Clark County commissioners have overseen University Medical Center for as long as anyone can remember. But Commissioner Rory Reid wants to form an independent board to govern the county-owned hospital and remove the commission from UMC’s daily operations.
In a signing ceremony at Wynn Elementary School, Gov. Jim Gibbons on Wednesday approved legislation intended to remove a barrier that kept Nevada from competing for up to $175 million in federal grants for public education called Race to the Top.
Randy Kwasniewski, the Hard Rock Hotel’s top executive who was found dead in his home Tuesday, died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the Clark County coroner’s office said this afternoon.
Family friend and attorney David Chesnoff said this morning that the family is asking for privacy.
Las Vegas visitor volume climbed 4 percent in January, the fifth straight year-over-year monthly increase in tourism numbers.
Home sales in Las Vegas increased 4.5 percent in February and median prices fell 12.8 percent from the same month a year ago, the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported. February’s 2,390 single-family home sales are “fairly solid” for what is traditionally a slow time of the year, Realtors association president Rick Shelton said Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said.
An eight-car accident at the intersection of Lake Mead and Nellis boulevards will cause delays until at least 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Las Vegas police said.