Police in Utah say a 10-year-old boy hurt in a multi-vehicle crash that killed his father has died of his injuries. Israel Camey was riding in a Chevy Tahoe driven by his father, 45-year-old Vilsar Camey, on Sunday when authorities say it was struck by a speeding pickup truck at […]
DaveAlan/iStock(EDISON, N.J.) — A lucky lottery player in New Jersey has won a $202 million jackpot, officials announced Wednesday. The Quick Stop Food Store in Edison sold the winning Mega Millions ticket for Tuesday’s drawing. The jackpot, the first won by a Mega Millions player in 2020, has a cash […]
Ollie’s World/Facebook(WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) — It was just another Target run, until something that caught little Oliver Garza-Pena’s eye made him stop his wheelchair in its tracks. His mother, Demi Garza Pena, told “Good Morning America” she “could not break” her son’s gaze from an advertisement in the boy’s clothing […]
Kuzma/iStock(SALINE, Mich.) — The parents of four Saline, Michigan, high school students filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday over the students’ suspension following alleged racist messages they posted on Snapchat. Two of the unnamed students, all white, have returned to their classes while the others face expulsion for their Jan. 26 […]
MivPiv/iStock(NEW YORK) — A bump by an unknown stranger inside a Brooklyn, New York, club where more than a dozen gang members were celebrating a birthday in 1995, left a man behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Christian Pacheco was 18 years old when he was sentenced […]
VEX Collective/iStock(ATLANTA) — An Atlanta firefighter was suspended without pay for reportedly breaking protocol when he went into a burning home to save a 95-year-old woman. Yet questions around what exactly led to the suspension remain, and whether or not policies were in fact breached. Capt. Daniel Dwyer, a 15-year […]
A committee of Utah lawmakers has approved a bill that would require online and printed pornography to carry warning labels and subject violators to possible fines of $2,500. Republican state Rep. Brady Brammer proposed the idea of labeling print and digital pornographic content in the state with warnings on the […]
The University of Utah has agreed to an energy deal to allow the school to get more than half of its electricity through renewable sources. That makes it the first public college in the state to do so. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the college finalized the purchase of […]
A Utah county has agreed to pay more than $10,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by two Idaho State University football players who say they were falsely arrested during a bank robbery investigation. The Standard-Examiner reported Nehemiah McFarlin and Atoatasi Fox will receive $5,100 each in the settlement with Box […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Utah’s congressional delegation has signed a letter opposing the proposed use of a reservation system for Zion National Park. The Spectrum reported the National Park Service plans to move forward with a capacity study that could result in a mandated reservation system for the park […]
