Because Nevada owes $681 million to the federal government, employers likely will pay a 12.5 percent higher state unemployment tax on each of their employees in 2013.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney won’t be able to shake up the White House race in the first debate with President Barack Obama today because he can’t win on issues important to the middle class, Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod says.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An Army veteran is seeking $10 million from the federal government, accusing a Veterans Administration nurse of repeatedly put ice packs on his penis after surgery, causing frostbite and gangrene and ultimately leading to the organ’s partial amputation.
Deputies searched mountain canyons and abandoned mine shafts around Virginia City on Tuesday after a prisoner escaped by locking a jailer in his cell a day earlier and fleeing into the rugged hills surrounding the historic Comstock mining district.
Kazuo Okada encountered another setback in his legal battle with Wynn Resorts Ltd., losing a bid to vote his former shares at the Nov. 2 annual meeting.
Clark County commissioners are asking Gov. Brian Sandoval for disaster relief after recent record floods caused an estimated $2.6 million in damage to government property.
Defense lawyers pushed hard Tuesday to delay this month’s long-awaited trial of Dr. Dipak Desai and two nurse anesthetists on criminal charges in the hepatitis C outbreak.
Passage of federal Internet poker legislation during Congress’ upcoming lame duck session will “take a little bit of gamblers luck,” American Gaming Association President Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. said Tuesday. He said legalizing Internet poker in the U.S. continues to be an overriding issue for the casino industry, which officially kicked off the Global Gaming Expo at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
A 75-year-old woman stricken last month with the year’s first documented local case of West Nile virus has died, and four other Southern Nevadans have come down with the disease, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Tuesday.
William Ronald Webb, the boyfriend of the late construction defects attorney Nancy Quon, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a failed suicide scheme involving Quon.
COQUILLE, Ore. – Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his hogs.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. – A dog has survived a 110-mile ride on the hot engine of a pickup truck during a Southern California heat wave.
Lt. Col. Dan Hampton logged 20 years and 608 combat hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon known to U.S. Air Force pilots as the Viper. Hampton shares the story of his experiences as a member of the Wild Weasels, the elite squad sent into war zones first, in “Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat.”
