Japanese government officials today suspended operations to prevent a nuclear plant from melting down after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility. The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant was damaged in Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami killed an estimated 10,000 people.
Assemblyman Ed Goedhart wants the federal government to pay Nye County and Nevada for contaminating an estimated $18 billion worth of water under the Nevada National Security Site through 828 underground nuclear tests.
Carl “Bill” Hoffman, a lawyer for the Clark County School District, has been named a U.S. magistrate judge in Las Vegas.
The federal probation department is recommending that the judge sentence Connie Farris, former chief executive officer of failed Global Express Capital Corp., to 11 years and eight months in prison for fraud and related crimes.
A woman who was found dead Sunday at a house fire near Mount Hood Street and Owens Avenue was identified Tuesday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
A collision between a sport utility vehicle and a bicyclist early Tuesday near Cheyenne Avenue and Buffalo Drive left the driver dead and the bicyclist in critical condition, Las Vegas police said.
Foreclosure activity slowed significantly across the West in February with filings down in Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington, the foreclosure listing service ForeclosureRadar reported today.
A man who stole more than $26 million through mining and real estate investment scams was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison and ordered to pay his victims $23.5 million in restitution.
Las Vegas police were fired upon as they tried to pull over a reckless driver in the northeast valley Tuesday afternoon. The driver, arrested at 2:59 p.m. after a chase, could face felony charges.
Even after he had returned to his office with an approval in hand, Bill Berdie still expected something to go wrong with his company’s attempt to win a retail concession at McCarran International Airport.
The Clark County Commission on Tuesday voted against allowing North Las Vegas to flush treated sewage from its new $240 million wastewater treatment facility into an open, county-owned flood control channel. Without the channel, wastewater from the plant has no place to go.
