A 70-year-old inmate died at the regional medical facility at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City on Thursday, according to the The Nevada Department of Corrections.
Got your cellphones and home phones updated with all 10 digits, including area code 702? You haven’t forgotten your microchipped dogs and cats, have you?
If you plan on venturing outdoors this weekend, make sure to take your sunscreen as areas surrounding the Las Vegas Valley will likely top 100 degrees.
Members of Cliven Bundy’s family and their supporters gathered at Las Vegas police headquarters Friday to file police reports against federal agents and others involved in last month’s failed cattle roundup. About two dozen people filed reports alleging crimes ranging from assault and threats with a deadly weapon to impersonating a police officer.
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who they say robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint.
Thanks to the Valley Automall, E Bunny received 320 Easter baskets. The Henderson dealerships collected baskets throuhgout April. Overall, the charity collected 2,000 donated baskets valleywide. E Bunny distributes the donated baskets to charities such as Child Haven, Positively Kids, Safe House, Safe Nest, Family Promise,Casa De Luz, Metropolitian Police Department, southeast and northwest commands and the Chidren’s Hospital at UMC. The charities give the baskets to needy children living in the area.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a man at Lake Tahoe who apparently drove a vehicle through the back wall of his residential garage and down an embankment near Zephyr Cove.
The Nevada State AFL-CIO, which represents 200,000 workers, voted Friday to oppose the margins tax measure to fund public education that is on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.
A man was found dead with a gunshot wound on Owens Avenue, near Eastern Avenue, Thursday night, Las Vegas police said.
Police in the Ukrainian city of Odessa say 31 people have died as the result of a building fire that broke out during a clash between pro-Russia demonstrators and supporters of the central government in Kiev.
Police are investigating a body found in the bushes Thursday night in the central part of the Las Vegas Valley.
“Drive Safely; Buckle Up: In Memory of the Hundreds of Terrified Turkeys Who Died Here in a Truck Crash,” that’s what the memorial would say that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to erect at the Deer Creek Reservoir in Utah near U.S. 189.
An Ohio high school student is making headlines for taking his 89-year-old great-grandmother to her first ever prom.
Soprano Renee Fleming filled Reynolds Hall on Thursday with her incomparable voice and her infectious personality.
After a pretty dismal few months at the multiplexes, the summer movie season swings into action Friday with “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” If you’re looking for subtlety, check back in September. But if you’re in the mood for superheroes, raucous comedies and stuff blowin’ up real good, this is your season.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. ended speculation Friday that it was looking to sell its Pennsylvania casino, saying the company plans further financial investment into the property, while naming a former Atlantic City casino executive to head the resort.
Police have located a Henderson boy reported missing Wednesday night. He was unharmed.
Family Court Judge Steven Jones has served his three-month suspension without pay over his mishandling of a romantic relationship with the late former prosecutor Lisa Willardson. The judge is again eligible to receive his $200,000 salary.
Some of the three drugs used in a botched Oklahoma execution this week didn’t enter the inmate’s system because the vein they were injected into collapsed, and that failure wasn’t noticed for 21 minutes, the state’s prison chief said, urging changes to the state’s execution procedure.
In episode No. 550 of Fox’s “The Simpsons” the town of Springfield and its residents have been reimagined in the style of the famed Lego bricks for Sunday’s episode, “Brick Like Me.”
Farmers, cities and power plant operators could soon be paid to cut their use of the Colorado River under a new interstate program aimed at keeping more water in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
Accused pet store arsonist Gloria Lee is free on $340,000 bond. Lee, who faces arson and insurance fraud charges for the January blaze at the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique, bonded out of the Clark County Detention Center last month, court records show.
A panel of the Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a $7.5 million defamation judgment against soft-porn king Joe Francis on behalf of casino developer Steve Wynn.
Rick Ross will host a fight after-party at Hard Rock Live on the Strip.
Two recent Gallup polls have ranked Nevada at or near the top of places people don’t want to live. What’s going on?
Sticky pine tar-like substance is long lasting, and that’s putting it mildly.
A Massachusetts town has reversed a ban on coin-operated arcade games that has been in place since 1982.
A subway train plowed into the back of another train at a station in South Korea’s capital on Friday, injuring about 200 people, including about 150 who were hospitalized with bruises and other mostly minor injuries, officials said.
The boys laughed when Tarah Gieger began riding her motorcycle as a youth in Puerto Rico. Then she started beating them, and the laughter stopped.
The Macau casino industry didn’t produce a third straight $4 billion gaming revenue month in April, but the final total and double-digit increase were enough to ease worries of a market slowdown.