HOUSTON — Always wanted to fly in space? Now at least your photo can reach orbit. NASA is inviting the public to send their portrait aboard one of the last two shuttle flights. To participate, upload your picture to a NASA website: http://faceinspace.nasa.gov
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan’s alcohol monitoring bracelet went off after the actress appeared at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards, a source familiar with her probation said Tuesday. The alert could result in another appearance by Lohan before a judge.
The good things former Boulder City teacher of the year Charles Richard “Rick” Rogers did in his life were outweighed “by about a million times” the horrible things he did to young boys over the course of at least a decade in this tight-knit community, District Judge Michael Villani said Tuesday.
RENO — In the community center of a posh Reno subdivision Tuesday morning, former federal judge and gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval cast his vote on what he hopes will be a history-making ballot.
LIMA, Peru — Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room. A police spokesman said Van der Sloot admitted under questioning Monday that he killed 21-year-old Stephany Flores on May 30. Peruvian media reported that Van der Sloot killed Flores in a rage after learning she looked up information about his past on his laptop.
WASHINGTON — More medical care won’t necessarily make you healthier – it may make you sicker. It’s an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the tests and treatments we get are estimated to be unnecessary, and avoidable care is costly in more ways than the bill: It may lead to dangerous side effects.
As primary voting approached a 25 percent turnout Tuesday, those who came to the polls included a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Senate Majority Harry Reid and others in at least one Las Vegas neighborhood who said they wanted to change Reid’s four-term dynasty.