Barely holding on to hurricane strength, Iselle’s outer edges brought rain and wind to Hawaii on Thursday as it approached landfall, poised to become the first hurricane or tropical storm to hit the island chain in 22 years and whose path another hurricane closely followed.
President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq Thursday night, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and protect civilians under siege. His announcement threatened a renewal of U.S. military involvement in the country’s long sectarian war.
Malaysia plans to delist Malaysia Airlines from stock exchange, making it fully state owned.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a crash that sent a pedestrian to the hospital with life-threatening injuries Thursday night.
Las Vegas police and SWAT team officers are responding to a situation in an east valley apartment complex.
The Clark County Republican Party has filed a complaint with the Nevada secretary of state’s office alleging that Assembly District 34 candidate Meghan Smith, a Democrat, did not comply with state residency requirements and so is ineligible to run for the open seat.
A suspended Las Vegas physician has been charged with fraudulently obtaining controlled substances for his own addiction by posing for more than two years as one of his dead patients.
Two children taken from a Philadelphia-area home after a woman was slain were found safe in New York City early Thursday, and the children’s father, a suspect in the slaying, was later found dead, authorities said.
Federal prosecutors have mounted a new push to detain as flight risks the eight defendants arrested in an alleged World Cup betting scheme.
North Las Vegas will not have an opportunity to reargue a $4.25 million appeal it lost in March before the Nevada Supreme Court.
