Engage Nevada: New player on the GOP block

Engage Nevada strives to energize conservative voters, but some see the nonprofit’s emergence as a way to go around the mainstream Republican Party.

Deadmau5 does nightclub gig at XS

The Wynn’s XS nightclub lured DJ Deadmau5 away from MGM’s club Hakkasan for one night — and possibly for free.

Lady Rebels fall short at Northwestern

Redshirt freshman and Durango High product Mia Bell scored a game-high 17 points, but UNLV’s second-half rally came up short Sunday as the Lady Rebels fell to Northwestern 57-53 in Evanston, Ill.

Super Bowl hangover hits 49ers hard

After the party, the hangover is due to hit. And the better the party, the worse the headache gets. Right about now, it’s hitting quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the San Francisco 49ers right between the eyes.

Gettysburg Address: A sacred, yet elusive, text in American culture

Like the Pledge of Allegiance or “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Gettysburg Address is a sacred American text, so fully absorbed into the culture that phrases such as “four score and seven years ago” and “of the people, by the people, for the people” are as familiar as any song lyric or line of poetry.

Planning for end a gift to family

A ventilator kept my father alive. His heart couldn’t do its job.

EDITORIAL: Commission should again vote down More Cops tax

Another proposal to increase the sales tax rate and boost the budgets of Southern Nevada police departments will go before the Clark County Commission on Tuesday. It’s as unworthy of approval as its predecessors.

Dutch blackface holiday tradition sparks protests

The Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday to the delight of thousands of children. But some adults protested vigorously against one element of the beloved tradition they find racist: his servant in blackface makeup, Black Pete.

Teacher killings force second look at job’s risks

When a 16-year-old student slammed a metal trash can onto Philip Raimondo’s head, it did more than break open the history teacher’s scalp, knock him out and send him bleeding to the floor.

Doctors seek to retrieve lungs after at-home deaths

The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they’ll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set.

State-by-state look at storm, tornadoes in Midwest

An unusually large and strong late-season storm system ripped through several states across the Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes and tearing through homes and overturning cars along its path.

Child found cuffed to porch, foster parents arrested

MONROE, N.C. — A North Carolina social worker is under arrest after a foster child was found cuffed by the ankle to her front porch with a dead chicken hanging from around his neck.

Sony sells 1M PlayStation 4s on first day

Sony says it sold more than 1 million of its PlayStation 4 video game consoles during their first 24 hours on the market.

 
Philippine president to camp in Tacloban

President Benigno Aquino III said Sunday that he will stay in typhoon-battered Leyte province until he sees more progress in the aid effort following complaints from survivors that they have yet to receive proper help.

Mayor Ford shows up at Toronto football game

Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford showed up Sunday to watch his hometown team lose a Canadian Football League playoff game, ignoring a request by the league’s commissioner that he stay away.

President’s widow moved by poem

Ron Delpit has struck an endless stream of words to paper in his long journalism career, but it was a poem he penned as a college freshman that still gets him choked up even after nearly 50 years.

Boeing takes $100 billion in orders from Gulf

U.S.-based Boeing Co. dominated on the first day of the Dubai Airshow, netting $100 billion in orders at an event that showcased the spending power and aggressive expansion efforts of the Middle East’s Gulf Arab carriers.

JFK death news sent ‘wave of grief’ around world

There is a quiet and somber feel to this small piece of America on an English hillside, near where the Magna Carta was sealed eight centuries ago.

‘Thor’ reigns top box-office spot with $38.5M

In an unlikely battle of sequels, “Thor: The Dark World” bested “The Best Man Holiday” at the box office.

Nobel prize author, Doris Lessing dies at 94

Doris Lessing emerged from a black cab outside her home in London one day in 2007 and was confronted by a horde of reporters. When told she had won the Nobel Prize, she blinked and retorted “Oh Christ! … I couldn’t care less.”