Clark County firefighters have extinguished a two-alarm fire at a condominium complex on the Las Vegas Strip.
WASHINGTON — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers.
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence has concluded “with some degree of varying confidence” that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in its fierce civil war, the White House and other top administration officials said Thursday.
DENVER — People who test positive for smoking pot can legally be fired from their job, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in deciding that there is no employment protection for marijuana users.
The figure in the drawing can only be called a monster.
Aye, there be pirates at Lorenzi Park this weekend, and what they’re doing there is quite the story to tell.
NEW YORK — New York City officials say the Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square.
MOBILE, Ala. — A crew that was cleaning fuel barges in Mobile Bay likely caused a spark the triggered an explosion and critically burned three workers.
Carol Sheehan grew up in Florida and has lived in Las Vegas since 1992. She attended Auburn University, she said, because she wanted to go to college up north, “someplace where it snowed.”
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Deep cracks visible in the walls of a Bangladesh garment building had compelled police to order it evacuated a day before it collapsed, officials said Thursday. More than 200 people were killed when the eight-story building splintered into a pile of concrete because factories based there ignored the order and kept more than 2,000 people working.
WASHINGTON — Amid the celebration surrounding the opening of son George W. Bush’s presidential library Thursday, former first lady Barbara Bush brushed aside talk of a Jeb Bush run for the White House in 2016.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Country singer Billy Currington has been indicted on felony charges in Georgia after a 70-year-old tour boat captain says he was chased by the “People Are Crazy” singer from a waterfront home to a dock where Currington threatened him while shouting profanities.
When Spring Valley’s Dylan Drachler took the mound on opening day this season, the highly touted baseball pitcher had reservations about his freshman batterymate.
Winners of one playoff series in the past 22 years, the Washington Wizards have given their fans — not to mention their coach — plenty to cry about.
With little fanfare and after much anticipation, the fourth F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet arrived at Nellis Air Force Base on Wednesday, more than a month after it set out from Lockheed Martin’s production plant in Fort Worth, Texas,
On Wednesday, the 80th day of the 120-day 2013 legislative session, Assemblyman Tyrone Thompson was sworn into office, officially ending the sad saga of Steven Brooks.
Nevada will require escorts for mentally ill patients who are bused out of state under a new policy announced Wednesday by the governor’s office.
STOCKHOLM — The latest chapter in Justin Bieber’s European tour escapade was added Thursday when Swedish police said they had found drugs and a stun gun on the pop singer’s bus.
Kevin Wilson entered the Henderson church early Wednesday like most believers, through the front door.
It took husband and wife Rob and A.J. Tuttle half an hour to walk around the unfinished penthouse for sale at the top of Panorama Tower II.
Gradually over the past decade or so, the food offered at sports stadiums across the country has become increasingly sophisticated, in tune with changing American tastes.