KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Kingman man who entered a plea agreement in a 2007 homicide was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison.
The Regional Transportation Commission introduced nine new traffic cameras for residents who wish to check their morning commute route before leaving the house.
In a murder-suicide that claimed three lives, an 80-year-old man fatally shot his wife and son in their southeast valley home and then turned the gun on himself, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
David Finkelstein isn’t an EMT and doesn’t have direct daily contact with infants. … Yet he and many other Las Vegans on Thursday received H1N1 vaccinations that health officials have tried to reserve for those most at risk. …
All this week, people have not had to demonstrate that they indeed belong to one of the priority groups that the Southern Nevada Health District has stressed should be first in line. So some who aren’t in the groups — the health district doesn’t have an estimate of how many — have still gone home with a Band-Aid on their arm.
Dr. Lonnie Hammargren is one of the valley’s more colorful characters and owns of one of the area’s most unusual homes.
It’s one of the year’s most gripping thrillers, with a crackerjack team of undercover operatives tackling a clandestine high-risk mission.
Club Fortune casino in Henderson is celebrating its 10th anniversary Saturday with several promotions, including multiple points and a $100 cash giveaway every 10 minutes from 10 a.m.-5:50 p.m. All customers will be given a special anniversary T-shirt.
It looks like something cribbed from an arcade game. You know, the one with the remote-controlled claw that descends so that you can try and grab this trinket or that.
A free workshop on the basics of tea is scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. Nov. 5 and from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Whitney Ranch Recreation Center, 1575 Galleria Drive in Henderson. The one-session workshop, open to those 18 and older and sponsored by the City of Henderson Parks and Recreation Department, will cover tea categories, how teas are made and their origins. To register, visit www.cityofhenderson.com, activity 194026-38 for the first session, 194026-39 for the second, or visit any of the city’s recreation centers. For details, call 267-5850. …
Retitle a classic? Why not … “The King and Gloria Steinem”? … “The King and Betty Friedan?” … “The King and Germaine Greer?” “The King and Helen Reddy Singing ‘I Am Woman Hear Me Roar’?”
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Every Las Vegas nightclub prides itself on the celebrities it attracts. But, even in this glittery universe, LAX at Luxor ranks as one of the most potent celebrity magnets in town.
Think of Company Kitchen and Pub House as a white zinfandel of restaurants.
Hip-pop favorites Black Eyed Peas headline the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Dec. 29 and 30.
Rob Thomas is a pretty cool guy who is well aware of the fact that his songs routinely paint him as the opposite of as much.
At no risk of embarrassment, I can safely label “A Bronx Tale” — whose run at The Venetian Showroom has been extended through Saturday — one of the most exciting theater experiences I’ve had on the Strip in nearly 13 years of reviewing. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to seeing it. It’s too easy for a one-man show to turn monotonous, leaving you stuck trying to find a piece of set worth staring at.
The Obama administration will order companies that haven’t repaid their government bailouts to cut top executives’ average total compensation — salary and bonuses — in half, starting in November. Under the plan, cash salaries for the top 25 highest-paid executives will be limited to $500,000 and, in most cases, perks will be capped at $25,000.
Nevada’s casinos are accustomed to having bull’s-eyes on their backs. If it wasn’t expansions of tribal gaming or attempts to take college sports off the betting boards, it was local big-spenders seeking higher taxes on the resorts to fatten government budgets.
When I was in journalism school, we had a few foreign students who were not yet proficient in the English language. During one class exercise, we were asked to draft a basic news report about a car accident. One of the foreign students described the crash as a “heap of mess.”
Stephens Media, owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, is launching a weekly newspaper in Boulder City.
Real estate broker Forrest Barbee believes the free market generally works best without government interference. But he can’t dispute that a tax credit for first-time homebuyers is doing what it was meant to: spur home sales.
NEW YORK — Jillian Lung says she’s no environmentalist. Still, she couldn’t pass up a chance to install a carpet of solar panels atop her co-op in Queens.
Without several provisions in the federal stimulus bill, Nevada government might have shut down, jobs would have been lost and casino corporations wouldn’t have been able to restructure some of their long-term debt, sending additional companies into bankruptcy.
I had been flying between Tierra del Fuego, at the bottom of South America, and Canada for almost 24 hours. The ordeal involved a milk-run flight between Ushuaia and Buenos Aires and a red-eye to Miami. I then flew to Toronto and connected to a flight bound for Halifax, on Canada’s east coast.
