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• BYU football’s 2020 success should extend to 2021, even if record record doesn’t show it

  28-12-2020 23:50
  
  BYU finished the 2020 football season having only endured one loss (11-1) — a feat only accomplished five other times, but a first in the Cougars’ independence era. BYU’s success served as a beacon of hope through the pandemic-stricken season.But now the question remains: Can the Cougars provide similar, if not better, results next season?Yes, but it may not look like it on paper.The Cougars will be back to business as usual next year (or at least should be, assuming this pande
  
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• Nicole Thomas and Casey Metzger: Latest relief bill is not enough for small businesses

  28-12-2020 23:30
  
  As the owners of two Utah small businesses rooted in events, we breathed sighs of relief when Congress last week agreed to a COVID emergency relief bill sending desperately needed help across our country.But this rescue package, while a welcome next step, falls far short of what’s essential to keeping small businesses like ours afloat, especially as we approach the darkest days of the pandemic with a COVID-19 vaccine still many months away for most Americans.LatterDayBride has been craftin
  
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• New details about how and when Ty Jordan died

  28-12-2020 21:53
  
  The medical examiner’s office in Tarrant County, Texas said Ty Jordan’s died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.The University of Utah freshman running back died Christmas night in what the Denton Police Department have preliminarily called an accident. The Tarrant County M.E. has not yet ruled on the manner of death, but on Sunday released the cause and the time of death, 10:46 p.m. CST.The initial call went out at 9:38 p.m. CST. Officers responded to the 1100 block of Avenue B in
  
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• Pope proclaims year of families, offers advice to keep peace

  28-12-2020 21:35
  
  Rome • Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed an upcoming year dedicated to the family as he doubled down on one of his papal priorities and urged renewed attention to his controversial 2016 document on family life.Francis announced the upcoming year on the family would begin March 19, the fifth anniversary of his document “The Joy of Love.” Among other things, the document opened the door to letting divorced and civilly remarried couples receive Communion, sparking criticism and eve
  
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• Utah coronavirus cases up 1,716 Monday, after a Christmas lull in testing

  28-12-2020 21:23
  
  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 1,716 new coronavirus cases reported Monday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses continued to decline.But with a lull in testing, the percent of tests coming back positive also was rising — which suggests a high rate of undetec
  
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• Utah theaters lead the nation in bringing in audiences for ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

  28-12-2020 21:00
  
  The superhero movie “Wonder Woman 1984” took in $16.7 million at the North American box office over Christmas weekend, the most for any movie since the COVID-19 pandemic began — and Utah theaters led the way.The Megaplex at The District in West Jordan was the top-grossing theater in the country for the Patty Jenkins-directed sequel, which placed DC Comics’ Amazon princess (played by Gal Gadot) in the 1980s.Five of the top 10 theaters in the country were in Utah, according
  
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• Utahns 75 and older will be first in line for COVID-19 vaccine in next phase of rollout

  28-12-2020 19:06
  
  Utahns age 75 or older will be the first people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the next phaseof the state’s rollout, Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah Department of Health announced Monday — and food and restaurant workers aren’t on the list any more.“As we move into Phase 2 of our vaccination program, it simply makes the most sense to vaccinate those who are at the highest risk for hospitalization and death first,” Herbert said in a statement.Phase 2 is expected t
  
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• Utah Runnin’ Utes redshirt freshman Brendan Wenzel to transfer

  28-12-2020 19:01
  
  The University of Utah returned to practice over the weekend with one less player.Brendan Wenzel, a redshirt freshman wing who played sparingly in five games this season, has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, a source told The Salt Lake Tribune early Monday.Wenzel, a three-star recruit out of O’Connor High School near San Antonio, played a total of 11 minutes in two games for the 4-1 Utes, who will next play at UCLA on Thursday and at USC on Saturday.The Salt Lake Tribune will update this
  
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• Expect snow on Monday — and more on Thursday

  28-12-2020 16:17
  
  Much of Utah will see snow on Monday — and another storm could bring the state a white New Year’s Eve.According to the National Weather Service, a winter storm system will move across Utah on Monday and Monday night, bringing “widespread accumulating snowfall” mostly to areas south of Interstate 80. And the storm will impact travel across southern and central Utah.In Salt Lake City, there’s a 60% chance of snow during the day, with accumulations of less than an inch
  
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• Utah in 2020: With COVID, an earthquake, winds and fires, it was a year many may like to forget — but never will

  28-12-2020 14:00
  
  It may go down as the year we are most likely to remember — even though it’s one we’d most like to forget.Shifting earth. Wild wind. Menacing fires. Police under scrutiny. Democracy under siege. And looming largest of all: a microscopic virus.So before we say good riddance to the year, here’s a look back at Utah in 2020:Pandemic’s year of living dangerously
  (Photo courtesy of Intermountain Healthcare) Hospital staffers at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray care
  
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• This group is weighing which Utahns should go first in the state’s next phase of vaccinations

  28-12-2020 14:00
  
  As Utah’s front-line health care workers in both large referral hospitals and smaller rural ones continue to receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and as vaccinations begin this week at long-term care facilities, a group of Utahns is looking down the road at the rollout’s second phase.It’s an unmapped road, one that members of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine prioritization advisory group can’t yet see clearly. The informal panel of more than 30 leaders and e
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Gary Herbert and the case for competence

  28-12-2020 14:00
  
  Gov. Gary Herbert recognizes there was a good deal of serendipity in his “improbable journey” in politics.After leaving Brigham Young University and starting a real estate firm, Herbert spent 14 years as a Utah County commissioner.It was back in 2004, after Herbert spent six months trying and mostly failing to get traction in a crowded gubernatorial field, that he agreed to a political marriage that ultimately would work out tremendously well for him.Herbert spent 4 1/2 years as form
  
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• Mark Walsh: An elegy for newsprint from an old paperboy

  28-12-2020 14:00
  
  The recent changes afoot at our venerable local paper, although not completely unexpected, have me contemplating the impending loss of a personal tradition involving the quiet, hours-long, tactile experience of the Sunday edition going back over 40 years since I first migrated to this pretty, great state.As I live just outside the boundary of the core distribution area that will continue to enjoy home delivery, it seems that my extended Sunday communion with the “Independent Voice of Utah&
  
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• Rep. John Curtis, Congress blasted by US Conference of Mayors for leaving cities, states out of relief package

  28-12-2020 05:43
  
  A leader of the U.S. Conference of Mayors had a blistering response to Utah Rep. John Curtis criticism of state and local governments for lobbying, though unsuccessfully, to be included in the pandemic relief package.“He’s clearly out of touch and clueless,” Nan Whaley, the group’s vice president, said Tuesday of the former Provo mayor. “It’s embarrassing that he was ever a local government official, frankly, because he’s forgotten what the basis of loca
  
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• Letter: Tea party tail wags Republican dog

  28-12-2020 03:00
  
  The tea party was formed in 2009. In an effort to hold onto many Republicans and prevent a split in the party, they chose to incorporate the tea party into the Republican Party.Now the ultraconservatives have overpowered the majority of the party. Their platform has turned into fear, intimidation, suggesting the death of opponents and succeeding from the U.S. senators are belittling the democracy that got them elected. Attorneys general elect to spend public money on partisan causes. Utah varied
  
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• Trump signs massive funding bill, averts shutdown

  28-12-2020 02:16
  
  West Palm Beach, Fla. • President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals.A congressional Republican aide tells The Associated Press that the president has signed the measure. The aide was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.The massive bill includes $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies through September and contains other end-of-session priorities such as money for
  
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• Lawmakers press Trump on relief bill as unemployment benefits expire

  28-12-2020 01:36
  
  West Palm Beach, Fla. • The fate of an end-of-year COVID-19 relief and spending bill remained in doubt Sunday as millions lost unemployment aid, the government barreled toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored President Donald Trump to act.Trump blindsided members of both parties and upended months of negotiations when he demanded last week that the package — already passed the House and Senate by large margins and believed to have Trump’s support — be revised
  
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• Hiker rescued after falling more than 100 feet and lying stranded for hours

  28-12-2020 00:55
  
  A Salt Lake City Fire Department crew rescued a man Sunday who fell more than 100 feet to a cliff ledge and was stranded there for hours.Fire Capt. Tony Stowe said the 29-year-old man was hiking near 1000 N. Victory Springs Road, close to a Salt Lake City industrial area west of Ensign Peak, when he tumbled down the mountain and came to a stop just before the cliff edge. The man lost his phone during the fall and couldn’t call for help, stranding him for more than five hours on the mountai
  
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• Letter: Thanks to Gov. Herbert for outstanding leadership

  28-12-2020 00:00
  
  I have read various articles in The Salt Lake Tribune about a lot of sad and depressing news during 2020. I think it is high time for some uplifting commentary.Gov. Gary Herbert is retiring as governor of Utah on Jan. 4. That will also be the 125th anniversary of Utah Statehood Day. I think it’s important that we show gratitude to the governor who has governed Utah with grace and dignity from 2009-21.Herbert assumed the reins of leadership when then-Gov. Jon Huntsman stepped down to become
  
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