Arts events around town include the Las Vegas Jazz Festival, American String Quartet, “My Children! My Africa!” at UNLV, a reading of “Rabbit Hole,” a new butterfly habitat at Springs Preserve and more.
The atmosphere and service at Henderson’s Bavarian Castle are charming, but we encountered a few miscues when it came to the food.
Here are a few pop culture tidbits that caught our eye this week.
Former Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington says he is embarrassed for breaking the trust of his wife of 42 years. While offering no details, Washington publicly apologized to his wife and the Rangers during a 3 1/2-minute statement Thursday.
An indoor farmers’ market is running Thursdays at Sam’s Town. Also in the news this week, a benefit for Three Square food bank will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Cannery and the wines of Markham Vineyards will be featured at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Spiedini at the JW Marriott.
On International Eat An Apple Day Saturday, you can keep the doctor away with one of these treats.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Chairman of House Select Committee on Benghazi
Las Vegas steakhouses deliver the high quality that customers expect, and there’s always that option to go with fresh seafood. So whether it’s a juicy ribeye or a succulent lobster tail, dig in at one of these places.
An aircraft that experienced “an in-flight emergency” landed safely Thursday at Creech Air Force Base at Indian Springs, 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas, base spokeswoman Capt. Stephani Schafer said in an email.
The teenage boy facing four counts of attempted murder after shooting several shotgun rounds into a home on Tuesday had been friends with another teen boy who lived in the house until a fallout “over a girl,” according to a Las Vegas police report.
Brigham Young University announced Thursday it will retire the jersey of former NFL and BYU player Jim McMahon. The former Cougar will also be inducted into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a super priority lien held by a homeowners association can extinguish a first deed of trust on a property, a decision that will create a windfall for some real estate investors in Las Vegas who picked up properties for pennies on the dollar.
Chivas USA might not play in 2015 and perhaps longer, a decision that won’t be made until a new owner takes over the Major League Soccer team.
A person is hospitalized after being shot by an attempted robber Wednesday night near West Sahara Avenue and South Valley View Boulevard, Las Vegas police said.
Interstate 15 near Moapa has been reopened in both directions and restrictions requiring trucks to detour more than 60 miles out of their way have been lifted.
A SUV full of teenagers crashed in Idaho after one of the passengers lit the driver’s armpit hair on fire with a lighter, authorities said Wednesday.
Police have found surveillance videos showing a missing University of Virginia student and a witness saw her talking to a man the morning she disappeared, authorities said on Thursday.
A Mexican state legislature has asked the country’s federal government to fine singer Miley Cyrus after one of her dancers spanked Cyrus’s backside with a Mexican flag as she “twerked” during an independence day performance.
Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer head-butted his wife and broke her nose after she refused his sexual advances, and punched her in the face the next day, police said Thursday.
NV Energy is investigating a power outage Thursday morning affecting more than 1,700 units in Henderson, the power company is reporting.
Militants connected with radical group Islamic State were planning to behead a member of the public in Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Thursday, after hundreds of police raided homes.
San Francisco drag queens and a city lawmaker met with Facebook on Wednesday demanding the site change its policy banning users from using aliases online, but said they were rebuffed.
A report by Nevada officials shows initial claims for unemployment insurance are in line with what they’ve been over a 20-year average.
The right lanes on north Interstate 15, past Spring Mountain Road were blocked Thursday morning after a rollover accident, according to the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada.
The Islamic State group on Thursday released a video showing a British journalist who says he is a prisoner of the extremists.
Five Utah men have been slapped with federal charges for taking part in an ATV protest ride in southwestern Utah earlier this year that the group said was to call attention to the federal government’s overreaching control of public lands.
Nevada is getting more than $11 million in federal transportation money to help build the Boulder City Bypass.
U.S. government researchers working with divers and sonar equipment have located the wrecks of what they dubbed “forgotten ghost ships” in waters just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate strait.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Thursday identified the man who died after a Wednesday morning crash near the 215 Beltway and Summerlin Parkway.
One man is dead and another is injured after a shooting early Thursday morning at an apartment complex near Decatur Boulevard and Vegas Drive, Las Vegas police said.