A polygamous sect leader recaptured after a year on the run has pleaded guilty in escape and food-stamp fraud cases.
The wiggling fingers of a young girl trapped in the rubble of her collapsed school in Mexico City raised hopes and prodded rescuers to work furiously hour after hour Wednesday in a delicate effort trying to free her from unstable debris — a drama that played out at dozens of buildings toppled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 245 people.
One person is dead after an early Wednesday crash involving a police patrol vehicle in the south valley.
Clark County fire crews battled a blaze Wednesday morning in a southeast valley neighborhood that’s under construction.
The three-story school structure had pancaked into a pile of concrete slabs. The bodies of 21 children and four adults had been pulled out. But still sounds came from the collapsed structure early Wednesday — nobody knew if they were survivors pounding for help, or simply the noises of shifting rubble.
The strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in more than 80 years destroyed hundreds of homes, knocked out power across the entire island and turned some streets into raging rivers Wednesday in an onslaught that could plunge the U.S. territory deeper into financial crisis.
Three decades after being pushed to the brink of extinction, the California condor is making a comeback in the wild, but constant vigilance is needed to ensure the endangered bird doesn’t reverse course.
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting that took place Tuesday night near downtown Las Vegas.
Washoe County health district officials say a south Reno resident has contracted the county’s first case of hantavirus since 2006.