(Gunnison, UT) — Inmates at the Central Utah Correctional Facility’s sewing shop are working together to help people in need. They’re designing and sewing backpacks, diaper bags, and other items so they can be donated to local charities. In just this year alone, they sewed and donated a total of […]
(West Haven, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox on Tuesday unveiled the biggest state budget proposal in Utah’s history. The spending plan totals 29-and-a-half billion dollars. Cox wants the state to spend some of that money on making child care more accessible and expanding affordable housing, including 35-thousand starter homes. The […]
ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA and its astronauts are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the International Space Station being in orbit. The federal space agency broadcast a live conversation between the Expedition 70 crew and NASA Associate Administrator Robert Cabana and Joel Montalbano, space station program manager on Wednesday […]
(Milford, UT) — Smithfield Foods is ending its contracts with more than two-dozen Utah hog farms and laying off dozens of workers in the state. The national food company announced on Tuesday it’s ending contracts with 26 hog farms in Utah. That will mean the end of as many as […]
kali9/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — A 34-year-old suspect was identified Wednesday morning in a series of shootings in Texas on Tuesday that left six dead and injured several others, including two police officers, authorities said. Austin police investigators “strongly believe” the suspect, Shane James, is connected to the violent incidents […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Record-breaking rainfall has inundated the Pacific Northwest — and more rain is on the way. Some areas in western Washington state saw 6 to 10 inches of rain in less than 24 hours — on top of the snow melt and the 6 inches of […]
kali9/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) –Police in Texas said they were investigating possible connections between a series of shootings in Austin and a fatal shooting near San Antonio that left six dead in total and injured several others on Tuesday. A suspect in his 30s was booked into the Travis County […]
Yuba County District Attorney’s Office/Facebook (NEW YORK) — A man has been sentenced to four years in prison after a 6-minute video that his 9-year-old child took of him beating and injuring his wife emerged, authorities said. Miguel Lazaro-Castillo was sentenced to the maximum term allowed on his charges of […]
Tim Drivas Photography/GETTY Images (NEW YORK) — A 28-year-old New York City man has been indicted on hate crime charges stemming from an October antisemitic attack on a 23-year-old Israeli tourist in Times Square, prosecutors said Tuesday. Yehia Amin was indicted by a New York State Supreme Court grand jury […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the loved ones of three Black people killed in a racially-motivated shooting in August at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida, accusing the bargain discount chain store and the gunman’s parents of negligence. The lawsuit was […]
