Olympic mascots ranked from most- to least-horrifying

Most Olympic mascots are just not that good. So, rather than choose the worst of the worst, we decided to rank the mascots from worst to best.

State starts search for ways to fix troubled health insurance exchange

More change is in the wind for the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange’s troubled Nevada Health Link website. The exchange’s board met Friday, the day after its executive director announced his resignation.

 
Freight train strikes movie crew on railroad tracks, killing 1, injuring 7

A movie crew was working on train tracks without permission from the railroad when a freight train crashed into the production team and its equipment, killing one and injuring seven others, a sheriff’s investigator said Friday.

Jackson brothers’ stories part of act at Planet Hollywood

Time will tell, but 40 years have brought the Jacksons from the old MGM Grand — where they played the Celebrity Room that was torn down to connect Bally’s to Paris Las Vegas — to a short walk next door at Planet Hollywood Resort.

 
Former tribe chairwoman killed 3 relatives, police say

A former tribal leader killed her brother, nephew, niece and a worker at the headquarters of a small Indian tribe that was evicting the suspect and her son from its land in far Northern California, police said on Friday.

 
Missing mother found dead in ticketed, snow-covered car

An autopsy was scheduled Friday on the body of a missing young mother found inside a car that was parked near Philadelphia’s main train station and had a number of parking tickets on the window.

BLM creating full-time Burning Man job

The Bureau of Land Management is creating a full-time position dedicated to the annual Burning Man event in Northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

Suspect in pet shop arson goes before judge

Kirk Bills, 27, faces 31 charges that on Jan. 27 he and Gloria Lee tried to set ablaze her Prince and Princess Pet Boutique at 6870 S. Rainbow Road, south of the Las Vegas Beltway.

U.S. loses hockey game, gains a citizen

After Canada defeated Team USA 1-0 in the men’s Olympic hockey semifinals today, most American hockey fans had only one question.

 
Drivers stuck in traffic rush to save baby

Motorists stuck in traffic on a Miami expressway rushed to help a woman who got out of her car, holding a baby and screaming for help.

Three Las Vegas area Emeritus Senior Living homes have new owner

Emeritus Senior Living, which owns three senior housing facilities in Las Vegas, has been bought by Brookdale Senior Living in a deal valued at about $2.8 billion, including $1.4 billion of Emeritus’ mortgage debt.

Tennis helped ‘Zulu Dreams’ author escape apartheid

Growing up during apartheid in South Africa, Richman Mahlangu discovered that his only way to escape government-sanctioned racism and poverty was to excel at tennis.

Utah, Colorado lawmakers vote to hike smoking age to 21

Two Western states with some of the nation’s lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado lawmakers both voted favorably on proposals Thursday to treat tobacco like alcohol and take it away from 18- to 20-year-olds, a move inspired by new research on how many smokers start the habit as teenagers.

Solar plant near Primm approved

The Secretary of the Interior announced the approval of a new solar plant to be built in Primm as part of President Barack Obama’s Climate Action Plan.

Zombies invade ‘Cherry Orchard’ at Onyx Theatre

The world premiere of “Anton Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard of the Living Dead,” at the Onyx Theatre, blends elements from the Russian playwright’s stage classics, sci-fi movies — and zombies rampaging through the Russian countryside.

Offbeat off-road competition ‘mass chaos’

The idea was so out there that Kenny Bartram couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Motorcycles, both freestyle and endurocross, sharing the same course and the same race with all-terrain and utility-task vehicles.

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