When the Wright brothers launched themselves into history with their first powered flight in 1903, suggesting an aircraft would someday transport 500 passengers on 15-hour flights would earn you a one-way ticket to the loony bin.
NEW YORK — A 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper mining fortune, now living in a New York hospital room, is at the center of a criminal investigation into her fortune and welfare.
In a new poll conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow, respondents said life in Nevada has become a bummer, what with the state’s highest-in-the-nation unemployment rate and few signs of recovery coming quickly.
BOSTON — Five-time Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder Randy Couture defeated former boxing champion James Toney by submission in the first round of a heavyweight bout at UFC 118 Saturday at the TD Garden.
Smoke wafting from a Cadillac Escalade on the Las Vegas Strip late Friday set off Paris Hilton’s latest legal troubles when a motorcycle officer who suspected the smell was marijuana stopped the vehicle and police say a bag of cocaine later fell out of the 29-year-old socialite’s purse.
DENVER — A man from New York died of an apparent heart attack on an AirTran Airways flight from Las Vegas to Milwaukee early today, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing at Denver International Airport.
In four wild days, Cy Waits’ world has flipped upside down: from Paris Hilton’s rescuer, to being elevated to one of the best jobs in Las Vegas, to jail.
A man believed to have committed a string of robberies was shot and killed after firing at Las Vegas police officers in front of an east valley convenience store Friday night.
Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton received no special treatment during her three-hour stay at the Clark County Detention Center following a Friday night drug arrest, Las Vegas police said.