Afraid there may be peanuts or other allergens hiding in that cookie? Thanks to a cradle and app that turn your smartphone into a handheld biosensor, you may soon be able to run on-the-spot tests for food safety, environmental toxins, medical diagnostics and more.
The new Ford Fiesta recently won the overall 2013 Women’s World Car of the Year and Women’s World Car of the Year Economy Car.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list a ground-hugging plant found only in western Nevada and eastern California as a threatened species.
If you were one of those people who couldn’t fathom why regularly scheduled news programming was interrupted because some woman in England had a baby, well, we definitely feel you on that one. But rather than gripe about something we can’t change, we think it’s healthier to get in on the fun.
WASHINGTON — Growing up as a black teen, John Harris III says he wasn’t always sure about what he wanted to do with his life. But the 23-year-old, now part of the first generation of college students who saw the nation’s first black president elected, points to a newfound sense of purpose for him and other black graduates.
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, his lawyer said Thursday.
A 30-year-old Las Vegas man died Thursday morning after his motorcycle rear-ended a car on Desert Inn Road. The unidentified man’s 2012 Suzuki GSXR 1000 hit a 1994 Nissan Altima GXE about 4 a.m. near Tenaya Way, Las Vegas police said.
The Ohio man convicted of holding three women captive in his Cleveland house over a decade and raping them repeatedly was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus 1,000 years.
Firefighters, police volunteers and others who helped fight the Carpenter 1 Fire were honored on Wednesday night with a “thank you” dinner at The Resort on Mount Charleston.
Artists, rejoice. The First Friday that you knew and loved, a First Friday where art is the focus and everything else is gravy? It’s back. At least for the month of August.
John Oates has new singing partners in cyberspace. But when he comes to the Hard Rock Hotel this weekend, it will be with the one you know.
Imagine if you became famous, but some other famous person used your name, too. This is what is happening with Fergie (the Black Eyed Pea) and Fergie the DJ — who now lists his name as “Fergie DJ.”
Seafood Nights at The Feast Buffet at Green Valley Ranch, 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway in Henderson, and Red Rock Resort, 11011 W. Charleston Blvd., will continue through August. Every station includes seafood items, including crispy head-on prawns, oyster shooters, fried shrimp po’ boys, stuffed blue crab, blackened redfish and white clam pizza. It’s available from 4 to 9 p.m. Fridays for $29.99 for adults, $24.99 for children 2-9. …
Hard rockers Avenged Sevenfold roar into the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Oct. 26, with Deftones and Ghost B.C. Tickets are $39.50, $59.50 and $69.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Ticketmaster outlets.
Prepare for some wicked cottonmouth and a case of the munchies so bad that you’d punch a baby for a handful of Cheetos.
Gary Clark Jr. talks a big game, though talking isn’t what he does best.
Each week Neon spotlights a different cuisine in the Dining Guide, with Asian 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; $$ = entrees $10 to $20; $$$ = entrees $20 to $30; and $$$$ = entrees more than $30.
Welcome back to the club. Which club? Whichever one of these clubs that has the DJ you’re looking for.
Bauman Rare Books at the Shoppes in the Palazzo is hosting a free exhibit called “Before They Were Movies.” Books that inspired movies will be the focus.
He ate Skittles, he drank beer, he won the Heisman. That’s what Wright Thompson’s in-depth profile says about Johnathan Paul Manziel on ESPN.com. That’s what put him in the fishbowl.
The official start of school may be a month away, but it is not too early to begin gathering supplies, especially for recent high school graduates who will be heading off to college.
Several civilian members of the Las Vegas police department’s Use of Force Board, including the co-chairman, quit in protest Wednesday in the wake of the sheriff’s decision to save officer Jacquar Roston’s job.
It was much like spending the weekend playing “Where’s Waldo?” except the game was “Where’s the Monkey?”
