BOSTON — Las Vegas-based companies are among many who are doling out millions trying to sway the minds of lawmakers on Beacon Hill, a flood of spending that continued even after a casino deal between Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo collapsed last summer.
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.