A wind-driven wildfire near the Oregon border has damaged or destroyed 100 homes and forced at least 1,500 people to flee.
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About 30 Nevada National Guard soldiers in the 72nd Military Police Company participated in a deployment ceremony Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, at the Orleans.
A federal agency on Monday urged museums and schools to stop using methanol and other flammable chemicals in their fire-based science demonstrations in light of a flash fire that injured 13 people, most of them children, at a Reno museum earlier this month.
Urban Outfitters apologized Monday for selling a Kent State sweatshirt that appeared to be decorated with blood stains and bullet holes, reminiscent of the 1970 “Kent State Massacre” that left four people dead.
A young black man who was fatally shot last week by Utah police lunged at the officers with a real sword that had a 2.5-foot steel blade, prosecutors said Monday.
Las Vegas attorney David Chesnoff was assisted by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson on Monday when Tyson dumped ice water over Chesnoff’s head in front of Chesnoff’s downtown Las Vegas law firm.
The calls to 911 raised an instant alarm. One caller said he shot his co-workers at a Colorado video game company and had hostages. Another in Florida said her father was drunk, wielding a machine gun and threatening their family.
Police are trying to figure out how long a body had been decomposing in a woman’s trunk before she discovered it during a shopping trip.
Apple Inc said many customers will need to wait until next month for their new iPhones after a record 4 million first-day pre-orders were logged, double the number for the iPhone 5 two years ago.
A Southern California man was arrested Sunday following a nine-hour standoff with police after he opened fire on an ice cream truck and later shot at officers, police said on Monday.
Police say they followed proper protocol when they demanded identification from an actress and her boyfriend while investigating a 911 call alleging lewd conduct.
New Yorker Kira Kazantsev won the coveted 2015 Miss America Pageant crown on Sunday, a “three-peat” for contenders from the Big Apple.
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it has agreed to acquire Stockholm-based games developer Mojang and the company’s wildly popular Minecraft video game franchise for $2.5 billion.
