The Department of Veterans Affairs realized that the emergency room of its $585 million hospital in North Las Vegas would be too small but decided to finish the project and go back and fix it later, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told Congress on Thursday.
A Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, a U.S. official briefed on the search said Thursday.
Rescue workers using dogs and thermal-detection gear to search the rubble Thursday for more victims of a gas explosion found an eighth body, while investigators tried to pinpoint the leak and determine whether it had anything to do with New York’s aging gas and water mains, some from the 1800s.
Officials across much of the Muslim world said Thursday that the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film “Noah” will not be shown in local theaters because it could offend viewers.
A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, slamming into a crowd outside a nightclub and killing a man on a bicycle and a woman on a moped.
A handful of Idaho hockey fans have sued a Boise arena, saying they were duped into thinking a $7 beer contains more brew than a $4 beer.
