SPARKS — Nearly an hour remained before the other contending players would complete their rounds, but A.J. McInerney wasn’t worried.
• LAKE MEAD — Stripers have been chasing the shad that are spawning in the shallows around the Vegas Wash arm. With lures catching only a few stripers, baits of choice continue to be cut anchovies, sardines and squid.
In the moments before officer James Manor plowed into a pickup attempting a left turn, he was driving his patrol car 109 mph without flashing lights or siren, Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Chaz Higgs’ conviction for murdering his wife, state Controller Kathy Augustine, has been upheld by the Nevada Supreme Court.
CARSON CITY — Harrah’s Entertainment is warning legislators that Nevada’s tourism industry could lose the business of gays and lesbians if they fail to override Gov. Jim Gibbons’ expected veto of a bill to allow couples to enter into domestic partnerships.
A prominent Nebraska philanthropist pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges that he failed to repay almost $15 million in gambling debts to two Las Vegas casinos.
CARSON CITY — With less than two weeks left in the 2009 legislative session, state lawmakers voted Tuesday for bills dealing with foreclosures, energy conservation, medical ethics and elections.
Sign company owner Mark Peplowski remembers it vividly. North Las Vegas City Councilman William Robinson and developer Randy Black Sr. don’t remember it at all. Yet somehow in 1996, the councilman’s $2,650 sign debt to Peplowski was paid off by Black.
A judge has disqualified the state attorney general’s office from prosecuting Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki on felony charges that he misappropriated state funds while serving as treasurer.
The 61-acre former railroad yard owned by Las Vegas is called Symphony Park.
One high-profile inmate at High Desert State Prison earned protection from a white supremacist gang member by giving him information on new arrivals, former Aryan Warrior Michael Kennedy said Wednesday in federal court.
CARSON CITY — After being sidetracked most of the day by conflicts of interest that jeopardized crucial Republican votes, the state Senate approved a change to the rules to allow all members to vote on the budget and tax package late Wednesday.
CARSON CITY — Under a resolution approved 28-13 Wednesday in the Assembly, voters will decide in the November 2010 election whether to amend the Nevada Constitution to allow governors to pick Supreme Court justices and district judges.
Caitlin Norton’s homemade harp won a surprise visit Wednesday by the Blue Man Group to Shadow Ridge High School. For winning the group’s Create a Found Instrument contest, she also got a $1,000 scholarship.
The man accused of killing a UNLV student in a drunken driving crash was indicted this week on one count of causing a death while driving under the influence.
Is the state Legislature’s tax proposal an assault on the working class or a reasonable compromise that meets several important goals?
CARSON CITY — In a bipartisan vote, the Assembly agreed 42-0 Wednesday night to appropriate $2.477 billion in state tax revenue for the support of public school education.
Onstage in that great big Vegas showroom in the sky, the spirit of Sinatra will be ring-a-ding-dinging as the city he helped turn into an entertainment mecca begins the leap to a new level in the performing arts.
McALLEN, Texas — A Las Vegas man was caught trying to smuggle animal tranquilizers believed to be for use in assisted suicides into the U.S. from Mexico, and authorities there want to question him about the death of a U.S. woman found in a hotel.
Speakers for Danny Gans‘ memorial today will run the gamut from Steve and Elaine Wynn to Mayor Oscar Goodman to entertainers Donny and Marie Osmond.
North Las Vegas’ largest labor union has agreed to defer a 4 percent annual cost-of-living increase to save the financially struggling city money.
CARSON CITY — Even as legislators scrambled to put together the money to fund state government for the next two years, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford was looking ahead Wednesday, introducing a proposal to lay the groundwork for long-term changes to the state’s tax structure.
With warm winds whipping Southern Nevada’s wildfire season to an above-average start, those who will fight the blazes urged public lands visitors Wednesday to keep their cigarettes in ashtrays and don’t set campfires in restricted areas.
A jury on Wednesday convicted Thayer Burton, 18, of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the death of furniture store manager Robert Bills’ death.
Teachers who can’t pay their mortgages, working extra jobs to make ends meet, leaving their chosen vocation for better paying jobs and other tales of heartache confronted the Clark County School Board as it met Wednesday to approve a $2.1 billion budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
A disagreement about cleaning up polluted soil in a former rail yard downtown probably will go to court, but for now the city of Las Vegas and Union Pacific Railroad Co. have agreed to split some of the costs.