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• Tribune Editorial: Finally, the U. admits McCluskey’s death was preventable

  24-10-2020 23:30
  
  “The University of Utah acknowledges that the murder of Lauren McCluskey was a brutal, senseless, and preventable tragedy and acknowledges the unspeakable loss the McCluskey family has suffered and continues to suffer.”— Settlement statement, McCluskey vs. Utah, Oct. 21, 2020That was really all that the family and friends of Lauren McCluskey wanted. An admission from the University of Utah and its president, Ruth Watkins, that the murder of the young woman was not just some tra
  
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• Letter: When there is little good to report

  24-10-2020 23:30
  
  I feel I must respond to Kathy Broadhead’s Oct. 11 letter to the editor. She wants to know why The Tribune prints so many articles against the Republican Party and the president.Maybe the articles are not picking one side or the other. Maybe they are just telling the truth. There is very little good to report on when it comes to the president.Yes, I was not happy when Donald Trump was elected, but I wanted to at least give him a chance. However, he instantly showed himself to be nothing bu
  
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• Sheriff’s deputies kill armed man in Huntsville

  24-10-2020 21:51
  
  Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed an armed man Friday night while investigating a disturbance in Huntsville, the Weber County Sheriff’s Office reported.A Huntsville homeowner had notified police at 10:40 p.m. after observing the man attempt to break into a trailer parked in front of their house, according to statement posted on Facebook. The person was also firing shots.Deputies from both Weber and Morgan counties responded to the scene where the man confronted them with “aggr
  
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• COVID-19 keep surging in Utah, with 1,608 new cases

  24-10-2020 21:35
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Utah continues its sharp surge in coronavirus infections with another day of elevated positive tests for COVID-19.Following back-to-back record days, 1,608 new infections were reported Saturday by the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) as
  
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• Letter: Suicidal thoughts shouldn’t lead to more stress

  24-10-2020 21:30
  
  A recent story reported the eviction of a woman expressing suicidal thoughts from the Ventana Student Housing in Orem. The tenant had disclosed her thoughts about suicide to her roommates, which was sadly used by her landlord as a reason to issue her an eviction notice.Suicide is a health issue and to see it criminalized, or treated as a lease violation, does not help reduce the stigma around this issue or reduce our high rates of suicide. The thought of an eviction notice being issued after som
  
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• Chris Stewart: Suicide Prevention Hotline demonstrates how problem-solving should work in America

  24-10-2020 20:33
  
  While so many governments around the world take a top-down approach to governing, one of the great innovations of our American system is the ability to influence national policy from the bottom up. With a robust representative republic, residents in a small state can have an impact on national public policy.This week we saw an example of what that looks for Utah. With the signing into law of the bipartisan National Suicide Hotline Designation Act, an innovation that started as a local solution h
  
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• AP source: Antonio Brown agrees to 1-year deal with Bucs

  24-10-2020 20:17
  
  Tampa, Fla. • Suspended receiver Antonio Brown has agreed to return to the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a one-year deal, according to a person with knowledge of the move.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Saturday because the contract had not been completed.The addition of the volatile seven-time Pro Bowl selection bolsters an already formidable arsenal of playmakers for Tom Brady.Brown, who’s nearing the end of an eight-game suspension for viol
  
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• The Tribune’s NBA mock draft 1.0: Who will the Utah Jazz select at No. 23?

  24-10-2020 19:43
  
  We’re four weeks and change away from the 2020 NBA Draft. That much we know for certain.Beyond that? Well, as has been the case for awhile now, seemingly everything else is in flux. There were multiple reports Friday that the league told the Board of Governors in a conference call that they’re targeting Christmas — or the days just before it — for the start of the 2020-21 season.There remains plenty to be figured out before then. What will the salary cap and luxury tax lo
  
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• Minority pushes Trump agenda largely unpopular among tribes

  24-10-2020 19:09
  
  Willams, Ariz. • Myron Lizer has no qualms about it: As one of the top officials on the country’s largest Native American reservation, he’s a proud Donald Trump supporter.The Navajo Nation vice president says Native American values — hard work, family and ranching — align more with the GOP than with Democrats.“I’m finding that we’re giving the Navajo Republican voters confidence in coming out and showing their support,” he told The Associated
  
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• How intersex Latter-day Saints struggle to stay in a ‘two gender’ faith

  24-10-2020 18:43
  
  Courtney Skaggs always felt, well, different from other girls growing up, but she didn’t really know how different until she had the birds-and-the-bees talk with her parents as she inched toward adolescence.At that time, her parents told Skaggs that she was born with testicles and a vagina but no uterus and that doctors had surgically removed the male parts. They said she would not be able to bear children but that she could adopt.In high school, she received hormone replacement therapy, b
  
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• An inside look at how Utah’s athletic department has accomplished daily-antigen testing

  24-10-2020 18:08
  
  The mere consideration of the Pac-12 playing football this fall had been dead and buried for nearly a month when the league took a significant step forward on Sept. 3. In the early afternoon, seemingly out of nowhere, the Pac-12 announced a testing-research initiative with Quidel, a San Diego-based manufacturer of diagnostic healthcare products. At the center of the agreement was Quidel providing all Pac-12 athletic departments the ability to conduct rapid-result, daily-antigen testing for its s
  
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• 'I will never fit’ — How intersex Latter-day Saints struggle to stay in a ‘two gender’ faith

  24-10-2020 18:00
  
  Courtney Skaggs always felt, well, different from other girls growing up, but she didn’t really know how different until she had the birds-and-the-bees talk with her parents as she inched toward adolescence.At that time, her parents told Skaggs that she was born with testicles and a vagina but no uterus and that doctors had surgically removed the male parts. They said she would not be able to bear children but that she could adopt.In high school, she received hormone replacement therapy, b
  
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• Utah soldier killed in incident not related to training near base in Washington

  24-10-2020 17:33
  
  Tacoma, Wash. • A soldier based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord has been killed in an incident on base near Tacoma, Washington, officials said Thursday.Spc. Skyler Oliver, 24, served with 1-2 Stryker Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, according to I Corps public affairs officials.Officials only said the death was not training-related but said the cause of Oliver’s death Saturday, Oct. 17, is under investigation by the Army criminal investigation command, which is standard with unexpected ser
  
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• John Zaccheo and Kael Weston: Help our state and nation move back from the edge

  24-10-2020 17:32
  
  We are approaching one of the most important national elections in our history as anxious Americans begin to cast ballots, millions of us by mail. Critical issues are not being addressed due to a lack of cooperation between the White House and Congress, alongside a political battle over the replacement of iconic Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Our country has faced other challenging situations before, but we overcame them through a willingness to compromise. Our nation’s diversity has been a g
  
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• 3 Utah brewers win at country’s biggest beer competition; and 2 restaurants with style

  24-10-2020 15:00
  
  The largest commercial beer competition in the country was held last week and three Salt Lake City breweries came home with medals.Proper Brewing Co. earned gold, in the 2020 Great American Beer Festival, while TF Brewing and Grid City Beer Works — which opened during the pandemic — each received a bronze.Proper’s English-style golden ale — called Proper Beer — won in the English Ale category, which had 93 entries. “Our flagship English-style golden ale has al
  
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• Utah held its first jury trial since the pandemic started. Here’s how it worked.

  24-10-2020 14:00
  
  Judge Samuel Chiara always feels a bit of anxiety before a jury trial starts in his Duchesne County courtroom.He wants everything to move smoothly, he said, and for all the parties to feel like they had a fair experience.But earlier this month, the stakes were even higher. Chiara presided over the first jury trial in Utah since the state’s Supreme Court halted all trials nearly nine months ago because of concerns about the coronavirus.Chiara said, for his trial, the 8th District Court took
  
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• The home gym is in! Sales of fitness equipment in Utah continues at record pace

  24-10-2020 14:00
  
  Scott Egbert has never seen anything like it.When gyms and studios closed in mid-March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, people rushed to buy home exercise equipment and stores were wiped out of everything from inexpensive dumbbells to premium treadmills and elliptical machines.“Dumbbells,” said Egbert, president and CEO of Utah Home Fitness, “were like toilet paper.”With Utah’s strong economy, there had already been high demand for fitness equipment prior t
  
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• Felicia Kreitl: Trump is the president we deserve

  24-10-2020 14:00
  
  Since time immemorial, those in power have been the ones to determine who is adequately indoctrinated in their world to rule beside them. If you don’t speak their language and don their masks, you simply don’t belong.Donald Trump doesn’t belong. He’s accused of demeaning the office because of his lack of decorum, his unrefined vocabulary and his tawdry past in the business of making money — as if, somehow, the money his accusers rake in was never contaminated by bus
  
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• Letter: Work together to fix what is broken

  24-10-2020 13:30
  
  This is in response to Kathy Broadhead’s Oct. 11 letter to the editor.I have been thinking about how to reach solid Trump supporters without denigrating them as the president does with others.I worry that his supporters will stubbornly follow this president even if it is over a cliff. I want to open their eyes to determine what is important for themselves. Many conservatives and others recognize that this president says things that do not match what he does.I, too, believe in God, and I al
  
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• Davis High gets past American Fork 1-0 for 6A girls' soccer title

  24-10-2020 06:17
  
  Davis High won the 6A girls' soccer state championship over American Fork, exacting revenge on the team that beat the Darts just a year earlier inthe 2019 final.“We came back for revenge this time, I think,” Darts junior Aniston Haycock said. “We just weren’t going to lose.”Haycock scored the game winner off a corner kick that found its way to herafter getting touched by a couple of her teammates. Her goal marked theend of the game due to the golden goal rule in ext
  
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• Rocky Mountain Power anticipates cutting power for 1,800 Utah customers Saturday because of wildfire risk

  24-10-2020 06:11
  
  Rocky Mountain Power crews expect to cut power for customers living near Sundance and Summit Park to reduce wildfire risk during anticipated strong winds on Saturday.The move would affect approximately 1,800 customers in Utah and Summit counties, the company said in a news release.The action, called a “Public Safety Power Shutoff," is taken when dry conditions are coupled with hazardous wind gusts.“With the extremely dry conditions and the possibility of high wind gusts, we want to t
  
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• Buehler leads Dodgers over Rays 6-2 for 2-1 Series lead

  24-10-2020 05:48
  
  Arlington, Texas • Walker Buehler was dominant for Los Angeles. Just like Orel Hershiser during the Dodgers' last title run.Buehler struck out 10 in six innings in a pulsating performance, and Los Angeles beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Friday night for a 2-1 World Series lead.Justin Turner homered in the first inning against a surprisingly hittable Charlie Morton, who was chased in the fifth.Austin Barnes, the Dodgers' No. 9 hitter, added a sixth-inning homer against John Curtiss and became
  
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• Man arrested on accusation he set pregnant woman on fire at a Murray hotel

  24-10-2020 05:29
  
  A man who allegedly set the mother of his child on fire outside of a Murray hotel room has been arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of murder.Police had been looking for Andrew Todd Curtis since Thursday morning, when they were called to Studio 6, at 975 E. 6600 South, on a report that someone had been set on fire.The 34-year-old woman was badly burned but conscious when officers arrived, and as medics treated her she told police Curtis had thrown a liquid on her and said, “You&rsqu
  
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• Body camera footage shows man pointing stapler at Ogden officer before shooting

  24-10-2020 04:30
  
  Body camera video released Friday shows that a man suspected of breaking into an Ogden car repair shop pointed a stapler at a responding officer as he approached her before he was shot.The Weber County Attorney’s Office disclosed the video and the 911 call that precipitated the Sept. 30 shooting “to provide [the public] with all of the information we have at this time to help you better understand what happened.”Weber County prosecutors are still investigating whether the shoot
  
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• Future murky for Utah Royals midfielder Vero Boquete

  24-10-2020 04:04
  
  The future of one of Utah Royals FC’s most dynamic players is now uncertain.Midfielder Vero Boquete, who joined the team in the 2019 season, is one of the Royals players out of contract. But she may not be back in Utah next season after an Instagram post raised questions about her roster status.“Thanks for every moment, every conversation, every practice, every game and so many lifetime memories,” Boquete wrote in the post earlier this week. “I gonna miss all of you, and
  
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• Rich Lowry: There isn’t a Russian under every bed

  24-10-2020 04:00
  
  The Russians haven’t loomed so large as a sinister hand influencing the course of American society since the Red Scares of the 20th century.Then, it was largely the right that warned of Russian infiltration; now it is progressives who see Russians altering the course of American history through dark manipulations.There’s no doubt that Russia meddled in our election in 2016 and is attempting to do so again. But the left’s overwhelming focus on Russia has taken on the trappings o
  
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• Rose-rescuers save beloved blooms from demolition site

  24-10-2020 03:54
  
  Gardeners and rose lovers gathered at the old west side drugstore on 200 South in Salt Lake City to rescue rose bushes from demolition before the property is cleared for a mixed-use high rise development. The 400 varities of roses on the property, which was previously owned by Bob Bauer, will be distributed to community members and businesses.
  
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• Sheriff offers condolences to family of mentally ill man killed by police, but defends shooting

  24-10-2020 03:53
  
  Two days after the parents of a mentally ill man sued Unified Police, alleging an officer wrongfully killed their son after the mother called for help, the department released a statement apologizing for their loss — but said that they stand by the officers' response.In the two-page response, Sheriff Rosie Rivera outlined some facts of the Oct. 22, 2018, shooting: a woman was being held at knifepoint by a person threatening to kill anyone who entered her house, the man was mentally ill, ap
  
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• Olympus edges Bonneville 1-0 for 5A girls' soccer state title

  24-10-2020 03:49
  
  Coming into the season, Olympus High senior Necie Gubler didn’t have any designs on the Titans girls' soccer team making any noise in the 5A state championship tournament. In all her years at Olympus, the team either didn’t make the playoffs or didn’t get very far. So the thought of winning it all never entered their mind.But when the Titans started winning games they normally wouldn’t, Gubler’s mind started to change. “Maybe we might have a shot,” she t
  
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• Sheriff apologizes to family of mentally ill man killed by Unified police, but says shooting was justified

  24-10-2020 03:07
  
  Two days after the parents of a mentally ill man sued Unified Police, alleging an officer wrongfully killed their son after the mother called for help, the department released a statement apologizing for their loss — but said that they stand by the officers' response.In the two-page response, Sheriff Rosie Rivera outlined some facts of the Oct. 22, 2018, shooting: a woman was being held at knifepoint by a person threatening to kill anyone who entered her house, the man was mentally ill, ap
  
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• Olympus edges Bonneville for 5A girls soccer state title

  24-10-2020 02:56
  
  Olympus High won the 5A girls soccer state championship after a hard-fought, defense-oriented game that needed extra time to decide it.Bonnevilleand Olympus played 80 minutes of scoreless soccer before the golden goal was enacted in the two 10-minute periods of extra time. Junior Emma Neff headed in a corner kick with just two and a half minutes left in the first period of extra time.This story will be updated.
  
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• Kearns High back in football playoffs thanks to additional coronavirus testing

  24-10-2020 02:36
  
  The Kearns High football team will get a chance to compete for a championship after all.Cougars coach Matt Rickards told The Salt Lake Tribune that all players and coaches will get tested for COVID-19 on Saturday and next Friday morning. Those that test negative for both tests will get to play in next week’s second-round matchup. Kearns has a bye for the first round after finishing 8-1 this season.The test next Friday will be a rapid test, Rickards said.Granite School District spokesperson
  
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• Battleground postal delays persist with mail voting underway

  24-10-2020 02:35
  
  U.S. Postal Service records show delivery delays have persisted across the country as millions of Americans are voting by mail, raising the possibility of ballots being rejected because they arrive too late.Postal data through Oct. 9, released through a federal court order, show nearly all the agency’s delivery regions missing its target of having at least 95% of first-class mail arrive within five days. Parts of the presidential battleground states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Penns
  
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• Joseph C. Bentley: Words have only the meaning we give them

  24-10-2020 02:00
  
  What do words mean?Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that “Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath...” Here, and in more than a dozen other places in Article II, the Constitution states that the president shall be male, and in so doing creates a serious problem for two law professors: James Heilpern at Brigham Young University, and Amy Coney Barrett, nominated to a be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.Heilpern calls
  
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• George Pyle: The flaw in Chris and Spencer’s excellent adventure

  24-10-2020 02:00
  
  All thou good and faithful readers of The Salt Lake Tribune Opinion pages may have noticed something different this election year. There are no editorial endorsements of candidates for president, governor, or any of the other offices on the ballot.Endorsements are a habit common to most American newspapers, though The Tribune had fallen out of it for a time as self-imposed penance for the sin of having backed Richard Nixon for president. With a change of ownership, the practice resumed here in t
  
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• Trump, once Presbyterian, now says he’s a ‘nondenominational Christian’

  24-10-2020 01:40
  
  Washington • In an exclusive interview with Religion News Service, President Donald Trump said in a written statement that he no longer identifies as a Presbyterian and now sees himself as a nondenominational Christian.“Though I was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a nondenominational Christian,” Trump, who has repeatedly identified as a Presbyterian in the past, said in a written response to RNS.Saying that his parents “taught me
  
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• Police investigating after 84-year-old woman killed in Taylorsville

  24-10-2020 01:34
  
  Police have arrested the daughter of an 84-year-old woman who was found dead Friday morning in the pair’s Taylorsville home.The deceased woman’s granddaughter called Unified police around 8:30 a.m. to report Carol Donlay was dead. Investigators found Donlay in her bed and said the “scene seemed a little suspicious to them,” UPD spokesperson Sgt. Melody Cutler said.The home is located in the 1200 block of West Middlesex Road.Cutler said there was some blood and “othe
  
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• Christopher Mead: Salt Lake City needs a new police chief

  24-10-2020 01:31
  
  Responding to the news that members of Salt Lake City Police Department’s K-9 unit have engaged in what she calls a “pattern of abuse of power,” Mayor Erin Mendenhall recently suggested that the “culture of an organization is shaped by the worst behavior a leader is willing to tolerate.”I agree with the mayor, which leads me to the question of why she continues to employ Mike Brown as police chief. Given the repeated nature of the abuses committed by K-9 officers in
  
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• Letter: Fiber boondoggle

  24-10-2020 01:30
  
  Kaysville fiber is a boondoggle.Kaysville fiber will require a 30-year bond, at the expense of its taxpayers. Thirty years ago, Netflix wasn’t a DVD business and Amazon was just a jungle. None of us could have predicted the technological advances we enjoy today. We take for granted smartphones, Zoom meetings, streamed movies and music, telehealth, cloud computing, etc. If there was no way to predict where we are today, how can we predict what our needs will be in 10 or 30 years? The iPhone
  
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• Layton Christian becomes latest prep football team to forfeit playoff game due COVID-19

  24-10-2020 01:07
  
  The Layton Christian Academy football team was just 30 minutes away from arriving at Enterprise High for its 2A playoff game scheduled for Friday when it got the call.One of the Eagles players tested positive for COVID-19.Due to having a roster of only 20, the difficult decision had to be made. So the bus turned around and went back home.Layton Christian forfeited its playoff game, ending a 1-8 season that saw Eagles ranked last in the RPI among 2A schools. Jared Miller, who is the principal of
  
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• Bagley Cartoon: Train Wreck

  24-10-2020 00:40
  
  This Pat Bagley cartoon appears in The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. You can check out the past 10 Bagley editorial cartoons below:The Case FOR TrumpPride PopeDog BiteWhat Women WantKiller AsteroidSupreme SphinxThe Persecution GameCovidiotsThe Liars' ClubPandemic’s BoxWant more Bagley? Become a fan on Facebook.
  
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• Ridgeline holds off Ogden for first 4A girls soccer championship

  24-10-2020 00:22
  
  Sandy • A rematch between Ogden and Ridgeline for the 4A girls soccer state championship was just as competitive as advertised.Each squad held one-goal leads only to relinquish them soon after. There were electrifying saves and nutmegs galore.But only one emerged as the 4A champion.Ridgeline scored late in the game to eclipse Ogden 3-2 and and win the 4A state title at Rio Tinto Stadium.“The best feeling of our entire life,” an ecstatic Carmen Wimmer said. “It’s awes
  
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• Utah transforms a juvenile detention center into a place where kids can get help

  24-10-2020 00:09
  
  Farmington • For a long time, the only way a struggling teenager could get connected to state resources was by getting in trouble with the law. It took nothing short of a Utah judge’s order to get help.“It was a bizarre process,” said Rep. Eric Hutchings, R-Kearns.It meant that teenagers who skipped school was mixed in a detention center with kids who were violent and accused of much more serious crimes. It put many kids on a trajectory where they progressed deeper into th
  
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• Health workers say they’re near the brink as Utah reports another single-day COVID-19 record

  24-10-2020 00:03
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.Utah saw another 1,960 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday — a new single-day record that had health officials and elected leaders pleading with the public to take the pandemic seriously and make personal sacrifices.“Utah, do you
  
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