Petrovich9/iStock(SALT LAKE CITY) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, early Wednesday, knocking out the state’s coronavirus hotline, according to the governor. This was the state’s largest earthquake since 1992, according to Utah Emergency Management. The @UtahDepOfHealth state lab is assessing damage and currently down. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 5.7-magnitude earthquake has shaken Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs. The quake sent panicked residents running to the streets, knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and closed the city’s airport and its light rail system. The U.S. Geological Survey […]
jarun011/iStock(NEW YORK) — An outbreak of a highly contagious virus that first emerged in China about three months ago has now spread to every U.S. state. The novel coronavirus, which causes a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, has infected at least 6,300 people in the United States, including all 50 […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The onslaught of storms in the west dumped up to 9.5 feet of snow in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains in the last several days, which caused numerous road closures and downed trees. A separate storm system in northern Texas brought up to half a foot of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert ordered statewide dine-in closures at restaurants and bars Tuesday while health officials in the national parks hotspot of Moab ordered a halt to new overnight tourists to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus. The steps came as the number […]
SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — The parents of a Utah woman who died while in jail have settled a lawsuit against a county for $950,000. Calvin and Kim Ostler sued Salt Lake County over the death of their daughter, Lisa Marie Ostler. The lawsuit says jailers believed […]
Samara Heisz/iStock(NEW YORK) — States are shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms and schools to try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed at least 110 people in the United States. There are at least 6,300 confirmed cases in the U.S, with COVID-19 reaching all 50 […]
Samara Heisz/iStock(NEW YORK) — States are shutting down restaurants, bars, gyms and schools to try to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed at least 100 people in the United States. There are at least 5,890 confirmed cases in the U.S, with COVID-19 reaching all 50 […]
WASHINGTON-Tuesday, during a coronavirus task briefing Tuesday, United States President Donald Trump expressed his confidence that the nation would win over COVID-19. In citing the restrictions imposed upon the American public during a Monday meeting with the press, Trump said the nation can get rolling again “pretty quickly,” if the […]
@cassie_stephenz/Instagram(NEW YORK) — An elementary art teacher is bringing creative fun to young students who are out of school during the coronavirus outbreak. “I want to engage kids while they’re sitting at home,” Cassie Stephens, a teacher at Johnson Elementary School in Franklin, Tennessee, told “Good Morning America.” “I want […]
