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• Utah County to residents: don’t do illegal New Year’s Eve gatherings

  30-12-2020 23:41
  
  County officials in Utah have warned against hosting large gatherings for New Year’s Eve without a permit, which is now required under safety guidelines intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.Utah County Sheriff Sgt. Spencer Cannon raised concerns about potential gatherings, especially those being advertised without locations, FOX13 reported Tuesday.Cannon said some events don’t announce the location until the day before, thinking there is less of a chance of police breaking
  
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• Despite the pandemic, Utahns travel more over Christmas more than most Americans

  30-12-2020 23:16
  
  Amid COVID-19 threats, Utahns still hit the road for Christmas trips more than most Americans.Utahns did cut their road trips between Dec. 18 and Dec. 27 by 20.1% compared to last year. But most Americans reduced them even more, by an average nationally of 27.8%.That’s according to data released Wednesday by the travel data company Arrivalist and its Daily Travel Index. The company uses representative GPS data from phones to measure trips of 50 miles or more initiated on those days. It did
  
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• Red All Over: Let Ty Jordan’s death be a lesson for young journalists

  30-12-2020 22:52
  
  Red All Over is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here.In the days since we learned of Ty Jordan’s death, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of things. We’re not going to get into all of that, at least not right now, but I do want to touch on one thing that has been on my mind this week.All aspiring sports journalists, whether that be high school, college, or early in his/her professional career, should learn to get comfortable being uncomfortabl
  
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• Utah County warns against illegal New Year’s Eve gatherings

  30-12-2020 22:19
  
  County officials in Utah have warned against hosting large gatherings for New Year’s Eve without a permit, which is now required under safety guidelines intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.Utah County Sheriff Sgt. Spencer Cannon raised concerns about potential gatherings, especially those being advertised without locations, FOX13 reported Tuesday.Cannon said some events don’t announce the location until the day before, thinking there is less of a chance of police
  
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• Near the Navajo Nation, the place hit hardest by the virus

  30-12-2020 22:17
  
  Hospitals in Gallup are nearly full. Most stores are empty. The unemployment rate in the county where the city sits is one and a half times the national average. Earlier this month, it had the most cases per capita of any metro area in the United States, according to a New York Times database.As the pandemic has steadily marched across the country in recent months, places like Gallup have been among the hardest hit.Perched between the Navajo Nation to the north and Zuni Nation to the south, almo
  
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• Elizabeth Avery: This is me after 2020

  30-12-2020 22:02
  
  After everything we have collectively endured together in 2020, as a country, a continent, a planet and a universe, it seems necessary to pause and reflect.Instead of the traditional New Year’s Resolutions, perhaps it is fitting to reflect on how we have each grown and evolved from this past year.Many insights and experiences have been gleaned from this past year. What are they for you? Just to get you pondering, I will share a few of mine.Personal growth intuitively captures honesty. As w
  
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• ‘Mormon Land’: Scholar looks back at a historic year, from COVID to anti-racism sermons, and what it portends for the LDS Church

  30-12-2020 21:41
  
  This year’s global pandemic brought extraordinary actions inside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Worship services were halted. Temples were closed. Missionaries were released, recalled and reassigned. Humanitarian outreach reached record levels.And there was much more: Major denunciations of racism were given. Changes to church practices and parlance were announced. A new symbol and proclamation were unveiled.Patrick Mason, head of Mormon history and culture at Utah State U
  
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• Freshman Caleb Lohner is making his mark early for the BYU men’s basketball team

  30-12-2020 20:32
  
  In the BYU Cougars’ most recent game, against Weber State, freshman Caleb Lohner brought down an offensive rebound and scored on a put-back to give BYU a bigger cushion with 30 seconds left in the game.The board and basket all but guaranteed the Cougars’ win.And that’s what has led coach Mark Pope to make the true freshman an occasional starter.“It’s actually making a way bigger difference than people may think,” Pope said of Lohner’s willingness to hit
  
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• Neal K. Katyal and John Monsky: Will Pence do the right thing?

  30-12-2020 20:26
  
  President Trump recently tweeted that “the ‘Justice’ Department and FBI have done nothing about the 2020 Presidential Election Voter Fraud,” followed by these more ominous lines: “Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th.”The unmistakable reference is to the day Congress will count the Electoral College’s votes, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding. Trump is leaning on the vice president and congressional allies to invalidate the November e
  
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• Utah reports 21 more coronavirus deaths, with 2,614 new cases Wednesday

  30-12-2020 20:09
  
  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 2,614 new coronavirus cases reported Wednesday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses held steady, but with 21 new deaths, the virus continued to exact a high toll.And with 25% of tests coming back positive — a near-record high &
  
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• 2021 Sundance Film Festival cancels plans for in-person events in Park City

  30-12-2020 20:09
  
  Organizers of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival have dashed the hopes for any in-person Utah screenings for the mostly online event in January.Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute announced Wednesday that it is canceling plans to hold any in-person events in Park City, the festival’s home for the past four decades. Instead, the festival “will be pivoting our planned indoor screenings at The Ray to our online platform.”The cancellation was made “in consideration of the
  
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• BYU offensive tackle Brady Christensen declares for the NFL Draft

  30-12-2020 19:48
  
  The BYU Cougars boasted one of the best offensive lines in college football this season. But they will be without an important piece of that unit in 2021.BYU offensive tackle Brady Christensen has declared himself eligible for the NFL Draft. He announced his decision via Twitter on Wednesday morning.“My decision is bittersweet because I must leave my teammates, coaches, and friends at BYU,” Christensen said in his post. “My time at BYU has been nothing short of amazing. Thank y
  
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• Utah men’s basketball heads to UCLA, USC, but these will not be typical road games

  30-12-2020 19:30
  
  Armed with a slew of youthful pieces, the University of Utah men’s basketball team played poorly on the road last season. The Utes were 0-9 in Pac-12 road games in 2019-20, losing those nine games by an average of 16.2 points per contest. Of those nine losses, only three of them wound up being single-digit losses. The other six were double-digit blowouts, the most-extreme example being a 39-point loss at Colorado in the Utes’ conference road opener. Utah boarded a Los Angeles-bound p
  
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• Utah’s Burgess Owens listed among House Republicans aiming to challenge electoral count

  30-12-2020 18:51
  
  Rep.-elect Burgess Owens, R-Utah, is among a small-but-growing group of U.S. House Republicans planning to wage a long-shot challenge of the Electoral College vote count next week in a last-ditch attempt to keep President Donald Trump in power.Fox News listed Owens on Tuesday as among 10 incoming freshmen who plan to join Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., and others in that challenge. Owens did not immediately respond to repeated requests seeking comment.Most other members of the Utah delegation say they
  
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• Gordon Monson: Welcome back, Mike Conley

  30-12-2020 18:49
  
  Coming off a performance — 20 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists — against OKC that fell that one tick shy of his first career triple-double, Mike Conley at long last has done what so many around here have been waiting for him to do — be Mike Conley again.You’d think that would be easy — be you, Mike, right? Not Milt Palacio — but for all the reasons everybody’s pointed out about a thousand times, be they excuses or explanations, Conley has struggled o
  
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• Once again, FBI vastly underreports hate crimes in Salt Lake City and Utah

  30-12-2020 18:12
  
  Hate crimes in Utah last year were committed at a rate more than twice as high as documented in the most recent annual FBI compilation of crime statistics, according to state data. The disparity was even worse in the state’s capital city.State records report 45 hate crimes in Utah in 2019 compared to the FBI listing of just 18 cases statewide. It wasn’t the first time a huge gap appeared between reported hate crimes and FBI data, which is believed to leave out hundreds of thousands o
  
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• Woman found dead after Sandy house fire

  30-12-2020 16:03
  
  Sandy firefighters found the body of a woman inside a home heavily damaged by fire on Tuesday afternoon.According to the Sandy City Fire Department, crews arrived at the home at 11200 S. Tall Pines Way about 4 p.m. to find smoke and flames coming from the second floor. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in about 20 minutes, and found the victim inside the house on a bed. Her name has not been released.The cause of the fire, which left the house uninhabitable, is under investigation. According t
  
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• Here are The Salt Lake Tribune’s most-read stories of 2020

  30-12-2020 15:02
  
  In 2020, you turned to The Salt Lake Tribune for news and information on the coronavirus, the earthquake, civil rights protests and local and state elections.You also went beyond the news of the day. You read about the state’s “troubled teen” industry, the loss of prominent Utahns and a mysterious sculpture in the desert. As we close the door on 2020, we are sharing a look back at the stories that drew the most online readers.
  (Francisco Kjolseth|The Salt Lake Tribune) Friends
  
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• Utah’s next governor urged to reform police training and discipline

  30-12-2020 15:00
  
  Advisers to Gov.-elect Spencer Cox are suggesting big changes to the agency in charge of disciplining and training Utah’s police officers.Utah’s Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) is currently housed within the Department of Public Safety, and is responsible for both training new cadets and doling out discipline if a police officer does something wrong.A three-member transition team wrote in a report for Cox that there’s potential for a perceived conflict of interest
  
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• Taylorsville chooses a (second) new chief for its police department

  30-12-2020 15:00
  
  For the second time since Taylorsville leaders announced they will form their own police department, the city has hired a police chief — although that new department doesn’t begin operating for another six months.Pending formal approval from the City Council on Jan. 6, Brady Cottam will be the chief of the Taylorsville Police Department, a position he was offered earlier this month. It was originally accepted by Tracy Wyant, but he has since decided to retire from the Unified Police
  
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• Robert Gehrke: My 2021 predictions for Utah, including some worst-case scenarios

  30-12-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note: This story is available to Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.For a few years now I tried my hand at New Year predictions for Utah and for the first time I’m proud to say my record wasn’t great.If I had predicted an earthquake, hurricane-force winds, a president who broke democracy, and a global pandemic that killed thousands, then I would have clearly been dabbling in the black arts.Instead, I predicted that President D
  
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• Popular Rio Grande Cafe has left a historic Salt Lake City train depot. See where it now calls home.

  30-12-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism.Salt Lake City’s Rio Grande Cafe has left a historic downtown train station — and its namesake — for a new home near the University of Utah.Now, instead of inside a landmark depot, the nearly 40-year-old eatery has set up at a restored fire station at 258 S. 1300 East. The Porcupine Pub and Grille, which had been operating in that spot fo
  
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• Mother of child with cerebral palsy sues Alpine School District, alleging negligence

  30-12-2020 15:00
  
  The mother of a child with cerebral palsy is suing Alpine School District in Utah County, alleging her daughter was injured twice when school aides let go of her wheelchair at the top of a hill.Bobbie Dickey said in a complaint filed in state court that her daughter uses a wheelchair to get around school. She was assigned an aide in school to help with things like moving between classes. During a recess in March 2016, an aide took the child to the top of a grassy hill and negligently let go, cau
  
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• Letter: Who’s next in line for the vaccine?

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  This is going to sound whiney and self-serving. In the jockeying for position in the COVID vaccination queue, one group has not been explicitly mentioned: members of the phase three vaccine trials who received the placebo. There are rumors that the Moderna participants have already been unblinded and have access to the vaccine.The same is not true for us Pfizer participants. I am 70 years old and have other physical factors that put me at higher risk for severe illness if the virus catches me. I
  
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• Letter: The Trump Museum of Corruption and Incompetence

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  If I were a billionaire, my contribution to the country would be to establish in Washington, D.C., the Donald J. Trump Museum of Corruption and Incompetence. It would be an enormous glass building (symbolizing the transparency that was absent in this administration) featuring the following exhibits:• The “Grab ‘em by the P---y Room,” chronicling Trump’s history of sexually assaulting women, bragging about it, and then paying hush money to keep them quiet.• The &
  
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• Letter: Power is not ‘better’ when it is abused

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  When I read Mr. Lancaster’s letter to the editor “Using political power,” I was bemused by his final sentence: “Having political power is better than not having political power.”How do I challenge a statement that is almost certainly a tautology? Alas, I cannot, but I do find that I want to add to Mr. Lancaster’s vapid statement. In this spirit, I suggest the following:• “It is better to use one’s political power for the welfare of the nation
  
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• Letter: Low teacher pay isn’t the fault of pro athletes

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  Laura Grzymkowski missed a couple of very important points in her letter about basketball players’ salaries. It’s not her money that is paying these salaries. She has the choice of whether to spend her entertainment money on sports and players’ salaries. It does not come at the expense of teachers’ salaries.Secondly, it’s entertainment. No different than singers like Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift, or dozens of movie stars like Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler. We get
  
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• Letter: Congress must stand up for the Constitution

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  To Utah’s congressional delegation:I am writing to you today because I am afraid. I am afraid for the future of my country and its values. I am afraid that you are beholden to a maniacal autocrat, and I am afraid that you have neither the moral backbone nor commitment to our Constitution to stand against him.You have, in your tenure under the Trump presidency, shown as much. You have allowed him to lie with impunity and have gone along with, and even fomented, conspiracy theories regarding
  
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• Legislative leaders eyeing possible tax cuts ahead of 2021 session

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  Just eight months after Utah lawmakers slashed about $1 billion from the state’s budget to steady an economy reeling from the pandemic, some are now starting to cautiously discuss cutting taxes.Legislative leaders have been surveying their members about priorities and, with the economy appearing to recover much faster than anticipated, one question is aimed at gauging whether there is an appetite for tax relief in the upcoming session.“We have been talking about some sort of a tax cu
  
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• Claudia Lawrence: Haaland has an uncomfortable seat at the table

  30-12-2020 14:00
  
  Within minutes of the announcement that President-elect Joe Biden had nominated Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico as interior secretary, Native social media was celebrating. People in our community who have met Haaland began posting photos of her at Native events throughout Indian Country; one of my friends wrote, “Our auntie has done it!”The jubilation is warranted, because Haaland, a citizen of Laguna Pueblo, one of the country’s 574 federally recognized tribes, would be the fir
  
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• Jazz owner to buy soccer team

  30-12-2020 10:19
  
  Back in mid-September, now-Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith toured the RSL facilities, signifying his interest in buying the organization. But a meeting between him and Hansen did not go well. When he bought the Jazz, questions arose about whether Smith was still interested in RSL. But Smith is still in the running, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Salt Lake Tribune. The source requested anonymity to discuss a private sales process.
  
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• Kispert, Ayayi lead No. 1 Gonzaga over Dixie State 112-67

  30-12-2020 06:58
  
  Spokane, Wash. • For the second night in a row, Joel Ayayi put up a double-double as top-ranked Gonzaga beat an overmatched foe.Ayayi had 21 points and 11 rebounds, Corey Kispert scored 25 points and the Bulldogs beat short-handed Dixie State 112-67 on Tuesday night.Gonzaga coach Mark Few said it took some prodding to help Ayayi break out of a recent scoring slump, and that is paying off.“He’s hunting his shot better,” Few said. “He has a knack for tracking the ball
  
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• Son of woman shot to death in Springville charged with murder

  30-12-2020 06:27
  
  The 23-year-old son of a woman shot to death Wednesday in Springville has been charged with murder after prosecutors accused him of firing a shotgun at her while they sat at the kitchen table.Mike Lopez was also charged Tuesday with third-degree felonies for committing domestic violence in front of a child and owning a gun as a restricted person.Police went to a home near 900 South and 1000 East after one of Victoria Ramirez’s daughters called to report the shooting, according to a probabl
  
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• Alleged Maverik shooter arrested

  30-12-2020 04:49
  
  South Salt Lake Police say they have arrested a man who shot someone in the face at the Maverik store located at 3260 S. West Temple on Dec. 4.The man who was shot is alive and recovering, according to police.The person who was arrested matched the person seen getting out of a car before the shooting in surveillance video of the scene and the victim picked him out of a lineup, according to the statement. He told the victim “I should just jack you” before swinging his fist toward the
  
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• Rich Lowry: Behold, the delivery revolution

  30-12-2020 04:06
  
  It’s been a terrible year for the American worker, with a notable bright spot courtesy of one of the tech firms in the crosshairs of regulators and lawmakers.If someone had said early in 2020, “A company is going to hire hundreds of thousands of non-college-educated workers during the pandemic at well above the minimum wage,” you’d think there’d be huzzahs all around.That’s what the online retailer Amazon has done, but it still gets brickbats for how it pays a
  
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• Republican Mike Kennedy dominates special election to open Utah Senate seat

  30-12-2020 03:50
  
  Two years after he lost the GOP U.S. Senate primary to Mitt Romney, Republican Mike Kennedy is headed back to the Utah Legislature. Republican delegates in Utah County picked Kennedy over five other candidates to fill the seat being vacated by Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, who is resigning to take a spot in Spencer Cox’s administration.“I love to serve, and this is an opportunity for me to step in and serve in a different way,” Kennedy said about his return to Capit
  
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• MLS invokes clause reopening CBA discussions with union

  30-12-2020 02:59
  
  Major League Soccer has invoked a clause in the agreement with its players that could lead to renegotiation of the collective bargaining agreement between the league and union.The “force majeure” clause invoked by the MLS on Tuesday obligates the league and the MLSPA to negotiate modifications to the existing collective bargaining agreement in good faith for 30 days.If an agreement on the modifications cannot be reached, the CBA agreed to in June when the league returned with the MLS
  
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• Utah’s nursing homes welcome their first COVID-19 vaccines with noisemakers and applause

  30-12-2020 01:39
  
  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 line of residents at The Ridge Foothill — a few standing, others sitting on their rolling walkers or wheelchairs — snaked through a conference room and down a hallway Tuesday, with the seniors eager to see the nurses wait
  
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• The 2020 season was a disaster for RSL on and off the field, but there’s hope for next year under new ownership

  30-12-2020 00:51
  
  The Real Salt Lake organization, with its three teams, entered 2020 on a high. Expectations, enthusiasm, past success — it all felt like it was finally starting to come together.Think about it. The Real Monarchs were coming off their first title in the USL Championship in franchise history, knocking off the top team in the league in the playoffs to do it. RSL had finished third in the Western Conference — its highest finish in years — and made the playoffs for the second straig
  
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• Vaccines for Utah teachers have been delayed at least a week — possibly longer

  30-12-2020 00:06
  
  Utah teachers and school staff will have to wait a while longer to get the COVID-19 vaccine.The planned immunizations for K-12 personnel are now being pushed back because the state is receiving doses at a slower rate than expected from the federal government. Instead of education employees here getting a first shot by the middle of January, it will be closer to the end of January or early February.“We’re back about a week to 10 days from where we thought we would be,” said Tom
  
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• John Ulibarri, Utah’s first Latino lawmaker, dies at age 81

  30-12-2020 00:02
  
  Utah’s first Latino state lawmaker, John Ulibarri, a longtime educator and principal in Weber County, died earlier this month at the age of 81.His son and namesake, John Ulibarri II, says the legislative distinction mattered to his father. But the senior Ulibarri seemed to prize other aspects of his time as a lawmaker above making history.“He was happy to be a first, I guess,” he said. “But it wasn’t the first that was the big deal — it was the service.”
  
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