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Utah reports 430 new cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths Scott D. Pierce © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A nurse from test Utah tests for Covid-19 in the parking lot of the South East Health Department, in Moab, on Friday, May 14, 2021. Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for . The number of new cases of COVID-19 jumped back above 400 on Wednesday, and the state reported four more deaths. Three of those deaths occurred before April 19 and were only recently confirmed to be the...

Eight more people have been hospitalized with the disease since Saturday.

An unabashed activist, the Rev. Tom Goldsmith battled for the climate, immigrants and LGBTQ individuals and against nukes and the LDS Church’s Main Street Plaza.

West Ridge Academy staffer criminally charged after he allegedly fractured a teen’s wrist Jessica Miller © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) West Ridge Academy in West Jordan, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. A staffer at a Utah facility for “troubled teens” is facing a child abuse charge after prosecutors say he fractured a teen’s wrist during a restraint. Tyler Haun Feinga, 21, was charged last week with the class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a year in jail. Charging records say Feinga told investigators he hurt the youth after the 15-year-old ...

After tension over her speaking, here’s what the wife of the LDS president told graduates at Utah Valley University Courtney Tanner (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Graduates listen in their cars, as commencement speaker, Wendy Watson Nelson speaks, at Utah Valley University's graduation program in Orem, on Friday, May 7, 2021. © Rick Egan In the face of concern and controversy over her speaking, Wendy Watson Nelson — a former family therapist and the wife of the president of the Latter-day Saint Church — directed graduates in her address Friday night to drop the...