When the confetti flew, the two boys stood in the center of the stage and shook hands. They held up the trophy together. Both were champions, a Spelling Bee finish unseen in more than half a century.
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Almost a year after the Henderson Police Department’s single officer involved shooting of 2013, Edward Scheboth Jr.’s motives for firing at police officers before being killed remain in question.
The NBA canceled a hearing to oust Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling, instead moving forward to vote on a record-breaking deal negotiated by his wife to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.
Law officers who visited Elliot Rodger three weeks before he killed six college students near a Santa Barbara university were aware that he had posted disturbing videos but didn’t watch them because he seemed OK when they visited him.
A San Francisco Bay Area school district has fired a high school security officer who faces a felony charge after he repeatedly slapped a handcuffed, wheelchair-bound student suffering from cerebral palsy and dumped him onto the floor, authorities said.
A mother of a Washington state elementary school student is considering legal action after she says a third-grade teacher’s pay-to-potty policy led to her daughter having an accident in class.
Elko County rancher Grant Gerber and about 40 others rode up to the grounds of the state Capitol on horseback Friday to present Gov. Brian Sandoval with a petition calling attention to the plight of Nevada ranchers in their ongoing fight with federal authorities over grazing on public lands.
A cook at a New Mexico facility that trains state corrections employees faces battery charges after authorities say she secretly licked sandwiches then served them to probation and parole officers.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday in a personal meeting with President Barack Obama, shortly after publicly apologizing for deep problems plaguing the agency’s health care system that Obama called “totally unacceptable.”
Two men were jailed Thursday in the home invasion robbery of a 100-year-old Carson City veteran and his caretaker over Memorial Day weekend.
A deer in North Carolina knew just where to go when it found itself injured — a hospital. Security camera footage shows the deer entering the hospital quite frantically and running down a hallway.
Two of the Las Vegas Valley’s most colorful political figures bonded last month in a profanity-laced conversation aimed at Clark County commissioners, according to a recording obtained by the Review-Journal.
A 17-year-old boy has been named prom queen at his high school and says he’s making a point about gender labeling and discrimination.
A 27-year-old Staten Island, N.Y., man and others suspected of pirating the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Pay-Per-View programming and copyrighted content, will be hearing from UFC’s lawyers.
A judge set bail at $1 million Thursday for a Las Vegas mother accused of shooting and critically wounding her 11-year-old son.