A tractor-trailer that caught fire is blocking traffic Monday along Interstate 15 near Blue Diamond Road.
Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a Sunday night fatal shooting of a man on J Street, near Owens Avenue.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled a transportation concept on Monday that he said could whisk passengers the nearly 400 miles from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes — half the time it takes an airplane.
A close family friend suspected of abducting a 16-year old girl after killing her mother and younger brother fired his rifle at FBI agents before they killed him deep in the Idaho wilderness, authorities said Monday.
It sounded like a thunderstorm as windows broke and the ground shook, but vacationers who were awakened from their rooms at a villa near Orlando, Fla., soon realized that the building was starting to collapse – parts of it swallowed by a 100-foot sinkhole that also endangered two neighboring resort buildings.
James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.
The nation’s largest police department illegally and systematically singled out large numbers of blacks and Hispanics under its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a federal judge ruled Monday while appointing an independent monitor to oversee major changes, including body cameras on some officers.
BlackBerry will consider selling itself after the long-awaited debut of its new phones failed to turn around the struggling smartphone maker.
In book news this week, Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow are set to sign copies of their book “The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums and Hideouts” from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 16 at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the Mob Museum; and Las Vegas writer Eric J. Miller, author of the soon-to-be released “For Rent: Dangerous Paradise” and the road trip comedy “The Metaphysics of Nudity,” is scheduled to deliver a presentation titled “Early Lessons of a Newbie e-Pubber” during a meeting of the Las Vegas Writers Group scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Tap House
A newlywed was back home in Salt Lake City and facing more medical tests, her mother said Monday, after being stabbed in the back in what authorities called a random attack on four people on a sidewalk just off the Las Vegas Strip.
CARSON CITY – Anticipating trials over the value of properties needed for the Boulder City bypass project, the state Transportation Department Board on Monday upped a contract limit with a private attorney by $850,000.
A debate about when children should be allowed in restaurants is raging after a Houston restaurant announced a ban on children after 7 p.m.
UFC content is already broadcast by more than 30 TV networks in 28 languages in 145 nations. Now, the Las Vegas company plans to make fans out of just about anyone on the planet who has a TV screen, a mobile communications device or cash for an event ticket into a UFC fan.
Bail was increased Monday for the woman accused of driving her car into eight people outside a church on Thursday and fleeing the scene.
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Gold futures rose Monday, capping the longest rally in four weeks, as demand surged in China, the world’s second-biggest consumer of the metal last year. Silver jumped to a seven-week high.
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A judge in Tennessee changed a 7-month-old boy’s name to Martin from Messiah, saying the religious name was earned by one person and “that one person is Jesus Christ.”
A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion.
The FBI agents involved in last year’s shooting of Joshua Oscar Burchell acted reasonably and lawfully, the Clark County district attorney’s office announced Monday.
For years, curiosity seekers visiting the Fort Worth, Texas, grave of Lee Harvey Oswald have wondered about the simple headstone next door, marked Nick Beef. It turns out Nick Beef is alive and living in New York.
A fact-finding review of the October 2012 death of Ronald Morrison will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, aired live on Clark County Television and streamed over the county Internet site at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov.
CARSON CITY — “Robert Laxalt stared at the blank piece of paper in the Royal typewriter. He wrote a sentence, pulled the paper from the Royal and read it carefully. With both hands, he crumbled the paper in a ball and threw it in the wastebasket. The words weren’t right. They weren’t good enough.”
The robotic voice that takes over Las Vegas’ airwaves before an emergency event is as synonymous with bad weather as a thunder clap. City of Las Vegas emergency management officer Carolyn Levering’s voice is likely a lot less familiar.
Fifty-four hours to launch a business. That’s the goal behind Startup Weekend, which wrapped up its sixth edition Sunday at the InNEVation Center.
The body of an adult male was recovered Sunday from Lake Mohave in the area where a North Las Vegas man went missing two weeks ago.
A man who died after crashing his motorcycle near Lake Mead on Sunday morning has been identified.