A rapidly growing wildfire burned largely unchecked in Northern California’s ranch country on Friday after destroying three homes and forcing hundreds of people to flee.
A federal magistrate on Friday entered a “temporary” not guilty plea for Dylann Roof on hate crime charges in the slaying of nine African-Americans at a South Carolina church, even as his lawyer said his client wanted to plead guilty.
The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children kicked off it’s national conference Thursday night with a ceremony to unveil panels from the nonprofit’s Murder Wall memorial.
Older adults who value sexual activity and engage in it have better social lives and psychological well-being, according to a small study from Scotland.
The arts and crafts store will celebrate its opening with a ceremony Aug. 10 at the 55,000-square-foot facility at 6361 N. Decatur Blvd.
The Coast Guard’s weeklong search for the two Florida teens, who vanished at sea on July 24, will stop at sunset Friday, after an extensive coastal search that extended from southern Florida to North Carolina, Capt. Mark Fedor told reporters in Miami.
A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer has been placed on mandatory administrative leave after fatally shooting a man brandishing a pistol on Friday morning.
After three trials and 18 years in prison — including 13 on death row — a Broward County jury in 2012 found Seth Penalver not guilty of capital murder in the 1994 slayings of three people.
Jurors in the death penalty portion of the James Holmes trial have begun deliberations.
More than 3,000 eager fans packed The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel on Thursday to catch pop star Juanes’ only show in Las Vegas this year.
A Kingman, Ariz., man has been arrested after police said he used a hatchet to kill a transient man he was trying to evict from his home in northwest Arizona.
The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah Muchinguri said on Friday.
Quarterback Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks agreed to a four-year contract extension Friday.
A Japanese civilian judiciary panel on Friday forced prosecutors to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power executives for failing to take measures to prevent the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Saving historic buildings isn’t always a high priority in Southern Nevada, but Boulder City has worked to make it so.
A teenage girl from New York is accused of suffocating her newborn baby boy before putting his body in a shopping bag, then going on a shopping trip to Victoria’s Secret with the body the next day.
One of three men who kidnapped a busload of school children more than three decades ago and left them in a van hidden in a California quarry was granted parole on Thursday, state officials said.
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Her husband praises her for her efforts to improve the lives of Nevadans, ticking off issues she works on including prescription drug abuse, homelessness, various programs for school children, and mental health.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police said they were investigating a vehicle that struck a barricade at the congressional complex on Friday.
Beijing was chosen by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday, becoming the first city to be awarded both the summer and winter Games.
Over a month after a newly-formed search and rescue group had its trailer and equipment stolen, the items are still missing, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
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