Two management changes announced for El Tiempo

Two changes in the management of El Tiempo were recently announced by Stephens Media LLC, owner of El Tiempo, the Spanish publication of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

 
Blasts from the past: 5 more upcoming movie remakes

New versions of “RoboCop,” “About Last Night” and “Endless Love” open this week, but those are just the tip of the remake iceberg.

Research bottle found 58 years later, 300 miles from home

Nearly 58 years after glass bottles were released into the Atlantic Ocean, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles with a message inside in a pile of debris on a beach.

 
Zoo gets death threats after killing giraffe, feeding it to lions

A Copenhagen Zoo is dealing with intense backlash after it killed a healthy, 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions on Sunday. The zoo maintains it took appropriate actions to prevent inbreeding.

Las Vegas mother-son wedding dance goes viral

It started off like a traditional mother-son wedding dance, but a Las Vegas mom and her son had something much bigger planned.

 
Shia LaBeouf wears paper bag to red carpet event

Actor Shia LaBeouf hit the Berlin Film Festival in memorable style Sunday, first walking out of a press conference for the film “Nymphomaniac Volume I” and then wearing a paper bag over his head at the red carpet premiere.

Parent of Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s expects to trim loss

The company that operates the Stratosphere and the two Arizona Charlie’s casinos said Monday it expects to reduce its fourth-quarter net loss when the company officially reports results.

 
These 5 things actually happened at the Olympics

Much of the talk about Sochi has turned from the crazy problems visitors have experienced to the athletes themselves. That doesn’t mean crazy things aren’t happening in the Olympic venues, though. Here are five weird things to be aware of from over the weekend.

Escaped tiger evades hunters, kills 10th person in India

A tiger prowling near villages in northern India killed its 10th person in six weeks, a day after eluding a trap set by hunters with a live calf as bait.

 
Report: Pilots often head to wrong airports

On at least 150 flights, including one involving a Southwest Airlines jet last month in Missouri and a jumbo cargo plane last fall in Kansas, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time.

Police identify pedestrian killed on Las Vegas Boulevard

The pedestrian who died after being struck by a hit-and-run vehicle Saturday morning at Las Vegas Boulevard near Agate Avenue has been identified as Norman Beavers, 39.

 
Flappy Bird creator pulls game, says it ruined his life

The young Vietnamese creator of hit mobile game Flappy Bird has removed it from the App Store and Google Play saying it ruined his life.

As Wranglers’ Hughesman advances, so does his maturity level

Coming off a 50-goal, 116-point season in junior hockey, Adam Hughesman saw his production plummet in his rookie year with the Wranglers last season, when he compiled just 13 goals and 31 points.

Nonprofit founder’s company to aid domestic abuse survivors

A local nonprofit that helps women and men combat domestic violence has started a cleaning company in hopes of creating financial independence for victims of abuse.

Nevada attorney steers U.S. Civil Rights Commission to patient dumping

What attorney David Kladney did for mental patients in Reno courts decades ago could be duplicated Friday when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights holds a briefing in Washington, D.C., on patient dumping, a topic of particular interest to Southern Nevadans.

Las Vegas’ home prices up 23.3 percent from January ‘13, report shows

The median local price of an existing single-family home came in at $185,000 in January, according to new numbers from the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. That was unchanged from December, but up 23.3 percent from $150,000 in January 2013.

Fleck’s brilliance could not overcome bad judgment

The violin is a virtuoso instrument. So is the piano. So is virtually every instrument in the modern orchestra (certain percussion instruments excluded), but the banjo? Please!

College club hockey played way sport was intended: for fun of it

On Friday night, the Las Vegas Wranglers wore hockey sweaters with the UNLV logo on front to benefit the Dave Rice Foundation. But if you wanted to watch actual UNLV students dump and chase the puck while wearing UNLV sweaters, you had to be at SoBe Ice Arena at the Fiesta Rancho on Friday and Saturday where the Rebels’ club hockey team was playing San Diego State.

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