Food giant General Mills is giving its employees more paid time off to care for an aging parent or ill family members and to bond with their newborns and adoptive children.
Officials say a pest infestation has closed a high school in Tennessee for three consecutive days.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Norman has grown into a Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific Ocean and could become even stronger, though it poses no threat to land.
State casino gaming win showed its first decline in six months in July on a tough comparison against last year, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
Highs in the Las Vegas Valley will fall below 100 over the Labor Day weekend thanks to a cooling trend at the end of the week.
Greece’s culture minister says Greek-French film director Costa Gavras has died in Paris at the age of 85.
Despite a day of quieter weather Wednesday, flood warnings remain for areas affected by tornadoes.
Though slowed by a stroke, Roberta McCain will attend memorial and burial services in Washington and Maryland later this week for the middle son she called “Johnny.”
BRUNSWICK, Maine — An animal rights group wants to build a “roadside memorial” in Maine near the site of a truck crash that spilled 7,000 pounds of live lobster.
Officers found human remains in a fish tank inside the home of a man who was reported missing weeks ago, San Francisco police said Tuesday.
The head of the Elko Convention and Visitors Authority says he’ll retire in late November after nearly 13 years at the northeast Nevada agency.
Sen. John McCain was eulogized as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good fight — at a crowded church service for the maverick politician Thursday that ended with the playing of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”
Reno police are investigating the stabbing of a good Samaritan who was intervening on behalf of a homeless person being harassed by three people.
An 11-year-old boy sucked into a flooded Wisconsin storm sewer was saved when an eagle-eyed firefighter saw the boy’s fingers pop through an opening in a manhole cover.
A woman is in critical condition after a Wednesday evening crash in the northwest valley.
Ian Miller’s ground ball bounced toward Dominic Smith at first base, who picked it up, double clutched and snapped a throw to the plate.
Authorities in Texas say they’ve found a woman who was captured on video ringing a doorbell in the middle of the night, her wrists shackled in what appeared to be broken restraints.
A white former police officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday night after being convicted of murder a day earlier for killing an unarmed 15-year-old boy when he fired into a car filled with black teenagers leaving a house party in suburban Dallas.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a last-minute bid by former coal CEO Don Blankenship to get his name on the ballot in November’s U.S. Senate race in West Virginia.
A soldier based in Hawaii pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State group— admitting he provided secret military information, a drone meant to track U.S. troops and other support to undercover agents he believed were members of the terrorist organization.
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The Coronado girls soccer team scored a pair of first-half goals to hold off Arbor View on Wednesday and win 2-1 in the Las Vegas Kick-Off at Green Valley.
Sasha Bolla had 15 kills on Wednesday as Coronado’s girls volleyball team earned a 25-21, 25-18, 24-26, 26-24 home victory over defending Class 4A state champion Shadow Ridge.
Khalil Mack’s holdout and the Raiders’ parking proposal dominate this week’s R-J Raiders mailbag.
Shad Gettman and Andrew Spencer 3-0 in doubles to lift Basic’s boys tennis team to a 12-6 home victory over Tech on Wednesday.
Luis Gutierrez’s first-half goal was the difference in the Eldorado boys soccer team’s 2-0 road win over Tech on Wednesday.