North Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal double shooting Friday night, the second in less than a week.
If 11th-ranked UNLV (22-5, 6-3) does not regroup and show resiliency against first-place New Mexico (21-4, 7-2), hopes of even sharing a Mountain West Conference regular-season title will get buried in The Pit. The game tips at 10 a.m. Saturday as a split-national telecast on CBS (Cable 8) and will be broadcast on KWWN (1100 AM, 98.9 FM).
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada has chosen the Las Vegas Review-Journal as its latest Emilie Wanderer Civil Libertarian of the Year award winner for its series on police shootings.
Two Las Vegas natives sat side by side on stage, each an example of life lived in the extreme. Here was Vernon Fox, a retired safety who played eight seasons in the National Football League. There was James Allen, a former gang member who spent 28 years behind bars for killing a man during a 1980 home break-in.
Southern Nevada officials on Friday learned the region will lose about $3 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funds this year, a 60 percent cut from fiscal 2011.
There were no outside bidders on Friday for the Hooters Hotel at a U.S. Bankruptcy Court auction, meaning the off-Strip resort’s main lender, an affiliate of Los Angeles-based Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, will become the owner.
State Sen. Elizabeth Halseth, R-Las Vegas, involved in a messy divorce and child custody battle, announced Friday that she was resigning immediately.
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