Boyd Gaming Corp.’s top two officers each had their compensation rise by about 1 percent last year, the company’s proxy statement filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals.
Clark County prosecutors in a contentious Family Court hearing Wednesday argued Victor Fakoya doesn’t have the right to a court-appointed attorney and asked a hearing master to close the courtroom to the public as the Nigerian immigrant fights to regain unfettered access to his own children.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he specifically denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia is becoming the first U.S. jurisdiction to allow Internet gambling, trying to raise millions of dollars from the habits of online poker buffs and acting ahead of traditional gambling meccas like New Jersey and Nevada.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine man is teaching people how to grow medical marijuana at what’s being called “Marijuana State University.”
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Who says government has to be boring? A dozen state lawmakers in Oregon are convinced it doesn’t need to be. They slipped the lyrics to Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” into their speeches on the House floor last year. And they did it right under the noses of colleagues, journalists, lobbyists, staff and the public.
LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — Police say an Ohio man found his wife’s body lodged in a basement window at their home when he returned from an out-of-state trip.
The Party on the Rocks concert series is scheduled to present Bruce Hornsby at 9 p.m. Saturday at Red Rock Resort’s Rocks Lounge, 11011 W. Charleston Blvd.
The United Way of Southern Nevada’s Young Philanthropists Society read last month to students at Hollingsworth Elementary School, 1776 E. Ogden Ave., as part of Nevada Reading Month.
Valley Hospital, 620 Shadow Lane, recently completed a three-suite endoscopy department, concluding the final phase of a $26 million surgical services expansion and renovation. The project included an operating theater, pre- and post-operative units and waiting areas for patients.