Новости за 20.01.2016

It’s going to take super-human strength and extraordinary endurance for cancer survivor Helene Neville to succeed at her new world-record challenge. The 54-year-old Las Vegas grandmother and nurse is a medical miracle.

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

New Orleans police say they have arrested a security guard in the death of her 3-year-old grandson, who apparently was shot when the gun under her pillow went off while they slept. Officer Garry Flot says in a news release that the bullet hit the boy in ...

Officials say a former casino vice president conspired with a cocktail waitress and a gambler to steal over $400,000 from a northeastern Pennsylvania casino. Court documents show Robert Pellegrini, a former executive at Mohegan Sun Pocono in Wilkes-Barre, was charged ...

MGM Resorts has wrapped up work on an expansion of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center and is on track to finish $100 million worth of renovations to the nearby Mandalay Bay resort next month, the company announced in ...

Atlantic City officials are considering asking New Jersey to let the troubled gambling resort file for bankruptcy. Mayor Don Guardian, a Republican, and City Council President Marty Small, a Democrat, met Wednesday with the Democratic Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, asking him to ...

A 24-year-old woman accused of intentionally running her car into people along the Las Vegas Strip last month now faces 71 counts related to the crash that ...

Bill Clinton is heading to Las Vegas to rally support for his wife's candidacy. The former president will headline an event Thursday evening a ...

State auditors say Las Vegas-area cabs are overcharging customers to the tune of $47 million a year. The finding came in an audit of the Nevada Taxicab Authority ...

Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended President Barack Obama's executive actions curbing guns, telling lawmakers Wednesday that the president took lawful, common-sense steps to stem firearms violence that ...

Donald Trump brandished the endorsement of conservative Republican firebrand Sarah Palin at an Iowa rally Wednesday in the increasingly intense ...

Hundreds of people are running through the streets of a tiny town in southwestern Spain, chasing a fancy-dressed, beast-like figure and pelting it with turnips. The event is part of the bizarre 'Jarramplas' festival which ...

The South and East are bracing for a nor'easter at week's end with the potential for significant snowfall. The National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center warns of heavy, "perhaps crippling" snow across ...

Islamic militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces in an attack that echoed a horrifying assault ...

Hollywood actress, director and author Drew Barrymore may soon add a new title to her resume: international retailer. Barrymore launched her Flower brand of affordable cosmetics exclusively at Wal-Mart in 2013. Now she says she's in talks with retailers overseas to ...

Instead of going to the Academy Awards, Spike Lee has other plans: "I'm going to the Knick game," he said Wednesday on "Good Morning America." Lee gave his first interview after announcing Monday that he would not go to this year's Oscar ceremony because of pervasive diversity problems in ...

Another plunge in the price of crude oil sent the stock market sharply lower. Oil and gas companies led the way down Wednesday as sliding oil prices threatened ...

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian made a brief appearance outside the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where he's being treated along with two other Americans who were ...

Two facts stand out about the constituency that has rallied to Donald Trump. His supporters are angry, and they come overwhelmingly from the less affluent reaches of the Republican Party. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is betting on the aspirations of these voters over their anger, and it’s just possible he’s onto something his opponents are missing.

Leading adult-entertainment star Jessica Drake arrives in Las Vegas with a crazed schedule of engagements for this week’s 2016 AVN/Adult Entertainment Expo and AVN Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel.

If you thought the political landscape couldn’t be more unsettled, think again. In the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders is surging. Hillary Clinton now faces not a coronation, not a cakewalk, but a contest — one she could lose.

I talked with new artistic director Hassan El Hajjami and Jerry Nadal, senior VP of Cirque’s Resident Show Division, who revealed that the new show “Toruk” inspired by James Cameron’s Oscar-winning “Avatar” might be headed here.

On Friday the Board of Regents will hear a presentation about the top issues facing the Nevada System of Higher Education. Not surprisingly, funding and student success will take center stage, yet one proposed solution should raise some eyebrows. It would make teaching cheaper by replacing faculty-taught online classes with massive open online courses, also known as MOOCs. The surprising part isn’t the innovative shock value of the solution, but that MOOCs are being discussed again.

Snowpack in the mountains that feeds the Colorado River is slightly above the long-term average this winter — welcome news in the drought-stricken Southwest ...

With more firearms being sold in the United States than any other time in the country’s history, major gun retailers at this week’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show credited a sales explosion to recent executive orders from President Barack Obama and ...