Football Non-Region CASTLE DALE, Utah-Alex Jackson completed 18 of 24 passes for 246 yards and 3 TD’s as the Juab Wasps bested Emery 38-6 in non-region football action Friday. Because of monsoonal conditions in central eastern Utah Friday evening, lightning caused a 15-minute delay to the ballgame. Nevertheless, the Wasps […]
WJLA-TV (WASHINGTON) — What’s black and white and roaming the greater Washington, D.C., area? Zebras. “As if 2021 can’t get even more crazier, a pack of zebras were spotted in a Maryland county,” the National Park Service of Chesapeake Bay tweeted out earlier this week. The group of five zebras, […]
Asaro Family (NEW YORK) — He was 39 years old, but those who knew Carl Asaro remember him as “a big kid.” He was a man who loved music, his wife, six children and his job as a firefighter. “He would still have like a lot of energy and come […]
The Big 12 has added four new members. BYU, UCF, Cincinnati and Houston have formally accepted invitations to join the league. The Big 12 has moved quickly after learning it will lose Oklahoma and Texas to the Southeastern Conference no later than July 2025. BYU says all of its sports […]
PinkOmelet/iStock (BOWLING GREEN, Ky.) — With millions of Americans still unvaccinated, hospitals across the country are once again facing the overwhelming pressure of caring for thousands of COVID-19 patients — with more than 100,000 people in beds as of Friday. While hospitalization rates in states like Florida and Mississippi, hit […]
kuzma/iStock FILE (NEW YORK) — Hours before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, pretrial proceedings in the case against the five accused orchestrators started and ended on Friday with none of them present in the courtroom for the final public session of the week – while multiple defense […]
Kuzma/iStock (OSHKOSH, Wisc.) — Anissa Weier, one of the two 12-year-old girls who said they attacked a friend to please the fictional character “Slender Man,” will be released from a mental health institution on Monday. Weier is now 19. In 2014, Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner, also 12, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Thirteen Utah hospitals will postpone many non-emergency surgeries starting next week as health care workers are overwhelmed by another surge in COVID-19 cases from the faster-spreading delta variant. Intermountain Healthcare announced Friday that the hospitals will postpone non-urgent procedures for several weeks starting Sept. 15. […]
Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The sky was clear and blue. The gray towers stood, both guarding and welcoming, at the gateway to the nation. Out of nowhere came the impact, the blaze, the smoke — and then the towers were gone. When the dust and […]
Courtesy Vaughn Allex (WASHINGTON) — Vaughn Allex will never forget the faces of two of the 9/11 hijackers. He looked them in the eye that morning and asked who packed their luggage. Allex was an American Airlines ticket agent at Dulles International Airport on Sept. 11, 2001 when two men […]
