An asteroid more than a quarter mile wide will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, zooming by at a distance of just over a million miles, but with no chance of impact, according to NASA scientists.
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Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for a murder conviction and, just days ago was acquitted of a double murder, died after hanging himself in his prison cell early Wednesday.
Conversion therapy bill gets committee hearing, but first: more floor sessions in the Nevada Legislature.
The Ultimate Fighter season 25 will start airing on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, and will feature 14 welterweight fighters who have appeared on past seasons of the UFC’s reality series.
Rarely do you see a teachers union supporting a policy that would decrease future education funding, but that’s what the Nevada State Education Association did recently at the Nevada Legislature.
Desiree Reed-Francois was introduced Tuesday as UNLV’s new athletic director. She offered little in the way of specifics, but made clear her expectations are high.
New UNLV athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois started out wanting to be a lawyer until her younger brother’s accident changed the course of her life.
A man wanted in the slaying of a security guard set out to kill as many white people as he could on Tuesday, gunning down three men on the streets of downtown Fresno before he was captured and admitted to the shootings, authorities said.
While nothing is set, Major League Baseball and umps are expected to discuss a plan — most prominently used in the NFL — for crew chiefs to wear a microphone and explain replay rulings.
Bus passengers were screaming in horror as the driver repeatedly stepped on the apparently malfunctioning brakes before plunging into a deep ravine in the northern Philippines, leaving at least 29 people dead Tuesday in one of the country’s deadliest accidents in years, a survivor and officials said.
A Thursday night fire at the Bellagio was accidental and caused by a faulty light fixture, Clark County officials said in a statement Tuesday.
The federal government plans to release an above-average amount of Colorado River water into Lake Mead this year, but it’s less than many hoped after a healthy snow season across much of the West.
Here are your Tuesday morning headlines.
Police are warning people attending the giant Coachella music festival in the Southern California desert to take measures to safeguard their cellphones.
A Black Hawk helicopter crashed onto a golf course in Maryland during a routine training flight, killing one crew member and injuring the two others on board, the U.S. Army said.