Новости за 21.06.2017

Clark County School District Trustee Erin Cranor announced Wednesday she will resign this summer to attend law school at Brigham Young University. Cranor told the board she was recently awarded a a fellowship to earn a joint degree so she can practice law in social justice and civil rights. “I have tried to do as much ...

A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer of first-degree reckless homicide in the shooting of a black man last year that ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the planned merger between daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia approved ...

We all anticipated that Derek Carr would be under center when the Las Vegas Raiders began play here in 2020. It looks like ...

Two people were hospitalized with nonlife-threatening conditions after roofing materials on a utility truck caught fire this morning outside ...

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

Kia has claimed the top spot in a survey of new vehicle quality for the second straight year. Genesis — a luxury brand owned by Hyundai Motor Co. — was second in J.D. Power's annual initial quality survey. This marks the first time ...

Belgium tightened security even more on Wednesday to counter fears that lone attackers could strike anywhere and at any time, a day after a failed bombing by a man shouting "Allahu akbar" at a Brussels train station put ...

Tropical Storm Cindy sent drenching rain bands over the north Gulf Coast on Wednesday, swamping low-lying coastal roads and pushing a waterspout ashore in one beachfront community as residents from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle warily eyed ...

The first regular season game in Golden Knights history is only 110 days away. Vegas will head to Dallas to take on the Stars on Oct. 6 in ...

Prince Philip, the elderly husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has been hospitalized with an infection, but Buckingham Palace said Wednesday that he's out of bed and in good spirits. The palace didn't paint a dire picture of his situation, but there are concerns for Philip because of his ...

Las Vegas abuse and neglect detectives are investigating the drowning of a 14-year-old boy in a central valley swimming pool. Police said the boy was unconscious and not breathing when ...

A sinister portrait of Russia's cyberattacks on the U.S. emerged Wednesday as current and former U.S. officials told Congress Moscow stockpiled stolen information and selectively disseminated it during the 2016 presidential campaign to ...

Officials on Wednesday evacuated an airport in Flint, Michigan, where a witness said he saw an officer bleeding from his neck and a knife nearby on the ground. On Twitter, Michigan State Police say the officer is in critical condition and ...

A gunman acted alone when he shot and wounded a top House Republican and four other people on a northern Virginia baseball field, the FBI said Wednesday. Tim Slater, who leads the criminal division of ...

The first Montana Tech football player in school history to sign an NFL contract has been fatally shot in Nevada. Police identified the man shot and killed Sunday evening at ...

The Forum Shops is celebrating 25 years of changing the Las Vegas experience this year, having opened in May 1992 when luxury retail was not a significant element on the Strip. What seemed like an ambitious and possibly unnecessary project turned into the highest grossing shopping mall in the United States. But the dramatic destination with the talking Roman statues and ceiling made to replicate a Mediterranean sky didn’t just ...

When it comes to getting airplanes off the ground in broiling weather, it's not the heat or the humidity. It's the air density ...

The ‘Big Squeeze” is pinching drivers into a new lane pattern Wednesday. ...

A recent column on InsideSources about sugarcane farming (“Big Sugar makes sour impact on Everglades,” June 3, Las Vegas Sun) painted a wholly incomplete and inaccurate picture of the industry, which has done more to help Everglades restoration than any other private entity to date . ...

The most prominent corporations — Core Civic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group — collectively manage more than half of the private prison contracts in the United States, which resulted in combined revenues of $3.5 billion in 2015. ...

Since the election of President Donald Trump and the installment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, there has been a concerning shift in the approach and rhetoric around criminal justice — one that may prove to be a boon for for-profit private prisons. ...

An abundance of top-flight prospects, including potential generational talents in Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball, has this year’s NBA Draft, which airs at 4 p.m. tonight on ESPN, as one of the most anticipated of the last several years. ...

The state where the first Republican governor in the country expanded Medicaid under Obamacare may be able to temper GOP efforts to repeal the health care law ...

The state is moving forward with what one lawmaker called a more holistic approach to criminal justice, but has held off on shortening certain sentences. ...