Both northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 15 near Mesquite closed Friday night because of separate collisions, the most serious involving five motorcycles and a vehicle, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Sequins and feather boas are as much a part of Las Vegas’ history as mobsters and neon, and now a museum celebrating part of that culture has made downtown Las Vegas its home.
CARSON CITY — Someone forgot to tell Nevada Democrats they are supposed to lose legislative seats in this year’s elections.
On Friday, Robert Bishop Smith and two other boys who were treated by UMC’s burn unit — Brandon Moore, 16, and Weston Moon, 11 — were on hand as the Firefighters of Southern Nevada Burn Foundation thanked members of the burn unit for their work with a picnic outside the hospital.
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning in Southern Nevada from 1 p.m. Saturday through 8 p.m. Monday.
A Clark County jury spared a killer the death penalty Friday, deciding instead that Deangelo Carroll should receive a life term with parole eligibility after 40 years.
A 28-count criminal indictment unsealed in District Court Friday charges Dr. Dipak Desai and two of his former clinic workers in the hepatitis C outbreak that turned into one of Southern Nevada’s worst medical calamities.
The 911 call came from a mental health clinic where a distraught Malissa Thatcher had hoped to meet her suicidal husband, where she hoped he could get some help.
WASHINGTON — Nevada’s entrant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, seventh-grader Dakota Jones of Las Vegas, spent Friday recovering after he was eliminated in a morning semifinal round.
SEATTLE — After a series of leaked prototypes, it’s almost a given that Apple Inc. will unveil a new version of the iPhone during its annual software developers conference that opens Monday in San Francisco. The revelation of a splashy new iPhone would clear up one of the highest-profile Apple mysteries of the year.
LOS ANGELES — Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on “Shrek”-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald’s, forcing the burger giant to recall 12 million of the cheap U.S.-made collectibles while dramatically expanding contamination concerns about the toxic metal beyond imported children’s jewelry.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Researchers have embarked on an ambitious study to track the health of thousands of high school graduates over a half century in a Montana town where a toxic mine has killed hundreds of people and made it the deadliest Superfund site in the nation. People who attended Libby High between 1950 and 1999 and then moved away are being asked to submit to tests to help determine the extent of contamination caused by asbestos mining and processing in the northwestern Montana town.
A story published in Wednesday’s Review-Journal about the death of Las Vegas Sun publisher Barbara Greenspun should have said she married her husband, the late Hank Greenspun, in 1944.
After his recent declarations about the carnival-like “degradation” of the Las Vegas Strip, hotel developer Steve Wynn is naming names. And he’s blaming CityCenter for dragging down room rates.
Drew Dondero has replaced Don Logan as president of the 51s.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Iowa Western’s Brent Seifert hit a two-out, two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to eliminate the College of Southern Nevada from the Junior College World Series on Thursday.
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