I dragged my Pacific Daylight Time, Las Vegas arse out of bed early Tuesday to watch President Barack Obama take questions from the national press corps. Maybe there’d be a tweet or a blog in there somewhere. Or, if I was lucky, even a Sunday newspaper column.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: River Cats, Travis Banwart (2-0); 51s, Dylan Owen (0-2)
Police say a Utah soccer referee who was in a coma after being punched by a teenage player has died.
Daniel Ponce De Leon’s reign as the WBC featherweight champion was a brief one. Unbeaten Abner Mares saw to that by scoring an impressive technical knockout in the ninth round in his first time fighting at 126 pounds Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden.
A fire that burned a Quest Diagnostics lab and medical suites in Las Vegas on Wednesday caused an estimated $1 million in damage, a Clark County Fire Department official said Saturday.
McALLEN, Texas — The Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month, killing 14 people, injuring more than 200 others and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the surrounding area had only $1 million in liability coverage, lawyers said Saturday.
Alone in the single-seat cockpit and high above the American Southwest, pilot Bertrand Piccard could hear only his plane’s gear box and the quiet whine of four electric motors. No noisy jet engines.
If it weren’t for the Clark County School District’s mariachi music program, Krystal Reyes would have never considered college. Her professional aspirations would have tapped out with a front desk position at the casino where she now works. And, her musical interests would have never surpassed the tween tingles she got while listening to a Britney Spears album.
Orb splashed through the slop to win the Kentucky Derby, coming from far back in the pack and giving Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey his first victory in the 3-year-old classic.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Anna Abderhalden and her siblings woke before dawn to stake a claim to a coveted beachfront spot where bonfires blaze each night as a rite of summer in this surf-crazy Southern California city.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Friday he agrees with a colleague’s assessment that the Affordable Care Act will be a “train wreck” if it’s not properly put in place.
Sergio Salazar tried to break through the wall of a burning shed with a pickax to save the boy inside. After a few blows, the handle broke. By the time firefighters arrived at the blaze near Oakey Boulevard and Eastern Avenue on Thursday afternoon, all was lost.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid didn’t break laws when he asked Las Vegas attorney Will Kemp to donate to the Senate Majority PAC to help elect Democrats in the 2012 cycle.
Light showers are expected in the Las Vegas Valley on Monday and Tuesday as a low pressure system off California’s coast moves east and brings moisture with it, according to the National Weather Service in Las Vegas.
A fire caused $250,000 in damage to a Henderson home on Friday afternoon, according to the Henderson Fire Department.
HOUSTON — The public face of the National Rifle Association implored members Saturday to never give up their weapons in the wake of recent gun control efforts in Congress that he said will “destroy us and every ounce of our freedom.”
CHICAGO — You’ve probably never heard of Holly Peterson or Jonathan Jean-Pierre. One came out as a lesbian at age 15, when she was playing high school basketball. The other, a college rower, told his teammates last year that he’s gay.
The song has been blasting through the speakers at his gym, and don’t be surprised if Floyd Mayweather Jr. walks to the MGM Grand Garden ring Saturday night as it plays.
“If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood, Who ya gonna call?
WASHINGTON — An Israeli airstrike against Syria was targeting a shipment of advanced missiles believed to be bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israeli officials confirmed Saturday.
The Daytona 500 is called “The Great American Race,” but I would make the argument that the Kentucky Derby should have that nickname.
BOSTON — A funeral home director was scrambling to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, ignoring protesters gathered outside his business and saying everybody deserves a dignified burial service no matter the circumstances of his or her death.
Stephens Media Iowa LLC, owner of the Ames Tribune and several other central Iowa newspapers, has acquired the Perry Chief for an undisclosed price.
Carmen Electra tells me her new song — explicitly titled “Bigger (Expletive)” — is not about her exes, who range from Dennis Rodman to Dave Navarro and Otep guitarist Rob Patterson.
CAMARILLO, Calif. — A wildfire tearing through a coastal region in Southern California nearly tripled in size as high temperatures fueled the flames, but an expected weekend change in the weather will likely give crews manning the fire lines much-needed assistance.
When more than 400 people die in a building collapse — as happened in Bangladesh last week on a nice sunny day, absent any earthquake or tidal wave — some police action is appropriate. It’s hard not to assume the builders and owners didn’t take some shortcuts in reckless disregard of human life and safety. And any government building inspector who signed off on the work should be in for some close questioning, as well.