A printing error in Sunday’s newspaper left unclear the defendants who pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the investigation of the homeowners association scheme.
Education funding will be a primary focus of the 2013 Legislature. If majority Democrats call for higher taxes, they’ll do so with the goal of boosting spending on Nevada’s public schools.
CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow businesses to organize themselves as benefit corporations — a designation that allows for-profit companies to consider the social and environmental benefits of its business decisions.
DENVER — It’s a good thing Danilo Gallinari was a late scratch for the Denver Nuggets. With a bruised left thigh, he couldn’t have kept up with his hustling teammates as they sped past the aged and aching Los Angeles Lakers.
AMES, Iowa — Kansas coach Bill Self has 500 wins because Elijah Johnson “blacked out.”
The UNLV women’s golf team shot 14-over 302 in the first round of the Cal Classic on Monday and was tied for sixth in the 11-team event at Pleasanton, Calif.
On social media, fan reaction to Jon Fitch’s release by the Ultimate Fighting Championship ranged from shock to outrage.
After the International Olympic Committee recently ruled it no longer considers amateur wrestling a “core sport,” that beginning in 2020 Grecos and Romans and freestylers of every ilk will have to petition for inclusion into the Games (and good luck with that), a fellow named Charles P. Pierce, an excellent writer of long-form magazine stories, said this latest out-of-the-blue IOC edict has caused outrage both serious and worldwide.
CHICAGO — Marian Hossa skated along the boards, pumping his right arm as the United Center roared its approval.
INDIANAPOLIS — Armonty Bryant gets those awkward looks every time he tells someone he attends college at ECU.
Las Vegas’ redevelopment agency could redirect millions of dollars it spends financing debt to downtown area businesses under a proposal before the state Legislature.
Gambling and boozing in downtown Las Vegas is history.
A lawsuit filed Monday blames Brenda Stokes and the Bellagio in a razor blade attack that left blackjack dealer Joyce Rhone with a gash to the cheek so deep it revealed her teeth. The Bellagio is responsible for failing to ensure “that its property was reasonably safe and to protect and render aid to Plaintiff Rhone,” according to the lawsuit.
A program that has diverted city money to public art in Las Vegas for nearly a decade would be eliminated if Councilman Bob Beers has his way.
CARSON CITY — Assemblyman Steven Brooks will have to wait one year to buy a gun in Nevada from a licensed gun dealer because of information identified in a background check, the state Department of Public Safety said Monday.
A look at some of the DVDs, CDs and books hitting stores this week:
Kenneth Cherry Sr. set aside his grief long enough to hold a Saturday news conference after the shooting death of his son, Kenny Cherry Jr., two days earlier on Las Vegas Boulevard.
The leader of a dissident group of International Game Technology shareholders has offered to meet with the slot machine manufacturer’s chairman in an effort to resolve the company’s heated proxy fight before next week’s annual stockholders meeting.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. said Monday that its fourth-quarter net loss more than doubled from a year earlier primarily because of noncash impairment charges and lost business in Atlantic City caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Police have a message for friends of Ammar Harris: If you help him hide, you will be arrested.
CARSON CITY — Tired of creeping along Nevada highways at 70 mph?
CARSON CITY — Democratic legislators said Monday they want at least
$310 million more for public education in the 2013-15 budget period but acknowledged they do not know now where to find the money.
CARSON CITY — An audit released Monday found few inmates whose releases were delayed because of sentencing errors inappropriately entered into in a Department of Corrections computer system.
CJ’s Italian Ice & Custard, 3555 S. Durango Drive, is trying to introduce Las Vegans to an East Coast favorite –– frozen custard –– as well as Italian ice.
Las Vegas Golf & Tennis has opened a new 6,000-square-foot store to cater to its customers on the west side.
Question: I started a new lawn last fall, and I am very happy with the results. I want to reseed the areas that came up a bit thin. When and how should I do that so I don’t damage the rest of it?