APU GOMES/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Eric Holder, Jr., the man who was convicted in the 2019 murder of hip-hop artist Nipsey Hussle, was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison, according to ABC station in Los Angeles, KABC. Holder was found guilty on July 6, 2022, […]
Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Murder charges have been filed against a 61-year-old man in the fatal shooting of a long-serving Los Angeles Catholic priest known as a “peacemaker.” The suspect, Carlos Medina, was charged with first-degree murder stemming from the slaying of Auxiliary Bishop […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Senator Mitt Romney is condemning comments by a Georgia congresswoman calling for a “national divorce” between red states and blue states. The Utah Republican was asked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments yesterday in Salt Lake City. Romney criticized the hyper-partisan nature of comments made […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The University of Utah is agreeing to pay five-million dollars to the parents of an international student who allegedly was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. The settlement that became public yesterday acknowledges that the university failed to recognize Zhifan Dong was in danger in the weeks […]
(Cedar City, UT) — An Illinois man who led Utah Highway Patrol officers on a 150-mile-an-hour chase from Cedar City to Beaver is pleading guilty. Officers arrested Stewart Hinton on Saturday after a chase on I-15 from Cedar City to Beaver. The UHP said Hinton took off when an officer […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Lawmakers took the first step Tuesday toward ending the state portion of the sales tax on food. The House Revenue and Taxation unanimously endorsed House Bill 101, sending the measure to the full House of Representatives for a vote. West Valley Republican Representative Judy Weeks […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission fined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints five-million dollars over accusations the church failed to properly disclose its investment holdings. The SEC said investments and their management were hidden behind a number of shell companies from 1997 […]
(Undated) — A number of roads and schools are closed today as the winter storm is making getting around treacherous. The Utah Highway Patrol said troopers had responded to nearly 120 crashes on roads and freeways by 9:30 p.m. last night. The Department of Transportation has issued a road weather […]
Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will head to East Palestine, Ohio, for the first time on Thursday, some three weeks after the hazardous train derailment there. With the National Transportation Safety Board expected to release a preliminary report on the derailment Thursday, […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) — Preliminary hearings began Wednesday in the trial of Club Q shooting suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich, who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado LGBTQ bar in November 2022. Aldrich is nonbinary, according to court filings released by the Colorado state public defender. As prosecutors […]
