Las Vegas Review-Journal

A 53-year-old Henderson man was sentenced to life in prison for beating his mother to death in 2009. The same Clark County jury that convicted Richard Kravetz of first-degree murder and other charges sentenced him to the life prison term on Thursday.

Clark County residents have a chance on Wednesday to learn more about the county’s proposed ordinance that could lead to medical marijuana dispenseries in Southern Nevada.

A YouTube video of a 3-year-old who decided to donate her hair to kids with cancer has gone viral.

The Environmental Protection Agency envisions moving 580 employees from laboratories and offices on and near the UNLV campus into a new $120 million complex somewhere in the valley, according to details of the agency’s plan obtained Friday.

A man and a young boy were in critical condition after a crash in the northeast valley Friday afternoon, North Las Vegas police said. The man and toddler were taken to UMC after a collision at the intersection of Craig Road and Lamb Boulevard, police said.

A popular satirical musical about Mormon missionaries will play next year in Salt Lake City, just down the street from the worldwide headquarters of the faith it’s mocking.

Just a few days after a Gallup Well-Being poll stated Nevada as the Top 3 least obese state in the country, a new poll shows Nevadans as not frequent exercisers or produce eaters in 2013.

A 25-year-old man was found dead under suspicious circumstances Thursday night at Ponderosa Dairy in Amargosa Valley, the Nye County sheriff’s office said. Nye County police responded to a 911 call just after 9 p.m. and found the man’s body.

With junior middleweight champ Carlos Molina still jailed Friday and facing deportation, his fight against Jermall Charlo on the undercard at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday was canceled.

The Las Vegas Strip is the most visited tourist attraction in the world, beating New York City’s Times Square and Paris’ Eiffel Tower. That’s according to a list of the world’s 50 most visited tourist attractions by Love Home Swap, an online home and rental swap service.

Former construction company boss Leon Benzer, the accused mastermind of a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations, has won a delay in his tax evasion trial. The new date in December means the tax case will follow the long-awaited Oct. 6 trial of Benzer and nine others in the multimillion-dollar HOA takeover scheme, which occurred between 2003 and 2009.

Nevada attorneys will now have to swear, pardon the pun, to be civil to each other, to judges and to the public as a result of an order issued this week by the Supreme Court.