At least two people were killed and 20 injured when a tornado ripped through a small northern Illinois town on Thursday night, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said on Friday.
A burglar has been busting into Las Vegas beauty shops, and police need your help tracking him down.
A Cashman Middle School teacher facing charges for lewdness with a minor called the cops to confess his crimes before somebody could beat him to it, according to a Las Vegas police arrest report.
Chris Jans, fired last week after one year as coach at Bowling Green, apologized Friday for the “inappropriate” behavior that led to his dismissal.
An Air Force major general has been formally reprimanded and removed from his job for telling a group of officers at Nellis Air Force Base that talking to Congress in a bid to block retirement of the A-10 Warthog amounted to “treason,” the Air Force said on Friday.
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument will host its first official public event Saturday morning, when a group of volunteers gather to clean up trash from the site at the northern edge of the Las Vegas Valley.
The prospective ownership group for a Las Vegas NHL team has begun recruiting corporations and casinos “to ensure ticket sales is as widespread as possible.”
Gillette pulled a clever stunt Friday aimed directly at fans of the Marvel’s “The Avengers.” The 110-year-old grooming company says it has partnered with Stark Industries, the conglomerate run the billionaire playboy and superhero Tony Stark, better known as Iron Man.
Just two weeks after Pat Christenson became president of Las Vegas Events in August 2001, he made his first hire — a West Virginia native who worked on stick-and-ball events and production for an ESPN regional office. Tim Keener has been with Las Vegas Events ever since, doing all those operational things behind the scenes to pull off events produced and sponsored by the nonprofit events arm of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
The woman who died after an apartment caught fire on Tuesday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Home-sales website Zillow set the Las Vegas Valley’s “break-even horizon” at 1.5 years in the fourth quarter, up from 1.2 years in the same period a year earlier.
Jordan Spieth, on a day his mentor Ben Crenshaw played his final round in the Masters, slipped one arm in his first Green Jacket and threatened to run away with it.
A new report from The Humane Society shows why one-third of domestic violence victims won’t leave their abuser.
Lauren Hill, the Indiana native who scored the first basket of the Mount St. Joseph University women’s basketball season in November while suffering from a rare inoperable brain cancer, died on Friday at age 19, officials said.
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A guard at the U.S. Census Bureau is dead following a shooting at the bureau’s headquarters in Maryland.
A Texas 5-year-old found bones belonging to a Nodosaur, a dinosaur probably as large as a horse, while digging around near a shopping center.
Joshua Corbett, the man accused of breaking into Oscar-winning-actress Sandra Bullock’s Los Angeles home, appeared in court on Thursday for a preliminary hearing during which dramatic audio of her 911 emergency call was played.
The most famous of Abraham Lincoln locations, Washington’s Ford’s Theatre, is hosting a special exhibition, “Silent Witnesses: Artifacts of the Lincoln Assassination,” through May 25 to mark the 150th anniversary of his assassination.
The system will allow a city worker to turn individual lights on or off — say, to accommodate a film shoot — and to brighten the lights — for instance when a sporting event gets out downtown.
Maryland authorities are searching for a man who shot and seriously injured a police officer early Friday morning in a confrontation outside a convenience store.
Severe weather conditions have left a group of Alaska hikers stranded on a glacier near Anchorage and also thwarted rescue attempts mounted by the state Air National Guard, military officials said.
The Bushes represent one of the great shifts in American religious identity: A growing tolerance for religious plurality.
There are some tricks seasoned parents learn in order to survive those early months of a baby’s life. And there are some definite do’s and do not’s when it comes to nighttime soothing.
One child died and a second remained hospitalized in grave condition Thursday after they were pulled from a submerged car that went into the water carrying four people at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.
There’s been a lot of talk about what the name of a Las Vegas National Hockey League expansion team should be … that is, if Las Vegas gets awarded an NHL team.
Forty-nine years ago, a woman in Olivette, Missouri, was told her daughter had died just after hours after being born. On Thursday, the mother and daughter, both very much alive, were reunited.
A tour bus caught fire at the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue on Friday morning, sending up smoke and causing some traffic delays.
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