A story in Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal about a couple facing felony child abuse charges after an 18-foot python bit their son contained an error. It should have stated that the couple waived their right to a preliminary hearing Thursday and are scheduled to formally enter Alford pleas to gross misdemeanor charges on April 2.
Clark County officials want to put off opening a low-level offender jail for at least a year to save $13 million in operating costs and help offset an expected budget shortfall.
In one corner: Elaine Wynn‘s attorney Don Schiller, who represented Juanita Jordan in her divorce from NBA icon Michael Jordan.
CARSON CITY — More than 60 measures were proposed Friday in the Nevada Legislature as lawmakers rushed to meet a Monday deadline for bill introductions by individual lawmakers.
A high school math teacher is accused of dealing methamphetamine and marijuana, but police said they have no evidence that the Durango High School employee was selling drugs to students.
CARSON CITY — Legislative money committee members have told Nevada Human Services officials that money must be added back into budgets providing services to children from low-income families and to pregnant women.
CARSON CITY — Nevada’s every-other-year legislative sessions would be changed to every year under the latest of many such attempts to be proposed by state lawmakers.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers on Friday debated a bill to boost penalties for thieves who steal copper wiring and then peddle it on the street or to recycling firms.
Facing a flagging economy and dwindling tax revenues, the union representing Las Vegas’ rank-and-file police officers agreed to forgo cost-of-living raises under a tentative deal for a new contract reached late Thursday.
Brian O’Donnell has hiked the back country of Nevada’s wildlands and he’s been to Red Rock Canyon at least 100 times.
CARSON CITY — The economic gloom that marked the start of Nevada’s 2009 legislative session didn’t seem to faze lobbyists, who spent $57,996 on food and drinks at dinners, receptions and other events during February.
The road worker struck and killed by a motorist on Feb. 20 has been identified as James Philip Wilson Jr., a 35-year-old Las Vegas man.
Tempers are flaring in Carson City — and Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford finds himself right in the middle of it.
Harrah’s Entertainment’s owners are buying part of the company’s debt to help ensure they remain in control of the company should it be forced into bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported this week.
Galaxy Gaming is not your typical startup casino vendor.
A Las Vegas Sands Corp. board member resigned Monday because he disagreed with last weekend’s forced resignation of former company President Bill Weidner.
Lorrenzo Wade scored six points to lead San Diego State to a 20-18 halftime lead in the men’s championship game of the Mountain West Conference tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center.
