It’s January, and states across the country are in the throes of winter with back-to-back winter storms in multiple places. Here’s what we know about the storms in regions across the country. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast A storm is expected to “unleash up to a foot of snow and significant ice through Sunday,” CNN reported. In […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Authorities say that there were more than 100 crashes across Utah on Friday as a quick-moving winter storm dropped snow across the state. The Utah Highway Patrol said that as of 8 p.m. there had been 130 crashes statewide. It’s yet unclear how many of those involved serious injuries. Winter […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — After a quick-moving storm brought a dash of snow to northern Utah on Friday, another system is gearing up to dump heavy snow on the Beehive State this weekend, with accumulations possible in the northern valleys. Along the Wasatch Front, the metro areas of Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden […]
The University of Utah will no longer use diversity statements or questions in its hiring practices, the president of the school said in a statement sent out late Friday. “In light of recent statements made by elected leaders and directives from the Utah Board of Higher Education to eliminate diversity questions or statements used in hiring at Utah’s […]
LONDON (AP) — A U.S. fugitive known as Nicholas Rossi, who is accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah, has been extradited to the United States, British media reported Friday. Rossi, 36, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is charged with sexually assaulting a former girlfriend in Orem, Utah, […]
If Utah was having a cake to celebrate its birthday today the number of candles donning the pastry would be 128. On Jan. 4, 1896, Utah officially became a part of the United States, making it the 45th state of the current 50 states. Utah’s population around the time of its newfound statehood was a […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected enough signatures to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot in Utah, election officials say, marking the first state where the independent candidate and prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist has qualified. Kennedy has met the 1,000-signature requirement needed to qualify for the Utah ballot and can officially […]
Utah is known as the home of Silicon Slopes for good reason, as an early incubator of the computing revolution and a home to high-tech companies and countless startups. But Utah is also a national leader in business failures, which may actually be a secret to its economic success. The state has long benefitted from […]
A congressman and a senator’s son jumped into the race Tuesday for the Utah U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney. Republican U.S. Rep. John Curtis announced his campaign to a TV station after saying last fall he had decided not to run. After people asked him to reconsider, he decided he could carry […]
The dog looked too skinny to just be another off-leash pup running ahead of her owner. Emma Hicks approached her gently. The closer she got, the more she realized that something was very wrong. “I saw her paws were bleeding,” Hicks told McClatchy News in a phone interview. “I knew she was probably a lost […]
A man who police believe fatally shot his mother at a residential care facility in Utah was found dead in a burning home on New Year’s Eve, officials said. Authorities found Mark Ryan Bingham, 42, dead at the site of a residential fire in Vernal, less than 5 miles away from where his mother was […]
A 30-year-old man died after crawling inside a plane’s engine intake at the Salt Lake City International Airport, Utah police reported. A store manager in a secure part of the airport notified police that someone went through an emergency exit following a disturbance at 9:52 p.m. Monday, Jan. 1, officers said in a news release. […]