One of Southern Nevada’s worst medical calamities turned into a criminal case on Friday, when Dr. Dipak Desai and two of his former clinic workers were indicted for their roles in the hepatitis C outbreak.
FIRST THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE arrested the district attorney. Then the district attorney filed charges against a sheriff’s detective who arrested him. Then the detective was booked and released to return to work, where he sent out a news release about being booked, complete with his own mug shot.
Nearly a year after submerging into scandal with his confession to an extramarital affair and subsequent allegations of payoffs and misdeeds that have ethics and criminal investigators on his tail, U.S. Sen. John Ensign cherishes signs of what used to be normalcy.
According to the latest state estimates, the population of Esmeralda County slipped below 1,200 last year for the first time since 2004. Leading the slide was tiny Silver Peak, which lost 41 residents to a mine layoff in 2009. That amounts to almost a quarter of the community’s total population, easily the largest decline by percentage of any city or town in the state.
Continuing her stunning rise, Sharron Angle has shot into a clear lead in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, according to a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal that shows the Tea Party favorite heading toward likely victory Tuesday.
He’s pretty much the Charlie Brown of heavy metal, a tsunami of hair and hurt, his sharp-edged words all barbed wire and betrayal.
The poor souls who dare to challenge Mother Nature by stepping away from air-conditioned environments should prepare themselves for possible record-breaking heat in upcoming days.
An excessive heat warning remains in effect until 8 p.m. Monday for Southern Nevada, according to the National Weather Service.
Las Vegas talk-radio host Alan Stock claims the version offered by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Danny Tarkanian about their altercation at a GOP event on Friday is “absolute crap.”
A man from El Salvador drowned in Lake Mohave this afternoon, an official for the National Park Service said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — He was a coach when coaching meant something else, long before the job became a pathway to riches and fame.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shantanu Srivatsa and Anamika Veeramani sat nervously, side by side on stage. Once again, an Indian-American was going to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It was just a matter of what word and what time on Friday.
CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers have scored the first big win against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. An experimental drug significantly improved survival in a major study of people with very advanced disease.
To the editor: In response to the column by Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post in the Thursday Review-Journal regarding the chances of Sue Lowden or Sharron Angle beating Harry Reid:
Q: Our current board president was removed from the board for not attending meetings. She was put back on the board by outside intervention. She is now president with one other newly elected board member remaining.
Mira Villa, the new luxury condominium community located in the heart of Summerlin, welcomed its first new residents, including Marcia and David Cook.
In mid-April, mortgage interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate loans increased to 5.21 percent, an eight-month high and a reminder that low interest rates won’t last forever.