If you’re trying to send some Christmas cheer to a special someone at a military installation, hurry to the post office. All priority and first class packages need to mailed Tuesday in order to make it by Christmas.
A Texas woman and former actress pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, under a deal that her attorney has said would cap prison time at 18 years.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee took issue on Tuesday with how the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is funded and where its money goes.
Need a hand lifting something? A robotic device invented by University of Pennsylvania engineering students can help its wearer carry an additional 40 pounds.
South Carolina police have filed a report after a dog was caught stealing bones and dog treats from a Dollar General.
The intersection of Vegas Drive and Decatur Boulevard will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday as construction continues on a drainage project.
A group of goats get swept away in an avalanche in the French Alps and somehow survive.
John and Marge Dillon renewed their wedding vows Nov. 23 before family and friends after 70 years of marriage. Their marriage survived a turbulent time early on, when John was drafted into the Navy and never received any of his wife’s letters after she had given birth to their first child.
ATLANTIC CITY — A wide variety of bids may be considered when The Atlantic Club is sold at a bankruptcy auction next week.
With nearly 300 students, Foothill High School’s band is slated to play at Carnegie Hall and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. “This is a life-changing experience,” said Travis Pardee, director of bands. “I hope to make it as cheap as possible for students to afford.”
Congress’ easy renewal of an expiring ban on undetectable plastic guns belies the larger reality that one year after the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., major new firearms restrictions have little chance of enactment anytime soon.
A man involved in a motorcycle accident in April died Nov. 29 from blunt force injuries, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Other old-school entertainers — Donny and Marie Osmond, Human Nature — cut and run for the month. Other shows, such as “Legends in Concert,” squeeze in a Christmas song or two. But Terry Fator goes all in.
A woman who faithfully taped TV news on 140,000 videocassettes with the hope that one day it would prove to be valuable, searchable historical material did not live to see her dream realized.
With all of the construction going on at the Downtown Container Park, it wasn’t too surprising when a flying saucer landed nearby in mid-November.
A comedian concerned about his reckless friend apparently set up an elaborate prank in an attempt to scare him straight.
A cockroach that can withstand harsh winter cold has appeared in New York. Experts say competition with other insects will probably keep the new bug’s population in check.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has scrapped promotional appearances in London because previous convictions — sentences that exceed four years in prison — bar him from entering Britain.
More than three decades after reversing its prohibition of black having the priesthood, the Mormon church has disavowed the ban, saying it was put into place during an era of great racial divide that influenced early teachings of the church.
WinterFest is scheduled from Dec. 12-14 at the Henderson Events Plaza, 200 S. Water St. The event transforms the Water Street District into an old-fashioned Christmas with activities and decorations and a giant snow globe aquarium courtesy of the cast from “Tanked.”
A 6-year-old boy has been suspended from a Colorado school for kissing a girl on the cheek. School officials in Canon City are accusing the boy of sexual harassment and they want it on his school record.
Really appreciate your column of Dec. 4 (tinyurl.com/m4sjxoj) … up until the final line, where respect is associated with having high expectations of others. If you respect them, you will have no expectations of them. Respect isn’t about imposing or judging. Those things are the opposite of respect. Respect is about honoring, listening, being open to who the person is right now. Expectations are a form of soft cruelty. They limit the person’s right to wake up as any form of person they choose. They chain a person to other peoples’ “expectations.” True respect is a form of love, of appreciation.
General Motors picked Mary Barra, its product development chief and a 33-year company veteran, as its next CEO. Barra will become the first female head of a major U.S. car company.
There was a certain amount of pressure on the young woman who sang the national anthem before the fourth performance of the NFR on Sunday night. And this is why Jackie Schmillen spent most of Sunday in her room at the LVH, making animal noises with her throat.
Growing up in New York in the projects in Brooklyn, Trevor Diggs knew that basketball would be his escape in some capacity. It had to be.
At least 6.98 percent of construction funds spent by the Department of Transportation in the 2014-16 period should go to minority and women-owned businesses, a state board decided Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama exhorted the world Tuesday to embrace Nelson Mandela’s universal message of peace and justice, electrifying tens of thousands of rain-lashed spectators and prompting a standing ovation by scores of heads of state in a South African stadium.
The Bellagio’s tuxedoed pianist David Osborne will fly to Washington today to perform for President Barack Obama’s family for the fifth year in a row, on the White House’s Eagle Steinway.
So, we’ll just keep calling it Frenchman Mountain, then?
A California homicide suspect who held a woman and a child hostage in a southeast valley apartment was arrested early Tuesday morning after a lengthy standoff with Las Vegas police.