Tight supply is driving more homebuyers to the new-home market, even though the gap between new- and existing-home prices remains far above what it was during normal years. Dennis Smith, the Home Builders Research president, reported 462 new-home sales during July, bringing the total for the year to 2,717 sales, a 26 percent increase from a year ago.
Dr. Dipak Desai and two nurse anesthetists pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the death of Rodolfo Meana, a victim of Southern Nevada’s hepatitis C outbreak. Desai, 62, Keith Mathahs, 76, and Ronald Lakeman, 65, each face one count of second-degree murder. The felony charge that does not involve premeditation but carries a prison sentence of 10 years to life.
LOS ANGELES – As an umpire for decades on some of tennis’s biggest stages, Lois Goodman mixed it up with John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, Roger Federer and the Williams Sisters.
BIG BEAVER, Pa. – Police say a western Pennsylvania woman blamed her nonexistent twin sister for stealing items from a hotel room.
LOS ANGELES – Natalie Wood’s death certificate has been changed to reflect some of the uncertainties and lingering questions surrounding the actress’ drowning more than 30 years ago in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California.
You’d have to search the state with fairly sensitive instruments to find a more ardent supporter of Nevada’s Open Meeting Law than I am. But I don’t see any merit in the allegations that a violation of the law occurred that should keep a school district property tax measure from the ballot.
The federal government inexplicably controls more than 85 percent of the land within Nevada’s boundaries.