After more than 12 hours, passengers stranded on a casino boat that ran aground off Georgia’s coast were moving to a Coast Guard cutter Wednesday afternoon, eventually headed to shore.
When you die, should your loved ones have access to your Facebook, Gmail and other online accounts? A group of influential lawyers says yes, unless you specify otherwise in a will.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league is considering an in-season, neutral-site tournament.
The Bunkhouse is back, and the small club is returning with some big names. The venerable downtown music venue, which reopens Aug. 25 after closing last summer for renovation, has officially announced its first batch of shows.
A Las Vegas man was indicted Wednesday in connection with what prosecutors said was a string of robberies.
Worries about expanding voter suppression efforts across the nation, particularly against African-American youth, is the main topic for the NAACP’s annual convention starting Saturday in Las Vegas.
A spokesman for Casey Kasem’s daughter says the famous radio host’s unburied body remains at a funeral home in Tacoma, Washington, a month after his death.
Pete Rose may have a role to play in next year’s All-Star game in Cincinnati despite his lifetime ban from baseball.
In today’s movies, sometimes it is difficult to find strong and healthy relationships, but here are three movies that remind us how great marriage can really be.
A future Maryland Parkway facelift received a $50,000 grant Wednesday from the National Endowment for the Arts to bankroll public art. The Maryland Parkway project — which stretches from McCarran International Airport to downtown Las Vegas — is one of 66 projects nationwide receiving “Our Town” grants.
The city’s tabloid newspaper front pages next week are easy to imagine: a photo of a nightmarish traffic jam caused by a strike at the nation’s largest commuter railroad juxtaposed with a shot of Mayor Bill de Blasio sunning on an Italian beach.
A high-priced prostitute accused of abandoning a Google executive on his yacht after shooting him up with a fatal dose of heroin never meant for the man to die, a defense attorney said Wednesday.
An Ohio teacher who was badly injured when some teenagers deliberately dropped a rock from a central Pennsylvania highway overpass onto her family’s car was hospitalized in critical condition on Tuesday, police and her family said.
Budding entrepreneurs and creative start-up folks attending South by Southwest’s Venture 2 Vegas (V2V) conference came face-to-face with Tony Hsieh’s famous wall of colorful Post-it notes, the plant-filled jungle room and the fleet of Razor scooters in Hsieh’s sprawling downtown apartment at The Ogden.
Vice President Joe Biden is coming to Las Vegas next week for an NAACP conference and to rally support for Erin Bilbray, the Democratic opponent of U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., her campaign confirmed on Tuesday.
Though rejected, a surprise bid by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox for entertainment rival Time Warner underscores that large media companies are in the mood for major consolidation.
The annual wine and music event expands to two days, will feature pop punks Blink-182, Violent Femmes, Train and more.
As he’s showing more signs of old age, the old Tiger Woods is missed. He was far more fascinating when winning majors and scoring with porn stars.
If you’re still preparing your vegetables the way your mother and grandmother did, you may be missing out on a whole new world of flavors and textures.
A typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines on Wednesday after causing at least 20 deaths, knocking out power in entire provinces and forcing nearly half a million people to flee from its lethal wind and rains, officials said.
A 52-ton concrete bridge survived a series of 10 earthquakes in the first multiple-shake-table experiment at the University of Nevada, Reno’s new Earthquake Engineering Lab.
A west Alabama woman died in a house fire early Monday after helping save her three children escape the blaze, authorities said.
A 45-year-old man is dead early Wednesday morning after an accident on Interstate 15 near Moapa, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
If you’d like a lesson in how government becomes corrupt, you don’t need to take a trip to Louisiana for an up-close view of state politics, or comb over history books for a primer on the Sons of St. Tammany that controlled New York City patronage in 1850s, you need only to examine what’s going on between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
A Las Vegas limo driver got stiffed twice in 30 minutes Tuesday by NBA star John Wall, a runaway choice for worst tipper of the year.
Henderson is housing detainees arrested on weekends by Las Vegas police for misdemeanor offenses under the Safe Strip Initiative. Metro has been sending 30 to 50 people each of the past four weekends to the Henderson Detention Center.
The damage to Atlantic City associated with Superstorm Sandy in 2012 amounted to a few broken windows compared to the economic tornado tearing through the Boardwalk this year.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everyday 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 View, C/O Anne King, 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.
Mikayla Kelly, a graduate of St. Viator School, was recently crowned Miss Jr. Teen Nevada United States 2014. She will go to Washington, D.C., to compete for the national title against other girls 13 to 15 years old in July. During her yearlong reign, she will make appearances throughout the state and raise awareness about her personal platform, food allergies with the support of FARE: Food Allergy Research & Education.
Californians increased water consumption this year during the state’s severe drought, despite pleas from the governor to conserve, fallowed farm fields and reservoirs that are quickly draining, according to a report released Tuesday.
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