JIGGS — This is what it’s like to live in a town named after a century-old cartoon character, an isolated high-desert speck with a one-room schoolhouse and lots of Wild West history, a place still populated by cougars and mustangs if not the ghosts of long-gone cowboys.
If the phrase “break the Internet” makes you want to break your computer monitor, you’re not alone. Lake Superior State University in Michigan has released its annual list of words and phrases that it says should be banished in the new year.
A group of American hackers, New World Hacking, has claimed responsibility for the cyber attack on the BBC website, which took it down for three hours on New Year’s Eve.
Engineering for Kids is seeking a way to make technology and science exciting for youngsters.
Like Las Vegas as a whole, the fortunes of the local restaurant industry continued to recover in 2015, with more openings across the valley.
One of the first babies born in Las Vegas in 2016 arrived three weeks early to accept the honor. Born at 12:04 a.m. Friday, Julian Faustino Rodriguez was expected to be born Jan. 20, his mother said.
The Phoenix businessmen had planned to start the new year with a low-key Las Vegas wedding in one of the city’s small downtown chapels.
He was a whiz kid up against a $21 billion company. Aktarer Zaman, now 23, didn’t back down when United Airlines and Orbitz sued him a little over a year ago for opening a website called Skiplagged.com to help travelers find cheap plane tickets.
