Tuesdays are 13-year-old Monica Nunez-Gutierrez’s favorite day. It is the day she gets to see one of her special friends, Rosie, a furry medium-sized collie from the K9 Therapists of Las Vegas group.
A weekend memo from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel cleared the way for civilian workers at Nellis and Creech Air Force bases to return to work Monday, along with more than 500 Nevada National Guard technicians who will be back on the job Tuesday. Both groups were benched by the ongoing federal shutdown.
The family of a Rhode Island seventh-grader who was suspended for three days for having a small toy gun keychain at school is appealing the suspension.
Remember that incendiary 2011 advertisement in which a Paul Ryan lookalike dumped a sweet elderly woman from her wheelchair off a cliff? Try to envision a similar hit piece in which President Barack Obama serves eviction notices to senior citizens and threatens them with arrest if they don’t pack their stuff and leave their homes.
The response to the unimaginable and senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has unfortunately gone off the rails. In the name of student safety, adults are teaching kids the wrong lessons.
A 16-year-old who police believe was the getaway driver when a woman was robbed and fatally shot in West Las Vegas faces murder charges as an adult.
An Arkansas reporter is in stable condition at a Texas hospital after rescuers airlifted her from a state park where she’d been lost and stranded alone for two days.
Airport and airline officials are reviewing video and gathering information as they try to figure out how a 9-year-old boy evaded security and stowed away on a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas without a ticket.
Lux Delux, a free iPhone app that accepts takeout and delivery orders for mostly downtown restaurants, has launched.
The new $100 bill, with an array of high-tech features designed to thwart counterfeiters, will get its coming out party on Tuesday — partial government shutdown or not.
A Fox News Channel anchor apologized for falsely saying that President Barack Obama had offered to pay for the operation of a museum of Muslim culture “out of his own pocket” during the government shutdown.
One man died Monday morning following a single-car crash on Sandhill Road.
An undercover detective attending at a motorcycle rally that devolved into broken bones and blood did not witness a biker get struck by an SUV or see the SUV driver subsequently attacked by bikers, a lawyer said Monday.
Everyone’s favorite fictional TV anchorman, Ron Burgandy, is pitching the new Dodge Durango SUV like no one else could.
They open the gate and toss the leaves of romaine lettuce into the aquarium. The sharks ignore it, but a 320-pound sea turtle called O.D. snags the leaves from the water and eats like a hungry turtle will.
A man died in a house fire Sunday morning in Fort Mohave, Ariz., about 15 miles south of Laughlin.
A Las Vegas behavioral health worker was sentenced Monday for fraudulently billing Medicaid for patients who were incarcerated.
An attorney for suspended Family Court Judge Steven Jones told the Nevada Supreme Court today that allegations against the judge should be thrown out because the probe was conducted by a biased investigator, and the lengthy delay made it tough for Jones to defend himself.
The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country’s parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report.
On Sept. 16, The Meadows School dedicated the final building on the private school’s campus at 8601 Scholar Lane, the Richard K.C. Lee Mustang Corral. The approximately 3,000-square-foot building will offer lunch food prepared by Sage Dining Services.
More than 100 artists and craftsmen from across the southwestern U.S. have signed on to display their works and offer unique items at the 19th annual Summerlin Art Festival, planned for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 12-13 at Summerlin Centre Community Park, 1800 S. Town Center Drive. The free event is set to feature artistic creations including paintings, glass works, pottery, jewelry, metal works, sculpture and mixed media.
The multiplex match-ups of fall and the holidays may not feature the battles between megabudget blockbusters that this summer did, but they have the added intrigue that the awards season brings.
Find things to do in the Summerlin and Summerlin South areas.
Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. “Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed.
Casa de Luz, 2412 Tam Drive, serves as the neighborhood’s only church and community center. However, the building suffered major structural damage the past few years, including a leaky roof that left 40 percent of the building uninhabitable. The church recently received $400,000 in renovations from community partners.
Visitors will again be able to return to the medieval times as the Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival is scheduled to return to Sunset Park Oct. 11-13 for the first time since the park’s two-year renovation project.
Musician Daniel Park, 31, describes himself as a hard worker rather than a risk-taker. Yet, he quit his stable daytime job against the advice of others nearly three years ago to pursue his dream of playing music.
Founded by Alexia Vernon, the nine-month leadership program is devoted to teaching women how to speak with confidence and competence while keeping their own style.
As a former mortgage banker who now counsels underwater homeowners as owner of The Millennium Consulting Group, Ken Sarna decided to do something about all the mixed buy/sell/hold signals homeowners are getting in the real estate market.