Chet Buchanan sitting atop a 30-foot-tall scaffold for 12 consecutive days has become a tradition synonymous with Christmas for many Las Vegans — and it’s all to raise awareness for the station’s annual toy drive, now in its 23rd year. Buchanan has been involved for all but …
An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off as scheduled at 9:45 a.m. from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan and ...
Gov. Steve Sisolak is not planning to attend President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Wednesday. The Democratic governor's office said in a statement that because of the ...
The driver of a truck that struck and killed five bicyclists on a Nevada highway arrived Wednesday in custody in Las Vegas, where he was scheduled to face a judge Thursday on ...
Two high school football division champions will be determined tonight in Nevada’s large-school classification. In Southeast League, Foothill hosts ...
The average sale price of single-family homes in Southern Nevada was an even $300,000 in September, which marks the highest transaction amount since June 2006 when it peaked at $315,000, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. The September mark was an increase of 1.7 percent from ...
Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low raises. There was no increase this year. Next year's benefit hike will be small because inflation is low, driven in part by ...
The California lottery says a couple have claimed a $528.8 million share of a record Powerball jackpot in January. Officials said Tuesday that Marvin and Mae Acosta came forward Friday in Van Nuys to claim their prize months after ...
A Chinese regulator has ordered Apple Inc. to stop selling two versions of its iPhone 6 in Beijing after finding they look too much like a competitor ...
A senior French police officer and his female companion were killed following an attack Monday evening by a knife-wielding man in a distant suburb of Paris ...
Police were seeking a pickup truck due to reports that it was driving erratically minutes before five adults in a group of bicyclists were struck and killed on ...
A former chief at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex and four of his underlings were convicted of felony charges Tuesday after authorities said ...
A judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman used to play lacrosse at ...
Strict rules adopted at the height of California's drought leading many people to let their lawns turn brown may soon end as state regulators Wednesday consider ...
Most of Hawaii's public schools don't have air conditioning, and record-high temperatures have left teachers and students saying they can't focus because of ...
One of the nation's most prominent lawyers told the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday that judges shouldn't make public statements about cases, and a Las Vegas judge handling ...
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued rules Friday for daily fantasy sports operators that she called the most comprehensive in the nation ...
Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, are reviewing whether the men's head basketball coach correctly handled sexual harassment allegations against ...
A shootout between Chicago police and a suspect during a drug investigation on the city's West Side left the suspect dead and three officers wounded ...
A former children's television show host who vanished decades ago amid allegations he sexually abused children on a camping trip in Louisiana was indicted Thursday on rape charges ...
Alice Tanaka Hikido clearly remembers the bewilderment and sense of violation she felt 74 years ago when FBI agents rifled through her family's Juneau home, then arrested her father before ...
Pat Skorkowsky will keep his position as Clark County superintendent for at least another two years. School Board members voted unanimously Thursday night to extend ...
The possible choice of Nevada Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval for the Supreme Court vacancy would give President Barack Obama a shot at breaking Senate Republicans' blockade of ...
A newborn boy was found in the toilet of a Subway restaurant Monday, and his mother, a homeless woman, was held by police who followed a blood trail ...
Plunging oil prices have pitched Iraq into a severe financial crisis as it struggles to combat the Islamic State group, play host to millions of refugees and rebuild cities and ...
For the thousands of Syrian refugees expected to arrive in the U.S. in coming months, the first order of business will be securing the basics — health care, jobs, education and ...
The arrival of thousands of Somali refugees in this former mill city in the nation's whitest state sparked a backlash at first, complete with a rally of white supremacists and ...
By Terrence Petty and Steven Dubois, Associated Press
Additional security officers have been sent to national wildlife refuges in southern Oregon, northern California and Nevada amid the ongoing armed occupation of ...
Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos said Friday that the team will play in San Diego in 2016, and he'll work with politicians and the business community to try to resolve ...
International media is reporting that U.S and British intelligence cracked the codes of Israeli drones operating in the Middle East and monitored their ...
Facebook Sports Stadium will debut at the NFL's conference championship games and then the Super Bowl. After that, the social media giant's first sports product will cover ...
By Audrey McAvoy and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press
Authorities searching the area where two Marine helicopters crashed off Hawaii have found some life rafts that were carried aboard the aircraft, but still no sign of ...
By Roger Schneider and David Eggert, Associated Press
Members of the Michigan National Guard are headed to Flint to help dole out bottled water, filters and other supplies to residents dealing with a drinking water crisis that began ...
A convicted killer who is the subject of the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" filed a wide-ranging appeal claiming authorities used an improper warrant and that a juror was out to get him ...
Residents of a central New York village want to keep their logo that has been called racist and offensive because it appears to show a white man choking a Native American ...
Three students from China who attend high school in Southern California will plead no contest to criminal charges and spend years in jail for bullying a classmate they allegedly ...
Since he's always asking people about their lives in his role as a CNN reporter, Anderson Cooper said it felt only natural that he do the same with his own life and ...
A former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist was released from jail Monday evening and will remain under house arrest until ...
A moderate earthquake shook an inland area of Southern California near San Bernardino on Tuesday night, giving a start to thousands across a heavily populated area with ...
A Syrian scientist whose harrowing, tragic story spurred supporting words from President Barack Obama and a successful fundraising effort launched by ...
Police in North Texas say a Sikh junior high student of Indian descent has admitted threatening to detonate a bomb at school, but investigators deny social media claims from ...
Five men accused of directing and financing the Sept. 11 plot were back in their high-security cellblock at the Guantanamo Bay detention center after ...
Stephen Curry scored 38 points with 11 rebounds and eight assists and the Golden State Warriors improved to 24-0 this season by outlasting the Boston Celtics ...
Malaysia's leader on Saturday denounced the Islamic State as an "evil" terrorist group, saying his Muslim-majority country is ready to join others to ...
A man died Friday night after being stabbed near Washington Avenue and H Street. Police were called about 8:40 p.m. to the 700 block of West Adams Avenue ...
Heading into winter, fliers should take extra precautions with their checked luggage — December and January are traditionally the worst months for lost bags. To avoid problems ...
Two members of sadomasochistic sex triangle have been sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering the young wife of a Marine deployed in ...
Patrons were evacuated from the Sands Expo and Convention Center on Thursday evening after a fire broke out at a vendor booth. Fire crews were called about 8:15 p.m. to ...
The U.S. toy industry is expected to have its strongest year in at least a decade after several years of kids choosing videogames and mobile apps over ...
By Julie Watson and Mike Schneider, Associated Press
Animal rights activists applauded SeaWorld's plans to end its orca shows at its San Diego park but said the company should phase out its captivity of ...
Egyptian antiquities officials on Monday scoffed at claims by Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson that Egypt's ancient pyramids were not built as ...
Egyptian media have reacted with fury as Britain and the United States increasingly point to a bomb as the cause of the Oct. 31 Russian plane crash in Sinai, and many have hammered home ...
A New Hampshire woman has joined the growing ranks of accusers suing Bill Cosby and alleging defamation. Kristina Ruehli on Monday filed a federal lawsuit saying ...
A South Dakota American Indian tribe that sought to open the nation's first marijuana resort burned its crop after federal officials signaled a potential raid ...
Louisiana can keep "Angola Three" inmate Albert Woodfox in jail and continue its plans to try him a third time in the 1972 killing of a prison guard ...
Washington state health officials said Monday they have found no source for the E. coli outbreak related to Chipotle, and the chain's Pacific Northwest restaurants could reopen ...
Public works employees were pulling down the blue ribbons residents had tied to trees and poles as a tribute to their slain hero. Signs around the small town that had praised the cop known as ...
A jury in Las Vegas found a 29-year-old Bulgarian woman guilty on Wednesday of driving away after her car struck and killed a grandfather pushing a stroller on ...
Whole Foods Market Inc. on Wednesday reported that its latest quarterly profit fell by more than half, as the grocer faces intense competition, with organic foods becoming more ...
Former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter has introduced his dog Kane to the world in a post on his website, The Players' Tribune — oh, he also slipped into the essay he's engaged ...
A Nevada state court jury is due to hear more testimony Wednesday in the trial of a Bulgarian woman accused of driving away after her car struck and killed a grandfather pushing ...
By Nomaan Merchant and Matt Sedensky, Associated Press
Police standards agencies in 44 states can revoke the licenses of problem officers, which should prevent a bad cop from moving on to police work elsewhere. But the process is flawed ...
The first winter-like storm of the season brought rain and snow to California on Monday, triggering traffic accidents including a 20-vehicle crash in ...
Walgreens says it's willing to divest up to 1,000 stores to win regulatory approval for its Rite Aid purchase, although it expects it won't have to sell more than ...