The wave of lawsuits alleging over-priced investment choices in employer retirement plan programs has extended to the creators of automated investing platforms offered by plan sponsors. Michael Green, who works for pest control company Rollins Inc. claimed in a federal suit filed earlier this month that Morningstar Associates “Goalmaker” software marketed by Prudential Investment Management steers plan participants to expensive funds in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

Las Vegas is the backdrop for plenty of comedies and dramas both in print and on screen. The Strip has also been the focus of many a scholarly examination, including a now classic study on design, undertaken nearly five decades ago by a trio of Yale professors.

Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday? Many historians say yes.

It’s a journey that most people eventually take. Fifteen years ago, Anne Carte decided to leave the familiar comforts of home and family to move out on her own. For Carte, who was 20 years old at the time, moving to the Biggest Little City from San Jose, Calif., represented an exciting and crucial juncture in her life. “I moved to Reno to grow up and be an adult,” Carte said. The year 2002 had its fair share of memorable moments. That same year, “Star Wars: Episode II” debuted in theaters, Tiger Woods won the 66th Masters Tournament and “American Idol” premiered on television.

Senator Dean Heller’s position on health care reform—he’s against it after having been for it while he was against it—has become a contortionist act worthy of the Circus Circus big top or Absinthe tent. But the Republicans’ recent display of legislative incompetence also brings to mind Harry Reid and Ralph Roske.

A group of local medical students is holding a water drive for people in the homeless corridor this weekend. They'll be collecting bottled water then donating it to the Salvation Army, which will distribute it to indigent men and women in Downtown Las Vegas.

Jose Yañez was only 7 years old when he and his parents came to Las Vegas from Mexico. He spent the next couple years learning English, and later became the valedictorian for his high school graduating class at Advanced Technologies Academy before being accepted to Princeton to study mechanical and aerospace engineering.

The violence that broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend when a “Unite the Right” rally clashed with counter protesters has resonated around the country. One person, Heather Heyer, was killed when a car rammed into the crowd of counter protesters. Nineteen other people were hurt. An Ohio man who was driving the car was charged.

If you’re anything like us, you probably have solar eclipse fever: You've had August 21 marked on your calendar for days with dozens of sun and moon emojis; you’ve got your special viewing glasses, and you’re planning on taking your lunch break precisely at the eclipse’s peak moment (for all of you New Yorkers out there, that’s 2:44 p.m.). If you’re really committed to 2017’s total solar eclipse, you might even have travel plans to the path of totality to see the phenomenon in its truest form.