LAS VEGAS - Harrah's Entertainment Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Loveman says his company is trying to buy the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas.In an e-mail to employees obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Loveman said his company's

SALT LAKE CITY - The brother of a man who died early Thursday trapped 700-feet inside a Utah cave said his family is remarkably strong but struggles to make sense of what happened.John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, died nearly

HAYWARD, Calif. - A toddler slipped into his family's back yard in Hayward undetected, and drowned in the swimming pool.Investigators say the boy's parents found him in the pool Wednesday morning. Emergency crews rushed over and took the 19-month-old child

SAN FRANCISCO - A homeless man is recovering from second- and third-degree burns inflicted when another homeless man doused him with lighter fluid and set him on fire as he slept in Golden Gate park.Bryon Rowe, 55, is hospitalized and

Sen. Harry Reid says the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is changing position to support a key measure for compensating sick former Nevada Test Site workers.Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday the next step is for the Advisory Board on

The state teachers union, in an about face, is working with legislators to change a state law that blocks Nevada from applying for education federal stimulus grants.A law passed in 2003 prevents test scores from being used to evaluate teacher

Despite below-freezing temperatures Thanksgiving morning, runners of all ages turned out bright and early for the 2009 Turkey Trot.The 1-mile kid's fun run and a 5K run hosted by Fleet Feet Sports Carson City owners Scott and Joy Keith, was

KIDS 1 MILE FUN RUNNAME TIME BIB# ADAM MAW 7:21 858 KADEN MALLARD 8:01 852 JEFF SESSIONS 8:07 840 RYAN MAW 8:10 857 MAGGIE EASSON 9:08 833 THOMAS GREGORY 9:40 851 EMMA HATAWAY 9:50 850 TASKAR EASON 10:11 832 CADEN

The Reno Police Department is asking for help in locating a 14-year-old Reno girl, Mackenzie (Kitty) Parker, who was last seen at 6 p.m. Nov. 19 at the Reno arch.Police suspect she is a runaway. She is described as caucasion,

Law enforcement authorities along Interstate 15 or Interstate 80 in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California have been advised to be on the lookout for a white or light-colored Chrysler 300, license plate number 6E0E275.The driver, Lashena Wilson, is suspected of

NEW YORK (AP) - An activist group has begun posting 573,000 pager messages purportedly sent on Sept. 11, 2001, from "Second World Trade Center tower collapses" to "I'm ok & love you..xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox."The group, Wikileaks, says some of the messages were

CHICAGO (AP) - There's still family, turkey and football, but one Thanksgiving tradition is taking a hit this year.Millions of Americans are spending the holiday at home, saying the poor economy has made it unaffordable to hit the road or

WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global

ANAHEIM, Calif (AP) - Santa Ana winds fanned a fire across 80 acres of Southern California hills before firefighters reduced it Wednesday to a smoldering - but still dangerous - black scar.Containment lines around 90 percent of the fire were

AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) - A scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines turned himself in Wednesday amid mounting pressure on the government to crack down on lawlessness

WASHINGTON (AP) - Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and

CARSON CITY (AP) - The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday postponed a planned roundup of thousands of wild horses in Nevada because of a lawsuit and to allow time for appeals of its decision.BLM spokeswoman JoLynn Worley in Reno

It's bound to happen at Thanksgiving tables across America: A progressive liberal Democrat discovers he's sitting next to a conservative Republican.There's no need for mashed potatoes to fly.Harry Stein, an author, columnist and contributing editor to the political magazine City

Election 2010 can'tcome fast enoughThe 2010 elections can't come fast enough to remove every liberal supporting this (health care) bill and others like it from Congress.Senators who vote in favor of the health care bill as it stands now not

FDIC: Nevada-based banks lost money in 3rd quarterLAS VEGAS (AP) - Federal regulators say banks with Nevada charters continued to struggle in the third quarter.A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. report released Tuesday showed 27 state-chartered institutions lost $177 million in