U.S. soldiers found a roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent in Baghdad, the military said Monday. The device, which partially detonated, was apparently a leftover from Saddam Hussein's arsenals. It was unclear whether more such weapons were in the hands of insurgents.

Gay couples began exchanging marriage vows here Monday, marking the first time a state has granted gays and lesbians the right to marry and making the United States one of four countries where homosexuals can legally wed.

Wild horse advocates opposed to increased roundups on Nevada range lands plan to demonstrate outside a U.S. Bureau of Land Management hearing next month.

A Reno scientist and his team of researchers have uncovered the mystery of why the Earth wobbles on its axis as it spins through space.

Democrat John Kerry said Sunday that President Bush has turned his back on the American worker by allowing other countries to break trade deals negotiated with the United States and that as president he would put in place a "common-sense" effort to strengthen the bargaining and enforcement of such agreements.

Reno is among the nation's best places to live, according to a national magazine.

Like fans anxious for concert tickets, same-sex couples waited in line for hours Sunday outside Cambridge's City Hall for an event they once thought they'd never get to experience: marriage.

A former officer of The Children's Community Chest of Reno has pleaded guilty to felony insurance fraud.

The Sparks-based Holder Hospitality Group has purchased four casinos in northeast Nevada, including two landmark gambling halls in Elko.

A nine-day strike by garbage workers in the Reno area ended after they ratified a new contract Saturday.

President Bush's job approval ratings are hitting the lowest levels of his tenure as problems in Iraq crowd out other issues for voters, public opinion specialists say.

Sierra Pacific Power Co. is seeking approval for an average 5.3 percent increase in natural gas rates for its 125,000 customers in the Reno area.

More than 225 recipients of the state's Millennium Scholarships received diplomas Saturday at the University of Nevada, Reno's commencement exercises.

A Reno High School teacher was suspended for his alleged failure to immediately report a student's charge that a female classmate held a knife to his throat.

Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., is coming to President Bush's defense as recent polls show the war in Iraq is eroding public support for Bush.

Nevada candidates crowded into election officials' offices around the state Friday to meet a filing deadline - and erase the hopes of several incumbents that they'd get a free ride into office.

A Nevada National Guard soldier said she complained after a prisoner at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison was shot and killed during a riot last year, but denied she documented abuse of inmates by her fellow soldiers.

U.S.-led coalition forces would leave Iraq if a new interim government should ask them to, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday, but such a request is unlikely.

An ex-employee of the Humboldt County sheriff's office filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the county and sheriff Gene Hill, saying she was forced to work in a "sexually hostile" workplace.

Lawyers for four people accused of sexually assaulting of a 13-year-old girl and child pornography will get copies of a videotape prosecutors seized as evidence.

Hoping to contain a spreading scandal, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld went to the Abu Ghraib prison camp on Thursday and insisted the Pentagon did not try to cover up abuses there.

A small plane crashed onto a soundwall separating a street from homes near a local airport, injuring the pilot and narrowly missing one of the homes.

The Nevada National Guard's top officer said Thursday he had no information about a report that one his soldiers assigned to the troubled Abu Ghraib prison last year was reprimanded after reporting inmate abuse to her superiors.

The grounding of the nation's 33 firefighting air tankers has left the future of a Minden company in question.

A railroad depot in Lovelock and a church in Wadsworth are the latest Nevada additions to the National Register of Historic Places.