While raising money for college scholarships, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Las Vegas also took the time recently to honor its longtime supporters. This is the 32nd year of the committee’s banquet as well as its upcoming annual parade on Monday, to celebrate the civil rights leader’s birthday.
Dear Savvy Senior: Can you offer some good stretching tips and resources for seniors? I’ve gotten so inflexible in recent years I can hardly bend over to tie my shoes anymore. — Stiff Senior
Canon USA had its annual Customer Appreciation and Celebrity Golf Tournament Jan. 8 and 9 to benefit the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The FBI believes it has solved a string of at least 20 ATM thefts in seven states with the recent arrest of two men in Utah, one of whom has been indicted for stealing money from an ATM in Idaho and shooting at pursing police officers.
A Las Vegas girl is recovering after being injured in a fall from a ski lift at a southern Utah resort.
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez can’t watch football on TV for his own safety, the sheriff in charge of the prison said on Saturday.
Preregistration for anyone that wants to run for local office in Clark County this year began Saturday.
A gay Russian protester was detained on Saturday for unfurling a rainbow flag during the Olympic torch relay as it passed through his hometown of Voronezh, 560 miles north of Sochi, where the games will begin Feb. 7.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police need a warrant to search the cellphones of people they have arrested.
No wonder they call New York the city that never sleeps. Who can get any shuteye with all the noise?
Gov. Chris Christie’s administration is denying a New Jersey mayor’s claims it withheld millions of dollars in Superstorm Sandy recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development.
With earrings designed from deer antlers made by an Alaskan Eskimo and pens hand-carved by woodcrafters, The Purple Monkey features an assortment of items from local art vendors in a shop at 11 S. Water St.
Technology companies and industry groups took President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S. surveillance as a step in the right direction, but chided him for not embracing more dramatic reforms to protect people’s privacy.
One in 13 children could see their lives shortened by smoking unless the nation takes more aggressive action to end the tobacco epidemic, the U.S. Surgeon General said Friday — even as, astonishingly, scientists added still more diseases to the long list of cigarettes’ harms.
Several people were taken to the hospital Saturday morning after a bicycle crash in Red Rock Canyon.
If we are wise, the passing of time provides perspective. Those things that seem abhorrent and impossible today may take on wholly different color through the lens of time.
Dear Nicolas Cage. Since you’re settled in Vegas now, I am going to start pitching Vegas-angle movies to you. I don’t even want a thanks. Consider this a friendly shout-out, good sir. Here is the root of the pitch.
A wildfire in the suburbs of Los Angeles was a smoldering shadow of its former self, but hundreds of residents of a foothill neighborhood remained evacuated and extremely dangerous fire conditions were expected to last well into Saturday.
Saying they have confirmed that one or more people used “a significant number of counterfeit chips” at an Atlantic City poker tournament, state casino regulators on Saturday canceled the tainted match and ordered all prize money frozen until an investigation is complete.
The saying goes that there is always a well-known solution to every problem — neat, plausible and wrong. UNLV’s basketball team needs to discover a fourth today: discipline.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee’s concise 25-minute State of the City speech was serious. Of course, he has reason to be serious. The city’s financial shape is dismal. A projected deficit of $152.6 million over seven years must be taken seriously.
The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands in West Virginia was only the latest and most high-profile case of coal sullying the nation’s waters.
William Hill PLC on Friday said its Las Vegas-based subsidiary had a strong fourth quarter, with amounts wagered up 34 percent and net revenue up more than 150 percent over the fourth quarter of 2012.
The combination plate at Plaka Authentic Greek Cuisine — sliced leg of lamb, dolmathes, moussaka, gyro meat, pastitsio, rice and potatoes — would enable me to taste as many of the restaurant’s specialties as possible. And all of them cold.
Debris removal from a detention basin in the northwest valley may impact traffic in coming days, Las Vegas city officials say.
Cornhole could probably use a little rebranding. That’s about all that stands in the way of the sport’s widespread popularity, according to Las Vegas Cornhole President Damon Cochran.
The soaring value of California’s nut crops is attracting a new breed of thieves who have been making off with the pricey commodities by the truckload, recalling images of cattle rustlers of bygone days.
It is said that movie producer Harvey Weinstein came through his midlife crisis intact.
The Nevada Highway Patrol will have a new chief Monday when Deputy Chief Dennis Osborn takes over, Department of Public Safety Director James Wright said Friday.
