On Tuesday, Brandeis became the last local university to announce the cancellation of fall sports due to continued concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. “The department considered all options and planned extensively to compete this season,” Brandeis athletic director Lauren Haynie told the students in an email. “Based on the federal, …
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The coronavirus test is a phrase that most have already heard. On Tuesday, San Luis Obispo County reported 72 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the county’s total to 1,078 confirmed cases, the largest increase in the single-day case count. The San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department says the county has …
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He has been anonymous for months, but now Prasad Dinesh, linked by Sri Lankan authorities to nearly half of the country’s more than 2,600 coronavirus cases, is trying to clear his name and remove the stigma of a heroin addiction in the root of his ordeal. . After Dinesh, 33, …
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Blackburn with Darwen has introduced additional closing measures that include a limit on the number of people who can visit a home after an increase in Covid-19 cases. Lancashire Authority Public Health Director Dominic Harrison announced the new measures on Tuesday, to be followed over the next month with the …
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man allegedly suffering from dementia, who had died by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution after a 17-year hiatus. Convicted of a horrific kidnapping and murder in 1998, Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be …
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