U.S. health secretary Alex Azar says the number of drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic.
The Connecticut Supreme Court says state police must release disturbing writings and other belongings of the Newtown school shooter to the public because they are not exempt from state open record laws.
Coffee drinkers in the nation’s capital can now order that tall pumpkin spice iced skim latte in sign language.
Raised in Long Island, just outside of Queens, Michelle St. Angelo says she was “sort of an adventurous kid.” That spirit of adventure inspired her to attend Indiana University in Bloomington while most of her friends attended schools closer to home.
The world will have to wait a little longer for the “Wonder Woman” sequel, which will now arrive in theaters in summer 2020.
The 56-year-old confirmed to People magazine on Monday her engagement to 33-year-old Elizabeth Rooney.
MoviePass, the struggling discount movie ticket subscription service, is being spun off by the company that owns it.
A high school fashion teacher arrested last month on a single video voyeurism charge now faces 353 more charges after investigators said they found images of students in various stages of undress on his digital cameras, cell phones and thumb drives.
A rancher on Kodiak Island said bears have killed more than 30 of his cows this year.
Police are offering a $500 reward for information on an assault that left a Vermont student with a fractured skull.
Video gamers in the United States and elsewhere will soon be able to bet on themselves.
The man who shot and killed a University of Utah student on campus was a former boyfriend and he was found dead inside a church about three hours after the shooting that prompted officials to lock down the campus, police and university officials said Tuesday.
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday that she has the beginning stages of dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.”
Porn actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti must pay $4.85 million to an attorney who worked at his former law firm, a California judge ruled Monday in an order that holds the potential presidential candidate personally liable in a lawsuit over back pay.
Police in Oklahoma City say the parents of a 5-month-old boy were arrested and charged with child neglect after the severely malnourished infant died at a hospital.
Rainy days are behind us, and temperatures in the Las Vegas Valley are set to rise well above normal for this time of year.
At UNLV’s first Las Vegas Make-A-Thon, 68 students worked in teams to shape business plans, develop programming and buid prototypes ranging from a kitchen thermometer that told jokes to a compressor bin that turns scraps of meat into dog food.
Floyd Mayweather may have hung up the gloves — for now — but he still plans on living big.
It took only 60 seconds for Dan Morphy to sell an antique slot machine for $80,000 Saturday morning.
The man suspected of shooting and killing a University of Utah student has been found dead.
Authorities rushed to evacuate low-lying areas and set up shelters as an “extremely dangerous” Hurricane Willa with winds of 130 mph (215 kph) headed toward a Tuesday afternoon landfall along a stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast dotted with high-rise resorts, surfing beaches and fishing villages.
The Alliance of American Football, which begins play in February, will play its first two championship games in Las Vegas. The city also could receive an expansion team at some point.
Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate after plotting his death for days, Turkey’s president said Tuesday, contradicting Saudi Arabia’s explanation that the writer was accidentally killed. He demanded that the kingdom reveal the identities of all involved, regardless of rank.
Kellogg’s Honey Smacks is returning to shelves following a voluntarily recall after salmonella infected 100 people in 33 states.
An object that appeared to be an explosive device was found in a mailbox at the home of George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist who has donated heavily to liberal causes and is a frequent target of unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating after a man was shot early Tuesday morning at a central valley apartment complex.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the 4-year-old boy who died Monday evening after a family was struck by a truck while walking in a central valley crosswalk.
China on Tuesday opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland, a feat of engineering carrying immense economic and political significance.
When Washington’s $500 million Museum of the Bible held its grand opening in November 2017, attended by Vice President Mike Pence, there were questions even then about the authenticity of its centerpiece collection of Dead Sea Scrolls.
Sparks police say they’ve determined the death of a Sparks couple in a fire at their home was a homicide and detectives have arrested their daughter as a suspect in the killings