Jurors completed their first full day of deliberations Monday in the first civil trial stemming from Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak.
United Airlines’ planned $3 billion buyout of rival Continental should not have any immediate impact on service at McCarran International Airport.
Westbound Sahara Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and McLeod Drive is closed Monday afternoon while Las Vegas police investigate a fatal accident.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — A SkyWest Airlines flight from Helena, Mont., to Salt Lake City was diverted to Idaho Falls after a passenger began banging on the cockpit door, saying he was a space alien and wanted to fly the plane.
Idaho Falls Police Sgt. Phil Grimes says other passengers on the Sunday evening flight helped restrain 32-year-old Matthew Kleindorfer of Las Vegas. The plane landed just before 6 p.m.
Kleindorfer faces misdemeanor counts of disturbing the peace and resisting arrest and a felony count of battery of an officer.
LAS VEGAS — A 34-year-old man pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges that he hacked a 4-month-old baby to death and critically wounded the infant’s mother with a medieval-style battle ax.