Three years before the next presidential election, Sen. Harry Reid has his candidate — Hillary Clinton.
Rules regarding airline tarmac delays were significantly strengthened in 2010, with the Department of Transportation establishing a hard time limit after which U.S. airlines must allow passengers to deplane flights. Still, the hard deadline is three hours, which didn’t help passengers on a July 17 Allegiant Airlines flight heading to Oakland, Calif., from Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport. More than 150 passengers had to sweat it out for 2½ hours after a maintenance issue left the aircraft with inadequate air conditioning. Passengers had to remain in their seats, even though the plane was still at the departure gate baking in triple-digit temperatures.
It’s always a kick when left and right come together to question the power of the federal government.
It wasn’t just the coaches and players competing for a national championship. It wasn’t just the 70,000 college basketball fans inside Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis that 2010 evening.
When it was discovered earlier this year that the Department of Justice was massively intruding on news gathering, there was a loud hue and cry for a federal shield law, and rightly so. The department had secretly obtained the office phone records of Associated Press journalists — records that potentially revealed communications with confidential sources — and had ridden roughshod over Fox News reporter James Rosen’s rights, monitoring his personal email, phone records and movements.
A flash flood warning has been issued for northeast Clark County, according to the National Weather Service.
The three colts who won this year’s Triple Crown races are taking different paths to the $1 million Travers on Aug. 24 at Saratoga. The prestigious Travers is called the Midsummer Classic for good reason.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Rafael Montero (2-2); Aces, Mike Boisinger (4-4)
Wilkinson (Wash.) rallied for six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday to beat the Southern Nevada Bulls of Arbor View High 6-3 in the Connie Mack Western Regional baseball tournament in Bellevue, Wash.
The competition is going to be fierce for spots on next year’s USA Basketball squad that will compete in the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain. So Kyrie Irving decided he had better get a head start at making a positive impression.
Police say a two-man crime wave has been trying to turn the lights out on downtown revitalization.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is holding what authorities have said is a gun in several surveillance photos that were released Thursday and had been recorded hours before — and minutes after — his friend was shot to death.
WASHINGTON — For a kid who’s still only 20 and had yet to hit a game-ending homer in his nascent career, Bryce Harper sure inspired a lot of confidence in his teammates as he walked to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
SALT LAKE CITY — A young Mormon missionary and cancer survivor from Utah who lived through the Spain train crash that left 80 dead said Thursday he remembers the train lifting off the tracks “like a roller coaster” before he blacked out and awoke to a “gruesome” scene.
Nevada’s Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital will no longer be accredited by a national hospital accrediting organization effective Friday, state officials said late Thursday afternoon.
Las Vegas gets about 40 million visitors a year, including a famous sports visitor scheduled for a whirlwind tour of less than 24 hours early next week.
UNLV interim athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy is reorganizing the athletic department, changing positions throughout and instituting substantial pay cuts.
A Southwest Airlines jet that made a hard landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport touched down on its front nose wheel before the sturdier main landing gear in back touched down, federal investigators said Thursday.
Las Vegas Events, the nonprofit that recruits, promotes and organizes events in the Sin City market, paid $75,000 to sponsor the recent NBA Summer League and also invested resources as a partner in putting on this week’s USA Basketball event in Las Vegas.
The Department of Motor Vehicles is celebrating Nevada’s 150th anniversary with special license plates.
Embattled Family Court Judge Steven Jones is mounting an 11th-hour campaign to put off a hearing next week before the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline on allegations he mishandled a romantic relationship with a prosecutor who appeared before him.
The incessant hum coming from the trees is the sound of male Apache cicadas in search of mates — and the unofficial soundtrack of summer in Las Vegas.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Pope Francis showed his rebel side Thursday, urging young Catholics to shake up the church and make a “mess” in their dioceses by going out into the streets to spread the faith. It’s a message he put into practice by visiting one of Rio’s most violent slums and opening the church’s World Youth Day on a rain-soaked Copacabana Beach.
Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged with running a sophisticated hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major American and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled.
A recent series of violent robberies largely targeting the elderly have taken place throughout the Las Vegas Valley, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Chapman Chrysler Jeep and Chapman Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram partnered with the United Service Organizations’ Las Vegas Center for the first “Jam A Jeep” program to gather items that the center could distribute to servicemen, servicewomen and veterans.
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