A medical convention in town this week is bringing health and fitness knowledge to neighborhoods where medical advice is scarce. “We practice as one community, we care about the nation,” Carolyn Barley Britton, president of National Medical Association, said of the organization’s volunteer efforts in communities where it convenes. “We just don’t come and keep our eyes on ourselves.”
Nevada gaming regulators fared better than other state agencies at the Legislature.
Station Casinos on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection after reaching an impasse in months-long negotiations with creditors on a plan to restructure the gaming company’s $5.7 billion debt load.
“We have been working with the various creditor groups for months and it has been very difficult to get all of the creditors to come to a consensual agreement among themselves and with the company,” Chief Accounting Officer Thomas Friel said.
Apartments are getting cheaper to rent in Las Vegas thanks to increased competition from the “shadow market” of single-family rental homes, a commercial broker said Tuesday.
Federal drug enforcement agents and Los Angeles police descended on the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson’s doctor Tuesday in their continuing probe of the pop star’s death.
