TOKYO — Japanese lawmakers are set to indefinitely postpone legalizing casinos as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose cabinet has been hit by a series of scandals, lacks the political leverage to pass a bill this year, sources directly involved in the process said.
Mexican police on Tuesday captured a fugitive former mayor and his wife suspected of being the probable masterminds behind the abduction of 43 student teachers feared massacred in September, officials said.
These are the five key questions as UNLV’s football team prepares to play Air Force at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a driver accused of fleeing in his SUV after fatally striking three Southern California teenage girls as they were trick-or-treating on Halloween.
ROME — Shareholders in GTECH on Tuesday approved the Italian lottery group’s takeover of U.S. slot-machine maker International Game Technology, a tie-up aimed at creating a global gaming company to be listed on Wall Street.
Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail time on Tuesday in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors to resolve his child abuse case.
A woman who appealed for money online to help care for her autistic son and disabled husband has been accused of throwing her 6-year-old boy to his death off an historic bridge on the Oregon coast.
Macau’s casino market experienced a 23.2 percent decline in gaming revenue during October, the largest single-month drop since American-owned casinos began operating in the Chinese market in 2004.
Local chefs reinvent dishes as casseroles, keeping the original recipe flavors but giving it more layers and depth. “Casseroles are kind of an unseen type of recipe. They don’t get used quite enough,” said Richard Holland of Texas Station’s Feast Buffet.
The Walt Disney Co. is expanding its digital movies app that allows fans to watch movie purchases across devices to Android’s Google Play.
The Las Vegas Burlesque Festival was started last year by local burlesque performer Cha Cha Velour, who teaches classes at her Las Vegas Burlesque Studio.
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to ferry tourists beyond the Earth’s atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don’t know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
American Gaming Association CEO Geoff Freeman was one of six business executives named Tuesday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to its Association Committee of 100.
The jury trial of Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy on domestic violence charges has been postponed until early 2015, the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
An 18-year-old Virginia woman was arrested last week after a picture showing her toddler son hanging by his shirt from a hook appeared on Facebook.
The pedestrian who was killed crossing the street Sunday evening was identified by the Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday.
Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it was calling back 202,241 vehicles in five North American recalls covering several issues, including an incorrect repair in a previous recall.
As you gear up to find a home and prepare for the home-buying process, you might already have a list of questions to ask a real estate agent to make sure you’re getting the best deal. But you also shouldn’t forget to pose hard-hitting questions to others, too, from the previous homeowners to the neighbors, and even yourself.
Two Minnesota high school runners have been disqualified in the state girls cross country meet for helping an opponent who fell.
A Bullhead City police sergeant was arrested Monday following his indictment last week in an October sexual assault of a college student.
The Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation of Nevada has a new tool to help children dealing with cancer: the Engelstad Family Foundation Play Therapy Room.
Shy bladder sufferers want DirecTV to stop airing a television ad where a “painfully awkward” actor Rob Lowe says that he can’t urinate in public.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Tuesday released the cause of death of the man who police said killed his 16-month-old foster daughter.
The U.S. government says New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez paid his cousin almost $1 million to keep secret Rodriguez’s use of performance enhancing drugs.
A company that helps businesses handle personnel issues denies it forced one if its employees out of his job after it was discovered he had posed nude in Playgirl magazine.
The Air Force fired two commanders and disciplined a third in response to internal investigations of leadership lapses and misbehavior at two of its three intercontinental ballistic missile bases.
No matter how you vote today, Roseanne has a message for you: If you don’t like the political system, run for office and make it better.
Seemingly harmless, cellphone use at fitness facilities raises privacy issues and adds to the debate on whether they should be permitted inside such places.
Holiday takeout can be a time-saving, fuss-free and low-labor way to have a great meal without spending a lot of time in the kitchen.
