Severe weather outbreak for April 2, 2024. ABC News (NEW YORK) — Many schools across Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana have announced closures or early dismissals as a line of severe thunderstorms brings damaging winds and a threat of dangerous tornadoes to the Ohio Valley. A tornado watch was issued Tuesday […]
The annual Sanpete County Search & Rescue Jeep Posse Radio Day was a huge success again this year. Held on KMTI-AM 650 & 95.1 FM on April Fools Day yesterday, the annual fund raiser brought in just under $40,000 in donations. Each year for over 45 years, KMTI has donated […]
2017 solar eclipse. Philip Yabut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Inmates in a New York prison have filed a lawsuit after the state’s Department of Corrections announced a lockdown that would prevent them from watching next week’s total solar eclipse. The six men, who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, […]
Dennis Macdonald/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, FLA) — The Florida state Supreme Court issued a decision Monday upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban, dealing a blow to a legal challenge asking the court to throw out the ban. The state Supreme Court heard arguments in September after it took up the case […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah health officials are warning people to get vaccinated for measles. The Utah Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Utah Association of Local Health Departments, issued a statement Monday noting that the MMR vaccine is 97 percent effective with two doses. There […]
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people were charged Monday for allegedly distributing the heroin and fentanyl that caused the death of transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. Cecilia Gentili was 52 when she fatally overdosed on Feb. 6 in her New York City home due to effects of fentanyl-laced heroin, […]
(Cedar City, UT) — A new sales tax increase is going into effect in Iron County later this year. Commissioners approved the point-three percent hike last week which will be used to help fund a new jail. Officials expect it to bring in more than four-million dollars per year. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Republican Senator Mitt Romney is giving the commencement address for the Johns Hopkins University class of 2024 in Baltimore on May 23rd. The president of Johns Hopkins says Utah’s senior senator has a track record that includes public and private bipartisan leadership. Romney earned his […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — A cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, causing a near-total collapse of the span and halting vessel traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore. Six construction workers believed to have fallen from the collapsing bridge […]
Getty Images – STOCK (Charleston, S.C.) — Alex Murdaugh, who is already serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and child, was sentenced Monday to 40 more years in prison for financial crimes, according to Charleston, South Carolina, ABC affiliate WCIV. Murdaugh, 55, pleaded guilty in September […]
