St. Croix Sheriff’s Office (ST. CROIX COUNTY, Wis.) — A 52-year-old Minnesota man was ordered on Monday to be held on a $1 million cash bail after homicide charges were filed against him stemming from a weekend stabbing incident on a Wisconsin river that left a 17-year-old boy dead and […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The death toll from the devastating flooding that hit eastern Kentucky continues to rise as more rain hits the region, according to officials. A total of 37 people have been confirmed dead, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday evening. Among those killed are four siblings […]
Amy Beth Bennett-Pool/Getty Images (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Families of the Parkland mass shooting victims are addressing the jury during the penalty phase of confessed shooter Nikolas Cruz’s trial. The penalty phase of the trial is to determine if Cruz will be sentenced to death for gunning down 14 students and […]
DENVER-Monday, the Western Athletic Conference announced men’s basketball conference schedules. Here are the opponents as follows for Utah’s three WAC institutions: Southern Utah California Baptist (home/away) New Mexico State (home/away) Sam Houston (home/away) Tarleton State (home/away) Utah Tech (home/away) Utah Valley (home/away) Grand Canyon (home) Stephen F. Austin (home) Texas-Rio […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah-Monday, Utah Tech Athletics Director Ken Beazer confirmed longtime Utah sportscaster Rod Zundel is the new voice of the Trailblazers for football and men’s basketball broadcasts. Zundel will also host a 30-minute weekly coaches show as part of his new responsibilities. Zundel is a graduate of Weber State […]
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Coconino National Forest Supervisor Laura Jo West has retired after 33 years of serving in the U.S. Forest Service. Deputy Forest Supervisor Michelle Paduani will be the acting forest supervisor as the Southwestern Regional Office searches for a replacement for West, who officially retired Saturday. A […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Senator Mitt Romney is more popular with Democrats than he is among members of this own party. That’s the finding of a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll that asked registered voters to rate the GOP senator’s job performance. Fifty-percent of those polled approved […]
(Ephraim, UT) — The number of turkeys raised in Utah for food that have tested positive for bird flu is up to over 50-thousand. The latest case in Sanpete County involved nearly 13-thousand commercially raised turkeys. The new case was reported on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is announcing billions of dollars in infrastructure support for Utah. While in Salt Lake City today, Buttigieg said the over seven-billion dollars the state will get over five years will help protect communities from extreme weather. The program will modernize […]
Grant Faint/Getty Images (SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif.) — A fire burning out of control in a Northern California national forest and threatening a town of nearly 8,000 people has quickly become the largest wildfire in the state this year, officials said. The McKinney Fire in the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou […]
