A man died of apparent suffocation Thursday evening after several dead palm fronds fell on him while he was trimming a towering palm tree at a home behind the Boulevard Mall.
The general contractor for Harrah’s Las Vegas now has the required building permits, but corporate spokesman Gary Thompson on Thursday did not yet know when halted work will resume in an employee hallway.
In the matter of two ballot measures that supporters want on Las Vegas’ June 2 city elections ballot, it’s time to slow down and think hard, according to a brief filed Thursday by the city.
WASHINGTON — Nevada would be granted 2,085 acres of federal land near Nellis Air Force Base to establish a North Las Vegas campus for UNLV under a bill that was reintroduced Thursday in Congress.
The judge who sentenced former football star O.J. Simpson to prison in Nevada told lawyers for several convicted co-defendants who received probation that their clients remain on the hook for restitution to a victim in the case, a court official said.
Hate crime and bias policies at Nevada’s colleges will be reviewed and could be rewritten after a controversial draft policy at UNLV was lambasted by the system’s chancellor.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of schools scattered around the country closed as the nation’s swine flu caseload passed 100 Thursday, and U.S. authorities said they eventually could produce enough vaccine for everyone if necessary — but that shots couldn’t begin until fall at the earliest.
Worried Southern Nevada residents have been flocking to stores, buying up surgical masks, hand sanitizer and latex gloves in hopes of protecting themselves from the possibility of swine flu infection.
Ten years before the USS Nevada was attacked by Japanese warplanes at Pearl Harbor, sailor Andrew T. Levering found life aboard the battleship to be fun, adventurous and full of camaraderie.
As many as 592 support staff in the Clark County School District could be notified by mail today that their positions have been eliminated for the next school year, district officials said.
RENO — Conservationists say in a new report that livestock grazing poses a threat to fish and wildlife across more than three-fourths of their dwindling habitat on federal land in the West.
The man accused of causing the death of a popular UNLV student in a drunk driving crash is back behind bars after being mistakenly released from jail, authorities said.
WASHINGTON — Bob Abbey, a former state director for the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, is in line to be nominated to head the BLM nationally, Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday.
We’re running out of words to describe the sustained slide in Nevada’s taxable sales.
CARSON CITY — A policy analyst for a conservative think tank has done what neither Gov. Jim Gibbons nor the state Legislature has been able to do — balance a much smaller state budget without tax increases or federal stimulus funds.
In Monday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Associated Press misstated the reason for the resignation of Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray in 1973. The resignation was triggered by Gray’s admission that he had destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt, not his testimony that he had given Watergate-related FBI files to the Nixon White House.
CARSON CITY– The Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass acted contrary to state laws last year by blocking public defenders from challenging her decisions on whether their clients were mentally competent to stand trial.
Michael Caine says he considers his performance in “Is Anybody There?” one of his best.
Brit popsters Duran Duran enliven The Pearl at the Palms on July 10.
Sometimes, you feel like clubbing. And sometimes, you feel like dancing and having a few drinks but without battling the usual club crowds or long lines.
The slow-food movement doesn’t have it easy in Las Vegas, where the desert environment frustrates many local gardeners. Slow Food Las Vegas will take a step to change that with its Tres de Mayo event from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Cooperative Extension’s Lifelong Learning Center, 8050 S. Paradise Road.
Saturday’s light welterweight superfight between Britain’s Ricky Hatton and the Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao is the biggest fight to hit Vegas since December, when Pacquiao pummeled Oscar De La Hoya into retirement.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Her reviews are done anonymously at Review-Journal expense.
The Kentucky Derby is Saturday, and similar to other big events, many of the casino parties are invitation only. But there is still a lot of good action for everyone else, especially if you are placing a bet.
If you’re under the care of a cardiologist, I’m thinking Catfish Alley shouldn’t be your first choice, since virtually everything in the restaurant is fried. Well, foodwise, anyway.
He’s a "Lonely Man." He’s lonesome tonight. He’s down at the end of Lonely Street. He’s Trent Carlini and, well, you get the idea.