Verl Johansen

1 week ago | kslnewsradio.com | Adam Small |Verl Johansen

SALT LAKE CITY — The Department of Justice said Utah State University has taken some of the necessary steps to address yearslong Title IX concerns on its campus. Getting to Title IX compliance is something the university has been working to address for more than five years. The DOJ entered into a settlement with the university in 2020 after it found system-wide failures in how the school handled reports of sexual assault.

3 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Brian Carlson |Shelby Lofton |Verl Johansen |Amie Schaeffer

SALT LAKE CITY – There’s a new addition to Temple Square. Wednesday morning, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled a new sculpture on its Main Street Plaza. The sculpture shows five women of different ages and ethnicities supporting each other. The message it’s meant to depict is one Christ taught himself, as recorded in the Bible. It’s the church’s first sculpture on the east side of Temple Square. Faith and wisdom are now on display in a new way at Temple Square. “It is glorious.

3 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Mark Kennedy |Shelby Lofton |Verl Johansen |Amie Schaeffer

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65. Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, said in an email to The Associated Press. Val Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies.

3 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Tim Vandenack |Verl Johansen

SALT LAKE CITY — The debate over diversity programs in Utah schools — eliminated, presumably, in a controversial law approved by Utah lawmakers last year — isn’t over. Listen live at 8:45 a.m. on Utah’s Morning News. The Utah Board of Education on Thursday is to consider a resolution targeting lingering diversity, equity and inclusion practices that it says are “still present and active” in the state’s schools and Board of Education rules.

3 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Verl Johansen |Kennedy Camarena

SALT LAKE CITY – Tuition at Utah’s public universities and colleges are set to go up next year. Though according to the Utah System of Higher Education’s website this year’s approved increases are lower than last year’s. The Utah Board of Higher Education said resident undergraduates taking 15 credits per semester for two semesters at the University of Utah and Utah State will see the biggest dollar increase with tuition going up more than $200. Weber State saw the smallest jump of $68.