RENO — Winds gusting more than 100 mph downed power lines in northern Nevada on Tuesday, causing power outages for thousands of Reno residents and wreaking havoc with travel as a storm dumped snow and rain on the Sierra.
Clark County and Las Vegas will work to combine some of their fire services to save money in the prolonged recession.
Matt Shaw will not be back for his senior season at UNLV after the popular 6-foot-8, 240-pound center failed an NCAA administered drug test for marijuana at the NCAA Tournament, RebelNation.Net has learned.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Two living specimens of the fabled giant Palouse earthworm have been captured for the first time in two decades, University of Idaho scientists revealed on Tuesday. Researchers on March 27 located an adult and a juvenile specimen of the worms, which have become near mythic creatures in the Palouse region of Washington and Idaho.
MIAMI — Home prices in February posted their first annual increase since the end of 2006, lifted by temporary tax credits for homebuyers.
In Afghanistan, soldier Ian Michael Deutch survived nine months of enemy combat as a fire support specialist with Nevada’s 221st Cavalry Wildhorse Squadron.
NEW YORK — The man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body. One person passed by in the early morning. Then another, and another. Video footage from a surveillance camera shows at least seven people going by, some turning their heads to look, others stopping to gawk.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s health minister has a remedy for the nation’s high-blood- pressure problem: More sex. Minister Jose Temporao says adults should be exercising more to help keep their blood pressure down – and he says a good cardiovascular workout includes sex, “always with protection, obviously.”
LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood sign, a beacon to stars and star-struck alike, has been saved from urban sprawl under a land conservation pact announced Monday after a donation by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner capped a multimillion-dollar fundraising drive. The huge sign overlooking the city was in danger of having its distinctive setting on the flanks of the Santa Monica Mountains crowded by construction of estate homes on nearby Cahuenga Peak.
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