BOYS TRACK: Las Vegas takes team title at Valley Relays

Aaron Johnson and Marlon Harrison each won an individual event and finished second in another to lead Las Vegas’ boys track and field team to the title at the Valley Relays on Saturday at Valley High.

Hoffman stumbles, drops two shots off Masters lead

Following a stumble at the Masters, Charley Hoffman is now looking up at a formidable foursome heading into the final round. He is 2 strokes off the lead, behind Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth.

Rickles had no answer for Frank Marino’s showgirl triumph

Don Rickles helped host a “showgirl” contest on Vicki Lawrence show “Vicki!” in the early 1990s. Frank Marino, a famous showman and showgirl, took the top prize.

Memorial for Arizona firefighters in works

Artists from around the country are being asked to submit proposals for a memorial to honor the 19 Arizona men who died fighting a wildfire nearly four years ago near Prescott. The Granite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in the June 2013 fire.

Navy strike group headed toward Korean peninsula

A U.S. Navy strike group will be moving toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday, as concerns grow about North Korea’s advancing weapons program.

Gay and lesbian community celebrates four years at Las Vegas center

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, known simply as “The Center,” has been in Las Vegas for 24 years, beginning in a house, then moving to a dentist’s office and the previous location in the Commercial Center, youth services manager AJ Holly Huth said.

Warplanes strike town hit by chemical attack in Syria

Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be “cosmetic” if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.

Hackers trigger Dallas emergency sirens

DALLAS — Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half until officials deactivated the system early Saturday morning.

 
Former gym employee shoots 2 in Florida, kills self

A former gym employee opened fire inside the facility on Saturday, critically wounding a manager and another person before he killed himself, officials said.

Golden Knights’ new home quickly becoming reality

Construction is on schedule for the 146,000 square-foot building adjacent to Downtown Summerlin that will be the NHL expansion team’s headquarters and training facility when it opens in mid-August.

Russia’s NHL players want to compete in Winter Olympics

Led by superstar Alex Ovechkin, Russia’s top hockey players might elect to play for their country and go to the Winter Olympics in February, defying the NHL’s decision not to participate.

Trees fall before ERAs can rise at Cashman Field

51s president Don Logan said he didn’t hear two tall evergreen trees get uprooted from the berm in right field and topple down an earthen bank near the outdoor batting cage during a recent wind storm.

 
Logic didn’t figure into fired CCSD cop getting his job back

It wasn’t surprising when CCSD police Sgt. Anthony Russo lost his job in September 2015 after he was involved in a DUI collision that saw him punch out a survivor in the other car. That an arbitrator ruled he should get his job back was not only surprising, it was devoid of common sense.

 
More local seniors looking for work as teen workforce declines

The rate of seniors working or looking for work has steadily risen over the years. By contrast, the rate of teens working or looking for work — a measurement economists call participating in the labor force — has declined.

Building collapse in Poland leaves 5 dead, 1 missing

A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving five people dead, four injured and one missing, authorities said.

Today’s recliner is stylish and multifunctional

The “modern” upholstered reclining chair was introduced as home furniture in 1928. However, the earliest known recliner was actually developed in the mid-1800s for Napoleon III, the nephew of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. He wanted a portable chair that could convert into a more comfortable lounger and then lay all the way down into a cot for sleeping.

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