Scientific Games invests $21.3M in NYX to bolster acquisition bid

Las Vegas gaming equipment manufacturer Scientific Games Corp. has invested $21.3 million in shares in Toronto-based NYX Gaming Group Ltd. to strengthen its position in a critical shareholder vote on Scientific’s planned acquisition of NYX next month.

Barclaycard offices in Henderson get new landlord

Barclaycard has a new landlord in Southern Nevada. American Nevada Co. sold the credit-card company’s two office buildings in Henderson last month to New York investors.

No. 15 Xavier brings swagger to season of high expectations

The No. 15 Musketeers had a Cinderella run in the NCAA tournament last year, and will look to continue their strong start to this season at Orleans Arena on Thursday and Friday.

Teach kids how to fish at one of Las Vegas’ urban ponds

If you are looking for a way to get your kids or grandkids outdoors this Thanksgiving weekend, you may want to consider introducing them to the sport of fishing.

Hamptons in Tivoli Village combines onion rings, buffalo sauce

Buffalo wings are so old school, and Buffalo cauliflower is yesterday’s news. Hamptons in Tivoli Village has upped the ante with its Buffalo onion rings. Beer-battered and fried onions are tossed with buttered hot sauce and blue cheese crumbles and served with chive and buttermilk ranch and house-made smoked tomato ketchup. They’re $8 for five rings.

NYC tightens security for Thanksgiving Day parade

Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that comes in a year of terrible mass shootings and not even a month after a deadly truck attack in lower Manhattan.

Route 91 bartenders trying to heal after Las Vegas shooting

A handful of events organized since Oct. 1 have brought together some of the 240 people who worked the bars on a weekend that promised alcohol and country music and instead left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.

USA Gymnastics doctor pleads guilty to sexual assault charges

A sports doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison.

VA study: Parasite from Vietnam may be killing veterans

A half century after serving in Vietnam, hundreds of veterans have a new reason to believe they may be dying from a silent bullet — test results show some men may have been infected by a slow-killing parasite while fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Poll shows 1 of 3 don’t want to mix politics, Thanksgiving

Democrats are slightly more likely than Republicans to say they’re uneasy about political discussions at the table, 39 percent to 33 percent. And women are more likely than men to say they dread the thought of talking politics, 41 percent to 31 percent.

Trump keeps up war of words with ‘ungrateful fool’ LaVar Ball

President Donald Trump started off his first day of Thanksgiving vacation by resuming his taunts of the father of a UCLA basketball player detained for shoplifting in China.

Serb army chief Mladic guilty of genocide during Bosnia war

The United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic on Wednesday of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to life in prison for atrocities during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war.

North Korea violates armistice as soldier escapes to South

North Korea clearly violated the 1953 armistice agreement that ended the Korean War when its border guards shot after, and one ran after, a North Korean soldier as he made a daring dash for freedom last week, the commander of U.S. Forces in Korea said Wednesday.

Pixar chief, man behind ‘Toy Story’ apologizes for ‘missteps’

Just days before Pixar’s “Coco” is set to hit theaters, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter announced he is taking a six-month leave of absence citing “missteps” with employees.

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