Las Vegas police said Thursday that a robbery spree earlier this week that involved the beating of several victims and played a part in the death of a high school teacher didn’t result in much financial gain for the unknown perpetrators.
LOS ANGELES — When NASA blasted a hole in the moon last year in search of water, scientists figured there would be a splash. They just didn’t know how big. Now new results from the Hollywood-esque moonshot reveal lots of water in a crater where the sun never shines – 41 gallons of ice and vapor. That may not sound like much but it’s almost twice as much as researchers had initially measured and more than they ever expected to find.
Nevada gaming regulators on Thursday granted operators of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas final licensing approval, setting the stage for the hotel-casino’s opening in December.
TOKYO — Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality lapses for the world’s No. 1 automaker. Toyota Motor Corp.
WASHINGTON — Longtime news analyst Juan Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights, has been fired by NPR after saying on the Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane. NPR issued a statement late Wednesday saying his contract was being terminated after Williams’ comments Monday on “The O’Reilly Factor.”
