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Even though the legislative session ended early March of this year, the legislature, and especially the Legislative Redistricting Committee, have been busy working since then. Redistricting is an incredibly complex process that is more difficult because it only happens once a decade, and due to the ongoing pandemic, our timeline was far more condensed. As…

Las Cruces, N.M. • Logan Bonner passed for 359 yards and four touchdowns — including two to Deven Thompkins — and Utah State pulled away in the second half to beat New Mexico State 35-13 in nonconference play on Saturday. After New Mexico State’s Aggies jumped out to a 10-0 lead after one quarter, Bonner…

BYU beat Idaho State by the count of 59-14 on Saturday. The Cougars could have gone for a hundred. In the first half, BYU led 42-7 — when its starters did their work. They out-gained the Bengals in that first half by exactly 300 yards. They had 20 first downs and the Bengals had five.…

Provo • All it took was one half. No. 17 BYU opened up its last home game of the season having scored on five consecutive drives, and scored on five of six first-half drives en route to a 59-14 win over FCS opponent Idaho State on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium. “We knew that if…

Fire crews rescued a construction worker Monday evening who became trapped when the foundation of a Salt Lake City house collapsed. The structural collapse was reported just before 5 p.m. in the Avenues neighborhood, on the 1200 block of East 4th Avenue, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department. Construction crews had been digging…

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Farmington • Davis County has joined a growing list of Utah prosecutors’ offices that are creating panels to review the convictions of people who maintain that they are innocent. Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings announced Monday that his office has formed a nine-person conviction integrity unit that will consider applications of people who say they…

Packed committee rooms on Utah’s Capitol Hill have become de rigueur in recent weeks, but Monday’s crowded meeting of the Utah Legislative Redistricting Committee lacked the emotion and energy that has accompanied recent discussions around COVID0-19 vaccine mandates, critical race theory or unfounded allegations of election fraud. The discussion Monday afternoon was more genteel as…

The proposed future of Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood calls for more people and more parks, more streetlights and wider sidewalks. It includes the area’s first library and a block for outdoor festivals. This vision, which is only a draft at this point, was unveiled Monday by Mayor Erin Mendenhall outside of Smith’s Ballpark, where…

A man is hospitalized after he was shot by an Ogden police officer Monday afternoon, police said. Police had initially responded to a “weapons disturbance” on the 200 block of 26th street around 4 p.m. While working to resolve the disturbance, the officer discharged his firearm, striking the man, police said. More information about the…

A beloved Salt Lake City doughnut shop is getting scorched online for a sign it posted blaming the government for its lack of staff. According to a screenshot from Reddit posted to Twitter by New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo, the Banbury Cross bakery taped a typed sign on a window complaining about the national…

A Tribune editorial published Oct. 22 was headlined: Utah lawmakers who undermine faith in elections should resign their seats — The Salt Lake Tribune A few days later: Rep. Steve Christiansen suddenly resigns from the Legislature — Bryan Schott | The Salt Lake Tribune Christiansen and state Rep. Phil Lyman were pushing the phony line…

A West Jordan police officer responding to a report of domestic violence shot and wounded a man Sunday night. The man was taken to a hospital in critical but stable condition, according to police. West Jordan police received a 911 call about domestic violence at a home near 8400 South and 4000 West about 9…

Unified police are asking the public to help identify a hit-and-run driver who struck a 64-year-old woman in Millcreek early Friday before leaving the scene. The woman was using a crosswalk at the intersection of Highland Drive and Luck Lane (3440 South) when she was struck by the vehicle around 7 a.m., according to a…

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People who subscribe to the myth that children can’t get COVID-19 “should walk in our shoes every day,” the chief infectious diseases physician at Utah’s largest children’s hospital said Friday. Doctors there are treating between eight and 12 children a day who have COVID-19. Of those child patients, three to five are typically in the…

Live from Washington, it’s Sen. Mitt Romney. In a series of Twitter posts ahead of Halloween weekend, Romney, R-Utah, on Thursday shared his portrayal of actor Jason Sudeikis’ character Ted Lasso from the hit Apple TV+ series bearing the same name, “Ted Lasso.” Romney dressed up in tandem with Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who…

Utah health care workers say they’re tired of being on the receiving end of COVID-19 hostility. A pandemic data columnist offers an explainer on booster shots. And the money eviction attorneys received from a pandemic relief fund meant to help renters. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Bethany Rodgers and Andy Larsen,…

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The TribUte is a weekly newsletter covering Utah athletics. Subscribe here. If the University of Utah had a full football season in 2020, maybe Devin Lloyd would have had at least 12 games worth of film, and maybe he wouldn’t have come back this fall. Maybe those 12 games (or 13, or 14) would have…

Police are searching for a suspect in connection with a shooting in downtown Salt Lake City that left one man dead. Witnesses said Roy Anthony Duran, 20, fled the scene of the Sunday morning shooting before officers arrived, according to a news release from the Salt Lake City Police Department. Isaiah Valerio, 21, died at…

This story is jointly published by nonprofits Amplify Utah and The Salt Lake Tribune, in collaboration with Salt Lake Community College, to elevate diverse perspectives in local media through student journalism. Women are still few in science and technology fields, and the women working in those fields want young girls to know there is plenty…