Las Vegas Review-Journal

Two fires in Henderson kept firefighters busy Thursday, and one of the fires caused minor injuries.

A new Gallup Well-Being poll released on Tuesday shows Nevada among the Top 3 states with the lowest obesity rates with an average of 21.1 percent obesity.

The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange recommended that the state retain Deloitte Consulting to help Xerox patch technical issues with the Nevada Health Link website, which is struggling with low enrollment as the Affordable Care Act’s March 31 deadline to sign up looms.

The agency is in the midst of a major overhaul, part of an internal review that will see it adopt more than a dozen new policies and procedures or face wholesale absorption by their counterparts at the city of Las Vegas.

Junior guard Bryce Dejean-Jones has been suspended from the UNLV basketball team through Saturday for conduct detrimental to the team, coach Dave Rice announced Thursday in a news release issued by the school.

A new phishing scam is targeting Netflix subscribers in an attempt to get a hold of their personal information.

A federal jury Thursday convicted a senior county human resources analyst charged in a scheme to steal $824,000 from an auto insurance company. Erik Holman, 49, who has worked for Clark County since 2002, was found guilty of one conspiracy count and 14 wire fraud counts in the scheme to defraud the Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance between October 2005 and April 2009.

The Tropicana said Thursday it reached tentative agreement on a new five-year labor contract with Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165, covering some 650 nongaming employees at the Strip resort.

Gov. Brian Sandoval’s chief of staff told Nevada agency administrators Thursday that the budget that will be developed for the next two-year spending cycle will depart from past practice and instead focus on major policy initiatives.

Every year since the West Coast Conference basketball tournament moved to Orleans Arena in 2009, Gonzaga has played Saint Mary’s in the championship game. That is certain to change in this year’s tournament.

A man died in Valley of Fire State Park after being pinned between a vehicle and a rock on Thursday.

Henderson police were looking for a man wanted for questioning in a February jewelry store theft. The theft happened Feb. 27 at a store in the Galleria at Sunset mall, near Sunset Road and Stephanie Street. The suspect left the scene on a motorized scooter.