SHERIFF'S RACE: Pair debate change, 'reality' It was a night of "it isn't working" from the businessman challenger, and rebuttals of "the reality is" by the veteran Las Vegas cop, as Clark County's sheriff's candidates squared off at the Plaza.
VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER: Family confronts teen Wearing T-shirts adorned with his photograph, family and friends of Nathan Fowler, a 19-year-old stabbed and shot to death in northwest Las Vegas, lined the first row of a courtroom Wednesday for the sentencing of a man implicated in his death.
Vehicle arson on the rise State insurance fraud monitors said on Wednesday that vehicle arson in Nevada has been on the rise for the past five years.
Fire damages Red Rock boardwalk An arson fire destroyed a large portion of the Red Spring Interpretive Boardwalk in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Wednesday morning, the Bureau of Land Management said.
Stephensen, owner of MS Concrete, dies Mark Stephensen, an entrepreneur who built one of Southern Nevada's largest construction companies, died Monday at home of complications from a brain tumor. He was 60.
NORM: Paula Abdul 'Woman of Year' Paula Abdul is returning to the Nevada Ballet Theatre's "Woman of the Year" event -- this time as the honoree.
Filing protects lawyer accused of drunkenness A Las Vegas attorney accused of showing up to court drunk has been placed on disability inactive status, making him impervious to disciplinary proceedings but prohibiting him from practicing law until reinstated.
Lawmakers wrestle with sales tax break WASHINGTON -- As Congress prepares to go home for the elections, lawmakers are mounting a late push to renew a tax deduction that has saved Nevadans millions of dollars.
Gibbons airs ads raising trust issue In a blitz of new television commercials airing in the Reno area, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons exhumes two notorious comments made by his opponent to make a case that Northern Nevadans can't trust her.
Bail set at $100,000 in murder-for-hire case The Las Vegas bounty hunter charged in a murder-for-hire plot was given bail Wednesday, but the would-be victim said he's comfortable that Timothy Deam won't get out of jail any time soon.
AG passes on Boggs McDonald For the second time this week, a GOP elected official has recused himself from investigating whether fellow Republican Lynette Boggs McDonald violated state law by paying her children's nanny with campaign cash.
Inmate housed in transitional facility arrested More than 30 inmates at the Casa Grande Transitional Center have walked away from the facility since it opened in January, including one inmate accused of killing a man during a robbery this month.
CASTOFF CAT'S NEW LAIR It was abandoned last week at the gates of the Las Vegas Zoo, a malnourished mountain lion stuffed into a too-small wire cage.
Doctor shortage projections dire CHICAGO -- A doctors group expects a serious shortfall of family doctors in at least five states by 2020.
SHERIFF'S RACE: Pair debate change, 'reality' It was a night of "it isn't working" from the businessman challenger, and rebuttals of "the reality is" by the veteran Las Vegas cop, as Clark County's sheriff's candidates squared off at the Plaza.
U.S.-India nuke treaty hits snags WASHINGTON -- Yucca Mountain amendments are complicating Senate debate on a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India.
Judges dismiss Yucca suit, but state is happy WASHINGTON -- A panel of federal judges has thrown out one of Nevada's lawsuits on the Yucca Mountain Project, dismissing it on technical grounds.
Measure hastens waste to Yucca WASHINGTON -- Nuclear waste could start arriving at Yucca Mountain in 2010, seven years sooner than the government planned, under a bill introduced Wednesday in Congress that seeks to speed progress at the Nevada radioactive-waste site.
Ensign seeks OK for military to use tear gas WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on Wednesday pressed Pentagon officials to release a report on the military's use of riot control agents, and complained that police officers in America are given more leeway than U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq to use tear gas.
Internal audit names no names Despite criticizing the management of UNLV's troubled Institute for Security Studies, an internal audit released Wednesday failed to name any ISS workers or contractors that contributed to the institute's problems.
Lawyers for Hells Angels pin brawl on Mongols Despite warnings from confidential informants that members of the Mongols motorcycle club planned to attack rival Hells Angels during the 2002 Laughlin River Run, federal agents never acted to defuse what later evolved into a bloody melee, defense attorneys for a group of Hells Angels on trial said Wednesday.
Probable cause hearing scheduled for Jeffs in November ST. GEORGE, Utah -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs appeared in a Utah courtroom Wednesday and said he was willing to wait several weeks for a judge to decide whether to send him to trial on charges of arranging an underage marriage.
