A woman was arrested on felony child neglect charges after her 8-year-old daughter was killed while crawling under a train in California so the family wouldn’t miss a bus home, authorities said.
The Senate approved legislation Wednesday to temporarily fund the government, a key step toward averting a federal shutdown after President Donald Trump backed off his demand for money for a border wall with Mexico.
The federal government would regulate sports betting nationwide under a bill to be introduced Wednesday.
The Seattle Mariners will play at T-Mobile Park beginning next year under a new 25-year naming rights deal.
If your date orders the “When Harry Met Salad,” will you have what she’s having?
Elon Musk unveiled his underground transportation tunnel on Tuesday, allowing reporters and invited guests to take some of the first rides in the revolutionary albeit bumpy subterranean tube — the tech entrepreneur’s answer to what he calls “soul-destroying traffic.”
The Bureau of Land Management has announced limited hours for the gated portions of Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon national conservation areas on Dec. 25.
A company in northern Michigan is rewarding 200 employees with nearly $4 million in bonuses.
“Porch pirates” are in for a messy awakening the next time they steal a package off of Mark Rober’s porch.
James Patterson has renewed a most welcome holiday publishing tradition — bonuses for independent bookstore employees.
A blind American woman from Michigan has gone missing after traveling to Peru for a wedding.
Sunny and warmer than normal conditions will stick around the Las Vegas Valley ahead of Christmas, the National Weather Service said.
An hourslong barricade situation in northwest Las Vegas prompted by a concerning 911 call from a woman early Wednesday ended with a man’s arrest.
The world’s burgeoning plastic waste crisis has won the attention of Britain’s Royal Statistical Society, which chose 90.5 percent — the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled — as its international statistic of the year.
Police say an attentive student helped foil an alleged school shooting plot at a Vermont middle school.
An extremely rare tornado that touched down west of Seattle was the strongest to hit Washington state since 1986, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.
The largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found is ready to go back on display at Chicago’s Field Museum in a new exhibition space.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Los Angeles auxiliary bishop Monsignor Alexander Salazar, following allegations of misconduct with a minor in the 1990s.
A man walked into a gas station with a gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon, asking people for help at the business, located at the corner of Vegas Valley Drive and Nellis Boulevard, police said.