Heavy rain pummeled Moapa on Monday, leaving nearly 100 students stranded and part of Interstate 15 closed after sections of the freeway washed away. Northbound lanes of I-15 were closed at the Moapa exit, about 50 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Chelsea Webster said, and southbound lanes were closed near Bunkerville.
Authorities have stopped searching through rugged terrain Monday for a mountain lion that attacked a 6-year-old Northern California boy, officials said.
An attorney for the family of an autistic teenager who had feces and bodily fluids dumped on him when he thought he was participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge said Monday that police know who the perpetrators are even as celebrities continue to offer reward money to find those involved.
Storms that flooded several Phoenix-area freeways and numerous local streets during the Monday morning commute set an all-time record for rainfall in Phoenix in a single day.
Nevada is one of six states selected to conduct tests on drones, and authorities are moving now to set policies for a future — maybe only 5 years away according to an FAA forecast — when 7,500 unmanned vehicles are roaming the skies.
The Pac-12 Conference has reprimanded and fined Southern California athletic director Pat Haden $25,000 for coming down to the field at Stanford Stadium on Saturday and confronting game officials.
Ray Rice was let go by the Baltimore Ravens on Monday and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after a video was released that appears to show the running back striking his then-fiancee in February.
A wildfire that prompted the rescue of 185 hikers in Yosemite National Park has blackened four square miles of back country wilderness, officials said Monday, as crews hoped rainy weather would give them a chance to gain some control over the flames.
Gloria Lee, the woman facing dozens of animal cruelty charges in the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique fire, has been granted a temporary reprieve from house arrest.
Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate, are expecting their second baby, his office said on Monday.
