The Epiphany celebrations in the Portuguese village of Vale de Salgueiro feature a tradition that each year causes an outcry among outsiders: Parents encouraging their children, some as young as 5, to smoke cigarettes.
The man accused of shooting his estranged wife at her west valley workplace before turning the gun on himself Saturday night has survived and now faces a murder charge.
Here’s a survey of opinions from Review-Journal staff members, other media, oddsmakers and professional handicappers on Monday’s college football national title game between Alabama (-4) and Georgia.
The fight over the body and possessions of apocalyptic cult leader Charles Manson has fragmented into at least three camps competing over an estate that could cash in on songs he wrote that were used by The Beach Boys and Guns N’ Roses.
Authorities say six people have been killed in a crash caused by a wrong-way driver on a Northern California highway.
Blake Bortles put together one decent drive all day, doing as much with his legs as his arm, and the defensive-minded Jacksonville Jaguars eked out an ugly and sometimes unwatchable 10-3 victory against the Buffalo Bills in an AFC wild-card game Sunday.
A leather rocking chair from the Jungle Room at Elvis Presley’s Graceland has sold at auction for $17,500. Graceland says it was among 271 items from third-party collectors offered at a Saturday auction in Memphis during a celebration of Presley’s birthday.
A large explosion in Syria’s largest rebel-held city, Idlib, killed at least 23 people on Sunday, activists reported.
Move over, “Star Wars,” there are some new box office champs this weekend. “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” has topped the charts after three weekends in theaters, and newcomer “Insidious: The Last Key” opened in second, pushing “The Last Jedi” into third place.
Ray Thomas, a founding member of British rock group The Moody Blues, has died at 76, months before the band is due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hours before college football’s national championship in Atlanta, precipitation expected to move into Georgia could freeze on roadways Monday morning, forecasters said.
Sen. Rand Paul says he’s recovering well from the November assault that left him with six broken ribs, and says violence against political figures is a concern among his colleagues.
WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon is trying to make amends.
A storm system moving through the Las Vegas Valley this week could end the city’s more than 100-day dry spell.
An Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s east coast, leaving the tanker’s entire crew of 32 missing and causing it to spill oil into the sea, authorities said Sunday.
It’s been a billion-dollar lottery weekend after a lone Powerball ticket sold in New Hampshire matched all six numbers and will claim a $570 million jackpot, one day after another single ticket sold in Florida nabbed a $450 million Mega Millions grand prize.
Arizona State beat Michigan Tech 3-2 at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night to win the Ice Vegas Invitational.
Vegas Nation host Bryan Salmond and columnist Ed Graney discuss the Raiders hiring of Jon Gruden as their new coach.
Dreuna Edwards (23 points, 13 rebounds) and Rae Burrell (26 points, 10 rebounds) each recorded a double-double, and the Patriots got scoring contributions from 11 players in their 92-77 victory over Bonita Vista (California) on Saturday.
The Falcons defeated the Rams 26-13 during Saturday’s wild-card matchup in front of an announced crowd of 74,300.
After falling to Utah State 85-78 on Saturday, UNLV is 1-2 in Mountain West play and has dropped both conference games at the Thomas Mack Center.
Three takeaways from the UNLV basketball team’s 85-78 loss to Utah State on Saturday at the Thomas Mack Center.
Katie Powell had 25 points and 11 rebounds to rally UNLV to a 63-54 win over Utah State in a Mountain West women’s basketball game Saturday in Logan, Utah.
Federal land managers launched a major revision of their overall management plan for Southern Nevada in 2008. A decade later, they’re still working on it.
Nevada’s Gaming Policy Committee sought guidance in November about whether the federal government would enforce federal laws that criminalized pot use, cultivation and distribution. Nevadans got their answer Thursday, but it wasn’t the one many wanted.
Ultimately, tech is about us — our dreams, our ambitions and our visions of what the world can and should be.
We can vastly improve the safety and security of our communities.
Currently, 175 people die every day in America from a prescription opioid or heroin overdose. In November, the president’s economiccouncil reported that this epidemic is costing our country more than $500 billion every year.
The Trump economy is exploding — proving, once and for all, that Obama and his liberal supporters were wrong about everything.