News of the Day From Across the Nation
Two children were critically injured when five pedestrians were struck by a car that had gone onto a sidewalk after running a red light and hitting another vehicle at a Las Vegas street intersection.
Police said the driver fled the scene Saturday night but was later arrested on hit-and-run charges.
The U.S. flag flown on the stern of the boat that led the first American troops onto Utah Beach on D-Day was sold Sunday for $514,000 at auction in Dallas.
Heritage Auctions spokesman Noah Fleisher identified the buyer as Dutch businessman Bertram Kreuk.
The banner has a bullet hole, blamed on a German machine gun, according to the auction house.
D-Day marks June 6, 1944, the date during World War II when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis.
Three people were killed early Sunday in a crash caused by a motorist who drove the wrong way on State Route 126 in Ventura County, the California Highway Patrol said.
5 Police dog dies: A police K-9 in Georgia has died after being left in a patrol car for several hours, authorities said.