Police seek suspect in J Street homicide

Las Vegas police are searching for a suspect in a Sunday night fatal shooting of a man on J Street, near Owens Avenue.

 
Billionaire inventor shares plans for Hyperloop — high-speed travel in tubes

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled a transportation concept on Monday that he said could whisk passengers the nearly 400 miles from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes — half the time it takes an airplane.

 
Suspect in Idaho shootout fired once or twice

A close family friend suspected of abducting a 16-year old girl after killing her mother and younger brother fired his rifle at FBI agents before they killed him deep in the Idaho wilderness, authorities said Monday.

 
Sinkhole swallows part of Fla. resort villa

It sounded like a thunderstorm as windows broke and the ground shook, but vacationers who were awakened from their rooms at a villa near Orlando, Fla., soon realized that the building was starting to collapse – parts of it swallowed by a 100-foot sinkhole that also endangered two neighboring resort buildings.

 
Mob boss ‘Whitey’ Bulger guilty in 11 killings

James “Whitey” Bulger, the feared Boston mob boss who became one of the nation’s most-wanted fugitives, was convicted Monday in a string of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes, many of them committed while he was said to be an FBI informant.

 
Judge: NYPD wrongly targeted minorities

The nation’s largest police department illegally and systematically singled out large numbers of blacks and Hispanics under its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a federal judge ruled Monday while appointing an independent monitor to oversee major changes, including body cameras on some officers.

BlackBerry will consider putting itself up for sale

BlackBerry will consider selling itself after the long-awaited debut of its new phones failed to turn around the struggling smartphone maker.

Book briefs for Aug. 13-19, 2013

In book news this week, Beverly Ford and Stephanie Schorow are set to sign copies of their book “The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums and Hideouts” from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 16 at the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, the Mob Museum; and Las Vegas writer Eric J. Miller, author of the soon-to-be released “For Rent: Dangerous Paradise” and the road trip comedy “The Metaphysics of Nudity,” is scheduled to deliver a presentation titled “Early Lessons of a Newbie e-Pubber” during a meeting of the Las Vegas Writers Group scheduled for 7 p.m. Aug. 15 at the Tap House

Utah newlywed among 4 stabbed near Vegas Strip

A newlywed was back home in Salt Lake City and facing more medical tests, her mother said Monday, after being stabbed in the back in what authorities called a random attack on four people on a sidewalk just off the Las Vegas Strip.

State prepares for more legal battles for Boulder City bypass project

CARSON CITY – Anticipating trials over the value of properties needed for the Boulder City bypass project, the state Transportation Department Board on Monday upped a contract limit with a private attorney by $850,000.

UFC plots aggressive path to expand global empire

UFC content is already broadcast by more than 30 TV networks in 28 languages in 145 nations. Now, the Las Vegas company plans to make fans out of just about anyone on the planet who has a TV screen, a mobile communications device or cash for an event ticket into a UFC fan.

Bail increased for hit-and-run suspect

Bail was increased Monday for the woman accused of driving her car into eight people outside a church on Thursday and fleeing the scene.

Mystery solved: Oswald’s graveside neighbor uncovered and he’s alive

For years, curiosity seekers visiting the Fort Worth, Texas, grave of Lee Harvey Oswald have wondered about the simple headstone next door, marked Nick Beef. It turns out Nick Beef is alive and living in New York.

Fact-finding review in officer-involved shooting set for Wednesday

A fact-finding review of the October 2012 death of Ronald Morrison will be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday, aired live on Clark County Television and streamed over the county Internet site at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov.

Biography tells story of Nevada storyteller Robert Laxalt

CARSON CITY — “Robert Laxalt stared at the blank piece of paper in the Royal typewriter. He wrote a sentence, pulled the paper from the Royal and read it carefully. With both hands, he crumbled the paper in a ball and threw it in the wastebasket. The words weren’t right. They weren’t good enough.”

Center oversees first responders during disasters

The robotic voice that takes over Las Vegas’ airwaves before an emergency event is as synonymous with bad weather as a thunder clap. City of Las Vegas emergency management officer Carolyn Levering’s voice is likely a lot less familiar.

Area Briefing, Aug. 13-19

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