After five years of construction, McCarran International Airport’s $2.4 billion T3 went into service Wednesday with the standard official speeches and platoon of showgirls, celebrity impersonators and stage performers. Virgin Atlantic and three other airlines took up residence. Another 11 international carriers will move in today.
It seems as if the entire nation is holding its breath for the Supreme Court’s health care ruling – the presidential candidates, governors of virtually every state, insurers with billions at stake, companies large and small and countless millions of Americans concerned about their own medical care and how they’ll pay for it.
Business for male strippers has been dropping. A.J. Trunk, a 12-year veteran, says the novelty has worn off, with fewer bachelorette and birthday parties. Even once-lucrative private parties have been hijacked by dancers willing to take it off for as little as $100. But help may be on the way in the form of the male-stripper extravaganza film “Magic Mike.”
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule Thursday on President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul, here is a look at where each of the 50 states stands.
Gov. Brian Sandoval on Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama for going around Congress to authorize temporary work permits for young immigrants brought illegally to the United States by their parents.
MIAMI – Only marijuana was found in the system of a Florida man shot while chewing another man’s face, according to a medical examiner’s report released Tuesday.
The fertile fossil beds and rare plants dotting swaths of federal land on the northern outskirts of the Las Vegas Valley would be granted long-sought protections under a bill introduced by Nevada lawmakers in Congress Wednesday.
Las Vegas ranked in the bottom third in economic recovery among the nation’s 100 largest cities during the first quarter, a report by the Brookings Institution shows. It ranked Las Vegas No. 88 for economic strength. The report shows Las Vegas moved up from a No. 98 ranking in the previous quarter.
Steve Davidovici, a longtime nightclub operator at the center of a lucrative tip concealing scheme on the Strip, was sentenced Wednesday to three years probation and eight months of home confinement.
The right two lanes of northbound Interstate 15 near Washington Avenue were closed for several hours this morning due to a garbage truck fire.
PORTLAND, Maine – Two high-definition cameras are streaming live video showing clownlike Atlantic puffins waddling, preening and nesting on a remote Maine island.
Las Vegas police arrested a 28-year-old Jeffrey Wilson, who is charged with fatally shooting his mother and wounding his father Wednesday as the couple was inside a car outside their house in the southeast valley.
