The president of the United States loves to dance around the English language to make everybody feel better — even this country’s enemies. With the military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan underway, it’s become much more evident that such sashaying comes at a real cost to those who have lost their lives or been injured at the hands of terrorism.
The North Las Vegas City Council had no shortage of reasons to reject a plan to use the city’s eminent domain powers to seize underwater home loans:
Dondino gets officially “welcomed back” with a fundraising event today. If he doesn’t recognize the Las Vegas where he once sang every day, he’s used to it.
Here are a few tidbits of pop culture that caught our eye last week.
I am, by nature, a gregarious extrovert. Except at the gym. There, I keep to myself. Eyes down. Focus within. Conscious breathing. Feel the pain. Let the exhaustion carry you away. I think of it like a religious discipline.
Fresh fruit from your garden is so nourishing. There’s nothing like feasting on tree-ripened peaches. Here are some suggestions to make the fruit of your labor more productive.
Liberty’s American Legion baseball team fell behind early, then gave up nine runs in the eighth inning Saturday as Petaluma (Calif.) routed the Patriots 18-4 in the American Legion Western Regional in Surprise, Ariz.
Statistics have been a key part of baseball since the sport was invented in the mid-1800s, but never before has so much information been available about the game.
With prices as low as $25 a tire, used tire shops in Las Vegas, also known as llanteras in Spanish, are attracting customers by providing low-cost alternatives for fixing and replacing tires.
While 60 percent of those in the country illegally come from Mexico, according to statistics with the Department of Homeland Security, quite a few Las Vegas immigrants are legal residents and never broke federal immigration laws to become so.
Eydie Gorme, a popular nightclub and television singer as a solo act and as a team with her husband, Steve Lawrence, has died in Las Vegas. She was 84.
There are sounds that dwell, deep and vivid, in human memory.
North Las Vegas police said Saturday that “it’s only a matter of time” before they find the baby boy of a Utah mother who drove through parishioners outside an Evangelical church late Thursday night, apparently in search of a spot to park her car and sleep.
One person was killed and another critically injured in a motorcycle accident in the northwest Las Vegas Valley early Saturday morning.
On Monday, join a geologist to discuss the rock formations, plants and animals encountered on a moderate, two-mile hike in the Calico Basin; for ages 10 and older.
San Diego County Sheriff’s officials say the man suspected of abducting 16-year-old Hannah Anderson has been killed in Idaho and the teen has been found safe.
Bodie — California’s most authentic ghost town — is preserved as a state historic park and a national historic landmark. Annually, thousands of visitors explore the former gold and silver boomtown. Maintained in a state of “arrested decay,” Bodie appears much as it did when the last residents left more than 50 years ago.
A week into the blackout of CBS programming to millions of Time Warner Cable subscribers, viewers are finding workarounds.
A 17-year-old graffiti artist’s death, condemned by the Miami art community, has left many shocked, confused and angry.
Vicious fights! Stunning beauties! Surprises around every corner! Yes, it’s reality TV but with a lot more depth — as much as 10,000 feet. It’s live coverage of deep-sea exploration off Nantucket and tens of thousands of people are tuning in.
The death toll in Saturday’s attacks is the highest since July 20, when brazen assaults on two prisons near Baghdad plus other attacks left 71 dead.