Warren Jeffs' conviction reversed by Utah court. The former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) religious sect has been ordered a new trial after a Supreme Court decision to reverse two rape as an accomplice convictions. Jeffs has been the so...
Dugway Proving Grounds, a Utah military base responsible for testing chemical weapons, was locked down 12 hours overnight and reopened today after a vial of nerve agent was misplaced. Officials from the base issued a statement Thursday stating that the 1/4 teaspoon amount of the VX nerve agent...
Here’s a look at 15 of the verifiable stupid laws from across this great land, on all levels: state, city and county.
Kristen Hawkes, Anthropology Professor at the University of Utah has found a link between grandmothers and longevity. After researching primates to better understand why humans live as long as they do, Hawkes traced longevity back to our closest primate cousins: apes. Hawkes began studying...
The Navajo Nation is a self-governed Native American reservation that includes roughly 26,000 square miles in northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico. It is the largest Native American Reservation in the United States. A Map Of The Navajo Nation The Navajo Nation...
More bad news for Banks within United States was announced this week. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation closed banks in Florida, Illionois, Maryland, and Utah. The total number of banks that have closed in the first quarter of 2010 adds up to 26. In 2009, the total number of banks closed...
A recent study blames climate change for worsened seasonal allergies within the U.S. per reports from the University of Utah and the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. The report suggests that because of warmer temperatures and the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, plants and...
A group of tourists maintain reports of a UFO flying over Jerusalem, Israel on January 28, 2011. The glowing orb was spotted in the sky above the Dome of the Rock, descended and hovered above the location, and then shot upward at an incredible speed. The event occurred at approximately 1:00...
Western Governors University or WGU is a private, non-profit online university with its main administration office located in Salt Lake, Utah. An online university, WGU was founded in 1997 by a group of governors of 19 U.S. states who wanted to improve the quality of post-secondary education while...
Police in Utah say a 7-year-old boy led officers on a chase after stealing his father’s car to avoid going to church. Weber County Sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson said dispatchers received calls of a child driving recklessly. One witness saw the boy drive through a stop sign and almost hit another...
