For about 10 minutes Friday night Lucky Lady Lucy was the brightest light in Las Vegas. Organizers of First Friday torched Lucy, a 20-foot-tall wooden showgirl, in front of thousands of cheering locals.
Military veterans Jeremy Staat and Wesley Barrientos crossed the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge at the Hoover Dam on Friday as part of their 100-day, cross-country bike ride.
There will be winners and losers under higher education Chancellor Dan Klaich’s effort to rewrite how the state’s colleges and universities are funded, he told the system’s governing Board of Regents on Friday.
A District Court judge declared the state’s law allowing medical marijuana distribution unconstitutional on Friday, calling it “ridiculous” and “absurd.”
BOSTON — A former student at a Roman Catholic college has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming administrators didn’t do enough to help her when she complained that her roommate was having too much sex in their dorm room.
Victoria Villegas, a veteran Clark County prosecutor under federal scrutiny, has been fired. “She’s no longer with our office,” District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Friday.
Authorities say an automatic fire sprinkler system helped douse a blaze in a dry cleaning business in a strip mall in Henderson.
Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire for more than five hours Friday in North Las Vegas, with flames shooting hundreds of feet in the air that could be seen as far away as Southern Highlands in the southwest valley. Smoke from the blaze could be seen in Henderson.
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