Suspicious powder that prompted the evacuation of the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday was sent by an inmate at a Southern Nevada prison.
View Neighborhood News readers send photos of their pets and everday lives, and View features photos of pets ready for adoption each week. To submit a photo, email View copy editor Anne King at aking@viewnews.com or mail to Viewpoints, 1111 W. Bonanza Road, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Photos cannot be returned, and due to the high volume, they are often scheduled a month or two in advance.
Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It’s ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.
Jacquelyn Pugliese has graduated from Air Force basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, 3845 W. Harmon Ave., allows participants to play, record and perform with touring rock stars, such as Gene Simmons and Joe Perry. The facility is offering camps Feb. 13-16, Feb. 27-March 2 and March 27-30. The facility also offers beginner camps, corporate camps and rock star for a day packages.
Verve, 7850 Dean Martin Drive, Suite 403, is self-billed as a Christian church for people who don’t like church. The staff uses unconventional strategies to make attendees feel comfortable and have fun while at church.
Southwest/Spring Valley neighborhood news, Jan. 21-27
For sports lovers, this week’s Sports Licensing and Tailgate Show offered a smorgasbord of logo gear coming to market that will feed their addiction.
A North Las Vegas man was indicted on murder charges for the beating death of his wife, Clark County prosecutors said Friday.
The Sparklings, 8310 S. Rainbow Blvd., opened in October, offering locals a classy-yet-affordable night out.
As “Star Trek’s” original Capt. James T. Kirk, William Shatner has been inviting viewers to “explore strange new worlds” since the TV landmark’s 1966 blastoff.
A weekly log of business bankruptcies, commercial and industrial lease transactions, and new business licenses in Clark County.
A weekly listing of events put on by professional organizations, educational groups and local chambers of commerce.
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Your interpersonal skills may be so strong and your relationships so solid that you didn’t start the New Year thinking about what you could do to improve them.
With a new year comes new prognostications by Wall Street on which gaming companies will provide investors the best return in 2014.
Michael Bay was like the gift that kept on giving during the 2014 International CES.
Nevada small-businesses owners are more optimistic about the local economy than the national economy, a Nevada State Bank survey shows.
A motorcyclist died after he struck a sign and was thrown from his vehicle at the Charleston Boulevard exit on southbound Interstate 15 on Friday, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol.
A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.
Scott Kent’s love for fighting developed while he was growing up in Helena, Mont., and watched boxing on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”
The week was filled with bright white lights, blaring music and celebrities.
A poker blogger was sentenced to a probation program for stealing nearly $700 at a Connecticut casino by using chopsticks to pull cash out of a hole in a card dealers’ locked tip box.
Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court’s permission before accessing such records.
As legend has it and according to media hype, Colin Kaepernick faces a nearly impossible task this weekend as he attempts to quarterback the underdog San Francisco 49ers to a highly unlikely playoff victory.
The giant federal budget bill that Congress passed late Thursday will cost taxpayers nearly $3 million per word, or if you want to really think big, almost $700 million per page.