Las Vegas police on Thursday arrested a 35-year-old man for the December murder of a jewelry salesman.
Juan Manuel Lopez faces charges of murder, conspiracy to commit a crime and nine counts of possessing a credit card without cardholder’s consent. He is being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
Federal regulators charged a former local bank executive Friday with misconduct for his role in the failure of Silver State Bank, which was seized in September 2008.
Rob a bank of $20 with a gun and go to prison. Rob a bank of $2.4 million with phony paperwork and get probation.
KINGMAN, Ariz. — A convicted killer sentenced Friday for his escape from a state prison in Golden Valley, Ariz. will soon be transported to New Mexico to face a possible death sentence.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charlie Sheen has voluntarily entered a rehabilitation center, a decision that is putting his top-rated CBS sitcom on production hiatus.
SAN FRANCISCO — About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead. Almost simultaneously, the handful of companies that pipe the Internet into and out of Egypt went dark as protesters were gearing up for a fresh round of demonstrations calling for the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule. Egypt has done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is marking the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven astronauts. Families and NASA officials gathered at an outdoor memorial at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning. Twenty-five years ago, the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff. The seven astronauts who perished included schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
The lede story in Thursday’s paper was a jeremiad from The Associated Press quoting the Congressional Budget Office as saying the federal government is bleeding red ink like a stuck pig. Here is the lede: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from slowing, the government’s deficit spending will surge to a record $1.5 trillion flood of red […]
At polling places around Las Vegas — the sports books, in other words — some influential bettors are voting for Aaron Rodgers as the quarterback candidate most likely to win the Super Bowl.
There are few things sweeter than the sound of four voices singing in perfect harmony to the accompaniment of well-played acoustic guitars.
