OMAHA, Neb. — When Danielle Nitzel found her three-year-old marriage drawing its last breath in 2004, she couldn’t afford the minimum of $1,000 she was told she would need to hire a divorce lawyer.
Longtime Nevada boxing referee Toby Gibson, who spent more than two decades working fights worldwide, died at his Las Vegas home Monday night.
Devine Racing, which engineered an extraordinary evolution of the Las Vegas Marathon but also struggled mightily to meet its financial obligations, will handle all aspects of this year’s Dec. 7 race.
The national glare on college football is its usual powerful November self, what with more BCS updates than holiday sales and those in South Bend buying out the town’s supply of toilet paper to wrap around Charlie Weis’ house and trees and car and anything else connected with the besieged and yet handsomely compensated Notre Dame coach.
By coaching UNLV to its best record since 2003, Mike Sanford appears to have guaranteed his return for a fifth season.
A Vietnam War veteran was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping and killing a 68-year-old woman at an assisted living apartment complex in 2007.
CARSON CITY — Although the amount of money the Nevada Department of Transportation spends in Clark County is increasing, the state’s most populated county still receives much less in transportation spending than its citizens pay in fuel taxes.
This week readers want to know what is all that construction at Flamingo Road and Cabana Drive; is a motorist allowed to switch lanes while traveling through an intersection, and why are drivers under 21 allowed to have a blood alcohol level below 0.02 percent? And the Road Warrior shares some good news regarding fuel prices.
RENO — Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday that he will call the Legislature into a special session Dec. 8-9 to pass laws needed to deal with a $330 million state budget shortfall.
In the two years since he was arrested and accused of letting an elderly patient die, paramedic Carrol L. Meeks has won a clean slate from state regulators and got his job back with the Pahrump Valley Fire-Rescue Service.
Two brothers accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art were given probation Tuesday.
One of two charred bodies found in a torched car left at a remote desert location this month was identified as that of 26-year-old Kristin Cicali by the Clark County coroner’s office Tuesday.
Authorities are requesting that parents ask their children if they might have been victims of a sex offender nabbed Tuesday by a multi-agency child pornography task force.
Shaquanda Worthy is excited to have working electricity in every room of her new apartment.
Clark County School District Northeast Region Superintendent Marsha Irvin has been hired as the new chancellor for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, starting Jan. 14.
RENO — A new report predicts “disastrous” economic consequences unless Nevada invests more in higher education to train skilled workers and attract new businesses and industries.
A woman convicted of threatening federal agents is pinning her hopes of a successful appeal on whether her psychiatrist is under investigation for overprescribing medications to his patients.
CARSON CITY — A district judge refused Tuesday to stop enforcement of the state’s new eminent domain constitutional amendment.