WASHINGTON — Mom and Dad may be looking to popular vampire books and the first family for baby names: Cullen is on the rise for boys and Malia for girls. But Miley and Jonas are down, proving that acclaim can be fleeting. Isabella is now the top baby name for girls, Jacob for boys, the Social Security Administration said Friday.
After a month of being on the defensive, U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden on Friday released a new TV ad slamming U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and her GOP primary opponents for “lies and dirty tricks” and mocking her for saying people can barter with doctors.
Henry Chanin and his wife didn’t go to court to get rich off his hepatitis C infection. They just wanted to prevent another outbreak like the one that struck Southern Nevada, he said Friday.
Dr. Conrad Murray won a legal skirmish Friday when a child support hearing master denied a prosecutor’s push to suspend his Nevada medical license for failing to pay $16,000 in child support.
CARSON CITY — Forget the meters and liters. Nevada’s leaders would rather stick with yards and quarts.
Legislators gave up Friday on a more than 30-year move to induce residents to switch to the metric system.
DALLAS — Mark Cuban’s HDNet television network is teaming up with “Girls Gone Wild” on a reality show. The outspoken owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks said this week that the show would be a behind-the-scenes look at the Girls Gone Wild brand, known for young women exposing themselves on camera.
LONDON — British Army commanders have selected Prince Harry to train as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, his office said Friday, boosting the 25-year-old’s hopes of returning to the front lines in Afghanistan. Prince Harry, who received his pilot’s wings from his father, Prince Charles, at a ceremony on Friday, said it was a “huge honor” to learn to fly “an awesome helicopter.”
CHICAGO — A world without “the pill” is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course, prevent pregnancy. They might be surprised to learn that U.S. officials announcing approval of the world’s first oral contraceptive were uncomfortable. “Our own ideas of morality had nothing to do with the case,” said John Harvey of the Food and Drug Administration in 1960.