(Cedar City, UT) — Southern Utah University is celebrating a gift from Utah’s leading homebuilder. Ivory Homes has donated 75-thousand dollars to fund a scholarship for students working to complete a Women Business Leadership Certificate. The Ivory Women Student Success Initiative will provide ten students a half-tuition scholarship and a […]
(South Jordan, UT) — The U.S. Forest Service is investing millions of dollars to reduce the risk of wildfires in Utah. The Forest Service will invest more than 18-million dollars over the next few years to clear out potential grounds fuels in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Forest Service officials said […]
(Birdseye, UT) — Two Utah County firefighters had to be hospitalized after they became overheated while working to put out a brush fire that was started by a lightning strike. It happened near Birdseye on Monday, which was the hottest day of the year so far in Utah. One of […]
(Provo, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox is warning that Utah’s weather for much of this month will bring a severe risk of wildfires. In an interview at Provo’s Freedom Festival on Tuesday, Cox said the next three weeks the state will face above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation. Cox noted a […]
Yosemite National Park (NEW YORK) — Officials are searching for a hiker who went missing over the holiday weekend at California’s Yosemite National Park. Hayden Klemenok was last seen backpacking with a group at Upper Chilnualna Fall on July 2. He entered the Chilnualna Creek near the trail junction at […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Investigators are searching for answers as to why someone wearing a ski mask and body armor went on an apparently random shooting spree in Philadelphia on the eve of the Fourth of July, gunning down five people. “This armed and armored individual wreaked havoc, firing […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (TAMPA, Fla.) — A 7-year-old bystander was fatally shot in the head by a stray bullet amid an altercation over jet skis on the July 4 holiday, according to Tampa, Florida, police. When the gunfire broke out near a boat ramp, the 7-year-old boy’s grandfather pulled him […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (SHREVEPORT, La.) — Four people were killed and seven others injured when a mass shooting broke out at a July 4 block party in Shreveport, Louisiana, authorities said. About 200 people were at the annual event when, around 11:40 p.m., multiple men engaged in an exchange of […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Investigators are searching for answers as to why someone wearing a ski mask and body armor went on a shooting spree in Philadelphia on the eve of the Fourth of July, gunning down five people. “This armed and armored individual wreaked havoc, firing with a […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nine people were injured in a drive-by shooting in Washington, D.C. early Wednesday as residents were still celebrating the Fourth of July, police said. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 a.m. ET on Meade Street in the northeastern quadrant of the U.S. capital, according to […]
