Choking back tears and pleading for leniency, Martha Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison Friday for lying about a stock sale.

Firefighters kept an explosive wildfire from destroying more homes in Nevada's capital Friday, but warned the flames were still so intense they were burning through retardant dropped by tankers.

Firefighters scaled back the acreage burned by an explosive wildfire that has torched at least 14 homes, but cautioned their estimate of 30 percent containment means little given extremely dry conditions.

A judge has dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed by a gastric bypass surgeon against Carson-Tahoe Hospital.

Firefighters are keeping their fingerscrossed for small favors as they work to strengthen their toehold against an explosive wildfire in Carson City that has burned 14 homes.
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A Reno man accused of killing his parents and leaving their bodies in a garage for a week or more has been indicted on two felony murder counts.

A small army of firefighters in Carson City are battling a fast growing wildfire that continues to threaten the capitol city.

Attackers detonated a car bomb near police and government buildings in the western city of Haditha on Thursday, killing 10 Iraqis, while the prime minister said he would create a new security service geared toward halting the insurgency.

An army of firefighters struggled Thursday to contain an explosive wildfire that injured five people, destroyed 21 structures and threatened 550 other homes and businesses on the west edge of the Nevada capital.

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is buying Caesars Entertainment Inc. for about $5.2 billion in cash and stock in a deal that would create the largest gambling company in the world.

There's a ray of good news at the gas pumps this week for sticker-shocked Nevada motorists.

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The Senate scuttled a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Wednesday, handing a defeat to President Bush yet assuring the issue renewed prominence in the fall campaign for the White House and control of Congress.

Several firefighters and a reporter were injured, a dozen structures were destroyed or damaged and at least 300 other homes and businesses were threatened Wednesday by a wildfire burning on the west edge of the capital.

Nevada tax foes have collected enough signatures to force a public vote on repealing a record $833 million tax increase, the leader of the petition drive said.

More than five-hundred firefighters are working to contain a major wildfire blaze just west of Carson City -- known as the Waterfall Fire.

When the flames are getting closer, you may wonder what you'd do if you had to leave your home.

Fire fighters and equipment from Reno and Sparks are responding to a wildland fire in Kings Canyon west of Carson City.

Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, and Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, have requested a bill draft to cap increases in Nevadans' property taxes.

A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the al-Qaida chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and was flown to the kingdom Tuesday.

The taps are flowing again throughout Stead.

Even though facing an ethics complaint that could get her removed from office, Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine said Tuesday it's "business as usual in our office."

Law officers captured a teenage suspect hiding in the bushes near an exclusive Lake Tahoe neighborhood Tuesday evening after he fled police and touched off an extensive manhunt.

The Bush administration Monday proposed lifting a national rule that closed remote areas of national forests to logging, instead saying states should decide whether to keep a ban on road-building in those areas.

Northern Nevada's largest fire so far this year is nearing containment in a remote area near the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge on the Elko-White Pine county line about 45 miles northwest of Ely.