To help you plan your grocery-shopping and mail-delivery needs, along with where to go for a quick bite during the holidays, we’ve created a guide of holiday operating hours for popular restaurants, retailers, supermarkets and post offices during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year.
When I was a scrawny 8-year-old living in Cocoa, Fla., my Christmas gift desire was a pogo stick.
One man was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound Thursday morning after he was shot by a motel security guard, according to Las Vegas police.
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Singer-guitarist Scotty Morris doesn’t let his teen play PS4, but has him learning piano, drums, martial arts and classical dance. Now that is serious parenting.
Christmas is a time for giving. But as the youngest of six Smith kids, giving and receiving gifts was a fairly new concept.
It’s a ghost of sports Christmas past now. But in the days before the NBA extravaganza and “A Christmas Story” marathons, nothing said Christmas like the Blue-Gray Football Classic from Montgomery, Ala.
When it comes to holiday lights, some homeowners go all out, ensuring their yard has every inch covered to celebrate Christmas.
Some east valley and southwest-area homes were swept up by the spirit of the season and adorned their homes with holiday lights.
Salvatore Coco and Victor Leoncavallo light up their Henderson neighborhood with about 25,000 lights.
When racism and Jim Crow laws prevented black baseball players from playing on professional teams, they formed their own league to compete around the country. North Las Vegas resident Bernard Fernandez was one of the players who joined the Negro Leagues and forever changed the future of the sport.
Gov. Jerry Brown retracted the pardon issued to Glen William Carnes, which the governor’s spokesman Evan Westrup said was based on a court-issued certificate of rehabilitation.
Downton Abbey, with its snooty aristocrats and even snootier butlers, has never been somewhere for the likes of us. Until now.
Throngs of Las Vegas Valley residents flocked to a county park Wednesday to pick up free Christmas trees left there anonymously. By the end of the day, the secret Santa was known.
A man opened fire inside a New Orleans-area mall still busy with shoppers on Christmas eve, killing a man before he was taken into custody, police said on Wednesday.
Henderson calendar highlights this week include a performance by magician Rick Thomas at the South Point.
Every home, it seems, contains a Gimme Monster at some point or other during the holidays. When that happens, you need “The Lollipop Monster’s Christmas.”
A university in northwestern China has banned Christmas, calling it a “kitsch” foreign celebration unbefitting of the country’s own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, media said on Thursday.
A man who died after being found in a burning house in Anthem didn’t die because of the blaze, police said.
Yes, Vegas, there is a Santa Claus. And it’s your boss. More companies are awarding bonuses and throwing holiday parties in a sign that the recovering economy is gathering strength. Credit an improving economy for employers acting more like Santa Claus than Scrooge.
Astronaut Alexander Gerst gives a stunning and surreal view from the International Space Station.
A homicide investigation is underway after a body was found burning in front of a Los Angeles 7-Eleven.
A Missouri firm is recalling its Happy Apple brand caramel apples because of the potential that they could be contaminated with listeria. The recall comes after at least three deaths and at least 29 illnesses in 10 states have been linked to an outbreak of the deadly bacteria.
Volunteers at the North American Aerospace Defense Command pretended to monitor Santa Claus as he made his storybook Christmas Eve flight, saying they used the heat signature from Rudolph’s nose to “track” St. Nick over spots ranging from Australia to the Americas.
Nevada Board of Regents leaders indicated Wednesday that they won’t be looking into allegations that the Nevada System of Higher Education plagiarized a think tank’s report.
It was a frustrating day for many holiday fliers as almost 3,000 flights were postponed due to rain and poor visibility.
Ultimate Fighting Championship, the Las Vegas-based mixed martial arts promotion and media organization, is continuing to boost its global presence for 2015 after staging a record 22 live fight events outside the United States in 2014.
