FOLLOW THE LEADERS’ PAYCHECKS: Eight of the valley’s 16 highest-paid corporate executives had compensation increases from 2009 to 2010. A rise in companies’ stock prices often coincided with the fatter paychecks.
As she finished removing her personal belongings from her office tucked inside the historic Caliente train depot Thursday, Bonni Smith was still trying to make sense of it.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has a well-earned reputation as the baddest sport on the planet. But away from the octagon, its parent company, Zuffa LLC of Las Vegas, is becoming just as widely known for savage beat-downs.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week confirmed Gen. David Petraeus to become director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
After 12 years of boozy boosterism, Oscar Goodman will end his time as Las Vegas mayor on Wednesday. In honor of Hizzoner, Review-Journal City Hall reporter Alan Choate presents this reminiscence.
UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz retained his belt with a unanimous decision victory over Urijah Faber in the main event of UFC 132 at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday night.
About 4,000 homes in the metropolitan Phoenix area are without power — and air-conditioning — on a record-shattering day of heat in one of the nation’s hottest cities.
One home was destroyed and two others were damaged Saturday as Clark County and Las Vegas firefighters battled a mobile home fire at the Echo Mobile Home Park, 1322 S. Mojave Road, near Charleston Boulevard and Palm Street. A separate fire burned pvc piping at a North Las Vegas company.
No more deaths are expected from a crash between a big-rig truck and an Amtrak passenger train in Northern Nevada, authorities said Saturday as federal investigators neared the completion of their on-scene probe.
HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A wayward baboon that apparently escaped from an amusement park and became a mini-celebrity — appearing at a golf course and being followed on Twitter — was captured Saturday after spending three days on the lam.
NEW YORK — This year’s Fourth of July race to stuff your face with hot dogs has a new feminine taste: Nathan’s Famous women-only pigout.
MONACO — A day after the civil wedding that transformed one-time Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock into the Princess of Monaco, she and Prince Albert II wed in a star-studded religious ceremony Saturday.