Joe Raedle/Getty Images (CHARLOTTE) — Determined to get justice for a Black man fatally shot by North Carolina sheriff’s deputies who were deemed justified in their use of deadly force by a local prosecutor, a group of civil rights activists and religious leaders met Thursday with the state’s governor to […]
MattGush/iStock (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Three Wilmington police officers were shot while responding to a domestic dispute call in Delaware’s largest city, authorities said. The suspect, 31-year-old Bernard Goodwyn of Smyrna, Delaware, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday morning following a roughly 12-hour standoff with the authorities, […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Environmental groups and oyster farmers have found a silver lining — or a pearl — amid the ravages of the pandemic. Millions of oysters that went unsold when restaurants closed are finding a new life back in the ocean, where advocates say they’ll help the […]
cmannphoto/iStock (NEW YORK) — The Buffalo Sabres won the NHL’s draft lottery and will pick first overall during July’s draft. “It’s a great moment for our franchise,” Buffalo general manager Kevyn Adams said during the broadcast on NBCSN. “It’s obviously been a tough year for a lot of different reasons, […]
On June 1, Garfield County received a call regarding a 21 year old male who has been hiking from Mexico, over eight hundred miles, and was on the Hayduke Trail of BLM Grand Staircase when he fell off a cliff. He fell approximately 60 feet landing on his face and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s governor is asking citizens to pray for rain this weekend to relieve the state from its drought. Gov. Spencer Cox released a statement Thursday calling on Utah citizens to pray for divine intervention as an excessive heat warning has been issued for areas of […]
FARMINGTON, Utah (AP) — Davis County sheriff’s deputies and other department employees are prohibited under a new office policy from enforcing certain measures that could infringe on the right to bear arms. The Standard-Examiner reported that Sheriff Kelly Sparks says the policy is meant as a preventive measure and counterweight […]
WFAA-TV (DALLAS) — A high school valedictorian used her graduation speech to speak out against a newly signed law in her home state of Texas that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The commencement speech Paxton Smith, 18, submitted to administrators at Lake Highlands High School in […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The father of a Utah woman beaten to death by her husband on an Alaska cruise in 2017 told a judge he would consider it justice if the man went to prison for the rest of his life. Jeff Hunt spoke at a sentencing hearing Wednesday […]
Terry Wyatt/Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — An after-action review of a Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville has concluded “there is no way to know for sure” whether police could have thwarted the devastating attack that injured three people. The eight-page report by a five-member committee appointed in January by […]
