Officials say icy conditions caused a City of Chicago maintenance truck to slide into Lake Michigan on Chicago’s Near North Side.
Police say a Pennsylvania woman chased her boyfriend around a dining room and stabbed him in the chest because he started eating Thanksgiving dinner while she slept off a bender.
Amid the fallout from a grand jury’s decision in the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Missouri, a panel in New York City is quietly nearing its own conclusion about another combustible case involving the death of an unarmed man at the hands of police.
“Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival” is launching in 2015, and it’s coming to the Orleans hotel Aug. 14-16.
Chicago Cubs pitcher Pedro Strop was involved in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic but was not injured, officials said Friday.
Along with District Court judges James Bixler and Valorie Vega, who are cleaning out there offices at the Regional Justice Center, two other judges are leaving the bench. District Court Judge Allan Earl, who hears only civil matters, and Family Court Judge Gloria O’Malley.
Interstate 15 reopened in both directions Friday afternoon near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway after being closed for a vehicle crash, according to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.
An Ohio State football player reported missing after he uncharacteristically skipped two practices has a history of sports-related concussions, and his family worries he might have become disoriented, his sister said.
The family of a 12-year-old boy fatally wounded by a Cleveland police officer said surveillance video of the shooting shows that if the officer had not acted so quickly the youngster would still be alive.
Police say a drunken driver stopped his van and fell asleep at the wheel on a New York City highway in the middle of traffic.
A man apparently upset about U.S. immigration policy was fatally shot early on Friday in Austin, Texas, after firing more than 100 rounds of ammunition at the Mexican consulate, a U.S. federal courthouse and police headquarters.
Two boys trapped in a snow pile in the Hudson Valley for several hours after a plow buried them were able to survive thanks to an air pocket in the heavy, wet snow, New York police said Friday.
It took a competitive selection process, hundreds of hours of rehearsal and about $700,000, but the Foothill High School band made it to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York to perform before a national audience.
It might seem as though everyone has an iPhone or Galaxy smartphone. But many customers are eschewing the best cameras and screens — and their top-end price tags — and choosing models that can get the job done at less than a third of the cost.
Eddie Redmayne (“Les Miserables”) delivers a staggering performance in “The Theory of Everything,” which showcases the silly, playful side of Hawking most of the world never got to see.
Ray Rice has won the appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL, which has been “vacated immediately,” the players’ union said Friday.
One person was stabbed in a fight on North Las Vegas Boulevard Friday morning, Las Vegas police said.
Authorities say an argument over an inheritance ended when a woman pushed a 72-year-old man down a flight of stairs at a southern New Jersey home and stabbed herself with a knife.
Demonstrators have disrupted business at a large suburban St. Louis shopping mall to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson.
The woman who died Thursday morning following a multi-vehicle crash near Sahara Avenue and Fremont Street has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
For the first time in more than a decade Barbie has been frozen out of the top spot on the holiday wish lists of girls.
As political revolutions go, the Ira Hansen Tax Revolt era certainly set a record for brevity.
Brace yourselves, Thanksgiving is over and Black Friday is upon us. So, if you’re brave enough to venture out into the world of retail on this day of bargains, may the odds be ever in your favor because things have already gone haywire around the country and across the pond.
Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” is 85 minutes of hope and frustration, love and loss, piety and defiance spread out over two bold, brilliant records and an EP. Not only is it arguably Wonder’s greatest musical achievement, it ranks high on the list of the best albums ever.
Here’s a question for Nevadans to ponder: Is it good that your state generates 86 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels?
Police say an SUV slammed into a horse-drawn buggy that missed a stop sign, injuring seven people in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the child who drowned Wednesday night in the southwest valley.
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