The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' top leader has been invited to speak at the NAACP convention in Detroit, marking the latest sign of a burgeoning partnership between the two organizations.
A Utah school district is paying $62,500 to settle a lawsuit filed after a junior high student was caught in a bus door and dragged about 175 feet (53 meters) in an alleged racially motivated incident.
Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor's claims of innocence.
Netflix's video streaming service suffered a dramatic slowdown in growth during its traditionally sluggish spring season, a drop-off coming as the company boosts its prices and girds for even stiffer competition.
The U.S. Air Force has warned people against participating in an internet joke suggesting a large crowd of people "storm Area 51," the top-secret Cold War test site in the Nevada desert.
What would you do with some extra cash? Raising your standard of living, called lifestyle creep, may not the best choice for you, financial experts say.
SPRINGVILLE, Utah — A boulder dislodged by the Round Peak Fire landed on the porch of a Springville home. Pat Knowlden lives in Springville near where this fire has been burning. While the fire was blazing she heard what she said was a horrendous noise. “I couldn’t figure it out what it was because it […]
Social media is filled with pictures of people artificially aged through a popular app. There may be a problem with who is behind the app and what they can do with your data and your face.
Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years and was ordered to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture on Wednesday.
(CNN) — The Washington Monument just got even more iconic. On Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, the 555-foot national symbol lit up with an image of the moon-bound shuttle blasting into space. The 363-foot projection of the Saturn V rocket will appear for two hours every night during the anniversary of […]
The alligator had a good run as day after day the people hunting for him in a Chicago lagoon came up empty, but in the end he was no match for an expert the city shipped in from Florida.
Guzman, 62, was convicted in February on multiple conspiracy counts in an epic drug-trafficking case. The guilty verdict at an 11-week trial triggered what the government says is a well-justified mandatory sentence of life without parole.
Two little blue penguins that police describe as "waddling vagrants" just couldn't stay away from a New Zealand sushi store, returning to nest there even after police had captured them and escorted them back to the ocean.
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled a man who suffered a knee injury in a church-sponsored basketball game can't sue an opposing player over a common foul.
Drug smugglers have come up with some novel ways of moving their goods around the world undetected, but a recent incident at Barcelona airport involved a surprisingly low-tech approach.
Knowing the incredible task which lay before the Apollo 11 astronauts and the myriad things that could go wrong as they stepped foot into the unknown, a speech was drafted for the President in preparation of stepping before a grieving world to announce that "the men who went to the moon to explore in peace, [would] stay on the moon to rest in peace." 'In case of moon disaster' the speech Richard Nixon never had to give.
PROVO, Utah — Can your running shoes make you faster? A recent study done at BYU finds that some popular running shoes can save energy and lengthen strides, improving race times. Two years ago, Nike released a new shoe and challenged marathon runners to complete their race in under two hours. The shoe, Vaporfly 4%, […]
At the time of the training, the Unified Fire Authority had three fire trucks already on-site as a precaution. Camp Williams and the surrounding cities and neighborhoods are in a "high-danger fire area" so they prepare for all-fires whenever they are in active training, according to Gibbs.
