Portion of Grand Teton Drive remains closed for cleanup

A rash of flood-inducing storms have left many northwest Las Vegas Valley roadways in turmoil, causing an estimated $350,000 in cleanup costs alone, according to Las Vegas city officials.

Atlantic City welcomes Miss America contestants

The Miss America pageant is back in the city where it began, six years after spurning the city for Las Vegas.

North Las Vegas won’t release opinions on controversial eminent domain plan

Two outside legal opinions of the constitutionality of a controversial plan to use North Las Vegas’ power of eminent domain to seize underwarter mortgages won’t be made public, acting City Attorney Sandra Douglass Morgan said.

Old-school baseball guy keeps 51s mashing

George Greer insists he is the third spoke in a wheel of hitting, that he simply follows the instruction furnished from those above. That they form a game plan and he does his best to execute it. When it works, memories are made.

New Jersey’s Christie claims rival mocked weight; she denies it

Awkward. The New Jersey election campaign between Gov. Chris Christie and rival state Sen. Barbara Buono just went there. He says she mocked his weight with a remark about him “frolicking on the beach,” but she says there’s no such undertone to her campaign rhetoric.

Arizona police make arrest in 2011 homicide

A man was arrested Saturday in connection to a 2011 homicide and police are still looking for a woman, according to Bullhead City, Ariz., police.

Downtown Grand on schedule for fall opening

Seth Schorr and his business partners’ multimillion-dollar investment to develop an “urban hospitality experience” in downtown Las Vegas will soon become a reality with the opening of the Downtown Grand.

New York jury awards $280,000 judgment in N-word case

In a case that some see as a complex double standard surrounding the N-word, a federal jury awarded $30,000 in punitive damages Tuesday after finding that a black manager’s four-minute rant was hostile and discriminatory. The jury awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages.

County taps rep for UNLV stadium board

UNLV’s quest for a new football stadium/entertainment center and a new 11-member board to jumpstart the stadium project inched closer Tuesday when a fifth board member was named.

School lock downs lifted after shooting; no injuries

Several schools were locked down Tuesday morning for a little over an hour while Las Vegas police investigated reports of multiple gunshots near Owens Avenue and Lamb Boulevard.

 
727-pound record-breaking gator caught in Miss.

During the first weekend of Mississippi’s alligator season a hunting party from Madison held the weight record for an alligator taken in the state. But the record only lasted about an hour before a second gator beat it.

Babysitter faces murder charges after 5-month-old dies

Anthony Casey, 31, faces a murder charge after 5-month-old Kaiden Blane Chamberlain died Saturday. Casey was arrested last Thursday on abuse charges after he was watching the child while the mother was at work.

Obama wins Boehner’s support for Syria strike

President Barack Obama won House Speaker John Boehner’s backing for a punitive strike against Syria on Tuesday, and senior Cabinet officials worked to convince Congress that Bashar Assad’s government must be punished for a suspected chemical weapons attack.

LeBron James joins forces with Starz for sitcom

Lebron James will be an executive producer of “Survivor’s Remorse,” a new show he’s developing with Starz that will explore the lives of two men from the streets who attain fame — one is an NBA star and one is not — and how they deal with friends and families in the wake of that success.

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