Новости за 22.04.2016

The longest runway at the Las Vegas airport has reopened after a nearly five-month overhaul. McCarran International Airport said it reopened the 14,500-foot runway on Friday just before noon. The runway was closed in late October in order to ...

President Barack Obama called Friday for the overturning of a North Carolina law that requires transgender people to use public bathrooms conforming to the sex on their birth certificates and restricts protections for LGBT people. Obama criticized the state law and ...

Robert Leviton's loudest neighbor is a 12-lane freeway. The busy stretch of highway that runs alongside his townhouse complex is visible from his north-facing windows. The drone of passing motorists is audible throughout. He can even hear a muffled version of it when his windows are shut. "I was a little bit ...

Guitarist and singer Lonnie Mack, whose instrumental recordings influenced guitar players including Stevie Ray Vaughan, has died in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 74. Alligator Records said in a statement that Mack died Thursday of natural causes. He lived in Smithville, Tennessee, about ...

Authorities are identifying a 16-year-old sophomore who died after a fight in a Delaware high school restroom involving several female students. Wilmington police identified the girl as Amy Joyner-Francis in a news release Friday. Police say ...

No show could’ve kicked off our star-studded weekend better than Thursday night’s grand opening of Human Nature’s “Jukebox” at the Venetian. They also celebrated news of their new three-year contract during their explosion of hits.

A poll released today offers a glimpse into the role Latino voters — one of the fastest-growing voting blocs in Nevada — will play in this year’s elections, from president down to ...

A teenager was shot and killed early this morning at a northeast valley apartment near Nellis Air Force Base, according to Metro Police. Officers responded about ...

The family of an employee gunned down Monday night during a holdup at a Lee’s Discount Liquor store said the man gave up his life to protect a co-worker and is urging the robbers to give themselves up. “Turn yourselves in,” said Reggie Christensen, brother of ...

Delightful “Top Chef” cheftestants and star chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger’s Border Grill hosts Farm Fresh Market, its second Border Grill Patio Series dinner, from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Mandalay Bay.

President Barack Obama plunged into a whirlwind of royal socializing Friday that began over a birthday lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and ended at a dinner hosted by the trio of young royals who represent the future of the British monarchy. Obama, accompanied by his wife, Michelle, arrived by helicopter ...

More than 170 countries are lining up to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal takes a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joins dozens of world leaders for a signing ceremony that ...

Middle-aged white people now account for a third of all suicides in the U.S., a new government report shows. Suicide is the nation's 10th leading cause of death, and the overall rate rose 24 percent in 15 years, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicides have long been most common among ...

Eight people were found dead Friday at four crime scenes in rural Ohio, and at least most of them were shot to death, authorities said. No arrests had been announced, and it's unclear if the killer or killers are ...

A Pittsburgh-area woman is appealing a court decision that threw out her defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby. Renita Hill says Cosby and his agents defamed her when they denied allegations the actor drugged and molested her. Hill say that Cosby, his wife and lawyer painted ...

German carmaker Volkswagen capped two grim days for the country's auto industry by revealing its diesel emissions cheating cost it a chunky 16.2 billion euros ($18.2 billion) for 2015 alone — and that's likely only a part of the total bill. The revelation last September from U.S. environmental authorities that the company had been ...

Viktoria Vetrova knows the risk her four children take in drinking milk from the family's two cows and eating dried mushrooms and berries from the forest. But the cash-strapped Ukrainian government canceled the local school lunch program for ...

Once more, with gusto. For the second time in two weeks, the Nevada Board of Regents will meet today to discuss the contract for UNLV’s next men’s basketball coach. On April 8, it was Chris Beard who sat through more than two hours of discussions before his five-year, $5.75 million deal was approved by a 9-4 vote. A week later ...

Whew! Another Tax Day has come and gone. Even though Americans had three extra days to finish their taxes, that added time didn’t do much to alleviate the stress of filling out taxes. Even when you are expected to get money back from the government, it seems like the …

He won a big victory in Wisconsin. He pierced the Donald Trump mystique. He even got some of the Capitol Hill lawmakers who regard him as a revolutionary and renegade to slink cautiously into his corner. By all logic, this should …

There are plenty of good reasons to apply for U.S. citizenship. One that tops a lot of immigrant’s lists these days? Wanting to vote. And not just in a general sense, but ...

Ronald Heezen, the executive director of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, has seen a lot of changes since he became a librarian more than four decades ago. But what hasn't changed, he said, is the importance of ...

The Kats Report Bureau at this writing is Grand Luxe Cafe at Palazzo just ahead of the media night for Human Nature’s “Jukebox” show across the walkway at Sands Showroom. The difference between a media night and all the shows leading to ...

The federal government is offering more than 800 acres of Las Vegas Valley land to the highest bidders next week. But if last year’s auctions are any indication, buyers might ...

Despite the ongoing drought across Nevada and much of the rest of the west, state officials say wells are in good shape. KRNV-TV reports that officials with the Nevada Division of Water Resources, Office of the State Engineer, say state wells and aquifers appear to be ...