The Opportunity Village main campus at 6300 W. Oakey Blvd, near the College of Southern Nevada campus at Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive, was vandalized and burglarized last night for the second time in about a week.
Don Kirshner, a rock promoter and music publisher who helped garner hits for the make-believe groups The Monkees and The Archies and boosted the careers of Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and the Police, has died. He was 76. Kirshner was in a hospital in Boca Raton, Fla., being treated for an infection when he died on Monday.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Surveillance video from a grocery store shows moments of mayhem and heroism as a gunman shoots Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the face, then turns the gun on a crowd of people, a sheriff’s official said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — Academy Award hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco are unlikely to be seeking tips from Ricky Gervais. The British comedian was brash, profane and cruelly funny at Sunday’s Golden Globes, delivering his trademark humor as promised for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in his second go-round as host of the ceremony that has “butt-talking” appearances by Jim Carrey and Jack Nicholson in its history. Gervais was anything but boring. But unlike last year, he turned very personal.
Best Western McCarran Inn continental breakfast, 4970 Paradise Road, received 16 demerits Jan. 4. Violations included ice machine had moldlike growth in chute area. GRADE: B.
Apple Inc.’s stock fell a little more than 2 percent Tuesday, a day after CEO Steve Jobs announced he was taking a medical leave of absence. The decline indicated investors weren’t too worried about Apple’s future. Companies have long been forced to adapt to the absence of a key employee or other crisis.
Playing without three of their top four scorers Tuesday night, the Wranglers didn’t miss a beat against the Alaska Aces.
The UNLV women’s basketball team erased a late eight-point deficit in less than a minute Tuesday night, but Colorado State still held off the Lady Rebels for a 68-63 victory in Fort Collins, Colo.
Justyn Anderson was only “lurking about” along the baseline in the final seconds Tuesday night.
The PBA Tournament of Champions has extra luster this week at Red Rock, where a record $1 million purse is at stake. The tournament also returns to a live, national broadcast with a Saturday midday time slot for the first time in 14 years.
Clark County School District police won a legal victory when a judge upheld a ruling that they are entitled to be covered by collective bargaining rules that apply to other police officers and firefighters, who have “expedited” access to an arbitrator to resolve impasses in talks. School officials and school police haven’t been able to negotiate a contract that expired in 2007.