N. Korea warns US of retaliation if new sanctions imposed

North Korea says it will make the United States pay a heavy price if a proposal Washington is backing to impose the toughest sanctions ever on Pyongyang is approved by the U.N. Security Council this week.

Justice Kennedy puts hold on lower court ruling on Trump travel ban

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Donald Trump’s order barring most refugees from entering the United States.

Las Vegas gymnast, 12, has eyes on U.S. junior national team

Sienna also spends nearly 40 hours a week at Brown’s Gymnastics on Cameron Street, where she prepared to compete in the USA Gymnastics National Championships held Aug. 17-20 in Anaheim, California. Sienna, then 11, was one of 30 junior elite participants and the second-youngest in the competition.

Bishop Gorman drops to No. 12 in Super 25 ranking

The Gaels fell to No. 12 in the expert rankings after a 24-20 loss to then No. 16 Miami Central, and are the only two-loss team in the top 25.

Cooler weather coming to Las Vegas Valley

Cooler conditions and a slight chance of rain are expected in the Las Vegas Valley as the week progresses.

 
Victims, lessons of 9/11 attacks remembered in Las Vegas

Ceremonies around the Las Vegas Valley Monday commemorated the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York and Washington.

 
Americans commemorate 16th anniversary of 9/11

Holding photos and reading names of loved ones lost 16 years ago, 9/11 victims’ relatives marked the anniversary of the attacks at ground zero on Monday with a solemn and personal ceremony.

Here’s an ‘amazing’ and ‘awesome’ suggestion

When I submitted my recent column “Why is everything either amazing or awesome?” in which I ranted that two adjectives, amazing and awesome, now represent the extent of many people’s ability or effort to communicate and that there are career consequences attached to poor communication skills and practices, I was pretty sure I’d made a strong point.

Air National Guard couple flying high after hurricane wedding

Lauren Durham had a poofy white dress and plans for an intimate beach wedding on the second weekend of September. Instead she got married in fatigues, with no makeup, in a vast hangar filled with rescue vehicles and paramedics just hours before she would rush into a hurricane to try to save her fellow Floridians.

 
Ships head to hurricane-battered Florida Keys

Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to Florida to help with search-and-rescue operations Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered Keys yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation.

 
Rafael Nadal breezes to his 3rd U.S. Open title

Rafael Nadal entered the 2017 Grand Slam season on a 2½-year drought without so much as one appearance in a major final, let alone a title. He ends it having reasserted himself, capped by a U.S. Open final that shaped up as quite a mismatch — and turned out to be exactly that.