iStock(NEW YORK) — A New York teen reached for the stars last summer and found a one-of-a-kind planet. Wolf Cukier, 17, an intern at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, last July, was tasked with going through data on star brightness from the facility’s ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey […]
iStock(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — When the Sandy Hook Promise foundation wanted to host a benefit concert at the Alamodome in San Antonio, an organizer for the nonprofit turned to Nancy Jean and Carissa Scott, hoping they could book top musical talent to perform. Jean, of Georgia, and Scott, of Mississippi, […]
DENVER/CHADRON, Neb.-Friday and Saturday, No. 19 (in both the coaches and D2SIDA polls) Dixie State (11-2, 6-1 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play) visits Metro State (6-7, 2-5 in RMAC play) and Chadron State (3-10, 2-5 in RMAC play) as their conference season continues. In his 15th season at the […]
A man from Antimony is upset with the division of wildlife resources after he claims they shot a gun on his property at a deer he helped raise. According to Cole Montague, a DWR officer came to his property on Jan. 8th while no one was home and shot a […]
iStock(WASHINGTON) — The number of migrants stopped by authorities along the southern border continued to fall into the final month of 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data released on Thursday. The decline marks a seven-month low in the number of unauthorized migrants attempting to cross the southern […]
iStock(NEW YORK) — Security video purportedly showing the outside of millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s New York jail cell at the time of his attempted suicide in July has been lost, federal prosecutors claim. The five hours of footage taken by a camera outside of Epstein’s cell at the Metropolitan […]
OGDEN, Utah-In news confirmed Thursday, Weber State football senior All-American defensive end Jonah Williams has been invited to the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl. He will compete at this annual postseason all-star game January 18 at the Rose Bowl of Pasadena, Calif. for a 5:00 pm MST kickoff on NFL Network. Williams […]
DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) — A New York trial judge on Thursday denied a motion by Harvey Weinstein’s defense team to recuse himself from the case after vigorously scolding the Hollywood producer earlier this week and threatening to revoke his bail for using a cellphone in the courtroom. In a 15-minute ruling […]
Kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) — A Queens, New York woman who plotted to build a bomb for a terrorist attack inside the U.S. was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a New York federal judge on Thursday. Asia Siddiqui and her co-conspirator Noelle Velentzas were arrested in 2015 following a lengthy […]
More than 16,000 public comments have been submitted for a proposal on whether to allow a highway to be built through a protected Mojave desert tortoise habitat in southern Utah. The four-lane road has drawn criticism from conservationists. The Spectrum newspaper reported the road would pass through the Red Cliffs […]
