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• Larry Krystkowiak-Mark Madsen friendship has endured as Utah, Utah Valley hoops set to meet

  14-12-2020 23:51
  
  One afternoon in the middle of 1998, not long after helping lead Stanford to the Final Four as a sophomore, Mark Madsen happened to be at Maples Pavilion at the same time as Larry Krystkowiak.Krystkowiak, at the tail end of his professional career at that point, was in Palo Alto to visit Cardinal head coach Mike Montgomery, who was Krystkowiak’s coach 15 years earlier at the University of Montana.This was Madsen’s introduction to Krystkowiak, they just happened to share the same coll
  
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• LDS Church congratulates Joe Biden in message that comes weeks later than in previous presidential races

  14-12-2020 23:49
  
  Nearly six weeks after Election Day and more than a month after major news organizations declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner in the White House race — but only minutes after Monday’s Electoral College vote affirmed that outcome — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congratulated the president-elect and his running mate on their victory.“We congratulate President-elect Joe Biden on his election as president of the United States. We also congratulate Vice Pre
  
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• Dixie State University trustees recommend removing ‘Dixie’ from school’s name

  14-12-2020 23:49
  
  The Dixie State University board of trustees voted unanimously Monday to recommend removing “Dixie” from the college’s name.The board made its recommendation to the Utah Board of Higher Education after going over findings from a study by the consulting firm Cicero, which evaluated the potential effects of keeping or changing the name.This is the latest discussion of several over the years about whether to remove “Dixie” from the university’s name due to contro
  
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• Salt Lake City makes it easier for restaurants and bars to add wintertime outdoor dining structures

  14-12-2020 23:31
  
  Salt Lake City is making it easier for restaurants and bars to add heated tents, igloos and other outdoor dining spaces on public property this winter.Under a proclamation issued Monday by Mayor Erin Mendenhall, the city will ease permit restrictions regarding the use of temporary structures both on private property and in public rights of way.The city also will waive permits for temporary structures under 200 square feet.The revision extends provisions that were first enacted this summer and is
  
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• New Utah State coach promises diversity, speed and titles to a team in tatters

  14-12-2020 23:09
  
  Blake Anderson came to Utah State looking to restart his life after the death of both his wife and his father in 2019.The team he takes over is also in need of a reboot.Anderson, 51, acknowledged as much Monday when he was introduced as the 29th head football coach in the Aggies program’s 128-year history. He promised to turn it all around.“The standard is very, very clear: It’s to win championships. It’s that simple. The standard is high,” the former Arkansas State
  
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• Letter: Sean Reyes’ tantrum doesn’t belong in a courtroom

  14-12-2020 22:30
  
  I am appalled that Utah is one of 17 states to join a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing that the Supreme Court should intervene in the presidential election to void results of the election in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.Administration of elections is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government. Yet Utah and other states argue that the Supreme Court should intervene because our votes were “diluted by the unconstitutional administr
  
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• Utes running backs Devin Brumfield, Jordan Wilmore enter NCAA Transfer Portal

  14-12-2020 22:11
  
  The University of Utah running back room just got less crowded.Within two hours Monday, junior Devin Brumfield and sophomore Jordan Wilmore both announced they have entered the NCAA Transfer Portal.With the NCAA having frozen the eligibility clock for football players in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wilmore, the highest-rated running back recruit in program history, will have three years of eligibility remaining, and Brumfield two.In the wake of Utah’s all-time leading rusher, Zack
  
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• Utah liquor store opens in the closed Red Butte Cafe

  14-12-2020 21:39
  
  The aging state-run liquor store on Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City closed this weekend and for the next two years will operate in a building two blocks north.The temporary store opened Monday at 11 a.m. and is located at 1414 S. Foothill Drive — inside the closed Red Butte Cafe, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said in a news release.Employees spent the weekend moving stock from the old store to the temporary site, DABC spokesman Terry Wood said. The quick turnaround mea
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases rise 1,968 as hospital ICUs are slammed

  14-12-2020 21:13
  
  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.Intensive care units remain nearly full in Utah after a rough weekend that had them overcapacity.The state Department of Health reported 89.6% of all ICUs beds were in use, compared to 96.6% Sunday. ICU beds for key referral centers, whi
  
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• Federal land manager pulls plug on Utah tar sand lease because of conflict of interest

  14-12-2020 20:35
  
  Vern Jones is a Utah landman, a professional who secures rights to federal minerals on behalf of himself and others in the oil and gas business.But for years Jones has also worked as a contract employee in the Bureau of Land Management’s Utah state office. This long-time arrangement is getting fresh scrutiny as federal regulations bar BLM employees from acquiring access to minerals overseen by the agency.Jones’ purchase of federal oil and gas leases, including two covering about 4,00
  
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• Utah casts its Electoral College votes for Trump. Here’s what happens to them now.

  14-12-2020 20:10
  
  Utah cast its six electoral votes for President Donald Trump at noon Monday, one of the last steps toward finalizing the 2020 presidential election.Normally, the constitutionally mandated Electoral College vote is a ho-hum affair and passes with little attention. This year, Trump and his supporters have been working overtime to challenge the results of the election in an attempt to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.Those efforts have been largely fruitless. Trump’s claims of voter fr
  
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• Utes running back Devin Brumfield enters NCAA Transfer Portal

  14-12-2020 20:00
  
  Devin Brumfield is moving on.The University of Utah junior running back announced Monday he will be entering the NCAA Transfer Portal. With the NCAA having frozen the eligibility clock for football players in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brumfield still has two seasons to play.Brumfield was the projected starter at running back and he started the Nov. 21 opener vs. USC, but freshman Ty Jordan has emerged as the present and future of the position for the Utes. Brumfield had just 21 carrie
  
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• Water main break shuts down three schools in Midvale

  14-12-2020 19:42
  
  Three Canyons District schools shut down Monday morning — and the closures were only somewhat related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.A water main break in Midvale left Copperview Elementary, Midvale Elementary and Midvale Middle without water, and classes at all three schools were dismissed at 11:15 a.m. Buses arrived early to take students who normally ride them home, and the schools will release elementary school students to parents, guardians or secondary school-aged siblings. Stud
  
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• The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Utah and here’s who will get them

  14-12-2020 19:18
  
  The COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Utah.Two Utah hospitals — Utah Valley Regional Hospital in Provo and LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City — have received the first doses of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine, and others should arrive in the next day or two, said Dr. Kristin Dascomb, medical director of infection prevention for employee health at Intermountain Healthcare.Other hospitals should receive the shipments by Tuesday, she said. The first doses will be given to health care workers at the h
  
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• Watch live: The first doses of COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Utah and here’s who will get them

  14-12-2020 18:53
  
  The COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in Utah. Two Utah hospitals — Utah Valley Regional Hospital in Provo and LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City — have received the first doses of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine, and others should arrive in the next day or two, said Dr. Kristin Dascomb, medical director of infection prevention for employee health at Intermountain Healthcare. Other hospitals should receive the shipments by Tuesday, she said. The first doses will be given to health care workers at the
  
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• Would Utah football opt out of a bowl game? Coach Kyle Whittingham says it’s up to his players

  14-12-2020 18:19
  
  The University of Utah is essentially playing Washington State on Saturday morning for the right to play more football.With a win at Rice-Eccles Stadium (11:30 a.m., Fox Sports 1), the Utes would be bowl eligible at 3-2, with a postseason invitation potentially following at some point Sunday afternoon. However, there is nothing that says Utah has to accept a postseason invite, a point driven home Monday morning by head coach Kyle Whittingham, who was noncommittal on what this abbreviated season
  
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• Here’s when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in Utah and who will get them

  14-12-2020 18:11
  
  Health care workers in New York, Ohio and Louisiana were among the first people in the United States to receive the new COVID-19 vaccine Monday — and their Utah counterparts are expected to get their shots starting Monday or Tuesday.Shipments of the vaccine — developed by Pfizer Inc. and the German company BioNTech — are expected to arrive Monday and Tuesday at five Utah hospitals: University of Utah Hospital and LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Medical Center in M
  
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• Endangered-species decision expected on beloved butterfly

  14-12-2020 18:05
  
  Trump administration officials are expected to say this week whether the monarch butterfly, a colorful and familiar backyard visitor now caught in a global extinction crisis, should receive federal designation as a threatened species.Stepped-up use of farm herbicides, climate change and destruction of milkweed plants on which they depend have caused a massive decline of the orange-and-black butterflies, which long have flitted over meadows, gardens and wetlands across the U.S.The drop-off that s
  
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• How to build a monolith

  14-12-2020 17:57
  
  Stuck inside, looking at social media on your phone, bored with what’s on streaming, it could start to seem like a good idea. A monolith, you might reason, could add a glimmer of mystery to your local wilderness, might make people laugh, or at least distract them with a literal shiny object.They’ve appeared in Utah, California and Romania. There’s a 3-foot one in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina, and one on a beach of England’s Isle of Wight.Of course, there are plen
  
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• More U.S. churches commit to racism-linked reparations

  14-12-2020 17:49
  
  New York • The Episcopal Diocese of Texas acknowledges that its first bishop in 1859 was a slaveholder. An Episcopal church erects a plaque noting the building’s creation in New York City in 1810 was made possible by wealth resulting from slavery.And the Minnesota Council of Churches cites a host of injustices, from mid-19th century atrocities against Native Americans to police killings of Black people, in launching a first-of-its kind “truth and reparations” initiative en
  
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• Utah liquor store opens Monday in the closed Red Butte Cafe

  14-12-2020 17:45
  
  The aging state-run liquor store on Foothill Drive in Salt Lake City closed this weekend and for the next two years will operate in a building two blocks north.The temporary store opens Monday at 11 a.m. and is located at 1414 S. Foothill Drive — inside the closed Red Butte Cafe, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said in a news release.Employees spent the weekend moving stock from the old store to the temporary site, DABC spokesman Terry Wood said. The quick turnaround mean
  
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• BYU accepts invitation to play Central Florida in the Boca Raton Bowl

  14-12-2020 16:14
  
  BYU is going bowling.The No. 14 Cougars, who watched their NY6 bowl hopes vanish with their loss at Coastal Carolina two weeks ago, have accepted an invitation to play Central Florida in the Boca Raton Bowl.BYU (10-1) will meet UCF (6-3) of the American Athletic Conference on Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. at FAU Stadium.The Cougars are coming off of a 28-14 victory over San Diego State at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday.The Knights, based in Orlando, held off rival South Florida 58-46 in its last outing
  
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• Snow will continue Monday in northern Utah — and return Thursday

  14-12-2020 16:12
  
  A snowstorm that snarled traffic in some areas of northern Utah will head out of the state Monday night — and another storm is coming this way Thursday.According to the National Weather Service, northern Utah could see snow accumulations on Monday of 1 to 4 inches in the valleys and 5 to 10 inches in the mountains, where a winter weather advisory remains in effect until 9 p.m. Temperatures in the Salt Lake City area will remain below freezing, with a high near 27 and an overnight low of ab
  
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• Ross Douthat: The Texas lawsuit and the age of dreampolitik

  14-12-2020 15:08
  
  When it comes to Donald Trump’s efforts to claim victory in the 2020 presidential election, there are two Republican Parties. One GOP has behaved entirely normally, certifying elections, rejecting frivolous claims and conspiratorial lawsuits, declining to indulge the conceit that state legislatures might substitute their votes for the electoral outcome.The other GOP is acting like a bunch of saboteurs: insisting that the election was stolen, implying that the normal party’s officials
  
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• Reed Galen and Steve Schmidt: Sean Reyes joins the anti-democracy bandwagon

  14-12-2020 15:07
  
  Last week Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes joined 17 other state attorneys general in a bogus lawsuit brought by the state of Texas asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The aim? Give (current) President Donald Trump an illegitimate Electoral College victory.Not surprisingly, the high court rejected the case unanimously 9-0. The state’s top Republicans, Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox would have nothing to
  
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• Paul C. Burke: Utah Senate blockade threatens judicial independence

  14-12-2020 15:07
  
  The Utah Senate’s current blockade of a nominee to the Utah Court of Appeals is not merely an affront to Gov. Gary Herbert and the nominee. It is a threat to the integrity of our state’s merit system for selecting judges and risks undermining the independence of Utah’s judiciary.The blockade of the nomination of Margaret Plane has put the Utah Senate on the verge of violating the Utah Constitution. A decision not to hold a hearing for the governor’s nominee was made by me
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: This is the test of our lifetimes

  14-12-2020 15:07
  
  This should be a season of hope: We will shortly be getting a highly effective coronavirus vaccine, and the pandemic should wind down in the coming months.Yet this is the most wretched holiday season of my life. Consider:— More Americans have died from COVID-19 in nine months than in combat over four years in World War II. The virus death toll exceeds 292,000, compared with 291,557 American World War II battle deaths.— We’re sometimes now losing more Americans from the virus in
  
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• Robert Gehrke: This Utah nurse has fought for COVID-19 patients and is now fighting for her life

  14-12-2020 14:15
  
  Jill Hansen Holker is a mother of three and a dedicated nurse working in an intensive care unit in Utah County. This year, she’s been caring for COVID-stricken patients fighting for their lives.Now Holker is fighting for her own.Holker is not what you would consider to be a high-risk COVID-19 patient. She ran marathons for fun, ate right, took care of herself, had no health issues.She was working tirelessly, relentlessly caring for patients at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Yet, for
  
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• More than 700 Utah babies have had the coronavirus; here’s how families and doctors care for them

  14-12-2020 14:00
  
  Within a week, everyone in the Binion household was sick with COVID-19. First, 3-year-old Lizzie had a 104-degree fever in mid-September. Next, her parents became ill, and finally, 10-month-old Beau started acting fussier than normal.“It’s a really scary feeling as a parent,” said 33-year-old Robert Binion, who lives in Salt Lake City, to see your children so “helpless” and “vulnerable” without a quick fix to make them feel better. All he and his wife, M
  
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• Don Gale: Climate change gives us a world on thin ice

  14-12-2020 14:00
  
  It was long ago ... or only yesterday, depending on how many winters you remember.In the 1940s, we rushed home from school, picked up clamp-on ice skates and headed for Liberty Park. The lake froze in November and remained frozen through March and even into April. We played steal the flag, ran races, had jumping contests and showed off limited skating maneuvers.At sunset, parks department personnel turned on floodlights and opened the turntable — 78 rpm records, one song per side. Teenager
  
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• As Rep. Rob Bishop leaves Congress after 18 years, he says his biggest beef is no one there listens anymore

  14-12-2020 14:00
  
  Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, says he’s figured out the biggest problem behind dysfunction in Congress as he is about to retire after 18 years.“We do a lot of talking. We don’t do a lot of listening,” he says. He added that congressional rules and practices increasingly create obstacles that prevent real dialogue.The former high school history teacher from Brigham City says the tuning out of alternative viewpoints is a relatively new problem in a Congress that has always been
  
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• A push to bring Wi-Fi to students on the Navajo Nation is made urgent by the pandemic

  14-12-2020 14:00
  
  Monument Valley • On a windswept hill atop a nondescript mesa in San Juan County, Aaron Brewer, education technology director for the San Juan School District, looked out over half of southern Utah.Navajo Mountain loomed to the west; the Henry Mountains and Bears Ears Buttes framed the sky to the north, and to the east Sleeping Ute Mountain and the La Plata Mountains sparkled with fresh Colorado snow. But the southern view was most impressive: the towers of nearby Monument Valley hanging hu
  
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• Letter: Let’s overturn Reyes’ election

  14-12-2020 13:30
  
  How many people in this state think it is anywhere near appropriate for our attorney general to drag all of us into his seditious, election-tampering lawsuit with 17 other states to overturn the fairest, most trouble-free election in modern times? The truly execrable busybody Sean Reyes has joined a lawsuit with Texas and 16 other Republican attorneys general to try and delegitimize the election and throw out the votes of millions of American citizens because of a madman’s inability to acc
  
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• QB Alex Smith suffers setback in Washington’s win over San Francisco

  14-12-2020 06:59
  
  Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith (11) walks to the field for the start of the second half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Glendale, Ariz. Washington Football Team quarterback Dwayne Haskins replaced Smith for the start of the second half. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) (Rick Scuteri/)Glendale, Ariz. • Washington seized further control of a sloppy and occasionally comical NFC East race with its fourth straight win on Sunday. The tea
  
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• State colleges: Boise State beats Weber State 70-59

  14-12-2020 06:12
  
  Boise, Idaho • Derrick Alston Jr. scored 23 points, draining five 3-pointers, as Boise State beat Weber State 70-59 on Sunday for its fourth straight win.Alston hit 5 of 7 from beyond the arc, scoring 14 points after halftime when the Broncos turned back a Weber challenge.The game was a hasty addition as Weber State saw its Saturday game get scratched by COVID-19 issues at Utah State, and BSU had home games against Santa Clara and Loyola Marymount fall away.Abu Kigab had 15 points for Boise
  
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• COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic U.S. effort

  14-12-2020 04:57
  
  Portage, Mich. • The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States on Sunday, as the nation’s pandemic deaths approached the horrifying new milestone of 300,000.The rollout of the Pfizer vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — one that health officials hope the American public will embrace, even as some have voiced initial
  
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• John le Carre, who probed murky world of spies, dies at 89

  14-12-2020 01:18
  
  London • John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89.Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday he died in Cornwall, southwest England, on Saturday after a short illness. The agency said his death was not related to COVID-19. His family said he died of pneumoniaIn classics such as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,&rdq
  
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• Quin Snyder trying to find ways to juice Jazz’s offense even more this year

  14-12-2020 01:15
  
  Quin Snyder sent a message with the first play of 2020-21′s Jazz action — as he typically does.The play was run to get Bojan Bogdanovic a post-up look. Getting Bogdanovic involved at all would have been cause enough — giving the Croatian his first chance to contribute to the Jazz offense since March 9 was a nice way to say “welcome back.” But that this play was a post-up was notable too: Snyder’s not typically a coach who loves post-up play, as it’s rela
  
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• Letter: Trump enables extremists

  14-12-2020 01:00
  
  President Trump, his congressional enablers and other loyalists are now attacking the very foundations of democracy: election processes and their outcomes. Some among these are also fomenting violence in support of Trump’s claims that election results should be nullified or otherwise turned in his favor.We have now entering “Phase Four” as set out in “Dictatorship for Dummies”:“Phase Four: Foment division, protests, civil unrest; evoke a smattering of violent
  
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