Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comment likening a Republican lawmaker to a schoolyard bully is drawing a rebuttal from his target — and a suggestion from another senator that he apologize.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the April 29 slaying of Richard Blevins.
A 34-year-old Las Vegas man was sentenced to 36 months to 120 months in prison for Medicaid fraud, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
A 3-year-old was critically injured after being hit by a car that fled the scene Monday night.
A northwest Arizona mother and her two sons who were on their way home from a rabbit show in Reno were among the dead in a Sunday night crash northwest of Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol and sources in Arizona.
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has redeemed a political career sidelined by scandal by winning his old congressional seat.
A man living in Las Vegas was nabbed in a nationwide sweep aimed at arresting the country’s most dangerous noncompliant sex offenders.
The lawyer for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, charged in a car chase and a police confrontation in California, asked a judge Teusday that his client be enrolled in a court program that will push him into mental health treatment.
Clark County commissioners decided Tuesday against raising property taxes to help with the finances of University Medical Center.
Hedge funds are traditionally the province of the super wealthy, but Anthony Scaramucci is taking SkyBridge Capital — a “fund of funds” that creates portfolios of hedge fund investments — in a different direction targeting the “mass affluent.”
Rep. Joe Heck on Tuesday urged Congress to cut red tape for search missions on public land, a call spurred by cases where bureaucracy hindered Southern Nevada recoveries for months.
State Senate Minority Leader Michael Roberson said Tuesday his 75-page bill to tax the mining industry another $300 million a year starting in 2015 remains the only viable tax proposal with a chance to pass before the Legislature adjourns June 3.
Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved extending a month-to-month contract with a local company for specimen collection and drug testing services to the county’s Department of Family Services.
The man accused in the deadly Colorado theater shootings wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, his lawyers said Tuesday.
Attorneys for James Holmes said in a court filing they plan to formally ask for the change of plea at a May 13 hearing.
One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another heard pounding on the home’s doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.
Both times, police showed up but never went inside, neighbors say. Police also paid a brief visit to the house in 2004.
WASHINGTON — Filipino veterans seeking long-delayed compensation for helping the United States fight World War II would receive help documenting their service under a bill revived Tuesday in Congress.
Rapper Flavor Flav on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to two domestic violence charges he faces on allegations that he threatened his fiancee’s 17-year-old son with a butcher knife in October.
Five years ago, the city effectively cut off the historic West Las Vegas neighborhood from downtown.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the physician at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, ran his main endoscopy clinic like an “assembly line,” pinching pennies and risking the health and safety of his patients, a prosecutor told a jury on Monday.
U.S. commercial casinos collected $37.34 billion in gaming revenues in 2012, the second-highest figure ever produced by the nation’s gambling states.
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones industrial average is punching through another milestone: its first close above 15,000.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Intel workers secretly taped a “Kick Me” sign to the back of a co-worker as a prank, then kicked the confused man a number of times as employees at the Rio Rancho Intel plant laughed hysterically at the episode, according to a federal lawsuit.
Internet service for CenturyLink customers in Las Vegas was restored by about noon on Tuesday, following an outage that lit up Twitter and customer service lines through the morning.
PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. — With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete each other’s sentences. Their first wedding dance, he recalls, was to the song “Unchained …” “Melody,” she chimes in.
City National Bank on Tuesday named John Wilcox its Nevada regional executive, replacing veteran banker Larry Charlton, who retired at the end of April. Wilcox, 57, will also serve as regional banking manager for Core Banking, overseeing City national’s branches in Nevada and San Diego.
June 5 is the final day of public school in Clark County, and several local organizations are planning summer camps to keep kids busy and safe until school starts again in August.
Fireballs illuminated downtown Las Vegas on Sunday during a demonstration of Tony Hsieh’s flame-spewing Preying Mantis. Hsieh parked the contraption in front of the new La Comida Mexican restaurant as a favor to the owners, Michael and Jenna Morton and John O’Donnell. Hsieh is founder and CEO of Zappos. (Video courtesy of Brian Hayashi)
Having twins means twice the work, but twice the reward. For Mother’s Day, View looks at three Summerlin-area mothers, all with twins, but with very different stories.
Perry Parker is the guy behind Perry Parker Golf, a teaching facility located in Mission Viejo, Calif. In addition to a long list of impressive credentials, Perry has Hemophilia A, the most common type of Hemophilia.