(Gunnison, UT) — An inmate at the Central Utah Correctional Facility has been found dead. According to the Utah Department of Corrections, staff at the facility found 66-year-old Steven Davis unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning. Medical personnel later pronounced him dead. Davis had been in prison since 1983 for […]
(Washington, DC) — The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA is back on Earth. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft released a capsule containing soil from the asteroid Bennu which then safely parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday west of Salt Lake City. The robotic spacecraft was launched in 2016 and […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Six years after Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, flooding whole towns and leaving 80% of the island without power, some residents and businesses have taken matters into their own hands and are taking care of the island’s locals. Casa Pueblo, a 43-year-old nonprofit environmental […]
WFTS (HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla.) — Six people are dead after a freight train slammed into an SUV carrying seven at a crossing in Hillsborough County, Florida, on Saturday evening, law enforcement officials said. The dead, which included three adults and three children, were members of a family and a friend […]
The warehouse in Baton Rouge, La., that some members of the Baton Rouge Police Department called the Brave Cave. — U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Federal authorities are investigating the Baton Rouge Police Department following allegations that some officers “abused their authority,” the FBI […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (CHESAPEAKE, Va.) — A 14-year-old is dead and four others injured following a shooting in Chesapeake, Virginia, according to police. All five victims were transported to local hospitals for their injuries following the shooting on Saturday afternoon, according to a press release from the Chesapeake Police Department. […]
WFTS (TAMPA, Fla.) — Five people were killed Saturday evening when a freight train slammed into an SUV carrying seven at a crossing in Hillsborough County, Florida, law enforcement officials said. The dead, which included three adults and two children, were believed to have been family members, officials said. Hillsborough County […]
Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven, landed safely on Sunday morning to a crowd of cheering spectators — a bit earlier than planned but […]
George Family Photo (TEXAS) — The family of a Black Texas high school student who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal lawsuit Saturday against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly not enforcing the state’s CROWN Act, a law which protects from […]
Cravetiger/Getty Images (NEW JERSEY) — A house explosion in West Milford, New Jersey, left six people injured Friday, according to police. Officials said the house was heavily damaged. The explosion happened around 9 p.m., police said. West Milford Police received multiple reports of a house explosion in Upper Greenwood Lake. […]
