Republican icon Bill Raggio, 84, was ousted Thursday as the state Senate’s minority leader. Raggio, who supported Democrat Harry Reid over Republican Sharron Angle in the U.S. Senate race, had been Republican leader in the Senate since 1982.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Former “Partridge Family” heartthrob David Cassidy has been charged with DUI in Florida. The Florida Highway Patrol says his car was stopped around 6 p.m. Wednesday for weaving and nearly causing an accident. Troopers reported finding a half-empty bottle of bourbon in the back seat.
Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Ross announced plans to run for mayor Thursday, making him the second confirmed candidate in what is expected to be a crowded race. They will be competing to replace Mayor Oscar Goodman, who cannot run again because of term limits.
Thomas Steven “Spider” Sanders on Thursday was named a suspect in the abduction and death of 12-year-old Lexis Kaye Roberts. The Silvestri Junior High School student’s body was found in Louisiana last month. Her mother, Suellen Roberts, 31, is missing.
NEW YORK — Scientists say they have taken a big step toward displaying live video in three dimensions – a technology far beyond 3-D movies and more like the “Star Wars” scene where a ghostly Princess Leia image pleads, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Such a wraparound view of a moving image was just movie-trick fantasy in the 1977 film, but now?
NEW YORK — In the final minutes of one of the most watched and fiercely contested races of Tuesday’s midterm elections, the campaigns of both Sen. Harry Reid and the Republican challenger, Sharron Angle, were working social media. “Thirty-five minutes to go-every vote is needed!” read Angle’s Facebook page shortly before polls closed. “You, your neighbor, your mother-in-law … GET OUT & vote, NV!”
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Towering clouds of hot ash gushed from the mouth of Indonesia’s deadly volcano Thursday, forcing motorists in cities 20 miles away to use their headlights in broad daylight. The death toll climbed to 44. Merapi’s more than a dozen powerful blasts and thousands of volcanic tremors and ash bursts since Oct. 26 temporarily shut nearby airports and – in recent days – closed air routes affected by the ash. White clouds shot 20,000 feet into the sky.