Marijuana industry urges strict testing for recreational market

Hoping to avoid the pitfalls seen in other states that have legalized marijuana, several in Nevada’s marijuana industry want the state’s stringent testing of medical marijuana products to be carried over to the recreational market.

Patriots help punch Las Vegas books for another loss

Three popular favorites (New England, Oakland and Pittsburgh) and one trendy underdog (Tampa Bay) paid off the betting public in NFL Week 15.

 
Trump aides push back on reports of Russian election meddling

Donald Trump’s top aides on Sunday said the president-elect isn’t ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate Trump. Even if it’s true, they said, Trump still won the White House fair and square.

Star of Las Vegas boom years launching new title company

If everything had gone to plan, Las Vegas would have dozens more condo and hotel towers than it does now. That was the vision of the bubble years last decade, and one of the biggest evangelists of the “Manhattanization” of Las Vegas was Richard Lee.

Raiders returning to playoffs, ending 14-year drought

The Oakland Raiders are going back to the playoffs, snapping a 14-year drought that dates to their embarrassing Super Bowl loss to Tampa Bay in January 2003.

Elliott and Cowboys bounce back, beat Bucs 26-20

Ezekiel Elliott ran faster after he crossed the goal line than he did looking for a hole to get in the end zone from the 2-yard line.

Stevie Nicks, Pretenders shimmer at new Park Theater

Stevie Nicks, with special guests the Pretenders, launched the Park Theater on Saturday night. The theater is a new 5,300-seat venue at the Monte Carlo.

Advocates work to place Las Vegas on the fashion map

Corinne Entratter Sidney, 79, has always loved fashion. She’s been a model and actress, and spent three months as a Copa Girl in Las Vegas in the ’60s, before, as she puts it, “ marrying the boss,” Sands casino manager Jack Entratter.

 
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a former Las Vegas headliner, dies at age 99

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages, conspicuous wealth and jaded wisdom about the glamorous life, died Sunday at her home, her husband said. She was 99.

GOP electors cite rural voice in Electoral College as vote looms Monday

As members of the Electoral College prepare to choose Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, some Republican electors say they are defending rural and small-town America against big-state liberalism and its support for national popular vote leader Hillary Clinton.

 
Bitter cold front moves across Plains to Midwest, heads east

Dangerous, record-low temperatures caused cancellations of some holiday festivities in the Plains and Midwest over the weekend before the cold front pushed into the Ohio Valley and the Eastern Seaboard on Sunday.

Can Clark County and city officials play nice over annexation rules?

This week, commissioners and council members will consider approving an interlocal agreement that would revive expired municipal annexation rules in northwest Las Vegas, where about 4,000 acres of county land exist in unincorporated “islands” located within the city’s outer boundaries.

Churches stage living Nativity scenes during Glittering Lights

John Bentham experienced his first living Nativity at the First United Methodist Church in Richardson, Texas, where he grew up. Now 46 and the owner of Ivory Star Productions, he has brought a living Nativity element to the annual Glittering Lights show, which his company produces.

2016 All-State Girls Tennis Team

Here is the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s 2016 all-state girls tennis team.

 
3-year-old Arkansas boy shot and killed in road rage incident

A 3-year-old boy being taken on a shopping trip by his grandmother was killed in a road rage shooting when a driver opened fire on the grandmother’s car because he thought she “wasn’t moving fast enough at a stop sign,” police said.