Logan Ramsey
Editor-in-Chief
Local: A local hairstylist has developed a revolutionary product
J.D. Hansen, a local hairstylist, business owner and entrepreneur, with several others, developed a product that he believes will revolutionize the lives of beauticians and their clients everywhere. The product, called Ureshii, perms and dyes hair at the same time, which was previously impossible. This is supposed to save beauticians and clients time by making it so they can come in once and have both done instead of waiting a week between each. Hansen, who owns the J & Company hair salon, said they’re currently in the final stages of getting their patent. They officially launched the product on Thursday, preceding an international release.
Regional: Two people involved with Chubbuck Valentine’s Day shooting have been sentenced to prison
Sage Siler and Kane Simons, two of the three people involved in a failed Chubbuck robbery that left a local man seriously wounded were sentenced to serve several years in an Idaho Department of Correction prison. McKinzee Kirkham, the third suspect in the shooting, has been sentenced to serve five years of felony probation and complete the problem-solving court known as Wood Court. Siler pleaded guilty last month to one count of felony aggravated battery. Simons and Kirkham pleaded guilty to one count of felony accessory to aggravated battery. Siler’s sentence is 12 years with a possibility for parole after five, and Simon’s is five years with eligibility for parole in 2022.
Statewide: A recently discovered Idaho artifact has revealed that humans came to North America by a water route
A team of archaeological researchers at the Cooper’s Ferry archeological site in Idaho recently discovered a 16,000-year-old ancient spearhead. This spearhead means that humans were already living in North America before glaciers melted in Canada, opening up an ice-free land bridge 14,800 years ago. Before now, that was how scientists thought humans populated the continent, but this arrowhead means that humans likely came from Asia by water, using a pacific coastal route. Their research was published in Science Magazine, and it may have important scientific implications for studying human migration.
National: A mass shooting in Texas leaves five dead and 21 injured
Officers killed 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator on Saturday after a spate of violence that spanned 10 miles, injuring around 21 people in addition to at least five dead. A Texas state trooper tried pulling over Ator for failing to signal a lane change. That was when Ator pointed an AR-style rifle toward the rear window of his car and fired on the trooper, starting a terrifying police chase as Ator sprayed bullets into passing cars, shopping plazas and killed a U.S. Postal Service employee while hijacking her mail truck. The daylight attack over the Labor Day holiday weekend came just weeks after another mass shooting killed 22 people in the Texas border city of El Paso. Authorities have not said how Ator obtained the gun used in the shooting, but Ator had previously failed a federal background check for a firearm.
International: Boris Johnson has lost his majority in the House of Commons
Boris Johnson no longer has a working majority in the House of Commons after MP Phillip Lee took a seat on the opposition benches. He said the government was “pursuing a damaging Brexit in unprincipled ways… putting lives and livelihoods at risk”. Prime Minister Johnson has vowed to leave the EU on 31 October with or without a deal, but a number of MPs against no-deal have come together across party political lines to try to stop it happening. They have submitted a motion for an emergency debate to Commons Speaker John Bercow. If successful, they will bring forward a bill that would force the prime minister to ask for Brexit to be delayed until 31 January, unless MPs approve a new deal, or vote in favour of a no-deal exit, by 19 October.
