Las Vegas company offers chance to join mile-high club

It started as a college dream and a discussion between buddies. Andy Johnson, a West Virginia native, wanted to create a business that would give people the chance to live their fantasy and join the infamous mile high club.

Is Las Vegas’ Riviera Hotel about to be history?

Tourism industry sources say the venerable Riviera may soon give way to convention center expansion plan.

United Airlines to cut jobs at Reno, other airports

United Airlines will outsource about 1,150 positions at Reno and 15 other airports across the country, but reached tentative agreements with its union to keep another 800 jobs in-house that also had been under scrutiny, a company spokesman said Friday.

Obama calls 3 Muslim students’ deaths ‘brutal, outrageous’

President Barack Obama described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina as “brutal and outrageous murders” on Friday and said no one in the United States should be targeted for their religion.

 
MLB considering shrinking strike zone

Major League Baseball is considering shrinking the strike zone to help increase more offense, according to a Yahoo Sports report.

Nevada average pay increases but can’t match inflation

The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported Friday that the average weekly statewide wage in the third quarter was up from 2013.

 
Florida high school stops ‘God bless America’ in student announcements

A Florida high school told a student this week to stop adding the phrase “God bless America” when reading scripted morning announcements, drawing protests and irate phone calls from around the nation, school officials said on Friday.

Study: ‘Megadrought’ in store for US Southwest, Plains

The U.S. Southwest and Central Plains regions are likely to be scorched by a decades-long “megadrought” in the second half of this century if climate change continues unabated, scientists from NASA and Cornell and Columbia universities have warned.

 
Oregon governor expected to resign amid ethics scandal

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is expected to resign shortly amid conflict-of-interest allegations involving his fiancée that have triggered a criminal corruption probe, the Oregonian newspaper reported on Friday.

Apple may be getting ready to build an iCar

Apple Inc is hiring automotive technology and design experts to staff up a top-secret research lab, with the possible intention of building a car, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing several people familiar with the iPhone maker.

Woman goes into labor without knowing she’s pregnant

For most women, when they find out they’re pregnant, they spend the next several months knee deep in the details. From picking a name to creating a nursery. But not one mom in Michigan.

Semi crash on I-15 near Speedway blocking lanes

A crash on Interstate 15 eastbound near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Friday has partially blocked the intersection.

Campus gun carry bill introduced in Nevada Legislature

A bill that would allow those with concealed weapons permits to take their weapons onto Nevada’s college campuses was introduced in the Assembly on Friday, and sponsor Michele Fiore said she expects to see the measure pass this session.

4-year-old boy has leg amputated after K-9 attack

The incident occurred Sunday at a home where Rialto Police Department Officer Michael Mastaler lives with his family and his K-9 partner, a lieutenant with the department confirmed.

Woman with cancer ready to fight Calif. for right to die

A San Francisco woman battling cancer is prepared to battle the state of California in court for what she says is her right to die on her own terms.

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