United Farm Workers/Twitter (NEW YORK) —An unrelenting heat wave has been scorching the West and the Plains this week, and while many can hide inside and crank up the air conditioning, farmworkers have to endure the dangerous conditions. Heat kills farmworkers every year, according to Elizabeth Strater, director for strategic […]
Colorado Parks Wildlife via Facebook (DENVER) — Three people suffered non-life-threatening injuries after a hot air balloon crashed near Swim Beach at the Chatfield Reservoir, which is south of Denver, on Sunday morning, authorities said. The crash was on land and some passengers were transported, authorities reported. The Jefferson County […]
ABC News/KTRK (HOUSTON) — The wife and 4-year-old step-daughter of a police officer have been injured during a home invasion after the off-duty cop allegedly exchanged gunfire with the suspect in his own home. The incident occurred at approximately 2 a.m. when the Harris County deputy constable and his family […]
carlballou/iStock (WICHITA, KS.) — A police officer in Kansas is in critical condition after being shot multiple times while attempting to provide a welfare check. The incident occurred at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Saturday night in Wichita, Kansas, when two officers were attempting to do a welfare check on a […]
tillsonburg/iStock (WILTON MANORS, Fla.) —One man was killed and another injured after two people were hit by a truck at a South Florida gay pride march on Saturday evening. The incident took place at the Stonewall Pride Parade & Street Festival in Wilton Manors, just north of Fort Lauderdale. It […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from yesterday’s games: —— INTERLEAGUE Final Pittsburgh 6 Cleveland 3 —— AMERICAN LEAGUE Final N.Y. Yankees 7 Oakland 5 Final Minnesota 3 Texas […]
EUGENE, Ore.-Saturday, former Mid-Utah Radio Sports Network school multi-sports stars Whittni Orton and Anna Camp competed at the USTFA Olympic Trials at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in the women’s 1500-meter run. Orton, a former Panguitch High School and BYU star, posted a time of […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Once again, the Utah Jazz endured a postseason collapse. Making an early exit from the NBA playoffs stung much more this time. The top-seeded Jazz fell to the Los Angeles Clippers in six games after blowing a 2-0 series lead. Injuries to All-Stars Donovan Mitchell […]
In a post to their Facebook page, the Salina Police Department shared that they are seeking the publics help in locating a person involved in a hit and run. Around 1:00 a.m. on June 19, a woman was walking home from the balloon festival. She was walking east on 100 […]
Courtsey of Michelle Duster (NEW YORK) — For enslaved Africans in America, the idea of freedom was just a dream. After hundreds of years of struggle, first for freedom, and then civil rights, the date marking the official end of slavery in 1865 — June 19 — was declared a […]
