Kelly “Amber” DuPriest was strung out on methamphetamine June 7 when she drove a stolen car toward a group of Henderson police officers, ignoring repeated commands to stop.
Darren Mack, convicted of murdering his estranged wife and then shooting the judge handling their divorce, lost an appeal and his retirement this week.
Jeff and Steve Guinn stepped out of their parents’ front door Friday to make the first public comments by family members about the death of former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn.
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Engineers prepared to abandon their vigil over BP’s broken oil well Friday as ships and workers evacuated the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie. The mechanical plug that’s throttled the oil for a week will be left closed. The only way BP would know if the cap had failed would be satellite and aerial views of oil gushing to the surface.
WASHINGTON — Department of Energy officials are moving so fast to terminate the Yucca Mountain program that they did not put together a master plan to guide the shutdown of such a major project, auditors said in a report Friday.
MUMBAI, India — It looks like an iPad, only it’s 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a string of “world’s cheapest” innovations to hit the market out of India.
ATLANTA — A fungus usually found in the tropics has taken root in the Pacific Northwest and has been blamed in the deaths of 15 people over the last six years, health officials said Thursday.
Thrash and burn with a lead-heavy bill via the latest installment of the downtown Rock the Block concert series. Featuring new school deathcore brutes Born of Osiris, femme metal favorites Kittie, hardcore bruisers Stick to Your Guns and many more, the only thing missing from this gig is the neck brace you’ll need the next day.