bed. She thought her best chance of survival was to stay next to a water source.”Chambers texted that her mother was “too w
  
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• Peter Reichard: Getting clear on what the income tax amendment does and doesn’t do

  19-10-2020 23:00
  
  There are a number of constitutional amendments on the ballot confronting Utah voters this November. The Utah Foundation provided summaries and brief analyses of each in its recent report On the Ballot: Constitutional Amendments Nov. 3, 2020. But by far the most controversial item is Amendment G, which expands the potential uses of income tax revenue. Currently, Utah’s income taxes are dedicated to public and higher education alone. The amendment would broaden the named uses.Though the pub
  
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• BYU football expects a boost from 6,000 home fans

  19-10-2020 22:17
  
  There were several reasons BYU mounted a huge comeback Friday to snag its fifth consecutive win. But junior wide receiver Dax Milne pointed to a specific one: fans.Friday’s road win over Houston marked the first time this season the Cougars played in front of fans. They hadn’t done so in the previous four games.And with Lavell Edwards Stadium finally allowing the 6,000 fans it planned on having this season, the Cougars feel they can benefit that much more from the home atmosphere.&ld
  
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• 17-year-old arrested after shooting that killed one man, wounded two at Salt Lake City park

  19-10-2020 22:08
  
  A 17-year-old has been arrested after three men were shot at a Salt Lake City park on Sunday. One of the men has died, according to police.At about 4 p.m. Sunday, Salt Lake City police received reports of a shooting at Tanner Park, near Parley’s Canyon at 2695 E. Heritage Way. When officers arrived, they found three men who had suffered gunshot wounds.All three were rushed to hospitals. A 25-year-old man, whose name has not been released, later died of his wounds.Police have released no fu
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,168 on Monday

  19-10-2020 21:14
  
  With 1,168 new coronavirus cases reported on Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to rise to an unprecedented level.For the past week, the state has averaged 1,233 new positive test results a day — a new record high, the Utah Department of Health reported Monday.Utah’s death toll from the coronavirus stood at 546 on Monday, with three fatalities reported since Sunday:A Salt Lake County man, age 45 to 64.A Utah County man, older than 85.A Washington County man, older t
  
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• James Redford — filmmaker, activist and son of Robert Redford — dies at 58

  19-10-2020 20:19
  
  James Redford, who followed his father Robert Redford’s path as a filmmaker, environmental activist and philanthropist while also raising awareness about organ donation, has died.James Redford, also known as Jamie, died Friday at his home in Marin County, Calif., his wife, Kyle Redford, confirmed in a Twitter post. He was 58.“Jamie died today. We’re heartbroken,” Kyle Redford wrote. “He lived a beautiful, impactful life & was loved by many. He will be deeply mis
  
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• Police still searching for shooter who killed one man, wounded two at Salt Lake City park

  19-10-2020 20:09
  
  One of three men shot at a Salt Lake City park on Sunday has died, and police are continuing their search for a suspect.At about 4 p.m. Sunday, police received reports of a shooting at Tanner Park, near Parley’s Canyon at 2695 E. Heritage Way. When officers arrived, they found three men who had suffered gunshot wounds.All three were rushed to hospitals. A 25-year-old man, whose name has not been released, later died of his wounds.Witnesses told police that the suspect drove away in a dark
  
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• Burgess Owens trashes Mitt Romney — again

  19-10-2020 20:03
  
  So much for Republican comity. The 4th District Republican nominee, Burgess Owens, trashed Sen. Mitt Romney, saying he is not “representative of Utah’s values,” during a recent interview with a St. Louis conservative talk radio station.Owens was a guest on “The Weekend Report” late last week when he was asked whether he thought Utah voters would sour on Romney over his criticism of President Donald Trump.“Mitt is not representative of Utah in terms of our valu
  
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• Orem police officer started the Range Fire in Provo Canyon, investigators say

  19-10-2020 19:29
  
  A wildfire that forced temporary evacuations and has burned more than 3,000 acres in Provo Canyon was started by an Orem police officer target shooting at the department’s gun range, investigators say.According to Utah Fire Info, the Orem officer who was “present when the fire started” is cooperating with officials. The officer’s name has not been released.The Range Fire has more than doubled in size since Sunday, but U.S. Highway 189, which connects Heber City to Utah Co
  
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• Students, parents on Navajo Nation criticize San Juan school for pulling back on virtual classes

  19-10-2020 19:20
  
  Bluff • For Nadia Armajo, a 15 year old from the Navajo Nation community of Tselakai Dezza in southern San Juan County, the first semester of 10th grade hasn’t been easy.Armajo enrolled in the school district’s virtual learning option in August along with 171 fellow students at Blanding’s San Juan High School because she didn’t feel safe returning to in-person classes in the county with the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Utah. The last several months have cons
  
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• Air Force ‘Candy Bomber’ glides into milestone birthday

  19-10-2020 19:08
  
  Provo, Utah • Air Force Colonel (retired) Gail S. Halvorsen changed the course of history with just two pieces of gum. Now has made a bit of his own history. Halvorsen turned 100 years old this month.For all that has been written and documented, and all the awards that have been given, the infamous “Candy Bomber” or “Uncle Wiggly Wings” — as the children of Berlin called him — Halvorsen’s story never gets old.Born Oct. 10, 1920, in Salt Lake City, H
  
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• Navajo Nation reports 42 new COVID-19 cases but no deaths

  19-10-2020 19:00
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • Navajo Nation health officials are confirming 42 new cases of COVID-19 but no new deaths.The figures released Sunday night bring the total number of cases to 10,955. The known death toll remained at 573.Tribal health officials said 116,368 people on the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah have been tested for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and 7,381 have recovered.A shelter-in-place order, mask mandate, daily curfews and weekend lockd
  
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• Nephi Sewell’s switch from safety to linebacker is critical for the young Utes defense

  19-10-2020 18:26
  
  Kyle Whittingham has said that Nephi Sewell is the “odds-on favorite” to start at linebacker opposite Devin Lloyd.The University of Utah football coach dropped that tidbit regarding the redshirt junior during an ESPN700 interview on Oct. 2, one week before fall camp began. The Utes practiced for the ninth time on Monday. In that time, they have been in full pads in a small handful of sessions and conducted a live scrimmage on Saturday afternoon.With the benefit of some film since cam
  
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• Utah County wildfire grows, but main road reopens in Provo Canyon

  19-10-2020 18:10
  
  A wildfire in Provo Canyon more than doubled in size since Sunday, but U.S. Highway 189, which connects Heber City to Utah County, had reopened as of Monday.The fire, known as the Range Fire, was at 3,450 acres as of Monday morning, up from about 1,500 acres on Sunday morning, fire crews reported.“Fire activity was minimal overnight,” Utah and federal crews wrote on Twitter. “Growth was significantly slowed by natural features.”State Road 92 remained closed between Provo
  
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• Students, parents on Navajo Nation criticize San Juan School District decision to end virtual instruction at some schools

  19-10-2020 18:10
  
  Bluff • For Nadia Armajo, a 15 year old from the Navajo Nation community of Tselakai Dezza in southern San Juan County, the first semester of 10th grade hasn’t been easy.Armajo enrolled in the school district’s virtual learning option in August along with 171 fellow students at Blanding’s San Juan High School because she didn’t feel safe returning to in-person classes in the county with the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Utah. The last several months have cons
  
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• Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s misogyny might finally catch up with him

  19-10-2020 18:10
  
  Recently I had the chance to watch an online focus group of seven women from swing states who had voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but who had become disaffected with him. Convened by Sarah Longwell, a founder of Republican Voters Against Trump, the session was in some ways a deeply depressing experience.Several of the women said that, because they don’t believe what they hear from mainstream media, they have a hard time distinguishing truth from falsehood. One woman, in North Carolina, cite
  
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• Chris Peterson: It is time for change in Utah’s COVID response

  19-10-2020 18:10
  
  As Utahns face the eighth month of the worst public health crisis in a century, we all find ourselves worried. Worried about our health. Worried about our businesses. Worried about our loved ones. Worried about our future. Amid all this concern, we have looked to our leaders for guidance through tumultuous times. Unfortunately, in the most important year of their administration, Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox did not rise to the occasion.Despite shutting down our economy and spending
  
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• Holly Courtier had nothing to eat, little water. She survived 12 days lost in Zion National Park.

  19-10-2020 16:57
  
  Holly Suzanne Courtier was found alive in Zion National Park, officials say.Courtier, 38, was dropped off by a private shuttle bus at the Grotto park area on Oct. 6. She was scheduled to be picked up at 4:40 p.m., but never returned.Search and rescue crews found Courtier on Sunday after a park visitor told rangers that they had seen her in the park.A Zion official told The Salt Lake Tribune that Courtier was able to leave the park with her family, but offered no other details on her condition or
  
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• How Latter-day Saints fed up with Trump could help lift Biden in Arizona

  19-10-2020 15:18
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • For the better part of a century, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made their political home under the Republican Party’s tent, motivated by conservative beliefs rooted in the family values, personal liberty and economic frugality of their faith.But some church members now find themselves in a political quandary: They’re still Republicans, but they no longer fit in with the party as exemplified by President Donald Trump, who for the
  
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• Robert Gehrke: What’s Amendment G on your ballot? It’s a legislative shell game involving education.

  19-10-2020 14:00
  
  Voters across the state tore into their ballots last week as giddy as kids on Christmas morning, only to get to the end and then there’s the big record scratch: What’s with all these amendments to the Utah Constitution?There are seven amendments — the most in at least four decades — that voters are being asked to approve. It’s a lot to digest.Most of them aren’t particularly controversial. Removing references to slavery from the Constitution and making clear t
  
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• John Bennion: Republicans and Democrats should be appalled by Trump

  19-10-2020 14:00
  
  My mother was a Republican and my father a Democrat, each a hair’s breadth from center, but they cooperated enough to have six children and raise us to be good people and good citizens. I’ve been asking myself what they and other centrists who raised families in the ’50s and ’60s might think of our country’s direction today.My mother once said about Richard Nixon, “I’d rather have a smart, dishonest president than a dumb one.” It shocked me then, a
  
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• Democrat Chris Peterson wages campaign against Utah’s one-party rule

  19-10-2020 14:00
  
  Before he became a consumer advocate, Chris Peterson was a debt collector.It was one of several jobs the Democratic gubernatorial candidate worked in college as he was scraping together cash for his international travel plans. And, as he vividly recalls, it meant spending evening after evening on the phone with people who were underwater on their 520% interest rate loans.“Day after day,” he said, “I was calling and collecting bills from people whose families were just in the wo
  
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• Big solar farms could dominate the future of a Utah hamlet trying to preserve its small-town feel

  19-10-2020 14:00
  
  With fewer than 150 residents and vast expanses of undeveloped agricultural lands, the quiet hamlet of Fairfield sits on a crossroads of Utah history, occupying space used as a major military installation and an important waypoint on the Pony Express in the 1850s.Now, long after horseback mail carriers and historic Camp Floyd have faded away, Fairfield faces another crossroads — this one about its proposed future as a solar energy vortex. Three major projects have been proposed within its
  
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• Letter: Take care when voting for judges

  19-10-2020 13:30
  
  Please don’t vote to retain Thomas Low as a judge in the Fourth District. Pay particular attention when you mark your ballots this week. In 2017, Judge Low sentenced Keith Robert Vallejo to prison after a jury found him guilty of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape.The judge said that Vallejo, who had served as a Mormon bishop, was an “extraordinary, good man” and a “great man.” He didn’t show the same regard for the victims, one of
  
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• Letter: Slow and steady wins the race

  19-10-2020 13:30
  
  I don’t understand the push to have our upcoming election results by the end Election Day. The only reason that comes to mind is our insatiable (and unreasonable) desire for immediate gratification.Isn’t it more important to get the election results correct than sooner?Why the rush? What’s the hurry?The increased use of mail-in ballots makes sense given the pandemic, so why not accommodate this prudent action by allowing enough time to get the count done correctly?Our election
  
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• Letter: Pulling the plug on Grandma

  19-10-2020 13:00
  
  Dear Gov. Herbert:I was impressed when you committed to bringing Utah’s daily case count under 400 and did it. I am equally as dismayed that you abandoned a successful strategy and have let the case counts run roughshod over our senior population.Remember in 2009 when Sen. Chuck Grassley said we were “pulling the plug on Grandma”? You are pulling the plug on Grandma and Grandpa, too. With five deaths a day, most of them over 65, we can expect to lose another 400 Utah residents
  
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• Letter: Rep. Strong is part of the problem

  19-10-2020 09:00
  
  To Rep. Mark Strong:Our daily COVID counts continue to rise and our ICUs are nearing capacity. Your answer is to refuse testing and that it will all just go away. You claim to want to see schools and businesses open and life return to some semblance of normal, yet you actively work against the measures that will allow those things to happen.At some point I sincerely hope that you and others like you will put aside your narrow beliefs and act like the leaders you were elected to be. Until that ti
  
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• Letter: The vocal minority rules

  19-10-2020 06:58
  
  To Sen. Mike Lee:I thought we valued democracy in America, Mike. I thought it was what made us so free. Yet now, at the height of a pivotal election year, your party is taking steps to curb democracy at every turn; your incendiary tweet only serves to highlight that fact. Polling places are being shut down, registration rolls are being purged, Republicans are spreading lies about voter fraud, and the president is encouraging his supporters to intimidate voters and poll workers. We’re now a
  
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• Trump, Biden go on offense in states they’re trying to flip

  19-10-2020 05:44
  
  Carson City, Nev. • President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden went on offense Sunday, as both campaigned in states they are trying to flip during the Nov. 3 election that is just over two weeks away.Trump began his day in Nevada, making a rare visit to church before a fundraiser and an evening rally in Carson City. Once considered a battleground, Nevada has not swung for a Republican presidential contender since 2004.The rally drew thousands of supporters who sat elbow to elbow,
  
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• Letter: It’s all about balance

  19-10-2020 04:57
  
  I was speaking with an old friend about the state of our nation the other day and was struck by a thought: Where did the terms “right wing” and “left wing” in relation to politics come from? I could only think of two areas where those terms come into common use outside of politics. One, of course, is architecture, where most buildings with “wings” are considered aesthetically more pleasing if the wings are equal and are balanced on either side of a central dom
  
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• How Mormons fed up with Trump could help lift Biden in Arizona

  19-10-2020 03:57
  
  Tucson, Ariz. • For the better part of a century, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have made their political home under the Republican Party’s tent, motivated by conservative beliefs rooted in the family values, personal liberty and economic frugality of their faith.But some church members now find themselves in a political quandary: They’re still Republicans, but they no longer fit in with the party as exemplified by President Donald Trump, who for the
  
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• Multiple injuries reported after shooting at Tanner Park in Salt Lake City

  19-10-2020 03:41
  
  Police are looking for a suspect in a shooting that injured multiple people at a Salt Lake City park Sunday, FOX 13 reports.Three people were transported to area hospitals in critical condition around 4 p.m. Two of those people were shot, according to FOX 13. Police did not say how the third person was injured.The suspect reportedly fled the scene.Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune and FOX 13 are content-sharing partners.
  
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• Jamelle Bouie: What about the rest of the Constitution?

  19-10-2020 02:00
  
  On Tuesday, Judge Amy Coney Barrett took a few minutes during her confirmation hearing to discuss her judicial philosophy, best known as originalism. It means, she explained, “that I interpret the Constitution as a law, I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it. That meaning doesn’t change over time, and it is not up to me to update it or infuse my policy views into it.”Now, originalism is subject to a good deal of criticism and critique as
  
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