Country music favorite Chris Cagle, rising star Chris Janson, and the popular local Tony Marques Band will headline the seventh Country in the Park outdoor concert and festival on May 11.
Q: We live in a small condominium complex. Our back patio wall is the outside wall of the complex. The condo next door is a rental and new neighbors moved in there about two weeks ago.
Shea Homes at Ardiente, an age-qualified community in North Las Vegas, offers a private 20,000-square-foot clubhouse featuring two resort-style pools, fitness center, group exercise studio and access to miles of walking trails.
Early risers can still sign up for today’s Mad Mud Run and companion Mudpuppy Splash for kids, and tour Providence, a master-planned community in northwestern Las Vegas.
The Another Chance Nevada program, offered by Las Vegas-based Premier Mortgage Lending, has garnered national attention as a second-chance financing program for those rebuilding their lives after a short sale or foreclosure.
A new phase release is scheduled May 4 at Pardee Homes’ LivingSmart Homes Eldorado Ridge and the new Eldorado Heights. Both are in the builder’s Eldorado master-planned community in North Las Vegas.
Las Vegas-based Harmony Homes has announced plans to open two communities in May.
Phoenix-based Housing Angels has announced it will host two free informational seminars about possible solutions for homeowners needing mortgage relief. Seminars are at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. May 4 at 8345 W. Sunset Road.
Manti Te’o spent Thursday night with his family in Hawaii, watching the first round of the NFL draft and expecting a phone call that never came.
BERLIN — They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster.
NEW YORK — A piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a New York City mosque site and another building.
Among the sightings in Las Vegas night clubs this week: Jeff Beck, Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia, actress Molly Sims, Sublime with Rome and mixed martial artist Anthony Pettis.
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it “lies and hypocrisy” and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism.
Traffic at the Spaghetti Bowl was snared Friday morning after a crash involving a motorcycle.
Congress easily approved legislation Friday ending furloughs of air traffic controllers that have delayed hundreds of flights daily, infuriating travelers and causing political headaches for lawmakers. The House approved the measure on a 361-41 vote, a day after the Senate swiftly agreed to the bill. The vote came as lawmakers prepared to leave town for a weeklong spring recess.
Artist Su Limbert’s name was misspelled in a caption in a Thursday Neon story about the Contemporary Arts Center’s “Exquisite Corpse” display.
NFL teams bought in bulk early in Thursday night’s draft. Unlike the last few glam-and-glitter years when bumper crops of quarterbacks reigned, this was pure brawn: more than 600 pounds at the outset with offensive tackles Eric Fisher of Central Michigan and Luke Joeckel of Texas A&M. The first seven picks were all linemen.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died. He was 81.
MOSCOW — A fire swept quickly through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow early Friday, killing 38 people, most of them sedated and in their beds, officials said.
SAVAR, Bangladesh — More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete. The death toll topped 300 on Friday and it remained unclear what the final grim number would be.
WASHINGTON — U.S. economic growth accelerated to an annual rate of 2.5 percent from January through March, buoyed by the strongest consumer spending in more than two years. Government spending fell, though, and tax increases and federal budget cuts could slow growth later this year.
BOSTON — The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.
SAVAR, Bangladesh — As the death toll climbed to 275, the disaster in Savar became the worst ever for Bangladesh’s booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve the country’s worker-safety standards.