Former U.S. Attorney for Nevada Gregory Brower is joining a law firm with an office in Las Vegas.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A former North Carolina body parts harvester was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for what prosecutors described as a heinous fraud scheme in which he falsified medical records of cadavers so tissues could be sold for transplant.
The Las Vegas Philharmonic Pops Orchestra played to a full house Saturday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Artemus Ham Hall. The audience enjoyed the evening thoroughly. The orchestra appeared to as well.
RENO — A 16-year-old Reno girl who disappeared last week while riding her bike was found early Monday with her brother-in-law in Indiana, police said.
Technically, the Silverado girls tennis team played a road match Monday.
MINNEAPOLIS — Brett Favre added another feat to his overflowing resume. Now he’s the first quarterback in history to beat all 32 NFL teams.
Donald Cerrone doesn’t like Jamie Varner and has made that abundantly clear to anyone who will listen during the buildup to his main event fight on Saturday in San Antonio.
The Nevada Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a civil case that centers on the actions of a Las Vegas polygraph examiner.
UNLV football coach Mike Sanford now is under the microscope of the university president’s office. … President Neal Smatresk said Monday he was troubled by the state of the program following Saturday’s 63-28 loss at the University of Nevada, Reno, in which the Rebels gave up 773 yards. … The Rebels dropped to 2-3 and are 13-39 under Sanford, who is in his fifth season.
Kay Woods, an 80-year-old Las Vegas woman who lived with chronic pain and illness for more than a decade, tried to kill herself twice before she was slain by her husband on Sept. 24, an attorney said Monday.
Now the public has twice as many chances to visit a little-seen national wildlife refuge about an hour from the Strip.
It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since Tom Brokaw gave us his remarkable book, “The Greatest Generation.”
One man was found dead Sunday night in what police are calling a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a domestic dispute turned into a police standoff in the 6300 block of Hobart Avenue, near Jones Boulevard and Washington Avenue.
Drug overdoses last year killed three times more children in Clark County than in 2007, with prescription drugs causing half of the fatalities, according to a report released Monday.
A 26-year-old man and three teenagers pleaded not guilty last week to murder and robbery charges in the beating death of an 82-year-old Henderson man earlier this year.
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation reported Monday that it had created 366 jobs in September using some of the $208.7 million in federal stimulus funds it’s receiving.
District Judge Stefany Miley applied for and was granted a temporary protective order against her husband, who was arrested on domestic abuse charges last week, court documents obtained Monday said.
CARSON CITY — Jean Stoess said Monday she won’t resign from the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners unless that is what Gov. Jim Gibbons wants her to do.
Victor Veliz and Timothy Chester, who are accused of collaborating to kill Chester’s parents last week, made their first court appearances Monday.
A man found guilty of shooting and killing a former Tibetan monk in downtown Las Vegas in 2000 was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility of parole after 20 years by a District Court judge last week.
An inspector for the Clark County Fire Department recently found several fire safety deficiencies at the Paris Las Vegas, but did not document them in a report, as she should have. A county spokesman said the report will be written when fire inspectors return to the Strip hotel to follow up on the first inspector’s findings.
CARSON CITY — Josh Hicks, Gov. Jim Gibbons’ former chief of staff, on Monday opened an office in Reno for a national law firm whose work includes lobbying federal, state and local governments.
A 20-year-old prostitute pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and robbery in connection with the slaying of one of her frequent customers two years ago, according to District Court records.
Two Sundays ago, Aubrey O’Day went to an emergency room for the first of three ER trips in a week, she says. She felt terribly ill and run-down. She had worked a lot before arriving in Vegas. Then came a marathon of rehearsals for “Peepshow.” And emotionally, a photo scandal had taken a toll.
Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort cranked up its snow-making machines on Mount Charleston late Sunday, the earliest date on record, in hopes of being the first ski area in the nation to open this year.
Three men suspected in the 2007 slaying of a Salvadoran man who was alleged to be a gang member pleaded not guilty in District Court last week.