More than 88,000 Nevada residents will benefit from nearly $4 million in rebates from insurance companies this summer, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday.
NEW YORK — The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre is getting props from her dad for catching a baby who had tumbled off a second-floor fire escape in Brooklyn.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with ethnic restaurants this week. Restaurants are rated on a letter-grade scale, from A to F. Opinions by R-J critic Heidi Knapp Rinella (H.K.R.) are indicated by initials. Price symbols are based on the cost of an average entree: $ = entrees less than $10; $$ = entrees from $10 to $20; $$$ = entrees from $20 to $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Get your independence on at Rockhouse in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian.
Latin pop favorite Enrique Iglesias dives in the Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Sept. 13. Tickets are $95 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com and Ticketmaster outlets.
“At the end of the world as we know it, I’m feeling fine,” indie hip-hop firebrand Sole (Tim Holland) announces on his latest disc, “No Wising Up No Settling Down.”
What would Satan sound like when expressing his sensitive side?
They share a past in a shock-rock brand of reality TV, but it was stand-up comedy that brought Tom Green and Steve-O together.
So it’s not like we exactly need counterprogramming to the Electric Daisy Carnival. Even though it draws more than 100,000 people, life goes on as usual in the suburbs around Red Rock Resort.
Different boats for different folks.
Breakfast is big business in Las Vegas.
So you didn’t score tickets to the sold-out Electric Daisy Carnival? Then go see several EDC stars at clubs on the Strip, instead.
The last time I talked to Fatboy Slim, in 2011, he was DJing in America for the first time in many years. He told me to tell you: “Hi America. I’m back. Let’s pick up where we left off.”
The underground house at 3970 Spencer St. was built for comfort, with two hot tubs, a sauna and an in-ground pool. It was also constructed to withstand a nuclear blast.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the government cannot force private health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition to get taxpayer money to fight AIDS around the world.
Timothy Bradley Jr. will defend his WBO welterweight title against Juan Manuel Marquez on Oct. 12 at the Thomas & Mack Center.
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video sites.
LONDON — About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, according to the first major review of violence against women.
NEW YORK — Los Angeles’ school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for textbooks.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday.
Two people were injured Thursday morning in an apartment fire in the 300 block of North 10th Street near Stewart Avenue.
It may be the first official day of summer, but the Las Vegas Valley is seeing some of its coolest temperatures of June.
The city that pioneered cheap casino buffets and counts 8,000-calorie burgers as a civic attraction has adopted a healthy food policy, but not without an argument.
LOS ANGELES — James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters.
A man is in critical condition after he was struck by a car about 9 p.m. Wednesday at North Jones and Carmen boulevards.