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U.S. highway deaths have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1950s.
On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal...
An 18-year-old student says a Mississippi school board that canceled a high school prom did so in retaliation for her request to bring a same-sex date.
Shortly after entering Congress in 1993, Rep. Bart Stupak withstood President Bill Clinton's charm offensive and voted against free-trade legislation - an early display of the independent streak that has put him at odds with...
A conservative group's bashing of several Obama administration lawyers as the "al-Qaida Seven" has struck a nerve in the U.S. legal community, prompting even some fellow Republicans to denounce the group's attack.
Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's advice to public colleges.
One is a former Democratic freshman little known outside his Corning-Olean-Pittsford, N.Y., district. The other, a 20-term Democratic kingpin from Harlem, is widely known to New Yorkers and anyone following tax legislation.
They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public schools walks into police headquarters and confesses to...
Police say they're investigating the death of a 44-year-old New York man who died after a sheriff's deputy used a stun gun to subdue him.
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons plans to make his re-election effort official.Gibbons' campaign says he will file for re-election today at the secretary of state's office in Carson city.
Actress Reese Witherspoon says her "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation's capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.
Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.
Corey Haim's story is sadly familiar in Hollywood: A teen talent who discovered drugs as he tasted his first success and whose personal problems increased as his star-power faded.
Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
Police say a member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glendale officers found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse during a traffic stop.
An Israeli novel and a collection of Russian poetry have won prizes for best English-language translation.
By The Associated Press The appeal of 3-D movies helped boost movie ticket sales by nearly 8 percent to a record $29.9 billion worldwide in 2009, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.
Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town.
It sounds fishy but a New York City pet shop owner says it's true. Buttkiss, the black pacu he owns, is 43 and weighs 20 pounds. A pacu is a breed that's related to the piranha. Steve Gruebel owns Cameo Pet Shop in Queens....
They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did - but not much.
A 12-hour adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel will be among the highlights of Lincoln Center Festival 2010, running for 45 performances this summer.
Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death
Calls for help from domestic violence victims are going unanswered in Nevada. A new survey shows domestic violence services are lacking due to dwindled resources.
A North Las Vegas company is being blamed for a nationwide recall that affects more than 100 types of processed food. 8 News NOW has also uncovered disturbing details about how long company representatives knew they had problems with salmonella contamination.
Nevada's foreclosure rate fell in February, but the state still had the highest rate in the country.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is looking for a suspect from a robbery in November.
Las Vegas saw more than 2.8 million visitors in January, up 4 percent from the same month a year earlier.
A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Nevada investment company owner for mortgage fraud.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada charged two men on Wednesday for killing five wild horses on federal land.
With pen to page, Nevada is inching closer to a competitive battle with dozens of other states. Governor Jim Gibbons signed Senate Bill 2 Wednesday, changing state law to let the Silver State have a better shot at $175 million in federal school funding.
Las Vegas city finance officials have presented a "gut wrenching" budget cut proposal that includes $26.5 million in additional cuts for 2011.
The Clark County coroner has ruled the death of top Hard Rock Hotel and Casino executive Andrew "Randy" Kwasniewski (kwas-NEW'-skee) was a suicide.
This year's rainstorms have hurt Nevada's economy in some ways --tourism is affected and business travel disrupted. But Las Vegas roofing businesses are actually doing well. In fact, they're hiring dozens of unemployed workers.
A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-year-old woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. But...
Henderson Police are seeking the public's help in arresting a woman accused of embezzling more than a half million dollars from a local business and then fleeing the country.
Nevada WASP members Madge Moore of Las Vegas, Julia Bartlett of Reno and Dorothy Eby of Gardnerville will receive the Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol today.
The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38. Coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said Wednesday that Haim died at 2:15 a.m.
A report is ranking Nevada last in per-capita federal funding for state programs such as health, education and transportation.
Casino regulators say Nevada casinos won 3.2 percent less in January than they did in the same month a year ago.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has sold leases for oil and gas drilling on more than 81,000 acres of federal land in Nevada for a total of about $373,000.
U.S. marshals say a 22-year-old fugitive in a 2006 Las Vegas slaying has been arrested in Las Vegas.
Authorities have a new tool to fight graffiti. A mobile phone application now makes it easier for anyone to report tagging with a click of the button.
Las Vegas and Clark County firefighters responded to a house fire near Stewart and Lamb Tuesday night. The fire happened at a home on Whitman Street.
Metro Police are investigating a shooting near Nellis and Bonanza. One victim was taken to UMC Trauma with gunshot wounds to the abdomen.
A court clerk says a judge dismissed a felony coercion charge against boxing trainer Roger Mayweather, who faces trial June 1 on allegations that he beat and choked a female boxer at a Las Vegas apartment he owned.
State troopers said a man is lucky to have only minor injuries when he crashed his car into a barn after his steering wheel popped off while driving. Trooper Keith Leary said the 59-year-old man was driving his 1978 Buick on...
Patients of a northern Kentucky psychiatrist jailed on a charge he stabbed a woman with a sword have tried to keep appointments with him in jail. Kenton County jail Chief Deputy Scott Colvin said deputies have had to turn...
A Rhode Island woman pleaded not guilty in Massachusetts to charges she threw a hot cup of coffee on a parking enforcement officer. Krystle Charley was arraigned Wednesday in Brookline District Court on charges including...
Authorities say an aggressive red-tailed hawk has attacked at least five people recently in a Connecticut town, including a woman who needed medical care after being cut on the head.
Officials said a bikini and the First Amendment provide enough coverage for a model advertising a suburban Denver coffee shop called Perky Cups. Aurora City Council member Molly Markert called the picture on the...
Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in the Owen...
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