Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus, the fraternity said Tuesday.
After a projected high of 99 degrees Wednesday, temperatures will surge into triple digits for the rest of the week, the National Weather Service said.
Las Vegas police arrested a woman passenger at McCarran International Airport late Tuesday for allegedly assaulting passengers and crew aboard an American Airlines flight from Chicago, then slapping a police officer.
Here are your Wednesday morning headlines.
OceanGate, which is based on Everett, Washington’s waterfront, plans to dive on the famous wreck in 2018 — and it is taking along paying passengers.
With the 117th edition of the U.S. Open this week, it seemed a perfect time to delve into the new rules changes proposed by the U.S. Golf Association and Royal and Ancient Golf Club.
The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
Actor Jonathan Goldsmith appeared as the sophisticated, eccentric and worldly pitchman for Dos Equis beer for nearly a decade. He’s now promoting Astral Tequila.
A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as congressmen and others dove for cover.
Two Georgia inmates serving long prison sentences and “dangerous beyond description” overpowered and killed two guards on a prison bus before fleeing in a stolen car, authorities said.
A man was shot in the shoulder Wednesday morning while sitting inside his apartment north of downtown.
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake in western Guatemala near the border with Mexico caused moderate damage to homes, triggered some landslides across highways and injured at least one person early Wednesday, officials said.
Federal prosecutors say a man was arrested in central California for allegedly uploading the Marvel film “Deadpool” to his Facebook page days after its February 2016 release.
A man driving a Chevrolet pickup was making a U-turn when his truck and a Toyota carrying five people collided. All five in the Toyota were taken to a hospital.
Las Vegas Review-Journal’s sports columnist Ed Graney and Raiders beat reporter Michael Gehlken recap the first day of the Oakland Raiders minicamp in Alameda, California.
A fatal crash happened about 11:20 p.m. on eastbound Sahara Avenue, east of South Jones Boulevard.
Las Vegas used five home runs, got hits from all eight position players and Wilfredo Boscan recorded a quality start as the 51s won the first game of the four-game set.