Bushwacker shows who’s boss at PBR World Finals

Bushwacker has become the talk of this week’s Professional Bull Riders World Finals at the Thomas & Mack Center. On the one hand, every rider wants a chance to ride him. On the other, there’s not a cowboy who doesn’t dread such a draw.

Supporters gather at vigil for girls struck in crosswalk crash

The lyrics of Justin Bieber’s pop hit “Baby” blared through the sound system on Friday night at Eldorado Park . Some of the more than 200 in attendance danced, others giggled. The song may have seemed out of place for another candlelight vigil, but here, mixed with tears, it somehow fit.

Cardinals capture World Series title in seven games

The Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers, 6-2, tonight in St. Louis to win the seventh and deciding game of the World Series. It’s the Cardinals first World Series crown since 2006.

Union reaches deal with four Atlantic City casinos

ATLANTIC CITY — The likelihood of a strike in the nation’s second-largest gambling market receded on Friday as the city’s main casino workers’ union reached a tentative agreement with Atlantic City’s largest casino company, Caesars Entertainment Inc.

Man charged in fraud scheme to undergo mental health exam

A mental health examination was ordered Friday for Alfred Sapse, an 85-year-old Las Vegas man charged in a fraud scheme involving the use of experimental stem cell implant procedures.

Operation Trick-or-Treat nets 21 arrests in Nevada

Authorities arrested 21 fugitives, including 14 related to sex offenses, this week in Nevada’s fifth annual Operation Trick-or-Treat.

Woman injured in Sun City Summerlin house fire

An accidental attic fire on Friday morning gutted the kitchen and family room of a duplex in Sun City Summerlin, leaving an estimated $175,000 in damages and an elderly woman with minor smoke-inhalation injuries.

Nye County sheriff tracks man’s trail in child porn case

A Nye County sheriff’s investigator says authorities are trying to determine if a 43-year-old convicted sex offender victimized children in places where he used to live in Southern California, Florida, Missouri and New Jersey.

Halloween doesn’t have to be gorge-fest to be fun

CHICAGO — Offer apples to trick-or-treaters and risk having your house get egged — maybe even by your own kids.

Company overseeing Inspirada gets OK to emerge from bankruptcy

Inspirada, the massive Henderson project promoted as the valley’s leading example of new urbanism, has received court approval for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan.

Police: Washington man severed own arm with guillotine

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a man who walked into a medical clinic with his right arm severed indicated he cut his own limb off with a homemade guillotine.

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