A Las Vegas woman filed a lawsuit Thursday that accuses a certified nursing assistant of sexually assaulting her last year while she was recovering from seizures at Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center.
First Pure, now Privé. Look for another domino to fall this weekend.
The investigation into credit card fraud by a North Las Vegas police officer also turned up allegations that he took the license plate from a woman’s car during a traffic stop and used it as his own, according to an arrest report.
Phyllis Wattenbarger came to Las Vegas from Dayton, Ohio, in 1950. Three years later, Wattenbarger and her husband bought a house on Darmak Drive in the brand-new Westleigh subdivision on the south side of Charleston Boulevard between Valley View Boulevard and Cashman Drive. … Many of the houses in that neighborhood have stayed close to the same on the outside, enough at least to be considered for a listing on the Las Vegas Historic Property Register.
If a virulent form of the H1N1, or swine flu, virus spreads across the country this fall, you just might see triage centers open up in shopping center parking lots, where health care workers would decide who needs medical attention and who can recuperate at home.
CARSON CITY — Politicians from Nevada and Florida expressed outrage Thursday at a report that some federal agencies have put the two tourist hot spots on a “blacklist” when deciding where to hold conferences or meetings.
Disgruntled residents have bombarded Clark County officials with phone calls complaining about their tax bills rising while their property values sink in the economic downturn.
The Privé nightclub was denied a liquor license and ordered to cease operations by midnight Tuesday for failing “to abide by the duties of a liquor licensee,” the county’s Business License Department announced Thursday just hours after Planet Hollywood Resort paid a $500,000 fine for not properly overseeing activities at the nightclub.
The dead man who was found burned in the backyard of his northeast valley home on Tuesday has been identified as 76-year-old Thad V. Smith.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday revised his official financial disclosures for seven years, including the reporting on a controversial 2001 Las Vegas land deal.
It was the most rock star of injuries: Dude smashed his head getting out of his Ferrari.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Las Vegas Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
The Burger Joint has opened at the Flamingo Las Vegas, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South, with such options as a salmon burger with cucumber-dill relish and sour cream, plus an endless variety of design-your-own burgers. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays. Call 733-3333. …
In three years, Ditch Friday at the Palms has become one of the most popular pool parties in Las Vegas, drawing thousands of swimsuit-clad people in a six-hour time frame.
They were sitting on the deck and reminiscing, two founding members of bands with iconic song catalogs and 35-plus years of longevity.
Unlike some movies with similarly sobering themes, “The Hurt Locker” doesn’t waste its time with pompous pronouncements or sledgehammer symbolism.
Last year, Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz as “fantastically verbose.” Hiatt might have understated this character trait.
Primal, yet puzzling.
Such is the abstract appeal of “Confrontations,” an exhibit-size puzzle book of primal images interpreted through the artistic eye of Tennessee painter Erin Anfinson, displayed through late August at the Charleston Heights Arts Center.
So here in three words is a refutation for those (thankfully not many) xenophobes who have yet to appreciate the benefits of a diverse population (including restaurants) and chastise me for lauding spots serving food that’s not “Amurican”:
Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of seeing shows at Hooters Hotel takes on more appeal during one of the hottest, dog-day summer weeks of the year.
Imagine you’re visiting Idaho or Arizona. A cop pulls you over and asks to see your driver’s license. Then, even though your license is current, he draws his sidearm, cuffs you, and hauls you off to the calaboose. Your crime? You were driving on a Nevada license; you neglected to get a new and separate driver’s license, in advance, for each state you’re planning to pass through.
Clark County came into existence 100 years ago this month. Before its creation, Las Vegas was in Lincoln County, with the county seat 175 miles away in Pioche. Las Vegas civic leaders, upset by Lincoln County’s shenanigans and eager to control their own destiny, organized a campaign to carve out a new southern county with Las Vegas at its epicenter. The Las Vegas contingent persuaded the Nevada Legislature to split Lincoln County, creating Clark County on July 1, 1909.
President Obama’s frenzied attempt to nationalize health care has hit a few snags, despite the best efforts of liberal congressional Democrats.
Investors are looking toward the future and not the past when it concerns International Game Technology.