Rumors spread after a long-term substitute replaced Advanced Technologies Academy teacher Pat McGuinness in May. Some thought he had been fired, said Zachary Mirman, the school’s 2012 valedictorian. While McGuinness was recovering from a car accident, the Clark County School District fired him. But Mirman and many current students didn’t learn McGuinness was fired until they read a Review-Journal story Monday night. Students reposted the story in the school’s Facebook group.
Haitians who live in the United States on borrowed time while their country continues to rebuild itself from the earthquake two years ago will now be allowed to extend their visas an extra 18 months, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.
About 60 women were gathered Tuesday at the behest of the Riviera casino’s marketing department and KOMP-FM, 92.3, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Crazy Girls” with the “world’s longest butt lineup,” re-creating the topless show’s iconic pose that has been plastered across billboards since the 1980s.
Sports betting may not be regulated federally soon. But gaming industry executives believe a positive outcome of New Jersey’s court battle to legalize wagering on sports ould set the stage for other states to legalize the industry. Only four states allow sports betting, and Nevada is the only state where bettors can wager on individual sporting events, from soccer to basketball and football.
Travelers coming into or leaving Las Vegas on Delta or Hawaiian airlines have another reason to stop and shop at McCarran International Airport.
Assembly District 9 candidate Kelly Hurst filed a criminal complaint Tuesday in Clark County District Court to disqualify his opponent Andrew Martin from running on the grounds he does not live in the district.
The start of the trial over the unpaid construction bills and workmanship flaws at what was the PH Towers Westgate will be put off one more day.
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.