Alabama leads season’s first CFP rankings

Alabama, Clemson, LSU and Notre Dame are the top four teams in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season.

Ohio teen accused of raping 6-year-old girl on school bus

Authorities say a 15-year-old Ohio boy accused of raping a 6-year-old girl on a school bus where he was a bus helper has been arrested on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition.

CCSD records detail dozens of complaints about Trustee Kevin Child

A female employee in the Clark County School District was so fearful of Trustee Kevin Child that she wrote to officials she would “often look in my mirror to see if he is following me,” according to internal documents obtained by the Review-Journal.

Old mines across western US face closure efforts

Underneath the mountains and deserts of the U.S. West lie hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines, an underground world that can hold serious danger and unexpected wonder.

Work to begin on Red Spring boardwalk at Red Rock Canyon

More than a year after it was closed for safety reasons, the Army Corps of Engineers is slated to start work in early December on a complete replacement for the crumbling wooden boardwalk.

Pilot crashes plane into Wisconsin lake, leaves wreckage, goes home

Sheriff’s officials say the pilot of an ultralight seaplane that crashed into a southern Wisconsin lake swam to shore and hitched a ride home without contacting the authorities about the wreck because he didn’t think it was a big deal.