MOORE, Okla. — Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives.
The House on Tuesday approved a bill that would automatically adjust cost-of-living increases for veterans benefits. The measure by Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Jon Runyan, R-N.J., was passed by voice vote. It would adjust Veterans Administration benefits each year much in the way that Social Security benefits are adjusted for inflation.
Nearly 20,000 Nevada homeowners have received an average of about $97,000 as part of the $25 billion national settlement over questionable foreclosure and lending practices by some of the nation’s largest financial institutions.
Culinary Workers Local 226 members voted overwhelmingly Monday to raise dues by $25 in the event of a strike this year against Strip and downtown resorts.
A bill that would require insurance companies that provide cancer coverage to pay a bigger share of the cost of new oral chemotherapy medications passed the Nevada Assembly with a unanimous vote Tuesday.
Bruton Smith backtracked slightly about possibly moving the second NASCAR race in Charlotte to Las Vegas, but made it clear he’s unhappy with the political situation in North Carolina.
John “Jack” Martin will officially take the helm of the Clark County Department of Juvenile Justice Services.
WASHINGTON — Summoned by Republicans, a key figure in the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups plans to invoke her constitutional right against self-incrimination and decline to testify at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
The Toronto City Council went ahead with a vote Tuesday to kill a casino project proposed for the downtown area that attracted interest from Nevada largest gaming companies.
While brick-and-mortar stores increase their online presence and tech companies are increasing their real-world presence, the competition is heating up.
Sempra U.S. Gas & Power has sold part of its interest in a local solar power plant.
Leon Benzer, the accused mastermind of a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations in the Las Vegas Valley, told federal authorities nearly two years ago that he once consulted with Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto about his dealings.
A bill requiring universal background checks for gun purchases won approval Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee. The vote came after a Carson City rally attended by family members of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school and Carson City IHOP massacres.
A local urology practice will pay $1 million to the U.S. Department of Justice for improperly billing numerous federal health care organizations, according to Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden. Las Vegas Urology, which has seven Las Vegas locations, improperly billed health care agencies such as Medicare, TRICARE, and others from 2005 to 2010.
BOSTON — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.
In the mid-2000s, Dr. Dipak Desai was shopping his endoscopy clinics around and, as his business consultant testified Tuesday, facilities with higher volumes of traffic garnered the higher sales price.
PHOENIX — Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, arguing she “lacked perspective” when she told a local reporter in an interview after she was convicted of murder that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft thinks it has the one.
PARIS — Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head.
SEATTLE — The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there’s an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell’s disappearance.
A little more than a year ago, Nevada public school officials were working to halt competition in interscholastic sports between their teams and private Bishop Gorman High School of Las Vegas.
Two men will remain jailed without bail pending another court appearance in the death of a teenage boy who police say fell beneath the wheels of their vehicle when he refused to give up his iPad.
A notorious former football star brings a liquored-up posse, two members of which are armed, to a Palace Station hotel room to forcibly retrieve a few boxes of sports memorabilia.
Driver’s will get a grim reminder of the dangers of unsafe driving starting 6 a.m. Wednesday as they traverse Las Vegas freeways. The digital message signs that now state travel times will also display statewide traffic death numbers.
MOORE, Okla. — I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn’t get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late.
Remember John Ensign? He’s the Republican U.S. senator who seduced the wife of his best friend and chief of staff, fired both in order to continue his assignations and then ultimately resigned after a year of sensational headlines concerning secret payments and violations of federal lobbying laws.
The weekend death of a Mohave County jail inmate was blamed on complications from a gastric ulcer, according to a prelminary finding by a medical examiner.
In the days after a teenage boy was run over during an attempted iPad robbery, one of the suspects spent his time covering up the evidence. Jacob Dismont, 18, changed tires, added fake license plates and covered the Ford Explorer with stickers in an effort to conceal the car used in the death of 15-year-old Marcos Arenas, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Over 2,000 uninsured patients receive free medical care at the Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada’s clinic at Paradise Park, inside the old recreation center. The nonprofit is now getting ready to establish a second free clinic for those who don’t have access to health care services.