Kevin Ward Jr.’s friends, family and fellow racing enthusiasts overflowed a high school auditorium Thursday to grieve and share stories about the 20-year-old dirt-track racer who was struck and killed by a car driven by NASCAR champion Tony Stewart.
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A British air accident report has recounted how a pilot briefly lost control of a passenger plane after his artificial arm became detached from the control yoke during landing.
Pope Francis called Thursday for peace and unity on the war-divided Korean Peninsula, offering a message of reconciliation at the start of a five-day visit to South Korea.
Authorities say a 5-year-old girl was killed and several others were injured in a fiery multi-vehicle crash that has shut down all lanes of a Los Angeles County freeway.
A satellite designed to produce high-resolution images of Earth from space was launched Wednesday from a California military base. DigitalGlobe says the satellite will be able to capture images of objects as small as 1-foot across.
The defensive backs were the strongest part of UNLV’s defense last football season. They are expected to be again this season.
Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.
Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura ordered the shredding of documents from an internal investigation that determined his second-in-command, Deputy Chief Dean Lauer, had used office resources to look for information about adult film actresses, the Review-Journal has learned.
Turns out, 2 million was the magic number. That was the population benchmark for IKEA, which will open its first store in Nevada on 26 acres in southwest Las Vegas in the summer of 2016.
A man died over the weekend after jumping into a huge ceremonial bonfire at a Utah event similar to the Nevada countercultural festival Burning Man, authorities said.
A violent felon who was released from jail at the request of members of an FBI-led task force, then allegedly fatally shot a father of four, was denied attempts to renege on a deal with authorities so he could avoid a life prison term in a separate case.
Egypt presented a cease-fire plan Monday to end a week of heavy fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has left at least 185 people dead.
Unexplained rash? Check your iPad. It turns out the popular tablet computer may contain nickel, one of the most common allergy-inducing metals.
The shipwrecked Costa Concordia was successfully refloated Monday in preparation to be towed away for scrapping, 30 months after it struck a reef and capsized, killing 32 people.
Rihanna has donated $25,000 to the Los Angeles Police Department after accidentally cracking the screen of the L.A. Police Commission President Friday night at a Clippers Game.