As 2016 draws to a close, revelers around the world are bidding a weary adieu to a year filled with political surprises, prolonged conflicts, deadly attacks at gatherings and deaths of legendary celebrities.
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An assailant believed to have been dressed in a Santa Claus costume opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul during New Year’s celebrations Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 40 others in what the province’s governor described as a terror attack.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal takes a look at the top moments from 2016.
The family of a woman who police say was fatally shot by her husband say she had recently told her spouse she planned to get a divorce.
Firefighters using ropes and harnesses safely lowered 21 people from an amusement park ride stuck 100 feet in the air for more than six hours at Southern California’s Knott’s Berry Farm, officials said.
A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir said she has resigned from the famed group over its decision to perform at next month’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.
In addition to the hundreds of officers working to protect the entire Las Vegas Valley on Saturday night, a half-dozen cops on horseback will patrol the Strip.
“This is the biggest show in the country, so I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else but here,” said Henry Herman, a company pyrotechnician for almost 30 years. “New York is nice, but the fireworks are not even close to being what they are here.”
California’s wet December is drawing to a close with even more rain and snow in a welcome respite amid years of drought.
A Texas woman was killed on Thursday and her two young daughters hurt when they fell from a chair lift at a Colorado ski resort, authorities said.