SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday, the University of Utah men’s basketball squad announced its season opener. The Utes will host Sacramento State November 13 at the Huntsman Center. The game time will be revealed at a future date. This will be the third all-time meeting between the Utes and Hornets with the […]
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Three Ohio police officers are facing criminal charges stemming from alleged misconduct last year at Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of George Floyd, officials said on Wednesday. Special prosecutor Kathleen Garber, who was appointed by the City of Columbus to independently investigate complaints […]
peterspiro/iStock (REXBURG, Idaho) — Lori Vallow, the mother charged in the murder of her two children, has been ordered by a judge to be committed to a mental health facility, putting her trial on hold. Vallow was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation in March for separate concealment of evidence charges, […]
peterspiro/iStock (NEW YORK) — Just days after her wedding, one woman donated her kidney to her husband’s ex-wife. Debby Neal-Strickland, 56, from Florida, married Jim Merthe on Nov. 22, 2020 — the 10-year anniversary of their first date. Two days afterward, Neal-Strickland donated her kidney to Merthe’s ex-wife, Mylaen Merthe, […]
Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A White House press charter plane was “bugged” on Tuesday night, “rendering it unworkable” and delaying journalists headed to Europe to cover the president’s first overseas trip, according to Delta Air Lines. The Delta A330’s Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) — one of multiple sources […]
FARMINGTON, Utah-Wednesday, the Big Sky Conference and ESPN reached a new multi-year multi-platform media rights deal. This adds numerous Southern Utah University and Weber State University sports events to ESPN+ and the ESPN app. For the Thunderbirds, this will only be through July 1, 2022 at which point they will […]
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore.) — An arrest has been made in a decades-old Oregon cold case murder thanks to an investigative tool known as genetic genealogy, authorities said. Robert Plympton, now 58, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly killing a 19-year-old college student in January 1980, according […]
E. Jason Wambsgans/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two of R. Kelly’s top lawyers no longer want to represent the disgraced R&B singer just two months before he’s scheduled to stand trial in a Brooklyn, New York, federal court on sex abuse charges. Lead defense attorney Steve Greenberg and […]
Patience Murray (NEW YORK) — Five years after the shooting at Pulse nightclub that claimed 49 lives, Patience Murray still struggles physically and mentally with what happened that night. “There will never be a point where I’m done learning or done healing,” she said. “And I just have to accept […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Several wildfires are burning in Utah amid hot, dry conditions and with most of the state mired in extreme drought. The largest blaze is one that started Tuesday in central Utah near the town of Price that was about 3 square miles (8 square kilometers) […]
