Las vegas: A JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas was diverted to Texas on Tuesday following what federal authorities described as erratic behavior by the captain, who passengers said had to be restrained after he pounded on the locked cockpit door. The FBI is investigating the incident on Flight 191 from New York, which had 135 passengers on board when the pilot-in-command decided to redirect the plane to Amarillo, Texas....
10:14 AM, Mar 28, 2012
London: Celine Dion has been given the go-ahead by doctors to start recording her new album after the singer recovered from a nasty viral infection. Dion fell ill earlier this year and was forced to cancel a series of shows in Las Vegas after doctors ordered her to undertake several weeks of complete vocal rest, reports contactmusic.com. She flew to Los Angeles last week to see a specialist doctor. He...
10:25 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Las Vegas: A Las Vegas couple who married in 1933 recently celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary with an unexpected present. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter says Wilbur and Theresa Faiss have been married longer than any other couple in the world. Theresa was not well enough to talk, but Wilbur was full of advice. He says marriage is all about give and take, and compromise. Even US President Obama took notice...
09:57 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Las Vegas: Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, struggling to recover from a remarks that critics said showed indifference to America's poor, on Thursday won the endorsement of real estate mogul Donald Trump. Trump, also a television celebrity who has said he is worth perhaps as much as $7 billion billions, is himself an on-again/off-again Republican presidential candidate and former member of the party, said he would back Romney in the...
03:28 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New York: An Indian couple was among five people killed when a tour helicopter crashed into a mountainside near Las Vegas in the US. The helicopter was touring the Las Vegas Strip and Hoover Dam at sunset on Wednesday when it crashed near the bottom of a canyon about 150 feet deep in the River Mountains bordering Lake Mead. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, Las Vegas...
07:22 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Las Vegas: Fewer things seem out of place at the rough-hewn DefCon hacker convention than a swarm of kids. For 18 years, hackers - and the computer security experts who track them - have gathered at DefCon, one of the largest and longest-running conferences of its kind, to share information about breaching and securing computers and other devices. This year's DefCon featured what some hardcore attendees might consider to be...
07:46 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Las Vegas: There was a whole lot of hacking going on in Sin City this weekend - and right under the noses of US federal agents. But in a sign of a time when cybersecurity is at the forefront of national security concerns, the feds were not lurking in the shadows to keep a watchful eye. They came as invited guests at the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, which...
07:30 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Washington: The Obama administration has won a legal battle in the fight over where to bury US nuclear waste. The federal appeals court in Washington on Friday ruled against South Carolina and Washington State, which want to ship radioactive spent nuclear fuel to a repository 90 miles (145 kilometers) from Las Vegas at Yucca Mountain. Congress chose Yucca Mountain as the leading candidate for waste disposal. But opponents are concerned...
02:49 AM, Jul 02, 2011
New Orleans: Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested after he got drunk in the city's French Quarter and argued in the street with his wife over whether a house they were in front of was theirs, police said on Saturday. The couple was in front of a home that Cage insisted they were renting, police said. When she said it wasn't theirs, Cage grabbed her arm, according to a police news...
09:16 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Singapore: Singapore's Marina Bay Sands will open the world's first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by US casino giant Las Vegas Sands. With a form reminiscent of a lotus flower designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the science museum is due to open on February 17 at 1:18 pm, "as advised by our feng shui master," a Marina Bay Sands spokeswoman...
05:20 PM, Dec 29, 2010
Las Vegas: The "strippermobile" has made another run in Las Vegas, this time with properly dressed Santa's helpers riding for a good cause. A year after agreeing to stop a promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers in a truck with clear plastic sides, a company that owns several Las Vegas strip clubs used the vehicle to help deliver Christmas donations to a local charity. Deja Vu's truck was part...
05:50 PM, Dec 13, 2010
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