TWIN FALLS, Idaho-Colin Christensen’s 16 points on 6-12 from the field and 4-7 from range led the No. 4 Snow Badgers to an 84-75 upset of No. 1 Southern Idaho in the Scenic West Conference men’s basketball tournament at Twin Falls, Idaho Thursday. Isaiah Moses had 25 points and 6 […]
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (RIVERSIDE, Calif.) — An appellate court in Riverside, California, overturned the murder conviction of a man who was sentenced to 129 years to life in prison, ruling in part that the use of a rap video as evidence in this case violates the state’s new “Decriminalizing Artistic […]
Georgeta Olaru / 500px / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gabby Petito’s family revealed more details in the police encounter over a domestic violence incident, two weeks before he strangled her to death. Laundrie “seemed like a mental and emotional bully” to a Utah police officer who responded to a […]
Al Bello/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As investigators in the U.S. Virgin Islands await results of an autopsy on former American championship swimmer Jamie Cail, who died after being found unresponsive at her home last month, friends and loved ones are paying tribute to her online, describing her as a […]
Jason Marz/Getty Images (WALTERBORO, S.C.) — A jury has found disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh guilty of brutally murdering his wife and younger son at the family’s property in 2021. The jury reached the verdict after deliberating for nearly three hours Thursday after hearing five weeks of testimony from more […]
HSCOTexas/Twitter (HOUSTON) — A Texas inmate sentenced to 25 years for assault was retaken into custody on Wednesday after being let go a day earlier due to a clerical error from the Harris County Jail, authorities said. The Harris County Sheriff’s office asked for the public’s help on Wednesday through […]
Alex Reitter / EyeEm /Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The wet winter of 2023 has worked wonders on digging portions of the western U.S. out of exceptional and extreme drought, according to the latest drought monitor. But one good season of precipitation isn’t enough to eradicate the megadrought, which scientists […]
Lucy Garrett/Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Less than two months after the death of Tyre Nichols, a California skatepark could be named after the Sacramento native. Nichols, 29, died ten days into the year, three days after he was allegedly beaten by five Memphis police officers after a traffic stop. […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Nearly 24 years ago Nancy Hopkins, a molecular biologist and MIT professor, alerted her colleagues and supervisors about sexism she says she experienced on campus. Her letter and the ensuing movement were highlighted in a Boston Globe article by Kate Zernike and later revealed similar […]
Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (ORLANDO, Fla.) — The families of 24-year-old Dylan Lyons and 9-year-old T’yonna Major, who were gunned down in a series of shootings near Orlando, Florida, came together in grief at a heart-wrenching news conference Thursday, sobbing, hugging and leaning on each other for support. […]
