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Live coronavirus updates for Friday, May 8: West Jordan canceling the Western Stampede rodeo due to COVID-19 concerns




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Thomas Toland Smart: Don’t ‘open up’ without seat belts and guardrails




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BYU’s Alex Barcello broke his wrist at the end of the college basketball season; he’s now healed and ready for what’s next




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Q&A: Lost your job? Here’s what you need to know




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LHM Sports & Entertainment — the company that runs Jazz, Bees and Megaplex Theaters — furloughing 40% of workforce




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Jana Riess: What history tells us about Donald Trump’s reelection prospects




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Kyle Roerink and Steve Erickson: The tale of two pipelines for desert cities




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Utah man charged with murder. He says he shot and killed a man breaking into his house.




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Jean Norman: Why we can’t call them Generation Z anymore




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Baseball execs with Salt Lake Bees, Ogden Raptors and Orem Owlz hoping for best, preparing for worst




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Utahns return to worship services




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Bagley Cartoon: Well-run State




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Daryl Austin: If our recent trip to Hogle Zoo is the future, we’re going to be OK




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Bill Tibbitts: Utah must not allow people to be evicted for being sick during a pandemic




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No charges for family of boy who drove car onto highway




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Extreme lockdown shows divide in hard-hit Navajo border town




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Ivy Farguheson: The risk of running while black or brown




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Michelle Goldberg: Don’t shame those struggling in the lockdown




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Rich Lowry: Everyone deserves to live under the Biden standard




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Here’s where all Utah’s hospitals and health departments get PPE




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Banjo CEO steps down after news of past KKK membership




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Nicholas Kristof: McDonald’s workers in Denmark pity us




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Another Utah congressional candidate runs in a district where he does not live




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Letter: Look how clean the air has become




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Letter: Bad things happen when we aren’t looking




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Letter: Reason wins in Canada




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New book: War against yellowface in the arts won a victory in Salt Lake City




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Letter: Why we need a nosy press




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Charlie Warzel: Is the cure for COVID-19 in the Rocky Mountains?




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As Utah’s national parks reopen, visitors should brace for a ‘new normal’




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Acting National Park Service director talks about what to expect in Utah and why it will vary from park to park




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Navajo Nation reports 119 new coronavirus cases




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Elon Musk publicly corrects Grimes over their newborn son’s bizarre name

Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk publicly corrects girlfriend Grimes on Twitter after she explains the origin of their newborn son's unusual first name, X Æ A-12.




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Robert De Niro says he’d play Gov. Cuomo in a coronavirus movie: ‘He’s doing what a president should do’

De Niro, 76, also voiced his support for Joe Biden as a presidential candidate on "The Late Show," and was critical of President Trump’s handling of the response to the COVID-19 outbreak.




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Former Bad Company lead singer Brian Howe dead at 66

Singer and songwriter Brian Howe, a former lead vocalist for the British rock band Bad Company, died Wednesday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Florida. The 66-year-old English musician had a brief conversation with first responders, but he then “slipped away" and could not be revived, longtime friend and manager Paul Easton said Thursday.




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Jimmy Glenn, boxing cornerman and owner of ‘Jimmy’s Corner’ bar in Times Square, dies at 89 of coronavirus

Glenn, a former boxer and owner of popular Times Square bar Jimmy's Corner, died of coronavirus early Thursday morning at 89.




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Unheard-of May snow, icy cold temps, and high winds blasting in for Mother’s Day weekend

Weather extreme enough to shatter records across large swaths of the U.S. is heading our way this weekend, just in time for Mother’s Day. A storm system heading into the Northeast on Friday will smash into the polar vortex as it makes swing down from the Arctic, reported NBC News. This might sock the region in with heavy, wet snow all the way into New England.




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Ahmaud Arbery supporters are running 2.23 miles on what would be his 26th birthday

Supporters for Ahmaud Arbery, the unarmed black jogger who was fatally shot by two white men on a Georgia road in broad daylight, are planning to run 2.23 miles Friday to celebrate what would be his 26th birthday and call for justice in the case. Organizers of the virtual run are asking people to go for a walk, jog or run and post a photo, video or written message on social media with the hashtag #IRunwithAhmaud.




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Fox News pundit encourages Americans to get ‘out there’ and ‘have some courage’

Fox News pundit mocks 'experts,' encourages Americans to get out there and 'have some courage'




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Woman goes mad after being told McDonald’s is closed, shoots and injures 3 employees, OKC cops say

Things were not OK.




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DC Comics superhero Hershey bars are coming but sent to frontline coronavirus workers first

Talk about a sweet gesture. A line of DC Comics superhero chocolate bars is coming, but before you can get your hands on them, Hershey’s is first giving them out to workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Elon Musk getting a whole lot richer with new Tesla stock award valued at $726 million

Elon Musk is cruising toward another major payday.




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Ex-NFL star Brett Favre to repay $1.1 million for no-show speeches: auditor

Former NFL star Brett Favre said Wednesday he would repay the state of Mississippi $1.1 million after a state auditor discovered the Mississippi Department of Human Services paid the ex-quarterback for speaking engagements that never happened.




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SEE IT: Red tide by day showers shoreline in mystical light by night off Southern California

Californians venturing onto the beach after a month of lockdown are being greeted with the ethereal sight of bioluminescent waves from an algae bloom.




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Dad throws 1-year-old daughter off ‘steep cliff’ into ravine, killing baby whose ‘smile was contagious’

A California dad allegedly tossed his baby daughter off a “steep cliff” to her death after he stabbed the child’s mom and a bystander who tried to help, relatives and police said.




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Florida man who stole gator meat from store identified by Florida Gators license plate: cops

He’ll need a better defense than the one his favorite team managed against LSU last year.




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4th family member charged in murder of Family Dollar security guard who asked customer to wear mask

Brya Bishop was arrested days before her 25th birthday and charged with three felonies.




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Man called 911 to report 'a black male running down the street’ before Ahmaud Arbery shooting, audio recordings confirm

Audio recordings of two 911 calls placed moments before Ahmaud Arbery was killed confirm that at least two people were concerned that a black man was running in their Georgia neighborhood.




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Racy photos and an undisclosed killing: Sheriff’s race is Broward County’s raucous election to watch

Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony is getting a political baptism by fire in an election that reads like a Hollywood screenplay with racy photos, a secret decades-old killing and a bitter union fight.




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Southwest Airlines plane hits and kills person as it lands on Texas runway

A Southwest jet traveling from Dallas fatally struck a person as it touched down at a Texas airport Thursday night, authorities said.