U.S. Rep. Cresent Hardy of Nevada introduced his first bill on Wednesday, a measure that would restrict federal land purchases until the government gets its budget in balance.
The Baltimore Ravens released running back Bernard Pierce on Wednesday after he was arrested and charged with driving under the influence earlier in the morning.
Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia’s national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has largely escaped the region’s “Arab Spring” turmoil.
Police captured a suspect on Wednesday in a shooting spree that killed one person and wounded five others in Mesa, Arizona, acting Police Chief John Meza told local television station Fox 10 News.
The White House on Wednesday scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his re-election victory for abandoning his commitment to negotiate for a Palestinian state and for what it called “divisive” campaign rhetoric toward Israel’s minority Arab voters.
Free agent defensive end Greg Hardy is expected to choose between the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, agent Drew Rosenhaus told multiple media outlets Wednesday.
Students at The Meadows School are learning to manage their money firsthand through The Meadows School MicroBank, one of the first such high school entities in the U.S. Its intent is to help entrepreneurs in developing countries get ahead by providing small loans through the nonprofit crowdfunding site kiva.org.
Two people arrested after their mentally-challenged teen was found in a caged bed have been sentenced.
Anne Furno had been chipping away at a bland-looking rough stone for several weeks before she realized a swan was trying to take shape.
Clark County commissioners approved a permit Wednesday that will allow Wet ‘n’ Wild to serve alcoholic drinks at the water park.
Missouri on Tuesday executed by lethal injection a man convicted of killing a sheriff’s deputy nearly a quarter century after the man had lost part of his brain in a sawmill accident, the state corrections department said.
NV Energy has launched a newly consolidated statewide call center telephone system providing interactive voice response solutions, making it easier to reach a live representative no matter when a customer decides to conduct business with the utility.
Your tax rate is determined by the amount of income you earn. But if you can use deductions to chip away at that income until you’re in a lower tax bracket, you might be much richer come April.
The U.S. government is preparing to roll back a widely criticized approach to public health, in which the “lost pleasure” people might suffer if they quit smoking or chose to eat healthier foods was used to reduce the projected benefits of new regulations, government officials told Reuters.
A Texas teenager was arrested for placing a threat on social media to launch a mass shooting at a Dallas-area high school on Wednesday, officials said.
Bullhead City police have released the name of the Fort Mohave woman killed in a Tuesday traffic accident as Doreen L. Romero Ford, 59.
Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump took the first steps on Wednesday toward launching a 2016 presidential campaign, a sign the businessman may jump into the Republican race after publicly considering it in years past.
Syracuse University head basketball coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years, the school said Wednesday, less than two weeks after the NCAA slapped the school with severe sanctions amid a lengthy investigation of its athletic programs.
NBC will close out the 2014-15 regular season on May 21 with a three-hour live telethon that marks the arrival in the U.S. of the Red Nose Day charity drive that has become a U.K. institution.
North Las Vegas is trying to tell a story that’s different than the tale of woe it’s been saddled with for decades, and on Wednesday the City Council will decide if it wants to continue to entrust its spokesman with that job.
Two prominent local travel basketball coaches said this week that Rebels athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy put Dave Rice in an awkward position on the recruiting trail this summer when she publicly placed him on the hot seat.
Machabee Office Environments opened in Reno 75 years ago. That was 27 years before the first cubicle, 30 years before the earliest personal computers, 51 years before the first website and 66 years before the first tweet.
Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks on Wednesday launched a subscription streaming service for fans of science, technology and history, with the goal of dominating the nonfiction category in on-demand, online video.
A Morgan State football player was seriously injured and two teammates also were stabbed during an on-campus incident on Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore.
More than 2,000 cars passed through Metro’s checkpoint on Paradise near Tropicana, and 30 drivers face DUI charges.
Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California on a charge of first-degree murder, is suicidal, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday, as court documents showed he was being moved to a jail specializing in mentally ill patients.
Florida prosecutors won’t seek charges against a dozen police officers who unleashed a hail of bullets that killed a fleeing black man and injured four bystanders on a crowded South Beach street during Memorial Day Weekend celebrations in 2011.
The third installment in Syfy and The Asylum’s “Sharknado” franchise will be titled “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” the companies announced Wednesday. The two-hour telepic will premiere on Syfy on Wednesday, July 22 at 9 p.m.
Full House Resorts’ first quarterly earnings report under new management saw an increased net loss and a decline in revenue, but officials with the Las Vegas-based company said it will take much of 2015 to change the casino operator’s direction.
Call her a county fair addict. Amelia Wignall may be only 20, but the Summerlin-area resident has attended dozens of county fairs in different states, starting as a young child. She said they fostered her creative streak, which extends to cooking, and resulted in her own line of prize-winning jams.