The director of Google’s self-driving car project wrote in a blog post Monday that development of the technology has entered a new stage: trying to master driving on city streets.
Emergency officials were searching for survivors Monday in the debris left by a powerful tornado that killed at least 16 people in Arkansas and carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock.
As U.S. Capitol Police investigate threats against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada congressman asks the sheriff and the FBI for help dealing with militia protesters who have made camp near Cliven Bundy’s Nevada cattle ranch.
The author of a new report on the use of Internet gaming for money laundering activities said Monday the findings of the study have been misrepresented by both anti-online wagering activists and pro-Web gaming backers.
A Metro police officer was hospitalized with what the police department described as non-life threatening injuries after a collision near downtown Las Vegas Monday afternoon.
As El Paso christens its new ballpark, portable toilets go up near 51s outdoor batting cage.
In a continuing trend of recovery from the recession, Silver State Schools Credit Union on Monday reported an eighth consecutive quarter of positive earnings.
Military wife Julie Scheneker, accused of shooting her son in the head and daughter in the face during her husband’s deployment in 2011, is standing trial for two counts of first-degree murder.
Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada will open its summer day shelter for men on Thursday at a new location that can accommodate 130 men at one time.
Police say a Clemmons woman who they think was posting pictures and text to her Facebook page while driving was killed when her car crashed into a truck.
The Clark County Fire Department is employing new training techniques for its firefighters complete with on-scene controlled residential flames.
Southern Nevada’s credit freeze is thawing, and that means better times for small businesses that need financing. It’s also a boost for the region’s economy, because smaller companies employ most of the local workforce and help spur spending in every industry.
A North Las Vegas man accused of butchering his mother and sister, mutilating one of the bodies with a chainsaw and then living in a home with the decomposing bodies was indicted by a grand jury on murder charges, court records show.
The good news is that Latinos graduate from college at the same rate as whites in Nevada. The bad news is that those numbers are still below the national average. Excelencia in Education found that 39 percent of Silver State Latino students and white students graduate from college in four years, compared to 41 percent and 50 percent nationally.
Advertisers are backing away from the Los Angeles Clippers after racist comments attributed to the NBA team’s owner.
A wealthy Internet entrepreneur recently convicted of domestic violence has been terminated as CEO of the San Francisco online advertising company RadiumOne. CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal was upset that his wife had cheated on him during a Las Vegas trip, according to court documents.
Jack Ramsay, a Hall of Fame coach who led the Portland Trail Blazers to the 1977 NBA championship before he became one of the NBA’s most respected broadcasters, has died following a long battle with cancer. He was 89.
In an effort to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine, the U.S. has implemented new sanctions against Russian officials and companies linked to Vladimir Putin’s associates.
He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa. The 15-year-old Somali boy had been arguing at home, and in the kind of impulsive move that teenagers make, he hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport last Sunday and clambered into a wheel well of a Hawaii-bound jetliner.
Wynn Resorts says it has signed agreements with four more Boston-area communities as it seeks to build a $1.2 billion resort-style casino in Everett, Mass.
A Utah woman was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder in the killing of her six babies over a decade, but she cannot face the death penalty if convicted, prosecutors said.
A Florida man who tossed 3 undersized grouper fish overboard is facing criminal charges for violating a federal law originally intended for the accounting industry.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers have used to launch attacks.
Scientists have created insulin-producing cells for diabetes treatment through stem cell cloning.
Newmont Mining Corp. said on Monday it had ended merger talks with Barrick Gold Corp. Analysts and others have long thought a tie-up was logical from a cost-cutting perspective, particularly given the vast overlap in the companies’ combined operations in Nevada.
Hotelier Sue Lowden is still dealing with unpaid debts from her unsuccessful 2010 bid for U.S. Senate, and it’s coming back to bite her in her new bid for lieutenant govenror.
U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1 of every 5 students walks away without a diploma, and it’s even worse in Nevada.