Category: Utah

Family of 13 Lives in Tent for 3 Months Before Utah Realtor Buys Them Home: ‘A Huge Blessing’

A family of 13 given 30 days’ notice to leave a rented house in Utah suddenly found themselves with nowhere to live. With scant options for a family of their size, they moved into a tent. However, their fortune took a turn when a local real estate agent heard of their plight and offered to buy…


US Successfully Tests Hypersonic Booster Motor in Utah

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon successfully tested a booster rocket motor on Thursday designed to power a launch vehicle carrying a hypersonic weapon aloft, the Navy said. The United States and its global rivals have intensified their drive to build hypersonic weapons—the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms. Defense contractors…


S. Carolina Governor Calls Federal Threat to Revoke OSHA Standards ‘Preemptive Strike,’ Vows to Fight

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has called the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) recent threat this week to rescind the state’s workplace safety plan a “preemptive strike by the federal government.” “With no state regulators in the way, the federal Labor Department will be free to penalize employers who do not comply with…


Tyler Allgeier, No. 13 BYU Run Past Utah State 34–20

LOGAN, Utah—Tyler Allgeier ran for a career-high 218 yards and three touchdowns to help No. 13 BYU beat Utah State 34–20 on Friday night. BYU (5–0) beat Utah State (3–2) for the second straight time in the Battle for the Old Wagon Wheel rivalry series. Baylor Romney threw for 187 yards and a touchdown on…


Utah Detectives Have ‘Promising Leads’ Into Killing of Football Player: Police

Utah detectives have received promising tips from community members into the shooting death of football sophomore cornerback Aaron Lowe, the Salt Lake City (SLC) Police Department announced on Monday. Lowe was killed at a house party in the Sugar House neighborhood around midnight on Sept. 26 after uninvited guests who refused to leave opened fire, police…


Utah Police Release Bodycam Footage of Missing Woman Gabby Petito

Police in Utah released body camera footage involving an incident between missing Long Island woman Gabby Petito and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie after officers responded to a 911 call involving a domestic incident. On Thursday, the Moab City Police Department released the footage of their interaction with Laundrie and Petito when they pulled over their vehicle near Arches National…


Utah Towns Grapple With Critical Water Supply Shortage

To say that Utah’s water shortage in 2021 is severe doesn’t do justice to the stark reality that many of the state’s lakes, creeks, and reservoirs are literally drying up. And unless nature cooperates soon, some of these once-full bodies of potable water will resemble the desert areas that surround them. At Echo Reservoir off…


Utah Sergeant, 8-Year-Old Boy Mark 5-Year Anniversary After the Near-Drowning Rescue

A family’s distressing encounter turned out to be the life-changing moment that forged a unique bond between a Utah sergeant and a child. Recently, Sgt. Chamberlin Neff of the Utah Highway Patrol celebrated the five-year anniversary with Coleman Ross, the child whom the officer saved from drowning back in 2016. The young boy made a…


Biden Admin Opens Civil Rights Investigations in 5 States That Ban School Mask Mandates

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it has opened investigations in five Republican-led states that ban mask mandates in schools, saying such policy could be discriminatory against students with disabilities. In letters sent to chief state school officers of Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights…


Actress Julie Bowen, Sister Help Rescue Woman Who Fainted and Hit Head on Rock

Actress Julie Bowen and her sister helped rescue a woman who fainted and hit her head on a rock in Utah’s Arches National Park last week. In an Aug. 3 three-part post on Facebook, Minnie John of Oradell, New Jersey, said she had been on a “bucket list” trip to Arches and hiking to see Delicate Arch,…