A judge has reduced bail for one of two men accused of abducting, beating and robbing Javon Walker after the NFL player spent a night club-hopping in Las Vegas in June.
The first week of the Beijing Olympics overflowed with love, unity and sportsmanship.
ELY — UNLV broke its eastern Nevada training camp Tuesday morning and headed back to Las Vegas with plenty accomplished and plenty to be hopeful about.
Miguel Pinango pitched six strong innings, and the 51s survived a late Fresno Grizzlies rally for a 7-6 victory in Pacific Coast League play Tuesday in Fresno, Calif.
CARSON CITY — State Ethics Commission members Tim Cashman and Erik Beyer were named Tuesday as a two-member panel to investigate whether Gov. Jim Gibbons pressured an Elko County official to give him a tax break.
A dead man stabbed multiple times in the back was found Tuesday at a central valley apartment complex, Las Vegas police said.
Are you ready to rip out your lawn but you just don’t have the green?
A respected surgeon who allegedly became involved in a physical confrontation with family members of a University Medical Center patient has been barred from seeing trauma patients at the hospital.
RENO — More than 12 percent of felony defendants sentenced in Nevada last year received punishments that fell outside limits set by law, according to a university study.
As a child, when Doriann Myers saw roadside firefighters collecting donations in their fire boots, it meant the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon was happening soon.
The man who hatched a murder-for-hire plot tied to bodybuilders Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan was sentenced Tuesday to eight to 25 years in prison by District Judge Douglas Herndon.
A teacher’s guide on explaining statutory rape to teenage students has been flagged by the Clark County School Board, whose members want more information on the instructional material before approving it for use.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court is providing a live webcast of today’s oral arguments on challenges to three proposed ballot questions.
This week readers want to know whether construction crews need a permit to bring all traffic to a halt while they enter and exit a job site, are there plans to put a sign on southbound Interstate 15 identifying the exit for St. Rose Parkway, and is there a law regarding people handing out religious information in the middle of the street. Also the Road Warrior learns he sometimes needs to use an Elmer Fudd accent to understand a personalized plate.
I ran across a couple of student interns from Beijing working the Olympics. They had some pretty specific thoughts about Las Vegas.
A proposed code that would make it legal to tend feral-cat colonies stirred an emotional debate Tuesday between supporters and critics, most of whom described themselves as animal lovers.
State welfare officials on Tuesday adopted one controversial change in policy and sidelined another after hearing testimony from advocates for the poor, who called both measures punitive and immoral.
A four-hour visitation is scheduled Friday for former Olympic boxer Rhoshii Wells, who was shot and killed Aug. 11 after an argument.
K TNV-TV, Channel 13, reporter, Jeff Gradney has been fired after he and his girlfriend were accused of soliciting male partners on the Internet.
CARSON CITY — A tax amnesty program implemented by Gov. Jim Gibbons has brought in $6.6 million since July 1, exceeding the $4 million amount anticipated by the Legislature with several weeks remaining for businesses to participate.
•An item in the Aug. 13 Norm column incorrectly implied that Marco Porceddu still owned the Bella Luna restaurant on West Sahara which recently closed. Porceddu sold the restaurant two years ago. He is now a restaurant consultant.
A North Las Vegas teenager died Tuesday after a car hit him from behind, police said.
CARSON CITY — Former Nevada newspaper executive Jack D. King died Friday in a Tonopah hospital. He was 81.
