Stateline reports that clearance rates, while often cited as crime-solving benchmarks, can be misleading and vary widely, ...

Lark Williams was 21 and working as keno runner when faulty wiring sparked blaze that killed 87 people and injured 600 others For more than two decades, Tricia Kean has been your weekday anchor and a ...

It’s a mystery even local historians can’t crack. Are the statues that local history buff Jeff Young acquired in a recent estate sale survivors of the notorious MGM Grand fire that killed 87 people in ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...

Gold has eclipsed its inflation-adjusted peak set more than 45 years ago, as growing anxiety about the US’s economic trajectory takes bullion’s blistering three-year bull run deeper into uncharted ...

On a gray, rainy day in March 1980, Julie Revsin, a 25-year-old Penn graduate student, was murdered in her West Philadelphia apartment. The crime has never been solved. I write as a journalist and a ...

On this day (August 29) in 1980, Alabama released “Why Lady Why”—the tender ballad that would become the group’s second No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart and the second link in a ...

More than 40 years after a woman was stabbed 30 times in her home and killed, cops say they have identified a suspect. The announcement comes after another man wrongly served 20 years behind bars for ...