Truth is, retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf didn’t care much for his popular “Stormin’ Norman” nickname. The seemingly no-nonsense Desert Storm commander’s reputed temper with aides and subordinates supposedly earned him that rough-and-ready moniker. But others around the general, who died Thursday in Tampa, Fla., at age 78 from complications from pneumonia, knew him as a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure.
A fire inside an Olive Garden in Henderson caused an evacuation of the restaurant Thursday afternoon, the Clark County Fire Department said.
The Nevada National Guard will conduct its annual training exercise in conjunction with New Year’s Eve events in Las Vegas with more than 200 troops at locations around the Strip, at McCarran International Airport and on standby around the valley.
A former insurance agent and amateur archaeologist convicted of looting ancient Indian graves in the Northern Nevada desert and later offering $10,000 in opals for a hit man to kill a former business partner has died in prison in Oregon.
Authorities found a body Thursday they think is Jade Morris, a 10-year-old girl missing for almost a week.
Her body was discovered in an unfinished development in a North Las Vegas neighborhood near Deer Springs Way and North Fifth Street.
High traffic volume and ongoing construction on Deer Creek Road will result in lengthy commutes and limited parking for visitors to Kyle and Lee canyons this long holiday weekend.
CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson University student Nathan Weaver set out to determine how to help turtles cross the road. He ended up getting a glimpse into the dark souls of some humans.
Prosecutors have filed charges against two University of California, Berkeley law school students accused in the death and decapitation of an exotic bird at the Flamingo.
With less than five days remaining until the turn of the year, Sen. Harry Reid said Thursday the nation likely is headed over the fiscal cliff.
DORSET, Vt. – Vermont State Police say a man faces a drunken driving charge after driving onto the lawn of a historic home once owned by the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The federal Bureau of Land Management has signed off on a massive pipeline project to carry water from rural counties along the Nevada-Utah line to Las Vegas.
ST. LOUIS – Fontella Bass, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with “Rescue Me” in 1965, has died.
