Новости за 18.12.2015

Closing out a tumultuous year, President Barack Obama sought to lay the groundwork Friday for his last year in office by vowing not to fade in the background but instead use his remaining months to ...

Anyone under the age of 18 would be barred from using indoor tanning equipment, under a federal proposal to help reduce skin cancer linked to the devices. The Food and Drug Administration also wants to require tanning bed users to sign consent forms acknowledging the ...

Here’s the latest installment of the Play of the Day, which uses odds from the South Point. Our three sports writers started with ...

An Atlanta Fire Department chief fired for handing out a self-published anti-gay book has survived a motion for summary judgment and will be allowed to argue his termination violated ...

Authorities are identifying the man suspected of shooting an officer and then eluding police in Las Vegas before being arrested in a golf course community miles away. Metro Police ...

The state Senate and Assembly are back this morning after adjourning early Thursday night, waiting for amendments to be drafted for an omnibus bill and a workforce training bill to seal the deal to bring California-based ...

Metro Police, including a helicopter unit, chased a vehicle for several miles this morning until a person who may have been involved in a strong-arm robbery bailed out ...

One person was injured and a cat was killed in a Las Vegas house fire near U.S. 95 and East Charleston Boulevard. Officials say the blaze broke out early Friday in ...

Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died of a toxic mix of drugs that included cocaine, according to a medical examiner's office in Minnesota where he was found dead on his tour bus in early December. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said ...

Schools in a Shenandoah Valley county in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events were canceled amid an angry backlash about a school lesson involving the Islamic faith. Augusta County school officials said they had not received any specific threats but were alarmed by ...

More often shoppers are making the decision to sit on their couches than head to stores this holiday season. Online sales growth so far this holiday season is surpassing growth in sales at physical stores, according to First Data, which analyzed online and in-store payments from ...

After months of secrecy and anticipation, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is thrilling fans and theater owners alike. The most buzzed about film of the year opened globally Thursday, setting international and pre-sale box-office records and delighting moviegoers who've had opening-night tickets in hand for months. Kelly Andrews, who wears her ...

Police in California say a waiter returned $32,000 in cash after some diners accidentally left it behind. The Fresno Bee reports that a mother and son forgot the cash, which was in a navy blue bag, at an Applebee's restaurant Wednesday night. The money was ...

For years, NBA fans have been willing to pay thousands to sit courtside and watch some of the world's most powerful athletes run and jump. Up close, there is nothing quite like the experience. On Thursday night, that thrill came with ...

Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the tiny nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church's highest honors just two decades after ...

The allegations read like a movie plot: a lottery industry insider installs an undetectable software program in the computers that pick winning numbers so he can know them in advance. He enlists accomplices to play those numbers and collect the jackpots. And they enrich themselves for years until a misstep unravels their high-tech scheme. Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been ...

Congress on Friday sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan but deficit draining year-end budget package that boosts federal agency spending and awards tax cuts to both families and a sweeping array ...

Thinking about buying a new home in Las Vegas? Get ready for sticker shock. The gap between prices of new and resold homes is wider than the national average, which is a pain for homebuilders because ...

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Thursday his party has tried everything to get gun control legislation through Congress and still keeps ...

If Ted Cruz is the Republican Party’s cure for Donald Trump, the antidote might be worse than the poison.

Michael Wadsworth experienced a sobering moment in the weeks before his senior season at BYU was set to begin. The 24-year-old safety pulled his left hamstring for the third time of his college career during summer camp. ...

The nexus of conservatism and populism is not Donald Trump, who recently added nativism to his portfolio. It is not Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who is surging in the polls here this month. Nor is it Ben Carson, whose minute-waltz of fame seems to have faded on the Iowa dance floor. It’s a former Silicon Valley executive who led the largest high-tech company in the world and now is inveighing against “the powerful, the wealthy, the well-connected.”

Many of the venues Wayne Newton has played in Las Vegas have been knocked down. But the next is being built, even at this moment. Mr. Las Vegas is opening ...

Even though Bill Foley has yet to bring Las Vegas a National Hockey League team, his dogged campaign has impressed the hockey world, landing him a place on ...

If this was the Rams' last game in St. Louis, they did what they could to leave the fans smiling ...