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  • Tiger Woods and new girlfriend party at poker charity bash

    Tiger Woods and Lindsay Vonn were seen having a good time at the annual Tiger's Poker Night in Las Vegas on Friday. Before the bash at Moorea Beach Club Beachside Casino at Mandalay Bay began, a hotel employee spotted Woods entering the casino with a group of women, including Vonn, 28, Us magazine reported. The employee said that Woods looked like a hot mess, asserting that his hair was all ...

  • UNLV announces former bowl director as interim athletic director

    Tina Kunzer-Murphy will be the interim athletic director at UNLV, it was announced Monday, May 20, 2013. Last year Kunzer-Murphy stepped down after a 12-year run as executive director of the Las Vegas ...

  • BREAKING NEWS Woman Appointed as Interim Athletic Director for UNLV

    LAS VEGAS -- Tina Kunzer-Murphy has been appointed as the interim athletic director for UNLV. "Tina Kunzer-Murphy has agreed to step into the role of interim athletic director on the heels of Jim ...

  • Suspect in iPad robbery death tried to hide evidence police say

    Marcos Arenas, 15, was run over Thursday when robbers tried to take his iPad as he walked near Charleston Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive. He later died of his ...

  • Las Vegas man killed in explosion near Nellis Air Force Base identified

    A man killed in an explosion near Nellis Air Force Base Friday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Gregory Kent Wong, 51, from Las Vegas, was an employee of Nevada Truck and Trailer Repair, where the explosion and fire happened. Wong died from blunt force trauma to the head and other contributing causes, including explosive fire injury and first- and second- ...


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Movie Review

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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  • Los Angeles goes after Vegas hospital for dumping 1500 patients

    USA The city of Los Angeles is pursuing a criminal investigation of a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas, which has allegedly put 1,500 patients on buses and sent them out of state over the past five years. About one third of these patients, some of which were homeless, were given one-way bus tickets to cities in California. About 200 of the 1,500 mentally ill patients were sent to Los Angeles ...

  • Three killed in I-15 head-on crash identified

    Three people killed in a head-on crash on Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday morning have been identified by the Clark County coroner's office. Aldo Diaz-Nafra, 20, of Las Vegas, was driving an Acura Legend northbound in the southbound lanes about 4:30 a.m. when he crashed into a southbound GMC Yukon driven by Ashutosh Jain, 28, of Beaumont, Texas, according to Nevada ...

  • Las Vegas sees rise in suburban poverty

    It's seen every day throughout Las Vegas. Now it's creeping into the suburbs. Poverty. The Las Vegas metropolitan area was ranked among the 100 largest in the nation for levels of suburban poverty, according to data released today by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. "We see it every day," said Brian Burton, president and chief executive officer at the ...

  • Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest one dead in Oklahoma

    SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, ...

  • State legislators see benefits of driver authorization cards

    State Sen. Mo Denis, above, and Ruben Kihuen, D-Las Vegas, are sponsoring Senate Bill 303, a driver's authorization card bill that allows people who are in the country illegally to acquire legal driver's ...

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