Anthony D. Thomas via AP (OCALA, Fla.) — The family of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black mother of four who was fatally shot through a closed door by her white neighbor on June 2 in Ocala, Florida, is calling on the Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and the U.S. Department […]
KOMO (SEATTLE) — Five people were injured, two critically, in a shooting that broke out in a parking lot during a community outreach event in Seattle Friday night, police said. Police responded to reports of a shooting in a parking lot in Rainier Valley shortly before 9 p.m. local time […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 110 million Americans across 29 states are under heat alerts Saturday from southern California to Massachusetts. The Northeast has one more day of its first heat wave of the season, with highs reaching near 90 degrees along the I-95 corridor and heat indices […]
Courtesy Angela M. Chalk (NEW ORLEANS) — As extreme heat takes over the U.S., millions of Americans will be faced with the “urban heat island” effect. The lack of vegetation and shade, as well as an increase in paved surfaces and buildings, is causing temperatures to rise as much as […]
LOGAN, Utah-Friday, Utah State head football coach Blake Anderson announced several changes to the Aggies’ staff ahead of the new season. These include Blaise Taylor as the program’s new senior defensive analyst, Derrick Nsubuga as defensive graduate assistant, Brandon Bowling as offensive graduate assistant, Cole Summers as offensive graduate assistant, […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in June but employment grew in all but one industry. More than one-point-seven million Utahns had jobs in June, a nearly three-percent increase over June of last year, while the unemployment rate was two-point-four percent, up from two-point-three percent […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Victims of the 2021 Oxford school shooting in Michigan appeared in court to give emotional testimony Friday in a hearing that will determine whether the shooter, Ethan Crumbley, could be sentenced to life in prison or have the possibility of parole. The hearing — […]
A development agreement was approved by the Manti City council last week. The 22 acre subdivision directly north of the Manti Temple is expected to include 56 single-family homes as well as some commercial space. No prospective tenants were announced for the commercial space. Manti City Mayor Chuck Bigelow also […]
Louisville Police Dept. (LOUISVILLE, Ky.) — A Louisville, Kentucky police officer critically wounded in a mass shooting at a bank in April will finally be heading home on Friday. Officer Nickolas Wilt, a 26-year-old rookie who was shot in the head, will be discharged Friday after more than three months […]
fstop123/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — The medical examiner’s office in Arizona’s Maricopa County is over capacity and has had to bring in refrigeration units due to a spike in deaths this month amid a record-breaking heat wave, officials said. It’s the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that the […]
