Cabela’s shareholders to vote on sale to Bass Pro

U.S. antitrust regulators have ended their investigation into Bass Pro Shops’ $4 billion deal to buy Cabela’s, Cabela’s said Wednesday.

Students in Idaho build functional ‘Star Wars’ R2-D2 robot

What started as a senior project for a student enrolled in Idaho State University’s College of Technology Robotics program has evolved into something that many Star Wars fans have dreamed of for decades — designing and building a fully-functional R2-D2 robot.

 
United apologizes for giving away toddler’s paid-for seat

United Airlines has apologized to a Hawaii teacher who was forced to hold her 2-year-old son on her lap for three-and-a-half hours after an employee gave the toddler’s purchased seat to a standby passenger.

Las Vegas police ID suspect in fatal truck crash

Las Vegas police identified a woman they suspect plowed a stolen pickup into a patrol car and two other cars Wednesday, killing one woman.

Boy, 12, shot in back in east Las Vegas

The boy was a passenger inside a Honda Civic in a neighborhood near Charleston Boulevard and Sloan Lane about 11:50 p.m. when “a whole bunch of shots” were fired near Whispering Pines Avenue and Angel Falls Street, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Peter Kisfalvi said.

 
Hobby Lobby fined $3M for smuggling artifacts from Iraq

The arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for illegally smuggling thousands of ancient clay artifacts into the United States from Iraq, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.