To make sense of the world, we must slice it up. We must categorize the parts. We put them in their place.
A 54-year-old man fatally shot his ex-wife at her home while their 13-year-old son was in the next room and then turned the gun on himself Tuesday afternoon, Henderson police said.
The Henderson City Council approved an additional $5 million in funding Tuesday for the city’s Voluntary Employee Severance Program.
A man suspected of attempted murder in California was arrested by a task force in the northeast valley Tuesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
A top California lawmaker sent a letter to federal health authorities suggesting U.S. officials investigate whether Nevada dumped mentally ill patients on the Golden State, the legislator’s office confirmed Tuesday.
An ordinance to ban newsracks on the Strip will be drafted for consideration by Clark County commissioners.
A Henderson officer who drove a damaged SWAT vehicle until it burst into flames won’t be driving another police car for a while.
Both sides have been called back to the bargaining table in the third day of the drivers strike against Las Vegas’ second-largest taxi company.
With more of his reforms in shambles than in action, Superintendent Dwight Jones will leave the Clark County School District halfway through his four-year contract. Hired in October 2010 for a $358,000 annual compensation package, Jones publicly announced his departure Tuesday. His last day is March 22, well short of his contractual requirement to give 90 days’ notice, School District sources said.
It was not Anthony Marshall’s final regular-season home game, so there was no ceremony to honor UNLV’s three seniors, but he decided to make it his night anyway.
Donald Pallack is looking for marble rye in a restaurant-style loaf with slices that are all the same size — understandable to anyone who, like me, gets frustrated trying to make sandwiches with really huge pieces and really tiny pieces from the same loaf.
Why is Las Vegas about to have three new restaurants, Heraea and Xishi at the Palms and SHe in Crystals at CityCenter, that are clearly targeted to women? For slightly differing reasons, it seems.
NEW YORK — For anyone who believes TV already is saturated with sports of every stripe, stay tuned.
The Hualapai tribal corporation that managed the Grand Canyon Skywalk in northwestern Arizona has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after a federal judge upheld a $28 million judgment in favor of the Las Vegas developer who built the glass bridge.
Nevada bankruptcy Judge Bruce A. Markell is leaving the federal bench after accepting a professorship at Florida State University.
Nevada came close to losing its top water czar to a Cabinet post in Washington, D.C. Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy confirmed Tuesday that she was on the “short list” to become President Barack Obama’s next secretary of Interior.
A federal jury in Las Vegas has ruled in favor of Alaska Airlines Inc. in a defamation case brought by five Egyptian businessmen and four women.
The largest shareholder in Affinity Gaming has sued the casino operator’s board of directors, saying changes in the company’s governance have breached fiduciary responsibility.
The effects of automatic budget cuts hit more than 220 Federal Aviation Administration employees in the Las Vegas Valley on Tuesday. They are among 47,000 nationwide who have 15 days to respond to furlough notices and tell their supervisors which days they will take unpaid leave from April through September.
Nevada would more quickly report mentally ill patients to a federal registry to ban people committed to institutions from buying firearms under a bill that also would require background checks for all gun purchases.
If “The Bachelor” TV show can post Twitter feeds from viewers during broadcasts, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway figures it can offer instantaneous social networking quips at a social media nerve center at this weekend’s NASCAR weekend, featuring guests from Team Lowe’s Racing, NASCAR, Sprint and media churning out real-time comments.
The state Senate unanimously passed and sent to the governor Tuesday a bill that would change the formula on how the state distributes taxes to local governments.
The man killed in a hit-and-run on Feb. 27 has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as 60-year-old Joe E. Collins.
International Game Technology stockholders re-elected seven of the slot machine giant’s current board members but also selected one nominee proposed by a dissident group of shareholders.
In a dramatic reversal of their no-new-taxes position, Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday that state government must spend more money on education and announced they support increasing mining taxes to accomplish that goal, although not until 2015.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. offered to sell the off-Strip Rio and the World Series of Poker to PokerStars, a spokesman for the owner of the online gaming business claimed in an email Tuesday. The statement came a day after American Gaming Association attorneys wrote in a legal brief that PokerStars had been a “criminal enterprise for many years.”