Officials with high-flying Las Vegas Sands Corp. raved about last year’s financial results and were giddy about potential expansion in Asia during an annual shareholder meeting Wednesday.
How do you go from war hero to bum on the street? Las Vegas writer Gregory Miles Allen, who writes under the pen name Miles Felony, addresses that question with his novel “Beg 4 Mercy: The Sin City Chronicles Book 1: The Reason.”
An attorney for Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says he has agreed to sign off on selling the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for what would be a record $2 billion.
Apparently nobody wants to buy a spaceship, at least not for $200,000. St. Louis-based auction company Regency-Superior reported no bids on Wednesday for former Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren’s 1960s Apollo Command Module Block 1 mock-up, which was a fixture in the retired neurosurgeon’s eclectic collection since he acquired it in the mid-1970s.
A gaming equipment manufacturer, who has the idea of combining traditional slot machine with entertainment-style video games, was given preliminary approval to operate in Nevada by state gaming regulators Wednesday.
O.J. Simpson’s lawyers were given another week Friday to reformat and resubmit an appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court seeking a new trial in the kidnapping and armed robbery case of the former football star.
HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA TAKING APPLICATIONS FOR WEATHERIZATION PROGRAM
Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Justin M. Ocampo graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio. Ocampo is the son of Annette M. Ocampo and brother of James M. Ocampo, both of Las Vegas. He is a 2010 graduate of Legacy High School.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to Viewpoints, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.
Top Las Vegas sports bettor Glen Cobb, his 82-year-old parents and his stepdaughter have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a felony charge of running a multimillion-dollar illegal bookmaking operation.
St. Rose Dominican Hospitals San Martin campus, 8280 W. Warm Springs Road, was designated a baby-friendly hospital in May by Baby-Friendly USA.
The family of a pregnant American woman who went missing in Afghanistan in late 2012 with her Canadian husband received two videos last year in which the couple asked the U.S. government to help free them and their child from Taliban captors, The Associated Press has learned.
Music critic Jason Bracelin offers up his favorite songs and albums of the year so far.
Henderson libraries plan summer reading program launch events.
An Alabama church got some unwanted attention over the weekend after quoting Adolf Hitler on a billboard.
A judge reduced bail Wednesday for one of two men accused of posing as Mormon missionaries during a home invasion robbery.
The world’s largest retailer said Wednesday that it’s expanding its online tool that compares prices on thousands of products with those of some of its competitors to cities nationwide in the next few months.
A driver for Uber was arrested Monday in Los Angeles after police say he kidnapped a drunk female passenger and took her to a nearby motel room.
About an hour after a California teen was discovered on a Hawaii runway in April, a nonplussed pilot preparing to depart tells air traffic controllers he will be a bit delayed because “a guy is seeming to have stowed away in the landing gear from San Jose to Maui.”
TUCSON, Ariz. – A federal court judge on Monday sentenced a Las Vegas man to 15 years in prison for transporting a girl from Arizona to Nevada intending to have sex with her.
Criminals have long used tattoos as indelible ink on their own bodily rap sheet. And for just as long, police have used them as a way to identify suspects, a distinguishing characteristic to jog a memory or catch the public’s eye.
Station Casinos will open its 10th smaller casino and its seventh property under the Wildfire brand Friday on Lake Mead Parkway in Henderson.
Minnesota Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway happened to be in the right place at the right time on Monday when some stranded boaters needed help.
Sen. Harry Reid on Wednesday defended the swap of Taliban detainees that led to the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl by captors in Afghanistan, saying it should be celebrated and not used by critics as ammo against President Obama.
A Cincinnati kindergarten graduation ceremony turned sour after one man hit another while 5-year-old students were celebrating with punch and cookies, triggering a melee that involved up to 20 people and resulted in the lockdown of the elementary school.
May already gave us “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” and “Maleficent,” but June seems to be offering even more. Here are a few flicks headed to the big screen in June that different members of your family can look forward to.
Few people can say they had a street named for them. Even fewer can say they had a street named for them without their knowledge.
A former Blue Angels commander tolerated inappropriate sexual comments and pornographic images in the workplace — including photos of naked women in the cockpits of the precision flying team’s planes, the Navy said Tuesday.
After imbibing a few too many, you end with a great sports prize and a decision to make. It’s not an easy choice.
