Due to a grab bag of factors, McCarran International Airport finished the year with a slight drop in passenger traffic.
It’s 3 a.m. Thursday and noisy because of the trucks roaring by on the freeway. The homeless who live here are used to this and sleep right through. Most also are unaware that they have company: three homeless “guides” and a beat cop, have been sent to count them.
NEW YORK — Will Ferrell is coming to “The Office.” Ferrell will play a visiting branch manager over an arc of several episodes. NBC announced the casting Wednesday with the promise that Ferrell’s character will be “just as inappropriate” as Steve Carell’s Michael Scott.
HOUSTON — With her progress moving at “lightning speed,” Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been moved from intensive care for the first time since she was shot in the head in Arizona more than two weeks ago. Doctors had the Arizona lawmaker moved to TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital Wednesday in the latest big step in the long road to recovery. She immediately began therapy that could last several months. Doctors said she will have a valve inserted into her breathing tube to help her talk.
If Hillary Carlson wasn’t beating the Lady Rebels inside, Jade Kennedy was burning them from outside.
PROVO, Utah — The hand-painted sign by a Brigham Young fan told San Diego State players to “FredetteAboutIt.”
