Being accused of excessive force isn’t new to Family Court Marshal Brent Johnson.
A woman struck a crossing guard and two parked cars with a stolen vehicle Wednesday morning, police said.
The much-anticipated winter snowfall that draws Las Vegas Valley residents to Mount Charleston with sleds and skis should make an appearance Wednesday, thanks to a storm system moving down the West Coast.
He’s a four-time NBA All-Star and may be a future Hall of Famer. But at age 33 and despite an impressive resume, Pau Gasol has a lot to prove. Not to the world. To himself.
Fractured skulls, broken legs, a ruptured spleen, pierced liver, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills — this is Rodnesha Beverly and Rodney James’ new reality after a truck slammed into the bus stop where James and their children were waiting.
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The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada found Wednesday that Valley Electric Association’s $36.6 million contract with Creech Air Force Base was not in violation of the state law, as NV Energy alleged in a complaint filed in January.
Follow the link for the area’s offensive leaders as of Oct. 9.
NASA’s Jupiter-bound spacecraft hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it’s on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.
A man armed with what federal marshals described as an assault-type rifle fired up to two dozen rounds at a West Virginia federal courthouse Wednesday until police returned fire and killed him, state police said.
The Obama administration, scrambling to tamp down a controversy over suspended death benefits for the families of fallen troops, announced Wednesday that a charity would pick up the costs of the payments during the government shutdown.
Western Nevada College President Carol Lucey on Wednesday announced she is stepping down from her post immediately, according to a message she sent to the college community.
After losing a bid to dismiss a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former top executive, Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson decided to issue a public answer to the charges raised in court papers and hearings.
Tweets posted Wednesday claim she’s a special education student who was told by other students to undress, but other Durango students who posted claim otherwise. What happened, the subject’s student status, and whether she was coerced or voluntarily undressed, remains unclear.
One man has taken it upon himself to mow and clean up the grounds around the Lincoln Memorial during the government shutdown.
When I heard UNLV had tacked on another year to Tina Kunzer-Murphy’s contract as UNLV’s interim athletic director, my first thought was good for her. My second thought was if this gets back to Pat Dye, he’s probably not going to like it.
Drivers experienced traffic delays near Sunrise Manor Wednesday morning after a man was hit by a car while riding a bicycle.
An early morning collision at Desert Inn Road and Paradise Road left two dead and the Desert Inn arterial shut down.
Proposed rules for Nevada’s new medical marijuana program would discriminate against the poor and minorities, and would make marijuana cost-prohibitive for patients who need the drug, witnesses testified Tuesday.
An indigenous woman squats in pain after giving birth, her newborn still bound by the umbilical cord and lying on the ground. It’s a photograph that horrified Mexicans because of where it took place: the lawn outside a medical clinic where the woman had been denied help, and it struck a nerve in a country where inequity is still pervasive.
Q: We have an Elberta peach that we harvest in August and the fruit is always small and on the mushy side. Are there better peaches we can grow?
Walker Furniture is seeking nomination letters on behalf of those in need for its Home for the Holidays program. This will mark the 20th consecutive year that the company will bring some joy and hope to Southern Nevadans in need by providing them with a houseful of new furniture in time for the holiday season.
Old toys are different from those made today. Toy makers of long ago did not try to encourage creativity. A toy was made to resemble a known part of life — a house, car or pet — or perhaps a fantasy — a rocket ship or robot. Or they were puzzles meant to teach the alphabet or arithmetic, or character dolls from stories that told of good behavior or gave lessons from the Bible.
Dozens of people thanked the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday for special cards that will allow people in the country illegally to legally drive in the Silver State next year.
“Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English author
Q: I have a big problem. A section of ceramic tile near the base of one of the walls in my shower looked like it was pregnant. What’s worse, when I applied pressure on it, the wall would move in and out.
A body discovered in a stairwell at San Francisco’s main hospital was that of a female patient who disappeared from her room there more than two weeks ago, authorities said Wednesday as they continued to investigate how the woman got there and what caused her death.