STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Labor is proposing a rule that will eliminate the certificates that allow employers to pay some workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, which stands at $7.25 an hour. The department announced the change on Tuesday, which also marked […]
An arrest has been made in the petroglyph cultural site vandalism in Kane County. According to the Bureau of Land Management, “thanks to widespread support and vigilance, an arrest was made…the suspect was taken into custody on Nov. 30 on felony charges in St. George by BLM law enforcement.” The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s fall housing market in 2024 showed growth, with a 1-point-6-percent increase in home prices and a 12-point-5-percent rise in sales compared to last year. The median home price was 553-thousand-dollars. In Salt Lake City, prices surged 7-point-3 percent to an average of 550-thousand-dollars, though […]
(St. George, UT) — It appears Utahns are among the most giving people in the U.S. That’s according to a recent study by finance website WalletHub, which ranked the Most Charitable States in the country based on more than a dozen factors. Those include volunteer rates and how much income […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (MORRIS COUNTY, N.J.) — The FBI is investigating after large drones were spotted flying over central New Jersey over the last two weeks. The “cluster of what look to be drones and a possible fixed wing aircraft” have been recently sighted along the Raritan River, […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Two days after President Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon to his son Hunter Biden, the younger Biden’s federal gun case in Delaware was terminated Tuesday by the judge overseeing the case. “In the absence of binding precedent” for a case that […]
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) A U.S. Secret Service agent fired shots near the home of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen early Tuesday morning after a confrontation with occupants in a vehicle near her residence. At about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, an agent working in the vicinity of Yellen’s home “observed […]
One person was killed and six firefighters were injured after a fire broke out at an apartment building in New York City on Monday. (WABC) (NEW YORK) — One person was killed and six firefighters were injured after a multi-alarm fire broke out in an apartment building on the Upper […]
Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Hannah Kobayashi, a Hawaiian woman who has been missing for weeks, walked freely into Mexico just after noon on Nov. 12, the Los Angeles Police Department said on Monday. The department said the case has been recategorized as a “voluntary […]
Central Press/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Republican president-elect pledges support for expansive tariffs as a means of protecting U.S. businesses and hamstringing global competitors. That description may conjure up former President Donald Trump, but it also applies to Herbert Hoover, who led the country nearly a century ago during the […]
