A 25-year-old man charged with attacking Clark County jail guards with a baseball bat in September refused to leave his cell and attend a preliminary hearing in his case Tuesday.
The Badwater 135 ultramarathon in Death Valley takes the bravest of runners 135 miles through the hottest place on Earth in the middle of the summer. But not next year — Death Valley National Park recently put a moratorium on foot and cycling races while they study ways to make the events safer.
Newly released 911 tapes paint a scene of panic and terror inside a Reno medical building where dozens of callers hid in restrooms and exam rooms from a suicidal gunman who killed one doctor and shot another at a urology clinic where he said he’d had a vasectomy that ruined his life.
A district judge on Tuesday eased jail restrictions for Richard Schlacta, a 48-year-old California man who authorities said plotted to kill a 13-year-old girl he’s accused of sexually assaulting. Schlacta will be allowed to have monitored contact with his girlfriend or family members.
Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive. Regulators on Tuesday approved a temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp, bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter in an effort to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on after the 2008 economic downturn.
A woman was found dead in her Illinois home and the man who owned the house will spend this holiday season locked up in the Clark County Detention Center.
Here are five things to know about the holiday tradition called NORAD Tracks Santa.
The rules of Obamacare — indeed, the language of the law itself — have all the permanence of pencil. As of this editorial’s completion on Christmas Eve, members of the Obama administration were scavenging desk drawers for erasers that hadn’t been rubbed to a nub.
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For two thousand years, he has been worshipped and adored. Multitudes look to him each day. And yet nobody really knows the face of Jesus.
Sometimes, those who help others need help themselves. When Michelle Laramy-Flagg moved to Las Vegas in June as a single mother, she had nothing to her name. But she had a job, which saw her processing applications for people applying for state assistance.
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Certified master chef Gustav Mauler, who has been serving Las Vegas residents since 1987, was a celebrity chef long before there were celebrity chefs. However, his celebrity status does not prevent him from walking the restaurant floor, greeting his loyal customers, many of whom are celebrities themselves.
This is bacon nirvana, with bacon burgers, bacon cocktails, bacon rock candy and 22 flat-screen televisions (TVs being an important accompaniment to bacon).
The Jalisco experience is old-world spices combined with new-world ideas. The diverse menu has more than 90 items that are even more delicious when paired with a margarita made with 100 percent agave tequila and real fruit juices.
When Communities In Schools of Nevada brought in a chef from the Strip to teach high schoolers how to make nutritious food on a budget, a few life lessons were stirred in along with the food.
Health insurance coverage will start Jan. 1 for Nevadans who met Monday’s deadline for signing up for Silver State Exchange, but they won’t get their card for awhile.
A hockey referee arms himself with a GoPro camera and a mic, then hits the ice with this warning, “This could get stupid.”
Police say burglars broke into a Florida woman’s home, stole her two children’s gifts from under the tree and snatched the family’s puppy.
Las Vegas has mostly shelved its attempt to rebrand itself as a family-friendly wonderland. But there’s one exception: the dreaded holiday season, when visitor numbers crater and room vacancies soar.
Veteran cabdriver Gerardo Gamboa was making a typical pickup at the Bellagio on Monday morning when a hotel doorman handed him a brown paper bag left in the taxi’s back seat.
On the day before Christmas, retailers turned shoppers’ attention to the day after the holiday. “After Christmas” sales began before the holiday at Amazon.com, Old Navy and CVS, among other retailers.
The Montana judge who said a teen rape victim appeared “older than her chronological age” has sentenced a man convicted of punching his girlfriend to write “Boys do not hit girls” 5,000 times.
The mother of a 3-year-old thrown to his death from a 52-story apartment building said the father killed the boy — and then himself — out of spite.
Local travel agents are cruising toward a bright future.
San Francisco police say 30 people were arrested — some apparently for stealing seats — during the 49ers’ final regular season game at Candlestick Park.
Solar panels have been installed on the rooftops and in the parking lot of the Desert Research Institute in Reno.