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Month: April 2020

Potty training is the trend for parents amid COVID-19 quarantine

Potty training is the trend for parents amid COVID-19 quarantine

iStock/globalmoments(NEW YORK) — BY: JOANNE ROSA Tiffany Bari knew she wanted to start potty training her son before he turned 3 in May. But between work, his school, Easter celebrations and other weekend plans, she knew it would have been tough. Once COVID-19 quarantine measures started going in effect, however, […]

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‘We disagree’: Medical professionals counter coronavirus lockdown protesters

‘We disagree’: Medical professionals counter coronavirus lockdown protesters

ABC News(RICHMOND, Virginia) — BY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News When Dr. Erich Bruhn, a recently retired surgeon from Virginia, saw images of nurses in scrubs standing in a Denver street this week blocking the cars of people circling the state capitol building to protest stay-at-home directives meant to blunt the […]

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Snow College President Bradley J. Cook Encourages His Students

Snow College President Bradley J. Cook Encourages His Students

pic.twitter.com/iWxJZWD7SX — Snow College President (@SnowCollegePres) April 23, 2020

BYU Men’s Basketball Obtains The Services of Purdue Transfer Matt Haarms

BYU Men’s Basketball Obtains The Services of Purdue Transfer Matt Haarms

PROVO, Utah-Thursday, BYU men’s basketball received the services of Purdue transfer center Matt Haarms, a significant enhancement to the squad via the NCAA transfer portal. Haarms, a 7-3 graduate transfer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, averaged 8.6 points, 4.6 rebounds and 2 blocks per game this past season for the 16-15 […]

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Utah unemployment remains at record highs, but moves lower

Utah unemployment remains at record highs, but moves lower

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Unemployment slowed somewhat again in Utah last week, but jobless claims remained crushingly high during the coronavirus pandemic that’s dealt a body blow to the economy. State officials said Thursday that about 19,800 people filed for unemployment last week, down from more than 24,000 the […]

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Utah to reconsider bill funding special needs scholarships

Utah to reconsider bill funding special needs scholarships

PROVO, Utah (AP) — A non-refundable tax credit would be established in Utah for people and businesses wanting to donate to a Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Program for private school students under a bill vetoed by Republican Gov. Gary Herbert earlier this month. The Daily Herald reported that state lawmakers […]

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Utah launches new app to trace coronavirus exposures

Utah launches new app to trace coronavirus exposures

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah launched a new cell phone app Wednesday to track coronavirus symptoms and identify people who may have been exposed, known as contact tracing. The state has contract worth up to a $2.75 million with the social-media company Twenty, which built an app called “Healthy […]

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Cedar City man charged in connection with poaching of buck deer

Cedar City man charged in connection with poaching of buck deer

A Cedar City man was recently charged in connection with the illegal killing of a buck deer in 2018. Michael Grant, 25, was charged in Iron County’s 5th District Court with wanton destruction of protected wildlife, a class A misdemeanor; two counts of taking, transporting, selling or purchasing protected wildlife, […]

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Coronavirus updates: Nearly 14% of 3,000 New Yorkers tested positive for antibody, Cuomo says

Coronavirus updates: Nearly 14% of 3,000 New Yorkers tested positive for antibody, Cuomo says

vchal/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ELLA TORRES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 185,000 people worldwide. Over 2.6 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by […]

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1st COVID-19 death in the US was weeks earlier than previously thought

1st COVID-19 death in the US was weeks earlier than previously thought

AlxeyPnferov/iStockBy ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (SANTA CLARA, Calif.) — Santa Clara, California, health officials have identified individuals who died of COVID-19 weeks earlier than the Seattle area case that was previously believed to be the nation’s first COVID-19 death. The Santa Clara country medical examiner received confirmation from the Centers […]

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