(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s attorney general is cheering an appeals court decision temporarily halting new COVID-19 safety rules from the Biden Administration. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stopped the rules from going into effect in a ruling issued on Saturday. The judges said […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah lawmakers are expected to vote on a name change for southern Utah’s Dixie State University next week. Fox13 reports a bill to rename it Utah Technical University will be considered in a special session next week where lawmakers will also vote on redistricting. Republican […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Researchers are studying the Great Salt Lake in the hope of finding life-saving medicines. The Salt Lake Tribune reports a University of Utah professor and her students are scooping up mud and other sediment to identify microorganisms like bacteria and fungi that could hold the […]
Henry County Police Department via Twitter (HENRY COUNTY, Ga.) — Investigators in Georgia and NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal are offering a $30,000 reward for any information regarding a suspect who shot and wounded a police officer last week. Henry County Police Officer Paramhans Desai, 38, was responding to a […]
LOGAN, Utah-Utah State senior wide receiver Deven Thompkins was named the College Sports Madness Mountain West Conference player of the week Monday as USU defeated their fellow Aggies, New Mexico State, 35-13. Thompkins netted nine receptions for 215 yards and two scoring receptions in the Aggies’ victory at Las Cruces, […]
jonathanfilskov-photography/iStock (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 754,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 68.3% of Americans ages 12 and up […]
kali9/iStock (NEW YORK) — Three Ivy League school campuses issued temporary evacuations Sunday afternoon after receiving bomb threats. The incidents at Cornell, Columbia and Brown universities came two days after a similar threat took place at Yale University Friday. The New York Police Department was called to Columbia’s campus around […]
Kali9/iStock (HOUSTON) — As names of most of the victims emerged in the deadly stage surge horror at the Astroworld Festival concert in Houston, 23-year-old Arturo Sanchez said his heart literally stopped as he was trampled by the crowd. Bruised and battered, Sanchez told ABC News from his hospital bed […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Brooklyn 116, Toronto 103 Cleveland 126, New York 109 Orlando 107, Utah 100 Washington 101, Milwaukee 94 Indiana 94, Sacramento 91 Oklahoma City 99, San Antonio 94 Golden State 120, Houston 107 LA Clippers 120, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Cole Anthony scored 10 of his season-best 33 points in the fourth quarter and keyed a game-closing 24-11 run that helped the Orlando Magic past the Utah Jazz 107-100. Down by as many as 13 points in the third quarter and trailing 89-81 with eight minutes […]
