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• Salt Lake County’s Conviction Integrity Unit issues its first decision — says guilty verdict should stand in sex assault case

  02-12-2020 23:49
  
  It’s been two years since Salt Lake County’s top prosecutor announced he would create a panel toreview the cases of people who say they are innocent despite being found guilty in court.The Conviction Integrity Unit, which is comprised of heavy-hitters in Utah’s legal world, came to its first public conclusion Wednesday.It recommended that the guilty verdicts remain for a man who is serving time for sexually assaulting a woman and a child in September 2007.That man, Ryan David B
  
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• With move to online classes, Utah’s athletes now have campus to themselves, but COVID-19 challenges remain

  02-12-2020 23:43
  
  When the University of Utah announced its initial return-to-campus plan in June, it included the fact that in-person instruction would end no later than Nov. 25.In an effort to mitigate travel-related COVID-19 spread, all classes have now shifted online, which is where final exams will be conducted beginning on Monday. The general student population is not expected back until spring semester classes begin Jan. 19.The Salt Lake City campus is mostly empty now, save for student-athletes from vario
  
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• San Juan County asks President-elect Joe Biden to immediately restore Bears Ears National Monument

  02-12-2020 23:34
  
  With fewer than 50 days remaining before Inauguration Day, the San Juan County Commission passed a resolution Tuesday calling upon President-elect Joe Biden “to take immediate action to restore the Bears Ears National Monument” once he assumes office.The resolution marks a dramatic reversal of the Commission’s position from 4 years ago when, in December 2016, President Barack Obama designated a 1.35-million acre national monument at the request of five Native American tribes wi
  
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• Salt Lake County sheriff to serve on national task force to study police violence

  02-12-2020 23:31
  
  Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera announced Wednesday that she is joining a national task force examining the best policies to reduce violent encounters between the public and officers.Police violence became a massive national story this year after Minnesota resident George Floyd was killed by police over an alleged counterfeit $20. Salt Lake City residents also took to the streets over the summer to protest the March death of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, who was shot by Salt Lake City police
  
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• 2 of every 5 riders who left UTA during pandemic say they likely never will return

  02-12-2020 23:08
  
  Utah Transit Authority ridership recently has been down 57% compared to pre-COVID-19 levels. Worse, two of every five (41%) of those lost customers say it is unlikely they will ever return, even after the pandemic.UTA found that in a survey of current and former riders that it conducted in October. Preliminary findings were reported to the UTA Board on Wednesday.UTA Executive Director Carolyn Gonot said the survey was designed to “help us figure out what we need to do to have people feel c
  
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• Weekly Run newsletter: Early insights from the Utah Jazz’s ‘Media Week’

  02-12-2020 22:56
  
  The Weekly Run is a newsletter about the Utah Jazz. Not a subscriber? Sign up here.In each of the past two years, I spent the bulk of a day in early October in a conference room at either the Zions Bank Basketball Campus or at Vivint Smart Home Arena, sitting amongst various reporters as Jazz front office members and players filed in one after another for the annual Media Day event.This year, owing to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, there is a “Media Week” instead, consisting of a
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Latter-day Saints and their love-hate history with vaccines

  02-12-2020 22:33
  
  In the not-too-distant future, the United States and other nations will have a vaccination available, thankfully, for COVID-19, which has killed more than 1.5 million people and altered millions of more lives.But besides the issue of who will get the vaccination first looms another question: Who will be willing to get it?Debates about the value and efficacy of vaccines — as well as the socioeconomics of those who will get them and those who won’t — have raged throughout the 20t
  
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• Utah man charged with DUI in a crash that killed a 22-month-old girl

  02-12-2020 21:53
  
  A Utah man has been charged with causing the death of a 22-month old girl — and seriously injuring her twin sister and her mother — while driving under the influence of drugs.Michael Brandon Conder, 43, of Taylorsville was charged Tuesday in 3rd District Court with driving under the influence and causing death, a second-degree felony; careless driving, a class C misdemeanor; and following too close, an infraction.On July 28, Heather Marroquin was pushing her twin daughters
  
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• Utah’s ‘troubled-teen industry’ warned about investigation launched by Disability Law Center

  02-12-2020 21:42
  
  Concerned about reports of children being abused and lax government oversight, Utah’s Disability Law Center announced in October that it would investigate the state’s “troubled-teen” treatment facilities, an industry that has thrived here for decades.But that investigation — and getting access to youth treatment facilities — may not be easy.The director of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP) recently hosted a web meeting and o
  
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• Utah State football team faces difficult challenge against Air Force in final home game of 2020

  02-12-2020 21:40
  
  The 2020 season has been a rough one for the Utah State football team. As it draws to a close with just two games remaining, the Aggies have one more chance to show out in front of a Maverik Center crowd that will allow approximately 5,350 fans, which accounts for 22% of the venue’s capacity.But the 1-4 Aggies will have to prevail over Air Force. And while the Falcons are only 2-2 overall (1-2 Mountain West) this season, they are still a tough nut to crack.Air Force boasts the best rushing
  
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• Incoming Utah lawmaker running bill to add Space Force to state code

  02-12-2020 21:34
  
  In his first act as a newly-elected state representative, Jefferson Burton, the former Utah National Guard adjutant general, is working to add President Donald Trump’s Space Force as a branch of the armed forces equal to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard in the state’s code.The bill, which received a favorable recommendation from the Veterans and Military Affairs Commission on Tuesday, is a relatively simple one in that it seeks to mirror similar changes in fede
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 4,000 Wednesday

  02-12-2020 21:17
  
  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.With 4,004 new coronavirus cases reported Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses was on the rise again, after a brief decline.The Utah Department of Health reported a seven-day average of 2,611 new positive test results per day, w
  
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• Sundance Film Festival 2021 will mostly be online due to COVID-19, with maybe a few events in Park City

  02-12-2020 21:04
  
  Tabitha Jackson’s first year as director of the Sundance Film Festival hasn’t been too different from most people’s experiences working from home through the COVID-19 pandemic.“I’ve been surgically attached to the Zoom screen,” Jackson told The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday, working with her Sundance colleagues on a single problem: How to “get the work from the artists to the audiences without exposing people to a global pandemic.”The answer, which Rob
  
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• Salt Lake County urges Utahns to be vigilant of scammers during the holidays

  02-12-2020 20:36
  
  Fraudsters and thieves work all year, but their activity tends to tick up around the holidays, according to Salt Lake County. Officials are warning all Utah residents that they could be the next target.In the past year, Utah residents have reported scams involving online dating, fake Facebook prizes and false claims of closed Social Security accounts, according to AARP. Common scams during the festive season include snatched packages from front doors and fake Medicare schemes, since it’s o
  
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• Youth still rules as Utah men’s basketball opens 2020-21 season, but there’s also loads of optimism

  02-12-2020 19:56
  
  It is a dangerous assumption nowadays, but assuming the University of Utah men’s basketball program has no more COVID-19-related issues, it will open the 2020-21 season Thursday afternoon vs. the University of Washington at the Huntsman Center.What exactly the Utes look like coming out of the gate is anyone’s best guess. For starters, the program just recently began emerging from a COVID-19 pause, but coach Larry Krystkowiak said Tuesday he expects everyone to be available Thursday.F
  
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• Utah men’s basketball set to open 2020-21 with youth, but optimism

  02-12-2020 19:21
  
  It is a dangerous assumption nowadays, but assuming the University of Utah men’s basketball program has no more COVID-19-related issues, it will open the 2020-21 season Thursday afternoon vs. the University of Washington at the Huntsman Center.What exactly the Utes look like coming out of the gate is anyone’s best guess. For starters, the program just recently began emerging from a COVID-19 pause, but coach Larry Krystkowiak said Tuesday he expects everyone to be available Thursday.F
  
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• Gov.-elect Spencer Cox names Utah Senate leader, former lawmaker to key Cabinet positions

  02-12-2020 19:14
  
  Gov.-elect Spencer Cox tapped Utah Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, to head up the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. He’s hired former Rep. Sophia DiCaro, who has worked on the economic teams of four previous governors, to lead the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget.And he’s filled out his senior leadership team with some veterans from the current administration.The Salt Lake Tribune first reported the appointments Wednesday morning.Hemmert has s
  
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• ‘Big Sky’ producers recognize Native American criticism

  02-12-2020 19:07
  
  Los Angeles • Native American tribes and advocates are condemning “Big Sky,” a Montana-set ABC drama, for ignoring the history of violence inflicted on Indigenous women and instead making whites the crime victims.They also have assailed the network and the show’s producers for failing to respond to their complaints, which they first made known in a Nov. 17 letter. On Tuesday, the makers of “Big Sky” broke their silence.“After meaningful conversations with
  
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• 2 Utahns charged with killing woman’s boyfriend

  02-12-2020 17:58
  
  A 20-year-old woman and 18-year-old man have been charged with killing the woman’s boyfriend and stealing 100 pounds of marijuana from him. And, the woman reportedly told police, it was not the first time she had tried to kill the victim.Sarah Elaine Lobato of Kearns and Jayton Trevor Merrill of Grantsville were both charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated murder and aggravated robbery, both first-degree felonies; and obstructing justice, a second-degree felony. Merrill was also char
  
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• Gov.-elect Spencer Cox to name Utah Senate leader, former lawmaker to key Cabinet positions

  02-12-2020 16:30
  
  State Sen. Dan Hemmert, R-Provo, will be named as the new head of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned. Former Rep. Sophia DiCaro will head up the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget.Gov.-elect Spencer Cox will announce Wednesday he’s adding Hemmert and DiCaro to his Cabinet when he takes office in January.Hemmert has served in the Utah Senate since he was appointed in 2016 to replace the retiring Alvin Jackson. He became a mem
  
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• There’s a high wind warning for northern Utah through Thursday morning

  02-12-2020 16:08
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the northern Wasatch Front through Thursday morning.Northeast winds of 15-25 mph with gusts up to 55 mph are expected from Salt Lake City as far north as the Idaho border. The strongest winds are forecast for Centerville, Farmington, Bountiful and surrounding areas.The weather service warns that the gusty winds could blow around unsecured objects — including holiday decorations and trampolines. Strong crosswinds are expected to af
  
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• Gov.-elect Spencer Cox to name Utah Senate leader to head up economic development

  02-12-2020 15:26
  
  State Sen. Dan Hemmert, R-Provo, will be named as the new head of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.Gov.-elect Spencer Cox is adding Hemmert to his Cabinet when he takes office in January.Hemmert has served in the Utah Senate since he was appointed in 2016 to replace the retiring Alvin Jackson. He became a member of the Senate leadership team in 2018, winning election as majority whip.The owner of the Red Hanger Cleaners chain, he mounted a ru
  
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• It might be gone, but the monolith highlighted Utah’s role as a world-class venue for land art

  02-12-2020 15:22
  
  A half century ago, sculptor Robert Smithson talked Utah land managers into leasing him a 10-acre piece of the Great Salt Lake bed to arrange hundreds of basaltic boulders into a 1,500-foot coil. The resulting Spiral Jetty was soon considered a sculptural masterpiece and helped launch a new national appreciation of the natural environment.Leave it to the internet and a three-sided metal box to steal Smithson’s thunder.In its few days in the public’s consciousness, the so-called Utah
  
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• Utah Royals send star defender Kelley O’Hara to Washington Spirit

  02-12-2020 15:09
  
  Utah Royals FC started play in 2018 with three players from the U.S. Women’s National Team. Now, the club is down to none.TheRoyals traded defender Kelley O’Hara to the Washington Spirit, The SaltLake Tribune confirmed. The Washington Post first reported the trade Tuesday.O’Hara was reportedly on her way to the Spirit over the summer, but the movewas never announced, indicating a potential snag in the talks. But nowO’Hara will move to Washington, where she lives in the of
  
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• Letter: The COVID battle isn’t over yet

  02-12-2020 15:09
  
  On May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared that smallpox had been eradicated. This was arguably one of the greatest scientific achievements of humankind.Since then, a significant number of other infectious diseases are disappearing. Polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, several flavors of hepatitis, meningitis, pertussis, tetanus, etc., have been eliminated in modern countries. Public health constraints and vaccinations are the two most effectively used weapons to defeat sco
  
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• Utahn running to be second in command of national Republican Party

  02-12-2020 14:08
  
  What happens to the Republican Party once President Donald Trump leaves office in January? Does it continue to be the “party of Trump,” or do party leaders chart a new course?A Utahn on the Republican National Committee, Bruce Hough, says, why not both?“President Trump has expanded and diversified the party base,” he said. “The Democratic Party used to be the party of the working class, but Trump has become very popular in that area. He’s also pushed very far
  
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• University of Utah launches crowdfunding campaign to support COVID-19 long-hauler research

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  As the number of Utahns experiencing long-term effects from the coronavirus continues to grow, there are still more questions than answers about why some people become “long-haulers,” how long they’ll be sick or how to treat their symptoms.In an effort to resolve some of those questions, the University of Utah launched a crowdfunding campaign this week to raise $25,000 for research “to better understand the effects and evaluate best treatment options” for people wit
  
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• Salt Lake City may require builders to include affordable housing

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  Salt Lake City leaders are debating a series of moves, some controversial, aimed at creating new affordable places to live. These discussions will likely come to a head in 2021.They involve incentives to build more homes of different kinds, keep existing ones from being torn down and potentially a new requirement for builders to tuck some affordable units into every project. At the heart of the conversation is a raging real estate market, with supplies of available homes at some of their lowest
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Utah’s obelisk was a beautiful mystery and it’s a good thing it’s gone

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  “I did it. Let’s just get that out of the way.”That’s what my friend Trent Harris told me when I asked him what he thought about the monolith (technically an obelisk) discovered in a relatively remote canyon in southeastern Utah. He was joking... at least I think he was.Harris is a filmmaker and artist who has explored both Utah’s deserts — in “Rubin and Ed” where two misfits journey to the desert to bury a frozen cat — and Utah’s uniqu
  
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• Letter: Stewart hosts fake patriotic event

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  Imagine having a moral compass that says it’s OK to invoke Pearl Harbor Day for the purpose of marketing your own partisan politics.Actually, you don’t have to. Rep. Chris Stewart is hosting a fundraising event on Dec. 7 (Pearl Harbor Day) for the purpose of meddling in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff elections. The Utah congressional delegation will be there, talking about how they are “more American” than anyone who disagrees with them, and invoking Pearl Harbor hero
  
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• Letter: Stewart and Lee undermine democracy

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  Rep. Chris Stewart has warned us that the cheating Democrats are trying to steal the Georgia runoff election.He tells us that they have raised a lot of campaign money. (How dare they?) He says that they are actively participating in voter registration drives. (The effrontery!)They might even have the nerve to vote. Don’t they know that only white Republicans are allowed to vote in Georgia?Well, that might not actually be the law in Georgia, but it’s a tradition, and the uppity folks
  
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• Letter: Senate must past COVID aid bill

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  To protect public health and keep the economy afloat, Congress must deliver the support our families need.On Dec. 26, an estimated 12 million workers will be suddenly cut off from unemployment benefits, including 7.3 million who will lose Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), the program that supports caregivers whose kids’ schools or childcare programs are closed or remote.Utah’s senators must stand up for our families and immediately pass a robust, comprehensive COVID-19 relief b
  
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• Letter: Propaganda works in Utah

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  Propaganda apparently works. Why else would so many, 58% of Utahns, vote for Donald Trump and Republican policies?Propaganda works to get most North Koreans to think their leader, Kim Jung-un, is a god. Most Russians think Vladimir Putin is great. Germans in the 1930s thought Hitler was a god.Propaganda works here in the USA, too. Right-wing media has convinced average working Americans to vote for Republicans, who repeatedly work to take health care away from millions of Americans.Right-wing me
  
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• Letter: Nobody will be safe unless we are all safe

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  The novel coronavirus has laid bare the inequities that exist in our country and our world. As fellow Utahns, we have witnessed the detrimental effects of this virus. We have witnessed people losing their jobs, businesses closing down, people being hospitalized and loved ones being lost to this horrible virus.Our health care workers are working tirelessly as hospital beds reach capacity and we struggle to get this virus under control. It’s going to take us working as one if we want to have
  
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• Leonard Pitts: It is time for us to break our addiction to Trump

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Colleagues:Well, that was ... normal.President-elect Biden slips while playing with his dog on Saturday and has to go to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with hairline fractures in the bones of his foot, necessitating a few weeks in a walking boot. The information is released in a businesslike and apparently transparent manner. No doctor even bothers to report that Biden was “a phenomenal patient.”Indeed, so pervasive is the sense of adult competence that it even seems to inf
  
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• It might be gone, but monolith highlighted Utah’s role as a world-class venue for land art

  02-12-2020 14:00
  
  A half century ago, sculptor Robert Smithson talked Utah land managers into leasing him a 10-acre piece of the Great Salt Lake bed to arrange hundreds of basaltic boulders into a 1,500-foot coil. The resulting Spiral Jetty was soon considered a sculptural masterpiece and helped launch a new national appreciation of the natural environment.Leave it to the internet and three-sided metal box to steal Smithson’s thunder.In its few days in the public’s consciousness, the so-called Utah mo
  
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• Missing 13-year-old Utah boy found safe

  02-12-2020 05:54
  
  Centerville police say they have found a missing 13-year-old boy who is on the autism spectrum.Police said William Hatch went missing Tuesday afternoon and was last spotted at his school in North Salt Lake around 3 p.m. At 9:44 p.m. police announced Hatch was found safe and was being taken home.
  
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• As Rudy Gobert’s contract extension negotiations continue, he remains focused on winning a title with the Utah Jazz

  02-12-2020 05:41
  
  Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (27) slams the ball home as the Utah Jazz and the Miami Heat play in an NBA basketball game at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Utah won 116-101. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Rudy Gobert is excited about the 2020-21 NBA season.
  In fact, during a Zoom call with local reporters that lasted just under 15 minutes on Tuesday evening, the Utah Jazz center said “excited” or “exciting” 14 times. And that exci
  
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• Man charged with felony in Taylorsville crash that killed toddler; police say he had morphine in his system

  02-12-2020 05:00
  
  A Taylorsville resident was charged Tuesday with a felony in a July fatal crash that resulted in the death of a 2-year-old girl.Michael Conder was charged with driving with a controlled substance in the body and causing serious bodily injury or death, a second-degree felony, in the crash on 3200 West near 5000 South in Salt Lake County. Conder was also charged with a misdemeanor for careless driving and an infraction for following the car in front of him too closely.The car in front of Conder, a
  
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• Rudy Gobert, jump shooter, says his goal remains to win a championship in Utah

  02-12-2020 04:38
  
  Donovan Mitchell’s contract extension with the Utah Jazz got wrapped up last week.Rudy Gobert’s, however, remains a work in progress.The All-Star center’s long-term status with the Jazz has been a talking point among fans ever since the Frenchman became eligible for the co-called “supermax” designated player extension (which could pay him up to 35% of the team’s salary cap) as a result of winning back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year awards and earning All
  
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• Bojan Bogdanovic unsure if he’ll be ready for start of Utah Jazz’s season

  02-12-2020 04:28
  
  With the size of teams’ traveling parties to the Orlando bubble strictly limited this summer so as to reduce the threat of potential COVID-19 transmission, it meant the Utah Jazz bringing along injured forward Bojan Bogdanovic — who’d undergone season-ending wrist surgery in May — became impractical and untenable.So instead, one of the team’s PR staffers had some posters of the Croatian sharpshooter printed up and hung on the elevator doors on team’s floor in
  
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• Man charged with felony in Taylorsville crash that killed toddler; had morphine in his system

  02-12-2020 04:13
  
  A Taylorsville resident was charged Tuesday with a felony in a July fatal crash that resulted in the death of a 2-year-old girl.Michael Conder was charged with driving with a controlled substance in the body and causing serious bodily injury or death, a second-degree felony, in the crash on 3200 West near 5000 South. in Salt Lake County. Conder was also charged with a misdemeanor for careless driving and an infraction for following the car in front of him too closely.The car in front of Conder,
  
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• Police looking for missing 13-year-old Utah boy with autism

  02-12-2020 03:32
  
  Centerville police are asking for help finding a missing 13-year-old boy who is on the autism spectrum.William Hatch lives in Centerville and attends the Spectrum Academy in North Salt Lake. He was last seen around 3 p.m. at the Spectrum Academy. He was wearing a dark blue-and-black winter coat with yellow stitching, faded blue jeans and white high-top tennis shoes. William is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs about 70-80 pounds. He has short brown hair.Anyone with information about William shoul
  
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• Bojan Bogdanovic unsure if he’ll be ready for start of season, but happy with how wrist surgery has progressed

  02-12-2020 03:26
  
  With the size of teams’ traveling parties to the Orlando bubble strictly limited this summer so as to reduce the threat of potential COVID-19 transmission, it meant the Utah Jazz bringing along injured forward Bojan Bogdanovic — who’d undergone season-ending wrist surgery in May — became impractical and untenable.So instead, one of the team’s PR staffers had some posters of the Croatian sharpshooter printed up and hung on the elevator doors on team’s floor in
  
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• Provo City Council calls on county to preserve Bridal Veil Falls

  02-12-2020 03:06
  
  In a unanimous vote Tuesday evening, the Provo City Council approved a resolution asking the Utah County Commission to place Bridal Veil Falls under a conservation easement.Commissioner Nathan Ivie came forward with plans to preserve the falls under such an easement on Nov. 18, and Commissioner Tanner Ainge has also expressed support for the idea. Commissioner Bill Lee, however, has been working on a plan with developer Richard Losee to build a high-end drug treatment center at the top of the fa
  
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• Curds + Kindness helps feed health care workers

  02-12-2020 02:17
  
  Some 600 workers at the South Jordan Health Center in Daybreak were treated to free grilled cheese sandwiches on Tuesday as part of the Curds + Kindness program.Dairy farmers in Utah and Idaho launched the program earlier this year as a way to turn surplus milk into food for those in need.Farmers sent milk — what would normally go to schools and restaurants now operating at lower capacity — to processing plants, where it is made into cheese, butter and other foods. It is then donated
  
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• Utah had nine players test positive, but everyone available for Thursday basketball opener vs. Washington

  02-12-2020 02:13
  
  The NCAA is suggesting, but not mandating a 14-day shutdown for basketball programs when a player, coach, or other essential personnel tests positive for COVID-19.So, when the University of Utah men’s basketball team began dealing with a virus outbreak earlier this month, head coach Larry Krystkowiak, athletic director Mark Harlan and medical personnel had a decision to make.Everyone filled out an extensive survey, contact tracing began, and it was determined that the positive tests came f
  
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• Grilled Cheese for Good

  02-12-2020 01:56
  
  Some 600 health care workers were treated to free grilled cheese sandwiches on Tuesday as part of the Curds + Kindness program.Dairy farmers in Utah and Idaho launched the program earlier this year as a way to turn surplus milk into food for those in need.Farmers sent milk — what would normally go to schools and restaurants now operating at lower capacity — to processing plants, where it is made into cheese, butter and other foods. It is then donated to food banks, school districts,
  
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• Utah Jazz training camp roster, jersey numbers for newcomers announced

  02-12-2020 01:51
  
  20171119 Utah Jazz forward Derrick Favors (15) sets up for a shot during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, in Orlando, Fla. The Jazz won 125-85. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) Phelan M. Ebenhack Derrick Favors FR121174 AP | Phelan M. Ebenhack, APThe Utah Jazz began training camp for the 2020-21 season Tuesday, and with it came the release of the official roster, along with jersey numbers for new players.
  None of the 18 names on the roster
  
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• BYU, though idle last week, moves up to No. 13 in the new CFP rankings; Alabama still No. 1

  02-12-2020 01:39
  
  Without having played a game last week, BYU still managed to move up, albeit one spot, in the latest College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings released Tuesday, to the No. 13.The Cougars have one game currently left on their 2020 season schedule, hosting San Diego State Dec. 12. That game suddenly has more importance than just keeping the Cougars’ undefeated — it could help edge the Cougars into a New Year’s 6 bowl game.The slight bump was made possible by Northwest
  
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