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BYU rolls past Navy 55-3 in season-opener with no fans

BYU rolls past Navy 55-3 in season-opener with no fans

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Tyler Allgeier ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns, and BYU put the clamps on Navy’s usually potent triple option in a season-opening 55-3 rout Monday night inside an eerily empty stadium at the Naval Academy. The Cougars scored touchdowns on each of their first two […]

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Minnesota United snaps 4-game skid, beats Real Salt Lake 4-0

Minnesota United snaps 4-game skid, beats Real Salt Lake 4-0

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Robin Lod scored two goals and Minnesota United snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Sunday night. Lod scored in the 62nd and 90th minutes. He and has five goals in nine games for the Loons. Real Salt […]

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Revamped, revised college schedule produces Navy-BYU opener

Revamped, revised college schedule produces Navy-BYU opener

Monday night’s season opener between Navy and Brigham Young came together out of necessity. Both teams lost their original first-week opponent because of the coronavirus pandemic, so the schools agreed to play at the Naval Academy. There won’t be any fans in the stands, but the game will be played […]

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Board of Education adds funding for Utah students internet

Board of Education adds funding for Utah students internet

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah State Board of Education has added $1 million to extend a competitive grant program intended to connect more households to the internet as more students are learning remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. KSL-TV reported that the board voted Thursday to add funding from […]

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Utah police frustrated with anti-law enforcement sentiment

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police groups in Utah have called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon implying white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside The Salt Lake Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association […]

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Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas

Voting in person Nov. 3? Expect drive-thrus, sports arenas

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Voting will look a little different this November. States are turning to stadiums, drive-thrus and possibly even movie theaters as safe options for in-person polling places amid the coronavirus pandemic and fears about mail-in ballots failing to arrive in time to count. The primary season […]

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Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Biologists in southern Utah are surveying the damage left by a wildfire that scorched large swaths of land set aside for rare tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The Spectrum reports that on a recent day in late August, they fanned out on a landscape that […]

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Colleges combating coronavirus turn to stinky savior: sewage

Colleges combating coronavirus turn to stinky savior: sewage

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As colleges grapple with the coronavirus, institutions across the country are turning campus sewage into a public health tool. At least two schools in Utah and Arizona have quarantined hundreds of students after tests showed the presence of genetic material from the virus in wastewater. […]

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‘Game-changer’: Rapid, daily virus testing coming to Pac-12

‘Game-changer’: Rapid, daily virus testing coming to Pac-12

The Pac-12 could be playing football and basketball sooner than expected. The conference announced each of the 12 schools will soon have the capacity to perform daily, rapid COVID-19 tests on athletes. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott called the deal with Quidel Corporation, a diagnostic testing company, a “game-changer.” He said […]

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Utah aims to be prepared for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

Utah aims to be prepared for COVID-19 vaccine distribution

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert says Utah will aim to be prepared to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it becomes available, a week after the federal government told states to be ready for distribution by Nov. 1. At a weekly briefing Thursday, Herbert did not clarify whether […]

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