A Las Vegas police officer was critically wounded and a car thief was killed in a Tuesday night gunbattle in the backyard of a home near Rainbow Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
NEWARK, N.J. — Georges St. Pierre methodically defeated challenger Dan Hardy by a unanimous five-round decision in the main event of UFC 111 and retained his welterweight championship Saturday night.
Former Vice President Al Gore made a pitch for policy and political procedure Saturday night, saying the sometimes inside-baseball worlds of policy and law are paths to social justice.
The Strip went dark tonight as part of a project to highlight climate change. Nonessential lighting was turned off about 8:30 p.m. at casinos and businesses all along the Strip.
Writer and pundit Ann Coulter dazzled a cheering crowd in Henderson today as part of a day of Tea Party speeches and demonstrations, ripping on President Obama and other prominent Democrats on health care and racial hypocrisy.
SEARCHLIGHT — Sarah Palin gazed Saturday across a sea of conservatives, perhaps 10,000 strong, and issued a call to action for those who want to kick the Democrats out in 2010.
An ex-boyfriend of a 23-year-old woman fatally shot earlier in the week at the fast-food restaurant where she worked was arrested Friday in connection with her slaying, Las Vegas police said Saturday.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — One of the dirty secrets of California’s wine country is now on everyone’s lips.
MOSCOW (AP) — After the white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark, after Taiwan’s skyscrapers dimmed and Beijing’s Forbidden City became, well, a little more forbidding – Moscow took its turn in switching off the lights as Saturday’s global Earth Hour event rolled around to Europe.
