Federal officials and utility managers gathered Thursday to celebrate Hoover Dam’s birthday, but the life of the party turned out to be a 128-year-old former president.
Self-declared Tea Party contender Scott Ashjian said Thursday that he refused to quit the U.S. Senate race during a secret meeting with Sharron Angle, the GOP challenger who could lose to Democratic incumbent Sen. Harry Reid if third-party candidates siphon off too many votes.
WASHINGTON — Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right. Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too big nor too small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere. It’s just right. Just like Earth. The new planet sits smack in the middle of what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone. And it is in our galactic neighborhood.
Comments posted by Erik Scott supporters on the Facebook social networking website prompted Costco Wholesale Corp. to go to court in an unsuccessful bid to keep protesters away from one of its Las Vegas stores.