Kelly Livingston/ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted Thursday to approve new rules requiring all wireless carriers to implement georouting for calls to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in a move it says will help “save more lives.” “Time and again, across many different communities, […]
ABC News (BURLINGTON, Vt.) Residents of parts of upstate New York and Vermont awoke to winter-like weather Thursday morning, including the earliest a foot of snow has fallen in the higher elevations of the Green Mountain state in 14 years. The overnight snowfall brought 12 inches to Mount Mansfield, the highest peak […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Southern Utah University is celebrating a significant milestone. The Cedar City school announced it has doubled its enrollment over the last decade and now stands at more than 15-thousand-400 students. The current number is an all-time high and a nearly three-percent increase from last fall. Officials […]
(Beaver, UT) — Early morning commuters on I-15 near Beaver faced major traffic delays yesterday after a collision left all northbound lanes completely closed just after 5 a.m. Utah troopers say the accident happened in an area where there were no detour options available. Police say no major injuries were […]
Robert Brook/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man was arrested Wednesday for threatening utility workers who were restoring power in Hillsborough County, Florida, following mass outages caused by Hurricane Milton, according to officials. Crews were working on a road repair when the man allegedly verbally threatened them and drove his […]
EA 18-G Growler Navy Jet Fighter. Via Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The fate of two U.S. Navy pilots remained a mystery Wednesday, a day after their fighter jet crashed during a routine training flight and search-and-rescue crews reported finding no sign of them in the […]
Royalty-free/Getty Images (SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss.) — A Mississippi bridge set to be demolished collapsed in a deadly accident on Wednesday, officials said. The Mississippi Department of Transportation confirmed there were fatalities, though it did not specify how many people died. “[We] extend our deepest condolences to the families who have […]
Photo by Sam Scholes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The husband of the owner of a New York City day care where a 1-year-old child died of fentanyl poisoning was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years in prison. Felix Herrera Garcia, 35, pleaded guilty in June to federal drug charges for trafficking […]
Ilana Panich-linsman/Innocence Project/AFP via Getty Images (TEXAS) — Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited “shaken baby syndrome” hypothesis, has filed a request for a stay of execution and a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court. Roberson argues that […]
Adobe Stock (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Trade Commission finalized a rule Wednesday that seeks to make it easier for American households to cancel their subscriptions and memberships. The goal is to make it as simple for consumers to opt out of recurring payments — including for gyms, retailers or other […]
