Henderson officials are introducing a new paid time-off system for nonunion employees to reduce the city’s post employment payout liability by millions of dollars.
A scaffolding collapsed during a circus performance in Rhode Island on Sunday, injuring as many as 20 performers, nine of them critically, the Providence Fire Department said.
Less than a week after dumping their team warmup jerseys at center court in a pregame gesture of defiance against Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers earned a cathartic 126-121 win over the Golden State Warriors and a second-round date with the Oklahoma City Thunder, starting Monday night.
He said he sold morel mushrooms he collected last year to wholesalers who sent them to restaurants in Chicago, New York and Las Vegas. Gregg said he spent three months “just living in a tent, moving where the mushrooms were.”
Local business owners might be hoping the Affordable Care Act’s insurance mandates cover sticker shock. The law’s employer coverage mandate doesn’t take effect until 2015, but early plan renewals are starting to roll in. And for some businesses, the premium jumps are positively painful.
Bishop Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire, where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012.
In one reality, the Bureau of Land Management is a group of American citizens working to preserve and protect commonly held land for all Americans. In the other, they are agents of an occupying foreign power, bent on destroying ranching operations so we all have to eat kale salad for dinner, just as first lady Michelle Obama intended.
A 39-year-old woman was struck and killed by a SUV while she was attempting to cross the street in Henderson Saturday evening. The pedestrian had tried to cross Lake Mead Parkway at Taylor Street, about 9:15 p.m., when she was hit by a Ford Expedition, according to Henderson police.
A new era in how we handle The End has begun. Figures from the Cremation Association of North America show a 9 percent leap in people choosing that option from 2007 to 2012. The group estimates that by 2016 a majority of Americans — 55 percent — will select cremation over traditional burial.
The 17-year-old Minnesota boy outlined his plan in a 180-page journal: kill his family, set a fire to divert first responders, then go to his school with bombs and guns and “kill as many students as he could,” according to court documents.
Visitors will learn to walk and locals will have to make a paradigm shift, but no “traffic and parking nightmare” is envisioned for the MGM arena that’s now under construction in Las Vegas.
Somehow, “What happens in Crimea, stays in Crimea,” doesn’t seem like an appropriate catchphrase. In April, a month after Russia forcibly annexed the Black Sea peninsula away from Ukraine, President Valdimir Putin said he wants to turn the territory into his own version of Las Vegas.
Wynn told Bloomberg News that Clooney took some liberties when he claimed Wynn called President Barack Obama a nasty name during a dinner-gone-bad last month.