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Month: February 2023

Utah House Passes Moratorium On Personalized License Plates For 2nd Straight Year

Utah House Passes Moratorium On Personalized License Plates For 2nd Straight Year

(Salt Lake City, UT) — It looks like Utah will be temporarily pausing its personalized license plate program once again. The Utah House of Representatives passed a bill that will now head to the Utah Senate for final approval. It calls for a two-year moratorium on “vanity plates,” with Representative […]

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Utah Lawmaker Wants State To Stop Enforcing Rules On Kids’ Lemonade Stands

Utah Lawmaker Wants State To Stop Enforcing Rules On Kids’ Lemonade Stands

(Salt Lake City, UT) — A Utah lawmaker wants the state to stop making kid entrepreneurs follow the same rules as adult business operators. State Senator Jake Anderegg has introduced a measure in the legislature that would exempt kids who operate lemonade stands from regulations that apply to vendors at […]

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Dangerous and possibly record-breaking freeze heading to Northeast: What to expect

Dangerous and possibly record-breaking freeze heading to Northeast: What to expect

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Bitter cold is moving into the northern Great Lakes and upper Midwest before a dangerous and possibly record-shattering freeze invades the Northeast. By Thursday evening, the wind chill — what temperature it feels like — is expected to reach the minus 20s in Minneapolis. On […]

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Virginia principal was not informed 6-year-old had a gun before shooting, lawyer says

Virginia principal was not informed 6-year-old had a gun before shooting, lawyer says

Jay Paul/Getty Images (NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — The former principal of Richneck Elementary School, where a 6-year-old intentionally shot a teacher last month in Newport News, Virginia, was not informed that the student had a gun at school, according to her lawyer, despite allegations that administrators were warned the day […]

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Man arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at New Jersey synagogue

Man arrested for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktail at New Jersey synagogue

Bloomfield Division of Public Safety (BLOOMFIELD, N.J.) — A 26-year-old man is facing federal charges for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a New Jersey synagogue. Nicholas Malindretos, of Clifton, New Jersey, is accused of trying to firebomb the doors of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield this weekend. According to […]

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Discrepancy between police accounts, evidence in Tyre Nichols case revealed

Discrepancy between police accounts, evidence in Tyre Nichols case revealed

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — The police traffic stop that led to Tyre Nichols’ death was detailed in an incident report obtained by ABC News, as well as a Memphis Police statement, but the written statements provide a different account from what the body camera footage of the disturbing […]

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New Jersey councilwoman shot and killed in possible targeted attack outside her home

New Jersey councilwoman shot and killed in possible targeted attack outside her home

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 30-year-old woman found fatally shot in her Sayreville, New Jersey townhouse complex has been identified by local officials as Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour. She was shot while inside her white SUV, which appears to have then crashed on Samuel Circle at around 7:22 p.m. […]

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Two South Carolina men charged following 2019 murder of transgender woman

Two South Carolina men charged following 2019 murder of transgender woman

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over three years after Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe was found dead, the Department of Justice unsealed charges against two men involved in her murder. A South Carolina man was charged with a hate crime for the 2019 murder of Doe in Allendale, South Carolina, according […]

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Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, predicts six more weeks of winter

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, predicts six more weeks of winter

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, awoke Thursday morning to see his shadow which means that — according to legend — there will be six more weeks of winter. Legend has it that if he sees his shadow then winter will […]

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Will the Texas power grid survive the next deep freeze?

Will the Texas power grid survive the next deep freeze?

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The lights have stayed on in Texas among the recent freezes the state has been experiencing, but experts aren’t sure whether the energy grids are winterized enough to withstand the next deep freeze. Texas typically experiences deep freezes that really test its power grids […]

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