Debbi Krum’s son has struggled with drugs since he was a teen, but she testified Friday that she never saw him use methamphetamine after he was released from prison and moved into her home.
Before he died, Michael Jackson was down low. Broke. The butt of jokes. “Whacko Jacko” — the man who adored children a wee too much. Now that he’s gone, the physical worth of the man is measured in fragments. On Friday, Julien’s Auctions sold photos of Jackson, autographed albums and other memorabilia for a hefty sum at Planet Hollywood. Jackson’s lot was expected to gross $10,000 to $30,000. It brought in $205,000.
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Maybe it was the economy, maybe it was a lack of faith, but long-time poker pro Jeffrey Lisandro could not find a sponsor to back him in this year’s World Series of Poker.
Now that Nevada law allows public housing agencies to consolidate, the valley’s three housing authorities will move quickly toward becoming one “superagency” that would be among the largest of its kind in the country, officials said.
Gov. Jim Gibbons’ phone records will be handed over to the woman who accused him of assault in the run-up to the 2006 gubernatorial election, a federal judge ruled this week.
State health officials delivered cease-and-desist letters Friday to two Las Vegas retail stores suspected of operating as illegal and unlicensed surgical centers.
A story in Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal about the state’s new energy commissioner job contained an error. The Legislature does not have the power to confirm the appointment, which will be made by the governor.
It was 1983, I was in the second grade, I desperately wanted a cassette copy of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and I had practically no idea why.
In his decade spent living and working in Las Vegas, the doctor at the heart of the Michael Jackson death investigation has left a trail of legal and financial troubles. … Tonight, a spokeswoman for Dr. Conrad Murray said the doctor is not considered a suspect after a three-hour meeting with Los Angeles police. For more developments, click here.
My crusade to help you check out the medical malpractice history of your doctors has not ended, but there has been progress at the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners, so I’m not yet the Queen of Lost Causes.
Their last conversation was about 18 months ago. Close friends throughout their iconic careers, Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond stayed in touch by telephone over the years.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, an ethics watchdog group, filed complaints Wednesday urging Senate and federal election officials to investigate unanswered questions about Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair.
Call him a dreamer, but Panorama Towers developer Laurence Hallier is convinced somebody can make $10 million in the next three to five years on the purchase of his three-level, 7,000-square-foot “chairman’s penthouse,” advertised in the Las Vegas Review-Journal for $2.8 million.
Nevada’s streak of double-digit drops in taxable sales continues, according to a Friday report from the Nevada Department of Taxation.
The Palomino Club’s former owner and his son are heading to prison for life, but the North Las Vegas strip club’s future looks brighter, at least for the short term.
The federal government won a judgment against a key defendant in the CMKM Diamond stock fraud case for $55 million, but a source close to the case said the defendant’s whereabouts is unknown.
