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Killer’s family tried to intervene before rampage
 

It was Friday night when Elliot Rodger’s mother got a call from her son’s therapist that he had emailed a ranting manifesto about going on a deadly rampage. The mother went to her son’s YouTube channel and found the video in which he threatens to kill people. She alerted authorities and set off frantically with her ex-husband to Santa Barbara.

 
White House mistakenly reveals CIA official’s name

In an embarrassing flub, the Obama administration accidentally revealed the name of the CIA’s top official in Afghanistan in an email to thousands of journalists during the president’s surprise Memorial Day weekend trip to Bagram Air Field.

 
Ex-POW from Las Vegas remembers comrades lost in the Korean War

Today, as veterans and families across the nation pause for Memorial Day, Gene Ramos of Las Vegas will be thinking about the comrades he lost in the Korean war and another friend who endured POW hardships with him.

 
Wet ‘n’ Wild Opens Its Shores

The 36-foot high Tornado is the first slide of its kind in Las Vegas. It opened this weekend.

 
500-foot high VooDoo Zipline opens at Rio

A nervous energy bubbled high atop the Rio, on the patio on the 50th floor, where men and women of all shapes and sizes queued up to be the first to ride the new VooDoo Zip Line on Sunday.

 
Donovan shocked to be cut from US World Cup team

Landon Donovan thought he had earned a prominent role on the U.S. World Cup team right up until the moment he was cut from the roster by coach Jurgen Klinsmann.

 
New water slide unveiled at Wet ‘n’ Wild

Staff members became Splash Test Dummies as they tested out the new Tornado water slide at the Las Vegas Wet ‘n’ Wild water park.

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Detroit motorists under siege in ‘Carjack City’

When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concern: carjackers.

 
Teen meets man who saved her as a baby

Skyler James and Charlie Heflin share a long history. But before James graduated from high school in Charleston last week the two had never really met.

 
X-Traordinary: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ delivers in a big way

Now that’s how you make a summer blockbuster! There’s more sheer tonnage of awesomeness in the first 10 minutes of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” than in the entirety of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

 
Prosecutors say devoted husband is kidnap-rapist

A woman’s story of being drugged, kidnapped and forced to marry her alleged captor began to emerge when she went to police and accused the man of domestic violence. During that conversation, officers learned of her connection to a 2004 missing-persons case in Santa Ana, about 20 miles away.

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