A man was arrested Tuesday evening for kidnapping and pandering a child, according to Las Vegas police.
A University of California, Berkeley law school graduate pleaded guilty Wednesday to the October drunken beheading of an exotic bird on the Strip.
The Nevada Division of Forestry sent two employees to help fight the Colorado wildfire Tuesday night, according to Deputy Administrator Dave Prather.
CHICAGO — An unusually massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds was rolling through the Midwest on Wednesday and could affect more than one in five Americans from Iowa to Maryland.
Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill into law Wednesday morning that will provide $50 million to Nevada schools over the next two years to improve the academic performance of students learning English.
After two years of on-again, off-again negotiations, Allegiant Travel Co. flight attendants have made little headway in their negotiations with management to forge their first union contract.
Even with decreased visa wait times and an increasing number of countries being added to the Visa Waiver Program, the U.S. still has its share of issues welcoming international travelers.
WASHINGTON — The director of the National Security Agency said Wednesday that once-secret surveillance programs disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks, explicitly describing for Congress how the programs worked in collecting Americans’ phone records and tapping into their Internet activity.
A Henderson couple was charged in federal court Wednesday for committing bank fraud against Wells Fargo Bank, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The porcupine-haired punk named Johnny, an exclamation point incarnate, sounded as if he had a bullhorn for a larynx as he voiced the question of the evening.
WASHINGTON — The man who told the world about the U.S. government’s gigantic data grab also talks a lot about himself.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide additional money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people.
RENO — A university professor was arrested outside a Washoe County School Board meeting where he said he wanted to press concerns about the mistreatment of his daughter with a disability.
WASHINGTON — Using voice commands to send text messages and emails from behind the wheel, which is marketed as a safer alternative for drivers, actually is more distracting and dangerous than simply talking on a cellphone, a new AAA study found.
CLEVELAND — A man accused of holding three women captive in his home for about a decade pleaded not guilty Wednesday, and the defense hinted that a trial can be avoided with a plea if he escapes the death penalty.
STANTON, Calif. — A 72-year-old Southern California grandmother who shot at — and narrowly missed — a man trying to break into her home said Tuesday she was shocked at the attention her action was getting but does not regret defending herself and her husband, an 85-year-old World War II veteran who uses a wheelchair.
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A lawsuit accusing JetBlue of negligence after a pilot had a meltdown on a New York-to-Las Vegas flight has been quietly settled.
A small tour bus caught fire on the Strip Wednesday but no one was injured, according to the Clark County Fire Department.
With just more than a week before a crucial referendum on a Wynn Resorts Ltd. project, a group of volunteers and business owners are going door-to-door in a small Massachusetts town lobbying for the gaming company’s planned $1.2 billion casino-resort.
The new Myspace.com was unveiled Wednesday, revealing a site focused on entertainment that combines social networking with streaming music. There are new features aimed at helping musicians, writers and other artists connect with their followers, an app and a radio function.
A House panel stamped its approval Wednesday on a strategy to clean up an abandoned manganese mine that the city of Henderson is eyeing for major redevelopment.
The importance of artwork and how it’s displayed has remained with me since childhood when I first took a picture of a pretty young woman set in a pastoral scene from a magazine, placed it in a wood frame ( purchased at the 5-and-10-cent store) and hung it on the wall.
If the past is any indication, next month’s USA Basketball men’s national team mini-camp at UNLV figures to spawn several members of the 2016 Olympic team.
Q: I have some Early Girl tomatoes that I planted in March from plantlets that I bought. I talked to the Early Girls about a month later and told them that if they did not flower in the following week, I would feed them to the worms in my compost pile. Well they seemed to have listened, because they made lots of flowers but the flowers didn’t set fruit. What did I do wrong?
Veterans seeking mental health care can look forward to a brighter future with the hiring of 22 more professionals announced Wednesday by the Department of Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System.
Have you ever gotten really lost? I’m not talking about a wrong turn. Getting really lost usually requires some effort, like thinking you’re going the right way for so long that when you finally realize you made a mistake, it may be too late. It happens all too often, to people as well as cultures. When it comes to water, our culture has yet to realize its mistakes.
Less than a week after hearing pleas from the family of a slain Las Vegas cabdriver, a U.S. House panel advanced a bill Wednesday to cut red tape for search and recovery missions on public land.
Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that successfully took off Wednesday and landed safely after a remote-controlled, five-minute flight.