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• Salt Lake City officers followed rules in fatal shooting outside grocery store, says review board

  25-01-2021 23:14
  
  The Civilian Review Board says two Salt Lake City officers followed departmental rules when they shot and killed a man holding another at knifepoint last July.The board’s ruling is consistent with Salt Lake County prosecutor’s earlier finding: Officers Seyedsherwin Mansourbeigi and Dorothy Rose Wilde lawfully shot 34-year-old Andrew Preece.Mansourbeigi found Preece and the other man on a sidewalk outside a Smith’s Food and Drug at 455 S. 500 East on July 25. Employees there had
  
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• Mike Lee is 1 of 2 senators voting against Biden’s secretary of defense pick

  25-01-2021 22:39
  
  While the Senate overwhelmingly voted 93-2 on Friday to confirm Lloyd Austin — a retired four-star Army general — to become the first-ever Black secretary of defense, Utah Sen. Mike Lee was one of the two who opposed it. And he offered a seemingly contradictory explanation about why.Lee also was among senators on the losing side of a 69-27 vote on Thursday to give a special waiver to Austin to allow him to serve as secretary of defense without first waiting through a normally require
  
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• Lawmaker again seeks stricter ban on cellphones while driving

  25-01-2021 22:29
  
  State Rep. Carol Moss says her push to restrict cellphone use by drivers is the one topic she hears about constantly from voters, and was even mentioned in a letter from a Utah State Prison inmate.“He was writing mostly about prison conditions,” said the Democratic lawmaker from Holladay. “But he added at the bottom, ‘P.S. My wife stopped holding her phone when she’s driving because of your bill.’”Comments like that made her decide to try her bill one mo
  
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• Major League Soccer to begin its 2021 season on April 3; preseason camps open Feb. 22

  25-01-2021 22:08
  
  Major League Soccer officially has a start date.The league announced Monday that the 2021 season will begin April 3, with a six-week preseason able to start Feb. 22. The league plans to play its entire 34-week schedule.The MLS playoffs are scheduled to begin Nov. 19, with the MLS Cup on Dec. 11. Other events in between — the All-Star game, Leagues Cup and Campeones Cup — are slated for “late summer.”The news comes amid an ongoing negotiation between the league and the MLS
  
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• Utah treatment centers would face limits on use of restraints, drugs, isolation rooms under new bill

  25-01-2021 21:22
  
  Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24-hour support at 1-800-273-8255.Today in Utah, teens in treatment can be locked in a room for hours, forced to sit in uncomfortable positions, drugged or physically held down as a form of punishment. When this happens, there’s often not a record of it.Utah Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, wants to change that. He introduced a bill Monda
  
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• One in five of Utah’s COVID-19 deaths has happened since the beginning of 2021

  25-01-2021 21:18
  
  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 reported two more coronavirus related deaths on Monday, bringing the total to 97 in the past seven days.The number of new cases reported by the Utah Department of Health on Monday was relatively low compared to recent days, dipping
  
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• Lawmaker looks to restrict voters’ switch of political parties

  25-01-2021 20:59
  
  Tens of thousands of Utah voters switched their partisan registration to Republican ahead of last June’s primary election in order to cast a vote in the hotly contested GOP gubernatorial contest. Now comes a possible legislative backlash.Voters in Utah would have to change their party affiliation before Jan. 1 of an election year if they wanted to vote in the state’s closed Republican primary.HB197 is the brainchild of Rep. Jordan Teuscher, R-West Jordan. The freshman lawmaker wants
  
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• Elementary students are returning to Salt Lake City schools in person for the first time since March

  25-01-2021 20:51
  
  The first graders of Escalante Elementary School lined up Monday along the yellow hopscotch grids painted on the sidewalk. The squares had been cleared of snow and were meant to remind the young kids to social distance, but most had a hard time staying put.This was their first time being back here since schools in Utah first shut down last March for the pandemic. And they were literally bouncing with anticipation. “I’m just so excited,” one little boy squealed, jumping up and d
  
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• Is punishing free speech OK? Rep. Chris Stewart says it depends.

  25-01-2021 20:05
  
  At the same time that Rep. Chris Stewart says liberals are damaging freedom of speech by seeking to block books by aides to former President Donald Trump, he suggests that House Republicans still could justifiably punish a leader for the way she spoke up about impeachment.Why is punishing one form of free speech bad and the other OK?On a national Fox News interview over the weekend, Stewart said that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney — the No. 3 ranking GOP member in the House &
  
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• Road rage shooting brings traffic to a halt on I-15

  25-01-2021 19:51
  
  A hit-and-run and a shooting brought traffic on the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 to a stop near 2100 North in Lehi on Monday morning.According to a spokesman for the Utah Highway Patrol, there was a road rage incident at about 7:30 a.m. involving the driver of a black pickup truck and the driver of a white pickup truck. After what may have been a hit and run, the driver of the black truck (the only person in that vehicle) pursued and fired at the white truck and the five people inside it. T
  
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• Nathan Chen flies above the uncertainty surrounding the international figure skating calendar

  25-01-2021 19:39
  
  Nathan Chen is flying high, and flying blind.The Salt Lake City native won his fifth straight national men’s figure skating championship earlier this month in Las Vegas. He now has more consecutive titles than anyone except Dick Button who won seven from 1946-1952.The victory only added to the legacy of one of, if not the, best men’s skater in the history of the United States. In 12 individual competitions over the course of 35 months, while pushing the boundaries of artistry and pow
  
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• University of Utah spent $95M to fund athletics in 2019-20 school year

  25-01-2021 18:16
  
  The University of Utah spent over $95 million to fund athletics during the 2019-20 academic year, according to the athletic department’s fiscal 2020 financial report, released last week.The athletic department’s fiscal 2020 ran from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, a time which coincided with the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and in turn, a suspension of all athletics-related activities. The $95.185 million in expenses was reported against revenues of $97.217 million, mean
  
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• Hit-and-run and a shooting bring traffic to a halt on I-15

  25-01-2021 18:10
  
  A hit-and-run and a shooting brought traffic on the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 to a stop near 2100 North in Lehi on Monday morning.According to a spokesman for the Utah Highway Patrol, two people were wounded — one of them critically. He said that a hit-and-run preceded the shooting, which occurred at about 8:30 p.m.One person was in custody, and there is no danger to the public, according to UHP.All the southbound lanes were closed on I-15 while state troopers began their investiga
  
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• Mitt Romney joins GOP senators seeking to block court packing with constitutional amendment

  25-01-2021 17:57
  
  Utah Sen. Mitt Romney is joining 10 other Senate Republicans to push a constitutional amendment to counter a threat by some liberals to expand the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices and pack the court with Democrats appointed by President Joe Biden.The amendment — reintroduced after the group pushed similar legislation in the last Congress — would keep the number of Supreme Court justices at nine, the number it has been since 1869.That comes after Democrats revived the idea of exp
  
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• Melinda Wenner Moyer: If you are offered a COVID-19 vaccine, take it

  25-01-2021 17:00
  
  Last week, as friends of mine learned they would soon be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination, I received a slew of angst-ridden text messages. A teacher who sees students only once a week wondered if she should wait so teachers who were more at risk could get a shot first. A friend with a health condition who is mostly able to stay home and isolate pondered letting her dose go to someone more deserving. On social media, I stumbled across posts from friends who are eligible for vaccination but co
  
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• The Utah Jazz have the league’s best 3-point attack — but they learned much of it in Bojan Bogdanovic’s absence

  25-01-2021 16:59
  
  The Jazz have the best 3-point attack in the league this season — and maybe the best ever.They’re No. 3 in attempts this year, shooting 41.6 per game. They’re No. 2 in percentage, making 40.3% of them. And that means, when you add it up, they’re first in number of 3-point makes per game: 16.8 per contest.In fact, it’s the most 3s per game that any team has made all-time, in the history of the NBA. The 2018-19 Rockets come second, with 16.1 per game, with this year&r
  
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• There’s a winter storm warning in central and southern Utah

  25-01-2021 16:06
  
  A winter storm warning is in effect in central and southern Utan through 11 a.m. Tuesday.The National Weather Service is forecasting 1-3 inches of snow at elevations below 3,500 feet and 5-10 inches above 3,500 feet in southern Washington County, including St. George and Zion National Park. And there could be even more snow in some locations.Travel could be “very difficult to impossible,” according to the NWS, especially on Interstate 15 south of Cedar City, U.S. 89 into Kanab, SR-12
  
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• Utah sees a big spike in people not registering their cars after reminder postcards are stopped

  25-01-2021 15:22
  
  The Utah State Tax Commission decided to save money by halting postcard reminders to motorists just before it was time to renew their vehicle registration.Since then, more than one of every four car owners failed to register vehicles on time, according to data the commission provided to The Salt Lake Tribune.Rep. Scott Chew, R-Jensen, says stopping the postcards last year was a mistake that needs to be reversed, and introduced a bill to restart them unless individuals instead choose to receive e
  
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• A timeline of Sundance and Park City, as 2021 forces a temporary split after 40 years

  25-01-2021 15:21
  
  The film festival that became the Sundance Film Festival didn’t start out in Park City. But Park City has been its home since before there was a Sundance Institute. Here’s a timeline:1978 • The Utah/U.S. Film Festival started in September 1978 at Salt Lake City’s Trolley Corners. Though mostly focused on classic films, it included an eight-movie independent-film section.
  (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Sydney Pollack in a 1998 photo from the Sundance Film Festival in Park
  
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• Charles M. Blow: Democrats must avoid the Obama-era silence trap

  25-01-2021 15:00
  
  I remember the Obama years well. There was a massive surge of national pride when Barack Obama was elected. America had done something important. It had overcome a hurdle on its path to racial inclusion. It had dealt a blow to its past.That was the feeling. But it was just a feeling.After a brief honeymoon period, the real work of governing set in and the opposition rallied. At times the vitriol coming at not only Obama, but at his family, was so beyond the pale that the natural impulse among ma
  
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• Andy Larsen: NBA players must wait their turn for vaccination

  25-01-2021 15:00
  
  “OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?” — Zaphod Beeblebrox, complaining that his spaceship has picked up hitchhikers while running from space police in Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.That was essentially my thought this week when the NBA commissioner Adam Silver seriously floated the plan to have NBA players record public service announcements about the vaccine’s efficacy, a statement which ma
  
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• Utah’s most productive coal mine gets a life line from Trump’s federal land managers

  25-01-2021 14:10
  
  Coal remains king in Utah’s Emery County despite bankruptcies, shrinking demand and obstacles shipping it oversees.The Bureau of Land Management quietly signed off on a plan to expand a Utah coal producer’s federal lease by 7.2 million tons, adding two or three years of additional production from Emery County’s Lila Canyon mine. But at the same time it shelved a proposal to issue a much larger lease to the mine’s operator, the reorganized Murray Energy Corp., which recent
  
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• President Joe Biden’s order to review Utah monuments leaves options open, but expansion all but certain

  25-01-2021 14:00
  
  With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden could return Utah’s two largest national monuments to their original sizes. Instead, he opted to open a 60-day review into how his predecessor shrunk the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by 2 million acres, leaving open a range of options for the new administration.An executive order issued Wednesday instructs the Interior Secretary, a post likely to be filled by Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, to submit findings and
  
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• Letter: Utah representatives have an opportunity to grow

  25-01-2021 14:00
  
  Our elected Washington delegation is facing a different environment than it is used to. For some, there have been years of being part of the dominant party in D.C.. They got lazy, rubber-stamped a lot of things. They were not required to compromise, bargain, give a little to get a little. They were the prevailing party; they could just say what they wanted, and -- poof -- it happened. They could also sit on their thumbs and obstruct any legislation or appointments they did not like.Now, they no
  
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• Letter: Utah legislators don’t really believe in local control

  25-01-2021 14:00
  
  I always chuckle when the state Legislature decries the actions of the federal government when it imposes its will without consulting state leadership. For example, on expanding the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase back to their original sizes. But, in the next breath, those same legislators impose their will on Salt Lake City by appropriating a sizable chunk of land to build an inland port that no one who understands air pollution or traffic congestion really wants, or by forcing th
  
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• Letter: It would be good to know the daily vaccination numbers

  25-01-2021 14:00
  
  Would it be possible to track and publish the daily number of COVID-19 vaccinations given in Utah? In contrast to the daily infection and death data, the vaccination data (which are readily available) would provide a positive lift and shed light on the state’s effectiveness in organizing the vaccine rollout. Which is arguably as or more important than the rear mirror focus of the infection and death data. And, as they say in business, if you want to improve something … measure it.Mi
  
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• Utah asks federal officials to confirm state is getting its ‘fair share’ of COVID-19 vaccine

  25-01-2021 03:54
  
  The Utah Department of Health has reached out to federal health officials to make sure Utah is getting its “fair share” of COVID-19 vaccine, its leader announced Sunday.Rich Saunders, executive director of the department, released a statement in response to reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune that Utah has been allocated fewer doses per capita than all other states.“Because Utah is the youngest state in the nation, it follows that we would receive fewer doses than other states,&
  
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• Utah asks federal officials to confirm the state is getting its ‘fair share’ of COVID-19 vaccine

  25-01-2021 02:50
  
  The Utah Department of Health has reached out to federal health officials to make sure Utah is getting its “fair share” of COVID-19 vaccine, its leader announced Sunday. Rich Saunders, executive director of the department, released a statement in response to reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune that Utah has been allocated fewer doses per capita than all other states.“Because Utah is the youngest state in the nation, it follows that we would receive fewer doses than other states,
  
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• Utah basketball’s latest loss tough to stomach, and Larry Krystkowiak didn’t hide it

  25-01-2021 02:00
  
  No matter if it’s a win or a loss, no matter if his team played poorly or not, Larry Krystkowiak is the same person with the media after every game.The 10th-year University of Utah head coach is exceptionally even-keeled. Never too high, never too low, and sometimes expressionless while generally giving a thoughtful, informational answer to whatever he is asked, win or lose.When Krystkowiak hopped on a postgame Zoom call late Sunday afternoon, his presence offered everyone a different vibe
  
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• The Jazz have the league’s best 3-point attack — but they learned much of it in Bogdanovic’s absence

  25-01-2021 01:49
  
  The Jazz have the best 3-point attack in the league this season — and maybe the best ever.They’re No. 3 in attempts this year, shooting 41.6 per game. They’re No. 2 in percentage, making 40.3% of them. And that means, when you add it up, they’re first in number of 3-point makes per game: 16.8 per contest.In fact, it’s the most 3s per game that any team has made all-time, in the history of the NBA. The 2018-19 Rockets come second, with 16.1 per game, with this year&r
  
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• State colleges: Utah women’s basketball team stifles Arizona State in 65-51 victory

  25-01-2021 01:44
  
  Utah sophomore guard Kemery Martín scored a career-high 25 points, and the Utes’ defense stifled Arizona State in a 65-51 victory in a Pac-12 game Sunday in Tempe, Ariz.The Utes held Arizona State to 31 percent shooting, forcing 15 turnovers and coming away with 29 defensive rebounds.“I thought two games in a row, our defense was fantastic,” said Utah coach Lynne Roberts, whose team lost 66-54 to Arizona on Friday night. “Our players did a great job with very littl
  
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• Utah men’s basketball team crumbles late in 83-79 loss at Washington

  25-01-2021 00:05
  
  The University of Utah led the University of Washington for three-quarters of a men’s basketball game on Sunday afternoon, but wound up losing, 83-79. Here are three quick takeaways.1. This was a fun game: The defense wasn’t great, but a lot of players shot the ball with confidence and the result was, for long stretches Sunday afternoon, a shootout between two teams that normally do not engage in such games. Both teams put players in double-figures, Utah shot 50.8% from the floor, wi
  
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• Rollover on SR-190 in Big Cottonwood Canyon injures four, shuts down traffic both ways

  25-01-2021 00:02
  
  State Route 190 was closed down in both directions in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Sunday afternoon as a result of a “major accident” that resulted in four injuries.The Utah Department of Transportation announced that Unified Police Department had closed SR-190 in both directions near the S-turn at milepost 6.2 as a result of the crash.UPD announced in a series of tweets that officers were investigating a two-vehicle crash there, which resulted in four people being injured. One person wa
  
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