(Salt Lake City, UT) — The University of Utah is the top-ranked public university in the West. The results of the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the United States rankings considered graduation rates and graduates’ salaries at 70-percent of a school’s total score, with learning environments counting […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Former University of Utah President David P. Gardner has died. The university announced yesterday that Gardner died Tuesday at his home in Park City. He was 90. Gardner served as president of the U from 1973 to 1983, more than doubling its budget and significantly […]
(Heber City, UT) — Utah wildlife officials are monitoring a popular reservoir after a fisherman found an invasive fish. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources says it was contacted by an angler who caught a walleye at Strawberry Reservoir last month. Officials say they believe someone released the walleye into […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Former Utah Republican Party Chairman Carson Jorgensen is running for governor. Jorgensen announced yesterday that he’ll challenge GOP Governor Spencer Cox in the Republican primary. He joins Republican State Representative Phil Lyman and Cox in the June 25th primary. Jorgensen unsuccessfully challenged former Congressman Chris […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A snowstorm that blew into Iron County overnight made getting around a challenge yesterday morning. Utah Highway Patrol troopers responded to three two-vehicle crashes, a three-car collision, a few slide-offs and a semi jackknifed on State Route 143, but Highway Patrol said the trucker got the […]
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The next batch of documents pertaining to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released. The latest batch is about half the number released on Wednesday night when the courts dropped around […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti deserves to have his conviction overturned because the trial erroneously instructed the jury about the professional duties of lawyers, Avenatti’s lawyer argued Friday to a federal appeals court. Avenatti was convicted of aggravated identity theft and is serving prison time […]
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Claudine Gay has resigned from her seat as Harvard University’s president after a tenure mired by controversy and skepticism, with several forces at play in her exit from the prestigious position at the Ivy League school. Gay, who will continue to work as a […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A winter storm is moving through the Southern Plains on Friday with heavy rain and snow falling from Texas to Kansas. The storm will continue to move east with a snowy, rainy mix on the way for the Northeast this weekend. Fifteen states are on […]
FILE photo, Ross Harrison Koty/Getty Images (RAPID CITY, S.D.) — Four crew members from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota ejected safely from their aircraft Thursday night when their bomber crashed while attempting a landing. The crash happened around 5:50 p.m. local time, according to the base. The crew […]
