The Clark County School District’s 2010-11 enrollment is 309,977, an increase of 501 students over last year, district officials announced Monday.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — George Blanda, the Hall of Fame quarterback and kicker whose 26-year career was remembered for a remarkable run of late-game theatrics with the Oakland Raiders, has died. He was 83. Blanda retired just shy of his 49th birthday in 1976, playing longer than anyone in pro football history.
Nevada’s taxable sales posted their best increase in years in July, but local retailers and analysts said it could be years before transactions return to their pre-recession levels.
LONDON — A wealthy British businessman who owns the company that makes the two-wheeled Segway has been found dead in a river in northern England after apparently falling off a cliff on one of the vehicles, police said Monday. The body of 62-year-old Jimi Heselden and a Segway personal transporter were found in the River Wharfe.
Erik Scott was carrying two handguns and a total of 18 cartridges when he was shot by police outside the Summerlin Costco store, a Las Vegas police detective testified Monday during the coroner’s inquest into Scott’s death.
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — They get laundry service, TV, three hot meals a day and even ice cream for dessert. Everyday life for the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground now includes some of the comforts of home – at least those that can be lowered through narrow holes. The miners are sleeping on cots that were sent down in pieces and reassembled. They can speak with their families using a phone that also was taken apart and put back together down below.
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida man spared his two biological children when he fatally shot his estranged wife and four stepchildren early Monday before turning the gun on himself, police said. Seven children were inside the home when Patrick Dell, 41, shot Natasha Whyte-Dell, 36, and her four children, who were all pronounced dead at the scene. A 15-year-old at the home was brought to the hospital. Neighbors said Dell was kicked out of a club Sunday night because he was drunk and making threats. It was unclear if the threats were directed at his family.
BOSTON — Cancer patients, brace yourselves. Many new drug treatments cost nearly $100,000 a year, sparking fresh debate about how much a few months more of life is worth.