Новости за 06.04.2016

Gov. Brian Sandoval and Frank Aguilera, deputy director of the Aerospace Systems Program at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, along with other officials, unveiled a new $400,000 NUANCE lab at Reno-Stead Airport north of Reno.

The entire UNLV football team crowded around kicker Nicolai Bornand at the end of Wednesday’s practice at Rebel Park and tried to distract him, but the senior stayed focused and calmly booted a 35-yard field goal.

The federal judge overseeing Oregon’s wildlife refuge standoff case scheduled a September trial on Wednesday and reinforced her decision to send Ammon and Ryan Bundy to Nevada next week for a court appearance.

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Right-hander Jacob deGrom will be the New York Mets’ starting pitcher Friday for the home opener, but with an asterisk.

According to Universal, theme park tickets for Thursday’s opening day of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter have completely sold-out — marking the first time ever that the theme park has had to stop online ticketing transactions.

Readers of Las Vegas author Bonnie J. Snowden’s fantasy novel learn from the start that Ankh is born of two worlds, an abomination as far as Queen Mira is concerned. And it is only the queen who can reveal the truth behind Ankh’s mother’s gifts and a vindictive ruler’s curse.

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Growing up in a small Wisconsin town in 1918, 11-year-old Sterling North had pets: a dog and a bird, a muskrat and a woodchuck. And that year — not too long after his beloved mother died — Sterling had a baby raccoon.

A man was hospitalized after being shot in the leg in the eastern valley.

Scheduled to join Adam Scott in the field this week at The Masters are fellow Rebel alums Charley Hoffman and Ryan Moore, and Las Vegas residents Kevin Na and Scott Piercy.

Country giant Merle Haggard, who celebrated outlaws, underdogs and an abiding sense of national pride in such hits as “Okie From Muskogee” and “Sing Me Back Home,” died Wednesday at 79, on his birthday.

The state Gaming Control Board has recommended approval of the licensing of Marnell Gaming and its affiliated MG Investors to operate the Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks.

The White House said on Wednesday it will redirect $589 million in funds to prepare for and respond to the Zika virus before the mosquito that carries it begins to emerge in the continental United States, including two cases in Southern Nevada.

Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal January stabbing.

So, how odd is this? Tiger Woods is absent from this week’s Masters, but he’s not really missed because the business of golf betting is booming.

The biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, Pfizer Inc., will stay put thanks to aggressive new Treasury Department rules that succeeded in blocking Pfizer from acquiring rival Allergan and moving to Ireland — on paper — to reduce its tax bill.

Mexico’s government on Tuesday unexpectedly changed two of its top officials responsible for U.S. relations, citing concerns about an increasingly anti-Mexican climate across the border.

Windy conditions helped spread a wildfire over 30 acres in northwest Arizona on Wednesday.

A group of New England Patriots fans have sued the NFL in an effort to recover the first-round draft pick taken from the team as punishment for the “Deflategate” scandal.

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to block the scheduled execution of a South Texas man for the 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy, whose blood the convicted killer said he drank.

A U.S. judge has ordered a central figure in a debunked Rolling Stone magazine article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia to answer questions in a defamation lawsuit, court papers showed.

The median price of a Southern Nevada single-family home reached $220,000 in March, up 7.3 percent from $205,000 a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported Tuesday.