Lori Vallow Daybell faces charges of murder, conspiracy and grand theft in the deaths of her two youngest children and her husband’s ex-wife.
Author: Steve Kiggins, USA TODAY
Colorado Democrats pitch ‘ideal candidate’ for President Joe Biden’s first national monument
Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument, if created, would be the nation’s 130th protected area but first since Kentucky’s Camp Nelson in 2018.
One person killed, multiple injured in Blacksburg, Virginia shooting, police say
The Blacksburg Police Department said officers responded to reports of shots fired at the a hookah lounge on Friday just before midnight.
Hold the meat: Burger King, Chipotle, Starbucks top fast-food rankings on World Vegan Day 2021
A first-of-its-kind report by World Animal Protection ranked the top 50 U.S. fast-food chains on protein diversification and social responsibility.
California Republicans skip endorsement fight in September recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom
While Larry Elder has emerged as the polling and fundraising favorite, California’s GOP opted against endorsing a candidate in the Sept. 14 election.
Biden administration won’t surge vaccines to virus hotspots; Alabama, Utah lift mask mandates. Latest COVID-19 updates
Alabama and Utah end statewide mask mandates. CDC reports 3,400 new variant cases. Global deaths top 2.9 million. Latest COVID-19 updates.
With Colorado ‘at war’ with small businesses, agriculture, and oil and gas, Weld County group seeks secession to Wyoming
If Weld County joined Wyoming, Vermont would suddenly become the country’s least populated state, with Wyoming’s population increasing by nearly 60%.
‘America’s greatest Pilot’ Chuck Yeager, first person to break sound barrier, dies at 97
Born in West Virginia in 1923, Yeager rose to fame as a fighter pilot in World War II and, in 1947, was the first person to break the sound barrier.
‘Out of harm’s way’: US Marshals Service leads recovery of 27 missing children in Virginia’s ‘Operation Find Our Children’
The Virginia mission follows similar operations in Ohio, Georgia, Indiana and other states that have recovered more than 440 children this year.
‘It was a pretty good shaker’: 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Pacific Ocean prompts short-lived tsunami scare for Alaska, Hawaii
The quake struck in the North Pacific Ocean just before 1 p.m., about 67 miles southeast of Sand Point, Alaska, and first prompted a tsunami warning.