Oak & Ivy and Velveteen Rabbit serve Negronis in lightbulbs

Here’s a bright idea: Among the numerous celebrations of Negroni Week around the valley through Sunday — with restaurants and bars making charitable donations for every Negroni sold — Oak & Ivy and Velveteen Rabbit are serving the Red Light Negroni in a light bulb-shaped vessel.

UNLV’s John Oda caps year with All-America honor, US Open spot

The golf season was special for UNLV and junior John Oda. The men’s team reached the elite eight of the NCAA championships and won the West Lafayette Regional and Mountain West tournament. The Rebels finished the year ranked 12th in the country.

Here’s how the wealthiest guests in Las Vegas dine

Chicken-fried Kobe beef and ice cream topped with caviar, washed down with rare whiskey? If you’re among the highest of rollers, affectionately known as whales, you can eat what you want — whenever you want it — at Las Vegas resorts.

3.7-magnitude earthquake rattles Northern Nevada

U.S. Geological Survey reports the Tuesday afternoon temblor was centered about 12 miles south of the Gardnerville Ranchos area.

A look at Day 8 of the World Series of Poker

Daniel Negreanu and Abe Mosseri battled into the wee hours Wednesday morning before play was halted in the $10,000 Omaha Hi-Low/8 or Better Championship. Negreanu is seeking his seventh career World Series of Poker bracelet.

Florida woman gets 5 months for threatening Sandy Hook parent

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to threatening a man whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut school, which she believed was a hoax.

Museum of Failure celebrates products that flopped

Green Heinz ketchup? Fat-free Pringles? Colgate frozen lasagna? You don’t need to be an expert to know these products weren’t successful.

Rescuers free climber from ‘chimney of ice’ on Alaska glacier

A man descending Denali on Monday had slipped into a crevasse on Kahlitna Glacier. Fellow climbers lowered a rope, but the force of his fall pushed him through constricted spaces just inches wide. The rescue was, “Not for the claustrophobic.”

Deadly IS attacks in Iran target ayatollah’s shrine, lawmakers

Several attackers stormed into Iran’s parliament and a suicide bomber targeted the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Wednesday, killing a security guard and wounding 12 other people in rare twin attacks.

Bicyclist dies after dump truck collision in east Las Vegas

A bicyclist was crossing South Nellis Boulevard at the East Walnut Avenue intersection when he failed to yield to oncoming traffic and pulled into the path of the dump truck about 2 p.m., according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.

Ninth-inning rally dooms 51s in loss to Bees

Reliever Chasen Bradford gave up three hits in the ninth-inning and Salt Lake scored twice to beat the 51s, 2-1.

Long-drive winner finds swing at Canyon event

Ryan Reisbeck, a father of five from Layton, Utah, hit a drive of 436 yards to defeat two-time world long-drive champion Tim Burke and win the Clash in the Canyon event televised live on Golf Channel from the Mesquite Regional Sports and Event Complex in Mesquite.

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