BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a charter amendment that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety. About 56% of voters voted “no” on the charter amendment, which was pitched as a “public health approach” to policing in response to the […]
Marilyn Nieves/iStock (GLYNN COUNTY, Ga.) — A jury was impaneled on Wednesday to decide the fate of three white Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who prosecutors allege was just out for a Sunday jog in 2020 when he was attacked. Opening […]
Christian Petersen/Getty Images (GREEN BAY, Wis.) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss this Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs after being put on the NFL’s COVID-19 list, the team said. Packers head coach Matt LaFleur told reporters during a press briefing Wednesday afternoon that he is […]
DALLAS-Wednesday, the University of Utah football team was named as a nominee for the 2021 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award. This award, which dates back to 2002, is given to “someone who has displayed courage on or off the field” and is bestowed amid festivities during Capital One Bowl […]
Ethan Miller/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — NFL wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving 156 mph seconds before he slammed his Corvette into the back of a Toyota SUV in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning, killing the driver, according to a police report. Ruggs, who was released by the Las […]
AlxeyPnferov/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 748,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Just 67.9% of Americans ages 12 and up […]
(Undated) — Election officials say Utah’s first large-scale experiment with ranked-choice voting is going well. Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swenson tells KUTV that software designed to count ranked-choice votes is working as expected. Utah County is also counting ranked-choice ballots in several races, and their clerk says there have […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A private collection of rare artifacts related to the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is up for sale. The G. Ralph Bailey collection contains more than four-thousand items, including letters, books, documents and artwork, valued at three-point-two-million-dollars. Letters in the […]
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla.-Wednesday morning, BYU junior offensive lineman James Empey was named one of 12 semifinalists for the prestigious Wuerffel trophy. Named in honor of Danny Wuerffel, the 1996 Heisman trophy-winning quarterback for the University of Florida, this trophy honors college football players who serve others, celebrate their positive […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A crew member on the movie set of “Rust” talked to “Good Morning America” about his safety concerns on that set. Lane Luper, formerly first camera assistant on the film, had quit and left the production the day before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna […]
