LOS ANGELES — Marilyn Chambers, the pretty Ivory Snow soap girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit 1972 movie “Behind the Green Door,” has died at 56.
Nevada’s lieutenant governor asked a judge on Monday to disqualify the state attorney general, who’s prosecuting him on charges of mishandling a big college savings program, and to dismiss the charges.
Penn & Teller are agents for charity this week. On Wednesday morning, the Rio headliners will donate suits to Goodwill in a publicity push to help needy job seekers.
Durango High School students gave a spring performance of Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” but they’re expecting next year to be a tragedy.
CARSON CITY — Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio on Monday pitched the need for a state-financed tax study, noting that one hasn’t been performed in 20 years.
A panicked husband called 911 in 2006 to report that his wife had drowned in a bathtub.
A Saville Middle School counselor was arrested this weekend on a charge of lewdness with a minor involving explicit text messages to a 13-year-old female student, an arrest report obtained Monday said.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate’s top Democrat told lawmakers Monday that a new program for low-risk parole violators and drug and alcohol offenders would reduce the state’s prison population and save millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Jane Ann Morrison’s column in Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal contained an error. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge James Mahan’s dismissal of a securities case against Daniel Chapman, Sean Flanagan and Herbert Jacobi. The case is closed, not unresolved as stated in the column.
Another below-average year on the Colorado River will soon shrink Lake Mead to a level not seen since President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his “Great Society” and the Beatles bared their “Rubber Soul.”
The state Supreme Court dealt a blow to anti-smoking forces Monday when it declined to stop lawmakers from weakening Nevada’s smoking ban.
The Nevada Legislature has cleared the first of several nonbinding deadlines, a Friday milestone intended to purge the Capitol of hundreds of bills that lacked support in their committees of origin.
Harrah’s Entertainment will need to negotiate further debt relief if it hopes to avoid bankruptcy, bond analysts said Monday after examining results of the company’s latest debt swap program.
Feuding CityCenter partners MGM Mirage and Dubai World are trying to repair their fractured relationship in an attempt to fund the remaining costs needed to complete the $8.7 billion Strip development.
With the state’s economy in a free fall, the number of bankruptcy filings in Nevada exploded last year.
Henderson’s first female city manager was fired Tuesday, ending an 18-month tenure that city council members say created “a culture of fear.”
The City Council voted unanimously to fire Mary Kay Peck in what was originally intended as an evaluation.
