Facebook’s Look Back videos have saturated users’ news feeds this week, allowing users to share with their friends their biggest moments on the site. But a Missouri man who cared more about seeing his son’s biggest moments petitioned Facebook to make it possible.
Ralph Kiner, who slugged his way into the baseball Hall of Fame and enjoyed a half-century career as a popular broadcaster, died Thursday. He was 91. Kiner hit 369 home runs during his 10-year career, mostly with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Though some rain was falling Thursday and predicted to last through the weekend in the north and central parts of the state, California remains in the midst of an historic drought leaving rural areas dangerously low on water.
Concerns about Olympic hotel rooms in Sochi are approaching the absurd.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who broke into a woman’s home while she was there, forced her to stay while he stole things, and then stole her minivan.
The two Las Vegas residents who died in a car crash Wednesday afternoon on the Summerlin Parkway have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Chip Shapiro first fell in love with cars as a young boy growing up in Minneapolis, hanging around a neighbor’s gas station doing odd jobs for five bucks a week. In between, he asked mechanics a lot of questions and eventually discovered he had talent for fixing cars.
There are more reasons to watch the Games than just for stories about toilets. Here are 9 of them.
The L.A. Lakers started Thursday night’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers with only eight players, but after two injuries and two foul outs, the Lakers had to rely on an little-known NBA rule to keep five players on the court.
Gordon Miles started the new year with a new job.
As the official energy drink of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, fellow Las Vegas-based company Xyience has always been associated with mixed martial arts.
A 10,000-square-foot suite that includes a basketball court at the Palms will set you back $25,000 a night. At MGM Grand’s Skylofts, you will find a bathtub that fizzes with Champagne-like massage bubbles and airport pickup in a $400,000 car.
Inside Tipsy Totes, mini satin bustiers line the walls while wine bottle stoppers rest on shelves.
More than 3,200 personnel and nearly 160 aircraft, pilots from the Australian Air Force, the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and U.S. forces participated in one of the biggest Red Flag exercises staged at Nellis Air Force Base.
It wasn’t the punch that killed Michael Burtosky on the Strip. It was the fall to the ground. Burtosky, a homeless man, was fatally injured after a scuffle over a woman with Joseph Gilbert Hyde on the bridge connecting the MGM Grand and New York-New York on Sept. 14.
The ground floor of The Arts Factory, 107 E. Charleston Blvd., is a major center of activity in the 18b Arts District, and it has been for years. Upstairs, it’s a little quieter.
Penn National Gaming, which owns the M Resort in Henderson, reported an $888.7 million net loss in the fourth quarter.
If you snapped a picture outside, it would have been one of ice. Of snow. Of slush. Of the sort of air that burns your lungs with each inhale. Of the biting cold Robert Frost wrote about so brilliantly.
At a national prayer breakfast this morning in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama made these remarks. Read them in the context that this is the president who by his policies promotes abortion with almost no restriction and this is the guy who wants to force people of good faith to pay for birth control, even when it violates their conscience.
I told Boyz II Men I saw Twitter photos of them hanging with fans here. So I asked the trio whether their meet-and-greets cost $2,500 per person, like Britney Spears’ meet-and-greets. They didn’t know about Spears. “Oh, wow, that’s horrible,” Nate Morris said.
For the first time, two large home industry shows are sharing the Las Vegas Convention Center this week. The International Builders Show and the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show are cohabitating through Thursday
A day after Rachel Fredrickson won the latest season of “The Biggest Loser,” after shedding nearly 60 percent of her body weight, attention wasn’t focused on her $250,000 win — but rather the criticism surrounding her loss.
A fire Wednesday evening brought 11 engines from two fire departments to a home in the southwest side of the valley.
A judge and a police officer said Wednesday that Southern Nevada spends far too little money to provide sufficient services for the mentally ill and the 2015 Legislature needs to make proper funding of mental health its priority.
An awe-inspiring light show is underway at The Linq this week as testing intensifies on the High Roller, the world’s tallest observatory wheel at 550 feet.
New tests confirm there are no toxins in a Northern Nevada marina and its oxygen supply is slowly rising after a sudden drop that killed the man-made lake’s entire fishery — an estimated 100,000 trout, catfish and bass.
The Macau casino market ended 11 straight months of double-digit gaming revenue increases in January and recorded its lowest single month growth rate since October 2012.
Small ship cruising delivers all the plusses of traveling on larger ships with the added bonus of greater access to a variety of smaller, less-traveled ports. Plus, while large ships commonly carry thousands of passengers per voyage, smaller ships carry just a couple hundred adventurers, virtually ensuring a more personalized, intimate journey. These factors ensure small ship cruising is a world apart from large ship vacationing.
No matter if you live on a coast or in the Upper Midwest, you can use your outdoor spaces to the fullest in any season by adding a few enhancements. Whether you do it yourself or hire a professional, it’s easy to add features like a seat wall and a fire ring for an outdoor gathering spot, or an outdoor kitchen to create the taste of summer all year. A few simple improvements can help you create a space that keeps you outside longer into the night, earlier in the spring and later into the cooler seasons.
