Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (BOISE, Idaho) — Faced with a severe medical staffing shortage due to a surge in the COVID-19 cases and dwindling blood supply, Idaho health officials have activated crisis standards of care guidelines for the second time in less than a year. The Idaho Department of Public Health […]
Free Agents Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A second NYPD officer has died after being shot at a domestic violence call in Harlem this weekend. Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, who died Tuesday, is “3 times a hero,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell tweeted. “For choosing a life of service. For sacrificing […]
@USCGSoutheast/Twitter (FORT PIERCE INLET, Fla.) — The Coast Guard was combing the waters off eastern Florida Tuesday afternoon, looking for 39 people on a boat that capsized. The vessel may have been part of a “human smuggling venture,” the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard said it had received a […]
Google Maps Street View (FAYETTEVILLE, Ga.) — A Black law enforcement officer is alleging that he was racially profiled in a Georgia Walmart store after he was handcuffed and wrongfully accused of shoplifting — and now he’s suing. David Conners, a Clayton County corrections officer, said he was shopping for […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On the second day of his trial in Manhattan federal court, Michael Avenatti has asked to represent himself. Avenatti had been appointed taxpayer-funded counsel from the Federal Defenders of New York as he fights charges he stole $300,000 from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Avenatti […]
(Orem, UT) – Two faculty groups at Utah Valley University are writing letters of censure against the school’s administration over its handling of COVID-19. The American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers say that President Astrid Tuminez and other administrators have allowed unsafe and unhealthy conditions […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill that would let Utah’s indigenous students wear tribal attire and decorations during high school graduations is one step away from the governor’s desk. The Senate Education Committee unanimously passed House Bill 30 yesterday. The bill would prevent any school or school board from […]
(St. George, UT) — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources will start taking applications for big game hunting this year on Thursday. The applications will be accepted until 11 p.m. March 3. The hunts are for bighorn sheep, bison, elk, moose, mountain goats, mule deer, and pronghorn.
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Senate plans to seek a small cut in the state income tax rate. Senate Republicans announced yesterday that they will work to cut the tax rate from four-point-nine-five to four-point-eight-five-percent before the end of this year’s regular session. Some senators had expressed support […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is moving its missionaries out of Ukraine. The Church said yesterday that it was moving missionaries out of the Eastern European country as a precaution. Some of the missionaries will be assigned to other European countries, while […]
