Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — More than 350,000 public school students in Chicago are expected to resume in-person learning on Wednesday after a tentative agreement was reached between the school district and the Chicago Teachers Union to bolster classroom safety amid a wave of COVID-19 infections. A deal […]
(PHILADELPHIA) — A fast-moving fire in a Philadelphia row house that killed 12 people last week, including nine children, likely started after a Christmas tree was lit ablaze with a lighter, fire officials said Tuesday. The intense fire started Wednesday morning on the second floor of the building in a […]
Jena Ardell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — School staffing shortages caused by the recent COVID-19 omicron surge have gotten so bad in at least two school districts that officials are turning to parents to keep classes going. The Palo Alto Unified School District in Palo Alto, California, made a plea amid its […]
PROVO, Utah-Per news released Tuesday, BYU freshman guard Fousseyni Traore was named as the West Coast Conference’s Freshman of the Week. In the Cougars’ wins over Pacific (73-51) and Saint Mary’s (52-43), the native of Bamako, Mali averaged 10.5 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks per game this past week. […]
(Provo, UT) — A state judge says Utah County’s top prosecutor committed an ethics violation by making public statements about a homicide case. The judge announced yesterday that Utah County Attorney David Leavitt broke state ethics rules in 2018 during a news conference about the Jerrod Baum trial. Leavitt said […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Senator Mitt Romney is defending Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, who said on ABC Sunday that the 2020 presidential election was fair and Donald Trump lost. Trump responded by calling Rounds a jerk, but Romney tweeted the senator is speaking the truth. He […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP Gov. Spencer Cox exempted from a mask mandate the Utah Capitol and other state facilities Monday as conservative lawmakers prepared to begin meeting for the year, but the Salt Lake County mayor is pushing back. Democratic Mayor Jenny Wilson says Cox doesn’t have the […]
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Georgia is No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll, earning their second national title by beating Alabama. The Bulldogs received all 61 first-place votes to be a unanimous No. 1 for the ninth time this season. Georgia’s only other time finishing No. 1 was 1980. […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans woke up to the coldest air of the season on Tuesday morning. Temperatures plummeted overnight as an arctic blast moved into the northeastern United States. By morning, the wind chill — what temperature it feels like — had dropped near or below […]
