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Month: August 2022

Prep Sports Roundup: 8/25

Prep Sports Roundup: 8/25

Football Non-Region LOGAN, Utah-Grayson Friant ran for 159 yards and a touchdown as the South Sevier Rams bested Preston (Idaho) 31-21 Thursday in non-region football play at Maverik Stadium on the campus of Utah State University. Carter Abraham and Brigham Bradshaw each ran for a pair of touchdowns in the […]

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Patrick Beverley returning to Los Angeles with Lakers

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have traded for guard Patrick Beverley. The move sends guard Talen Horton-Tucker and forward Stanley Johnson to the Utah Jazz and returns Beverley to the city where he starred for the Clippers from 2017 until last year. Beverley averaged 9.2 points, […]

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Boxer George Foreman allegedly sexually assaulted 2 minors in 1970s: Lawsuit

Boxer George Foreman allegedly sexually assaulted 2 minors in 1970s: Lawsuit

Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Hublot, FILE (LOS ANGELES) — A lawsuit filed in California alleges that professional boxer and former heavyweight champion George Foreman sexually assaulted at least two women in the 1970s, when they were teenagers and below the age of consent. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Los […]

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Black women, burdened by student debt, say Biden’s student loan policy doesn’t go far enough

Black women, burdened by student debt, say Biden’s student loan policy doesn’t go far enough

Courtesy of Young Invincibles (NEW YORK) — Ameshia Cross, 35, spent the past two years of the coronavirus pandemic worried about how she would pay off her nearly $90,000 in student loan debt once the freeze on federal student loan payments ended. Now, she said she will have $20,000 less […]

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Uvalde school shooting survivor honored at Astros game nearly a month after hospital release

Uvalde school shooting survivor honored at Astros game nearly a month after hospital release

Carmen Mandato/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — Uvalde:365 is a continuing ABC News series reported from Uvalde and focused on the Texas community and how it forges on in the shadow of tragedy. One of the survivors of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was honored at Tuesday’s MLB game […]

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More states ban abortion this week as several ‘trigger laws’ go into effect

More states ban abortion this week as several ‘trigger laws’ go into effect

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Five more states are set to severely restrict abortion this week, adding to the growing number of laws that have taken effect since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Three states — Idaho, Tennessee and Texas — had trigger laws go into effect […]

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Snow Sports Roundup: 8/25

Snow Sports Roundup: 8/25

Football EPHRAIM, Utah-Targhee Lambson ran for 121 yards and a score on 34 carries and the No. 5 Snow Badgers routed Trinity Valley 36-14 Thursday in non-conference football play at Stoddard Field at Terry Stott Stadium. Elijah Ervin added a pair of scoring receptions for the Badgers and Cole Bowers […]

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Meta takes down hundreds of Facebook, Instagram accounts associated with Proud Boys

Meta takes down hundreds of Facebook, Instagram accounts associated with Proud Boys

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Executives with the social media company Meta announced Thursday that they recently removed 480 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages, and groups associated with the Proud Boys, for violating the platforms’ ban on the far-right extremist group. The Proud Boys organization was banned […]

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Novak Djokovic won’t be playing in US Open due to COVID-19 vaccination status

Novak Djokovic won’t be playing in US Open due to COVID-19 vaccination status

ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Novak Djokovic, one of the world’s top tennis players, confirmed Thursday that he won’t be competing at the upcoming U.S. Open. The Serbian athlete will miss this year’s tournament in New York City due to his COVID-19 vaccination status. “Sadly, I will […]

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Columbus teachers reach ‘conceptual agreement’ with school board, halt strike

Columbus teachers reach ‘conceptual agreement’ with school board, halt strike

Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The Columbus teachers union has reached a “conceptual agreement” with its school board after three days of picketing. The Columbus Board of Education and the Columbus Education Association did not disclose terms of the deal. The CEA began its […]

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