Blake David Taylor/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (HYDE COUNTY, S.D.) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg faces three misdemeanor charges after fatally striking a pedestrian on a highway in September, officials announced Thursday. The charges include operating a motor vehicle while using a mobile device, lane driving violation and […]
OGDEN, Utah-Thursday, Weber State University signed head football coach Jay Hill to a 2-year extension. This will keep him as the Wildcats’ head coach through the 2025 season. Hill became the 11th head coach in program history in December 2013. In January 2017, he signed a five-year extension, adding two […]
kali9/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and MARK CRUDELE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A gas explosion at an apartment in New York City has left nine people injured, including two children who are in critical condition, police and fire sources said. Six out of the nine injured are children, police sources said. […]
Petmal/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars Thursday afternoon, as part of one of the agency’s most ambitious deep-space missions to search for signs of ancient life on the red planet. The rover’s voyage will also help pave the way for […]
Conservation officers with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are seeking help to find individuals involved with a deer poaching in south- central Utah. In late January, two mature mule deer bucks were poached on the Fillmore-Oak Creek limited entry deer unit in south-central Utah. Whoever killed the deer hacked […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah legislative committee has passed a bill that would increase penalties and eliminate bail for rioting in response to last year’s protests against police brutality and racial injustice. KUER-FM reported Thursday that Republican state Sen. David Hinkins presented the bill to the Senate Judiciary […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A proposal to ban transgender athletes from playing on girls sports teams passed the state House Wednesday in Utah. Utah is one of more than 20 states considering similar measures that opponents say would harm transgender teenagers. The Republican lawmaker sponsoring the measure says it […]
Adam Calaitzis/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and SASHA PEZENIK, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As a historic winter storm knocks out power and bursts pipes across Texas, hospitals in the lone star state are facing additional stress. Hospitals, already contending with COVID-19 patients, are now helping people whose supplemental oxygen tanks have […]
Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty ImagesBy MORGAN WINSOR and ANTHONY TROTTER, ABC News (TOKYO) — The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee announced Thursday that Seiko Hashimoto has been appointed president, a week after the previous leader was forced to resign over sexist comments he made suggesting women talk too much in meetings. “Today I […]
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The storm that left parts of the South buried under 15 inches of snow and a shield of ice is now moving into the Northeast. Little Rock, Arkansas, saw a record 11.8 inches of snow on Wednesday while […]
