The U.S. Coast Guard also said one of its helicopter crews had rescued 12 mariners who abandoned their sinking 212-foot (64.6 m) cargo ship after it was beset by heavy weather from Joaquin on Thursday evening off the northwest coast of Haiti.
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After months of tinkering and weeks of contentious debate, Las Vegas council members on Wednesday agreed they weren’t quite ready to adopt an ordinance that would restrict when and where buskers could perform underneath the Fremont canopy.
Spring weather in downtown Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California flip-flopped this year as temperatures cooled from March to May, creating a so-called reverse meteorological spring for the first time in nearly a century, officials said on Tuesday.
A 20-year-old man appeared in court Thursday to face charges in a hit-and-run car crash at a bus stop that left a woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter dead.
Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada said Wednesday that he will do everything in his power to keep nuclear waste out of Yucca Mountain after Nevada Democrat Sen. Harry Reid retires in two years.
D’Andre Berghardt Jr. was tased twice and shot seven times by Bureau of Land Management officers in an incident on state Route 159 near Red Rock last year, investigating officers testified in a fact-finding hearing Monday morning.
Winter’s relentless battering was poised on Monday to hit northern states across the nation with more snow and ice as the season’s bitter weather stretched its reach into the early days of March.
Punxsutawney Phil, the American groundhog famous for his weather predictions, saw his shadow after emerging from his burrow atop Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania on Monday, forecasting six more weeks of winter.
The Clark County coroner’s office has issued a final ruling in the accidental shooting death of a 39-year-old Arizona gun instructor by a 9-year-old girl using an automatic Uzi.
The family of a 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed her instructor at a northwestern Arizona shooting range spoke out through a lawyer Tuesday, saying they were devastated and are praying for the man’s family.