CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A shoot-em-up video game set in the border town of Ciudad Juarez has angered local officials who are busy fighting all-too-real violence. Chihuahua state legislators said Sunday they have asked federal authorities to ban a the game, “Call of Juarez: The Cartel,” which is based on drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne says he’s probably not going to attempt to run for the Sprint Cup championship this year. The 20-year-old became the youngest winner in Daytona 500 history Sunday with a surprise victory in NASCAR’s biggest race. He’s scheduled to run only 17 Cup races this season for the Wood Brothers while he competes for the Nationwide Series title for Roush-Fenway Racing.
A gust of wind picked up a bounce house with two girls playing inside Saturday, dumping one girl in the yard but carrying the other two houses away and dropping her onto a roof.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — E’Twaun Moore seemingly toyed with Ohio State.
RENO — Reno’s Regional Transportation Commission is seeking construction bids on a $2.6 million transit bus station project.
When the news broke about a study that found many women with early breast cancer need not have all their underarm lymph nodes removed — even if they contain cancer cells — Christine Wunderlin was both happy and disappointed.
In 1999, the Southern Nevada Water Authority began a program that paid people to rip out their lawns. Since then, homes and businesses have removed enough turf to cover more than 2,600 regulation football fields and saved enough water to fill more than 63,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
While behind bars in Reno on tax evasion charges in June 2007, “Girls Gone Wild” producer Joe Francis made an unusual offer to pay back a $2 million gambling debt to Wynn Las Vegas.