With no sign of the government shutdown ending, the budget stalemate in Congress has caused the Department of Veterans Affairs to take “one step forward and two steps back” in its effort to reduce a backlog of disability claims, Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said Wednesday.
The deputy commander of U.S. nuclear forces, Vice Adm. Tim Giardina, was notified Wednesday that he has been relieved of duty amid a military investigation of allegations that he used counterfeit chips at an Iowa casino, the Navy said.
Being accused of excessive force isn’t new to Family Court Marshal Brent Johnson.
A woman struck a crossing guard and two parked cars with a stolen vehicle Wednesday morning, police said.
The much-anticipated winter snowfall that draws Las Vegas Valley residents to Mount Charleston with sleds and skis should make an appearance Wednesday, thanks to a storm system moving down the West Coast.
Fractured skulls, broken legs, a ruptured spleen, pierced liver, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills — this is Rodnesha Beverly and Rodney James’ new reality after a truck slammed into the bus stop where James and their children were waiting.
NASA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it’s on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.
A man armed with what federal marshals described as an assault-type rifle fired up to two dozen rounds at a West Virginia federal courthouse Wednesday until police returned fire and killed him, state police said.
The Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen troops, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.
Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey on Wednesday announced she is stepping down from her post immediately, according to a message she sent to the college community.
