BUNKER HILL, Ind. — A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect who battered his mother and killed a dog at their home nearby is under arrest, police said.
LINWOOD, N.J. — As Chris Hickey thought about what she could say to comfort her daughter on the death of her schoolmates, she opened her mouth once, then twice, unable at first to put sound to words. She tried a third time, standing on the track of Mainland Regional High School Sunday night, a day after a crash on the Garden State Parkway killed four of the school’s football players and injured four more.
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — An 8-year-old boy desperate for a drink tried to get into a neighbor’s home by sliding down the chimney, but got stuck for more than four hours, authorities said.
DETROIT — A stunt wing walker died Sunday after falling about 200 feet at an air show in southeastern Michigan, officials said.
Remember sucking candy out of a plastic neck? Pez Dispensers, they call them. Flip back the noggin of Bugs Bunny or the Tasmanian Devil and extract a tangy little pellet. Kids love ’em. Adults, too — now dispensing Prozac, Paxil, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Lexapro and Zoloft.
Already regarded as one of the best defensive shortstops in baseball, Adeiny Hechavarria of the 51s is on the fast track to the majors.
ELY — UNLV senior wide receiver Phillip Payne practiced Sunday for the first time this training camp.
Three-time Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel has been arrested on a drunken driving charge in Indiana.
The Nevada Development Authority appreciates shock value. But the local economic development nonprofit — which once told highly taxed California businesspeople to “bend over and kiss your assets goodbye” — aims for a different sort of surprise these days.
One Sunday evening, a 3-year-old girl disappeared from her North Las Vegas foster home and reappeared in Mexico the next morning.
The Nevada Gaming Commission is considering changing a regulation and making it retroactive, something it has never done before, and which is practically guaranteed to get the state sued over a property rights issue.