A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured hiding in a boat parked in a backyard Friday night and his older brother lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer with muscular arms and enough brio to arrive at a sparring session without protective gear. His younger brother Dzhokhar was popular in high school, won a city scholarship for college and liked to hang out with Russian friends off-campus.
Two days after the fertilizer facility exploded in a blinding fireball, authorities announced that they had recovered 14 bodies, confirming for the first time an exact number of people killed. Grieving families quickly started planning burials.
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota hospital said Friday that the remains of a second stillborn baby may have been sent to a laundry service that discovered one set of remains earlier this week.
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — Seconds after the Boston Marathon bombs exploded, David Green pulled out his smartphone and took a photo of the chaos developing a couple hundred yards in front of him — the smoke, the people running in panic.
The uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged one of his nephews to turn himself in Friday, saying he had brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity. “Yes, we’re ashamed. They’re the children of my brother,” Ruslan Tsarni told reporters.
So the devil slides into the booth of an all-night diner on Sunset Boulevard near the Comedy Store circa 1984, and slaps a contract down on a coffee stain in front of an aspiring young comic.
A motor home near Charleston and Hollywood boulevards caught fire early Thursday morning, leaving one person with minor injuries.
The new Nature Center at heart of Clark County’s largest park will open to the public with a dedication ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Nevada State Bank is ranked ninth with 771 points out of a potential 1,000 points for overall customer satisfaction in the Southwest Region, a J.D. Power and Associates study released Thursday shows.
The patient is still in critical care, but his condition is stabilizing.
BOSTON — Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately one in 10 Americans is living with diabetes and one in three adults could have diabetes by 2050. While every case requires an individual treatment plan, with the right attitude and management, people living with diabetes have an opportunity to overcome the challenges they face.
It waits for no one, flies by and can’t be bottled, but it’s the one thing everyone would like more of: time. In today’s busy, hectic society it’s harder for families to find time together for fun, yet spending quality time together is key to the emotional health of the family unit and of individual family members.
Helping a child in need may be easier than you think, by redirecting a common resource that often just goes to waste.
Former Nevada Assemblyman John Marvel is being remembered as a gravelly-voiced cowboy with a big heart.
A senior correctional officer with the state of Nevada has had his firing upheld for neglect of duty when an inmate under his watch committed suicide.
Lyon County sheriff’s deputies have arrested five suspects in a break-in at the Women’s Conservation Camp in Silver Springs.
Rescuers looking for a small plane reported missing after departing from North Las Vegas said Thursday that they found wreckage and two bodies about 20 miles southeast of the Minden-Tahoe Airport in Northern Nevada.
A newly installed solar array at a Las Vegas water treatment plant is part of the city’s effort to save $2.5 million annually in energy costs.
Two UNLV undergraduate teams won top prizes and a total of $35,000 in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition.