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 […]
KELLY DEFINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tennis star Novak Djokovic may have won Monday’s court battle to appeal his visa cancellation, but his tussle with the Australian government doesn’t appear to be over just yet. Australian authorities are looking into whether Djokovic lied on his Travel Declaration Form, […]
JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 839,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62.6% of the […]
JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 839,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering. About 62.6% of the […]
