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FBI releases images of two suspects in Boston Marathon bombing

BOSTON — The FBI released photos and video Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack.

Flavor Flav felony case headed for trial in Vegas

Entertainer Flavor Flav is facing a trial on felony charges that he threatened his longtime girlfriend’s 17-year-old son with a butcher knife during a family argument.

NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

WASHINGTON — NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

Divers searching for missing airman find body at Lake Mead

A man’s body has been found in Lake Mead by divers who were turned away by the National Park Service last year when they volunteered to look for a serviceman from Creech Air Force Base.

Search-and-rescue efforts continue after deadly Texas blast

WEST, Texas — Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris or bodies of the dead. The accident killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others.

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New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental incest

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — You meet someone, there’s chemistry, and then come the introductory questions: What’s your name? Come here often? Are you my cousin?

New Zealand becomes first in Asia-Pacific region to legalize gay marriage

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage.

California man describes night wife cut off penis

SANTA ANA, California — The estranged husband of a woman charged with severing his penis said it was as though his life ended the evening of the attack.

‘90210’ star ready to strip on Strip

On Tuesday, a buddy from Boston told me he wants to fly to Vegas this summer — with his fellow married pals — so they can see Ian Ziering take his clothes off in “Chippendales.”

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A Wednesday story about Findlay Prep indicated every one of its 40 graduates has been academically eligible to play when he entered college. One player, Amir Garrett, didn’t become eligible until December of his freshman year at St. John’s University.

In parental, religious rights bills, politics seen

CARSON CITY — Politics are in play as two bills — one seeking protection for religious freedom and the other supporting parental rights — await votes in the state Senate.

Sometimes minority controls the power

The infighting among Clark County commissioners erupted again Tuesday over the county hospital, which is predicted to have an $87 million loss in 2014, a $20 million drop from 2012 and yet another sign the hospital is hemorrhaging.

Immigration bill draws praise from laborers looking for jobs

As immigration reform supporters in Las Vegas praised Congress’ latest legislation Wednesday, immigrants in the country illegally congregated at their usual Bonanza Road spot looking for work.

Assembly approves bill requiring emergency medical staffing at large events

CARSON CITY — On a mainly party-line vote Wednesday, the Assembly approved Democrat Assemblywoman Lucy Flores’ bill to require the stationing of emergency medical workers, ambulances and first aid stations at events that attract more than 2,500 people.