A northern New York couple was arrested Friday in the kidnapping of two Amish sisters from their family’s roadside farm stand, a prosecutor says.
Yes, Nevada sits at the bottom of plenty of good lists and the top of lots of bad rankings. But one recently published study put Nevada way down a particularly nasty set of state ratings: corruption.
Jonathan Koppenhaver, also known as War Machine, was arrested Friday in Simi Valley, Calif., the U.S. Marshals said.
A 53-year-old man who tried to kill himself while standing trial in Pahrump on child sex abuse charges was acquitted by a jury on Friday.
A couple was awarded $2.4 million on Friday in a federal breach-of-contract and fraud case involving a condominium they purchased in 2006 at the Meridian, an upscale complex near the Strip.
A Henderson man was convicted Friday in the slaying of his live-in girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.
Congressional candidate Erin Bilbray on Friday parted ways with her second campaign manager as the Democrat moved to bolster her struggling bid to defeat U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., in the Nov. 4 general election.
Three men are charged with digging up the cremated remains of two relatives and moving them to another cemetery in Maine.
Albania’s Bay of Porto Palermo, its castle and its deep blue waters are one of the country’s top tourist attractions, featured on European newspaper and Internet lists of places to visit for those with a taste of adventure.
Matthew Bowman and Miguel Socolovich combined on a four-hitter as the 51s blanked the Iowa Cubs 2-0 on Friday night to take three of four game in Des Moines.
A cigarette butt flicked onto an apartment balcony caused a fire in an apartment complex near UNLV on Friday afternoon. The Clark County Fire Department responded to a fire at the Tropicana Royale apartments, at 1900 E. Tropicana Avenue, near Spencer Street, just after noon.
Las Vegas police released more information on Friday about two police shootings that occurred earlier this month. In both shootings the men who were shot lived.
In the shadows of majestic Lamade Stadium, four Mountain Ridge baseball players took batting practice from their manager Friday afternoon.
The U.S. national team has canceled a trip to Senegal after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Americans were scheduled to interrupt their World Cup of Basketball preparations to travel to the African continent for the first time, conducting a joint clinic on Aug. 27 with the Senegal national team.
Crews from the Clark County Fire Department responded to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Friday afternoon after multiple rooms were reportedly burning on the 18th floor.
A Minnesota boy who created a national stir in the fall after he sneaked past security and boarded a flight to Las Vegas by himself is no longer under court authority.
Blake Decker was named UNLV’s starting quarterback on Friday, beating out fellow junior Nick Sherry. Decker is a junior college transfer.
Chris Kattan has been sentenced to three years’ probation for driving under the influence and crashing his Mercedes into a Department of Transportation vehicle on a Southern California freeway earlier this year.
A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption.
Las Vegas police arrested two ex-Wet ‘n Wild workers and an accomplice for robbing the southwest valley amusement park of $116,000 in the early hours of Aug. 4.
ATLANTIC CITY — The $2.4 billion Revel that opened just over two years ago as a hoped-for savior for Atlantic City’s flagging casino industry will close a week earlier than originally planned, the company announced in an email Friday.
A fired Strip housekeeper was back behind bars this week in a bizarre death threat case where he’s accused of sending dead cockroaches and pigeon body parts to former employers.
An auction ended Friday with no bids for the New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months.
Prosecutors announced Friday that they would not seek an indictment against a California youth pastor involved in an altercation with a Las Vegas man who later died.
The Theatre Wit of Chicago’s production of “Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England” explores the inevitable aging and changing of relationships.
Nevada’s jobs market mostly held steady in July. The state’s jobless rate stayed at 7.7 percent in the month, though unemployment in Las Vegas ticked up to 8.2 percent, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported.
One of the world’s largest information technology companies plans to pack 20,000 of its employees into two Las Vegas resorts this month for an internal meeting to discuss the industry’s future.
This weekend’s big release, “The Giver” is the big-screen adaptation of the young adult novel from 1993. The book was written for a younger audience, but is the movie OK for the same group?