Honor Flight Experience will simulate D.C. tour for veterans

The Experience will feature a luncheon, a video tour of the memorials and presentations to acknowledge the veterans’ service. The event is free for veterans, and they can sign up at honorflightsouthernnevada.org or by calling 702-749-5912.

Lola’s recreates look, feel, flavors of New Orleans

The restaurant’s owner and chef, Lola Pokorny, grew up in Louisiana. When she was 12, she said, she knew she wanted to own a restaurant to let people experience the flavors of the Big Easy.

Rat Pack-era music, food kept alive at My Mother’s House

“I wanted this to be like what Vegas was,” said Leonetti, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Laura Rispoli. “Unfortunately, although there are wonderful restaurants in Las Vegas, they’re just restaurants. I wanted to do something a little different, bring back the way Vegas was, where people can come in and dine and hear phenomenal music.”

UNLV line coach John Garrison leaves for Florida Atlantic

Offensive line coach John Garrison has left UNLV to take the same position on Florida Atlantic’s football staff. Garrison handled the line the past three seasons at UNLV.

 
Las Vegas Lights FC bring in Freddy Adu on trial basis

The United Soccer League team had the former U.S. soccer prodigy and U.S. national team member at training on Tuesday, and he recorded an assist in a team scrimmage.

Las Vegas may become video gaming powerhouse

Esports Arena Las Vegas is being positioned as the crown jewel of Allied esports, a global power player in the industry with venues in Germany and China in addition to North America.

US citizens among dead, wounded in Afghanistan attack

Multiple American citizens were among the dead and wounded in the Taliban’s 13-hour siege of an upscale hotel in the capital Kabul over the weekend that left 22 dead, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.

Light winds and warmer in Las Vegas Valley

The Las Vegas Valley will see light winds over the next few days, according to the National Weather Service.

 
2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky high school shooting

A 15-year-old student opened fire with a handgun inside his rural Kentucky high school Tuesday, killing two classmates, injuring 17 others and sending hundreds fleeing for safety.

Johnson & Johnson posts $10.7B fourth-quarter loss

Johnson Johnson posted a rare quarterly loss, a whopping $10.71 billion, due to a $13.6 billion charge related to the recent U.S. tax overhaul.

‘Shape of Water’ leads Oscar nominations with 13

Guillermo del Toro’s lavish monster romance “The Shape of Water” fished out a leading 13 nominations in nominations announced Tuesday for the 90th annual Academy Awards.

Hawaii governor now knows Twitter log-in after false missile alert

Hawaii Gov. David Ige says he and his team took so long to post a message to social media about the recent missile alert being a false alarm because he didn’t know his Twitter username and password.

Top-seed Rafael Nadal out of Australian Open with injury

An injured and visibly struggling Rafael Nadal has retired while trailing in the fifth set of his Australian Open quarterfinal match against Marin Cilic.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses congressional boundaries

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s widely criticized congressional map Monday, granting a major victory to Democrats who alleged the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans and setting off a scramble to draw a new map.

 
Tsunami watch along US West Coast canceled after 7.9 quake

The earthquake was recorded about 12:30 a.m. about 170 miles (270 kilometers) southeast of Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. It had a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 but has been downgraded to magnitude 7.9.

Volcano triggers avalanche in Japan killing 1, injuring 15

At least 16 people skiing on the slopes of a volcano in central Japan were injured by flying rocks during a surprise eruption and a subsequent avalanche Tuesday, and one person later died.

 
Volunteer arrested after Border Patrol dumps immigrants’ water

A volunteer for an organization that tries to prevent immigrants from dying in the Arizona desert was arrested several hours after the group released videos showing Border Patrol agents kicking over water bottles left for those crossing into the U.S. illegally.

 
Bill Cosby back on stage, jokes he ‘used to be a comedian’

Bill Cosby performed in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal embroiled him in 2015, joking that he “used to be a comedian” and playing with a jazz band in his hometown as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case.

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