SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities in Utah County say they have uncovered a second cockfighting ring less than a week after finding another one. KSTU-TV reported that the Utah County sheriff’s department said 35 people were arrested or cited last Saturday for participating in a sophisticated cockfighting operation. Sgt. […]
iStock/davidf (BATON ROUGE, L.A.) — Hundreds of homes are under mandatory evacuation after flood barriers were breached Friday morning in a rural southeastern Louisiana parish outside of Baton Rouge. An artificial dam system set up along Louisiana Highway 75 in Iberville Parish to hold back floodwaters from the Intracoastal Waterway […]
imaginima/iStock (KENOSHA, Wis.) — Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois man accused of killing two people during protests decrying the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last summer, made his first in-person court appearance Friday. There was increased security for the 18-year-old’s brief, final pre-trial hearing. It was his first time […]
KAYSVILLE, Utah-Friday, the first day of 1-A through 4-A state track at Davis High School commenced with various Mid-Utah Radio Sports Network student-athletes in competition for state titles in their respective events. Rain came through in the mid-morning portion of the meet and as the afternoon progressed, a lightning delay […]
Marco Curaba/iStock (NEW YORK) — A 29-year-old Jewish man was beaten by a group of people in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday evening, police said. The victim was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released. The incident is now being investigated as a hate crime, […]
Liu Jie/Xinhua via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — His name means “Little Miracle.” Xiao Qi Ji, the Smithsonian National Zoo’s newest giant panda cub, makes his public debut Friday after being born last August to his mother, Mei Xiang, who was considered too old, at age 22, to get pregnant. Up […]
Marco Curaba/iStock (NEW YORK) — A 23-year-old Jewish man was beaten by a group of people in New York City’s Times Square on Thursday evening, police said. The victim was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and then released. The incident is now being investigated as a hate […]
rustythedog/iStock (SALT LAKE CITY) — Police officers in Utah will undergo mandatory training to learn how better to interact with people on the autism spectrum — the result of legislation that passed in March and took effect this month. The new law requires all police officers in Utah have “training […]
jetcityimage/iStock (WINDSOR, Conn.) — A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to those responsible after seven nooses were discovered at the construction site of an Amazon distribution center in Windsor, Connecticut, in the past month. The first incident was reported to police on April 27, after a hangman’s […]
Kuzma/iStock (BROOKLYN, Iowa) — A law enforcement investigator testified on Thursday that it was only by chance that he scored the biggest break in the 2018 disappearance and slaying of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. Poweshiek County, Iowa, sheriff’s deputy Steve Kivi testified that he was driving home on […]
