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• Steven Nyman, Ted Ligety headline Utahns named to U.S. Alpine Ski Team for 2020-21

  13-11-2020 23:43
  
  Utah skiers Ted Ligety and Steven Nyman have been named to the United States Alpine Ski Team for the 2020-21 season, U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced Friday.Nyman, 38, of Sundance has been a member of the team since 2004. Ligety, 36, of Park City was added a year later.Though they are the only Utahns on the “A” team, several others were added to the U.S. Ski Team’s developmental tiers. Sam DuPratt, 26, of Park City and Jared Goldberg, 29, of Holladay will compete for the &ldq
  
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• Utah State football ready to move on from coaching change against Fresno State

  13-11-2020 23:30
  
  The Utah State football team has an opportunity to right the ship Saturday against the Fresno State Bulldogs.But the Aggies will have to deal with a fanless environment at Maverik Stadium due to the rise of COVID-19 infections in Utah. And to top it off, the Bulldogs are a team with a high-octane offense, featuring quarterback Jake Haener and running back Ronnie Rivers.It will be interim coach Frank Maile’s first game coaching in the regular season as well. He coached Utah State to a win t
  
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• Burgess Owens grows lead over Rep. Ben McAdams in 4th Congressional District race

  13-11-2020 23:27
  
  Republican Burgess Owens increased his lead over Rep. Ben McAdams in the hotly-contested race for Utah’s 4th Congressional District as additional ballots were dropped from Utah County on Friday.Owens is now ahead by 1,707 votes, with 47.48% of the vote to McAdams' 47.02% ahead of the final canvass on Tuesday.McAdams, Utah’s only Democrat in Congress, took an early lead in the close race on Election Day and held onto it for much of last week. But Owens, a former NFL player and frequen
  
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• Amid global pandemic, LDS Church President Russell Nelson to offer message of ‘hope and healing’

  13-11-2020 22:51
  
  Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offered a tantalizing tidbit Friday of what is coming in a week.“My dear friends, the challenges that we face as fellow global citizens are immense, but our ability to feel hope and seek healing in Jesus Christ remains strong,” the 96-year-old Nelson wrote Friday on Instagram. “I have felt impressed to share with you a message on November 20, 2020, from 11:00 to 11:15 a.m. MST.”The church lea
  
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• Utah coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths at record highs on Friday

  13-11-2020 22:14
  
  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.A data glitch produced artificially low coronavirus case numbers on Friday in Utah, with “only” 2,150 new diagnoses reported, state health officials said.But COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths again rose to record highs, wi
  
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• What Joe Biden’s election could mean for student loans

  13-11-2020 22:07
  
  The federal government is the primary lender for students who borrow money for college and graduate school, and the Education Department directly holds more than $1.4 trillion in student debt. President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will have the ability to make changes that can directly affect millions of borrowers' monthly bills.Here’s what you need to know.Student loan pauseSome 22 million borrowers of federal student loans have had their monthly payments temporarily paused and
  
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• New road may end ‘best kept secret’ tag for Moonshine Arch near Vernal

  13-11-2020 22:04
  
  Tourism officials call the picturesque Moonshine Arch near Vernal one of eastern Utah’s “best kept secrets.” The Utah Transportation Commission on Friday approved a project that may change that.It gave an OK to spend $1.5 million to relocate an access road to the trailhead to the arch, about 8 miles north of Vernal off of U.S. 191. It will also provide better signage.“Uintah County is improving the Moonshine Arch trailhead and installing wayfinding signs, which will incre
  
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• Joanne C. Slotnik: Utah attorney general demeans the office he holds

  13-11-2020 22:04
  
  I read with dismay the disturbing tweet from Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes announcing that he was taking “personal leave time to help prepare and support litigation in several states.” He’s apparently worried about a “compromised election process,” even though there’s no evidence of any such compromise.He later clarified that he wasn’t taking a leave of absence from the Attorney General’s Office, but merely “taking a personal weekend to he
  
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• Mitt Romney won’t end up in Biden’s cabinet, but other Utahns might

  13-11-2020 21:55
  
  Some online chatter last month pegged Sen. Mitt Romney as a longshot pick for President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet, perhaps as secretary of state or commerce. This week, Romney quashed those rumors, saying he hadn’t been approached by Biden nor was he interested.The idea that Romney might join the Biden administration was always a bit of a stretch. Does anybody remember the “back in chains” comment Biden made about Romney during the 2012 presidential race?“While Romn
  
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• Glitch skews Utah coronavirus case data on Friday, but hospitalizations and deaths at record highs

  13-11-2020 21:39
  
  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.A data glitch produced artificially low coronavirus numbers on Friday in Utah, with “only” 2,150 new cases reported, state health officials said.But COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths again rose to record highs, with the st
  
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• Saturday’s Utah-UCLA football game at the Rose Bowl canceled, due to COVID-19

  13-11-2020 21:15
  
  The Pac-12 announced Friday afternoon that Saturday’s Utah-UCLA football game, scheduled for Saturday night at the Rose Bowl, has been canceled.And the reason is that Utah could not meet the minumum 53-player roster for the game, due to continued positive tests for COVID-19.“The Pac-12 has, after consultation with Utah, canceled theUtah at UCLA football game scheduled for November 14," the conference said in a statement. "This decision wasmade under the Pac-12′s football game c
  
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• Home sales along Wasatch Front close in on a record year

  13-11-2020 21:07
  
  Homes sales along the Wasatch Front have wiped away any losses from COVID-19 and are now on a record-breaking trajectory for 2020.The Salt Lake Board of Realtors reported Friday third-quarter sales over the five-county area were 13% above the same months last year, after historically low interest rates and a pandemic-spurred exodus to the suburbs lifted housing markets out of an April and May slowdown.Sales also are now up 4% for the first nine months of 2020 compared to 2019, with 31,822 homes
  
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• NFL Hall of Fame running back Paul Hornung dies at 84

  13-11-2020 20:51
  
  Louisville, Ky. • Paul Hornung, the dazzling “Golden Boy” of the Green Bay Packers whose singular ability to generate points as a runner, receiver, quarterback and kicker helped turn the team into an NFL dynasty, died Friday. He was 84.Hornung’s family confirmed his death to the Louisville Sports Commission and to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.In July 2016, Hornung sued equipment manufacturer Riddell Inc., saying football helmets he wore during his professional career fail
  
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• Utah’s U.S. 6 transformed from a deathtrap into ‘as safe of a road as we have’

  13-11-2020 20:28
  
  Back in 1996, Reader’s Digest and the BBC damningly proclaimed the winding, narrow U.S. 6 in central Utah as one of America’s deadliest highways. In the decade that followed, more than 150 people died there in more than 500 accidents that involved serious injuries.But the Utah Transportation Commission celebrated Friday what it says has been years of quiet improvement since 2006, as the rate of crashes with serious injuries there dropped by 75% after a long series of safety projects.
  
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• Gordon Monson: BYU’s Zach Wilson is spinning footballs and NFL scouts’ heads

  13-11-2020 20:14
  
  Looking all of 13 years old, Zach Wilson took the field, dropped into the pocket, drilled a perfect spinner into the open arms of Aliva Hifo, to the roars of fans in the stadium surrounding the freshman’s personal show of precocious promise.That was a couple of years ago, back at the beginning, when Wilson, having that appearance of a kid who’d just stepped out of a Clearasil commercial, wowed his coaches at BYU enough for them to promote him as their starter at quarterback, the youn
  
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• Despite COVID-19, no big spikes for health coverage premiums, say Utah insurance officials

  13-11-2020 20:06
  
  Utah insurance officials are hopeful about the premium landscape in 2021, which they say will see anywhere from a slight dip to a small increase.Individual market rates will decrease by an average 1% next year and small group market rates will increase by an average of 3.9%, Jaakob Sundberg, a health actuary for the Utah Department of Insurance, told the Legislature’s Health Reform Task Force on Thursday.Sundberg said this is part of a three-year pattern of minimal rate increases — a
  
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• Minerva Jimenez: Reimagining our parks and public lands

  13-11-2020 20:00
  
  If you could change the public parks in your community, how would you reimagine them? As many have looked to parks and open spaces as a place to connect with individuals and find serenity, this question seems more relevant today than ever.The Salt Lake City Public Lands Division is interested in finding the answer from residents as they are in the process of developing the Public Lands Master Plan that will be used to guide how investments are allocated to parks, urban forests, open spaces, trai
  
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• Michele Straube: Leaders should seek cooperation and collaboration, not compromise

  13-11-2020 20:00
  
  Almost immediately after news agencies called the election for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, pundits and others were talking about the need to work across differences and “compromise.”Biden, in his acceptance speech, rightfully did not use that term. He talked instead about the need and opportunity for “cooperation.” Similarly, Utah’s Gov.-elect Spencer Cox talks about the state’s culture of “collaboration.” Thes
  
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• With BYU police on the brink, a judge is leaning toward eliminating the department

  13-11-2020 19:20
  
  Brigham Young University wanted to head off the government’s attempt to eliminate its police department, asking a judge to reject the case before it even went to trial.But an administrative law judge said he doesn’t intend to do so and may even go in the opposite direction.Judge Richard Catten said he’s leaning toward siding with the Utah Department of Public Safety, which announced last February that it would take the unprecedented step of decertifying the entire department af
  
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• Need help with Thanksgiving dinner? These Utah restaurants and bakeries are here for you

  13-11-2020 18:41
  
  We all know that Thanksgiving will be different this year.Large indoor gatherings are discouraged, to avoid spreading the coronavirus. And that eliminates the big holiday potluck that many Utah families are used to — and appreciate — since they only have to cook one or two items on the menu.Restaurants, caterers and bakeries are stepping in, though, offering complete turkey dinners for pickup and delivery — as well as a la carte options for cooks who just need help with side di
  
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• COVID-19 is now helping, not hurting, home sales as Wasatch Front closes in on a record year

  13-11-2020 17:47
  
  Homes sales along the Wasatch Front have wiped away any losses from COVID-19 and are now on a record-breaking trajectory for 2020.The Salt Lake Board of Realtors reported Friday third-quarter sales over the five-county area were 13% above the same months last year, after historically low interest rates and a pandemic-spurred exodus to the suburbs lifted housing markets out of an April and May slowdown.Sales also are now up 4% for the first nine months of 2020 compared to 2019, with 31,822 homes
  
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• Breakthrough for women: Miami Marlins hire Kim Ng as GM

  13-11-2020 17:38
  
  Miami • Kim Ng became the highest-ranking woman in baseball operations in the major leagues when she was hired Friday as general manager of the Miami Marlins.Ng is believed to be the first female general manager for a men’s team in a major professional sport in North America, the Marlins said.She broke into Major League Baseball as an intern and has 21 years of big league experience in the front offices of the Chicago White Sox (1990-96), New York Yankees (1998-2001) and Los Angeles D
  
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• Tim Glenn: Drilling should not be allowed in Labyrinth Canyon

  13-11-2020 17:00
  
  We live in a place where public lands are key to our livelihood. Water, air quality, food, our history and recreation — Utah’s public lands are ingrained in our way of life. So as members of the public, it’s our job to hold the agencies and governments who manage those lands accountable.Recently, the Bureau of Land Management announced it is prepared to allow a new helium drilling operation in the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness Area — a spectacular stretch of redrock terrain
  
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• Winter storm will dump lots of snow in the mountains — and some in the valley

  13-11-2020 16:39
  
  It’s still November, but it will look a bit like Christmas this weekend in northern Utah, with a couple of feet of snow possible in the mountains and maybe a couple of inches in the valleys.There’s a winter storm warning in effect for the western Uinta Mountains and the Wasatch Mountains from 3 p.m. Friday through 4 p.m. Saturday — the chance of snow is pegged at 100%. And travel there could be “very difficult to impossible,” with blowing snow and poor visibility.Ac
  
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• How a former Utes basketball player’s eviction reveals the tough spot many renters are in during the COVID-19 pandemic

  13-11-2020 15:42
  
  His health may be shaky and luck in short supply, but Ken Gardner said he hasn’t stopped measuring his life in miracles.The retired 71-year-old jokes he was “a 6-foot-5, slow, non-jumping white kid from Clearfield” who made it big 50 years ago as a high-scoring University of Utah basketball player, who went on to play for the Utah Stars and pro leagues in France.When doctors declared his heart “shot” in 2013 — long after Gardner survived a heart attack and fiv
  
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• Utah taking Fresno State to court over canceled men’s basketball game

  13-11-2020 15:37
  
  The University of Utah and Fresno State are going to court to decide whether or not the former owes the latter money for a men’s basketball game that will not get played this season amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.In a lawsuit filed by Utah Thursday in Third Judicial District Court, Utah, citing the ‘uncontrollable forces’ section of the game contract, is allowed to cancel a game that was scheduled for Dec. 19 at the Huntsman Center. The game was agreed to on April 17. Fresno Stat
  
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• Paul Krugman: A Republican Senate would be bad for buisness

  13-11-2020 15:13
  
  So, the blue wave fell short of expectations. Joe Biden will be the next president, but unless Democrats pull off an upset in the Georgia Senate runoffs — which, to be fair, they might, given the remarkable strength of their organizing efforts there — Mitch McConnell will still be the Senate majority leader.Big business seems happy with this outcome. The stock market was rising even before we got good news about prospects for a coronavirus vaccine. Corporate interests appear to imagi
  
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• David Brooks: I asked Mitt Romney how Joe Biden might get some things done

  13-11-2020 15:13
  
  It’s easy to imagine ways Joe Biden’s presidency might open very badly. COVID-19 may still be spiking. The economy could slip back into recession. Mitch McConnell might still control the Senate, blocking every major Biden proposal. Donald Trump will be unleashed as National Narrator blasting everything that happens.Things don’t get much better in the unlikely event Democrats capture both of Georgia’s Senate seats to achieve a 50-50 tie, broken by the Democratic vice presi
  
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• Robert Kirby: An open letter to Donald Trump and everyone else

  13-11-2020 15:00
  
  Dear President Trump,I understand that you’re going through a tough time right now. I hope you might have just a couple of minutes to consider something I’ve learned along the way.Sometimes you have to let go of something. This includes everything from what seems like the best idea you ever had to a simple-minded pleasure. It also applies to really important duties like leading a nation.It’s true that perseverance and determination can pay off in a big way, but those have also
  
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• How a former Utes basketball player’s eviction reveals the tough spot many renters are in during the pandemic

  13-11-2020 14:05
  
  His health may be shaky and luck in short supply, but Ken Gardner said he hasn’t stopped measuring his life in miracles.The retired 71-year-old jokes he was “a 6-foot-5, slow, non-jumping white kid from Clearfield” who made it big 50 years ago as a high-scoring University of Utah basketball player, who went on to play for the Utah Stars and pro leagues in France.When doctors declared his heart “shot” in 2013 — long after Gardner survived a heart attack and fiv
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Nobody thought ‘Supernatural’ would run for 15 years. Nobody.

  13-11-2020 14:00
  
  If, way back in 2005, you had asked me which of that fall’s 31 new TV series would still be around 15 years later, I would NOT have guessed that it would be “Supernatural.”To be fair, I wouldn’t have guessed that ANY of them would still be around in 2020. But “Supernatural”? A show about brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), who traveled around the country in a 1967 Chevy Impala killing monsters? No way!And I’m not the only one. Both P
  
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• Meet Utah’s ‘Good Food’ finalists; and a Salt Lake City taco shop says goodbye

  13-11-2020 14:00
  
  Two Utah companies have been named finalists in the 2021 Good Food Awards.Salt Lake City’s Beltex Meats is one of 24 finalists in the charcuterie category for its pate de Campagne and Spanish chorizo; while Campos Coffee, with cafes in Salt Lake City and Park City, made the cut in the coffee division for its Colombia La Negrita Natural Geisha.Good Food Awards are given to artisan food producers who use fresh and sustainable ingredients with delicious results. The awards are given in 16 cat
  
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• George Pyle: The cavalry can’t save you if you’re already dead

  13-11-2020 14:00
  
  Dr. Anthony Fauci says the cavalry is coming.It would be nice if some of us were still alive when it got here.John Wayne would be very displeased indeed if, after a day in the saddle, riding at a breakneck pace through the desert, he arrived to find that we’d all wandered off, unarmed, no longer caring whether we, or our neighbors, lived or died, leaving our sorry carcasses for the buzzards, just because we were tired of waiting.He would wonder why we didn’t have more faith, and show
  
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• Bernie Hart: They still have no plan for addressing homelessness

  13-11-2020 14:00
  
  What more is there to say that hasn’t already been said. Marita and I drove around Salt Lake City a few days ago and there were campers everywhere.I remember being on Rio Grande Street four years ago, getting up close and personal with a member of Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s staff. I was upset with what was happening. Bulldozers were pushing trash around and scooping up the tents and personal belongings of campers. Social workers and police were everywhere.At that time, it was Biskupski
  
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• Letter: It wasn’t hard to rig the election

  13-11-2020 13:30
  
  I am so sorry to disappoint President-elect Joseph Biden, but he didn’t win this election fair and square. You see, I rigged it. No, really, I rigged it.All I had to do was convince 75,665,461 voters — at last count — that Donald Trump was a loud-mouthed, arrogant, wife-cheating, lousy businessman with numerous bankruptcies and even hooked up with a porn star when his last son was being delivered.He even ignored top-notch epidemiologists and virologists who could have made a di
  
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• Letter: Don’t give up on The Tribune

  13-11-2020 13:05
  
  I am sad to see some letters from The Salt Lake Tribune subscribers saying they will cease to subscribe due to the announcement that The Trib will only print a weekly edition.About two years ago, I switched to the Sunday print edition and daily e-edition. I can still read my beloved Trib on my iPad every morning with my coffee. In addition, when I travel, I never miss out on what is happening in my state and community. I also read the e-editions of the New York Times and Washington Post, but the
  
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• Letter: Disappointed in the LDS vote

  13-11-2020 12:00
  
  As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I am disappointed by the huge number of Mormons who voted for a person who is known to be a liar, racist, sexist, cheater on taxes and business dealings, narcissist and promoter of violence.I’ve heard there are two “mega” reasons:Reason one: “I won’t vote for anyone who supports abortion.” Really? He separated children from parents and locked them in cages at our southern border; he tried to take
  
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• Sources: Mike Conley Jr. to Decline Early Termination Option

  13-11-2020 07:35 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  Yahoo Sources: Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley Jr. will bypass free-agency next week by not exercising “early termination option” on his $34.5 million salary for the 2020-21 season. Yahoo Sources: Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley Jr. will bypass free-agency next week by not exercising “early termination option” on his $34.5 million salary for the 2020-21 […]
  
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• Letter: The virus is raging in Utah

  13-11-2020 07:30
  
  Can you believe that our governor finally mandated masks?Why did he wait until after the election? Was he worried that Spencer Cox would lose? That’s what I think.Their recent mandate is too late. The virus is raging throughout our state. We are in crisis mode and the executive order needs to include sports teams, too. Those folks have more up-close exposure and it is ridiculous to think that they are going to stay safe.Please do your part and wear the damn mask.Emily Evans, IvinsSubmit a
  
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• Utah man who allegedly shot his wife to death found dead in his car

  13-11-2020 06:32
  
  Police say they have found the body of Scott William Russell, who is suspected of having killed his wife by shooting her five times in the back.The Weber County Sheriff’s Office issued an alert Wednesday warning that Russell was “armed and dangerous.” The alert said Russell may have been headed to Colorado driving a black 2017 Toyota Land Cruiser.On Thursday, police received a call about a car that had crashed off Highway 39 around mile marker 15, according to a statement from
  
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• Letter: Ballots should be postage free

  13-11-2020 06:30
  
  Most know and believe mail voting is safe, accurate and more convenient. The military used mail-in voting during the Civil War, so this is not a new, untested thing.But I was shocked to hear that, in some states, they do not enclose a prepaid return envelope as Utah does.All return mail voter ballots in the United States should be prepaid. People should not have to pay anything to exercise the right to vote.Using a prepaid return envelope through the mail would be charged to the government. Thos
  
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• Why this year’s NBA draft process is shrouded in more secrecy than ever before

  13-11-2020 06:00
  
  An NBA logo is displayed outside a basketball arena Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Thanks to the pandemic, preparations for the NBA draft are also a “whole new game” | AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool The pandemic has altered the way NBA teams are going about pre-draft routines, with teams and players exhibiting more discretion than is usual.
  There is always a certain amount of secrecy within the NBA when the draft starts drawing near. But, in the year 2020, everything
  
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• Biden flips Arizona, further cementing his presidential victory

  13-11-2020 05:57
  
  President-elect Joe Biden has narrowly won Arizona, capturing the state’s 11 electoral votes and strengthening his Electoral College margin as President Donald Trump continues to make baseless attacks on the vote counts favoring Biden.Biden, who won the state by about 11,000 votes, or 0.3 percentage points, is the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since President Bill Clinton in 1996. Four years ago, Trump won the state by 3.5 percentage points.That Arizona —
  
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• Letter: Tribune readers will miss their daily paper

  13-11-2020 05:30
  
  It was painful to read Michael Greer’s Nov. 9 letter to The Salt Lake Tribune complaining about other people’s responses to the ending, after so many years, of the daily Tribune newspaper.Mr. Greer calls those readers' disappointment and sense of loss of their daily experience a “walking cliche.”His proud inability to understand the readers' sadness ignores the fact that sometimes the reason something becomes a cliche is because it feels true. The readers enjoy the analys
  
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• Utah man charged with having 8,000 images of child pornography

  13-11-2020 04:42
  
  The Utah Attorney General’s Office’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force charged a Sandy resident Thursday with sexually abusing a child and possessing about 8,000 images and videos of child pornography.The case against Austin Kyle Stewart, 32, began in October when Google sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reporting that a user had uploaded hundreds of images of child pornography, according to a charging document. Based on the account’
  
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• Second inmate with coronavirus dies in Utah prison

  13-11-2020 04:20
  
  A 70-year-old man on Wednesday became the second person to die at the Utah State Prison in Draper after contracting the coronavirus.The Utah Department of Corrections said in a news release Thursday that he was being housed and treated at the Oquirrh 5 facility — where the most medically vulnerable inmates live — when he tested positive for COVID-19 last Wednesday. The department said he had other medical issues that may have contributed to his death. His name has not been released,
  
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• Letter: I’m still hearing about COVID

  13-11-2020 03:30
  
  During the campaign, President Trump said, “COVID, COVID, COVID. All you hear is COVID. But on November the fourth you won’t hear anymore about it!”I am still hearing about it.Gordie Harmston, HolladaySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Robert Gehrke: McAdams’ math is even more daunting than it was four years ago

  13-11-2020 02:46
  
  Vote-counting in Utah’s 4th Congressional District is nearing an end and after a few thousand votes were added Thursday, Republican Burgess Owens' lead stands at 1,616 votes over Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams.Even as the lead moved to Owens, though, I had been confident that McAdams would pull it off because there had been huge numbers of votes counted in the south end of the valley, areas that favored Owens, and comparably few in the heart of the county, West Valley City and other areas tha
  
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• 25 Utah schools will shift online after COVID-19 outbreaks — with 14 in one hard-hit district

  13-11-2020 02:42
  
  Jordan District will shift 14 of its schools to virtual learning — some for a second or third time — as COVID-19 cases continue to spike among students and staff and the entire state. The action taken by the district’s board of education Wednesday night is the most sweeping to come anywhere in Utah since most classrooms here reopened this fall despite the pandemic. And Jordan has been particularly hard hit by the virus with nearly 1,200 total cases, the highest of the districts
  
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• Ember Conley: Pandemic increases threat of other medical problems

  13-11-2020 02:26
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a multitude of stressors for many people. Skyrocketing unemployment rates, threats of eviction, fear and anxiety over the virus and virtual learning for children have left many people feeling overwhelmed. Experts say that the stress, depression and isolation caused by the pandemic may be worsening the opioid epidemic.Experts believe that overburdened health care resources and the stressors that addicts face may result in an increased number of opioid ove
  
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