CARSON CITY — Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, said Thursday she will hold meetings over the next month with business leaders and community groups to gather ideas on how to overhaul the state’s financial structure.
CARSON CITY — Starting today in the capital city, the Department of Motor Vehicles will start issuing driver’s licenses that have a new look and include security features that make them difficult to counterfeit.
• A story in Thursday’s Business section about September retail sales contained an error. The Associated Press erroneously reported the first name of a shopper interviewed. The shopper’s correct name is Veronica Gentry.
Financially strapped elderly Nevadans are howling over delays in the state’s Senior Citizens Property Tax/Rent Assistance Program.
Tennis hero Andre Agassi stages his highly acclaimed “Grand Slam for Children” event at the Wynn on Saturday. It stars Las Vegas’ own The Killers, plus Sheryl Crow, Rod Stewart, David Spade and others. I have more on that in today’s Neon section.
A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to hear arguments on whether a Las Vegas federal judge erred in denying a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of those in Clark County’s child welfare system.
Marc Anthony Colon has been described as a monster who beat to death 3-year-old Crystal Figueroa and dumped her body in a trash bin in 2006.
Democratic legislators and candidates for office bemoaned the lack of funding for public education Thursday but stopped short of pledging to create new sources of tax revenue.
Tanya Martinez said her brother Richard couldn’t wait for his 18th birthday because he was going to make a big change in his life.
RENO — A Nevada Supreme Court candidate has sharply criticized her opponent’s comments at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last month.
WASHINGTON — In 2005, a 6-foot marble statue of Sarah Winnemucca was donated by Nevada for display in the U.S. Capitol. For three years, it sat near a side door entrance to the House of Representatives wing.
CARSON CITY — Two Wynn Las Vegas dealers who filed a class action lawsuit in 2006 to end a tip-pooling program implemented at the Strip casino lost their case Thursday before the Nevada Supreme Court.
Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson saw his net worth decline by $4 billion last month because of the slumping national economy, and that was before Thursday’s nearly 679-point stock market meltdown.
A man convicted of beating his 57-year-old girlfriend to death with a hammer was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Las Vegas police arrested a 27-year-old man Wednesday night suspected of stabbing his mother to death in their southwest valley home.
Seven months after an IRS raid rattled the local nightclub industry, many of the practices that put Pure Management Group‘s empire in jeopardy continue at other clubs, sources say.
On the ball when off the cuff — that’s the improv mind spinning wildly and wittily into the comic unknown at the drop of a dare.
Andre Agassi says it’s not easy, signing up stars to perform during his fundraising concert, “Grand Slam for Children.”
The interior of Market Grille Cafe is attractive and soothing. There’s a fountain in a corner, big swaths of fabric draped from the ceiling, faux-painted walls, tabletops inlaid with photos of Greece, soft lighting and gentle Greek music. Pretty nice for a counter-service place in a strip mall, eh?
Pop upstarts The Jonas Brothers have added another show at the MGM Grand Garden arena on Nov. 29. Tickets are $45, $65 and $89.25 and go on sale at noon Saturday at the MGM Grand box office, 3799 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and Ticketmaster outlets.