“You don’t need to have money or plastic surgery to be a Vegas star,” Lady Gaga thundered to a sold-out MGM Grand Garden on Friday night during a highly stylized show that doubled as a cortisone shot to the audience’s collective self-esteem.
As hard as Las Vegas tries to be an adult playground, it can’t seem to shed its family-friendly reputation. And that’s why the city has become a popular family reunion destination.
The long decline in home prices may lighten the tax load for Las Vegas homeowners, but it’s also left 75 percent of them “underwater,” or with negative home equity, meaning they owe more than their home is worth, First American CoreLogic valuation service reported.
Social crusades such as immigration reform and pro- or anti-business causes like mining taxes usually grab headlines in the Silver State. Usually lurking on both sides of the ubiquitous election-year petition is a team of attorneys, unseen by voters, attracting little fame and racking up lots of billable hours.
Despite higher academic targets and more students living in poverty, the Clark County School District as a whole achieved the 2009-10 benchmarks of No Child Left Behind, the federal school accountability law.
Dr. Jeffrey Cummings, one of the world’s leading Alzheimer’s disease researchers, sits in his Las Vegas office and says a laid-back retirement may literally cause people to lose their minds.
Sierra Vista High School’s American Legion baseball team improved to 2-0 at the double-elimination American Legion World Series with a 12-2 win over Moline (Ill.) in seven innings today at Spokane, Wash.
A Wyoming mixed martial arts fighter faces a second-degree murder charge in the June beating death of former University of Nevada, Las Vegas, football player DeMario Reynolds Sr.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A California man drowned in the Colorado River in Bullhead City today. The name and hometown of the victim is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
RENO — Searchers have found human remains believed to be those of two missing miners at the bottom of a gold mine shaft in northern Nevada, authorities said today.
It had been a tough year for Roush-Fenway Racing’s Fords leading up the Brickyard 400 as the team and manufacturer were mired in a season long winless streak. Ford hadn’t seen a drought like that in NASCAR since their 1977 campaign. Owner Jack Roush was confounded by the lack of production from his cars that hadn’t won on his type of track – the 1.5 and 2-mile ovals – since the second race of the 2009 season.
A 77-year-old local man was arrested Friday for the 45-year-old slaying of his then-wife in Virginia, authorities in Virginia and Las Vegas confirmed Saturday.
An accidental house fire Saturday morning caused $180,000 in damage and left a person at the home and a firefighter hospitalized, Henderson Fire Department officials said.
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