For years, Timothy Chester talked about killing his parents, according to a couple in Chester’s mobile home park who said Chester confided in them.
It was thought that should Chicago win in its bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, then Reno would be all but shut out of any chance of hosting the 2018 winter games. The thinking was the International Olympic Committee would not want the same country hosting two consecutive events.
A Nevada lawyer who now lives in Colorado appeared before a Las Vegas judge Friday and pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that stem from a $60 million securities fraud scheme.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A man who murdered a Good Samaritan who provided him a place to stay was given a 16-year prison term during his Friday sentencing.
A dust advisory has been issued for the Las Vegas Valley from this afternoon to Sunday afternoon.
RENO — A Reno-area homeowner was left homeless and at least one cat was killed in a fire Thursday that apparently was started by pet dogs, fire investigators said.
Families used to bring Checkers bags of carrots, pears and apples.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled the Primadonna is not liable for the injuries a teenage boy suffered in 2005 when he and his drunken relatives were thrown out of the hotel after fighting with other guests.
Some are unwanted. Some are displaced. Some are sick or hurt. Clark County picks up roughly 1,000 desert tortoises a year and takes them to a 220-acre conservation center where they are cared for, studied and sometimes released into the wild.
CARSON CITY — Like other Las Vegans, Assemblyman Marcus Conklin has been shocked at the number of deteriorating foreclosed homes in his neighborhood, replete with weed-covered lawns and strewn about trash.
John Ensign should send David Letterman two dozen roses. The talk show host’s revelation about the extortion attempt against him is overwhelming The New York Times’ investigation into legal and ethical questions surrounding Ensign’s affair.
After a Las Vegas Justice of the Peace decided that ACORN, the controversial grass-roots organizing group, would stand trial on felony charges it didn’t take long for prosecutors and defense attorneys to begin trading public shots.
Fallout from a sex scandal involving Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., now includes new allegations of an illegal cover-up.
In a two-day event next week at the Atomic Testing Museum, historians will join former pilots and engineers who conducted spy plane operations at Area 51 in panel discussions to separate myths from realities about Cold War work at the Groom Lake installation.
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s three children are adjusting well to being raised by their grandmother, a judge said Friday.
A 63-year-old man was killed Thursday evening after his sport utility vehicle, which was parked in his driveway, rolled backward onto him and crushed him.
CARSON CITY — The life imprisonment sentence given a man who shook his infant son to death has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
Secretary of State Ross Miller knew that Nevada was losing revenue when business owners forgot to pay or evaded the state’s $200 business license fee, but he didn’t realize just how much money.
Former real estate agent Eric Alpert, whose nefarious business practices were brought to light by the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2003, has been arrested by North Las Vegas police for renting homes he did not own or have permission from the owner to rent.
Former talk radio host Jack Ferm was indicted on 10 counts of theft in the operation of a home loan modification service on Friday, but his defense attorney said Ferm violated no law.
Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle on Friday denied a motion filed by Ronald Boeddeker’s Transcontinental Corp., former owner of Lake Las Vegas, to dismiss the bankruptcy case filed by the Henderson resort community.
The judge hearing the Fontainebleau Las Vegas bankruptcy case appears ready to fast-track a sale of the stalled project instead of going through the more expensive liquidation process.