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Kenneth Gilbert Gibson was arrested to face a total of 35 counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated ...

Wearing a skin-tight black rhinestone-studded dress, Parton said she's also excited about her gown and wig for Sunday's show. She's up for an Emmy in the TV movie category for ...

Hundreds of people protesting the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the fatal shooting of black man several years ago marched for hours in mostly peaceful demonstrations, until a broken window ...

Iceland's president has accepted the resignation of the volcanic island's prime minister, who says a new election mostly ...

Here’s a great “Rah rah!” to Brian Greenspun for his well-written article calling out the R-J for what it publishes. ...

Regretfully, Brian Greenspun announced in his editorial that Sheldon Adelson was taking the R-J even further to the right. As the state and Las Vegas specifically move from purple to blue in the coming years, the largest news outlet in Southern Nevada will provide less diverse viewpoints. ...

Some time ago, I found myself in a buffet line around piles of inedible looking grains, greens and grassy-smelling gratins at an alternative food cooperative’s Sunday dinner. No part of this meal, I was assured, had been touched by the corporate food chain, the Big Ag puppeteers with their taxpayer-subsidized toxins. ...

When it comes to convention commerce, Las Vegas is at the top of a short list of dynamo communities. With over 10 million square feet of prime meeting space within Sin City, 3.2 million of that is retained as inventory of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The world’s Entertainment Capital is also a “Meetings Behemoth.” ...

Many longtime political observers agree Congress does not have enough staff to do its work. Those it does have are paid too little, work too many hours and turn over at such fast rates that institutional memory and policy expertise inevitably are in short supply. ...

General Manager George McPhee is faced with tough decisions when it comes to which defensemen will make the roster out of training camp ...

“If elected, in my State of the State address, I will apologize to the people of Nevada for perhaps having a Legislature that is being paid to do nothing,” the state treasurer said.

A bipartisan majority in Congress supports protections for an estimated 800,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children and now here illegally ...

If Clemson keeps at its current pace, the Tigers may eradicate the notion of championship hangover in college football. ...

The first Mexican Independence Day event of its kind just may have been the largest draw for Las Vegas’ celebration of “El Grito” in recent memory ...

The last time Shania Twain released an album, it sold 874,000 copies in its first week. Twain is not apprehensive about her return, 15 years later, with her fifth album, “Now,” on Sept. 29. “I really feel like I’m coming back into worlds that I already know,” the singer, 52, said.

Texas’ embarrassing 51-41 loss to Maryland in week 1 might end up being the best thing to happen to the Longhorns. ...

Acute pain is nature’s warning signal that something is wrong that should be attended to. Chronic pain, however, is no longer a useful warning signal, yet it can lead to perpetual suffering if people remain afraid of it ...

Briley was one of three Rebels on Friday to visit a teacher who impacted them during their childhood in Las Vegas. For Briley, that educator was Christopher Ho, his fourth-grade teacher at Hoggard. Briley was approached by UNLV officials after practice last week to take part in ...

Thank you, thank you, thank you for Brian Greenspun’s Aug. 27 column on Review-Journal columnist Wayne Allyn Root. (“Don’t let bad ideas take root, R-J.) ...

For somebody who says he supports the First Amendment, Brian Greenspun sure trashes the R-J for allowing it. ...

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of "equilibrium" in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned ...

A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, and hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the streets of ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering issuing subpoenas to President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and two FBI officials close to fired director James Comey as part of ...

President Donald Trump's inaugural committee raised an unprecedented $107 million for a ceremony that officials promised would be "workmanlike," and the committee pledged to give leftover funds to ...

The governing board of a North Carolina church where a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was pastor didn't know any members who had a problem with ...