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Tech firm with suspended contracts had outside data deal

Tech firm with suspended contracts had outside data deal

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A surveillance technology company that had a $21 million contract with the state of Utah suspended over its founder’s past associations with white supremacists also had a contract with a healthcare company, to track coronavirus patient data. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the contract appears to […]

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Utah man gets prison after running over boy while drunk

Utah man gets prison after running over boy while drunk

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man with several drunk driving convictions has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for running over and killing a 4-year-old boy while driving drunk. Carl Wayne Johnson, 57, was sentenced after pleading guilty to automobile homicide involving DUI. Lesser charges […]

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Navajo Nation has 2,292 coronavirus cases, 73 known deaths

Navajo Nation has 2,292 coronavirus cases, 73 known deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer have finalized another agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will allow the Chinle Community Center to be used as an alternative care site to isolate positive coronavirus patients. The move was made […]

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Big changes in AFC East, but Belichick the constant for Pats

Big changes in AFC East, but Belichick the constant for Pats

NEW YORK (AP) — This could be the year. You know, when Buffalo, Miami or the New York Jets (finally) step up and (finally) overtake New England for supremacy in the AFC East — something the Patriots have had for most of the last two decades. Tom Brady has brought […]

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Virus restrictions stymie signature-gathering campaigns

Virus restrictions stymie signature-gathering campaigns

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Primary election day in Ohio was supposed to be big for Raise the Wage Ohio. Volunteers and activists armed with petitions were gearing up to visit packed voting locations across the state to collect signatures in support of putting a minimum wage increase on the fall […]

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NBA pushes back draft combine, draft lottery

NBA pushes back draft combine, draft lottery

SEACAUCUS, N.J. (AP)-The NBA is delaying the draft lottery and draft combine, events scheduled for Chicago later this month. The league made the decision Friday, though it has been expected for some time. The lottery cannot occur until the regular season is completed or is declared over, because team records […]

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MLS to allow individual workouts on team training fields

MLS to allow individual workouts on team training fields

NEW YORK (AP)-Major League Soccer is allowing players to return to outdoor team training fields for individual workouts starting Wednesday. MLS suspended the season because of the coronavirus pandemic on March 12, closing all team facilities but asking players to remain in market with their teams. The league-wide moratorium on […]

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Western Europe relaxes virus measures, Russia numbers spike

Western Europe relaxes virus measures, Russia numbers spike

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spaniards filled the streets Saturday to exercise outside in gorgeous spring weather for the first time in seven weeks, while German children rushed to playgrounds as countries in Western Europe moved ahead with the gradual relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions. Russia and Pakistan, however, reported their […]

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With quirks and restrictions, many states lift lockdowns

With quirks and restrictions, many states lift lockdowns

GRETNA, La. (AP) — More than a dozen states let restaurants, stores or other businesses reopen Friday in the biggest one-day push yet to get their economies up and running again, acting at their own speed and with their own quirks and restrictions to make sure the coronavirus doesn’t come […]

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Pressure mounts as tribes seek more time on drilling plan

Pressure mounts as tribes seek more time on drilling plan

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After more than a decade of planning and protests, U.S. land managers have crafted a proposal for how to manage oil and gas development across a wide swath of northwestern New Mexico that includes a national park and areas held sacred by Native American tribes. The […]

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