Couple arrested in kidnapping of Amish girls

A northern New York couple was arrested Friday in the kidnapping of two Amish sisters from their family’s roadside farm stand, a prosecutor says.

EDITORIAL: Corruption costs

Yes, Nevada sits at the bottom of plenty of good lists and the top of lots of bad rankings. But one recently published study put Nevada way down a particularly nasty set of state ratings: corruption.

War Machine arrested in California

Jonathan Koppenhaver, also known as War Machine, was arrested Friday in Simi Valley, Calif., the U.S. Marshals said.

$2 million awarded to couple in condo fraud case

A couple was awarded $2.4 million on Friday in a federal breach-of-contract and fraud case involving a condominium they purchased in 2006 at the Meridian, an upscale complex near the Strip.

Henderson man convicted in toddler slaying

A Henderson man was convicted Friday in the slaying of his live-in girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.

Struggling Bilbray campaign replaces manager

Congressional candidate Erin Bilbray on Friday parted ways with her second campaign manager as the Democrat moved to bolster her struggling bid to defeat U.S. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., in the Nov. 4 general election.

Men charged with digging up pair of relatives

Three men are charged with digging up the cremated remains of two relatives and moving them to another cemetery in Maine.

Seclusion, history draw tourists to once forbidden Albanian bay

Albania’s Bay of Porto Palermo, its castle and its deep blue waters are one of the country’s top tourist attractions, featured on European newspaper and Internet lists of places to visit for those with a taste of adventure.

51s shut out Iowa behind Bowman, Socolovich

Matthew Bowman and Miguel Socolovich combined on a four-hitter as the 51s blanked the Iowa Cubs 2-0 on Friday night to take three of four game in Des Moines.

Discarded cigarette sparks apartment fire

A cigarette butt flicked onto an apartment balcony caused a fire in an apartment complex near UNLV on Friday afternoon. The Clark County Fire Department responded to a fire at the Tropicana Royale apartments, at 1900 E. Tropicana Avenue, near Spencer Street, just after noon.

 
Details emerge in officer-involved shootings

Las Vegas police released more information on Friday about two police shootings that occurred earlier this month. In both shootings the men who were shot lived.

Team USA cancels Africa trip after Ebola outbreak

The U.S. national team has canceled a trip to Senegal after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Americans were scheduled to interrupt their World Cup of Basketball preparations to travel to the African continent for the first time, conducting a joint clinic on Aug. 27 with the Senegal national team.

Trash can fire at Cosmopolitan damages rooms

Crews from the Clark County Fire Department responded to The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Friday afternoon after multiple rooms were reportedly burning on the 18th floor.

 
Boy who stowed away to Vegas goes home

A Minnesota boy who created a national stir in the fall after he sneaked past security and boarded a flight to Las Vegas by himself is no longer under court authority.

Decker named UNLV’s starting quarterback

Blake Decker was named UNLV’s starting quarterback on Friday, beating out fellow junior Nick Sherry. Decker is a junior college transfer.

 
SNL alum Chris Kattan handed probation for DUI crash

Chris Kattan has been sentenced to three years’ probation for driving under the influence and crashing his Mercedes into a Department of Transportation vehicle on a Southern California freeway earlier this year.

Rick Perry indicted for abuse of power

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption.

Revel in Atlantic City to close week earlier than slated

ATLANTIC CITY — The $2.4 billion Revel that opened just over two years ago as a hoped-for savior for Atlantic City’s flagging casino industry will close a week earlier than originally planned, the company announced in an email Friday.

Ex-Strip employee jailed in death threat case

A fired Strip housekeeper was back behind bars this week in a bizarre death threat case where he’s accused of sending dead cockroaches and pigeon body parts to former employers.

No one wanted this booby-trapped house for some reason

An auction ended Friday with no bids for the New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months.

Nevada jobs count up 44,600 in last year, report says

Nevada’s jobs market mostly held steady in July. The state’s jobless rate stayed at 7.7 percent in the month, though unemployment in Las Vegas ticked up to 8.2 percent, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported.

Cisco Systems planning Las Vegas meeting for 20,000 employees

One of the world’s largest information technology companies plans to pack 20,000 of its employees into two Las Vegas resorts this month for an internal meeting to discuss the industry’s future.

 
What parents should know about ‘The Giver’

This weekend’s big release, “The Giver” is the big-screen adaptation of the young adult novel from 1993. The book was written for a younger audience, but is the movie OK for the same group?

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