SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) —Monday, demoltion crews commenced destruction of the Wasatch Youth Center. This was a former long-term, secure lockup for child offenders. A backhoe knocked down brick walls and tore off the roof of a gymnasium. A stray office chair was picked up with some debris and […]
NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) —Saturday, Florida police searched a vast wildlife reserve near the Gulf Coast for 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito. More than 50 North Port police officers, FBI agents and members of other law enforcement agencies searched […]
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia-Saturday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints broke ground for its new temple at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission President Veasna Kuonno Neang presided at the meeting and offered the dedicatory prayer. Upon its completion and dedication, this will be the first temple for […]
When voters in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering. Instead, cooperation has proved elusive. In New York, Ohio and Virginia, commissions meeting for the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — If you find yourself stuck in traffic and staring at the license plate attached to the vehicle ahead of you in the future, Gov. Spencer Cox said he hopes you’re staring directly at Utah’s newest plate option. The plate features an outline of Utah and […]
RENO, Nev.-Christian Lopes, Stuart Fairchild and Alek Thomas each homered as the Reno Aces pounded Salt Lake 7-2 Friday in Triple A-West play at Greater Nevada Field. Ryan Weiss earned the win on the mound for the Aces as he improved to 4-1 on the season. Reno improved to 66-48 […]
NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Late Friday, police in Florida said they are working with the FBI to locate 23-year-old Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito. North Port police said in a statement that Laundrie’s family told officers they haven’t seen […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Top New Mexico leaders say they’re open to “most anything” that would prevent spent nuclear fuel and other high-level waste from being stored indefinitely in the state, including legislation like a measure recently adopted by Texas to prevent the shipping and storage of such waste. The […]
Shock. That’s what Ruth Simmons, the president of a historically Black university in Texas, felt in December when she received a call informing her that the school would be gifted $50 million — many times the size of the previous largest contribution it has received. Simmons, who leads Prairie View […]
COVID-19 vaccine refusal rates may be high among white evangelical Christians, but the International Mission Board — which deploys thousands of missionaries — is not hesitant about the shot. The global agency of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest evangelical Protestant denomination in the U.S., announced this month it is […]
