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Year: 2022

Police search lake near missing 11-year-old’s house as ‘precautionary measure’

Police search lake near missing 11-year-old’s house as ‘precautionary measure’

FBI (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Law enforcement officials investigating the disappearance of Madelina Cojocari, an 11-year-old girl who was reported missing on Dec. 15, searched a lake in her North Carolina town on Monday, the FBI and local police said. “As part of the normal investigative process, we are expanding our […]

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Uvalde district fails key security test more than six months after 21 killed in elementary school

Uvalde district fails key security test more than six months after 21 killed in elementary school

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — An undercover inspector posing as an intruder was able to access a school cafeteria during a December security audit in Uvalde, Texas, the school district’s superintendent revealed Monday evening. Student safety wasn’t jeopardized, interim superintendent Gary Patterson told a surprised school board during its […]

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Henrietta Lacks’ hometown will build statue of her where Robert E. Lee sculpture once stood

Henrietta Lacks’ hometown will build statue of her where Robert E. Lee sculpture once stood

City of Roanoke, Virginia Facebook (ROANOKE, Va.) — A bronze statue honoring Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose “immortal” cells have resulted in countless medical breakthroughs, will be built in her birthplace of Roanoke, Virginia. Artist Bryce Cobbs unveiled a life-sized preliminary drawing of Lacks in a ceremony announcing the statue […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 12/19/22

Scoreboard roundup — 12/19/22

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Cleveland 122, Utah 99 Philadelphia 104, Toronto 101 (OT) Atlanta 126, Orlando 125 San Antonio 124, Houston 105 Minnesota 116, Dallas 106 Oklahoma City 123, Portland 121 Milwaukee 128, New Orleans 119 Phoenix 130, LA […]

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Prep Sports Roundup: 12/19

Prep Sports Roundup: 12/19

Girls Basketball Non-Region MANTI, Utah-Madison Orth netted 17 points and the Carbon Dinos hammered Manti 50-22 Monday in non-region girls basketball play.

Texas National Guard deploys ‘contingency border force’ of hundreds to El Paso

Texas National Guard deploys ‘contingency border force’ of hundreds to El Paso

HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty Images (EL PASO, Texas) — The Texas National Guard has deployed a “contingency border force” of over 400 personnel to El Paso, TX, as the city continues to deal with a surge of asylum-seekers arriving at the border. The Texas Military Department said the deployment is […]

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Harvey Weinstein found guilty of three counts, including rape, in LA sexual assault trial

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of three counts, including rape, in LA sexual assault trial

Jason Marz/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A Los Angeles jury has found disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of three of seven counts, including one count of rape of Jane Doe 1, in his Los Angeles sexual assault trial. The jury found Weinstein not guilty of one count — sexual […]

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Weber State Football Star Abraham Williams Named To FCS ADA All-American Team

Weber State Football Star Abraham Williams Named To FCS ADA All-American Team

OGDEN, Utah-Monday, Weber State football sophomore kick returner Abraham Williams was named to the 2022 FCS Athletic Directors Association (FCS ADA) All-American team. Williams, a former star at West High School of Salt Lake City, led the nation in kickoff returns and set a new NCAA FCS record with four […]

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Title 42 on hold after Roberts grants temporary stay in states’ appeal to keep restriction

Title 42 on hold after Roberts grants temporary stay in states’ appeal to keep restriction

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday temporarily stopped the expiration of the immigration restriction Title 42, which was scheduled to lift on Wednesday, after 19 states filed an appeal. Roberts’ brief order did not discuss the merits of the case. The administrative […]

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Chicago high school students walk out of class over gun violence

Chicago high school students walk out of class over gun violence

Jacek Bozarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Students at a Chicago high school staged a classroom walkout Monday afternoon to protest gun violence just days after a shooting near their campus left two teenagers dead and two others wounded. Students at Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood […]

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