“Drive safe,” were the last words Marychris Rodriguez ever spoke to Vicente, her 20-year-old son. That was as he headed to a one-night stage job on the Strip to help “load out” the Tom Jones show, which had finished its run at a local hotel. Vicente never returned.
A 79-year-old woman died Saturday morning after an SUV ran a stop sign and struck the vehicle she was a passenger in at a highway interchange near Boulder City, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
RENO — With the financial backing of a California winery owner, activists on Saturday purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a state-sanctioned auction in Nevada to keep the horses from going to the slaughterhouse.
PHOENIX — A seventh challenge to Arizona’s tough new immigration crackdown says training materials designed to teach police officers how to enforce the law give “vague and ill-defined factors” as reasons to question someone’s legal status.
Several fans swarmed Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan for autographs and pictures today. DeRozan had a decent rookie season for the Raptors after being selected in the lottery last year and is clearly one of the star attraction’s of Toronto’s summer league team.
Las Vegas police said officers shot and killed a man who pulled out a handgun at the Costco in Summerlin on Saturday afternoon. Capt. Patrick Neville said police received a 911 call from Costco at 12:47 p.m. of a man inside the store destroying merchandise. Neville said police were later told the man had a gun.
