A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
Even on an elementary school playground, it’s bad form to call a do-over. High school students who blow their final exams don’t get to retake them.
Alan Filoteo believes he has the responsibility to excel as a leader in the Hispanic community.
The Henderson Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of conductor Taras Krysa, will present Charlie Chaplin’s silent film “The Gold Rush” in a digitally restored print Saturday at the Henderson Pavilion, 200 S. Green Valley Parkway.
The sometimes nasty legal battle that Cantor Gaming launched two years ago against former executive Joseph Asher has now extended to arch rival William Hill PLC.
UNLV women’s golfer Dana Finkelstein earned all-West Region honors from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association.
Some quick thinking, a good response time and a lot of luck kept one boy’s heart beating and inspired a mother to push for change.
SAN FRANCISCO — A tribute is planned Thursday night as part of the annual convention of the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas for a celebrated performer who died Sunday in a California crash.
CARSON CITY – Sorry guys in the Assembly, even on Memorial Day you can’t name “Picon Punch” the official drink of Nevada.
■ WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Sean Henn (1-1); Bees, A.J. Schugel (1-4)
It’s not wise to live in the past. But it never hurts to remember it. UNLV won its lone NCAA men’s golf championship in 1998, and from time to time, coach Dwaine Knight will bring that up with this year’s team.
BALTIMORE — A fire that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship Monday did enough damage that the rest of the cruise was canceled and the company said the more than 2,200 passengers will be flown from the Bahamas back to Baltimore where the trip began.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Paul McCartney made his first visit to the one-time home of the King of Rock `N’ Roll and left a gift behind.
NEW YORK — Daft Punk has set another record on Spotify.
PARIS — Picture this: Angered by a line call, a tennis player pulls out his phone and uses it to snap a photo of the mark left in the clay by the ball.
CARSON CITY — Bar and tavern owners made a late-session appeal to Nevada lawmakers Monday to try to keep sports betting kiosks, at least for the time being.
The European Union has decided to lift the arms embargo on the Syrian opposition while maintaining all other sanctions against President Bashar Assad’s regime after June 1, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said late Monday.
A 71-year-old man was killed Monday morning after he crashed a car into a brick wall.
Increased use of medical marijuana may lead to more young children getting sick from accidentally eating food made with the drug, a Colorado study suggests.
Julie Hermann is not resigning as Rutgers’ incoming athletic director following a report that 16 years ago she humiliated and emotionally abused players while coaching Tennessee’s women’s volleyball team. And the university is standing behind her.
A month after parting ways with its long-time auditor, Las Vegas Sands Corp. has appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the casino operator’s independent outside accounting firm.
CARSON CITY – If you’re a political candidate, your home is where you say it is, even if that’s outside the district you want to represent.
RENO – Two race car drivers have been killed in a multi-vehicle crash at a track in northern Nevada.
RENO — Federal land managers say the drought is prompting plans to remove an unspecified number of wild horses from a large swath of the range in northeastern Nevada — two years after they removed some 1,400 mustangs from the same area.
Of the 85 kids who have won the National Spelling Bee, only one became an instant movie star.
Here is a look at the some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the withdrawal of U.S. troops on Dec. 18, 2011.
It’s early one Thursday morning at Jay W. Jeffers Elementary School in Las Vegas, and Lisa Cabrera-Terry’s voice is spilling from the first-grade classroom where she’s reading about an illiterate grandma who surprises her family by learning to read.
A man who died from injuries sustained in an accident on Friday has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
