After weeks of harsh rhetoric about the supposed risk to the state in accepting federal funds for expanded unemployment benefits, Gov. Jim Gibbons announced Wednesday he wants the state to take the money after all.
Michael Chronister admits he needed a kick to force him to stand on his own feet.
All eyes were on Porsche Hughes when she entered the courtroom. Hughes then testified against the man who, in effect, took her legs from her. … The defendant on trial, 44-year-old Steven Murray, is accused of plowing his pickup into a bus shelter on July 7 while under the influence of prescription drugs.
Three men with suspected ties to Eurasian organized crime were arrested in a fraud scheme this week, with authorities seizing $2 million in property from one southwest valley residence, Las Vegas police said.
A 16-year-old student is in custody after authorities confiscated a loaded .22-caliber handgun from him at a Las Vegas high school, school police said Wednesday.
West Valley Imaging and its principals, Dr. William L. Boren and Dr. Luke S. Cesaretti, must pay the federal government $2 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false or fraudulent claims to Medicare.
CARSON CITY — An Ethics Commission member said Wednesday that former Agency for Nuclear Projects administrator Bob Loux found flaws in the state payroll system that allowed him to increase his own and his agency’s salaries without being discovered.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An Air Force F-22 fighter jet crashed Wednesday in the Southern California desert, killing a test pilot for contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
The Washington Digest that ran in Sunday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal incorrectly reported how Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., voted on a public lands bill. He voted against it.
WASHINGTON — The 2010 federal budget blueprint that is being formed this week in the Senate will contain a nod to Nevada and other states battered by the mortgage crisis, according to Sen. Harry Reid.
It’s funny how seemingly minor things can lead to other bigger, better and totally unanticipated things.
Frank Krmel Jr. makes a happy living doing what the rest of us traffic jam-bedeviled motorists can only fantasize about.
Jazz fusion that packs a punch and some disco deathcore highlight the latest roundup of Vegas discs:
An evening of Latin music performed by Los Pinguos will be presented Saturday at the East Las Vegas Community/Senior Center, 250 N. Eastern Ave.
Phil Keoghan, host of CBS’ “Amazing Race,” plans to make a pit stop in Las Vegas Monday and Tuesday during the first leg of his 3,500 mile bike Ride Across America.
Sometimes, you just don’t know the answer, but it never hurts to try for a little creativity. Over at funnyexam.com, there is a fine collection of going for broke when a test question is just too hard. Vote on your favorites, whether it’s the one where the student writes “Caketown” on a 50 states test or the student who says the chemical formula for water is “h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o.”
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The House of Blues has some gospel competition this Sunday. “Praise,” billed as an “irreverently reverent gospel experience,” will be presented at 2 p.m. at South Point.
To say Emika Porter shops thrift stores is to call Diane von Furstenberg a dressmaker. The 29-year-old Las Vegas local does more than shop secondhand. She monitors the stores, dissects them and then squeezes every ounce of style out of them. Only to leave with an overflowing cart that tallies up to the same amount you proudly spent on a jersey dress at Forever 21 last week.
If the economy has you window shopping Neiman Marcus with a padlock on your purse, you might want to broaden your horizons. Las Vegas is home to some of the most impressive shopping outlets that boast a slew of brand names at a fraction of mall costs.
In the spring of 2006, officials at Foothill High School, in suburban Henderson, required valedictorian Brittany McComb to submit her graduation speech to them for advance censorship, as has become standard policy.
In Carson City, the Legislature’s Democratic leaders remain adamant that they have not yet decided whether taxes must be increased to counter cuts proposed by Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons.