The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 37-year-old woman who died early Monday when her car was rear-ended at the corner of Decatur Boulevard and Smoke Ranch Road as Latasha Hale of North Las Vegas.
Andy Hafen’s 45-vote victory in the race for Henderson mayor was confirmed Tuesday in a recount that failed to find even a single ballot out of place.
The words “I hunt Mormons” and “Car bomb” were found scribbled in chalk on a residential driveway Tuesday, prompting the lockdown of nearby Goldfarb Elementary School as police investigated.
A story in Tuesday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal about the Las Vegas City Council Ward 4 election contained a voting tally error. Stavros Anthony won the June 2 election with 3,309 votes, and Glenn Trowbridge had 3,299 votes.
The Las Vegas U.S. attorney’s office appears to have relented in its demand for the identities of all of the people who wrote comments on the Review-Journal Web site about a criminal tax trial in progress. Now it is asking for information pertaining to only two comments that might be construed as threatening to jurors or prosecutors.
RENO — A Northern Nevada irrigation district official under indictment on federal fraud charges conceded he knew water deliveries to farmers were being falsified, a federal prosecutor and government agent said in court documents.
Nevada’s junior U.S. senator, Republican John Ensign, recently let it be known he might consider a presidential run in 2012.
Like a rider kicking his dead horse in the desert — hoping against hope that he can get the overburdened beast to rise and carry him just a little further, as it always did before — so do those who believe big government could still solve our ills if only we weren’t so “greedy,” refuse to believe there’s any limit to the taxes and mandates they can load onto the backs of struggling citizens.
5th Avenue Pub bar, 906 S. Sixth St., received 14 demerits June 5. Violations included brown slime inside ice machine. GRADE: B
When the hunger for something fancier than bar food strikes, it’s not always necessary to leave your stool.
This week brings good news and bad news on Krakus hams, being sought by John MacMillan and Helen Panegasser: Yes, the deli-sliced Krakus is available in Las Vegas. No, the canned hams don’t appear to be. John Bisci Jr., Delores Sullins, Marlene Peters, Barbara Jo Pfeffer, Judy Kackley, Jeff Wheeler, Connie Benton, Raymond Moreton and Lois Kupec all said the sliced-to-order ham is available in the deli section of various Albertsons stores. …
Raw milk isn’t pasteurized. Pasteurized milk … well … is. And that’s all we can state definitively on the issue.
Anxious to get revenue wherever they can find it, Clark County commissioners approved a construction proposal that will make way for slot machines at an airport rental car facility despite a recommendation to reject all the bids.
