Now that she owns two different boutiques, Katie Thompson has had to adjust to her new clientele. Some of the most notable changes have been dealing with customers who don’t regularly break into fits of tears, don’t wear tutus and don’t still have their baby teeth.
A developer behind a bankrupt $2 billion mixed-use development in Henderson was jailed for contempt Wednesday after failing to answer questions or turn over documents at a debtor hearing.
A black bear captured in Verdi after causing property damage has been released back into the wild with a rude send-off.
Former UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian was wrapping up an 11-day stay in a San Diego-area hospital after suffering artery blockages and having a pacemaker installed.
Kevin Durant decided he wasn’t going to wait to declare himself as a willing participant for USA Basketball next summer. Ditto for Kevin Love.
A grim-faced coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday the New England Patriots will learn from the “terrible experience” of Aaron Hernandez’s arrest on a murder charge and work to improve their player evaluation process.
Col. Michael Hanifan, a Fallon native who spent the past three years as the deputy director of the Nevada Army National Guard, has been named its new commander.
The bookies were right: He Who Had Not Been Named is now Prince George.
His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, to be exact.
The board that oversees the levees in the New Orleans region filed suit in state court Wednesday against about 100 leading oil and gas companies asking that they repair damage done by the industry’s network of access roads and pipeline canals, which has contributed to the loss of thousands of acres a year of wetlands since the 1930s.
After a month camped out in a transit area of Moscow’s international airport, fugitive Edward Snowden on Wednesday received clean clothing and a copy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” – but no final word that he would be allowed into the country after having leaked U.S. surveillance secrets, his lawyer said.
The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency’s secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records Wednesday night after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the government’s efforts to thwart terrorism.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension will present a workshop entitled “Cottage Foods & Farm to Fork — Education on the New Legislation” Aug. 12. The goal is to help get local homemade foods onto people’s tables, and supplementing incomes.
Clark County Cooperative Extension master gardeners will present free gardening classes Aug. 3.
Take a look around your home. How many pieces of plastic can you find? Of them, how long will they actually be in your possession before they are disposed of? Water and soda bottles, shampoo and detergent, food containers and toys; these are just a few of the thousands of plastic items that flow through our lives.
Lewis and Roca LLP, one of the most well-known law firms to handle the gaming industry in Las Vegas, will combine with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons in Denver beginning Sept. 1, the two law firms announced Wednesday.
A small table next to the bed is necessary today to hold a lamp, cellphone, clock and perhaps a book, eyeglasses and tissues. But in past centuries the table might have held a candlestick with a handle to carry to the bedroom for light. It also had to store items that acted as the toilets of the day.
MADRID — A passenger train derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night, killing at least 35 people and leaving hundreds injured, officials said.
Pinnacle Entertainment’s $2.8 billion buyout of Ameristar Casinos received the last state regulatory approval need to finalize the transaction Wednesday.
Lawns are getting toasted right now. This is a stressful time of year for plants, particularly those that are not truly desert plants. Temperatures are out of their “comfort zone” and they become susceptible to diseases because they are less capable of fighting through a problem.
Google is betting consumers will pay slightly more for a sleeker, more powerful version of its Nexus 7 tablet as the Internet company escalates its rivalry with Apple and Amazon.com in technology’s key battleground — the mobile computing market.
Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura left the federal courthouse Tuesday without permission during a settlement conference for a wrongful termination lawsuit involving two of his former officers and his office’s former insurance provider, according to court records.
The Clark County School District announces its valedictorians for the 2012-13 school year.
When the 2014 International CES heads to Las Vegas next January, 3-D printing will be given its own stage.
Gaming Control Board Chief of Enforcement Jerry Markling says he’s looking forward to the fresh challenge of his new job as Director of Investigations at The Venetian.
An office complex near McCarran International Airport has a new owner.
Clark County Credit Union on Wednesday posted second-quarter net income of $2.3 million, a nearly 28 percent increase from the $1.8 million reported for the same period last year.