Jurors were given final instructions on Friday in the trial of Jodi Arias, who is charged in the stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona.
Nevada lawmakers want to take a closer look at the cost of keeping the death penalty in the state’s criminal punishment arsenal.
Favorable weather, lower operations and maintenance costs, due in part to the timing of power plant outages, helped boost NV Energy Inc.’s bottom line in the first quarter, the utility reported Friday.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — With legal gambling now moving beyond the casinos and onto the Internet, the industry is bracing for the most far-reaching changes in its history.
In what has been a rarity during its existence, Allegiant Travel Co. posted a decline in the number of passengers it carried in April.
Regional gaming operator Ameristar Casinos said a decline in revenues and profits in the first quarter was due to economic factors and new competition in several markets.
A bill moving its way through the Nevada Legislature would cap the cost of copies of public records at 50 cents per page.
MADRID, Iowa — An Iowa woman whose nose was severely injured by an attacking dog says her husband bit the animal to make it stop assaulting her.
Dozens of people rushed out of homes or cars to grab a share of an accidental bounty: about 1 million euros ($1.3 million) in all. The small fortune had flown from a safe that cracked open when the fleeing robbers panicked and threw it out the window.
They’re the three mascot musketeers, a trio of baseball-loving 20-somethings who go home every night from Cashman Field thankful for the powers of Febreze to knock down the pungent smell of sweat.
Rudy Moraga summed up his brush with death during World War II in five words: “It was kind of hairy.”
It’s the rock ’n’ roll equivalent of a disgruntled Doberman after a really bad day at the office, a Hungry Man portion of meat and potatoes metal about the horrors of war, being chased down by bullets and dying in the dirt.
He survived cancer. He bounced back from a motorcycle accident. So when Anthony Dirrell says he’s a blessed individual, believe it.
Romain Thievin took the visitor out for a little spin. OK, for a lot of spins, and they weren’t little ones, the sharp sideways movements of the red 2011 Ferrari 430 Scuderia into the turns after hitting nearly 120 mph on the straightaways.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s finance minister downplayed the impact of last week’s factory-building collapse on his country’s garment industry, saying he didn’t think it was “really serious” Friday, hours after the 500th body was pulled from the debris.
ATLANTA — Reese Witherspoon pleaded no contest and paid a $100 fine after berating a state trooper in Atlanta while her husband was given a sobriety test, an embarrassing exchange caught on a dashboard camera after the usually squeaky-clean Hollywood star had what she called “one too many” glasses of wine.
LOS ANGELES — Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49.
Meet Alissa Dale, who will dance the role of Lady Capulet next weekend in Nevada Ballet Theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.”
ATLANTA — Reese Witherspoon recalled that she panicked, said some “crazy things” and even claimed to be pregnant the night she was arrested in Atlanta on a disorderly conduct charge.
AURORA, Colo. — A Denver area second-grade teacher is accused of taping her students’ mouths shut when they wouldn’t be quiet.
CARSON CITY — Struggling Nevada homeowners facing foreclosure would be given added protections and advised of ways to keep their homes under a bill heard Thursday by an Assembly committee.
A North Las Vegas gun dealer is giving away $4,025 from the sale of a handgun once owned by rogue former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
SEATTLE — In sun-deprived Washington state, the promise of nice spring weather has prompted a small private school to give students a day off to enjoy the sunshine.
There are just a few days a year when horse racing is front and center in the mainstream media, and Kentucky Derby day is clearly the grandest of those days.
In the galaxy of big-screen superheroes — a rather glum lot — Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man is the snappy one.
A year ago, the machine gun range industry was a new thing in Las Vegas, and the city’s original Gun Store was prepared for the onslaught. By the end of 2012, eight other machine gun ranges had emerged, each offering its own version of the original’s business model.
Did your baby just get flattened by a falling meteor?
Whew. I’m sure glad Dr. Robert Voy’s prognosis that day in June 2012 proved wrong. So is boxing.
Hundreds of people attended, and about 150 officers dressed in formal uniforms took part in the 16th annual memorial service at the Capitol for Nevada’s fallen police officers Thursday.
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Family owners of beloved Vegas restaurant involved in wild lawsuit
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Mom killed in fatal crash near 215 Beltway identified
Las Vegas family suing to get son an extra year of high school