News

NEON THIS WEEK

May 31, 2009 - 9:00 pm

Taking Back Sunday emotes

To hate on the emo kids is akin to loathing warm, fuzzy, little kittens: They're so innocuous, really, how can they raise anyone's hackles all that much?

Still, they do, and scene favorites Taking Back Sunday are among emo's most polarizing acts. They pack the hard-edged guitar crunch of a metal band, but leaven it with the kind of confessional, heart-on-the-sleeve emoting that headbangers avoid like sobriety.

Love 'em or loathe 'em, if you have a teen daughter, chances are this is what makes her heart go pitter-patter.

See the band at 7 p.m. Thursday at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Tickets are $26 in advance, $28 day of show; call 632-7600.

-- JASON BRACELIN

Capt. John Pelletier gives a press conference at Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headq ...

Suit dismissed against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, ex-Las Vegas police official

By Noble Brigham / RJ

December 29, 2025 - 4:13 pm

The lawsuit suggested that former Metro Captain John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and kidnapped witnesses.

Nevada is among a group that will receive a nearly $150 million settlement with German automoti ...

AG: Nevada part of $150M settlement with Mercedes over emissions scandal

By Casey Harrison / RJ

December 29, 2025 - 2:45 pm

Nevada is among a group that will receive a nearly $150 million settlement with German automotive manufacturers accused of skirting emission regulations in vehicles

City of Las Vegas Communications Director David Riggleman reads the names of the victims from t ...

Top Las Vegas official steps down after 26 years

By John Katsilometes / RJ

December 29, 2025 - 1:37 pm

City of Las Vegas Communications Director David Riggleman’s final day is Feb. 2. He took his post on Oct. 4, 1999, in Oscar Goodman’s first term.

President Donald Trump listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during ...

Trump warns Iran against reconstituting nuclear program as he welcomes Israel’s Netanyahu for talks

By Will Weissert, Sam Mednick and Samy Magdy The Associated Press

December 29, 2025 - 12:31 pm

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Donald Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.

Food service workers pull completed trays off assembly lines at CCSD’s Central Kitchen T ...

40M meals per year: Inside the kitchen that feeds CCSD’s students

By Spencer Levering / RJ

December 29, 2025 - 7:30 am

CCSD’s Central Kitchen is the school district’s hub for producing and distributing meals that fed students an average of 238,000 meals per day last year.

People walk throughout the streets on the Strip after they were closed off for New Year’ ...

Here’s a look at New Year’s Eve road closure information around the Strip

By Mick Akers / RJ

December 29, 2025 - 6:00 am

When the crowd of over 340,000 revelers ring in the new year this week on the Strip, many roads in and around the resort corridor will be shut to traffic.

Surveillance image on Oct. 7, 2025, showing Ashlee Buzzard and Melodee Buzzard at a car rental ...

Courtroom gasps as Ashlee Buzzard pleads not guilty to murder of 9-year-old Melodee

By Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times

December 28, 2025 - 10:38 am

Ashlee Buzzard, the California mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, pleaded not guilty Friday morning during a brief but emotional arraignment in Santa Barbara County Superior Court.

Cars drive through a flooded Vineland Avenue in Los Angeles' North Hollywood neighborhood ...

Yes, that was a tornado in Los Angeles on Christmas

By Rong-Gong Lin II and Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times

December 28, 2025 - 8:01 am

A tornado did, in fact, spin through Los Angeles on Christmas, the National Weather Service confirmed, damaging a home and a commercial strip mall.

Tax breaks sought by backers of a proposed Summerlin Studios joint venture among Sony Pictures ...

McKenna Ross’ top Nevada politics stories of 2025

By McKenna Ross / RJ

December 28, 2025 - 8:00 am

A failed studio tax break push, party politics and budget challenges led Nevada political stories this year.

French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she ...

Brigitte Bardot, 1960s French sex symbol turned militant animal rights activist, dies at 91

By Thomas Adamson and Elaine Ganley Associated Press

December 28, 2025 - 7:05 am

Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.