SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City’s Hogle Zoo says a 17-year-old giraffe named Pogo has died, and her unborn calf was too small to survive. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Pogo started showing symptoms that she was sick on Sunday afternoon and died Monday. Zoo officials said in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s governor has released an annual budget proposal calling for a freeze on college and university tuition increases until a specific definition of higher education affordability can be established. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Republican Gov. Gary Herbert requested that the governing bodies of the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California teenager who survived nearly 30 hours alone in the snowy Utah mountains says he kept himself awake with phone alarms, built a snow cave for shelter and held a special beaded bracelet to keep his hopes up. Seventeen-year-old Nicolas Stacy-Alcantara of Frenso says he […]
pixelliebe/iStock(NEW YORK) — The accused mastermind of an elaborate GoFundMe scam that duped thousands of victims out of more than $400,000 has been hit with a 16-count federal indictment a month after pleading guilty to state charges stemming from the hoax involving his ex-girlfriend and a homeless veteran. A federal […]
BOULDER, Colo.-Sunday, Utah men’s basketball (10-4, 1-1 in Pac-12 play) visits Colorado (12-3, 1-1 in Pac-12) as the regional rivals meet in a late-afternoon tilt at the CU Events Center. The Utes are coached by Larry Krystkowiak who is 165-115 (.589) in his ninth season at Utah. He is 207-135 […]
SEATTLE-Saturday evening, Utah Valley men’s basketball (7-10, 1-1 in WAC play) continues conference play by visiting the Seattle U. Redhawks (8-9, 1-1 in WAC play) at the Redhawk Center. Under new head coach Mark Madsen (7-10, .412) the Wolverines are in the mix in the WAC, tied for fourth place […]
Lux Blue/iStock(CHICAGO) — Chicago police spotted a coyote believed to be the same animal that bit a man and a young boy in separate attacks. Officials said the coyote was spotted Thursday morning near Northwestern Hospital in Streeterville, just hours after a 32-year-old man went to the hospital after he said […]
A Fairview man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday on one count of 3rd– degree felony forcible sexual abuse. David Jackson Pemberton, 53, was sentenced to 0 to 5 years in the Utah State Prison for abuse of two 14-year old boys he hired to help him build a cabin […]
Roswell Police Department(ROSWELL, N.M.) — Police in New Mexico are on the hunt for a 32-year-old man, who went missing with his 3-year-old son, after allegedly killing the mother of his child. An arrest warrant was issued late Wednesday night for Jorge Rico-Ruvira for first-degree murder in the death of […]
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A cold front moved through the Northeast Wednesday, causing snow squalls, lowering visibility briefly, and producing a dusting of snow up to a few inches in spots. Now that the cold front has moved out, the Northeast is chilly Thursday morning. But this will not last […]
