Nevadans to get $75, on average, in insurance rebates

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.

 
Joe Torre’s daughter catches baby falling from second floor

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.

Dining Guide: Ethnic restaurants

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.

Enrique Iglesias playing Cosmo pool

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.

Sole styling rhymes at The Bunkhouse

“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.”

Get shocked by pranksters Steve-O, Tom Green

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.

Buckcherry offers alternative to EDC

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.

Electric Daisy Carnival DJs spinning at clubs

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.

Fatboy Slim back in Vegas for Electric Daisy Carnival, club shows

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.”

Underground home was built as Cold War-era hideaway

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.

U.S. Supreme Court strikes down anti-prostitution pledge

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.

 
Youth leagues try to rein in ‘bad news parents’

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.

L.A. school district to give every student an iPad; $30 million order

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.

 
Taliban offers to free U.S. soldier in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay prisoners

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.

Morning fire injures two apartment residents

Two people were injured Thursday morning in an apartment fire in the 300 block of North 10th Street near Stewart Avenue.

 
‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini, 51, dies in Italy

LOS ANGELES — James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters.

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