Creator beats Destin in Belmont Stakes

Creator closed with a rush and caught Destin at the wire to win the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on Saturday, with Preakness winner Exaggerator finishing well back in the field.

12 Las Vegas Valley locals selected in MLB Draft

Arbor View’s Nick Quintana was the highest-rated prospect from Southern Nevada entering the 2016 Major League Baseball draft and was a consensus top-five round talent.

Muhammad Ali’s Kentucky cemetery opens to public

He carried a dozen roses into Cave Hill Cemetery and headed for a patch of grass in the back corner that seemed too ordinary for the man buried beneath it.

UMC does financial about-face

In 2002 University Medical Center lost more than $20 million — a year later it was losing money at a rate of more than $2 million per month.

In Montana, effort to help refugees clashes with concerns over terrorism

For the world, the photograph of a Syrian 3-year-old in a red T-shirt and black sneakers, his lifeless bodywashed up on a Turkish beach, was a horrific symbol of the desperation of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Nevada bill kept legislators from being investigated

Nevada Legislature staffers last year quietly supported a bill that helped them win a legal battle to keep the state’s Ethics Commission from investigating legislators.

The Milky Way is hidden from one third of humanity

Nearly 4 out of every 5 people on Earth – including 99 percent of those living in the United States and Europe – now live under light-polluted skies, according to scientists who have created a state-of-the-art atlas of the problem across the globe.

Was ‘VIP Syndrome’ involved in Prince’s death?

One doctor delivered test results to Prince’s home. Another sent his son, who wasn’t a physician, on a cross-country flight to bring medication to the music star.

Culinary herbs are easy to cultivate in Southern Nevada

Everyone uses parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. In fact, these herbs are so popular that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sang about them in their 1968 hit, “Scarborough Fair.”

Boom or doom: 10 years of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

I often get frustrated writing this Green Living column as I try to walk the fine line between optimistically suggesting changes to lower our carbon footprints and proclaiming that “We are doomed.”

Accessories make room come to life

What exactly are accessories and do you really need them to complete the look of your home?

Plant winter squash in June, July to harvest in fall

Q: I planted acorn and butternut squash last winter from seed and they didn’t grow. Now they are growing. The acorn squash is doing really well. I thought winter squash would ripen in the winter. Will these be edible?

Las Vegas to Munich flights to begin in 2017

Condor Airlines, the long-haul discount subsidiary of Lufthansa that has five weekly flights between Las Vegas and Frankfurt, Germany, will begin nonstop flights between McCarran International Airport and Munich, Germany, beginning next year.

Chapman has cars that appeal to millennials

Chapman Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram reports in a study released late May from online loan exchange Lending Tree that the Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger are among two of the top-10 vehicles for millennial car shoppers.

How are autonomous cars going to be insured?

By now much has been written on autonomous cars. They are vehicles equipped with special sensors and terabytes of data that help propel them down the road sans human driver.

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