For the first time in the Culinary Union’s 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized. Backed by 60,000 members, most of them in Las Vegas, it is the largest labor union in Nevada.
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A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon, organizers said.
The man wanted in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a front yard in western Tennessee last week has been arrested, police said.
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The committee is also demanding interviews under oath from former attorneys general spanning the last three presidential administrations.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored safety warnings, design flaws and crucial oversight that could have resulted in criminal charges — had he survived.
In a recent study, people following a combination of healthier habits slowed typical age-related cognitive decline.
The shooter, a 26-year-old Reno resident, died in the overnight hours, police announced.
The San Diego Padres acquired hard-throwing closer Mason Miller and left-hander JP Sears in a deal with the Athletics on Thursday.
Gilbert Arenas was arrested Wednesday along with five other people, including a suspected member of an Israeli organized crime group, on suspicion of hosting illegal high-stakes poker games, federal prosecutors said.
The Federal Reserve left its key short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth time this year, brushing off repeated calls from President Donald Trump for a cut.
The two 23-year-old men were in town from California for a bachelor party, and the third victim was a 66-year-old man who lived in the area, authorities said.
The dire warnings following the massive quake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula evoked memories of catastrophic damage caused by tsunamis over the last quarter-century.
A man from Las Vegas stalked through a Manhattan office tower firing a rifle, killing four people, before taking his own life, officials said.
A gunman opened fire outside the largest casino in Reno, killing three people before police shot the suspect and arrested him, officials said.