Las Vegas Review-Journal

NASA’s robotic moon explorer, LADEE, is no more. Flight controllers confirmed that the orbiting spacecraft crashed into the back side of the moon Friday as planned, just three days after it survived a full lunar eclipse — something it was never designed to do.

Beibut Shumenov, the 30-year-old Las Vegas resident by way of Kazakhstan, gets the ultimate test when he faces future Hall of Famer Bernard Hopkins, the International Boxing Federation champion, tonight in Washington, D.C., on a Showtime-televised card.

Without experience, it’s hard to get a job, and without a job, it’s hard to gain experience.

California-based artist, Christina Angelina, paints the town red… and blue, and yellow, and any spray paint color available.

Kevin Cooney was sitting on a couch in his family’s home when his mother shot him, an ex-girlfriend told a jury in Linda Cooney’s attempted murder trial on Friday. Clarita Kendall, who dated Kevin Cooney a few years before he was shot in 2011, said he told her that while she was visiting him in the hospital in 2012. Kendall’s testimony at the trial, which has spanned two weeks, supported physical evidence suggesting the bullet entered Kevin Cooney at a downward angle.

Credit card receipts, telephone records and production schedules show that “X-Men” franchise director Bryan Singer was not in Hawaii when a lawsuit claims he sexually abused a 17-year-old on the islands, a defense attorney said Friday.

Wearing a cowboy hat and with a copy of the U.S. Constitution poking from his shirt pocket, controversial rancher Cliven Bundy on Friday asked dozens of supporters of his cattle-grazing feud with federal land managers what they thought of U.S. Sen. Harry Reid calling them “domestic terrorists.”

It’s official: Guinness World Records proclaimed the Las Vegas High Roller is the world’s highest observation wheel at a reception Thursday.

SlotZilla’s opening downtown is coming soon although the only official message is “Opening soon” signs on the ticket office exterior glass. But workers at the new Banger Brewing storefront in the Neonopolis center about 15 feet from SlotZilla can’t wait for the Fremont Street Experience attraction to open.