When Brad Emaus was promoted to the 51s from Double-A New Hampshire on June 1, he was on a bus bound for a short trip to Reading, Pa., and arrived in Las Vegas with just a pair of jeans and a couple of shirts.
Southern Nevada Health District officials on Tuesday found themselves answering questions from a Clark County commissioner who pointed to 5.5 percent pay raises the district’s employees will receive this year and asked how the district will cover the higher labor costs in the face of ebbing tax revenue.
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats broke through a Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2½ million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier.
A jury Tuesday heard an interview recorded in 2007 in which Charles Conner, 61, described the slaying of Beth Lynn Jardine to Las Vegas police as “a blind rage thing.”
Clark County commissioners today shunned the idea of hiring a private company to supply a firefighting force at McCarran International Airport to save money. But they were open to having more of the county’s firefighters trained to handle airport emergencies.
Valuable collectibles commemorating black history in Las Vegas have been stolen from the Walker African-American Museum & Research Center.
About a dozen protesters blocked traffic on the Strip this afternoon with a message for U.S. Sen. Harry Reid: Pass legislation that prohibits discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.