A 64-year-old man armed with more than 10 rifles rained down gunfire on a Las Vegas country music festival on Sunday (local time), slaughtering at least 59 people in the largest mass shooting in US history before killing himself.
O.J. Simpson, acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend after the "Trial of the Century," was released early on Sunday (local time) from a prison in Nevada, where he had been held since 2008 for a botched armed robbery at a Las Vegas casino hotel.
Playboy Enterprises Inc said on Wednesday (local time) its founder Hugh Hefner has died from natural causes.
Prison guards fired rubber bullets and pepper spray to quell a riot on Sunday involving more than 160 inmates at a central California penitentiary in which one prisoner was stabbed to death and eight others wounded, state corrections officials said.
A 10th elderly patient at a Miami-area nursing home has died after she was exposed to sweltering heat in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, police said on Thursday (local time).
Police on Wednesday (local time) opened a criminal investigation into the deaths of eight elderly patients inside a stifling South Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hosted a massive celebration to congratulate his nuclear scientists and technicians who steered the country's sixth and largest nuclear test a week ago, its official news agency said on Sunday (local time).
Walter Hodgdon scrapped plans to ride out Hurricane Irma on Saturday (local time) when shifting forecast models suddenly put his home on a barrier island on Florida's Gulf Coast directly in its path.
Hurricane Irma strengthened and made landfall in Cuba on Friday (local time) as a Category 5 storm, as millions of Florida residents were ordered to evacuate after the storm killed 21 people in the eastern Caribbean and left catastrophic destruction in its wake.
Police in Georgia shot and killed a Bengal tiger on Wednesday (local time) after the animal escaped from a transport truck and briefly roamed a suburban Atlanta neighbourhood, menacing outdoor pets, authorities said.
