Most towns earn their names through careful planning, but some get stuck with something strange because of a joke, a mistake, ...

Earlier this year, Mental Floss broke down the state names that Americans find the hardest to pronounce, based on a study by language learning website Preply. As part of that analysis, the researchers ...

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UPDATE: As of 9:30 p.m., all lanes had reopened on I-15 northbound, north of Zzyzx Road. Drivers were still urged to use caution when approaching the area. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A vehicle fire ...

Waymo and Toyota have announced a partnership aimed at competing with Tesla in the development of personally owned self-driving vehicles. Waymo is already widely regarded as the market leader in ...

As the holiday season approaches, financial pressures can mount, leading many to overspend.To help ease this burden, Scott Arkills, president and CEO of Silver Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her ...

If you’ve ever driven between Southern California and Las Vegas on Interstate 15, you may have seen a sign for a road along Interstate 15 with a hard-to-pronounce name: Zzyzx. But who came up with the ...

Perhaps the strangest ghost town on this list is Zzyzx in California, the creation of notorious grifter Curtis Howe Springer. Springer, who’d spent a good chunk of his life peddling “miracle cures,” ...

In some ways, Picher, Oklahoma, resembles other ghost towns on this list. It was once a profitable mining town that shrank when the mines shut down. But Picher’s story has another, more disturbing ...