by_nicholas/iStock (LONDON) — After a two-year pandemic break, football is returning to London this weekend as the NFL ventures over for the first of two regular season matchups. The New York Jets will face the Atlanta Falcons at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday. Atlanta coach Arthur Smith commented on trip […]
DNY59/iStock (DALLAS) — A panel of judges on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary administrative stay Friday night that will allow state courts in Texas to continue accept lawsuits under the state’s restrictive abortion law. President Joe Biden’s Justice Department had sued the state of Texas […]
Football 2-A South FILLMORE, Utah-Morgan Wade had 231 yards and 4 scores on 16 carries and added another grab for 37 yards as the Millard Eagles clobbered South Sevier 41-14 Friday in 2-A South play. KC Whitaker (9 car, 49 yards, rush TD) added another score for Millard and James […]
ABC (ST. PAUL, Minn.) — Laura Sosalla, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was declared legally blind earlier this year due to long-term effects after a battle with COVID-19 last November. Sosalla was determined and said she wanted to prove to herself that she wouldn’t let the impairment change how she lived […]
Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Civil rights charges will not be pursued against the Wisconsin police officer who shot Jacob Blake last year, partially paralyzing him, the Department of Justice announced Friday. Kenosha Police Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, fired seven times at Blake, who is Black, on […]
NicolasMcComber/iStock (CODY, Wyo.) — After a video of her trying to photograph grizzly bears went viral, a woman from Illinois has been sentenced to four days in jail and banned from Yellowstone National Park for a year. Samantha Dehring, 25, from Carol Stream, Illinois, was charged on Oct. 6 for […]
Kuzma/iStock (BOSTON) — A guilty verdict was reached Friday afternoon in the trial of John Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz, two wealthy fathers charged with paying bribes to secure prestigious college spots for their kids under false pretenses. Wilson and Abdelaziz were the first defendants among about five dozen to stand trial […]
(Washington, DC) — Utah Senator Mike Lee is joining a group of Republican colleagues in asking the Department of Justice to stay out of fights between parents and local school boards. Lee and 11 other GOP senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday saying the DOJ should […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A new policy that would allow Utah school staffers to address students by their preferred pronouns is getting attention from critics and supporters. Protesters came to a meeting of the Utah Board of Education yesterday ahead of a discussion of gender identity issues in state […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state is looking to invest in new technology to detect earthquakes before Utahns feel shaking. Utah’s Seismic Safety Commission voted yesterday to recommend that the state spend 150-thousand-dollars to study the system. Researchers with the University of Utah say the new tech, earthquake early […]
