(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah added more than 43-thousand jobs over the past 12 months. The latest jobs and unemployment report shows the economy added 43-thousand-500 jobs from April, 2022 through last month. And the state’s unemployment rate held steady at two-point-three percent. The Utah Department of Workforce Services […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Senator Mitt Romney hasn’t said whether he’ll run for re-election next year and he already has a challenger. In a video posted to Twitter Tuesday morning, Riverton Mayor Trent Staggs announced his candidacy for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination and made a number of […]
PROVO, Utah-Wednesday morning, BYU football added tight end Ray Paulo to the program. Paulo hails from Pago Pago, American Samoa and Allan Hancock College of Santa Maria, Calif. Paulo also served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Alabama Birmingham Mission prior to coming […]
EPHRAIM, Utah-Wednesday, Snow College men’s basketball head coach Andrew May announced the signing of Mark Brown, a 6’0″ freshman guard from Phoenix. Brown starred at Bella Vista Academy of Scottsdale, Ariz., averaging 9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game last season for the Bears. Brown also played at […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The strongest tropical cyclone to impact Guam in decades is bringing “life-threatening” conditions to the U.S. island territory. Typhoon Mawar’s eyewall “clipped” the northern portion of Guam early Thursday local time, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The storm is bringing “destructive winds, […]
Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — A grand jury has indicted convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney, on federal fraud charges, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Murdaugh, 54, is currently serving life in prison after being convicted of murdering his wife and their youngest son. […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that blanketed parts of Long Island and New Jersey in cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and crack. Prosecutors said the 31-year-old hip-hop star, whose real name is […]
LOGAN, Utah-Nine Utah State football players were named to various Athlon Sports all-Mountain West Conference preseason teams as confirmed Wednesday morning. Athlon First Team Defense-sophomore safety Ike Larsen (4 interceptions [one pick six], 2 sacks, 2 passes defensed last season) Athlon Second Team Special Teams-senior punt returner Cooper Jones (6.6 […]
Rob Carr/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — After news broke that Amanda Gorman’s historic poem “The Hill We Climb” was moved to the middle school section of a Miami-Dade school, the poet slammed efforts to restrict or censor books in schools. “I’m gutted,” she said in a statement posted to […]
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (NEW YORK) — One of the two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison has now been caught, authorities said. However, an inmate convicted of murdering two people remains at large. The Allen County Sheriff’s Office warned residents on Tuesday to “be aware and […]
