Las Vegas police shot a suspect in the northwest valley Thursday night. The person, who was not immediately identified, was taken to University Medical Center.
No. 1 pick John Wall had 21 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds as the Washington Wizards held off a late Dallas run for an 88-82 victory in today’s third game at Cox Pavilion.
Get ready for another round of intense heat. The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning from noon Friday until 9 p.m. Saturday for the Las Vegas Valley. The warning affects areas below 4,000 feet in Southern Nevada.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority could end up paying at least some of the cost for fighting the July 1 wildfire that swept through the Warm Springs area, destroying several homes, historic buildings and hundreds of acres of dense palm groves.
An airman remembers Capt. David Wisniewski during a service Thursday inside the Thunderbirds hangar at Nellis Air Force Base. Wisniewski died July 2 from injuries after his helicopter crashed amid hostile fire June 9 in Afghanistan.
An 84-year-old Las Vegas man was arrested on fraud charges Thursday after federal authorities accused him of duping patients and investors with claims that he was a retired physician who had developed a novel medical procedure involving stem cells.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina became the first Latin American nation to legalize gay marriage Thursday, granting same-sex couples all the legal rights that marriage brings to heterosexuals. The law’s passage has inspired activists to push for similar laws in other countries, and a wave of gay weddings are expected in Buenos Aires.
NEW YORK — The former CBS News producer jailed for trying to blackmail David Letterman is up for an Emmy award. Robert “Joe” Halderman was nominated Thursday for a News and Documentary Emmy award for his participation in an April 2009 “48 Hours” story about an American exchange student charged with murder in Italy.
MADRID — Rats and diseases infested Cuban prison cells so badly that some inmates tried to kill themselves and other did themselves harm, according to freed political prisoners who spoke Thursday in Spain.