To encourage undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, National Security Technologies donated $50,000 to UNLV to create scholarships that that will attract top-performing students and promote national-security-related research.
Sony surprises attendees by showing 35 minutes of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” at Caesars Palace.
Southern Nevada has emerged from the recession and is headed toward resurgence, economic analyst Jeremy Aguero told about 500 business and community leaders Wednesday at the Four Seasons Hotel.
A review of federal disclosures has turned up more payments from Sen. Harry Reid’s campaign fund to his granddaughter for the purchase of gifts for supporters. Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday evening he would pay back his campaign for all expenditures made to Ryan Elisabeth Reid. She has been the target of harassing phone calls and “negative unwanted attention on the Internet,” he said.
Priscilla Rocha may be the focal point of a criminal investigation for suspected misuse of public school funds, but she seems to be more of a political target, asserts Andres Mendoza, deputy director of Nevada’s League of United Latin American Citizens.
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The Las Vegas business licensing staff came under fire Wednesday from a couple of dozen people who said its proposed regulations on medical marijuana dispensaries bordered on “ridiculous,” including not being able to wear sunglasses and hats while purchasing the medication.
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Freddie Mac’s Multi-Indicator Market Index, released Wednesday, measures the stability of states and the U.S. capital, as well as the top 50 metropolitan areas. It weighs criteria including mortgage applications, income ratios and employment.
The Metropolitan Police Department, under a proposal from Clark County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak, could get a $5 million boost to its budget beyond what city and county officials have tentatively planned for the next fiscal year.
Three-time gold medalist Rebecca Soni and world-record holder Ariana Kukors “crashed” Las Vegas Swim Club practice Tuesday. The kids seemed to enjoy their visit.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers are close to striking plea agreements for imprisoned Dr. Dipak Desai and his former clinic manager, Tonya Rushing, in the federal health care fraud case stemming from the Las Vegas Valley hepatitis C outbreak, the attorneys said Wednesday.
Slot machine giant GIT took a battering from investors Wednesday and analysts worried sour financial predictions announced 24 hours earlier might taint rival companies in the gaming equipment sector.
A fast-moving fire that sent smoke and flames pouring from the roof and windows of a brownstone killed two firefighters on Wednesday and injured at least five others.
After being inundated with more than 1,000 inquiries from all over the country in the past couple months, The Animal Foundation electronically selected winners in the “Arson Puppy Adoption Drawing” on Wednesday. But those winners will be screened before any dogs are taken home.
The Nevada secretary of state’s office on Wednesday announced what it is calling a landmark settlement with a political group over “illegal, anonymous” campaign spending.
The Transportation Security Administration recommended Wednesday that armed law enforcement officers be posted at airport security checkpoints and ticket counters during peak hours after a review of last year’s fatal shooting at Los Angeles International Airport.
A bill to outlaw online gaming was introduced Wednesday in Congress, adding another layer to the big-money debate over how or even whether the Internet should be utilized for gambling.
A Houston construction worker whose harrowing escape from a burning building was caught on video said Wednesday that he knew he had to act quickly when he realized he was trapped on a fifth-floor balcony.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. said Wednesday it would close one of its three casinos in Tunica, Miss. on June 2, saying “persistent declines in business” made the market’s largest hotel-casino unprofitable.
They are the most tantalizing clues yet: 122 objects spotted by satellite, floating in the turbulent Indian Ocean where officials believe the missing Malaysian jetliner went down. But bad weather, the passage of time and the sheer remoteness of their location kept answers out of the searchers’ grasp.
In a stunning ruling that could revolutionize college sports, a federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation’s first union of college athletes.
Even though Las Vegas is more of a popular vacation destination than apocalyptic setting in movies, there’s still a good amount of destruction that’s gone on in Sin City. Here are nine movies that show Las Vegas under attack.
U.S. real estate investment bank, The Carlton Group, was retained by IDB Development to sell its 50 percent interest in a Las Vegas real estate portfolio that includes Tivoli Village.
The operator of a Chicago commuter train that crashed at O’Hare International Airport admitted she “dozed off” before the accident, waking only when the train jumped off the tracks and climbed an escalator, a federal official said Wednesday.
So two guys jumped 541 feet off Paris Las Vegas’ Eiffel Tower on Tuesday. Fortunately it wasn’t because they lost their life savings at the casino inside.
A handful of rule approvals came out of the NFL owners meeting Wednesday including experimentation with extra-point kicks from the 20-yard line for two weeks in the preseason, but implementing longer PATs for the regular season was tabled.