Once again, vegetables seemed to be on gardeners’ minds as well as an unusual insect living in the ground.
Bellagio President Randy Morton credits “Ocean’s Eleven” with making the hotel’s dancing fountains the nation’s top tourist attraction.
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2010. My son is 8, and in the second grade. I am driving him to school. He is in the back seat, lost in his Nintendo DS game device. Suddenly a long-suffering sigh wafts up into the front seat. Then the voice so quiet, so innocent, so sincere and thoughtful: “This is all messed up.”
Here are a few things in pop culture that caught our eye last week.
The locals gaming market has suffered enough. Gaming revenues produced by casinos in North Las Vegas, along the Boulder Strip, in Henderson and throughout unincorporated Clark County are down a collective 2.6 percent through April.
Summer comes to Cerca country with Fourth of July celebrations and plenty of activities at higher elevations where it is cooler.
Local boxers Devin Haney and Andres Cortes won silver medals at Saturday’s Junior Olympic National Championships in Mobile, Ala.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Jacob deGrom (1-0); Rainiers, Erasmo Ramirez (2-3)
Today’s best bet: BALTIMORE ORIOLES (-115) over New York Yankees
The loudest roar during the One Drop High Rollers tournament Saturday came five minutes in when Antonio Esfandiari was eliminated.
Add another boxing hall of fame to the list. This one is located at the Luxor.
Evan wrote in noting that there was supposed to be a traffic light installed by now at the intersection of Decatur Boulevard and Elkhorn Road, way out north.
Celebrities and Cirque du Soleil performers joined the Jackson family on the red carpet at Mandalay Bay Saturday night for the premiere of Cirque’s Michael Jackson ONE.
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.”
Inbee Park was mad, even if it didn’t show in her always placid demeanor. She had made bogey, her third straight, on a hole she thought she should have birdied, and the world’s top-ranked player was looking a bit shaky.
PHILADELPHIA — A judge has ordered rapper Meek Mill to attend etiquette classes and notify his probation officer before he takes any trips outside of the commonwealth.
MINNEAPOLIS — For the first 20 years of his life, almost every time Shabazz Muhammad turned around on a basketball court, his father was right there behind him.
A 55-year-old man from Pahrump turned himself in after being involved in a fatal hit-and-run in southwest Las Vegas on Friday morning, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
Some people are natural storytellers. For everyone else, there’s Histuffy.com.
As fierce as The Black Dahlia Murder was, the band had nothing on the Hades-worthy heat found at the Warped Tour on Friday at the Silverton. “Stay alive,” enjoined Trevor Strnad, frontman for the death metal band.
Nevadans are facing a Monday deadline to register their off-highway vehicles under a new state law, but only a fraction of owners have done so.
A North Las Vegas police sergeant who heads the police supervisors union filed a lawsuit against the police chief, city manager and city Thursday, according to court documents.
A plan to leverage the city of North Las Vegas’ power of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages and sell them back to homeowners at a lower price is seen as a financial lifeline for some desperate residents.
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Anthony Bennett wasn’t really all that interested in playing basketball. Yeah, it was cool dunking on guys, and a great way to make new friends after moving from Toronto to the city’s suburbs.