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• Man charged after unprovoked stabbing on TRAX platform

  25-11-2020 23:57
  
  A South Salt Lake man has been charged with attempted murder after what police believe was an unprovoked stabbing of a stranger on a TRAX platform.Michael Nimmo, 50, was charged in 3rd District Court with attempted aggravated murder, possession and use of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, and two counts of assault by a prisoner — all first degree felonies.According to charging documents, a woman was on the TRAX platform at 900 South about 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 21 when she was attacked
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Nelson’s nighttime inspiration; a thumbs-up for proselytizing; the big election choice

  25-11-2020 23:05
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Nelson’s awakeningThe holiday season may be approaching, but it isn’t always a silent night for President Russell M. Nelson.That’s the time, the 96-year-old church leader says, when the Lord often spea
  
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• Ron Titcomb, pioneering public broadcasting engineer and ‘mountain man,’ dies at 62 from COVID-19

  25-11-2020 22:40
  
  Ron Titcomb, a field engineer credited with bringing public broadcasting to the most far-flung parts of the Intermountain West, has died from COVID-19.Titcomb, who lived in Heber City, died Nov. 19, according to an obituary posted on the website for Probst Family Heber Valley Funerals. He was 62.Titcomb worked for nearly 40 years at the University of Utah, bringing the signals of public TV station KUED, public radio station KUER and the Utah Education and Telehealth Network (UETN) to rural resid
  
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• Michelle Quist: Trump’s lawsuits have nothing to back them up

  25-11-2020 22:40
  
  Apologists for President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election insist he has the right to request recounts in close races and sue to “verify the fairness and accuracy of the election.”Of course he does — anyone can file a lawsuit. Heck, my son could sue his brother for stealing his Nintendo Switch. (He was really just borrowing it).But that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.So let’s look at the actual lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign.(The renega
  
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• Derrick Favors, on his return to the Utah Jazz: ‘It feels like home’

  25-11-2020 22:28
  
  If it seemed like Derrick Favors’ decision to rejoin the Utah Jazz was a pretty instantaneous one after free agency opened up this past Friday, well, that’s just not accurate.He and his agent talked it over for at least five minutes — maybe even 10.Still, while a few other teams reached out to him both before and after Dennis Lindsey, Justin Zanik and Quin Snyder rang him up for a group confab, and while he did seriously consider their offers, there ultimately wasn’t too
  
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• Utah reports a record 26 deaths from COVID-19 Wednesday, and 1,781 new cases

  25-11-2020 22:27
  
  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 state of Utah has lost another 26 people to COVID-19 — the most deaths in a single day, the Utah Department of Health reported Wednesday.The number of new COVID-19 cases was 1,781, the lowest that statistic has been in more tha
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Therapist explains why giving thanks is healthy — even amid COVID

  25-11-2020 22:23
  
  As a global faith leader, President Russell M. Nelson urged members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last week to “flood social media” with posts about gratitude — even as he acknowledged the pain of the coronavirus pandemic that has plagued the world.In response, throngs of Latter-day Saints have done so. Some might even see it as a religious obligation. But it’s not just a good religious act. Therapists see the expression of gratitude as good for menta
  
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• Thanksgiving crowds at Salt Lake City International Airport are smaller as experts urge people to stay home

  25-11-2020 22:13
  
  The number of Utahns flying out of Salt Lake City International Airport for Thanksgiving suggests that state health officials achieved only mixed success as they urged residents to stay home and celebrate only with their immediate family to avoid spreading COVID-19.On the day before Thanksgiving — usually the busiest travel day of the year — airport officials reported that about 13,000 Utahns were expected to show up at the airport’s front door to fly out.The good news for heal
  
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• More than 240,000 Navajos apply for tribal virus relief funding

  25-11-2020 22:05
  
  Window Rock, Ariz. • About three-quarters of Navajos enrolled with the tribe have applied for financial assistance due to the coronavirus pandemic.The deadline to file an application is Monday. Already, more than 240,000 have been submitted online or on paper, the Navajo Nation Office of the Controller said.The tribe has about 327,000 members, making it one of the largest of the 574 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. It has about $90 million available for hardship assistance that comes
  
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• Pac-12′s traditional rivalries look untraditional in 2020

  25-11-2020 22:01
  
  The Thanksgiving weekend is normally devoted to end-of-season rivalry games in the Pac-12 but — like everything else — it’s different this year.As of Wednesday, it appeared the Big Game between Cal and Stanford was going to go on as planned Friday. The rivalry game between Oregon and Oregon State, formerly known as the Civil War, was also still set for Friday.But the Apple Cup between Washington and Washington State was canceled. The Huskies scrambled to schedule a game with Ut
  
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• Winless Utah State’s football woes mount, but 0-4 New Mexico is coming to town, so there’s hope

  25-11-2020 21:33
  
  Adversity is a concept the Utah State football team knows all too well this season.It started with an 0-3 start that led to the departure of coach Gary Andersen. The team’s first win still hasn’t arrived, leading to the worst start for the Aggies (0-4) in years.To make matters worse, their starting quarterback Jason Shelley, who transferred from the University of Utah specifically to play that position, was dismissed from the team. That was a blow to their quarterback depth.Utah Stat
  
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• Utah football changes on the fly after Washington becomes the Utes’ next opponent

  25-11-2020 20:54
  
  Kyle Whittingham conducted his weekly ESPN700 radio show Tuesday evening in between two pieces of news.Seventy-five minutes before the broadcast began, the Pac-12 announced that a Sunday morning game between the University of Utah and Arizona State was cancelled, the Sun Devils continuing to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak and unable to reach the league’s 53-player threshold necessary to play the game.Forty-five minutes after the show ended, the Pac-12 announced what everyone assumed all day
  
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• Derrick Favors officially rejoins Utah Jazz

  25-11-2020 19:18
  
  Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles (2), forward Derrick Favors (15) and center Rudy Gobert (27) smile as the Jazz get out to an early lead against the Detroit Pistons at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 13, 2018. Favors rejoined the Jazz, the organization announced Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. | Spenser Heaps, Deseret NewsDerrick Favors is officially back with the Utah Jazz.
  The organization announced Wednesday that the veteran forward/center who spent the 2019-20 season with t
  
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• Letter: Some of us remember the Golden Rule

  25-11-2020 15:15
  
  I am a very senior senior. Myself and other very senior seniors are horrified at what has happened to our country.Even with the many advancements in technology that should make our lives better, we agree that life is worse now than in our younger years. Not because we were younger, but because we were connected to each other in a more personal and benevolent way.We were taught to obey the law, study hard in school, respect everyone no matter what color they were or where they came from, and most
  
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• Susan Madsen: There is nothing pretty about the ‘Pink Recession’

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  We are living in a time of massive uncertainty. How risky would it be to have Thanksgiving with my elderly mother? Will any of the classes I teach next semester be in person? When will a vaccine be ready?While there is much we don’t know, there is one thing I am sure about: Women are leaving the workforce in distressingly high numbers.This is not good for individuals, families, communities or the economy at large.The obvious reason for the new “Pink Recession,” as it is being c
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah should take these steps to protect kids in residential treatment programs

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  It took bedlam erupting at a southern Utah residential treatment center and a SWAT team throwing teens in handcuffs before the state got serious about looking into problems at the facility.According to descriptions of the riot by my colleague Jessica Miller, fights broke out in a courtyard that then spilled throughout Red Rock Canyon School. In some cases it was teens fighting teens, while in others it was staffers fighting the people they were supposed to take care of. One girl was throwing roc
  
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• Letter: Utah politics are out of balance

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  A recent letter from Blair Bateman (“The D word,” Nov. 8) caused me to reflect on the last 60 years and when I first went to the polls with my father to vote in 1960.It was Kennedy vs Nixon, and Dad cautioned me not to vote for Nixon, as it would cancel his vote. (My father was a Roosevelt Democrat.) He also made the prediction (14 years before it happened) that, if Nixon were ever president, he would be a failure.The vice president (Spiro Agnew) also had to resign in disgrace. He al
  
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• Letter: Owens should get to work

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Burgess Owens: I have lived in Utah for 41 years and I have met a lot of Democrats. None of them are socialists or Marxists. In fact, in my 66 years, I have never met a socialist or Marxist. So, if as you stated you are having a conversation with anyone about the issues of socialism and Marxism in the United States, you are really just talking to yourself.Please change your focus and tell me your ideas and how you will legislate to:• Fight COVID-19.• Revive our economy.• Figh
  
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• Letter: It’s not just like the flu

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  Just like the flu?No. COVID-19 is three times deadlier than the flu. Of those with the flu, about 0.1% die. Of those with COVID, about 3.1% die.No. COVID makes folks far sicker, and for many, leave lingering effects on their lungs, brains and cardiovascular systems.No. Herd immunity only works if there is a vaccine or if you accept the deaths of millions of Americans.No. We know immunity from the flu can be achieved if people either get the flu or the vaccine. And that immunity is only for a par
  
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• Letter: Horse sterilization plan is a moral catastrophe

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  I read with interest Brian Maffly’s Sunday article, “Feds to begin surgical sterilization on wild horses.” As the article points out, not only animal welfare groups, but scientists, some Western congressional representatives, and a spectrum of conservationists and other concerned residents call for a halt in this unwarranted and inhumane program of surgical sterilization.I might add, I’m a Vietnam War veteran and know more than a few of my ilk who object to this abysmal p
  
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• Having people over for Thanksgiving? Utah offers tips to make your holiday safer.

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  As Utahns prepare for Thanksgiving it is worth considering how to make the holiday as safe as possible.For those who are hosting people from outside of their household, the state has released a series of tips for reducing the chance of spreading the coronavirus. Simple tweaks like having hand sanitizer available can keep everyone safer, according to health officials.Gov. Gary Herbert said last week that he’d prefer people to keep their Thanksgiving small, but he removed restrictions on gat
  
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• Harry Caston: Lee should support the will of the voters

  25-11-2020 14:00
  
  Sen. Mike Lee,I was the person, sitting in the front row, taking your picture at the Utah State Bar Annual Convention when you spoke with Sen. Cory Booker, who appeared virtually. I asked whether the cooperation that the two of you spoke of could go further than the issues that the two of you had mentioned, which, as I recall, had something to do with mayonnaise.I’m not belittling the efforts of you and Booker for your efforts to come together regarding mayonnaise. Little agreements can le
  
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• Utah quarterback Cam Rising out for the year, Jake Bentley to start; Utes to play at Washington after ASU cancellation

  25-11-2020 04:11
  
  Cameron Rising lasted all of 14 plays as the University of Utah’s starting quarterback.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham opened his Tuesday morning Zoom press conference by announcing that Rising, a redshirt sophomore who won the starting job out of fall camp, is out for the season after sustaining a shoulder injury early in the second quarter of Saturday night’s 33-17 season-opening loss to USC. Jake Bentley, who went 16-for-28 for 171 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions in relief of
  
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• Paul Krugman: Trump Wars II: The Loser Strikes Back

  25-11-2020 04:00
  
  We all knew that Donald Trump would react badly to defeat. But his refusal to concede, the destructiveness of his temper tantrum and the willingness of almost the entire Republican Party to indulge him have surpassed even pessimists’ expectations.Even so, it’s very unlikely that Trump will manage to overturn the election results. But he’s doing all he can to wreck America on his way out, in ways large and small. Among other things, his officials are already trying to sabotage t
  
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• BYU basketball coach Mark Pope signs contract extension that could keep him with Cougars through 2027

  25-11-2020 03:12
  
  On the eve of BYU’s 2020-21 men’s basketball season opener, the Cougars received some huge news: coach Mark Pope will be sticking around for awhile.The second-year coach received a contract extension that could keep him on the BYU sidelines through the 2026-27 season.Last season, his first as head coach at BYU, Pope led the Cougars to a 24-8 record — the most wins for a first-year coach in program history. The Cougars also recorded a historic win over No. 2 Gonzaga, jumped into
  
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• Sanford Health — which is merging with Utah’s Intermountain Healthcare — replaces CEO after controversial email about masks

  25-11-2020 02:55
  
  Sioux Falls, S.D. • The head of one of the largest regional health systems in the Midwest was replaced Tuesday, less than a week after telling employees that he had recovered from COVID-19 and was not wearing a mask around the office.Sanford Health said in a release that it has “mutually agreed to part ways” with longtime CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft, who took over in 1996 and helped expand the organization from a community hospital into what is billed as the largest rural nonprofit he
  
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• Bret Stephens: Trump contrives his own stab-in-the-back myth

  25-11-2020 02:00
  
  The word Dolchstosslegende is hard to pronounce but important to understand. It translates as “stab-in-the-back myth” and was a key element in the revival of German militarism in the Weimar years. Even modestly educated Germans know exactly what it denotes and the evil it entails.Donald Trump and his legal team are now contriving their own Dolchstosslegende.That’s true even as Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the election seems to descend from fantasy to farce. T
  
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• BYU opens at No. 14 in College Football Playoff’s initial rankings

  25-11-2020 01:46
  
  The first set of rankings for the College Football Playoffs were released on Tuesday evening, and the BYU Cougars had to be left a little disappointed.The Cougars checked in at No. 14, according to the CFP Selection Committee’s initial evaluation. That puts BYU outside the top 12, which they likely need to be in to qualify for a New Year’s 6 bowl berth.BYU is 9-0 with one scheduled game left to play. The Cougars have also been dominant in most of those wins. But the selection committ
  
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• Andy Larsen: How I sent a tweet that unintentionally raised $50,000 for charity

  25-11-2020 01:46
  
  Look, this was all an accident.But somehow, people have sent me $49,330.66 over the past 24 hours... because they trust me to do good things with it. Seriously. That’s a crazy sum of money, not too far off my Tribune salary, actually.Here’s the story.This weekend, my sweet mom in Riverton told me she had found a Spongebob Squarepants box in my childhood bedroom filled with change. Out of what I assume was pandemic-induced boredom, she counted the money inside and found there was $70
  
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• Utah quarterback Cam Rising out for the year, Jake Bentley to start; Sunday’s game vs. ASU canceled

  25-11-2020 01:18
  
  Cameron Rising lasted all of 14 plays as the University of Utah’s starting quarterback.Utah coach Kyle Whittingham opened his Tuesday morning Zoom press conference by announcing that Rising, a redshirt sophomore who won the starting job out of fall camp, is out for the season after sustaining a shoulder injury early in the second quarter of Saturday night’s 33-17 season-opening loss to USC. Jake Bentley, who went 16-for-28 for 171 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions in relief of
  
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• Body found after garage fire in Clinton City

  25-11-2020 01:07
  
  Clinton City firefighters found a body Sunday morning after putting out a fire in a detached garage at 2200 W 1300 N.Fire Chief David Olsen said that when firefighters were called to the scene around 3 a.m. they were told someone might be living in the garage. The fire was already so hot that no one could have survived inside, Olsen said. Firefighters couldn’t safely enter the garage until they got control of the fire. Even then, getting inside was challenging because of the amount of item
  
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• Hill AFB wins $185.7M contract to service the A-10 ‘warthog’ aircraft

  25-11-2020 01:04
  
  Hill Air Force Base has won a huge $185.7 million, 10-year contract to maintain and upgrade the A-10 “warthog” aircraft, used in close air support of ground troops.“This announcement is welcome news for Utah, our national security, and our country,” said Utah Sen. Mitt Romney on Tuesday after the announcement.“Hill Air Force Base plays a vital role in maintaining a fighting force to carry out our country’s national security strategy, supporting our country&rsq
  
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• Utah Jazz sign draft picks Udoka Azubuike, Elijah Hughes

  25-11-2020 00:31
  
  Udoka Azubuike, left, and Elijah Hughes were selected by the Utah Jazz as part of the 2020 NBA draft. | Associated Press The Utah Jazz announced on Tuesday afternoon that their two 2020 NBA draft selections from last week, Udoka Azubuike and Elijah Hughes, have officially signed with the team.
  Azubuike was selected with the 27th pick out of Kansas and Hughes the 39th out of Syracuse. Both selections wound up with the Jazz via trade.
  Although terms of the deals were not disclosed like usual, it i
  
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• Jana Riess: Thanksgiving has always been about grief. Pass the mashed potatoes.

  25-11-2020 00:22
  
  We all know the story of the first Thanksgiving — or at least the version many of us acted out in second grade, when some kids dressed up as Pilgrims and some as Native Americans, and then everybody put aside their differences to sit down together and commence overeating.That narrative has been rightly complicated in recent years as Americans recognize the arrival of English colonists in the early 17th century accelerated the genocide of Indigenous Americans, who had already begun to suffe
  
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• New resolution would urge Utah schools to retire ‘hurtful and racist’ Native American mascots

  25-11-2020 00:12
  
  A state lawmaker is calling on Utah schools to retire any “hurtful and racist” mascots that depict Native Americans — including at Bountiful High, where the mostly white student body has for decades worn red face paint and feathers as “The Braves.”Rep. Elizabeth Weight, D-West Valley City, who is an alumna of Bountiful, said Tuesday that the ongoing discussions there over whether to replace the name and symbols led her to draft the resolution for this upcoming legis
  
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• Mike Askerlund: Small businesses can’t wait much longer

  25-11-2020 00:02
  
  Dear Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney of Utah and all senators across our nation,Our small businesses are on the ropes. We implore your immediate and full efforts to help save our livelihoods, take action and pass additional COVID-19 relief. We can’t wait much longer.We are a collective of entrepreneurs in Salt Lake City. We are restaurant and bar owners in the hospitality industry who have been doing our level best to keep our community safe, our staff employed and our tax base stable. Coll
  
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