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• What would Jesus do? LDS apostle Dale Renlund says wearing a mask shows ‘Christlike’ love.

  07-12-2020 23:49
  
  While announcing Monday that some temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints soon will allow members to resume vicarious rituals for their dead ancestors, a prominent doctor-turned-apostle gives a strong directive to wear masks.“I speak to you not as a former physician. I speak to you as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ,” Dale G. Renlund says in a newly released three-minute video. “...The Savior taught that the second great commandment, after loving God, was
  
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• Letter: Tribune’s new chapter

  07-12-2020 23:28
  
  I love the Tribune! I’m now in my 77th year. Ever since I was old enough to read, I scoured my parents’ Trib every morning. To this year it’s kept me up on current events.My grandfather, Cy Thompson, worked on the presses. He actually got his hand caught in them and had a partially lame left hand. He ran the shop behind The Tribune on Regent Street. He’s responsible for building Old Ironsides. In the old days, people would line up on Main Street in front of The Tribune bu
  
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• Utah pharmacy sued over alleged prescription violations

  07-12-2020 22:57
  
  Ogden • Federal prosecutors in Utah have sued a pharmacy after claiming employees allegedly filled hundreds of opioid prescriptions for members of the same family in the small city of Morgan.The state U.S. attorney’s office filed a civil enforcement action Friday against Ridley’s Family Markets Inc. and Ridley’s Food Corp. of Twin Falls, Idaho after an investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Standard-Examiner reported.The lawsuit asks for an order to
  
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• Utah’s alarmingly high coronavirus positive rate goes up again

  07-12-2020 21:45
  
  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 set another record Monday for the percentage of coronavirus tests that are positive, at 27.1% for the past week — indicating a large number of infected residents are not being tested and may be spreading the virus unwittingly.
  
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• Jehovah’s Witnesses shift away from door knocking amid pandemic

  07-12-2020 21:43
  
  Denver • For Jessica Iwajomo, the joy she finds in her faith is too important, too good to keep to herself.Because of that feeling, she has spent the past 28 years knocking on doors to talk about the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith. In mid-March, the novel coronavirus pandemic abruptly slammed that door shut.But suspending in-person ministry was the right thing to do, Iwajomo said.“As people who care for other people and especially their well-being, you can’t be spreading the go
  
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• Apostle Dale Renlund, who now has COVID-19, makes strong pitch for masks as LDS temples prepare for next step

  07-12-2020 21:42
  
  While announcing Monday that some temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints soon will resume vicarious rituals for their dead ancestors, a prominent doctor-turned-apostle gives a strong directive to wear masks.“I speak to you not as a former physician. I speak to you as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ,” Dale G. Renlund says in a newly released three-minute video. “...The Savior taught that the second great commandment, after loving God, was ‘Thou shal
  
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• Record-high percentage of positive coronavirus tests suggests many more Utahns are infected

  07-12-2020 21:25
  
  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 set another record Monday for the percentage of coronavirus tests that are positive, at 27.1% for the past week — indicating a large number of infected residents are not being tested and may be spreading the virus unwittingly.
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The vaccine rollout must work better than Utah’s early coronavirus response

  07-12-2020 20:07
  
  Within the next few weeks, Utah will get its first batch of coronavirus vaccines — roughly 64,000 doses that will be given to front-line health care workers.Then, over the next few months, hundreds of thousands more will start to roll in, with priority given to nursing homes, police, firefighters and (hopefully) teachers.Such a large-scale distribution, taking place simultaneously all across the country, may well be among our greatest logistical challenges.It will take time and we’ll
  
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• Utes defense is even better than Kyle Whittingham expected

  07-12-2020 19:56
  
  The conventional wisdom about the University of Utah football team is don’t worry about the defense.No matter who graduated, who left for the NFL Draft, regardless of how young the athletes are, the Utes are going to play defense. Still, with nine defensive starters gone from last season’s 11-win team, though, even the most-optimistic observer knew the squad may take a step backward during this pandemic-fueled season.However one wants to judge what a step backward actually means, one
  
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• Police searching for man in connection with gas station shooting in South Salt Lake

  07-12-2020 19:56
  
  South Salt Lake police are looking for a person of interest in a shooting at a gas station on Friday.According to police, Justin Michael Brinton, 40, is believed to be the driver of a Dodge Durango that was seen on security footage at the gas pumps when the shooting occurred at about 6:30 a.m., at the Maverik convenience store at 3260 S. West Temple.
  (Photo courtesy of South Salt Lake police) Police released this photo of a 2004 Dodge Durango that was at a gas station when a shooting happened th
  
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• Fees drive away low-income families from outdoor places like Bridal Veil Falls, researchers say

  07-12-2020 19:41
  
  A developer eyeing Bridal Veil Falls for a new tram and private drug rehab lodge says he wants to make the iconic Utah County site more accessible to the public, with a “reasonable” fee. But those who research outdoor recreation have found any fee, no matter how modest, can dissuade people from visiting.A study from the Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism at Utah State University in 2017 found that some visitors to the Wasatch-Uinta-Cache National Forest go to great lengths t
  
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• Utah Royals will move to Kansas City, but women’s soccer may make a return here

  07-12-2020 19:29
  
  The National Women’s Soccer League announced Monday that Utah Royals FC will move to Kansas City after it was bought by an ownership group headed by a couple based there. News of the move surfaced Saturday evening.Utah Soccer LLC, in its own statement, said once new ownership is established in Utah, it will have the opportunity to “re-establish the Utah Royals FC name and franchise at Rio Tinto Stadium two years from now, in 2023″ — with a new team using the Royals name.T
  
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• Utah Royals sale is done. Team will relocate to Kansas City.

  07-12-2020 16:52
  
  The National Women’s Soccer League announced Monday that Utah Royals FC will move to Kansas City after it was bought by an ownership group headed by a couple atop an asset management company based there. News of the move surfaced Saturday evening.Utah Soccer LLC, in its own statement, said once new ownership is established in Utah, it will have the opportunity to “re-establish the Utah Royals FC name and franchise at Rio Tinto Stadium two years from now, in 2023.”“Our hea
  
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• Masses of shrimp eggs leave visible slick on the Great Salt Lake

  07-12-2020 16:40
  
  Tiny shrimp eggs have been showing up in such huge numbers in Utah’s Great Salt Lake that some parts of the lake look covered with an oil slick.Cold weather in fall or winter causes the lake’s small brine shrimp to produce the eggs, called cysts. When conditions are right such as this year, the eggs come together in giant masses.Photos from the Great Salt Lake State Park and Marina show what looks like a swirling, brown slick on the water at the marina west of Salt Lake City.When the
  
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• Some Utah experts support sage grouse protection rollbacks

  07-12-2020 16:37
  
  St. George • An iconic bird species known for dramatically puffing up “bulbous yellow air sacs” on its chest and producing “weird pops and whistles” to attract mates across western sagebrush landscapes is now puffing up drama and noise on the political landscape as the focus of a series of amendments to its management plan published late last week that open up 51 million acres of habitat to oil, gas and mineral leasing.Environmental groups responded to the developmen
  
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• Help shape The Tribune’s reporting in 2021

  07-12-2020 16:19
  
  Thanks for visiting with The Salt Lake Tribune this year — as a reader, a subscriber and potentially as a donor.The year 2020 has brought significant disruption to our families, our health and our jobs. The Tribune team has worked hard to deliver local news and information when you need it and in the format you prefer.As we look ahead to 2021, we know our reporting will continue to focus on the coronavirus vaccination process, our schools, our economic recovery, public health impacts and m
  
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• Utah women’s basketball routed by No. 10 Oregon in season opener

  07-12-2020 15:55
  
  Eugene, Ore. • The Utah women’s basketball team opened the season at No. 10 Oregon Sunday, and quickly found out it was overmatched.The Ducks scored 12 unanswered points to open the game, and cruised to an 85-43 victory.The Utes committed 13 turnovers in the opening half, so they never really gave themselves a chance. They shot just 29 percent from the floor and a woeful 15 percent from the 3-point line for the afternoon.Niyah Becker led Utah with 11 points, while freshman Kennady McQ
  
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• One dead, one critically wounded in shooting at Salt Lake City apartment complex

  07-12-2020 15:53
  
  Police are searching for a suspect who shot two people — killing one — in a downtown Salt Lake City apartment building early Saturday morning.A man was killed and a woman was critically injured in the shooting at the Milagro Apartments at 241 W. 200 South shortly before 4 a.m. on Saturday. They are believed to be in their early 20s. Police have not released their names, and have provided no description of the shooter. Police did say they believe there’s no ongoing threat.FOX 13
  
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• Robert Gehrke: The vaccine rollout must make more sense than Utah’s coronavirus response

  07-12-2020 14:15
  
  Within the next few weeks, Utah will get its first batch of coronavirus vaccines — roughly 64,000 doses that will be given to front-line health care workers.Then, over the next few months, hundreds of thousands more will start to roll in, with priority given to nursing homes, police, firefighters and (hopefully) teachers.Such a large-scale distribution, taking place simultaneously all across the country, may well be among our country’s greatest logistical challenges.It will take time
  
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• Utah Royals fans anguished over team’s sudden move to Kansas City

  07-12-2020 14:00
  
  Riggs Eyre has been a Utah Royals FC fan since before he was born.Since 2018, his mother, Shanae Eyre, has made the 2½-hour drive northeast from Delta to Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy to watch the professional women’s soccer team play. She never missed a home game while she was pregnant with Riggs and missed only one in three seasons, to celebrate his second birthday in September.Members of the Eyre family saw U.S. Women’s National Team star Christen Press come to the Royals. The
  
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• Utah Rep. Ben McAdams warns Democrats not to move too far to the left

  07-12-2020 14:00
  
  Democratic Utah Rep. Ben McAdams ran for reelection this year as a political centrist, with ads that featured endorsements by Republicans plus calls for the parties to work together. That fell short against a right-wing Trump warrior, Burgess Owens.Still, McAdams doesn’t regret those tactics — and even says the future of Democrats both in Utah and the nation likely depends on moving away from the left to the center. He says the future of the nation and fixing a dysfunctional Congress
  
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• Just four growers account for nearly all the medical marijuana harvested so far in Utah

  07-12-2020 14:00
  
  The burden for stocking the shelves of Utah’s new medical cannabis pharmacies has largely fallen on four of the state’s eight approved cultivators, newly released data shows, while the remaining growers have barely made a dent in demand for the plant-based treatment.State records shared with The Salt Lake Tribune in response to a public information request show that half of Utah’s growers are responsible for about 96% of the medical cannabis harvested to date. Others have contr
  
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• Letter: Herbert fails science class

  07-12-2020 13:30
  
  Utah Gov. Gary “Available Jones” Herbert thinks the COVID virus is like second-hand smoke in that it’s bad for you. He should have taken more science classes in college.If second-hand smoke infected you so you started spewing more second-hand smoke to everyone around you, and they, in turn, did the same, we would have all died from second-hand smoke by now.Thankfully most people don’t smoke cigarettes and hopefully we’ll have leaders who understand and respect scien
  
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• Letter: How about some dehydrated water?

  07-12-2020 13:00
  
  The recent Salt Lake Tribune article about “smart sprawl” reminded me of “clean coal” and Mike Lee as a “constitutional scholar.”Yeah, right.If you believe that, I have some dehydrated water for sale. Just add water, and, Voilá!Scott Bell, West JordanSubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Trump’s cost to the U.S.

  07-12-2020 04:30
  
  I wonder how much it will cost the taxpayers for all of Donald Trump’s 30-plus lawsuits, which are going nowhere.Then all the days at his resorts playing golf with all of the security and the cost for all of them to stay at Trump’s resort with food and drinks. I would really like to know how much all of this will cost the taxpayers, while Trump makes money at the resorts he owns and stays at.This doesn’t count all of the people he has fired while in office.Something to think ab
  
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• Native Americans critique data, surveys following election labeling them ‘something else’

  07-12-2020 03:44
  
  Phoenix • On election night, Jodi Owings and her family watched the results reported live on television in their Oklahoma home.That’s when she noticed the wording on a CNN graphic that displayed returns by race as white, Latino, Black, “something else” and Asian.Owings, a citizen of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, asked her family if “something else” referred to them. The wording stood out because there’s often a lack of reliable data on Native Americans
  
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• Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani hospitalized with COVID-19

  07-12-2020 03:21
  
  Washington • President Donald Trump said Sunday his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the U.S.Giuliani was admitted Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly.The 76-year-old former New York mayor has traveled extensively to battleground states i
  
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• Condensed timeline means Utah Jazz rookies Udoka Azubuike and Elijah Hughes are ‘getting thrown right in it’

  07-12-2020 01:14
  
  In a normal NBA offseason, the draft typically takes place in the last week of June, and training camps kick off at the beginning of October.This time around, the NBA draft took place on Nov. 18, training camp got underway with individual workouts on Dec. 1, and the Utah Jazz kicked off team practices on Dec. 4.That compressed timeframe can’t help but create some problems, particularly for first-year players who come in getting virtually zero time to acclimate to the professional game.&ldq
  
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• Letter: Credit China with finding DNA of COVID

  07-12-2020 01:00
  
  With the country holding its breath in anticipation of a COVID-19 vaccine to be available soon, little has been said about the role China has played in the worldwide effort to produce a vaccine.Back in January, when the Chinese were grappling with the seriousness of the virus, scientists there began the daunting task of unraveling the DNA profile of the virus. Once that profile was made known it was published and made available for labs around the world. That information gave labs a jumpstart to
  
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