Carol Yepes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Last month, President Joe Biden announced that 500 million free at-home rapid tests for COVID would be mailed out to American homes. On Thursday, Biden announced that he was doubling that promise and would now ship out another 500 million — to make 1 billion […]
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Sounders added a key piece to their midfield for the upcoming season after signing Albert Rusnák to a designated player contract. The Slovakian midfielder spent the past five seasons with Real Salt Lake, where he had 41 goals and 39 assists in 140 regular season […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two teenagers are dead and a third is critically injured after a shooting on a sidewalk in suburban Salt Lake City. Police say the shooting in West Valley City stemmed from a dispute between two groups of students associated with different schools. More than one […]
Liao Pan/China News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 843,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62.6% […]
PROVO, Utah-Thursday, BYU athletics achieved the No. 1 ranking in Division I athletics in the Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup Final Division I Fall standings. The finish is the Cougars’ best in school history for any athletics season. The Directors’ Cup annually ranks collegiate athletic programs around the country by […]
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Navient, one of the nation’s largest student loan services, agreed Thursday to pay nearly $2 billion to settle claims by 38 states and the District of Columbia it deceived thousands of borrows into costly, long-term, forbearance plans that caused students to […]
WLS-TV (CHICAGO) — The head of the Chicago Police Department is speaking out after two 14-year-old boys were gunned down in separate slayings within hours Wednesday. Just before 4 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was on a street on Chicago’s West Side when he was shot in the abdomen, according to […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – A bill that would remove the death penalty as a form of punishment in Utah is now ready for state lawmakers to consider. HB 147 from Republicans Lowry Snow and Dan McCay would change the possible sentence for aggravated murder to 45 years to life […]
(Moab, UT) — An independent report is spotlighting “unintentional mistakes” made by Moab police officers during their contact with Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie last year. The report released yesterday faulted the Moab officers for failing to cite Petito for domestic violence during their contact with the couple last August. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A state lawmaker wants to add air pollution to the list of factors that can be used when filing a death certificate in Utah. State Representative Stephen Handy has put forward a bill that would allow doctors to consider air pollution as a contributing factor […]
