Nevada fishing report, Jan. 1, 2020

The striper bite is starting to pick up along the Colorado River in Laughlin. The fish are taking swimbaits in trout colors around Big Bend State Recreation Area.

131st Rose Parade welcomes colorful floats, marching bands

After a flyover by a B-2 stealth bomber, marching bands and floral floats took to the streets under mostly sunny California skies as the 131st Rose Parade drew hundreds of thousands of spectators on New Year’s Day.

Stars rally to beat Predators 4-2 in Winter Classic

The game was played before 85,630 at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas, the second-largest crowd to attend an NHL game.

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern dies at 77

David Stern, the basketball-loving lawyer who took the NBA around the world during 30 years as its longest-serving commissioner and oversaw its growth into a global powerhouse, died Wednesday.

T.S. Eliot letters to confidante to be unveiled after 60 years

About 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to Emily Hale will be unveiled this week. Scholars from around the world will be traveling to Princeton in the first days they are available.

Australia sends aid to wildfire towns as death toll reaches 17

Australia deployed military ships and aircraft Wednesday to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that have left at least 17 people dead nationwide.

2 days of clashes at US embassy end as Iran-backed militia leaves

Charging that Iran was “fully responsible” for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, President Donald Trump ordered about 750 U.S. soldiers deployed to the Middle East as about 3,000 more prepared for possible deployment in the next several days.

 
Las Vegas welcomes 2020 in style

In true Vegas style, there was no shortage of colorful characters on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas as 2019 came to an end.

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