(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah teachers are going to find a little something extra in their paychecks before the end of the school year. The Utah Board of Education has fast-tracked ten-million dollars in bonuses for public school employees approved earlier this year by the state legislature. State Superintendent […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s law enforcement agencies are cracking down on distracted driving. Salt Lake City Police Officer Lucas Johnson was among the 100 members of law enforcement who were pulling over distracted drivers yesterday. The Utah Department of Public Safety says there were more than 53-hundred distracted […]
(Washington, DC) — Republican Senator Mitt Romney was one of three members of his party to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Senators Romney, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins all crossed party lines in a narrow 53-to-47 vote. Romney rejected criticisms from other Republicans […]
Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR via Getty Images (AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Golf great Tiger Woods is back Friday for day two at Augusta National Golf Club in his first competitive golf tournament since the SUV crash that almost took his life 14 months ago. Many doubted if Woods would walk again after […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: AMERICAN LEAGUE Houston 3, LA Angels 1 Boston at N-Y Yankees 1:05 p.m.(Postponed) Seattle at Minnesota 4:10 p.m.(Postponed) NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 0 NY Mets 5, Washington 1 Cincinnati 6, Atlanta 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee […]
TACOMA, Wash.-Andrew Velazquez and Magneuris Sierra each homered and the Salt Lake Bees routed Tacoma 14-1 Thursday at Cheney Stadium. The Bees’ offensive production was noteworthy as confirmed by Bees radio announcer Steve Klauke. The Bees' 10 run 7th inning was the 15th inning of 10 runs or more in […]
Softball 2A South KANAB, Utah-Layni Williams homered for the second time in as many days as the Parowan Rams clobbered Kanab 24-3 in 2A South softball play Thursday. Madison Adams earned the win in the circle for Parowan, netting eight strikeouts in four innings of work. The Rams have outscored […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Transit Authority says “Free Fare February” brought more riders onto UTA buses and trains. Final numbers for the month-long free fare event were announced yesterday. The UTA says ridership increased 16-percent on weekdays, 58-percent on Saturdays and 33-percent on Sundays. A spokesman says […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Hundreds of students at Salt Lake City’s West High School were marked absent from second hour yesterday as they held a walkout and rally with transgender students. The exit from class follows the legislative override of Governor Cox’s veto of a bill preventing transgender girls […]
(Provo, UT) — Utah County prosecutors rested their case in the high-profile double-murder trial of Jerrod Baum. Investigators say Baum stabbed Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson to death in December 2017 before he threw their bodies down a mine shaft outside of Eureka. The suspect’s former girlfriend, Morgan Henderson, testified […]
