(Salt Lake City, UT) — Data shows a recent downtrend in human-caused wildfires in Utah. According to state fire officials, the numbers show a steady decrease in such fires since 2020. The trend has continued this year, as there have been a total of 290 human-caused wildfires in the state […]
(Zion National Park, UT) — Zion National Park is beginning to add electric buses to its shuttle fleet. The park put five new battery-electric buses to work in the first installment of a widespread move away from propane-powered buses in the coming years. The plan is to eventually have more […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Halloween is a little more than a month away and Utah is decorating like nowhere else. For the third year in a row, Utah has been named the state most devoted to putting up Halloween decorations. According to a study by homebuilder Lombard Homes, about […]
WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The attorney for Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann on Wednesday denied that his client is a “monster of a person” and maintained Heuermann’s innocence. Heuermann returned to court Wednesday following his July arrest for the murders of three sex workers — Melissa […]
makenoodle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A student was shot and killed on Tuesday just blocks from his high school, according to police. The student’s death marks the 200th homicide in the District of Columbia this year, according to police statistics. The number of homicides in the nation’s capital has risen […]
PhotoAlto/Sandro Di Carlo Darsa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Liberty star and two-time WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart has had a stellar season, leading her team to the playoffs, and hailed this moment in sports as bigger than basketball and a catalyst for all women’s sports during an interview Wednesday […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and the other defendants in the New York attorney general’s $250 million civil fraud case return to court Wednesday for a final conference ahead of a trial that’s scheduled to begin as early as Monday. In a scathing order […]
WPVI-TV (PHILADELPHIA) — Large groups of teenagers stormed into shops in the heart of downtown Philadelphia on Tuesday night and looted handfuls of merchandise before fleeing, police and witnesses said. The stores that were ransacked in Center City included Foot Locker, Lululemon and Apple, happening in “quick succession” at around […]
David Madison/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ireland’s gymnastics federation has issued an apology after footage emerged of a young Black gymnast being passed over for a medal at a presentation ceremony. The viral video, which has re-emerged on social media, depicts an official awarding medals to a lineup of eager young […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The mother of a young sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down on duty is devastated that the district attorney isn’t pursuing the death penalty. “It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when [the suspect] didn’t spare my son’s life — […]
