Walter Myers/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On Christmas Day, NASA is launching into space its biggest, most expensive and most powerful telescope yet. The James Webb Space Telescope will rocket into the cosmos and orbit nearly 1 million miles away from Earth. If the launch is successful, the telescope […]
Neville Elder/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Revered journalist and author Joan Didion died Thursday at her home in New York City due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, her longtime publisher confirmed to ABC News. She was 87-years-old. Didion was known as one of most incisive writers of her time, penning […]
Mel Melcon/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Two people were fatally shot, including a 14-year-old girl struck by a stray bullet that entered her dressing room, after officers opened fire during a confrontation with a suspect at a Los Angeles clothing store, police said. The incident occurred shortly before noon Thursday […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 28 points and the Utah Jazz beat the short-handed Minnesota Timberwolves 128-116. Rudy Gobert had 20 points and 17 rebounds, Bojan Bogdanovic added 18 points and Mike Conley scored 17 points as the Jazz won for the 10th time in 12 games. […]
HONOLULU (AP) — Scotty Pippen Jr. scored the last 16 points for Vanderbilt over seven-plus minutes and the Commodores made a final charge to defeat BYU 69-67 in the semifinal round of the Diamond Head Classic. Pippen scored 23 points for Vanderbilt, which has won its last three games. Myles […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Orlando Robinson had 22 points as Fresno State easily beat Weber State 69-43. Jamison Overton led the Wildcats on Thursday with 12 points.
Michael Lee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A security assessment issued Thursday said there is no “credible” threat at this time ahead of next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City’s Times Square, which will bring back a limited crowd after last year’s virtual event. Law enforcement agencies “have […]
Manuel Peric / EyeEm / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weather alerts are in effect from California to the Texas Panhandle, and rounds of heavy mountain snow, rain and strong winds are expected to impact much of the western U.S. in the coming days. As of Thursday afternoon, mountain snow […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A former Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with her boyfriend’s suicide pleaded guilty Thursday as part of a plea deal. Inyoung You, 23, changed her plea two years after initially pleading not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston in the […]
EPHRAIM, Utah-Thursday, Snow College women’s basketball announced the signing of Enid Vaifanua, a forward at Desert Hills High School. Vaifanua, a senior for the Thunder, has posted 368 points, 46 points, 47 rebounds, 45 assists and 35 steals in two seasons of playing varsity at Desert Hills.
